Jane Coombs on New York City Ballet’s annual Fall Fashion Gala.

On Georgia O’Keeffe, ancient magic, John Russell Pope, unrequited love & more from the world of culture.

The supernatural intervenes when a stone statue of the Commendatore comes to life and demands Don Giovanni renounce his ...

André’s exhibition space is limited, and many of Tintoretto’s large-scale masterpieces can only be seen on Venetian walls. Nevertheless, there is enough of a selection to give more than a taste of ...

Then came a concert inside David Geffen Hall: a concert billed as “Gustavo Dudamel’s Inaugural Gala” (“in partnership with Rolex”). The new music director conducted the Philharmonic in a program that ...

On a memoir of resilience, the Bayeux Tapestry, the “Emperor” concerto, a Tom Stoppard play & more from the world of culture.

Eliot put it in his poem “Little Gidding,” “to be redeemed from fire by fire.” Often, Gioia’s narrative poems that dramatize ...

Which English-language novel dealing with World War II will survive? From Here to Eternity, Slaughterhouse-Five, Catch-22? Is there any World War II novel that approaches the impact of Ernest ...

“Make something new, children,” was Richard Wagner’s instruction to a rising generation of musicians whose work struck him as mired in conventionality. He offered this line rhetorically in a 1852 ...

Standing like Shelley’s “vast and trunkless legs of stone,” megaliths have invited speculation throughout history. The premise of Paul Robichaud’s book Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in ...