Sofia Gubaidulina, a Tatar-Russian composer who defied Soviet dogma with her openly religious music and after decades of suppression moved to the West, where she was...
Anselm Kiefer’s new installation seems to envelop the grand staircase of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Paintings reach from floor to ceiling in colors of oxidized copper...
The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht describes itself as a fair that spans 7,000 years of art history. For a long time, those 7,000 years...
Chardonnay is both ubiquitous and despised, neither for good reason. The grape is grown all over the world, more for reasons of commerce than of quality....
Depending on whom you ask, Birkenstock’s wide-set, corky sandals might be frumpy, or chic, or gauche or the ultimate comfort shoe. What they cannot be called...
One of the many merits of “Summer of Fire and Blood” is how Roper — despite being the author of a luminous biography of Luther —...
We always overhype our vacations. After a long morning’s climb the weather is clearing up, and we are peering into the distance, into the fog gathered...
Anson Rabinbach, the hardscrabble son of radical New York garment workers who paid his own way through college to become one of the world’s leading experts...
Since Russia invaded Ukraine nearly three years ago, Tetiana Martyniuk-Bahrii, a violinist in the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, has lived the life of a refugee, moving from...
You don’t expect to see security guards roaming the foyer of the Hannover State Opera, a well-regarded, midsize opera house in a midsize central Germany city....
