On Master Drawings New York, Hokusai, Beethoven’s quartets, a Long Island sarcophagus & more from the world of culture.

Paul du Quenoy on a concert of the Palm Beach Symphony.

Suzanna Murawski on Simone Weil, an art heist & Picasso in Cleveland.

This winter, the playwright Matthew Gasda, best known for his observations of New York’s disaffected Zoomer youth, has staged ...

Paul du Quenoy on a concert of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington.

The Metropolitan Opera has gone dark for a month or so, but its orchestra is free to play—as it did last night in Carnegie Hall. The program was all-Brahms. It is good to be able to see these players ...

Venerated in his lifetime, Saint Francis did not have to wait long for a monument to be erected in his honor. A basilica in Assisi was started in 1228. The painter Cimabue (also called Cenni di Pepo) ...

On Shakespeare’s Tragic Art, by Rhodri Lewis.

Master of the Geneva Boccaccio, “Sri Lanka (Trapponee),” in The Book of Marvels of the World, ca. 1460–65, Colored washes, gold & ink on vellum, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. “The Book of Marvels ...