On Roman legends, the Savonnerie carpets, Grand Central Atelier, Dance Theatre of Harlem & more from the world of culture.

James Piereson Executive Director and Trustee, John M. Olin Foundation, 1985–2005; the foundation made its last grant and ...

Marguerite was the result of a brief fling between Matisse, then studying painting, and his model Caroline Joblaud. Two and a ...

M. P. Kennedy on a performance by the early-music ensemble Kontrapunktus.

Once in a while, an artist who was successful in his time but forgotten soon after is “rediscovered” in a later era. Surprising examples of this are El Greco (1541–1614) and Johannes Vermeer ...

Nonfiction: The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World, by Selena Wisnom (University of Chicago Press): From the Library of Alexandria to the pages of Fahrenheit 451 ...

The author Renaud Camus is not known for a book or even an essay, but a single phrase: “The Great Replacement.” His ideas have been celebrated and castigated, yet few truly understand him. Douglas ...