Though he didn’t live to see it built, Sam Wanamaker left London a remarkable legacy. Visiting the city from America, as a young man, he made, as every actor should, a pilgrimage to the site of ...

The oft-told tale of Aby Warburg goes like this: born in 1866 as the eldest son (“scion” is the favored term among Warburg chroniclers) of a prominent Hamburg banking family, Aby abdicated his future ...

“I was asked to write a five-minute orchestra work expressing the current world situation and to do it as soon as possible.” That is an interesting, possibly daunting, assignment. What was “the ...

On Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America’s Soldiers, by David Suisman.

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Sabin Howard has been at the center of a battle over sculpture for over three decades. I first wrote about him in this space nearly twenty years ago, when I paid a visit to his studio in the South ...

While we are accustomed to thinking of the Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863–1923) as an essentially cheerful figure, a man whose scenes are imbued with a refulgent Mediterranean light, ...

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and all from mane to hoof clear-cut, cast against the broad side of a barn. This shape loomed before I saw the horse standing below, golden—yet trivial.

Poor Max Boot. By his own telling, he began working on his ambitious, now newly published biography of Ronald Reagan in 2013, when he was still a Reagan-admiring neoconservative in good standing. 1 ...

Although both correspondents in this selection of letters were authors, their identities and professional purviews were markedly distinct. Shirley Hazzard (1931–2016) was a first-rate Australian ...