Songs of Innocence and Experience

On Schubert’s sublime late vocal masterwork

Feast Your Eyes on This

What does the flurry for recent food movies say about our obsessions with all things culinary?

The Director Who Named Names

Reconsidering the legacy of Elia Kazan

Carnival of the Animals

The Italian artist Carpaccio cast a careful, loving eye on his many nonhuman subjects

Rebuilding The Mack

Is the Glasgow School of Art truly irreplaceable?

Song of the Earth

On Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven

Boy Wonder

Remembering Lorin Maazel

The Music of Painting

Seventeenth-century debates over content and form, color and line, and artifice and reality are as relevant today as ever

Realism With a Heart

The Dardenne brothers bring an idiosyncratic sympathy to their portrayals of Belgian lowlifes

Incident at Mittersill

A new opera explores the mysterious death of the composer Anton Webern

Frightfully Askew

What asymmetry in art can tell us about the way we view sickness and health, life and death

Sex and Secrets

Rare is the Hitchcock film that celebrates desire without disaster

If You Can’t See the Stage, Turn to the Page

With theaters shut during the pandemic, reading plays has shed surprising light on works both familiar and strange

The Inheritance of Nations

To what extent does a work of art belong to the people of the world?

Raising Mank

The Academy Award–winning film about the making of Citizen Kane is really a window into the tumultuous, brutal side of Hollywood’s golden age

Obscura No More

How photography rose from the margins of the art world to occupy its vital center

The Baddest Man in Town

On the trail of a historical figure immortalized in African-American folklore

The Annotated “Stacka Lee”

Comments on the famous murder ballad’s oldest known lyrics

Swinging Into the Future
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Kansas City of the 1930s witnessed a style of American music inspired by the wonders of the industrial age

Long-Distance Punishment

Could a landmark work of conceptual art be an emblem for the Covid era?

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