Frightfully Askew
What asymmetry in art can tell us about the way we view sickness and health, life and death
By Lincoln Perry Thursday, May 5, 2022
Sex and Secrets
Rare is the Hitchcock film that celebrates desire without disaster
By Lisa Zeidner Saturday, December 4, 2021
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
By Wendy Smith Thursday, December 2, 2021
The Inheritance of Nations
To what extent does a work of art belong to the people of the world?
By Hannah Barbosa Cesnik Monday, June 14, 2021
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
By Jerome Charyn Saturday, June 5, 2021
Obscura No More
How photography rose from the margins of the art world to occupy its vital center
By Andy Grundberg Thursday, April 29, 2021
The Baddest Man in Town
On the trail of a historical figure immortalized in African-American folklore
By Eric McHenry Saturday, March 13, 2021
The Annotated “Stacka Lee”
Comments on the famous murder ballad’s oldest known lyrics
By Eric McHenry Saturday, March 13, 2021
Swinging Into the Future 
Kansas City of the 1930s witnessed a style of American music inspired by the wonders of the industrial age
By Joel Dinerstein Monday, December 7, 2020
Long-Distance Punishment
Could a landmark work of conceptual art be an emblem for the Covid era?
By Sierra Bellows Thursday, December 3, 2020
Songs of Innocence and Experience
On Schubert’s sublime late vocal masterwork
By Ian Bostridge Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Feast Your Eyes on This
What does the flurry for recent food movies say about our obsessions with all things culinary?
By Sandra M. Gilbert Wednesday, December 10, 2014
The Director Who Named Names
Reconsidering the legacy of Elia Kazan
By Wendy Smith Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Carnival of the Animals
The Italian artist Carpaccio cast a careful, loving eye on his many nonhuman subjects
By Jan Morris Monday, September 8, 2014
Rebuilding The Mack
Is the Glasgow School of Art truly irreplaceable?
By Witold Rybczynski Monday, September 8, 2014
The Music of Painting
Seventeenth-century debates over content and form, color and line, and artifice and reality are as relevant today as ever
By Lincoln Perry Monday, June 9, 2014
Realism With a Heart
The Dardenne brothers bring an idiosyncratic sympathy to their portrayals of Belgian lowlifes
By Richard Locke Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Incident at Mittersill
A new opera explores the mysterious death of the composer Anton Webern
By Sudip Bose Friday, December 6, 2013
