Suzanna Murawski on “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” at the Jewish Museum, New York.

Paul du Quenoy on a revival of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades at the Vienna State Opera, starring Anna Netrebko.

On Richard the Lionheart, the Old Lyme Midsummer Festival, the Mark Morris Dance Group, the original Chelsea Piers & more ...

He plays fast and loose with the chronology, and the uninitiated could get lost in the long series of failed rebellions and ...

The impressive collection on exhibit at Beit Avi Chai, together with an insightful catalogue, recovers an important artistic ...

Paul du Quenoy on a performance of Ponchielli’s La Gioconda, at the Hungarian State Opera.

Abigail Anthony on Christopher Wheeldon’s Alices Adventures in Wonderland, performed by the Royal Ballet.

That’s all done for us, a kind of emotional outsourcing we might call “moral kitsch.” For Clement Greenberg, kitsch is ...

On Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale at the Metropolitan Opera House.

On Raymond Aron’s Critique de Sartre. Sartre combined Communist fellow-traveling with limitless sympathy for violence at the service of revolt. Sartre’s work, with its whiff of Maoism, gained a second ...