It is critical to remember that the gentleman’s bequest was not simply an investment or display of wealth. It represented a ...

De Kooning was born in Rotterdam in 1904. As a youth he studied for eight years at a conservative academy of art, where the curriculum included De Stijl due to the Dutch art movement’s practical ...

On Proto-Indo-European, Rothko & Gottlieb, Vanessa Bell, Richard Strauss, Raynham Hall Museum & more from the world of culture. Mark Rothko, Self Portrait, 1936, Oil ...

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Warren Frye on “The Last Peasant War,” by Jakub S. Beneš.

On “Edgar Degas: Multi-Media Artist in the Age of Impressionism” at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Editors’ note: It is difficult to believe that it was ten years ago last month that Hilton Kramer, the founding editor of The New Criterion, died, aged eighty-four. Time really does seem to speed up ...

On “Medieval Bologna: Art for a University City” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.

Suzanna Murawski on “Ravelstein,” Marsden Hartley & a new canvas adhesive.

On Mondrian, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Henry Hobson Richardson, ancient moneymaking & more from the world of culture.

On the difficulties facing Tony Blair, from his international policy for the war against Iraq, to internal problems including immigration, trade unions, and the soft economy.