Once upon a time, in a faraway place called Brooklyn, there lived a museum director named Anne Pasternak. Because she was a member of America’s self-appointed cultural elite, she liked to travel to trendy places like Aspen and make sweeping statements about art and society. If we don’t . . . . Continue Reading »
Our failure to remember our heroes and martyrs of communism is having a dangerous effect on what the next generation knows. Continue Reading »
Here are some events happening over the coming days that may interest our readers. Continue Reading »
Events happening over the coming days that may interest our readers. Continue Reading »
What began as largely individual experiences of the performances ended in fellowship, a deepening of the bonds of community. Continue Reading »
Opera has traditionally had little interest in Christian orthodoxy. So when composer Francis Poulenc wrote his masterpiece, Dialogues des Carmélites, the work’s celebration of heroic piety defied the secular spirit of the art form. Continue Reading »
The idiotic, self-devouring cultural dialectic of Ireland since independence has ensured that its own damaged iconographies have blocked access to certain elements of the past, and therefore stymied present artists. Continue Reading »
Events happening over the coming days that may interest our readers. Continue Reading »
As humanists sought the truth by mastering ancient languages, and reformers by printing the Gospels in vernacular ones, Holbein pursued the truth by recording his subjects—both Protestants and Catholics—in honest, startling detail. Continue Reading »
Political messaging can make for bad art—but also for masterpieces. Continue Reading »
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