Arts

Dear readers,I moved apartments recently, a task that made me sorely wish I had added even the breeziest treatise on D.I.Y. organizing to my reading list. How had the “life-changing magic” of...

David Briggs, a keyboardist and studio operator who played a pivotal role in establishing Muscle Shoals, Ala., as a recording hub in the 1960s before helping to revitalize mainstream country music, died...

Gretchen Dow Simpson, an acclaimed Rhode Island painter whose moody, highly geometric images of seaside cottages, snow-covered farms and other totems of New England life drew comparisons to Edward Hopper and graced...

“A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic.” At the start of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s all-Shostakovich concert at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, the cellist Yo-Yo Ma invoked this...

Any clue about William Shakespeare’s life usually excites scholars, but one piece of evidence had been neglected for decades. Now, a new analysis of that overlooked document seems to shatter a longstanding...

W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, the operetta kings of 19th-century Britain, had a hit in America with “H.M.S. Pinafore,” but they reaped no American fortune from it. Instead, lacking U.S. copyright protection,...

The National Endowment for the Humanities announced on Thursday a grant program to support President Trump’s National Garden of American Heroes, the first concrete step toward realizing one of his central priorities...

As a top executive for the N.B.A.’s Atlanta Hawks, Levetta Futrell is responsible for negotiating contracts with halftime performers and managing a budget that steers her department’s priorities. But sometimes her job...

Bach: Mass in B MinorJulie Roset, soprano; Beth Taylor, mezzo-soprano; Lucile Richardot, alto; Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, tenor; Christian Immler, bass; Pygmalion; Raphaël Pichon, conductor (Harmonia Mundi)Raphaël Pichon and the musicians of his...

To his criticism for The New Criterion, Mr. Grassi brought this tactile sense, his editor, Roger Kimball, recalled in an interview. “You felt that his encounters with the art was hands-on,” he...