The scale of the Marron Family Atrium allows us to foreground the ambition that defined Frankenthaler’s work,” says Samantha Friedman, a curator in moma’s Department of Drawings and Prints, who ...

You never get a second chance to make a first impression, so the adman sayeth. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) would beg to differ. The Impressionists were not the spontaneous image-makers they were ...

On “Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time,” by Dietrich Neumann.

But Lear is not bluffing. He intends to retire from kingship and divide his kingdom, and he does retire from kingship and ...

On April 1917: The Red Wheel, Node IV, Book 1, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Clare Kitson. Once again, “the historical novel turns into dramatized history,” based on a faithful “depiction ...

Gentz called the American Revolution “defensive” and the French one “offensive.” Maistre traced the latter’s most offensive ...

Such radical evolution has also been characteristic of the later American military, which has often been faulted for entering ...

T he Declaration of Independence was the banner under which the American Revolution was fought. “We hold these truths to be ...

Wilfred M. McClay holds the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College, ...

W e now have it on the authority of a licensed psychotherapist that “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (tds) is clinically real—though it’s probably not destined to have its own ...

In his 1971 book Appreciating the Theater: Cues for Theatergoers, Julian M. Kaufman describes how theater was initially a ...

On the U.S. semiquincentennial.