On a concert by the National Symphony Orchestra, at the Trump Kennedy Center.

Jane Coombs on a performance of the Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet, at Carnegie Hall.

On “Louise Nevelson: Mrs. N’s Palace,” at the Centre Pompidou, Metz.

Jay Nordlinger on a concert by the New York Philharmonic, with Thomas Adès conducting and Yuja Wang at the piano.

While Dueñas was playing, a woman sneaked down the aisle, back to her seat. Apparently, she had left after the Beethoven, not realizing that there would be an encore. This time she had her shoes—those ...

On Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed, by Eric H. Cline.

There is enough blame to be shared all around. Every organization, every office, every business has employees who are detrimental to the work performed. But the CIA should have been more vigilant.

On January 22, Friends of The New Criterion gathered at the offices of the magazine to celebrate the publication of Brooke Allen’s “Good Bones: Glorious Relics from the Age of Reading.” The New Criter ...

Benjamin de Almeida Newton is a Ph.D student in the department of Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

On “Vermeer’s Masterpiece: The Milkmaid” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York & “Monet’s Water Lilies” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Conceptually, the two exhibits are very similar, ...