Alan G. Artner

People spoil everything, don't they? They certainly spoil big museum exhibitions by getting in the way of the work and subjecting you to a seiche of audio-guide susurrations. So what...

New Orleans has been home to many prominent artists, from the portraitist and miniaturist Julien Hudson in the 1830s to the sculptor and printmaker John T. Scott today. Perhaps the...

In 1918 Arnold Schoenberg established in Vienna a Society for Private Musical Performances, which in the next three years presented 154 works by 42 composers. The "total spectrum of modern...

Rene Jacobs, the countertenor-turned-conductor who has led many recordings that show his affinity for vocal music, here turns to two late-18th Century symphonies, with similarly exhilarating results. These are fresh,...

During World War II, Soviet photojournalist Dmitri Baltermants was on his way to cover a battle when he passed through the Crimean town of Kerch, where the Nazis had massacred...

MOVIES MICHAEL WILMINGTON James Dean Lives The perfect way to observe the 50th anniversary of James Dean's death by Porsche and the release of his first two great movies-- Elia...

American composer William Schuman wrote 10 symphonies over the course of nearly 40 years. All but the first two, which he withdrew, were recorded, though not by a single conductor...

Kerry Skarbakka is a photographer who jumps from high places on a tether and has his team shoot images that he then alters in the studio to make more dramatic....

Fernando Botero's "Standing Woman," a monumental bronze sculpture by the Colombian artist famous for figures that look inflated, will be unveiled Monday as the latest addition to the collection of...

David Diamond is one of the last living links to a time when our brightest young composers went to study with Nadia Boulanger in France and came back to write...