Every culture and era finds different things offensive. A universal standard for immorality in art may be an impossibility.

Though ambitious and engaging, the New York institution’s reorganized collections galleries struggle to offer a coherent vision of Jewish history and identity.

An exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art charts the development of astronomical knowledge across continents before and after the Scientific Revolution.

While protests at university campuses since October 7, 2023, have earned appropriate notoriety for their violence, tactics, and support for...

The Brutalist's foundation as a film is fundamentally shaky.

The Yiddish Book Center’s permanent exhibition offers much to kvell about, including a wide-ranging collection of volumes and tributes to Yiddish theater, music and history.

A tour of some of the nation’s elegant institutions, including the Enoura Observatory and the Chichu Art Museum, reveals an approach that is startlingly different from the monumental or encyclopedic ones that define many Western museums.

As the embassy developed as an institution, it began to be used to link nations with sometimes virulently opposed beliefs.

And how Jews used art to send messages about themselves.

The 300-year-old house, transported piecemeal from Japan and reassembled at the Huntington in California, is a window into the cosmopolitan customs of the Edo-era elite.

Only certain terms are used in a gallery. Don’t say a work is sold; say it has been placed. The pretense is that nothing commercial is taking place.

Shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum encompass paintings, mosaics, sacred texts and other artifacts in their explorations of religion and history.

A 16th-century automaton in the shape of a friar is a reminder of the craft of Renaissance inventors. But who devised it?

A wide-ranging show at the New-York Historical Society explores the ways different faiths and communities both shaped and were shaped by the nation’s westward expansion.

No matter how many innocents are murdered, Western intellectuals will never stop making excuses for terrorists

The abolitionist icon gets an intriguing if overly broad examination at a show in Washington.

In a new space of more than 50,000 square feet and featuring scientific projects, artifacts and artworks, the Massachusetts museum poses plenty of fascinating questions while making a few questionable assertions along the way.

Two exhibitions—one at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one at the Getty Center—gather Maya art and artifacts, including the oldest book of the Americas, to examine the awesome work of world-building.

The Jewish story of redemption doesn’t just involve enduring suffering, but actually imposes obligations.

In our era of cancellations and topplings, censorious declarations and virtue signaling, recantations and exorcisms, it’s almost possible...