OHIO CITY, Ohio — When it comes to creativity, artists have a language of their own -- and who better to advocate for them than the artists themselves? With that in mind, four friends came together to ...

It’s more important for a policy to sound good than to be feasible. Someone once called politics “the art of the possible.” But, in the era of the modern welfare state, politics is largely the art of ...

Alberto Giacometti, “Head of Diego on ‘La Psychanalyse'” (n.d.), ink on book page; 8 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) “What I am looking for is not happiness. I work ...

“In opera,” argues Matthew Aucoin, “all speech is dream speech.” Exchanging ideas with one of his collaborators, the celebrated composer and conductor claims that opera singers give voice to something ...

In the category of what Kierkegaard called "thoughts that wound from behind," as I sank ever deeper into Matthew Aucoin's new book, The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), ...