Richard Taruskin, a commanding musicologist and public intellectual whose polemical scholarship and criticism upended conventional classical music history, died early Friday in Oakland, Calif.

With the rapid erosion of conservative social norms in late 20th century America, the old adage that children should be “seen and not heard” has, in most cases, flown out the window. Now this is a ...

At the Brooklyn Museum, a Polemical History Lesson. In its overhaul of its collection of American art, the Brooklyn Museum fixates on everything that’s shameful in the country’s past. By .

Art An artist’s polemical portraits turn MAGA grotesque. Jeff Gates, a political artist leery of hyperpartisanship, has made unsubtle, densely layered portraits more for frustration than persuasion.

polemical gender discourse in nineteenth-century catholicism (pp. 57-71) angela berlis. the cult of the virgin mary, or the feminization of the male element in the roman catholic church?: a ...

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Cannes boss Thierry Frémaux responded to questions from the international press this Monday, a day before the official start of the 77th edition. Here’s what you need to know.