Renaissance

A new HBO documentary series follows King George, the eighty-six-year-old overlord of the Texas Renaissance Festival, and the vicious competition to replace him.

What all the mythology and history of the magi suggests is that no bright lines exist to separate fakery from faith.

His startlingly intimate love poems fell from favor for centuries, but his drive to see every subject anew makes him seem more contemporary than ever.

Breaking down a breathtaking sacred work by the Renaissance composer.

During the Renaissance, his crystalline choral works led him to be celebrated as the Michelangelo of music. But many works attributed to him may be those of gifted contemporaries.

Joy McCullough’s tribute to Artemisia Gentileschi deftly captures the experience of learning to behave in a male-driven society and then breaking outside of it.