Twenty-three years ago this week, two thieves walked into Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and made off with thirteen works of art valued at a half-billion dollars. The FBI calls it the largest property heist in history, and it remains officially unsolved. But the agency announced ...

Love in the movies is about the flirtation, the exciting courtship, the comic mismatch, the embarrassing one-night stand — not waking up next to someone every day for the rest of your life. Jeanine Basinger, the author of the new book I Do and I Don’t: A History of Marriage in the Movies ...

Benjamin Britten may have been the most popular composer of the 20th century, beloved for his operas Peter Grimes and Billy Budd, for The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, and several exalted film scores. He traveled the world, and in middle age settled in the area of his childhood ...

Bonus Track: Chris Watson, “In Britten’s Footsteps”

While classical institutions usually bemoan the aging audience, Eric Whitacre’s fanbase is squarely in a prize demographic of 18-to-30 year olds. Whitacre is the most popular choral composer working today, his music performed by school choirs, university groups, and professional ...

Bonus Track: “Oculi Omnium,” performed by the Eric Whitacre Singers

Steve Mumford traveled to Iraq several times to chronicle the war as a painter and illustrator. He was riding in a tank during a mission in Baquba when “the vehicle I was in was hit with two rocket-propelled grenades. Things like that would sometimes happen and they were not, as it turned out ...

Slideshow: Illustrating War