Tara Barnett is a writer who contributed arts and culture pieces to The Weekly Standard in 2015 and 2016. Her articles for the magazine covered a range of topics including books, art, and cultural commentary.
On April 15, 1865, the painter Rubens Peale received “sad news of the murder of President Lincoln.” On April 23, Peale was afforded “a fine opportunity of viewing the corpse and decorations of the hall, which was totally covered with black cloth except the statue & portraits of General Washington &…
Jonas Karlsson’s new novel begins with an annoyance: An astronomically large invoice arrives for an unnamed narrator. "A scam!" our hero thinks. "A mistake!" he thinks again. Many would dissolve immediately into irritation, but our hero merely chuckles it off and goes about his simple, content day.
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This weekend, Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center welcomes Juliette Binoche as Antigone in a new translation by Anne Carson, directed by Ivo van Hove. Sophocles’ Antigone tells the story of Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, who defies the law of the city in favor of the law of the gods (as she…
At the Japan Society, an exhibition of ukiyo-e has clawed its way into the spotlight. Ukiyo-e is a genre of woodblock prints, a familiar medium in Japanese art exhibitions. While these prints are always beautiful and historically intriguing, rarely do journalists pounce with such enthusiasm to laud…
Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury is presently headlining a tour of Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit, the play that won her a fifth Tony in 2009. She plays Madame Arcati, an eccentric medium who conjures up a novelist’s dead wife to the tune of Irving Berlin’s “Always,” much to the comedic exasperation of his…