An unexpected benefit of today's widespread reductions in museum funding is the proliferation of small exhibitions that make austerity an asset. Witness "Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence: Painting ...

Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen has his own music festival to run at home, but he took time out to travel to the Usedom Music Festival in the Baltic Sea, off the north coast of Germany. From that ...

Because it offers a unique blend of musical sophistication and emotional light and shade is the usual reply. Which is true, but there are classical pieces which get their power the same way as many ...