A. J. Goldmann

MUNICH - From Pablo Picasso to David Hockney and from Jean Cocteau to Marc Chagall, celebrated painters and v…

MUNICH - In the summer of 2015, the world watched in astonishment as Germans cheered crowds of refugees strea…

Cover story of the July 2018 issue about the German soprano Anja Harteros.

A critic's notebook about two new operas in Germany about German-Jewish intellectuals persecuted by the Third…

One hundred years ago, as World War I drew to a close and the Austro-Hungarian Empire breathed its last, Vien…

'See humanity in a new light," runs the slogan of Louvre Abu Dhabi, which opened to the public on Saturday, a…

A window into Cornelius Gurlitt's hoard, which contained hundreds of Nazi-looted works.

BERLIN - In 2013, as opera companies worldwide celebrated Richard Wagner's 200th birthday, Barrie Kosky, who …

The cover story of the summer 2017 issue of Contact Magazine, about the contemporary flowering of Yiddish cin…

A magazine feature about artistic positions on the refugee crisis in Germany. Published in Issue 5, Fall 2016

Rome The French-Polish painter Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (1908-2001), better known as Balthus, is often na…

From the Oscar winning classics of the early Seventies - The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973)…

An exhibit at Moscow's Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War that is selective in its telling of World Wa…

Vienna Josef Hoffmann and Adolf Loos, the two most important architects in turn-of-the-century Vienna, were b…

Duisburg, Germany 'Try to imagine the whole universe beginning to ring and resound. There are no longer human…

Berlin No artistic movement of the 20th century has been more lauded, ­debated, misunderstood and maligned th…

Michel Gondry shows up late to the interview suite at the Ritz Carlton. He's in Berlin to promote his new fil…

When Stanley Kubrick died in March 1999 during the post-production of his final film, "Eyes Wide Shut," he le…

Gustav Mahler was a Late Romantic composer who became one of the better-known converts from Judaism to Christ…