On “The Day is Gone: 100 Years of New Objectivity,” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Jay Nordlinger on a concert by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, under Klaus Mäkelä.

Paul du Quenoy on a revival of “Boris Godunov,” at the Royal Opera.

On September 30, a federal district court judge in Boston upheld Harvard’s use of racial preferences in undergraduate admissions against the challenge that they discriminate against Asian-Americans.

The Ligeti was his Étude No. 4, “Fanfares,” from 1985. It was light and limpid, and flavored with jazz. The Liszt was the Rhapsodie espagnole, from 1858. It is jaw-droppingly difficult. And Mr. Liu ...