The New Criterion
WEBA monthly review of the arts & intellectual life. Operating The New Criterion and attendant events are the sole activities of the Foundation for Cultural Review, a 501(c)(3) organization as defined by the Internal Revenue Service.
Week in review | The New Criterion
WEB1 day ago · by. On Evelyn Waugh, Notre-Dame & Wilfred Owen. Corruption and ineptitude, some say, are the media’s calling cards these days. So, too, thought Evelyn Waugh, the English novelist who was himself a less-than-perfect foreign correspondent, when he published Scoop in 1938. The satirical novel relays …
October 2021 - The New Criterion
WEBSep 1, 2024 · by Kyle Smith. On Pass Over at August Wilson Theatre, Trial on the Potomac: The Impeachment of Richard Nixon at the Theatre at St. Clement’s, and The Book of Moron at Soho Playhouse. “The Critic’s Notebook.”.
June 2021 - The New Criterion
WEBJun 10, 2024 · History lessons by William Logan. A review of “The Historians,” by Eavan Boland, “American Melancholy,” by Joyce Carol Oates, “Now We’re Getting Somewhere,” by Kim Addonizio, “The Caiplie Caves,” by Karen Solie, “Beethoven Variations,” by Ruth Padel & “The Hill We Climb,” by Amanda Gorman.
September 2021 - The New Criterion
WEBNew York chronicle by Jay Nordlinger. On a livestream performance by the New York Philharmonic; an organ concert by Raymond Nagem at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; a concert of piano music by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; the National Youth Orchestra; and The Barber of Seville with Teatro Nuovo.
About | The New Criterion
WEBThe New Criterion, edited by Roger Kimball, was founded in 1982 by the art critic Hilton Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman.A monthly review of the arts and intellectual life, The New Criterion began as an experiment in critical audacity—a publication devoted to engaging, in Matthew Arnold’s famous phrase, with “the best that has been thought and said.”
June 2022 - The New Criterion
WEBSep 1, 2024 · by William Logan. On new poetry by Lorna Goodison, Frank Bidart, Amanda Gorman, Anne Carson, Kevin Young & Tracy K. Smith.
November 2021 - The New Criterion
WEBGallery chronicle by James Panero. On “Lois Dodd” at Alexandre Gallery, “Marin in the White Mountains” at Menconi + Schoelkopf Fine Art, “John Ferren: From Paris to Springs” at Findlay Galleries, “Frederick J. Brown: The Sound of Color” at Berry Campbell & “Amy Lincoln” at Sperone Westwater.
March 2022 - The New Criterion
WEBJun 10, 2024 · Gallery chronicle by James Panero. On “Leon Kossoff: A Life in Painting” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, “Rodrigo Moynihan: The Studio Paintings, 1970s & 1980s” at David Nolan Gallery, “Paul Resika: Self-Portraits, 1946–2021” at Bookstein Projects, “Paul Resika: Allegory (San Nicola di Bari)” at the New York Studio School & “Drawings: Rackstraw Downes” at Betty Cuningham Gallery.
November 2022 - The New Criterion
WEBGallery chronicle by James Panero. On “Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young” at the Grolier Club, “At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism” at the Whitney, “Kim Uchiyama: Heat and Shadow” at The Lobby Gallery of 499 Park Avenue, “Gabriele Evertz: Path” at Minus Space, and “John …
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