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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.”
How much is too much? | The New Criterion
WEBJul 23, 2019 · Back in 1992, the American Alliance of Museums found that 36 percent of all museums in the United States charged an admission fee. By 2008, the AAM reported that only a third of all museums were free to the public, with the average ticket being $10 for adults. On a national basis, admissions make up between 2 and 4 …
Now you see it - The New Criterion
WEBT he writer William Maxwell (1908–2000) once spoke with an editor close to Willa Cather, who late in life had become rather reclusive, a mystery to the reading public. Maxwell asked, “What made her a writer?” and the editor replied: “Why, what makes anyone a writer—deprivation, of course.” Maxwell adds that the editor apologized for being “tactless,” and we might recall Philip ...
Podcasts - The New Criterion
WEBMusic for a While #86: A Williams gala. by. Jay Nordlinger. Jay Nordlinger, The New Criterion ’s music critic, talks music—but, more important, plays music. March 4, 2024.
Michelangelo’s “thinking hand” | The New Criterion
WEBF or the art historian Michael Hirst it is “one of the most familiar in the history of art”—the gesture Mary makes with her left hand in Michelangelo’s Pietà (1498–99) in Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome. That sculpture, commissioned by a French Cardinal for his burial site, a chapel in the old Saint Peter’s, was the twenty-four-year-old …
The cooling of John le Carré | The New Criterion
WEBThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) begins and ends with the shooting of agents trying to cross the Berlin Wall. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974) was the story of a Philby-like “mole” who successfully burrowed himself into the topmost echelons of the secret service. Despite le Carré’s political turn, which became painfully anti ...
Remembering Eliot’s Criterion | The New Criterion
WEBThe story of The Criterion begins with the death of The Egoist in 1919. Eliot had served as its assistant editor for two years; now he wanted to found a journal that “should unite the best critical opinion in England, together with the work of the best critics who I can find from other countries.”. Eliot did not have the money for such a ...
April 2017 - The New Criterion
WEBGallery chronicle by James Panero. On the “Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts” at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, “Paul Resika: Empty” at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, the “Talking Pictures 1st Invitational” at 106 Van Buren Street, “Bewilder: New Work by Brece Honeycutt” at Norte Maar & “Rough Matter: New Work by Rebecca Murtaugh” at Stout Projects.
The triumph of Thomas Sowell | The New Criterion
WEBIn 1930, the year he was born into a black family in Gastonia, North Carolina, the Great Depression was gathering strength. And Jim Crow was in full force, so he seldom encountered white people in his early years. As Riley explains, “He’d been turned away from restaurants and housing because of his skin color.