De Kooning was born in Rotterdam in 1904. As a youth he studied for eight years at a conservative academy of art, where the curriculum included De Stijl due to the Dutch art movement’s practical ...

Warren Frye on “The Last Peasant War,” by Jakub S. Beneš.

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On a performance by the Berlin Philharmonic, under Kirill Petrenko, at Carnegie Hall.

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Editors’ note: It is difficult to believe that it was ten years ago last month that Hilton Kramer, the founding editor of The New Criterion, died, aged eighty-four. Time really does seem to speed up ...

Suzanna Murawski on “Ravelstein,” Marsden Hartley & a new canvas adhesive.

In 2020 a brilliant novel was published called The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures, by Jennifer Hofmann. Kirkus called it “a remarkable first novel that reads like the work of a seasoned ...