Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Nothing could be further from what we now think of as the raison d’être or the appearance of the present-day art ...

Grace Hartigan began her art career free of the past. She had no technical training, education in art history, or particular ...

On Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda at the Salzburg Festival.

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Lady Pamela Berry (1914–82), also known as Lady Hartwell after her husband, Michael Berry, the owner of The Daily Telegraph ...

On the Civil War, Dalibor, the BAAND Together Dance Festival, London architecture & more from the world of culture.

Arnold Schoenberg’s string sextet Verklärte Nacht ( Transfigured Night) has everything one could wish for in a work of fin de ...

Here is another manifestation of that prior worldview: the Metropolitan Opera’s new staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Aida, currently running at the Met (see the May 2025 issue of The New Criterion).

Roger Kimball writes: With the death of David Horowitz at the age of eighty-six on April 29, America lost not only one of its most passionate, well-informed, and effective critics of the Left but also ...

“The Smithsonian Should Sue but Won’t, the Bayeux Tapestry Shouldn’t Travel but Will” Brian T. Allen, National Review ...