It is critical to remember that the gentleman’s bequest was not simply an investment or display of wealth. It represented a ...

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

On Proto-Indo-European, Rothko & Gottlieb, Vanessa Bell, Richard Strauss, Raynham Hall Museum & more from the world of culture. Mark Rothko, Self Portrait, 1936, Oil ...

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

For example, the latest Michelin Guide considers the best two restaurants in Washington, D.C., to be minibar and Jônt, ...

On the West’s latest self-flagellation.

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 24, 2025, honoring Heather Mac Donald with the twelfth Edmund Burke Award for Service to ...

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 ...

On recent musical performances in New York.

In his Lives of the Artists, Vasari credits Giotto as having no less than the status of nature itself: deserving to be imitated by painters everywhere. Giotto’s revolutionary fresco cycle in the ...