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On “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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The masterpiece of our time | The New Criterion
New to The New Criterion? Become a subscriber to receive ten print issues and gain immediate access to our online archive spanning more than four decades of art and cultural criticism.On The Gulag Archipelago at fifty.
“Lend me a tenor,” by Jay Nordlinger
Jan 1, 2025 · Jay Nordlinger on a new production of Verdi’s “Aida” at the Metropolitan Opera.
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The 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 …
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T ho mas Sowell is one of the towering American intellectuals of our time. An economist trained at the University of Chicago and a social theorist of the first rank, he has been a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University since 1980. He has written an astonishing fifty books (if you count revised and expanded editions), numerous essays, and a long-running, twice-a-week ...
“Nova et vetera,” by David Butterfield
Oct 25, 2024 · “Q uomodo dicitur Latine laptop, magister?” On the left a herd of goats, and to the right a yet-hungrier herd of wide-eyed tourists, ruminate upon the ancient terrain. I chew over this question as the group sits beneath the Temple of Concordia, which stands just as proudly as when the local Sicilians conjured it up two and a half millennia ago. Now, two and a …
“Life before death,” by Anthony Daniels
New to The New Criterion? Become a subscriber to receive ten print issues and gain immediate access to our online archive spanning more than four decades of art and cultural criticism.Anthony Daniels on dispatches from the condemned.
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Siena splendor at the Met by Karen Wilkin On “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.