The New Criterion
WEBA monthly review of the arts & intellectual life. Music for a While #88: Shout it out by Jay Nordlinger. Jay Nordlinger, The New Criterion’s music critic, talks music—but, more important, plays music.
Adams & his “Niño” | The New Criterion
WEB14 hours ago · These days, people even stage Bach’s passions. In 2000, John Adams composed El Niño, which is a telling, or a “reimagining,” of the Nativity. It is an opera-oratorio. And last night, it was staged at the Metropolitan Opera. Its libretto was fashioned by both the composer and Peter Sellars. Around El Niño, there has been a great deal of ...
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.”
Books | The New Criterion
WEBAndrew Stuttaford. On An Ordinary Youth by Walter Kempowski, Operation Heartbreak by Alfred Duff Cooper, Table for Two by Amor Towles & Ghosted by Mark McCrum. Books.
December 2021 | The New Criterion
WEBApr 8, 2024 · by William Logan. On new poetry by Louise Glück, August Kleinzahler, Rita Dove, Valzhyna Mort, Paul Muldoon & John Ashbery. Books.
May 2022 | The New Criterion
WEBGallery chronicle by James Panero. On “The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s” at Poster House, New York and “Thornton Willis: A Painting Survey, Six Decades, 1967–2017” at David Richard Gallery, Chelsea and Harlem, New York.
April 2022 | The New Criterion
WEBby Kyle Smith. On The Daughter-in-Law at City Center Stage II, Space Dogs at Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, English at Linda Gross Theater. Art.
March 2022 | The New Criterion
WEBApr 8, 2024 · Gallery chronicle by James Panero. On “Leon Kossoff: A Life in Painting” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, “Rodrigo Moynihan: The Studio Paintings, 1970s & 1980s” at David Nolan Gallery, “Paul Resika: Self-Portraits, 1946–2021” at Bookstein Projects, “Paul Resika: Allegory (San Nicola di Bari)” at the New York Studio School & “Drawings: Rackstraw Downes” at Betty Cuningham Gallery.
January 2022 | The New Criterion
WEBApr 8, 2024 · Visions of Spain by James Panero. On “Gilded Figures: Wood and Clay Made Flesh” at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, New York, and “Treasures from the Hispanic Society Library” at the Grolier Club, New York.
September 2022 | The New Criterion
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