Warren Frye on “The Saga of the Earls of Orkney,” edited and translated by Judith Jesch.
Mahler’s Third began with a blatty onset in the horns—but, as they continued, those horns were arresting. Part I as a whole ...
To end the night, Flórez sang another Donizetti aria, “Una furtiva lagrima,” from The Elixir of Love. This is an aria that ...
Jane Coombs on a performance of the Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet, at Carnegie Hall.
On Old Master drawings, Caravaggio, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Art Deco & more from the world of culture.
Longtime readers will know that The New Criterion has had what might politely be described as a fraught relationship with the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities. Samuel Lipman, our ...
My aim is to show that we have entered a period of post-historical art, where the need for constant self-revolutionization of art is now past. There can and should never again be anything like the ...
On the state of “the literary life” a quarter-century after Joseph Epstein wrote on this subject for our inaugural issue.
On “Vermeer’s Masterpiece: The Milkmaid” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York & “Monet’s Water Lilies” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Conceptually, the two exhibits are very similar, ...