The New Criterion
WEBA monthly review of the arts & intellectual life. Operating The New Criterion and attendant events are the sole activities of the Foundation for Cultural Review, a 501(c)(3) organization as defined by the Internal Revenue Service.
Dispatch | The New Criterion
WEBby. the Editors. On the Civil War, Emily Nelligan, Beethoven, Newport’s architecture & more from the world of culture. September 3, 2024.
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.”
Out of respect for my hat | The New Criterion
WEBI n the second volume of A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell introduces Stourwater Castle, the fictional country home of the Lord Beaverbrook-esque business magnate and government minister Sir Magnus Donners. Arriving by car on a warm September morning in 1928, Powell’s narrator, Nick …
Locked in war | The New Criterion
WEBCarthage had been among the richest cities in the classical world. Even after its humiliating defeat in the Second Punic War, it remained vital and prosperous. When the siege of Carthage began in 149 B.C., the city boasted a population of about 500,000. When the Romans were finished, only 50,000—one out of ten—remained.
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The promise of populism | The New Criterion
WEBEditors’ note: The following essay forms part of “The new conservative dilemma: a symposium,” a special section on the challenges facing conservatism today.Roger Kimball’s introduction can be read here.. Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack ...
Michelangelo & the Quattrocento | The New Criterion
WEBT hat ancient division between classical and romantic art, which has usually served to reveal by which forces works of art are created, or else to describe formal and spiritual dimensions in those works once they exist, might also be invoked, in the case of great art, to characterize the nature of its influence upon succeeding generations. Nowhere in all of art is this more true than in the ...
September 2022 - The New Criterion
WEBOperating The New Criterion and attendant events are the sole activities of the Foundation for Cultural Review, a 501(c)(3) organization as defined by the Internal Revenue Service.
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