Jane Coombs on New York City Ballet’s annual Fall Fashion Gala.
The supernatural intervenes when a stone statue of the Commendatore comes to life and demands Don Giovanni renounce his ...
On Georgia O’Keeffe, ancient magic, John Russell Pope, unrequited love & more from the world of culture.
Watch Andrew Roberts deliver the Seventh Annual Circle Lecture, “Will China bury us?” A version of the remarks appear in the November 2024 issue of The New Criterion.
It was improbable, to say the least, that the David Gruen born as a Jew in 1886 in the back-of-beyond Polish-Russian township of Plonsk should have become David Ben-Gurion, a world-historical figure.
Though Siegfried Sassoon lived a very long life, dying of natural causes at the age of eighty in 1967, he remains frozen, for posterity, somewhere in his late twenties, as an infantry officer in the ...
On the writer, occasioned by the publication of D. S. Mirsky: A Russian-English Life, 1890-1939, by G. S. Smith. Of the millions put to death in the Soviet Union ...
Renoir puzzles me. I’ve never understood why so perceptive a critic as Julius Meier-Graefe, usually an acute judge of originality and excellence, thought Renoir was second only to Corot and believed ...
On Sienese bronze, Scott Kahn, Nikos Kazantzakis, Felix Mendelssohn & more from the world of culture.
André’s exhibition space is limited, and many of Tintoretto’s large-scale masterpieces can only be seen on Venetian walls. Nevertheless, there is enough of a selection to give more than a taste of ...