It is critical to remember that the gentleman’s bequest was not simply an investment or display of wealth. It represented a ...

Warren Frye on “The Last Peasant War,” by Jakub S. Beneš.

De Kooning was born in Rotterdam in 1904. As a youth he studied for eight years at a conservative academy of art, where the curriculum included De Stijl due to the Dutch art movement’s practical ...

Suzanna Murawski on “Ravelstein,” Marsden Hartley & a new canvas adhesive.

For example, the latest Michelin Guide considers the best two restaurants in Washington, D.C., to be minibar and Jônt, ...

On the West’s latest self-flagellation.

In 2020 a brilliant novel was published called The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures, by Jennifer Hofmann. Kirkus called it “a remarkable first novel that reads like the work of a seasoned ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 24, 2025, honoring Heather Mac Donald with the twelfth Edmund Burke Award for Service to ...

In his Lives of the Artists, Vasari credits Giotto as having no less than the status of nature itself: deserving to be imitated by painters everywhere. Giotto’s revolutionary fresco cycle in the ...

Editors’ note: It is difficult to believe that it was ten years ago last month that Hilton Kramer, the founding editor of The New Criterion, died, aged eighty-four. Time really does seem to speed up ...