Fifty Years of Dreams” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee.
Over the past twenty years or so, two titans of the Renaissance have been illuminated by capacious, legendary exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The shows “Leonardo da Vinci, Master ...
On diplomatic reception rooms, connoisseurs, Emmet Gowin’s photography, Art Deco buildings & more from the world of culture.
On Thomas Hutchinson, the Sun Valley Music Festival, early music, nineteenth-century architecture, Homer’s Odyssey & more from the world of culture.
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One of the two men, standing before the other, had a light complexion, a long, straight nose, and a long beard. This was the forty-three-year-old Abdullah ibn Haroun al Rashid, known by his regnal ...
This season of 250th-anniversary commemorations provides a perfect platform for broadcasting the merits of the American project, especially to youth whose educators may be concerned more with the ...
Walking to Carnegie Hall, I called a friend—a musician friend—and said, “I’m going to say something we could have said in the 1980s or ’90s: I’m going to hear Renée and Tom. How ’bout that?” I was ...
On “Caravaggio 2025” at the Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini, Rome.
In Book IV of Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus’s young son, Telémakhos, visits the court of his father’s erstwhile comrade-in-arms at Troy, Menelaos, the king of Sparta, in an attempt to glean information ...
Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 22, 2026, honoring Harvey Mansfield with the thirteenth Edmund Burke Award for Service to ...
On the reissue of Aron’s Opium of the Intellectuals. Santayana’s alarming thought that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” has at least as much relevance to the world of ...
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