Isaac Sligh on Luigi Cherubini’s “Medea” at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus.
Fifty Years of Dreams” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee.
On diplomatic reception rooms, connoisseurs, Emmet Gowin’s photography, Art Deco buildings & more from the world of culture.
On performances of Verdi’s Macbeth at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest. The stages in both productions shared a sense of obstacle and confinement. For ...
In late June, New York City Ballet returned to Los Angeles for the first time in twenty years and presented two dance programs at the Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. One of the programs ...
Whatever happened to the Regency gentleman—or rake—who whiled away his days drinking, flirting, and generally getting up to no good? Perhaps his spirit died with Simon Raven (1927–2001), one of the ...
Criterion Books will publish The Whole Gray Lake’s a Sky in the winter of 2027. The Editors of The New Criterion are pleased to announce that Midge Goldberg is the winner of the twenty-sixth New ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Yes, it was a concert, not an opera, as in Milan. But at least it featured voices. Palermo’s Teatro Massimo is ...
Blanche Lazzell (1878–1956), whose works are the subject of an exhibition at the Albany Institute of History & Art, was a great American improbability. (The exhibition closes August 2, so hasten to ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series.
On Vasily Grossman, Richard Estes, seaside art, William Faulkner, museum gardens & more from the world of culture. Richard Estes, Escalator at Penn Station, 2023, Oil on panel, Schoelkopf Gallery.