Grace Hartigan began her art career free of the past. She had no technical training, education in art history, or particular ...

On Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda at the Salzburg Festival.

On Greek athletics, authorial cats, the licensing racket, Cretan painting & more from the world of culture.

And in “The Author’s Apology” to Mrs. Warren’s Profession, which was first performed, amid scandal, in 1902, nearly a decade ...

Lady Pamela Berry (1914–82), also known as Lady Hartwell after her husband, Michael Berry, the owner of The Daily Telegraph ...

On the Civil War, Dalibor, the BAAND Together Dance Festival, London architecture & more from the world of culture.

Arnold Schoenberg’s string sextet Verklärte Nacht ( Transfigured Night) has everything one could wish for in a work of fin de ...

Under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s government has invested heavily in the arts, including a massive renovation of Budapest’s Hungarian State Opera House, an imposing structure that dates ...

Here is another manifestation of that prior worldview: the Metropolitan Opera’s new staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Aida, currently running at the Met (see the May 2025 issue of The New Criterion).

On The Technological Republic, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska. To Alex Karp, the ceo of Palantir Technologies, and Nicholas Zamiska, the company’s head of corporate affairs, this episode ...

On new volumes & editions by Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon, Brad Leithauser, Dorothy Parker & Claudia Emerson.