The New Criterion
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Dispatch | The New Criterion
WEB2 days ago · Operating The New Criterion and attendant events are the sole activities of the Foundation for Cultural Review, a 501(c)(3) organization as defined by the Internal Revenue Service.
About | The New Criterion
WEBThe New Criterion, edited by Roger Kimball, was founded in 1982 by the art critic Hilton Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman.A monthly review of the arts and intellectual life, The New Criterion began as an experiment in critical audacity—a publication devoted to engaging, in Matthew Arnold’s famous phrase, with “the best that has been thought and said.”
How much is too much? | The New Criterion
WEBJul 23, 2019 · Back in 1992, the American Alliance of Museums found that 36 percent of all museums in the United States charged an admission fee. By 2008, the AAM reported that only a third of all museums were free to the public, with the average ticket being $10 for adults. On a national basis, admissions make up between 2 and 4 …
June 2002 - The New Criterion
WEBOct 2, 2024 · Falls the shadow by William Logan. Reviews of A Short History of the Shadow by Charles Wright; Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry by Alan Dugan; The Watercourse by Cynthia Zarin; Belonging by Dick Davis; Never by Jorie Graham & The Orchards of Syon by Geoffrey Hill.
The year that changed everything: 1968 | The New Criterion
WEBAfter 1968, Americans of the political elite began believing in group rights and equality of result. More important, before 1968 Americans believed in containing the Soviet Union and its allies—the forces known by the now-quaint term “world Communism. ”So seriously did they take this struggle that, for example, they built fallout shelters ...
Panoramic Rothko | The New Criterion
WEBS ay “Mark Rothko” and we visualize the signature works that have become synonymous with his name—the so-called Classic paintings, large canvases constructed with soft-edged floating rectangles of disembodied color, some radiant, others brooding and dark. But Rothko (1903–70) didn’t start out making paintings of this type. Born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia (now Daugavpils ...
War of the worlds | The New Criterion
WEBDec 14, 2023 · Last February, New York magazine’s senior art critic Jerry Saltz expressed yet another strong opinion.Saltz, who won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, is notoriously outspoken and attention seeking. His narcissistic antics already earned him the ire of this very magazine over a decade ago, the year he served as a judge on the Bravo television series Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.
The eclipse of listening | The New Criterion
WEBFor us the act of listening takes place in silence, often in the hushed and reverential atmosphere of a concert hall. To sing, hum, gesticulate, or tap your feet in time is not just bad manners. It is a violation of the sacred ritual, which merits nothing less than expulsion from the divine presence into the cacophonous street outside.
The triumph of Thomas Sowell | The New Criterion
WEBIn 1930, the year he was born into a black family in Gastonia, North Carolina, the Great Depression was gathering strength. And Jim Crow was in full force, so he seldom encountered white people in his early years. As Riley explains, “He’d been turned away from restaurants and housing because of his skin color.