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WEBVisions of Spain by James Panero. On “Gilded Figures: Wood and Clay Made Flesh” at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, New York, and “Treasures from the Hispanic Society Library” at the Grolier Club, New York.
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WEB5 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.
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 …
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Guerrillas in the mist | The New Criterion
WEBVictor Davis Hanson is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of The Second World Wars (Basic Books). He is The New Criterion ’s Visiting Critic for the 2021–22 season and the 2018 recipient of the Edmund Burke award. This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 31 Number 6, on page 60.
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.
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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.”
Au revoir Orwell? | The New Criterion
WEBI s George Orwell About to be Cancelled?” That headline in the Daily Mail in October 2023 reflected a prolonged and ferocious barrage of attacks on Orwell as a villainous, philandering, abusive husband who had even pilfered his wife Eileen’s idea for Animal Farm and took the title for Nineteen Eighty-Four from part of the title of a poem by her—all of this, of course, without a murmur of ...
A good writer is hard to find | The New Criterion
WEBHannah Niemeier. T he author of the “perfect novel” was in some ways similar to its protagonist, William Stoner, an English professor from a dirt-poor family. But he was also John Williams (1922–94)—a difficult man and the writer of a small but radiant body of work well deserving of its late renaissance.