René Girard stands out among the French theorists who came to have such disproportionate influence on American academic and intellectual life from the mid-1960s onward. Even if he was the cosponsor of ...

On Giorgio Morandi, a completed World War I memorial & writing history. Recent stories of note: “Largest Morandi exhibition ...

On September 5, the Friends and Young Friends of The New Criterion gathered at the magazine’s headquarters to hear remarks from D. J. Taylor in celebration of his new books, Orwell: The New Life ...

“Free in will! Free in deed! Free in enjoyment!” was a youthful slogan of Richard Wagner. Taken from one of his theoretical works written around the time of his participation in the Revolution of 1848 ...

On students, Dana Gioia, Amy Lincoln, the New York Philharmonic & more from the world of culture.

Aspen’s Wheeler Opera House, which I visited in mid-August for the closing days of the Aspen Music Festival, tells the varied ...

Part artist’s manifesto, part memoir, and part catty burn-book, Paul Gauguin’s Avant et après resurfaced several years ago after having been missing for a century. In the Courtauld Institute’s ...

“Und?” asked an elegantly dressed lady of a certain age, one half of a sturdy German couple standing behind me in the Bayreuth Festival’s intermission bratwurst line. “Modern,” was the husband’s ...

Therein the author claimed that Stettheimer had in 1916 created “the first nude self-portrait decidedly painted from a ...