David Platzer on the life of Lady Diana Cooper.
At least, that is, until now, with the advent of the Pascal Institute, in the Netherlands, with which St. John’s has formed a ...
Verdi’s masterpiece of 1853, La traviata. She fashioned her production in 2016. It was staged last Wednesday night at the ...
The presentation of retrospective exhibitions of the work of obscure artists has become an obsession for museums, with curators drawing in a public hungry to discover the next big thing. But Robin ...
On dining rooms, newspapers, musical instruments, the Dunlap broadsides & more from the world of culture. Joseph Willems after two engravings by François Boucher, The Music Lesson, ca. 1765, ...
Paris’s Petit Palais makes a point of selecting artists for exhibition who are largely foreign to contemporary France and yet whose art was influenced by the School of Paris of the nineteenth and ...
Paul du Quenoy on a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty” by the Hungarian National Ballet, Budapest.
Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at the Pacific Research Institute on June 16, 2026, in acceptance of the Milton Friedman Award. It is a special honor to receive ...
It was improbable, to say the least, that the David Gruen born as a Jew in 1886 in the back-of-beyond Polish-Russian township of Plonsk should have become David Ben-Gurion, a world-historical figure.
Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 22, 2026, honoring Harvey Mansfield with the thirteenth Edmund Burke Award for Service to ...
Gerrymandering is detrimental to our democracy, and it weakens the individual voices that form our electorates. Opposing gerrymandering should be a bipartisan priority.” So said Abigail Spanberger, ...