Verdi’s masterpiece of 1853, La traviata. She fashioned her production in 2016. It was staged last Wednesday night at the ...

It is not an exaggeration to say that we live today in the Age of Friedman, an era shaped by his ideas about the importance ...

Paul du Quenoy on a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty” by the Hungarian National Ballet, Budapest.

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 ...

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 ...

Just ten days before Robert A. M. Stern died, I received New York 2020, the final volume of his series of exhaustive and illuminating histories of New York architecture. I wrestled the 1,488-page ...

Roger Kimball writes: With the death of David Horowitz at the age of eighty-six on April 29, America lost not only one of its most passionate, well-informed, and effective critics of the Left but also ...

There is much talk of dreams in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (at the Winter Garden Theatre through August 9), and Willy Loman’s existence is defined, in the winter of his life, by his daydreams ...

No sport—not even boxing or baseball or tennis—has inspired a literature as impressive as cricket has, and this may be in part because the earliest competitive years of cricket were dominated by ...

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 ...