Jane Coombs on New York City Ballet’s annual Fall Fashion Gala.

The supernatural intervenes when a stone statue of the Commendatore comes to life and demands Don Giovanni renounce his ...

Then came a concert inside David Geffen Hall: a concert billed as “Gustavo Dudamel’s Inaugural Gala” (“in partnership with Rolex”). The new music director conducted the Philharmonic in a program that ...

André’s exhibition space is limited, and many of Tintoretto’s large-scale masterpieces can only be seen on Venetian walls. Nevertheless, there is enough of a selection to give more than a taste of ...

Watch Andrew Roberts deliver the Seventh Annual Circle Lecture, “Will China bury us?” A version of the remarks appear in the November 2024 issue of The New Criterion.

Though Siegfried Sassoon lived a very long life, dying of natural causes at the age of eighty in 1967, he remains frozen, for posterity, somewhere in his late twenties, as an infantry officer in the ...

For the immediate future, and perhaps for a long way ahead, the continuity of our culture may have to be maintained by a very small number of people. —T. S. Eliot, in The Criterion (1939) It is now ...

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.

Renoir puzzles me. I’ve never understood why so perceptive a critic as Julius Meier-Graefe, usually an acute judge of originality and excellence, thought Renoir was second only to Corot and believed ...

All our fashionable blather about “diversity” notwithstanding, we live in an age of ethnic disaggregation. Czechs and Slovaks, Serbs and Croats, Greek and Turkish Cypriots, Abkhazians and Ossetians ...

On Ariadne auf Naxos at the Salzburg Festival.