Robert Steven Mack on historical recreations with the Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Joyce Theater.

On a performance of Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, at the Spoleto Festival.

Max Sligh on “Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.

Kyle Smith on "Angry Alan," by Penelope Skinner at Studio Seaview.

He sought to give an impression of spontaneity in his painting, making him a pioneer of what is now called Impressionism. At ...

The Tin Angel is a new opera by Daniel Asia, the American composer born in 1953. It is based on a novel of the same name by ...

The Leonard A. Lauder Collection.” Highlights from Cooper’s collection included Georges Braque’s Trees at Estaque (1908), a ...

E ve ry culture has a literature that is to some extent subterranean. Much of it deserves to stay there. But certain pieces occasionally bubble to the surface. Invariably this happens because the work ...

I n 1970, the Procurator General of the Discalced Carmelite Order, Finian Monahan, was summoned to the Vatican for a meeting. The subject of the meeting was a promising young American priest by the ...

Here is another manifestation of that prior worldview: the Metropolitan Opera’s new staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Aida, currently running at the Met (see the May 2025 issue of The New Criterion).

H av ing mentioned the word “culture” in my title, I should clarify which definition I hold to. Actually, it is two. The first distinguishes civilization as cultivation of a milieu, of a way of life, ...