James Hankins & James Panero discuss Leonardo da Vinci

An interview occasioned by “Léonard de Vinci” at the Musée du Louvre.

The collecting life

by Denys Sutton

A review of The Havemeyers: Impressionism Comes to America by Frances Weitzenhoffer

A perfect pairing: new Nabi art at the Phillips

by Andrew L. Shea

On “Bonnard to Vuillard: The Intimate Poetry of Everyday Life—The Nabi Collection of Vicki and Roger Sant,” at the Phillips Collection.

Music for a While #14: Fightin’ words and good music

by Jay Nordlinger

Jay Nordlinger, music critic of The New Criterion, talks music—but, more important, plays music.

Worming his way into the heart of the crowd

by D. J. Taylor

On The Complete Outsider: Always Almost: Never Quite by Brian Sewell.

The importance of being Ernst

by Andrew Stuttaford

On A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941–1945 by Ernst Jünger.

Roger Kimball introduces the December issue

The Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion discusses highlights in this month’s issue and remembers the life and work of Peter Collier.

Art & Money

by Gerald J. Russello

A review of Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters of J. F. Powers, 1942-1963 by J. F. Powers

December 2019

Notes & Comments

Peter Collier, 1939–2019

On the life and work of Peter Collier.

Features

Art: a special section

Being Leonardo

by James Hankins

On “Léonard de Vinci” at the Louvre.

Art: a special section

Navigating the new MoMA

by Karen Wilkin

On the expansion and reinstallation of the Museum of Modern Art.

Art: a special section

Florence’s missing link

by Eric Gibson

On “Bertoldo di Giovanni: The Renaissance of Sculpture in Medici Florence” at the Frick Collection.

Art: a special section

Old New York in brick & stone

by Peter Pennoyer

On Bricks & Brownstone: The New York Row House by Charles Lockwood.

Art: a special section

A perfect pairing: new Nabi art at the Phillips

by Andrew L. Shea

On “Bonnard to Vuillard: The Intimate Poetry of Everyday Life—The Nabi Collection of Vicki and Roger Sant,” at the Phillips Collection.

Art: a special section

Landscapes, Quaker & otherwise

by Michael J. Lewis

On “From the Schuylkill to the Hudson: Landscapes of the Early American Republic,” at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Art: a special section

A mastiff undertaking

by Benjamin Riley

On Dogs in Art by Susie Green.

Art: a special section

Worming his way into the heart of the crowd

by D. J. Taylor

On The Complete Outsider: Always Almost: Never Quite by Brian Sewell.

Art: a special section

No place like home

by James Panero

On American architectural style.

Poems

My brother’s antique bottles

by Henry Hart

Hood weeps inside his tent at Tupelo

by George Green

First job

by Daniel Brown

Reflections

The importance of being Ernst

by Andrew Stuttaford

On A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941–1945 by Ernst Jünger.

Theater

Preoccupations present & past

by Kyle Smith

On The Sound Inside at Studio 54, Slave Play at the Golden Theatre & The Rose Tattoo at the American Airlines Theatre.

Art

There ought to be clowns

by Julia Friedman

On a new series of works by the American artist Wayne Thiebaud.

Exhibition note

by Mario Naves

On “John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal” at the Morgan Library & Museum.

Exhibition note

by Franklin Einspruch

On “N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives” at the Portland Museum of Art.

Music

New York chronicle

by Jay Nordlinger

On the pianist Marc-André Hamelin; Orfeo ed Euridice at the Metropolitan Opera; the Munich Philharmonic, conducted by Valery Gergiev; and the soprano Golda Schultz.

The media

Just politics

by James Bowman

On the narcissism of small differences.

Verse chronicle

Truth or consequences

by William Logan

On The Truth about Magic by Atticus, Feel Free by Nick Laird, Arias by Sharon Olds, Song of Songs: A Poem by Sylvie Baumgartel, Frolic and Detour by Paul Muldoon & Terminator: Poems, 2008–2018 by Richard Kenney.

Week in review

by Robert S. Erickson

December 06, 2019

On Van Dyck, petty patois & the timelessness of New Grub Street.

Support the defense of truth. Support The New Criterion.

by The Editors

December 04, 2019

Chopin-like Scriabin, Beethoven-like Tchaikovsky

by Jay Nordlinger

December 03, 2019

On an evening at the Philharmonic.

The Critic’s Notebook

by The Editors

December 03, 2019

On Józef Czapski, Elie Nadelman, A Christmas Carol & more from the world of culture.

Yale’s midcentury Master

by Stephen Schmalhofer

December 02, 2019

On the life of Clarence Whittlesey Mendell.

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Books

Accelerating to oblivion

on March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2 (The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

reviewed by Daniel J. Mahoney

Smelling sweet in our dust

on Herman Melville: Complete Poems (LOA #320): Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War / Clarel / John Marr and Other Sailors / Timoleon / Posthumous & ... (Library of America Herman Melville Edition) by Herman Melville

reviewed by Christoph Irmscher

Art under the bed

on Hitler's Last Hostages: Looted Art and the Soul of the Third Reich by Mary Lane

reviewed by Belinda Rathbone

Book it

on What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading by Leah Price

reviewed by Anthony Daniels

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