Red Ken returns
by John Gross
On Ken Livingston’s disastrous performance as Mayor of London.
London journal
Features
The fortunes of permanence
by Roger Kimball
The concluding essay of The New Criterion’s series on The Survival of Culture, revised and expanded for publication in The Survival of Culture: Permanent Values in a Virtual Age.
Perfect moments at Interlochen
by Jay Nordlinger
A celebration of the Michigan music camp.
Toscanini in his letters
by Alexander Coleman
The great conductor as revealed in his letters.
MOMA Reopened
by Hilton Kramer
From a special summer issue of The New Criterion on the occasion of The Museum of Modern Art’s reopening in 1984 after the museum’s last round of major expansion.
Art
MOMA QNS
by James Panero
Considering how “QNS” weighs against the precarious balance of “MOMA,” and to what extent the architecture of “MOMA QNS” tells us about the future of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The media
Outsiders as insiders
by James Bowman
On the Pledge of Allegiance, abuse of the English language, and American romance about The Man Alone.
Joan Mitchell
by Mario Naves
The summer of 2002 in New York belongs to Joan Mitchell. A report on this American Abstract Expressionist’s retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art.