Unmaking the Met
by James Panero
On the past, present, and future of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Features
Acheiropoieta
by Marco Grassi
On art not made with hands.
Michelangelo’s “thinking hand”
by Eric Gibson
On Michaelangelo’s Pietà and the manifold meanings of its legendary gesture.
A scheme of terraces
by Anthony Alofsin
On the long life of an unrealized design by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Albert Pinkham Ryder: isolato of the brush
by Andrew L. Shea
On artistic solitude & on A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art.
Stanford White’s surfaces
by Michael J. Lewis
On the New York architect’s attention to detail.
David Hockney at the Morgan
by Karen Wilkin
On “David Hockney: Drawing from Life” at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York.
An interview with Clive Aslet & Dylan Thomas
by Benjamin Riley
A conversation with the founders of Triglyph Books on British country homes.
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Reflections
Political passions
by Anthony Daniels
On the lessons of two stories by Guy de Maupassant and Marcel Prévost.
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Reconsiderations
More lasting than bronze
by Jonathan Gaisman
On the many translations of a famous ode by Horace.
Art
Objection sustained
by Mario Naves
On “Crime and Punishment” at the New Museum, New York.
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Music
Livestream chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
A review of recent livestreams from Wigmore Hall, London.
The media
United only in hate
by James Bowman
On the media’s response to claims of election fraud.
Verse chronicle
Cartes de visite
by William Logan
A review of Runaway, by Jorie Graham, Railsplitter, by Maurice Manning, If Men, Then, by Eliza Griswold, Blizzard, by Henri Cole, and Beowulf: A New Translation, by Maria Dahvana Headley.
Notes & Comments
The New Criterion on art
by The Editors
On The New Criterion’s December Art issue.