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Moral kitsch & standing ovations
That’s all done for us, a kind of emotional outsourcing we might call “moral kitsch.” For Clement Greenberg, kitsch is ...
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A Shakespearean romance comes to New York
On Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale at the Metropolitan Opera House.
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A Bayadère for Budapest
La Bayadère opens with a tiger hunt, during which the warrior Solor sends a secret message to his love Nikiya, the temple ...
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David Lehman wins the twenty-fifth New Criterion Poetry Prize
The Editors of The New Criterion are pleased to announce that David Lehman is the winner of the twenty-fifth New Criterion ...
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Coast Guard on paint
One photograph, however, was taken by a Coast Guard petty officer from the vantage point of a boat on the water, looking up ...
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“The Critic’s Notebook,” by the Editors
On modern artisans, autochrome photographs, Caetlynn Booth, “Sylvia” & more from the world of culture.
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The merchants of Venice
Max Sligh on “Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.
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The Critic’s Notebook
BR Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851, Oil on canvas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ...
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“A practicing art historian,” by Julia Friedman
Julia Friedman on “Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art,” at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco.
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The merchants of Venice by Max Sligh On “Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.