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The New Criterion, edited by Roger Kimball, was founded in 1982 by art critic Hilton Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman. A monthly review of the arts and intellectual life, The New Criterion began as an experiment in critical audacity—a publication devoted to engaging, in Matthew Arnold’s famous phrase, with “the best that has been thought and said.” This also meant engaging with those forces dedicated to traducing genuine cultural and intellectual achievement, whether through obfuscation, politicization, or a commitment to nihilistic absurdity. We are proud that The New Criterion has been in the forefront both of championing what is best and most humanely vital in our cultural inheritance and in exposing what is mendacious, corrosive, and spurious. Published monthly from September through June, The New Criterion brings together a wide range of young and established critics whose common aim is to bring you the most incisive criticism being written today. Source
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A fresco panel from the François Tomb. Week in review Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. “Italy Acquires the François Tomb of Vulci, a Rare Masterpiece of Etruscan Painting” Leman Altuntas, Arkeonews This week, Italy’s Ministry of Culture announced that the country has acquired the François Tomb, the fourth-century B.C. Etruscan burial chamber prized for its well-preserved wall paintings, all of which were long held in private collections.
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Giovanni Segantini, Spring Pastures, 1896, Oil on canvas, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan. Photo: Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano. King of the mountain Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. During his brief but fruitful lifetime, Giovanni Segantini (1858–99) achieved considerable fame.
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The Royal Opera House, with a statue of the ballerina Katie Pianoff in the foreground. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Fit for a king Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Nearly four years after Charles III ascended the throne, a new crimson mohair stage curtain featuring his royal cypher was unveiled at the annual spring gala of the Royal Opera House, replacing the older curtain that bore his late mother’s insignia.
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From a performance of Beethoven’s Fidelio by the Cleveland Orchestra in May 2026. Photo: Yevhen Gulenko/The Cleveland Orchestra. Cleaving to “Fidelio” Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Since 2009, when the Cleveland Orchestra embarked on a Mozart–Da Ponte program with Le nozze di Figaro, the orchestra’s music director, Franz Welser-Möst, has ended each season with concert performances of an opera.
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Andrzej Wajda pictured with his wife in 2010. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. The Andrzej Wajda centennial Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. This year marks the centennial of the birth of Andrzej Wajda, who has been called cinema’s great historian of Poland. Born on March 6, 1926, the director received almost every award imaginable, including an honorary Oscar in 2000.