On June 9, the Friends of The New Criterion gathered at the offices of the magazine for a book party with Nicholas O’Connell, the author of Crush: My Year as an Apprentice Winemaker. The New Criterion ...

Jay Nordlinger on an all-Schubert recital by Lise Davidsen, soprano, and James Ballieu, piano.

Duo Exhibition,” at the Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein Harod, Israel.

George Loomis on a performance of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” by the Cleveland Orchestra.

On microhistory, Scythians, Fairfield Porter, park concerts, the Marquis de Lafayette & more from the world of culture. The conductor Gustavo Dudamel leading the New York Philharmonic in 2025. Photo: ...

One of the two men, standing before the other, had a light complexion, a long, straight nose, and a long beard. This was the forty-three-year-old Abdullah ibn Haroun al Rashid, known by his regnal ...

When the German princess Sophia Augusta Frederica of Anhalt-Zerbst (later known as Catherine the Great) found herself the empress of Russia, she was appalled by the barbarity of her new homeland. She ...

Semyon Bychkov is a very good conductor. The New York Philharmonic is a very good orchestra. Last night’s was not a good concert. On the program was a single work—one of the greatest works of music, ...

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 ...

During his brief but fruitful lifetime, Giovanni Segantini (1858–99) achieved considerable fame. Museums including Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery and such collectors as Jacob Stern, the director of ...