Paul du Quenoy on a revival of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades at the Vienna State Opera, starring Anna Netrebko.

Suzanna Murawski on “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” at the Jewish Museum, New York.

He plays fast and loose with the chronology, and the uninitiated could get lost in the long series of failed rebellions and ...

The impressive collection on exhibit at Beit Avi Chai, together with an insightful catalogue, recovers an important artistic ...

On Richard the Lionheart, the Old Lyme Midsummer Festival, the Mark Morris Dance Group, the original Chelsea Piers & more ...

That’s all done for us, a kind of emotional outsourcing we might call “moral kitsch.” For Clement Greenberg, kitsch is ...

On Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale at the Metropolitan Opera House.

Abigail Anthony on Christopher Wheeldon’s Alices Adventures in Wonderland, performed by the Royal Ballet.

On The Gulag Archipelago at fifty.New to The New Criterion? Become a subscriber to receive ten print issues and gain immediate access to our online archive spanning more than four decades of art and ...

I n 1970, the Procurator General of the Discalced Carmelite Order, Finian Monahan, was summoned to the Vatican for a meeting. The subject of the meeting was a promising young American priest by the ...

Every culture has a literature that is to some extent subterranean. Much of it deserves to stay there. But certain pieces occasionally bubble to the surface. Invariably this happens because the work ...