Over the past twenty years or so, two titans of the Renaissance have been illuminated by capacious, legendary exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The shows “Leonardo da Vinci, Master ...

W. H. Auden (1907–73) was quite explicit about the origin of his poetic vocation. In “Making, Knowing and Judging,” a lecture he delivered at Oxford in 1956, Auden recalls that he decided to become a ...

The New Criterion, edited by Roger Kimball, was founded in 1982 by the art critic Hilton Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman. A monthly review of the arts and intellectual life, The ...

(1974), the Supreme Court further broadened the group who could be maligned by the media to include “limited-purpose public ...

The other program, the subject of this review, appealed to more advanced balletomanes—works by Gianna Reisen, Ulysses Dove, ...

Jay Nordlinger on a performance of “Carmina Burana” at the Teatro Massimo.

David Platzer on the life of Lady Diana Cooper.

Publishing in the Western world is an enterprise whose success depends on freedom of expression enjoyed in Western countries. Reputable publishers know this, and do not lightly accept restraints on ...

T he elder apostles of George Balanchine often gripe that his ballets, especially when staged by smaller companies, fall ...

Seldom can any author have taken Horace’s dictum that the artist should delight and instruct as seriously as did Bernard Shaw. The notion of art for art’s sake, the guiding principle for so many ...

A few months ago I went to dinner with an old friend, a retired professor of great distinction who suffered throughout his career from the vituperation of his academic colleagues who took a view of ...