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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 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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A Shakespearean romance comes to New York
On Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale at the Metropolitan Opera House.
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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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“The Critic’s Notebook,” by the Editors
Nonfiction: Modern Artisan: A World of Craft Tradition and Innovation, by Isabelle Dupuy Chavanat (Flammarion): The title Modern Artisan: A World of Craft Tradition and Innovation is rather a ...
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Renaissance man - The New Criterion
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A practicing art historian
While admiring his luscious renditions of deli or haberdashery counters, typical museumgoers (and even some art critics) are ...
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Poetic tradition - The New Criterion
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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 ...