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

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

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

What makes Wajda unique is that he did what so many Western filmmakers would not: he mocked, satirized, and criticized ...

What is New York’s greatest unrealized work of art? An argument can be made for Riverside Playground. This sprawling sculptural landscape, designed for what today remains an unremarkable hillside in ...

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, ...

On Giorgio Morandi, Bruckner, summer cottages, Communist China & more from the world of culture.

My father dropped out of Harvard during the Cold War. He had planned to sail around the world in search of himself. Instead, he joined the army to avoid being drafted. Lucky for me. The ship he was ...

It is time to dip into that cabinet marked “Things are always worse than you thought.” Like many other sentinels of civilization, The New Criterion has inveighed early and often about “declining ...

Weekly recommendations from the Editors on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture.

It is remarkable that, despite its long record of failure, socialism is now more popular than ever among college students and in progressive precincts of the Democratic Party, at least judging by the ...