James Panero, the Executive Editor of The New Criterion, reads his essay from the April issue of The New Criterion on the rehanging of The Frick Collection in the former home of the Whitney Museum.
James Panero, the Executive Editor of The New Criterion, discusses the history of Pennsylvania Station and the new Moynihan Train Hall in Manhattan.
James Panero, the Executive Editor of The New Criterion, discusses the past, present, and future of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://newcriterion.com/issues/2020/12/unmaking-the-met
James Panero reads “Like a Rock,” his Letter from Plymouth in the November 2020 issue of The New Criterion.
James Panero, the Executive Editor of The New Criterion, reconsiders the Gilded Age author Anna Bowman Dodd and her uncanny predictions about the future.
James Panero, the Executive Editor of The New Criterion, discusses the long history of plagues and their relationship to the art of our Western tradition, especially in Venice.
Jay Nordlinger, the music critic for The New Criterion, joins James Panero for a discussion of the classical music world and the life of a critic today.
James Panero on the legacy of John Simon (1925–2019), the inimitable critic and longtime contributor to The New Criterion.
James Panero recounts a recent trip to Mystic, Connecticut, and offers his thoughts on “J. M. W. Turner: Watercolors from Tate” and other developments at the Mystic Seaport Museum.
Gary Saul Morson, the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University, discusses "Leninthink," on the pernicious legacy of Vladimir Lenin, with James Panero, Executive Editor of The New Criterion. Occasioned by the 2019 Circle Lecture of The New Criterion. For more: newcriterion.com/circle https://newcriterion.com/issues/2019/10/leninthink
James Panero on the beginning and end of the Most Serene Republic, occasioned by "Venice's last judgment" from the September 2019 issue.
A conversation on cultural politics, occasioned by the resignation of Warren B. Kanders from the board of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Andrew Roberts, author of "Churchill: Walking with Destiny," discusses Churchill's debt to Burke with James Panero, Executive Editor of The New Criterion.
Eric Gibson & James Panero discuss the work of Alberto Giacometti. Occasioned by Gibson’s essay, “Giacometti Renewed,” in the September 2018 issue of The New Criterion. https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2018/9/giacometti-renewed
Andrew Roberts, a historian and the recipient of The New Criterion’s seventh annual Edmund Burke Award, joins James Panero to discuss Winston Churchill’s debt to Burke.
James Panero discusses the April issue with the New Criterion poetry editor David Yezzi, followed by 2018 New Criterion Poetry Prize–winner Nicholas Friedman reading a selection of poems from his collection “Petty Theft.”
Daniel McCarthy, the editor of Modern Age, joins James Panero to discuss the history of the American conservative movement.
James Panero reads his essay on the meaning of campus style and Dartmouth’s new Hood Museum from the December issue of The New Criterion.
William Logan & James Panero discuss “Identity cards,” Logan’s most recent poetry chronicle for The New Criterion. https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2018/12/identity-cards
Occasioned by Simon’s essay in the November 2018 issue of The New Criterion. https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2018/11/critics-criticism
From the evening lecture series at the New York Studio School, a panel discussion on the life & work of Andrew Forge, occasioned by the publication of “Observation: Notation,” edited by David Cast, from Criterion Books. James Panero moderates the discussion among Cast, William Bailey, Betty Cuningham, and Kyle Staver. Recorded October 3, 2018.
Parlo Come Pittore: The Life and Work of Andrew Forge William Bailey studied art at the University of Kansas, Yale University, and the Yale School of Art, where he studied with Josef Albers. He has exhibited at Andre Emmerich Gallery, Robert Miller Gallery, and Betty Cuningham Gallery.
James Panero reads “Sims City,” on the ignominious removal of a Central Park monument, from the September 2018 issue of The New Criterion. https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2018/9/sims-city
James Panero talks to Laura Jacobs about ballet & her new book, “Celestial Bodies.” Look for a review of Jacobs’s book, by Karen Wilkin, in the September 2018 issue of The New Criterion.
David Yezzi & James Panero discuss the 2018 poetry issue; a reading by Poetry Prize winner Moira Egan
“Like many adult pleasures, poetry is an acquired taste. We don’t grow up surrounded by it, the way we do pop music and movies, whose conventions become second nature. Rather, poetry is to our usual ways of reading and writing as classical music is to pop, or as ballet is to dancing at parties.” That’s from “On ‘getting’ poetry,” a feature essay in the April 2021 issue by our poetry editor, Adam Kirsch. Adam joins James Panero to discuss the state of poetry and the special April poetry section, for which he served as lead editor.
James Panero, the Executive Editor of The New Criterion, sits down with Isaac Sligh, the 2020–21 Hilton Kramer Fellow, to discuss Isaac’s travels in the Russian Arctic and in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia.
James Panero, Benjamin Riley & Andrew L. Shea discuss the 2020 art issue and look ahead to 2021. Read “Albert Pinkham Ryder: isolato of the brush,” by Andrew L. Shea: https://newcriterion.com/issues/2020/12/albert-pinkham-ryder-isolato-of-the-brush Read Benjamin Riley’s interview with Clive Aslet & Dylan Thomas: https://newcriterion.com/issues/2020/12/an-interview-with-clive-aslet-dylan-thomas Read “Unmaking the met,” by James Panero: https://newcriterion.com/issues/2020/12/unmaking-the-met
James Panero, the Executive Editor of The New Criterion, discusses the pathology of recent protests and the impending demise of Teddy Roosevelt’s statue at the American Museum of Natural History. https://newcriterion.com/issues/2020/9/a-classical-illness
In a new podcast from The New Criterion, Eric Gibson and James Panero discuss sculpture in exile and culture under siege. Eric Gibson's book "The Necessity of Sculpture: Selected Essays and Criticism, 1985–2019" can be found at https://newcriterion.com/bookstore?mode=criterion. Cover photo: the recently defaced Robert Gould Shaw Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, depicting Shaw and the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, an African-American regiment during the Civil War.
James Hankins, a Professor of History at Harvard, joins James Panero to discuss the monumental Leonardo exhibition at the Louvre and the artist’s legacy five hundred years after his death.
James Panero discusses the architectural virtues and vices of the American home, and culls a few examples of past styles from the city of Portland, Maine.
Remarks occasioned by Criterion Books’ republication of Russell Kirk’s “Old House of Fear,” with a new introduction by James Panero. https://newcriterion.com/bookstore?mode=criterion
Gary Saul Morson, the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University and author of “Leninthink,” joins James Panero to discuss the pernicious legacy of Vladimir Lenin.
James Panero remembers the great literary scholar, editor, and mentor from the April issue of The New Criterion.
Michael J. Lewis & James Panero discuss Lewis’s recent essay on the life and work of Vincent Scully, which appeared in the January 2018 issue of The New Criterion. https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2018/1/vincent-joseph-scully-19202017
James Panero discusses how the American museum has gone from "being about something" to "being for somebody." From "The Future of Permanence in an Age of Ephemera," a symposium on museums hosted by The New Criterion at the Consulate General of France on October 21, 2016.
On the Wall Street Journal's "Lunch Break," James Panero talks with Tanya Rivero about visiting every gallery in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in one day. Read the original article here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/meet-the-met-1454537974
I was delighted to talk up my favorite neighborhood of the West 90s to The New York Times. The video of the discussion appeared in the Times's series "Block by Block" on September 15, 2015. The West 90s may not be everyone's ideal of New York, but it's a New Yorker's ideal of New York!
For The New Criterion, James Panero talks to Dr. Anthony Daniels, aka Theodore Dalrymple, the frequent and acclaimed (and frequently acclaimed) essayist for the magazine. Dr. Daniels is the author of new book of essays, "Good and Evil in the Garden of Art: Discrimination as the Guarantor of Civilization," published by Criterion Books.
In today's episode, we hear from James Panero, executive editor of The New Criterion, about contemporary museum culture and art in the age of Trump.
This is the second installment of our two-part interview with James Panero, executive editor of the New Criterion. In this episode, we hear a bit more about the history of the journal, how it fit into the culture wars of the 80s and 90s, and what critics and editors like Victor Navasky of the Nation and Jed Perl of the New Republic have thought about it.
Executive editor James Panero and outgoing Hilton Kramer Fellow Benjamin Riley discuss the new “newcriterion.com”
For The New Criterion, James Panero talks to Steven W. Semes, Director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at the Notre Dame School of Architecture, and the author of "The Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism and Historic Preservation." Semes's essay on an "architecture of place" will appear in the December 2015 issue of The New Criterion.
Dominic Green & James Panero discuss Green’s recent essay on writing, and on English style, which appeared in the February 2018 issue of The New Criterion.
Photographer Meryl Meisler and writer James Panero discuss "Bushwick Chronicle," their exhibition on view at Stout Projects, Brooklyn, October 1-30, 2016. http://jamespanero.com/writing/2016/9/bushwick-chronicle.html-1
David Pryce-Jones and James Panero discuss "Miłosz Among the Ruins," David's essay from the September 2017 issue of The New Criterion. https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2017/9/milosz-among-the-ruins-8799
A conversation occasioned by “Joe Zucker: Armada,” a forty-year survey of Zucker’s works on paper and the first to focus on his images of the sea. Organized by James Panero, “Joe Zucker: Armada” is on public view at The National Arts Club from May 2 through May 27, 2016. http://www.supremefiction.com/theidea/2016/04/joe-zucker-armada-at-the-national-arts-club.html