De Kooning was born in Rotterdam in 1904. As a youth he studied for eight years at a conservative academy of art, where the curriculum included De Stijl due to the Dutch art movement’s practical ...

Warren Frye on “The Last Peasant War,” by Jakub S. Beneš.

Editors’ note: It is difficult to believe that it was ten years ago last month that Hilton Kramer, the founding editor of The New Criterion, died, aged eighty-four. Time really does seem to speed up ...

Suzanna Murawski on “Ravelstein,” Marsden Hartley & a new canvas adhesive.

I recently interviewed the novel’s author, Jennifer Hofmann, who lives in Berlin. Mark Judge: First of all, tell me a little ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 24, 2025, honoring Heather Mac Donald with the twelfth Edmund Burke Award for Service to ...

Paul du Quenoy is President of the Palm Beach Freedom Institute. He holds a Ph. D. in History from Georgetown University. On a concert of Berg & Stravinsky by the San Francisco Symphony.

On the West’s latest self-flagellation.

For example, the latest Michelin Guide considers the best two restaurants in Washington, D.C., to be minibar and Jônt, ...