La Bayadère opens with a tiger hunt, during which the warrior Solor sends a secret message to his love Nikiya, the temple ...

On Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale at the Metropolitan Opera House.

The Editors of The New Criterion are pleased to announce that David Lehman is the winner of the twenty-fifth New Criterion ...

While admiring his luscious renditions of deli or haberdashery counters, typical museumgoers (and even some art critics) are ...

One photograph, however, was taken by a Coast Guard petty officer from the vantage point of a boat on the water, looking up ...

Max Sligh on “Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.

Nathan C. Stewart on a performance of Benjamin Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw,” at the Spoleto Festival.

BR Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851, Oil on canvas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship on February 27, 2025. I was recently invited to address the question “Can ...