James Panero

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Executive Editor at The New Criterion

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‘Jack Whitten: The Messenger’ Review: A Creator’s Odyssey

1 week ago | wsj.com | James Panero

The American artist moved from the segregated South to the New York art world and beyond as he forged unique processes of painting and sculpting, the textured, totemic results of which are now on view in a staggering retrospective. Can a painting also be a sculpture? Find out in “Jack Whitten: The Messenger,” the retrospective of the American abstractionist on view through Aug. 2 at the Museum of Modern Art.
Pinchas & Co. | The New Criterion

2 months ago | newcriterion.com | Victor Davis Hanson |Anthony Daniels |Eric Ormsby |James Panero

Yesterday afternoon, in Alice Tully Hall, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center offered a concert of Beethoven and Bruckner. Bruckner, in a chamber concert? Yes. More on that in due course. The first half of the concert comprised two Beethoven sonatas. Our opening sonata was that for cello and piano in A major, Op. 69. The cellist: Amanda Forsyth, a Canadian. The pianist: Shai Wosner, from Israel. Both of these have long experience in chamber music (and other music).
Isaac Sligh | The New Criterion

2 months ago | newcriterion.com | Isaac Sligh |James Panero

Isaac Sligh is Associate Editor of The New Criterion. He served as the magazine’s eighth Hilton Kramer Fellow in Criticism. A graduate of the University of the South, Isaac worked as the head curator of the Ralston Listening Library and Archive in Sewanee, , one of the nation’s largest collections of recorded classical music and a charitably endowed venue for audiophile listening.
“Writing wrongs,” by Brooke Allen

Jan 22, 2025 | newcriterion.com | Victor Davis Hanson |Anthony Daniels |Eric Ormsby |James Panero

Savor this—a passage of published prose written by a full professor at a major university, cited in Leonard Cassuto’s new book Academic Writing as if Readers Matter:[S]tudents’ production of texts and professor and peer response to those texts . . .
December 2024 | The New Criterion

Nov 21, 2024 | newcriterion.com | Paul Tucker |James Panero |Philip Rylands |Michele Bogart

On “Manet: A Model Family” at the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum, Boston. On “Figures of the Fool” & “A New Look at Watteau” at the Louvre. On “Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism” at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia.
Wilhelm Reich, Instigator of the Sexual Revolution

Sep 18, 2024 | city-journal.org | James Panero |John Hirschauer

James Panero and John Hirschauer discuss Wilhelm Reich, the father of the sexual revolution, and how he has shaped the current discourse around sexuality and the family. John Hirschauer: Welcome back to the 10 Blocks Podcast. This is John Hirschauer, Associate Editor of City Journal. Joining me on the show today is James Panero, the Executive Editor of The New Criterion. He writes on art and culture, including as The New Criterion's gallery critic.
Marx of the Libido

Sep 8, 2024 | city-journal.org | James Panero

The sexual revolution has proved as historically significant as the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution, though many of its details—its battlefields, generals, soldiers, and casualties—remain largely unknown.
Week in review | The New Criterion

Jun 28, 2024 | newcriterion.com | Victor Davis Hanson |Gary Saul Morson |James Panero |Kyle Smith

Recent stories of note: “The art of Japanese woodblock printing”Laura Gascoigne, The SpectatorThe ubiquity of Katsushika Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831) is a testament to the lasting influence of nineteenth-century Japanese woodblock prints in the West.
A life in ballet

Jun 24, 2024 | newcriterion.com | James Panero |Keith Windschuttle |Gary Saul Morson |Roger Scruton

Each year, at the end of the Royal Theatre season in Copenhagen, auditions are held for the ballet school. Children, for the most part between the ages of eight and eleven, come to the school for the entrance examination. The audition room is an old ballet studio with worn wooden floors whose walls are lined with portraits of August Bournonville, and in one corner is a bust of this nineteenth-century ballet master and choreographer who created the Danish ballet style.
Will the Supreme Court blow up the presidential debate?

Jun 23, 2024 | newcriterion.com | Victor Davis Hanson |James Panero |Keith Windschuttle |Gary Saul Morson

It is hard to know why the Trump and Biden campaigns decided upon June 27 as the date of the initial presidential debate. There is speculation that Trump wished to refocus attention on his campaign and away from recent legal proceedings in New York, and that the Democrats wished to get a look at Biden’s debate performance in advance of their convention in August, possibly with an eye to replacing him on the ticket if he performed badly. Both are plausible explanations.