Peter Martins

Jun 7, 2024 | newcriterion.com | James Panero |Peter Martins |Keith Windschuttle |Gary Saul Morson

This summer, Paris is hosting the Olympic Games for the first time in over a hundred years. The Musée Marmottan Monet (MMM) is celebrating the occasion with an exhibition of works that reveal the rising interest in sports among all classes from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. The show, “En Jeu!: Artists and Sport, 1870–1930,” is endorsed by the International Olympic Committee. Sports, of course, predate even antiquity.

May 27, 2024 | allafrica.com | Peter Martins

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday rated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's one year in office low, saying his administration has failed to find the right way to handle the economy to engender confidence and trust for investors to start investing in Nigeria. Obasanjo described Tinubu's policies on fuel subsidy removal and exchange rates as necessary but "wrongly implemented."Obasanjo's position is coming as Tinubu's government rolled out activities marking his one year anniversary.

Feb 21, 2024 | newcriterion.com | Peter Martins

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.

Feb 20, 2024 | newcriterion.com | Victor Davis Hanson |Anthony Daniels |Wilfred M. McClay |Peter Martins

March 2024 Brown in town by James Panero On the Winter Show, Master Drawings New York, “Whodunit? Key Books in Detective Fiction,” “Judging a Book by Its Cover: Bookbindings from the Collections of the Grolier Club” & “Masters Week.”