The New Criterion

Thanks mostly to President Trump, the Communist regime in Cuba is on the brink of collapse, with oil supplies cut off and much of the country without electricity or power. Cubans are dealing with food and medicine shortages and with the breakdown of public services. Prices are high and rising rapidly; inflation approached 40 percent last year. The Trump administration recentl...

Nonfiction:

The Art of the Book: 75 Years of Thames & Hudson, with contributi...

One of the first museums in Israel to reopen after the tentative ceasefire with Iran on April 7 was the Haifa Museum of Art, which resumed its exhibition “Northern Horizon: A New Perspective on 1970s Landscape Painting in Israel.”n

The chronicles of twentieth-century Israeli artcharacterize the 1970s as a decade when artists in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv followed in the...

Recent stories of note:

“‘Empire of Skulls’ Review: When Phrenology Raced Ahead”
Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal

In 1873 Mark Twain went to have his skull measured by the Fowler b...

The Cleveland Museum of Art’s latest exhibition, “Manet & Morisot,” has an engaging and focused narrative that explores the personal histories of two great artists and the development of their respective styles over the course of a fifteen-year friendship. After a brief introduction to our eponymous heroes, one enters a small room with a handful of Edouard Manet’s canvase...