The New Criterion; Volume 39, Number 4, December 2020

Format is approximately 7.75 inches by 10 inches. [4], 88, [4], plus covers. Footnotes. The New Criterion is a New York-based monthly literary magazine and journal of artistic and cultural criticism, edited by Roger Kimball (editor and publisher) and James Panero (executive editor). It has sections for criticism of poetry, theater, art, music, the media, and books. It was founded in 1982 by Hilton Kramer, former art critic for The New York Times, and Samuel Lipman, a pianist and music critic. The name is a reference to The Criterion, a British literary magazine edited by T. S. Eliot from 1922 to 1939. The magazine describes itself as a "monthly review of the arts and intellectual life . in the forefront both of championing what is best and most humanely vital in our cultural inheritance and in exposing what is mendacious, corrosive, and spurious." It evinces an artistic classicism and political conservatism that are rare among other publications of its type. Since 1999, The New Criterion has been running the New Criterion Poetry Prize, a poetry contest with a cash prize. In 2004, According to the The New York Sun, for a quarter of a century The New Criterion "has helped its readers distinguish achievement from failure in painting, music, dance, literature, theater, and other arts. The magazine, whose circulation is 6,500, has taken a leading role in the culture wars, publishing articles whose titles are an intellectual call to arms." The magazine set out "to speak plainly and vigorously about the problems that beset the life of the artists and the life of the mind in our society" while resisting "a more general cultural drift". In this issue there is a special section on Art with articles on: Unmaking the Met, Acheiropoieta, Michelangelo's "Thinking Hand", Frank Lloyd Wright's scheme of terraces, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Stanford White's Surfaces, David Hockney at the Morgan, and An interview with Triglyph Books. There were also new poems published. Among the contributors were: James Panero, Marco Grassi, Eric Gibson, Anthony Alofsin, Andrew Shea, Michael J. Lewis, Karen Wilkin, Benjamin Riley, Daniel Mark Epstein, Rex Wilder, Jay Nordlinger, and Jeremy Black. The article on Frank Lloyd Wright's terraces is on pages 21-26 and focuses on the story behind the unbuilt Noble Apartments. The article on Stanford White's surfaces is on pages 32-35 and has a focus on the book Stanford White in Detail. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue.…