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Managing Editor

James Panero

James Panero is the Managing Editor of The New Criterion. In addition to his editorial duties for the magazine, which include managing the magazine's print and online operations, he writes on art and culture monthly for The New Criterion and serves as the magazine's gallery critic.

 

Mr. Panero is a contributor to a number of publications, including New York magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Sun, The International Herald Tribune, Humanities magazine, National Review, The Weekly Standard, the Claremont Review, the University Bookman, and the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. In 2007, he became a regular writer for Art & Antiques magazine.

 

Recent article highlights include his feature article on the ruined gallery owner Larry Salander for New York magazine, his report on cultural investment in the Middle East for Art & Antiques, his editorial on museum "deaccessioning" and the public trust for The Wall Street Journal, and his memories of appearing as a child actor on Sesame Street for the New York Times Book Review.

 

For an archive of Mr. Panero's articles from these publications, follow this link. For links to Mr. Panero's New Criterion articles, see below.

 

Mr. Panero lectures widely on art, politics, and education, speaking at Columbia University, Brown University, Deerfield Academy, The New York Studio School, The College of the Holy Cross, and before the New York Association of Scholars. He has served as a panelist on the National Endowment for the Arts, a "visiting artist" at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a panelist at the conference at the College Art Association, a panelist at the CPAC convention in Washington DC, and has been a radio guest on The Milt Rosenberg Show (WGN-Chicago), The Mike Rosen Show (KOA-Denver), NPR's All Things Considered, and several other programs.

 

Mr. Panero takes an active role in arts organizations around New York, including the National Arts Club, where he is co-chair of the literary committee. He also oversees the Young Friends of The New Criterion.

 

Before joining The New Criterion in 2001, Mr. Panero was a graduate student in the history of art and architecture at Brown University, where he was awarded the University Scholarship. His area of focus was late-nineteenth-century French modernism under the advisement of Kermit Champa.

 

Mr. Panero is a former editor of National Review. He worked in Switzerland as a writing assistant to William F. Buckley Jr. on his novel Spytime: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton (Harcourt, 2000).

 

James Panero received a B.A. from Dartmouth College, where he majored in Classics. In his sophomore year he was appointed editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth Review. At Dartmouth he developed a close mentorship with Professor Jeffrey Hart upon the professor's retirement from the college's English department. (Mr. Panero's profile of Hart, from the January/February 2007 issue of The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, is available here). The two now serve on The Dartmouth Review 's board of directors, where Mr. Panero is Chairman.

 

Mr. Panero is the co-editor of The Dartmouth Review Pleads Innocent, an anthology of the newspaper published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute in Spring 2006. He is a contributor to Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts (Ivan R. Dee, 2007) and The State of Art Criticism, edited by James Elkins and Michael Newman (Routledge, 2008).

 

Mr. Panero was born in 1975 and grew up on New York's Upper West Side, where he attended Trinity School for thirteen years.

 

Mr. Panero continues to live in New York City. He is married to the writer and poet Dara Mandle, with whom he maintains the weblog www.supremefiction.com. He may be reached at the offices of The New Criterion or by email at jamespanero (at) gmail (dot)com.

 

article archive

Gallery chronicle | June 2009

On Op Art, Gabriele Evertz at Metaphor Gallery, James Little at June Kelly Gallery & Nicolas Carone at Lohin Geduld Gallery.


Gallery chronicle | May 2009

On "Picasso: Mosqueteros" at the Gagosian Gallery, New York, on view through June 6, 2009 & “Edward Minoff” at Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, Connecticut, on view from May 14 through May 28, 2009


The New York fairs | April 2009

On 1Q2US, the Winter Antiques Show 2009, The Armory Show, The Art Show, and “Placing Avery: Paintings and Prints from the Collection of the Neuberger Museum of Art” at the UBS Gallery, New York.


Gallery chronicle | March 2009

On “Louise Nevelson: Dawns and Dusks” at Pace Wildenstein, New York, February 13–March 14, 2009.


Gallery chronicle | February 2009

On “Philip Guston: 1954–1958” at L&M Arts, “John Walker: Drawings 1973–1975” at Knoedler & Company, and “Biala: Collages 1957–1963” at Tibor de Nagy Gallery.

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books by author

The Dartmouth Review Pleads Innocent: Twenty-Five Years of Being Threatened, Impugned, Vandalized, Sued, Suspended, and Bitten at the Ivy League's Most Controversial Conservative Newspaper

The Dartmouth Review Pleads Innocent: Twenty-Five Years of Being Threatened, Impugned, Vandalized, Sued, Suspended, and Bitten at the Ivy League's Most Controversial Conservative Newspaper

by James Panero,Stefan Beck

$25.00

 

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webcast archive

Audiocast

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A profile of the abstract painter Thornton WIllis

Directed by Michael Feldman. Featuring Thornton Willis and commentary by James Panero. Produced in coordination with Willis's March 2009 exhibition at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York

Posted on: 03/25/2009

participants

James Panero,Thornton Willis

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The Milt Rosenberg Show: Free Speech in an age of Jihad

Roger Kimball, David Yezzi, and James Panero discuss the New Criterion special pamphlet "Free Speech in an Age of Jihad." From the Milt Rosenberg Show, WGN. Recorded live in the Chicago studios 8/14/2008.

Posted on: 08/27/2008

participants

Roger Kimball, James Panero, David Yezzi

(mp3) 20.35 Mb , 59.15 minutes


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James Panero discusses Classical Realism on NPR's All Things Considered

First broadcast 12/17/2006

Posted on: 12/17/2006

participants

James Panero

(mp3) 4.49 Mb , 1.38 minutes




blog article archive

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Graphic classics | May 08, 2009 11:36 AM


Montclair responds | Apr 27, 2009 01:34 PM


Hard edged in Brooklyn | Apr 24, 2009 05:49 PM


Responding to the Montclair critics | Apr 21, 2009 02:29 PM

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