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.
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