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. His widely read criticism has won praise from artists and collectors, especially for his coverage of the outer boroughs of New York and its alternative art scenes.
Mr. Panero is a contributor to a number of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, City Journal, New York magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Forbes, Art & Antiques, New York Daily News, The International Herald Tribune, Humanities magazine, National Review, The Weekly Standard, the Claremont Review, the University Bookman, and the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.
Recent article highlights include his articles on the culture of the Internet, The Armory Show at 100, "What's a Museum?" and Occupy Wall Street for The New Criterion, his cover story on the history of the Barnes Foundation for Philanthropy Magazine, his feature article on the ruined gallery owner Larry Salander for New York magazine, his history of New York's Upper West Side and analysis of PCB remediation along the Hudson River for City Journal , his report on cultural investment in the Middle East for Art & Antiques, his editorials on "The Giving Pledge," museum "deaccessioning," artist foundations, and The Robert Motherwell (Dedalus) Foundation for The Wall Street Journal, and his memories of appearing as a child actor on Sesame Street for the New York Times Book Review.
Mr. Panero collects his writing at www.supremefiction.com. An archive of Mr. Panero's articles and other work can be found here. For links to Mr. Panero's New Criterion articles, see below.
Mr. Panero can be found on Twitter @jamespanero (twitter.com/jamespanero)
The Culture Channel, Mr. Panero's Youtube page, can be found here.
To receive "Panero's Latest," a compendium of Mr. Panero's articles sent by email, sign up here.
A member of the International Association of Art Critics, Mr. Panero lectures widely on art, politics, the art market, and cultural policy, 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, The Takeaway, WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show, and several other programs. In 2013 he was a William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.
As a curator, Mr. Panero organized "The Joe Bonham Project," the critically praised exhibition at Storefront Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn featuring portraits of injured U.S. service personnel undergoing rehabilitation.
Mr. Panero takes an active role in arts and educational organizations around New York, including the National Arts Club, where he has served as Co-Chair of the literary committee, and Trinity School, where he is a member of the Alumni/ae Association Board. 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 department 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.
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), and "Future Tense: The Lessons of Culture in an Age of Upheaval" (Encounter Books, 2012).
Mr. Panero was born in 1975 and has been a lifelong resident of New York's Upper West Side, where he now serves as the President of his Co-Op Board.
He is married to the writer and teacher 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 panero [at] newcriterion.com.
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