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James Panero

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 JournalCity 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 feature article on Occupy Wall Street and the legacy of the Paris Commune 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 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.

 

Supreme Fiction-The weblog of James Panero

 

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)

 

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, WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show, and several other programs. 

 

As a curator, Mr. Panero recently 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, 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 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@newcriterion.com.

 

article archive

Gallery chronicle | January 2012

On “My Collection,” by Cathy Nan Quinlan, at www.thetemporarymuseum.com and by appointment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn; “Re-Telling” at Nurture Art, Brooklyn; Ahram Jeong” at Momenta Art, Brooklyn & “Concrete Sound” at Norte Maar, Brooklyn.


Commune plus one | December 2011

On Occupy Wall Street & the legacy of the Paris Commune.


Gallery chronicle | November 2011

On “Georges Braque: Pioneer of Modernism” at Acquavella Galleries; “Ronnie Landfield: Structure and Color” at Stephen Haller Gallery; “Melissa Meyer: New Paintings and Watercolors” at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.; & “Melissa Meyer: Just Painting” at BravinLee Programs.


Gallery chronicle | October 2011

On “Will Barnet at 100” at the National Academy Museum; “Will Barnet: Small Works on Paper from the 1950s” at Alexandre Gallery; “Lars and Lori” at Valentine, Queens; “Sally Pettus: Paintings from the Perimeter” at KS Art; “Graham Nickson: Paintings 1972–2011—Paths of the Sun” at Knoedler & Company; “Richard Timperio: Paintings 2011” at Art 101, Brooklyn & “Loren Munk: Location, Location, Location, Mapping the New York Art World” at Lesley Heller Workspace.


Blunder at the Biennale | September 2011

On the Department of State's diplomatic flop at the Venice Biennale.

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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

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A Tour of 'The Joe Bonham Project' with curator James Panero

James Kalm Reports: A "Rough Cut" tour of "The Joe Bonham Project," on view at Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn, with curator James Panero

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Anthony Daniels on the Euro Crisis
The New Criterion author Anthony Daniels delivers remarks in New York City about the "European experiment." With an introduction by editor Roger Kimball. Recorded on November 30, 2011.


Andrew C. McCarthy: The Muslim Threat
The New Criterion contributor Andrew C. McCarthy delivers remarks in Effingham, Illinois, about the threat of Islamism to the United States. A Friend of The New Criterion, Dwight Erskine, introduces McCarthy to the Effingham audience. Recorded on October 1, 2011.


Roger Kimball: The Grim Future of Statism
The New Criterion editor Roger Kimball delivers remarks in Effingham, Illinois, about the future of statism and The New Criterion's 30th anniversary. A Friend of The New Criterion, Dwight Erskine, introduces Roger Kimball to the Effingham audience. Recorded on October 1, 2011.

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