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The New Criterion

It operates as a refuge for a civilizing element in short supply in contemporary America: honest criticism
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Managing Editor

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 articles on "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 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 | May 2012

On "The Brodmann Areas: A New Collaborative Ballet from Norte Maar,” “Jorinde Voigt” at David Nolan Gallery, “William Bailey: New Paintings” at Betty Cuningham Gallery, and “Tom Goldenberg: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper.”


What's new & what's true | May 2012

From "Remembering Hilton Kramer."


Future tense, VII: What's a museum? | March 2012

On the changing nature of our cultural institutions.


Gallery chronicle | February 2012

On “MIC:CHECK (occupy)” at Sideshow gallery, Brooklyn; “Gabriele Evertz: Rapture” at Minus Space, Brooklyn; “Lori Ellison” at McKenzie Fine Art, New York & “Halsey Hathaway and Gary Petersen: New Paintings” and “Paintings by Rob de Oude” at Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn. 5 “Lee Bontecou: Recent Work: Sculpture and Drawing” opened at FreedmanArt, New York, on October 27, 2011 and remains on view through February 11, 2012.


Shorter notice | February 2012

A review of Portrait of Murdock Pemberton by Sally Pemberton

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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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Brian Lehrer Show: What's a Museum?

James Panero discusses "What's a Museum?" on The Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC). Recorded 3/29/2012.

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The New Barnes | May 18, 2012 11:58 AM


The Edmund Burke Award: A Slideshow | May 03, 2012 04:00 PM


Painting Outside the Box | May 02, 2012 12:22 PM


Kissinger Receives First Burke Award | May 01, 2012 01:26 PM


The Lightness of Jack Bush | Apr 28, 2012 11:01 AM

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Webcasts

Remarks from the Hilton Kramer memorial reception
Roger Kimball, James Piereson, and Grace Glueck delivered remarks at the memorial reception for New Criterion founding editor Hilton Kramer who recently passed away. The reception took place on May 9, 2012 at the Century Club in New York.


Emily Esfahani Smith on the Mike Huckabee Show
The New Criterion Associate Editor Emily Esfahani Smith discusses HBO's Girls and the hook up culture with Gov. Mike Huckabee.


Brian Lehrer Show: What's a Museum?
James Panero discusses "What's a Museum?" on The Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC). Recorded 3/29/2012.

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