On “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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4 days ago · On “St. Francis between Cimabue and Perugino” at the Palazzo della Minerva, Rome.

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The Editors of The New Criterion are pleased to announce that Peter Vertacnik is the winner of the twenty-third New Criterion Poetry Prize.

Orphic obscurity by Karen Wilkin On “Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930,” at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.

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A stately setting by Myron Magnet On America’s Collection: The Art & Architecture of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms at the U.S. Department of State by Virginia B. Hart.