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Country Life Magazine – March 5, 2025 Preview

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COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE (March 4, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The enfant terribile’ – Michelangelo; London’s best bakeries and why 1775 rocked; Charles Dance; Cheltenham and kitchen confidential…

The year the stars came out

A host of luminaries that were born in 1775 still shape British identity some 250 years on, as Matthew Dennison discovers

A horse walks into a bar…

Jack Watkins raises a glass to the Cheltenham superstars immortalised in the bars and restaurants at Prestbury Park

Interiors

Amelia Thorpe cooks up a real treat with the latest inspiration and innovations for the kitchen

London Life

– Amie Elizabeth White celebrates 100 years of the Dickens museum, plus Country Life’s guide to the best baked goods in the capital

Arts & antiques

Charles Dance talks to Carla Passino about Michelangelo, mentoring and why the Sistine chapel is like playing King Lear

The good, the bad and the ugly

Michael Hall delves into the genius of Michelangelo, at once the enfant prodige and enfant terribile of the Renaissance

Simon Martin’s favourite painting

The art-gallery director selects a beguiling 17th-century miniature revealing a connection to Nature

A regal renewal

John Goodall hails the revival of Restoration House in Kent, a magnificent property that welcomed Charles II in 1660

The legacy

Agnes Stamp hails the ‘British Barnum’ Charles Cruft, whose dog show is still best in class

Shiver me timbers

The once-popular black poplar could be our secret weapon in the battle against climate change, finds Vicky Liddell

The good stuff

Hetty Lintell’s top tips on what to wear to the Cheltenham Festival

And it was all yellow

Charles Quest-Ritson brightens his day with the cheerful flowers of the ever-dependable forsythia

Sharp practice

The thorny old issue of pruning roses, with Charles Quest-Ritson

Foraging

Is tapping birch-tree sap worth the bother, asks John Wright

Travel

Emma Love shares the latest cruise news, Imogen West-Knights finds everything shipshape in the South of France, John Niven follows in the wake of Mr Mississippi Mark Twain and Pamela Goodman’s birthday treats take on a life of their own

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Arts & Culture: The New Criterion -December 2024

November 15, 2024 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

The New Criterion – The December 2024 issue features…

Art: a special section

An interview with an Old Masters dealer by Benjamin Riley

Monet reversionism by Paul Hayes Tucker

Tokens of culture by James Panero

Politics & the Venice Biennale by Philip Rylands

A monumental park by Michele H. Bogart

Ghiberti versus Donatello by Eric Gibson

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Arts & Culture: The New Criterion -November 2024

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The New Criterion – The November 2024 issue features…

The profundity of evil by Douglas Murray

Emily Dickinson at the post office by William Logan

Pevsner revised by Simon Heffer

“The Power Broker” in perspective by Myron Magnet

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Arts & Culture: The New Criterion -October 2024

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The New Criterion – The October 2024 issue features…

Democracy in America: a symposium

Tocqueville’s limitations by Glenn Ellmers

Democracy in America: an introduction by Roger Kimball

Our Athenian American democracy by Victor Davis Hanson

Tocqueville versus progressive democracy by Daniel J. Mahoney

The Washington octopus by James Piereson

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Arts & Culture: The New Criterion – Sept 2024

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The New Criterion – The September 2024 issue features ‘The red star returns’; The trouble with Delmore; Churchill endures; Charles Ive’s “let out” souls; Theater, Arts, Music and The Media….

Arresting scenes

On John Constable’s The Hay Wain & the foundations of the West.

We write as The New Criterion’s annual period of aestivation enters its home stretch. The cicadas are buzzing, the days are noticeably shorter, and the leaves—some of them—are already edged with brown. Certain summers feature quiet expanses of lazy days. This one was different. In July, Donald Trump, except for the tip of his right ear, dodged a would-be assassin’s bullet; Joe Biden dropped (or, we now know, was pushed) out of the 2024 presidential race but, as of this writing, remains president; Kamala Harris, Biden’s vice president, stepped into the vacancy and magically became the new candidate for president, choosing the Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate.

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The New Criterion – June 2024 Arts/Culture Preview

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The New Criterion – The June 2024 issue features:

Protecting America’s promise

by Ronald S. Lauder

On combating anti-Semitism & anti-Americanism.

All the rage

by Victor Davis Hanson

On White Rural Rage by Tom Schaller & Paul Waldman.

The masterpiece of our time

by Gary Saul Morson

On The Gulag Archipelago at fifty.

Building Palm Beach

by Benjamin Riley

On the town’s history & architecture.

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The New Criterion – April 2024 Arts/Culture Preview

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The New Criterion – The April 2024 issue features:

Poetry a special section
Black poetry by William Logan
Shakespeare’s words by Amit Majmudar
Bachmann: the unspeakable spoken by Peter Filkins
The new & the old by Katie Hartsock
The answer to Lord Chandos by Pascal Quignard

New translations by Ryan Choi, Frederick Amrine, Patrick Whalen & Beverley Bie Brahic

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The New Criterion – March 2024 Preview

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The New Criterion – The March 2024 issue features:

Israel’s eternal dilemma by Victor Davis Hanson
Enrique Gómez Carrillo by Anthony Daniels
The singularity of speech by Wilfred M. McClay
A life in ballet by Peter Martins

New poems by Amit Majmudar, James Matthew Wilson & Michael Casper

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Arts & Culture: Aesthetica Magazine-Feb/March 2024

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Aesthetica Magazine (February 2, 2024) – The February/March 2024 issue features ‘Perception is Everything’. This issue recognises agents of change. Throughout history, art has influenced societies, challenged norms, questioned the status quo, raised awareness and prompted new perspectives.

The artists in this issue embody this notion. We speak with Tania Franco Klein about her distinct style, which is realised through cinematic photographs. She surveys present-day anxieties and effects of media overstimulation. Meanwhile, Cristóbal Ascencio’s work and research focuses on the relationship between images and memory. He looks at how experience can be appropriated between generations. Kaya & Blank is a photographic duo that explores the way that humans inhabit the world, pushing the boundaries of how reality is presented. Tara Donovan, featured in When Forms Come Alive, opening at the Hayward Gallery, London, this winter, is one of 21 artists in an exhibition that reclaims space in an increasingly digitised world. It spans 60 years of contemporary sculpture and shows works that trigger a physical response.

In photography we traverse continents with an extraordinary range of practitioners, including Derrick O. Boateng, Ibai Acevedo, Jonathan Knowles, Tom Hegen and Neil Burnell. Our cover duo, Tropico Photo, offers pop colours and urban cool. Finally, the Last Words go to Yannis Davy Guibinga.