Art Critic and Editor

James Panero

1 article 2004

James Panero is an art critic and the executive editor of The New Criterion. He writes extensively about visual arts, architecture, and cultural institutions. He contributed to The Weekly Standard with commentary on the intersection of art and commercial culture.

Malling Art

December 20, 2004 · Magazine, Books and Arts

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART in New York reopened on November 20 after a three-year--and $425 million--renovation. The occasion has drawn the art world like Nagas at Kumbh Mela to the building. But as the expanded museum has been praised for the modernist restraint of its new design, the actual art…