The Doctor’s Garden
November 4, 2018 · Books & Arts, medicine, history
Paula Deitz on how a New York physician planted the seeds of American medical botany.
Cultural Critic and Arts Writer
Paula Deitz
7 articles 2012–2018
Paula Deitz is a writer and critic specializing in cultural topics including architecture, gardens, music, and the arts. She is the editor of The Hudson Review, a literary quarterly. She contributed essays and cultural criticism to The Weekly Standard between 2012 and 2018, covering subjects ranging from classical music and opera to landscape design and international arts.
Letter from Japan: Music, Art, and Architecture
February 26, 2018 · Paula Deitz, culture, Japan
The Vienna Philharmonic is in the United States this month, performing in New York and Florida under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel. As a New Yorker who attends concerts on a regular basis, I never miss a chance to hear the orchestra’s performances at Carnegie Hall. Two years ago I even had the…
L'Orfeo Ascending
March 31, 2017 · Paula Deitz, Japan, opera
Kamakura, Japan
A Classical View
March 4, 2016 · Paula Deitz, Magazine, Books and Arts
When my husband and I visited London together for the first time many years ago, we spent hours studying the Elgin Marbles at the British Museum, concentrating on the sculptures remaining from the east pediment of the Parthenon: Helios, the sun god, rising with his horse-drawn chariot at daybreak…
Designs for Power
June 23, 2014 · Paula Deitz, Magazine, Architecture
In the final scene of My Architect, Nathaniel Kahn’s 2003 documentary about discovering his father Louis I. Kahn (1901-74) through his architecture, Nathaniel stands in the National Assembly building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, speaking to Shamsul Wares, a local architect who knew Kahn and claims that…
Citizen of Geneva
December 24, 2012 · Paula Deitz, Magazine, Books and Arts
Geneva
Vivaldi on the Lawn
July 30, 2012 · Paula Deitz, Magazine, Books and Arts