James Panero

James Panero (b. 1975, New York City) is a cultural critic and the managing editor of The New Criterion.

Early life

Panero was born in New York City in 1975, and grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He attended the preparatory school Trinity in Manhattan. Panero graduated from Dartmouth in 1998, where he majored in Classics. In his sophomore year he was appointed editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth Review.

Career

Panero joined the editorial staff of National Review upon graduation. In 1999 he worked in Gstaad, Switzerland as a writing assistant to William F. Buckley Jr on his novel Spytime: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton (Harcourt, 2000).

Before joining The New Criterion in 2001, 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.

Panero became the monthly gallery critic of The New Criterion in 2003. His "Gallery Chronicle" column has been praised by writers, artists, and collectors for its coverage of the outer boroughs of New York and their alternative art scenes.

Panero is now an art and cultural critic for several publications, including New York Magazine, The New York Times Book Review , The Wall Street Journal , City Journal , Philanthropy Magazine, Forbes, The International Herald Tribune, Humanities Magazine , National Review, The Weekly Standard, The Claremont Review, the University Bookman, and The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. In 2007, he became a regular writer for Art & Antiques Magazine.. His work is frequently cited for its critical authority.

Mr. Panero blogs and collects his writings at www.supremefiction.com. His Twitter handle is @jamespanero.

A member of the International Association of Art Critics, Mr. Panero lectures on art, politics, the art market, and cultural policy. He has spoken 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.

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).

He is married to the writer and teacher Dara Mandle..

Exhibitions

• "The Joe Bonham Project: An Exhibition Curated by James Panero": wartime illustrators document the rehabilitation of wounded warriors. On view at Storefront gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, September 1 through September 18, 2011.

Works

• 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 (co-edited by James Panero and Stefan Beck) ISBN 978-1932236934

Trivia

• He appeared as a child actor on the PBS television program Sesame Street, in an episode he wrote about for the New York Times Book Review.
• Mr. Panero has been a lifelong resident of New York's Upper West Side, where he now serves as the President of his Co-Op Board.

Interviews

• "James Kalm Rough Cuts with James Panero, curator of The Joe Bonham Project.
• "FineArtViews Interview: James Panero -- Art Critic and Managing Editor for The New Criterion"

External links

• The New Criterion
• Supreme Fiction
• Twitter