James Panero
James Panero is the Managing Editor of The New Criterion. In addition to his editorial duties for the magazine, he writes on art and culture monthly for The New Criterion and serves as the magazine's gallery critic. He also manages the magazine's weblog, Armavirumque, which he started in 2003.
Mr. Panero is a contributor to a number of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The Weekly Standard, the Claremont Review, and the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. He lectures widely on art, politics, and education, speaking 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, and has been a radio guest on The Milt Rosenberg Show (WGN-Chicago), The Mike Rosen Show (KOA-Denver) and All Things Considered (NPR) . Forthcoming appearances include a panel discussion on bias in the art world (the conference of the College Art Association; February 14-15, 2007).
Mr. Panero takes an active role in arts organizations around New York, including the National Arts Club, where he is a member of the literary committee.
Before joining The New Criterion in 2001, Mr. Panero was a graduate student in the history of art and architecture 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.
Mr. Panero is a former editor of National Review. He worked in Switzerland as a writing assistant to William F. Buckley Jr. on his novel Spytime: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton (Harcourt, 2000).
James Panero received a B.A. from Dartmouth College, where he majored in Classics under the advisement of Edward Bradley. In his sophomore year he was appointed editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth Review. At Dartmouth he developed a close mentorship with Professor Jeffrey Hart upon the professor's retirement from the college's English department. The two now serve on The Dartmouth Review 's board of directors, where Mr. Panero is Chairman. 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.
Mr. Panero was born in 1975 and grew up on New York's Upper West Side, where he attended Trinity School for thirteen years. In addition to serving as an aid worker in Eastern Africa in 1992, the highlights of his youth include appearing ten years earlier on two episodes of the PBS show Sesame Street.
Mr. Panero continues to live in New York City. He is married to the writer and poet Dara Mandle, with whom he maintains the website www.daraandjames.com. He may be reached at the offices of The New Criterion or by email at letters (at) newcriterion (dot)com.