James Panero
American journalist and art critic
James S. Panero (born December 15, 1975) is an American cultural critic and the executive editor of The New Criterion, a conservative culture journal.
Early life
Panero was born in New York City, 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.
Panero became the monthly gallery critic of The New Criterion in 2003.
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