Taylor Swift dumps British man, again
1975 singer and controversial podcast guest Matty Healy has been cast onto the slag heap
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Monday
Sunday
The Idol and the art of smut
Sam Levinson knows he’s not an academic or intellectual
Saturday
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse dodges all the MCU virtue-signaling
The animated Sony sequel is darker, but nonetheless a Marvel to behold
Opening a bottle with: the French co-founders of Lisbon’s MOGA Festival
It’s a five-day celebration of world-class electronic music, elevated fast food, wellness and the plugged-in local community
Friday
Tears of the Kingdom is the unifier America needs
Gaming has long been a battlefield in the raging culture war, but not with the new Zelda
Bama Rush fails as anti-Greek life propaganda
Lacking a decent angle, the director uses herself as filler
Thursday
What Succession got right about Rupert Murdoch
Andrew Neil on how, like Logan Roy, Murdoch runs his company ‘like a king’
Monday
Succession gets the satisfying finale it deserves
The Roys bow out in style
Thursday
Tina Turner was greater than a rock star
She was something much more universal: a survivor
Aaron Sorkin’s new Camelot has nothing to say
Scenes are rushed and hidden — and in the end, the musical is empty
Wednesday
Poet laureate can’t define a ‘ban’
Amanda Gorman’s poem got moved from the elementary-school section of a library to a middle-school one
Mrs. Davis makes getting off grid seriously tempting
The show is a prophetic a warning about AI and the pervasiveness of the internet
Tuesday
Rock ’n’ roll Dolly Parton’s political wake-up call
Her new song is more fire and brimstone than climate anthem
What Succession gets wrong about politics
The show’s election night was gripping and realistic. Everything that follows is a hot mess
Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra girlbosses against historical fact
Watching it felt alarmingly like witnessing the death of scholarship
Sunday
Bringing back Stephen Sondheim and enduring a new Andrew Lloyd Webber
Bad Cinderella is a pumpkin, while Parade becomes an exercise in emotional torture porn
How Madonna turned pop culture Catholic
On the fortieth anniversary of her debut album, Madonna remains a good Catholic girl at heart
What makes Berthe Morisot’s nudes so unique?
She provides a new lens to look at Impressionism
What museums can learn from contemporary technology
The National Gallery of Art has quietly but steadily undergone a major culture shift
Friday
Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a franchise murderer — and Indiana Jones is her next victim
She is bent on undermining every masculine hero
