Somebody’s watching me
All Light, Everywhere reviewed
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Saturday
Sunday
Black Widow and the bungling of female superhero movies
Is the Scarlett Johansson lawsuit Disney’s latest unforced error?
Monday
Hollywood’s vacuous moral turn
Black Widow, Luca and Nomadland are films for decaffeinated protesters
Thursday
I remember Halston
Halston made American sportswear as chic as anything Paris couture houses were turning out
Yet more death in Venice
Björn Andrésen is now tall and painfully thin with long silver hair and a matching beard that belong on Merlin
The techniques of totalitarianism are still fully in play today
Instead of examining the dictators individually, How to Become a Tyrant explores their careers thematically
Wednesday
The lost king of the blues
No one played the blues like Mike Bloomfield
Tuesday
Affluent white female killer
I Care a Lot reviewed
Saturday
Abolishing museums serves nobody
Activist demands will destroy museums — and make us all poorer
Thursday
Winston Marshall is more than a martyr
I hope the banjoist is now free to reveal publicly how the industry operates these days
Monday
Dungeons and Dragons goes woke
Do today’s players care if orcs are racist?
Thursday
Watching The Woman in the Window
The Woman in the Window reviewed
Wednesday
No success like failure
Why does no one talk about how most artistic careers end in failure?
Tuesday
Girls on film
New Woman Behind the Camera brings together the whimsical and the confrontational to show how modernism shaped photography
Sunday
The legend of forgotten musical genius Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Dismissed as a dime-store Shostakovich, then praised as a major modern composer
Vacation time
The enduring popularity of the Vacation series reflects not just the American appetite for travel, but also that old American virtue of gung-ho optimism
Tuesday
Steve Austin and the age of the antihero
Stone Cold was foul-mouthed, sadistic and mean — and people loved him
The rising cost of remembering the Fab Four
A forthcoming George Harrison box set will sell for $1,000. Do we still love the Beatles enough to care?
Tuesday
Bo Burnham flirts with post-comedy
A lot of Inside is not even attempting to be funny
Monday
Friends: The Reunion turned out to be a pointless nostalgia-fest
The much-hyped comeback was a waste of time
