Night at the museum
Is the Baltimore Museum of Art exploiting the COVID-19 crisis to sell off major modern paintings?
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Wednesday
Meet the real-life gangsters who inspired Guys and Dolls
The musical premiered on Broadway 70 years ago this week
Tuesday
Look east, old man
To the Lake is the right kind of Russian interference
Tuesday
Barack Obama’s music taste remains painfully mainstream
His new playlist sucks
Saturday
Is Billie Eilish really in shock over James Bond?
‘Shock’, from the French ‘choque’, began as the word for a collision of armies
Friday
Escape vehicle
The automobile’s artifice is its art, but it is still an art of artifice
Wednesday
Culture and anarchy
Félix Fénéon, terrorist and connoisseur
Thursday
Is The Undoing actually great?
Or just a run-of-the-mill thriller with a brilliant casting director?
Thursday
Ten films to help you celebrate Hallowquarantine
Answering the door to masked strangers isn’t the novelty it used to be
Wednesday
The Lincoln Project Channel is God’s punishment for our sinful ways
The group lures in left-wing donors with the fantasy of an anti-Trump conservative movement
Sarah Cooper’s Netflix special is a crime against comedy
The real star is the producer’s phonebook
Tuesday
The meaning of Mehdi Hasan
What does he actually believe?
Monday
The Disneyfication of the moral universe
Adults have chosen to understand the world through the prism of superheroes, wizards and Jedi knights
Sunday
The sorry history of London’s Hoover Building
Several other Thirties buildings from American firms survive in west London
Thursday
Back to my Toots
Farewell to the father of reggae
Wednesday
Chris Pratt is a role model for other celebrities
The actor doesn’t talk about his political views, so now everyone else is
Booker prized
Notes on a New Orleans professor
Monday
Sensei it again
The return of the Karate Kid
Wednesday
Monumental Mahler
The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910 by Stephen Johnson reviewed
Morals and mortality
How will we remember the great musicians of the past?