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Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Wednesday
Monday
The real McCoy
In memory of McCoy Tyner
Tuesday
‘All rock ’n’ roll starts and ends with Lou Reed’
Our rock critic has made an album with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck. Here he explains how…
Uniform beats
Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany by Uwe Schütte reviewed
Monday
Bernie $anders is a public enemy
I’m voting for Flavor Flav
An old master who still feels new
El Greco is at the Art Institute of Chicago. Can we trust the modernists on the gifts of ‘The Greek’?
Wednesday
Urbino legend
The chance of a lifetime for lovers of Raphael
Monday
Washington returns history to the History Channel
The foundingest father of them all
Saturday
Cyrus the Great
A night at Blues Alley with the mighty Chestnut
Friday
Wells farrago: gaslighting the Invisible Man
Priapic shower-stalking and domestic haunting were never Wells’s style – not on the page, anyway
Cats: The Snuff Movie
Too many Netflix true-crime documentaries are tiresome and overlong. This one was a lot worse than that
Sunday
The true cost of celebrity inauthenticity
Our heroes damage more than just themselves when they warp reality
Monday
The age of celebrity is dead
The internet has killed the Hollywood star
Friday
The sad conformity of Taylor Swift
Where is the bravery in saying exactly what your industry wants you to say?
Wednesday
Land of hope and Victoria: The Kinks’ lost empire
By 1969, Churchill was dead and the Kinks, as an album group, were toast
Tuesday
Stalin at Yale
Art history for the age of identity politics
Monday
The Witcher’s hours
Medieval gore for millennial gamers
Saturday
Stayin’ alive in ’75
Meryl Meisler’s photographs captured the family life and nightlife of Seventies New York
Wednesday
Style on steroids: the power of Jerry Bruckheimer
Bruckheimer may think that the Oedipus Complex is a Greek shopping mall, but the set-ups of Bad Boys and Top Gun are classical
Tuesday
Laurence Fox made me go into hiding
I called the FBI but so far they have not called me back
