Is London Calling Boris Johnson?
Conservatives and the Clash, 40 years on
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Tuesday
Monday
What the Art Basel Banana says about our world
It’s rotten even if the banana is not
Saturday
Disney wants A Whole White World
These white supremacists certainly like to play the long game
If you like Joe Biden, you’ll love The Irishman
The Irishman reviewed
Wednesday
Leonardo da Virtual
Mass tourism has overwhelmed our major museums. Could virtual reality be the solution?
Sunday
Payton’s place
Netflix’s The Politician is satire without purpose
Tuesday
Tough gospel: the twin cities of Sesame Street and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood is the world we have lost: grandparents, honest jobs and Sunday school teachers
Thursday
A motel room of one’s own
Adman to American existentialist: Edward Hopper at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Sunday
Andrei Serban and the importance of acting out
His style of hands-on direction — honest critique without regard for feelings or compassion — led students to serious artistic breakthroughs
Friday
Brazilian wax
Before the Beatles were boss, there was bossa nova
Wednesday
Audio blitzkrieg
‘Motörhead, remember me now’
Tuesday
The perfect crime
Once true crime has you by the listicles, you’re compelled to return to the scene
Monday
Is Lou Reed a rock ’n’ roll Dostoevsky?
I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics by Lou Reed reviewed
Friday
Don’t insult Joker by comparing him to Trump
What Todd Phillips’s film tells us about protest movements
Tuesday
Top Boy wins the turf war
Top Boy reviewed
Tuesday
Leonardo in Paris
A stunning journey into the ‘science of painting’
Is this the only Catherine the Great review to mention the age gap?
Helen Mirren is 74 years old while the character she plays — at least at the start of the mini-series — is 33 years old
Sunday
Secrets of the maestro
The first major American exhibition of Andrea del Verrocchio confirms that he was a Renaissance innovator, and more than Leonardo’s teacher
Saturday
Grandpa, who were the Rolling Stones, and why?
Raising the goblet of rock
Pod almighty
Building the great podcast of Alexandria