Is academia rotten to the core?
The rising trend of botching data
Culture
Thursday
Sunday
The history of a Britney Spears masterpiece
Blackout laid the foundation for the EDM revolution, Lady Gaga’s self-referential debut album and the rest of the past fifteen years of pop
Taking in Good Night, Oscar and New York, New York
Good Night, Oscar takes us back to a time when, for better or worse, both foibles and felonies were targets for humor
What the Old Masters can teach us about contemporary life
In many of their most enduring images, the Old Masters did not shy away from asking ‘Why?’ in the face of suffering and trauma
The surreal life of Leonora Carrington
The artist and writer’s life is the story of the twentieth century in microcosm
Jenny Boyd goes beyond the muse
She was in the backstages, the bedrooms and the jam sessions with some of the most iconic musicians of all time
Thursday
How they treat trans children across the pond
A recent NHS directive exposes US insanity on the issue
Monday
Beware the New York Times kids section
The NYT exposes children to radical gender ideology and other left-wing propaganda
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
Thursday
Broadway brings back Bob Fosse’s Dancin’
The first revival of Dancin’ on Broadway is a treasure trove for Fosse fanatics
Noël Coward, the English playwright who loved all things American
In order to take over the globe, he had to succeed in the largest English-language market
Is the New York subway the city’s best gallery?
Beneath the Big Apple’s streets, the MTA has amassed the largest collection of public art in the world
Why are there no paintings in Star Wars?
They are not talked about, reflected upon or even alluded to
Lana Del Rey’s new record: samey, stale, sterile
Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd could have been better
The importance of going to the movies
Something happens when you watch a movie alone together, laughing, crying and fidgeting in unison
Tuesday
A stripped back Doll’s House on Broadway
The difference between a divorce and a funeral seems lost on the director Jamie Lloyd
Why I’m afraid of transphobia
The state coercing people into abandoning their consciences does create genuine fear
Saturday
Why were 2000s movies so hypersexual?
Are we decent yet?
Tuesday
Drinking with Picasso
To mark the half-century since Picasso’s death, I invited two art experts to lunch at Els Quatre Gats
Monday
Should I have had a sensitivity reader review my book?
They’re a kind of last line of defense against the intolerant left
The growing bipartisan backlash against ‘Latinx’
Its use is a great way to drive Latinos rightward
Friday
San Francisco reparations and the Golden Age of Revision
For just $5 million per person, we can rid ourselves of the iron burden of truth
Thursday
East Palestine and the roots of rural mistrust
Big government has not often been a friend to small towns
Monday
The magnetism of His Dark Materials
Pullman’s color palette is of vibrant grays. He rejects absolute goods and evils
Greg Lansky: the artist with a scandalous past
As an adult film magnate, he profited off the broken aspects of our society for years
Mary Blair, doyenne of Disneyland
To preserve an outsider artist such as her, you have to preserve the messy reality of life