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Culture
The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.
December 9, 2019
What the Art Basel Banana says about our world
It’s rotten even if the banana is not
December 7, 2019
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
November 27, 2019
Leonardo da Virtual
Books and ArtsMass tourism has overwhelmed our major museums. Could virtual reality be the solution?
November 24, 2019
Payton’s place
Books and ArtsNetflix’s The Politician is satire without purpose
November 19, 2019
Tough gospel: the twin cities of Sesame Street and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Books and ArtsMister Rogers’ Neighborhood is the world we have lost: grandparents, honest jobs and Sunday school teachers
November 14, 2019
A motel room of one’s own
Books and ArtsAdman to American existentialist: Edward Hopper at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
November 10, 2019
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
November 8, 2019
Brazilian wax
Books and ArtsBefore the Beatles were boss, there was bossa nova
November 6, 2019
Audio blitzkrieg
Books and Arts‘Motörhead, remember me now’
November 5, 2019
The perfect crime
Books and ArtsOnce true crime has you by the listicles, you’re compelled to return to the scene
November 4, 2019
Is Lou Reed a rock ’n’ roll Dostoevsky?
Books and ArtsI’ll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics by Lou Reed reviewed
November 1, 2019
Don’t insult Joker by comparing him to Trump
What Todd Phillips’s film tells us about protest movements
October 29, 2019
Top Boy wins the turf war
Books and ArtsTop Boy reviewed
October 22, 2019
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
October 20, 2019
Secrets of the maestro
Books and ArtsThe first major American exhibition of Andrea del Verrocchio confirms that he was a Renaissance innovator, and more than Leonardo’s teacher
October 19, 2019
Grandpa, who were the Rolling Stones, and why?
Books and ArtsRaising the goblet of rock
Pod almighty
Books and ArtsBuilding the great podcast of Alexandria
October 11, 2019
CNN’s LGBT Town Hall collapses into trans madness
In its quest for every gender on the spectrum, the network couldn’t even find a single top to stuff into the audience
A great time in the Faddisphere
Books and ArtsFaddis took a break, sat down on a chair onstage near me, then started blowing along with the band again
October 8, 2019
Who killed the American arts?
Books and ArtsThe decline from Duke Ellington and Aretha Franklin to A$AP Rocky and Lizzo is a slide from civilization to barbarism
The NBA tosses an alley-oop for China’s censors
Meanwhile, South Park offers a full-court press of freedom of expression
October 3, 2019
Is Peaky Blinders past its peak?
Books and ArtsIf the cap fits…
September 30, 2019
Blondie ambition
Books and ArtsFace It by Debbie Harry reviewed
September 22, 2019
The semiotics of Jackass
For all the chaos on Jackass, there were no obvious consequences
September 21, 2019
Louise Linton: why I don’t like being ‘the wife of…’
Books and ArtsI married a politician. But my identity is not defined by my husband
September 20, 2019
Not in front of the servants
Books and ArtsLong live Downton Abbey
