Is there such a thing as right-wing art?
A durable national identity cannot be asserted into being
Culture
Tuesday
Reconciling dreams with reality
Truth to tell, surrealism lent itself to individuals who were inherently off-the-beam
The contingent talent of Emily Sargent
Creativity in proximity to genius without its obligations
Monet’s Venetian moment
Monet also captured another element of the open air: smog
Portrait of a frontier life
Train Dreams, often hailed as a ‘miniature masterpiece,’ is not a story of defeat
Monday
Tom Stoppard was himself to the end
His legacy bears comparison with the greatest luminaries of the theater
Wednesday
Trump blames Biden for shooting of National Guardsmen
His response had the rhetorical footprints of Stephen Miller
When will the Beatles bandwagon end?
Anthology 4 makes the extraordinary band seem ordinary
Tuesday
They should never make another James Bond film
The spy learned his final lesson in No Time to Die
Wednesday
Give Stellan Skarsgård an Oscar for Sentimental Value
Joachim Trier’s film shows us what compassion is
Tuesday
Nicki Minaj and Mike Waltz team up at the UN
‘Please join me in welcoming a daughter of the Caribbean, a champion of the oppressed and a sister in Christ’
South America is flush with Nazi-looted art
Sleuths rediscovered a stolen painting, galvanizing efforts to uncover even more
Rauschenberg is a bore
His new exhibition at the Guggenheim is a sour birthday party
Man Ray is alluring in the way a psychopath is
The Met’s exhibition shows that the artist tried to destroy everything human about himself
Is Martin Scorsese America’s greatest living director?
Apple’s new paean to the man certainly suggests as much
A new Phantom comes to Broadway
Masquerade honors and innovates the legacy of Phantom of the Opera
Did the Louvre robbers want to get caught?
They left behind incriminating evidence, but perhaps their bungling was all part of a plan
Thursday
Will Disney strike a deal to end its YouTube TV blackout?
YouTubeTV knows it remains in the driver’s seat
Sunday
On less famous presidential assassins
Death by Lighting is uproarious fun
Wednesday
Why do white men’s feelings matter more than black lesbians’?
Women’s rights have been broken on the wheel of the trans ideology
Uncovering Brian Wilson’s real genius
The long-unfinished Smile reveals the musician’s talent and madness
Sixties Surreal at the Whitney is a bad trip
The show feels like an undergraduate thesis
Why is the Met making medieval art perverse?
Spectrum of Desire is somewhere between blasphemous and libelous
Drowning in the neon swamp of Tron: Ares
Your eyes and your brain cells will hate you for watching this
Are black-metal bands going Christian?
The anarchic music has long been a breeding ground for Christianity
Tuesday
Florence and the Machine is back
The band’s new album, Everybody Scream, contains some of the best music released this year
It pays to be a bad college-football coach
A talent arms race is driving up the coaches’ price tags – even when those coaches are horrible
Friday
Don McCullin shows no signs of slowing down
In the veteran photojournalist’s later work, a sense of foreboding is never far away
The free market can’t stop AI actress Tilly Norwood
There’s no economic incentive not to use AI actors – but doing so is morally repulsive