Sixties Surreal at the Whitney is a bad trip
The show feels like an undergraduate thesis
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Wednesday
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
Tuesday
Florence and the Machine is back
The band’s new album, Everybody Scream, contains some of the best music released this year
Friday
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
Wednesday
Del Toro’s Frankenstein deserves the big screen
Still, it’s a relief that Netflix, for all its faults, is bankrolling work as individual and striking as this
Tuesday
Why was Steven Soderbergh’s Star Wars film rejected?
That his film might be seen as a risk says a lot about how tainted the brand has become
Friday
It’s a shame that Crooked Cross isn’t better
Director Jonathan Bank is unable to do the play justice
Thursday
Is OCD hip?
Olivia Levine’s one-woman show takes the mental illness as a subject
Wednesday
Is Jeremy Strong our John Cazale?
The actor is the best part of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Tuesday
Unpacking Tucker Carlson’s 9/11 documentary
The documentary claims the Saudis were behind 9/11 – and the CIA then protected them
Adam McEwen’s small masterpieces of the uncanny
It’s a strange time, McEwen reflects, to be an artist
Taylor Swift’s new album balances glitter with grit
The Life of a Showgirl is conceptually mature and compelling
One Battle After Another may be the worst movie ever made
It is a grand, multifaceted masterpiece of badness
The Who’s farewell tour marks the end of an era
The band never lost sight of what first made them great, and what made rock ’n’ roll great
Friday
We need Sabrina Carpenter
She’s the nation’s court jester
Wednesday
The Chair Company is the workplace comedy we need right now
Tim Robinson’s latest cringe-fest is sophisticated and hilarious
Friday
Why does Jared Leto still have a career?
The ‘Tron: Ares’ star represents a cautionary tale for our times
Thursday
Loud luxury in London
From Ziggy Stardust to Marie Antoinette, the mood is maximalist
Wednesday
Will Dwayne Johnson always be The Rock?
He struggles to chart a new course in The Smashing Machine
