Taylor Swift’s Midnights is a bright spot in a bland music industry
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Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Sunday
Dawn party
The Whitney Museum is digging back to the dawn of American Modernism
A chronicler of enormities
Leonard Baskin was not to everyone’s taste, and the feeling was mutual
The heart of The Rings of Power
Amazon’s Tolkien adaptation does justice to the aesthetics as well as the ethics of his world
Is this Tom Stoppard’s last act?
If Leopoldstadt does not convince the theatergoing public, then what will?
At eighty, Casablanca embodies Hollywood high style
The movie still resonates with viewers even to this day
Wednesday
The myopia of the ‘Sunflowers’ protesters
They could not be farther from the beauty of this earth
Halloween Ends succeeds because it’s barely a horror film
The third in the trilogy trades a high body count for a sophisticated reckoning with evil
Friday
Amsterdam explores friendship in a complicated world
The film focuses less on overbearing ideology than on living well
Thursday
Angela Lansbury was so much more than Murder, She Wrote
Her passing demands a reflection on a stunning career
Tuesday
Loretta Lynn’s music celebrated tough wives
She was proud of her heritage and infused her upbringing in her songs
John Singer Sargent comes to Spain
The artist created his own synthetic Spanish vision
Kimono Style is more than just East-meets-West fashion
It is also a glimpse into a mystifying period of Japanese history
Bullet Train is an unabashedly manly palette cleanser
An action movie can be good or woke, but not both
Bodies Bodies Bodies cancels its characters to death
It’s a successful satire of cancel culture that never hectors or patronizes
A visit to Louis Armstrong’s old home
In any assessment of jazz’s founding fathers, he has to stand as the most influential figure
Weighing in on the unauthorized Hamilton
It was probably inevitable that the culture wars would come for the show
The deeply human Walking Dead
The show made us feel we could find light in that which set us apart from savagery
Thursday
Is it ever acceptable to drink wine at a football tailgate?
The Spectator World’s writers weigh in
Wednesday
The real reason straight people aren’t going to see Bros
Billy Eichner is repellant
