Sinking into the pixels
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is an important film about the internet
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Monday
Ukraine in black and white
Recalling the moral clarity of Lillian Hellman’s The North Star
Arcade Fire: the last of the art-rockers?
The band’s return is not just welcome but overdue
The underrated Kenny Dorham
On the fiftieth anniversary of his death, it’s well worth revisiting his remarkable career
SoHo’s downtown drawings
Cultural mavens shouldn’t miss out on a knockout exhibition curated by Emily King
The Princess is misanthropic TikTok schlock
With a toxic masculinity all its own
Thursday
Ron Howard: nobody’s favorite Hollywood director
He’s a careful pair of hands but little else
Wednesday
Where the Crawdads Sing reduces a rich novel to a love triangle
Gone are the book’s themes of Christianity and the poverty of marsh life
Sunday
Beastie Boys were masters of cultural appropriation
Yet liberal New Yorkers just named an intersection after them
Friday
The latest Jane Austen adaptation is dreadful
‘It’s often said that if you’re a five in London, you’re a ten in Bath’
Americans should be proud of their Poet Laureates
The British could learn something from these impressive missionaries of literature
Wednesday
The latest Thor isn’t ‘super gay’
It’s same old Marvel, dressing up the usual in brand new drag
Sunday
The unsolved mystery of Marilyn Monroe
Who was she? Films like Blonde cast us into a hall of mirrors
Thursday
The one-note wonder
The Museum of Modern Art is seeing red with Matisse
Playing the long game
Paul Cezanne is lighting fires with a new retrospective in Chicago
A concert begun in darkness
Remembering Rafael Schächter, a conductor imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp
How green is your Soylent?
A Seventies sci-fi thriller predicted dystopian eco-nightmare for 2022
Why did no one see The Northman?
The movie may be the last of its kind
Macbeth on Broadway: a Very Modern Scottish play
Daniel Craig whips through the Shakespeare tragedy in just over two hours
Friends creator falls victim to white guilt
Insane apologies in woke world