Will Smith’s slap saved a poor Oscars
It will define this year’s Academy Awards forever
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Monday
Thursday
Holbein at the Morgan
Holbein’s heroes have arrived in New York City
Messenger service
First Flight to Tokyo by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers reviewed
Michael Jackson on Broadway
MJ: The Musical reviewed
Troubles in paradise
Belfast reviewed
Buster’s land stand
Buster Keaton is again of the moment
Wednesday
Volodymyr Zelensky’s sitcom is now as sad as it is funny
Future generations will view it as a historical artifact
Friday
President Stacey Abrams gives Star Trek its far-left final frontier
A thirty-second-century rallying cry for the twenty-first-century Democratic Party
Thursday
Don’t cancel Russian culture
There’s all the difference in the world between Putin and Tchaikovsky
Tuesday
William Hurt — a life in two acts
His life and work were more than Marvel movies
Sunday
On receiving books in the mail
E-commerce is great for readers, but there’s no wrong way to buy books
Friday
Anyone but Madonna should make the Madonna movie
An upcoming biopic is more likely to be a deeply embarrassing coda to a great career, rather than a triumphant eulogy
Wednesday
Why does Hollywood ruin literature’s best characters?
What Kenneth Branagh has done to Poirot borders on literary mutiny
Monday
When actors become politicians
Despite the professions’ similarities, they have a mixed record
Sunday
How Arvo Pärt can help us through Lent
The innovative modern composer does not abandon hierarchy, but acknowledges its inescapability
Wednesday
Will the real Robert Pattinson please stand up?
The moody actor isn’t an indie innovator or a Hollywood star, but a mix of both
Tuesday
Ilya Kaminsky’s poetry in a time of war
Those attacking the Ukrainian-American poet for making light of crisis are misreading him
Sunday
Pop music isn’t getting better — and that’s okay
It’s for dancing and working out, not making some great artistic statement
Wednesday
The last stand for intelligent films?
The Christopher Nolan picture ‘Oppenheimer’ is going to be a big deal. Could it even save the movies?
Sunday
Sibelius speaks
A new recording of a rare piece by Jean Sibelius is out
