Sensation seeking
The Seagull reviewed
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Thursday
It’s not just the moon landings. Everywhere, the PC brigade is rewriting history
I remember the moon landing very well. I was nine years old. I can remember too my sense of outrage and disillusion. ‘This is a blatant violation of the moon’s dignity and sovereignty,’ I told my parents, as the astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong attempted to secure the US flag to the lunar surface. … Read more
Monday
Hank Mobley, the greatest sax player you never heard
The forgotten genius of Blue Note was a prince among players, but he died a pauper
Sunday
Any storm in a port
The Bookshop reviewed
Thursday
Millennials aren’t taking offence. They’re hunting for victims
The noble defence of an infinitely multiplying list of ‘marginalised groups’ is a predatory movement
Monday
The Precisionist Impulse: in search of the first American art movement
The group melded the materialism of the urban landscape with what was idealistic and essentially Romantic about the city
Saturday
Handling Pooh with kid gloves
Christopher Robin reviewed
Thursday
Stop calling me ‘a privileged white man’ – I’m more than that
There’s only one thing you can’t be in our pluralistic society, and that’s just you
Jimmy Page is a Capricorn – that says it all
Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography by Chris Salewicz reviewed
Tuesday
Where did all the Chippendales go?
Time to buy brown
Monday
Life ‘n’ Arts podcast: celebrating American audacity with William Giraldi
William Giraldi, author of the novels Busy Monsters and Hold the Dark ahead of publishing his first collection of essays,
The backlash against Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman leads towards a divided America
David Duke would be proud of Boots Riley ’s argument
Friday
The poetry of Tommy Robinson
They said politics couldn’t get verse, but now it has…
Thursday
V.S. Naipaul’s gentle side
The last week of the celebrated and controversial author
Only Aretha Franklin had the soul power to summon the spirit at will
The Queen of Soul is dead — there is no plausible heir.
Tuesday
Azealia Banks is telling the truth
Online life is no life at all
Thursday
Thank God for the return of the generation gap in pop
Pop was invented for teenagers, and it’s wholly appropriate that it should have outposts that are completely remote to me.
Thursday
Did Ed Balls mean to make a documentary on the joys of Trump’s America?
The former British Shadow Chancellor’s new documentary is more favourable of Trumpsters than anyone at the BBC could have ever imagined.
The artist who breathes Technicolor life into historic photographs
‘My goal is to build a bridge between the present and the past.’