On holiday with Goya
Spending a few days with the artist famous for his brooding ‘black paintings’ was not something I was sure I’d enjoy
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Friday
Wednesday
Elio and the decline of Pixar
What explains the studio’s latest flop?
Diddy is finished
He avoided the most-serious charges, but his image will never recover
Tuesday
The wildly misguided My Oxford Year
This looks to be one of the most clueless and misjudged attempts at romantic comedy-drama ever put on screen
Who could be Mount Rushmore’s fifth head?
When the aliens land in thousands of years, or sometime around Christmas of this year, we want them to think: these were their gods
Sabrina Carpenter mainstreams cutesy violence towards women
The singer changed her album cover that suggested ‘I like being roughed up in the bedroom’
Thursday
F1 is forgettable, but a lot of fun
Be prepared to forget virtually everything apart from the sheer sensation of being in an F1 race car traveling very, very fast indeed
Don’t mourn the death of TV
America is better for having largely abandoned television
Thursday
28 Years Later is the movie of the summer
In a summer full of witless, unnecessary sequels and remakes, 28 Years Later is the real thing
Monday
The Tony Awards were surprisingly safe and unexciting
The ceremony went two steps forward and one step backwards
Figures emerge like ghosts from Antonia Showering’s canvases
The hues she’s employed are bodily, yet transcend into a surreal haze
Wednesday
Patti LuPone is a diva – not a racist
Kecia Lewis called LuPone’s noise complaint a ‘racial microaggression’
Tuesday
Why does Irish art avoid the Troubles?
There is something truly pathological about the taboo given that Irish art is awash with politics
Dead Outlaw is sharp-witted and irreverent
An irreverent musical about the ‘life’ of a mysterious dead body forces us to confront death
Monday
Mountainhead gets nowhere near the polished vitriol of Succession
You’re moderately engaged by the characters’ awfulness, but it is only a passing diversion
Wednesday
What future awaits the new Harry Potter stars?
The trio have taken on perhaps the most anticipated, and potentially problematic, roles on television
Thursday
In Andor, Tony Gilroy showed us the emotional power of Star Wars
This is what happens when you wrest a galaxy away from the compelled corporate matriarchy to just tell a great story
Wednesday
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning isn’t very good
This series has raised the bar so high for action filmmaking that its faults seem all the more egregious
Kanye West and Arcade Fire: a tale of two cancellations
The idea that someone who has fallen foul of the self-styled moral majority yet can return with genuinely incendiary work remains fascinating
Tuesday
Charles Ives was a composer before his time
He can be remembered as a time-traveler through American music whose presence changed everything
