Why do we raise monuments? Why do we tear them down? These questions hover over MONUMENTS, now on view at Los Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art and the Brick. The premise is straightforward enough: gather the remains of America’s shattered sculptural conscience – decommissioned Confederate statues and their graffiti-marred plinths – and display them alongside
Amid the many disappointments and commercial flops the music industry saw this year, perhaps the most egregious was the complete failure of Arcade Fire’s album Pink Elephant. The failure represents not merely the probable end of the band, but also the death of Obama-era rock. Pink Elephant received dismal reviews and didn’t even chart on the Billboard
For all the billions Taylor Swift has made from guiding her career into carefully delineated “eras,” it was Bob Dylan who pioneered this career path. With practically every new album, Dylan traded one persona for another. There’s the folkie hobo of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, the pill-popping beat poet of Blonde on Blonde, the cleaned-up country crooner
This World of Tomorrow is a waste of time travel
Remember him for his great works, not his horrific end
In the second act of Liberation the main cast quietly, and without fuss, starts to undress. By the time the lights go up, all six women are naked. In this masterful play by Bess Wohl, the moment does not feel shocking or gratuitous but somehow comforting. In 1970s Ohio, a group of women meet weekly
Many years ago, and well retired, I was working in my study at home when the phone rang and a voice said, “This is Tom Stoppard. David West put me onto you.” David was the professor of Latin at Newcastle University and it emerged that Tom used him when he had queries about Latin, but
Give him no second chances
Hollywood might be in trouble, but the director isn’t
The sale would create a monopoly the likes of which has never been seen before in the film industry
We should hope so
A durable national identity cannot be asserted into being
Truth to tell, surrealism lent itself to individuals who were inherently off-the-beam
Creativity in proximity to genius without its obligations
Monet also captured another element of the open air: smog
Train Dreams, often hailed as a ‘miniature masterpiece,’ is not a story of defeat
The fifth season is full of self-referential excess, but it’s also an example of great homage
Anthology 4 makes the extraordinary band seem ordinary
The spy learned his final lesson in No Time to Die
Jacob Elordi might well be about to capture Heathcliff’s mixture of brutality and magnetism
He skillfully suggests what a fascinatingly complex character Herman Göring was
Joachim Trier’s film shows us what compassion is
Sleuths rediscovered a stolen painting, galvanizing efforts to uncover even more
His new exhibition at the Guggenheim is a sour birthday party
The Met’s exhibition shows that the artist tried to destroy everything human about himself
Apple’s new paean to the man certainly suggests as much
Masquerade honors and innovates the legacy of Phantom of the Opera
Glen Powell is great, but this movie feels distinctly dated
Apple has finally got its act together when it comes to original content
