Culture

The Queen’s Gambit overcomes its hackneyed ‘girl power’ message

It’s a real shame the Christmas flexis have not had a proper, all-on-one album release

If you’re hoping for a show that requires your blanket be used to cover your eyes, skip this one

Is the Baltimore Museum of Art exploiting the COVID-19 crisis to sell off major modern paintings?

To the Lake is the right kind of Russian interference

‘Shock’, from the French ‘choque’, began as the word for a collision of armies

The automobile’s artifice is its art, but it is still an art of artifice

Félix Fénéon, terrorist and connoisseur

Adults have chosen to understand the world through the prism of superheroes, wizards and Jedi knights

Several other Thirties buildings from American firms survive in west London

Farewell to the father of reggae

Notes on a New Orleans professor

The return of the Karate Kid

The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910 by Stephen Johnson reviewed

While others have postured, Paul Resika has kept on painting

Take hope, ye who enter here

What are the major artworks of the Trump years?

In country, Down Under

Renaissance and Baroque Art: Selected Essays by Leo Steinberg reviewed

How the Seventies are taking us back to their future

His tale is not a ‘let’s hold hands and sing for liberty’ triumph. It’s a violent, gritty and gruesome affair

When real members of the DGSE saw the first season, they gave it a standing ovation

Singer, patriot and pioneer of social distancing, Morrissey is once again a star

After the waiting, the barbarians arrive

The family that plays together…

The sensible center drives the woke to the edge of reason

How we can reckon with the past without destroying it

A brutal backstory for HBO’s decadent detective