Culture

In the Eighties, Japan had prosperity, optimism, loads of bizarre porn and the solace of technological gadgetry

Poor Chet Baker. He really was born to be blue

There probably is something here for everyone. But maybe only one thing

One hundred years on from the seminal Chaplin flick

Frederic Raphael wrote the script for Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. Now he writes a personal letter to the director’s shade

Whatever happened to the heroes?

The Met has cleaned up its act

As he gets older, Barenboim has become more and more keen on recording Beethoven sonatas in front of audiences

The storyline is Jane Austen with all the plot and nuance and character sophistication removed

It’s like rock ’n’ roll never happened

Life is still a cabaret

An artist with the soul of a pirate

Female antiheroines — at last

Eighty years ago, Bugs Bunny first launched himself on an unsuspecting Elmer J. Fudd

’Tis the season for collectible vinyl

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