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Jasper Johns, an art-world darling for decades, is getting a massive museum retrospective
Another Round reviewed
The masterpieces of Titian’s old age have come to Boston
The movie humanizes the camo-hat and cutoff shirt-wearing segment of America while still telling an entertaining story
His schtick is wearing thin
The CCP now permits minors just three hours of gaming a week
The Rolling Stones drummer was one-of-a-kind
Arbuckle was an accidental pioneer of cancel culture
The people have a right to know what’s on Boris’s wall
Perry Mason personified the country that won World War Two and was enjoying well-deserved prosperity
All Light, Everywhere reviewed
Is the Scarlett Johansson lawsuit Disney’s latest unforced error?
Black Widow, Luca and Nomadland are films for decaffeinated protesters
Halston made American sportswear as chic as anything Paris couture houses were turning out
Björn Andrésen is now tall and painfully thin with long silver hair and a matching beard that belong on Merlin
Instead of examining the dictators individually, How to Become a Tyrant explores their careers thematically
No one played the blues like Mike Bloomfield
I Care a Lot reviewed
Activist demands will destroy museums — and make us all poorer
I hope the banjoist is now free to reveal publicly how the industry operates these days
Do today’s players care if orcs are racist?
The Woman in the Window reviewed
Why does no one talk about how most artistic careers end in failure?
New Woman Behind the Camera brings together the whimsical and the confrontational to show how modernism shaped photography
Dismissed as a dime-store Shostakovich, then praised as a major modern composer
The enduring popularity of the Vacation series reflects not just the American appetite for travel, but also that old American virtue of gung-ho optimism
Stone Cold was foul-mouthed, sadistic and mean — and people loved him
A forthcoming George Harrison box set will sell for $1,000. Do we still love the Beatles enough to care?
A lot of Inside is not even attempting to be funny