The Critics
Rock as ritual
Just as Taylor has nailed the emotional lexicon of her people, Finn has nailed it for his
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
Off with the fairies
Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked
Poor old Carmen
This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times