The Critics

Was this Chinese painter mad?

His style and eccentric life were to prove highly influential to younger artists

The schools of hard knocks

Many boys suffered, but some carried their misery into the world of work

Has Trump killed the arts centre?

Scrap the arts centre and restore primacy to the people making art

Cate and cast soar in The Seagull

Chekhov’s masterpiece tragicomedy re-tooled

A twisting, timely cyber-thriller

Insightful conversations from Netflix’s new political conspiracy drama

Art for cash’s sake

How to buy and sell at a profit

Slain Jane

Vanderlyn’s incendiary painting of British perfidy and indigenous brutality

This Netflix hit is a super-tense treat

A conspiracy thriller that steps deeps inside a fictional mafia whose tentacles reach far into the state

This show has said it all before

Not all bad, but the tone is too breezy

Stormy weather at the climate talks

Werner Herzog shows the delegates the stars above the rainforest