Arts
Met with disappointment: a quiet season for postmodern New York
Manhattan’s cultural landscape faces more tough times ahead with the cancellation of the Met’s 2020/2021 season
The silence of the arts
Why have the arts not strained at the bonds laid upon them in the way earthier pursuits and pleasures have?
Waiting for – anything
Krapp’s last tape might these days be a collection of WhatsApps and stored Instagram images, muses Anne McElvoy
Is artistic nepotism an evil – or a necessity?
Nepotism in the arts is very much alive and here to stay
Commoner with the divine touch
Raphael, as dedicated a lover as he was a painter, died at 37 at the height of his powers and fame, illustrates Michael Prodger
A grim chorus of philistines
Rishi’s £1.57 Billion handout to the arts sector is the last good news it’ll ever hear, says Robert Thicknesse
How I discovered Germany
Daniel Johnson on how he found a lost love for the Germans
Is this the end of cinemagoing as we know it?
Will compulsory face-masks, social-distancing and an air of paranoia drive audiences to online streaming once and for all?
Lana Del Rey’s poetic dream
The news is bad, but on Del Rey’s watch the poetry is sometimes pretty good, and getting better
Ripley returns
Rejoice, Ripley is back! But why are we so drawn to Patricia Highsmith’s anti-hero?
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
Taking on the right-on with cold, hard facts
A practical manual for anyone who has no choice but to sit on committees with idealistic intellectuals
The joy of pets
Pet ownership is one of life’s simple pleasures, but it also lifts the soul
Less than an animal?
It is surely wrong that animal foetuses enjoy more protection under the law than human ones
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
The scandal of screens
Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side
Hero of the hour
Giles Watling asked the question that was on nobody’s lips, as he rushed to the Prime Minister’s rescue
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
Shrimp for breakfast in Sapporo
A culinary adventure with Japan’s finest seafood
