January 2022


Book Review December 29, 2021

Style and substance

Réginald-Jérôme de Mans evokes a Parisian world of glittering elegance

Jacob Heilbrunn

Books December 29, 2021

Stacking up

Substack gives authors an opportunity to take back control of their own careers and destinies

Alexander Larman

Exhibitions December 29, 2021

Kandinsky’s colors

Kandinsky is getting spun up the Guggenheim’s spiral

Mario Naves

Music December 29, 2021

Wynton’s works

Wynton Marsalis has not allowed tradition to become self-serving traditionalism

Jacob Heilbrunn

Exhibitions December 29, 2021

How did Walt Disney learn from Ancien Régime decoration?

Inspiring Walt Disney makes the case that Disney’s studio functioned in a similar way to an eighteenth-century decorative art manufactory

Jane Coombs

Theater December 29, 2021

Truth in Duluth

Girl from the North Country is a delight as pure as birdsong

Robert S. Erickson

Film December 29, 2021

Jake Gyllenhaal is guilty

He carries his latest film and keeps it from going off the rails

Alex Perez

Film December 29, 2021

Richard Lester at ninety

He lent ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ the spirit of untamed frivolity

Peter Tonguette

Podcasts December 29, 2021

Carry that weight

Not just women’s health but sexual health in general has been understudied by the medical community for a long time

Jessa Crispin