reviews an exhibition in a private gallery: Joel Meyerowitz
Since the 1960s, Joel Meyerowitz (b.1938) has been one of the foremost photographic chroniclers of American life, capturing the streets, landscapes and ephemera of his...
Review of Book: Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker
This “terrific” memoir should have been titled A History of Jarvis in 100 Objects, Clearing out the attic of his London house, the former lead...
Three sailing adventures from British shores
A whelk boat in NorfolkThe north Norfolk coast is a “heartswelling” region of vast, widescreen skies and shifting horizontals, and there can be few better...
Helen Glover and Heather Stanning reunite to celebrate ten years
It is not only the searing temperatures that will make the summer of 2022 memorable for best friends Helen Glover and Heather Stanning, as they...
Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
by Tim Miller “Too often, when straining to put some daylight between themselves and the Trump administration, regretful Republicans have reached for elaborate excuses and...
American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams
The National Gallery’s new Robert Adams retrospective is “one of the most moving and important exhibitions at the museum in a long time,” “American Silence,”...
IN LAS VEGAS FOR A SECRET CEREMONY JENNIFER LOPEZ AND BEN AFFLECK GET MARRIED
J-Lo became Mrs Jennifer Lynn Affleck last week in a love story denouement even the best Hollywood scriptwriters couldn’t have come up with. Twenty years...
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Miranda Seymour’s “slyly compelling” biography of the novelist Jean Rhys is “shot through with madness,” “Half its cast are half crazy”— Rhys included—and “most of...
PAOLA MARZOTTO
BEATRICE BORROMEO’S MOTHER WELCOMES US TO LADY OF THE NIGHT, HER PARADISE IN PUNTA DEL ESTE Paola Marzotto is a fascinating woman, one who combines...
Why Staples keeps singing
Mavis Staples is determined to keep singing, The gospel icon, 83, grew up singing with her family ensemble, the Staple Singers, and in recent decades...
Johnson’s shades of ambivalence
Dakota Johnson has very mixed feelings about her breakout movie, said Britt Hennemuth in Vanity Fair. The daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith,...
A hidden Van Gogh self-portrait
Researchers at the National Galleries of Scotland have discovered what is almost certainly “a previously unknown self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh”, A routine X-ray scan...
A classic 1990s cathedral
England’s modern cathedrals tend to be “creations of the eras in which they were conceived”, – from the Gothic revivalism of Liverpool’s Edwardian cathedral to...
Cycling slowly around the Mani Peninsula
A mountainous region in the far south of Greece, the Mani Peninsula has had a “world’s edge” reputation since the earliest days of civilisation. One...
Zelensky: A Biography by Serhii Rudenko
When, on New Year’s Eve 2018, Volodymyr Zelensky “interrupted his own show” to announce on national television that he was standing as Ukraine’s president, “many...
Exhibition of the week Vivian Maier: Anthology
This show marks the first time that the photography of Vivian Maier has ever been shown in the UK, said Sarah Kent on The Arts...