arts in review

‘Dear Evan Hansen,” the screen version of the acclaimed Broadway musical, draws its dramatic energy from the anguish of its young hero, a high-school senior who suffers from a severe anxiety disorder. Painfully lonely and…

As the director and star of “Cry Macho,” in theaters and on HBO Max, Clint Eastwood sends himself on a picaresque journey through rural Mexico in 1979. He plays Mike Milo, a washed-up rodeo star who accepts a job from his former…

Peter the Great took four bottles to bed with him each night. Alexander II was so paranoid that the company Roederer had to create its transparent bottle, so the czar could check for impurities (or poison). It was the…

The good news about the Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect” is that its star, Jennifer Hudson —whose voice is usually the musical version of the U.S. Women’s Gymnastics Team…

On Spotify there’s a user-created playlist called “The Great Jack Antonoff Collection,” which gathers songs the 37-year-old songwriter-musician—best known for his work with Taylor Swift, Lorde and Lana Del Rey—has…

Electronic music duo Darkside sounds very of-this-moment, but its roots can be traced back for at least a half-century. The band comprises 31-year-old Nicolás Jaar primarily on vocals and electronics and…

‘The New Woman Behind the Camera” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art covers a lot of ground. More than 120 photographers from more than 20 countries are enlisted to support the thesis that between the 1920s and 1940s female photographers, in…

A savvy send-up of classic Broadway, “Schmigadoon!” is probably the best time one can have with one’s TV at the moment. But it also solves the “problem” of musicals themselves. “People don’t just burst into song in…

Early in Morgan Neville’s enthralling and unsettling “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain,” a documentary feature playing in theaters, the filmmaker is heard speaking softly behind the camera. Gossip isn’t what he’s after,…

About 4,500 years ago, an image of the Sumerian storm god Ningirsu was engraved on a silver vessel now on view in the Getty Villa Museum exhibition “Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins.” He is, we see, a lion-headed eagle, a master of the…