The Lodger, dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1927. Silent Hitchcock Retrospective, Harvard Film Archive, 2020. I have to confess that my interest...

Oil on canvas, 1904, by Lovis Corinth (1858 – 1925) The German artist Lovis Corinth was later to become another victim of Nazi censorship...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andris Nelsons, Symphony Hall, Boston, January 28, 2020 1. You take the Number One bus to...

The Souvenir, dir. Joanna Hogg, 2019 Honor Swinton Byrne is Julie, a young sensitive woman raised in a loving and supportive middle-upper...

Oil on canvas, 1911, by Franz Marc (1880 – 1916) There is an entire gallery at the Fogg Museum which is designated to “Art in Germany...

The Lighthouse, dir. Robert Eggers, 2019 As a psychological thriller, The Lighthouse crawls under your skin in ways many other films in...

Oil on Canvas, 1929, by Charles Sheeler (1883 - 1965) I keep coming back to this painting, hanging in the modernist section of the...

Cats, by Andrew Lloyd-Webber and T.S. Eliot, dir. Trevor Nunn, Citizen Bank Opera House, Boston, 2020 There is no doubt about it that a...

Midsommar, dir. Ari Aster, 2019 Hereditary, Aster's previous film, impressed me for its fine sense of characterisation and for what I...

The Farewell, dir. Lulu Wang, 2019 Lulu Wang's screenplay is perhaps one of the most impeccably crafted pieces of writing I have come...

Lithograph on off-white wove paper, 1829, by Eugène Delacroix (1798 – 1863) I had heard of Delacroix mainly as one of the master painters...

Dracula, devised by Mark Gatiss & Steven Moffat, 2019 Gatiss and Moffat's treatment of Conan-Doyle's Sherlock Holmes legacy always...

Find Me, by Andre Aciman, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019 Personally I would love to be a character in an Aciman novel. For one, his...

Oil on canvas, 1876, by James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1834 – 1903) This dark, brooding, diffuse, near monochromatic canvas may seem an...

Daniel Lazokovich, violinist What right does an 18-year old, obviously comparatively inexperienced to fellow much older and seasoned...

In Fabric, dir. Peter Strictland, 2019 On first viewing, it's tempting to sum up In Fabric as a ludicrous indulgence of horror-noir...

JoJo Rabbit, dir. Taika Waititi, 2019 The first thing to say is that it's stupidly outrageous that a 10 year old kid can give such a...

Yuja Wang, Pianist Yuja has always been known as much for her daring stage attire as her brilliance as a virtuoso. Indeed, when she took...

Serotonin, by Michel Houellebecq, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019 While thoroughly un-PC to admit to this nowadays, I have to declare I'm a...

Bed Oak and pine veneered with mahogany; Ebonized pine; patinated bronze; gilded metal; modern upholstery, c. 1810, probably by Thomas...