FROM THE MAGAZINE

February 2021

Exhibitions

Old Masters, new look

The Met has cleaned up its act

By Andrew L. Shea

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Music

Confessions of a hype artist

Where there’s pop, there’s hype — and there’s nothing wrong with that

By Luke Haines

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Film

The Venus de Marlene

Dietrich is a monument of Western culture

By Tanjil Rashid

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Music

About Schmidt

Franz Schmidt spent his career trying to escape the suburbs of central European music

By Richard Bratby

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Books

Alison Lurie, 1926-2020

In memory of a friend

By Elisa Segrave

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Music

The joy of listening to old pianists

As he gets older, Barenboim has become more and more keen on recording Beethoven sonatas in front of audiences

By Damian Thompson

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Music Review

Songs of freedom

Remain unmoved to the songs on Lifeline and you’re made of much sterner stuff

By Jacob Heilbrunn

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Books

City of gold

Peter Ackroyd’s London pride

By Sinclair McKay

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Podcasts

Pod-ology

You will find yourself coming back to this podcast like a favorite book

By Emily Ferguson

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Books

Oracles of the Sybille

Sybille Bedford: A Life by Selina Hastings reviewed

By David Pryce-Jones

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Book Review

Make the audience happy

Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris reviewed

By Gavin Smith

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Television

Bridgerton to nowhere

The storyline is Jane Austen with all the plot and nuance and character sophistication removed

By James Delingpole

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Books

The travels of Robert D. Kaplan

How an American outsider wrote the history of our future

By David Patrikarakos

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