Arts

Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department is good enough, but there’s no greatness

How many studio albums has Taylor Swift released to date? Take our arts and culture quiz

Abigail’s combination of vampire plus ballerina makes it critic proof

Allman Brothers Band co-founder and legendary guitarist Dickey Betts dies at 80

Why adventurous moviegoers need to make time for Bertrand Bonello and Radu Jude this weekend

Five things to watch this weekend: X-Men ′97 saves Marvel while Jay Baruchel saves Canada, and maybe the world

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau embraces uncertainty in new memoir, Closer Together

Six must-watch films at Hot Docs 2024

Hot Docs 2024: Everything you need to know to attend the festival in Toronto

Bizarro comedy Sasquatch Sunset tries to big-foot its way into your heart

Irena’s Vow labours to rise above Holocaust clichés

Ahead of Toronto show, Fran Lebowitz talks Trump, taxes and the difficulty of modern-day satire

George McWhirter sole Canadian shortlisted for Griffin Poetry Prize

In Ripley, Andrew Scott’s superpower is on full display

In new memoir, RuPaul skips the camp for a clear-eyed look back at his pre-Drag Race life

As director of Holocaust drama Irena’s Vow, Louise Archambault was just the transmitter: ‘It was going to be that way, or I wasn’t going to do it’

Opening Night, Rufus Wainwright’s divisive new musical, closing early in London

Artist and curators refuse to open Israel pavilion at Venice Biennale until ceasefire, hostage deal

More than Mickey Mouse: Diego Matamoros on playing Walt Disney and the state of live theatre

National Canadian Film Day to feature 1,000 screenings of homegrown movies

At nail-biting CinemaCon, the future of Hollywood teeters on the edge of a cliff

Beyoncé is bringing her fans of colour to country music. Will they be welcomed in?

Even before the release of the federal budget, Ottawa’s pro-housing agenda is changing the country

Mad Madge is a rollicking, no-holds-barred ahistorical romp that aims for a blazing world of glory

Ottawa museum caught between coroner’s office, Information Commissioner on release of documents

Robert MacNeil, creator and first anchor of PBS ‘NewsHour’ nightly newscast, dies at 93

Several writers decline recognition from PEN America in protest over its Israel-Hamas war stance

Books on artificial intelligence, space law shortlisted for Donner Prize

Housekeeping for Beginners shows a family that won’t be contained by convention

Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill spotlights a mostly-forgotten songwriter

Biography on Manitoba’s first Indigenous premier John Norquay offers a history lesson

What year was the first comic featuring Superman published? Take our arts and culture quiz

In Flames tells a ghost story where men harass women from beyond the grave

Food, Inc. 2 follows the formula of its predecessor, perhaps too closely

Russian opposition politician Navalny wrote memoir before death, says widow

Canada in top three countries for music exports on Spotify, but some hit artists may not qualify as Canadian

How HBO’s The Sympathizer ended up with a showrunner with two faces: Don McKellar and Park Chan-wook

McNally Robinson is an indie bookstore that figured it out: Focus on books

Five things to watch this weekend: The Sympathizer lands on Crave and The Zone of Interest comes to Prime

Fareed Zakaria’s Age of Revolutions reminds readers that upheaval is one of earth’s greatest constants

Warner Bros. teases Joker sequel, Beetlejuice 2 and more at CinemaCon