Arts and Culture

The actual stand-up in Netflix's new dramedy is rarely as funny as it is supposed to be, but the characters are so vivid it barely matters

Ruth Wilson is a serious actor, but this is a singularly boring piece of theatre

In Testament, an exhibition at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, contemporary artists have set about ripping up the traditional concept of statues

In solidarity with Ukraine, the fashion world has adopted the country’s colours into its spring wardrobe. But it’s far from the first time that couture and politics have gone hand in hand

With more than 100m albums sold, the Anglo-Italian could afford to be sanguine about critical coolness towards his work

Good borscht cannot be cooked quickly - so if you don’t have time now, save this recipe until you have enough

Restrictions on freedom of movement after Brexit have left British competitive cyclists struggling to gain the experience they need to make it

PM Mark Rutte has apologised for atrocities in Indonesia, but some are still nostalgic for days of empire

Not for the first time in recent history, Barcelona is playing beautifully while living on bank loans that almost defy financial gravity

Our columnist explains why the world is prejudice towards some of the country's dishes, except for their bread

Volodymyr Zelensky has taken us to a new reality which resembles our past more than our future

Online events have kept us going during Covid, but nothing can replace the real thing

Peter The Great and Nicholas II were part of a centuries-long effort to suppress the language

The Norwegian singer's new album is an undeniably dreamlike, immersive experience

A superb new film may be disowned by its director – because it is set in Russia

The trailblazing artist has joined the ranks of the few artists who have enough work to more than fill two major European shows at the same time

A Netflix biopic of the woman considered Poland's Marilyn Monroe fails to delve in any satisfying way into the interesting story it has to tell

Reasonably daring when first performed in 2009, Mike Bartlett's Cock now feels all mouth and no trousers

Lili Damita began her life as a revue star, ended it as a broken-hearted recluse and married Errol Flynn in between

How a disastrously expensive baseball signing gave his name to a new form of aleatoric art

PETER TRUDGILL on the schools that took children away from their homes and forced them to abandon their own language and practices

Pour yourself a drink and learn how a Ukrainian cocktail maker is using his brand to fundraise for humanitarian work in his home country

Paris St Germain's superstar project has failed and the fans are turning their fire on their expensive acquisitions

Too many Russians have fallen for Putin’s propaganda over Ukraine. It won’t stop his regime falling apart – but that could take years

Largely forgotten in his own country, Murray Head remains an adoptive hero in France

The Godfather was hailed as a masterpiece from when it first aired 1972. And, it still is today

If we cut off Russian musicians indiscriminately, are we cutting off their right to the free speech over which this battle is essentially being fought?

A new exhibition in Milan shows us the art affluent Europeans would have seen on that 17th- and 18th-century rite of passage, the Grand Tour

A former journalist’s debut novel explores our fascination with the partners of dictators

The Worst Person in the World city's renaissance

The German version of Netflix's hit makeover series looks cheaper and more like a world I can recognise, says MEGAN NOLAN

The National's staging of Small Island shows a theatre that has now totally lost its way