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But if Caillebotte was daring in his subject matter, he was hardly as adventurous in his approach, said Holland Cotter in The New York Times. Not for him the shimmering surfaces of Monet: Instead of painting in the open air, Caillebotte worked from preliminary drawings and sketches, “a labor-intensive method that the artists who would come to be called impressionists were leaving behind in favor of spontaneity.” His most daring legacy may be the strange angles from which he views his subjects. “Odd angles, daringly modern,” show dinner scenes from the head of a table or landscapes from on high. “The ultimate effect of his X-ray examinations,” though, is to remove some of the magic from Paris, making it seem no longer the City of Light but a “precision-tooled machine, stripped of romantic atmosphere.”
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Jaguar Land Rover’s cyber bailoutTalking Point Should the government do more to protect business from the ‘cyber shockwave’?
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Russia: already at war with Europe?Talking Point As Kremlin begins ‘cranking up attacks’ on Ukraine’s European allies, questions about future action remain unanswered
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Crossword: October 5, 2025The Week's daily crossword puzzle
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If/Thenfeature Tony-winning Idina Menzel “looks and sounds sensational” in a role tailored to her talents.
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Rocky
feature It’s a wonder that this Rocky ever reaches the top of the steps.
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Love and Information
feature Leave it to Caryl Churchill to create a play that “so ingeniously mirrors our age of the splintered attention span.”
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The Bridges of Madison County
feature Jason Robert Brown’s “richly melodic” score is “one of Broadway’s best in the last decade.”
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Outside Mullingar
feature John Patrick Shanley’s “charmer of a play” isn’t for cynics.
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The Night Alive
feature Conor McPherson “has a singular gift for making the ordinary glow with an extra dimension.”
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No Man’s Land
feature The futility of all conversation has been, paradoxically, the subject of “some of the best dialogue ever written.”
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The Commons of Pensacola
feature Stage and screen actress Amanda Peet's playwriting debut is a “witty and affecting” domestic drama.