Adrian Horton

Cincinnati, New York

Arts Writer at The Guardian

arts writer, @GuardianUS

Articles

Maren Morris: ‘I never said I’m leaving country music’

4 days ago | theguardian.com | Adrian Horton

The year 2023 was a tough one for Maren Morris. The country singer, then 33, reached the end of her tour for her third studio album, Humble Quest, and the end of her rope with the conservative politics of country music industry. Her marriage to fellow country singer-songwriter Ryan Hurd, with whom she shares a young son, fell apart.
Pope Leo XIV watched Conclave movie to prepare, brother says

6 days ago | theguardian.com | Adrian Horton

Vatican watchers weren’t the only ones consulting the movie Conclave before the pivotal election of a new pope. The new pontiff himself – Cardinal , who took the name Leo XIV – watched the 2024 movie dramatizing the Vatican’s selection process ahead of the sequestration of cardinals that chose him to lead the Catholic church, according to his older brother.
Djo review - Joe Keery mixes genres in an endearing, if uneven, Brooklyn set

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Adrian Horton

By now, Djo is not a secret. The psychedelic electro-pop project led by Joe Keery, once an IYKYK solo bedroom-production artist, has reached the mainstream, making the festival circuit at Laneway, Coachella and Glastonbury.
Jon Voight, inspiration on Trump’s film tariffs, speaks out: ‘Something has to be done’

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Adrian Horton

Jon Voight, the actor who inspired Donald Trump’s surprise statement about placing a 100% tariff on foreign-made films, has given his first interview on the supposed plan to “give people back their dignity and their jobs”. “Something has to be done, and it’s way past time,” the 86-year-old actor told Variety while he was, according to the magazine, “driving through what sounded like a car wash”.
‘Still an open wound’: damning docuseries revisits Vietnam war 50 years on

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Adrian Horton

This Wednesday, 30 April, marks a full half century since the fall of Saigon. The takeover of the South Vietnamese capital, renamed Ho Chi Minh City, by North Vietnamese forces reunited a country riven by a decades-long civil war that killed more than 3 million civilians – a triumph of one vision of Vietnam’s future at the violent expense of another, with many caught perilously in between.
Desperate Housewives spin-off Wisteria Lane in development

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Adrian Horton

The drama on Wisteria Lane looks set to continue with a new iteration of hit ABC show Desperate Housewives in development. The show is scheduled at Onyx Collective, with Kerry Washington to executive produce along with Pilar Savone and Natalie Chaidez. The latter, who recently worked on The Flight Attendant, will also write the spin-off series, currently titled Wisteria Lane.
Desperate Housewives spin-off Wisteria Lane in development

2 weeks ago | aol.co.uk | Adrian Horton

The drama on Wisteria Lane looks set to continue with a new iteration of the hit ABC show Desperate Housewives in development. The show is scheduled at Onyx Collective, with Kerry Washington to executive-produce along with Pilar Savone and Natalie Chaidez. The latter, who recently worked on The Flight Attendant, will also write the spin-off series, currently titled Wisteria Lane.
Goodbye, Skype. I’ll never forget you.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Adrian Horton

I doubt many people are mourning the demise of Skype. The sky-blue platform that revolutionized the video call, the medium for long-distance relationships in the early 2010s, had not been relevant for almost a decade when Microsoft announced its impending death. My own relationship with Skype’s clunky tangle of video, voice and chat peaked in 2011 – the same year Microsoft purchased it for a headline-making $8.5bn, only to let it wither in the shadow of professionalized, less-pixelated options.
Just in Time review - Bobby Darin musical is light on detail but big on charm

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Adrian Horton

It is more than likely that Jonathan Groff, the star of the new Broadway show Just in Time, has more name recognition in today’s New York than Bobby Darin, the midcentury singer whom he plays in this jukebox bio-musical, of sorts.
Ai Weiwei installation to launch New York City social justice art program

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Adrian Horton

Ai Weiwei is returning to New York with a new installation on Roosevelt Island. The Four Freedoms Park Conservancy announced on Thursday that it had commissioned the Chinese contemporary artist to help launch a new public art initiative in September. The new program, titled Art X Freedom, will invite artists to make site-specific projects that “interrogate issues of social justice and freedom”, according to a press release.