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Josh Gosfield’s Sketchbook

A “Russian Proust”?

Gina Lollobrigida

Lukas Dhont

In an interview, the young director discusses his film Close, Belgium’s submission to the Academy Awards, which has earned comparisons to François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows

Bach Re-Boxed

Alisa Weilerstein, cellist in excelsis, premieres an immense new collage that incorporates, in their entirety, the master’s six suites for her instrument

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

The Postmodernist and the Drowning Man

For Janet Malcolm, there was no ultimate truth—only endless interpretation. Except when her own credibility was on the line

When a Doctor Becomes a Patient

Murder, They Wrote

This month, mystery books ranging from the combustible to the slow burn offer something for every type

The World According to Hockney

At 85, the acclaimed English artist is on trend, launching an immersive exhibition in London that uses virtual reality to show new, rarely seen, and much-lauded works

Beyond the Grave

Ahead of his new solo show, the artist Scott Covert discusses his artistic breakthrough and sneaking into cemeteries to create his paintings

Re-Inventing Anna?

House arrest be damned! Notorious fraudster Anna Delvey joins the podcast to share her side of her incredible story

What a Piece of Work

Sure, I can write you a tell-all full of objective facts

From “Mini-Documentaries” to Major Ones

Success, for Daniel Roher, is bittersweet. While he’s winning praise and awards for Navalny, the subject of his inspiring documentary is in a Siberian gulag

Fifty Shades of Gropius

His great-uncle designed Berlin’s Gropius Bau, and he studied alongside Mies van der Rohe. Then he started Bauhaus. An illustrated biography tells the many-layered story of Walter Gropius

Irresistible Force, Immoveable Object

From Glyndebourne, Mozart’s Orientalist fantasy The Abduction from the Seraglio

The Plot Thickens

Notes from Underground

James Fox, ghostwriter to Keith Richards and David Bailey, reveals the tricks of his trade—and why J. R. Moehringer shouldn’t be blamed for Harry’s memoir

Two Tickets to Paradise

George Clooney and Julia Roberts join host Bruce Bozzi to talk about their chemistry, the shirtless men at George’s wedding, and much more in our podcast Table for Two

The Accidental Collector

Judy Glickman Lauder didn’t set out to become a collector. Yet she ended up amassing some of the most important images in photography, shot by everyone from Berenice Abbott to William Klein, to Weegee

Lucian Freud, Lady Caroline Blackwood—and Me

My mother’s marriage to the painter was brief, and the hours she spent sitting for him were long. But the resulting portraits are forever

Happy Endings

When Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along first appeared, it was a disaster. Forty years on, it’s a triumph

The Re-invention of John Stonehouse

Succession star Matthew Macfadyen leads a raucous new drama about the stranger-than-fiction story of a British politician who faked his own death in 1974

Frida Gustavsson

The star of Netflix’s Vikings first emerged on the scene as one of the fashion industry’s top models