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Getting the Picture

Marcellus Hall’s Sketchbook

Once upon a Time in Hollywood

In the course of their brief, intense marriage, Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward lit the match for a cultural explosion in 1960s Los Angeles

The Bigger Apple

Practice Makos Perfect

Christopher Makos showed Andy Warhol how to use his first camera. He also cemented Warhol’s existence as the personification of the “American brand”

Herbie Fully Loaded

In an excerpt from his new book, the author remembers unleashing his father, a well-known negotiator, on a professor he hated

Lydia Leonard

The actress reprises Camille Cottin’s role in Ten Percent, the British remake of the hit French show Call My Agent!

Behind the Scenes

Classical Meets Contemporary in Munich

Putin on the Ritz

As Vladimir and his cohort prepare to paint the town—or at least the square—red, they call upon the hostess with the mostess to be their social czar

The Hills Were Alive …

… with the sound of rock ’n’ roll music. And many of the finest strains on the West Coast were emanating from Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward’s house

The Little House That Rocked L.A.

In the 1960s, Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward’s place in the hills was the center of an arts explosion

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Confessions of a 10-Percenter

With the arrival of the English version of Call My Agent!, a real one shares tales of what life is really like behind the screams

The Man in the Black Turtleneck

A hit at the Santa Fe Opera in 2017, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs has its video premiere in a new production from Atlanta

Old Flames

Touching Base

The effect of Jackie Robinson on the lives of average Americans of color is well documented. But he was instrumental for other baseball players of color, too

Staff Picks

Don’t miss a biography of the American painter Winslow Homer; a little-told story about Benjamin Franklin; and a memoir turned meditation on books

Child’s Play

Nicolas Party’s techno-colored art is on view in Canada. In an interview, the artist discusses fairy tales, nature, and the power of pastel

The Sages of Montecito

Harry and Meghan offer Netflix some business tips

Spires, Squires, and Liars

A contemporary of Boris Johnson’s and Dominic Cummings’s traces Brexit, and the state of politics in Britain today, back to 1980s Oxford

Ways of Escape

A Grand Tour of Italy, but Make It Modern

The intimate, under-the-radar homes and studios of 20th-century Italian architects, artists, and designers, from Achille Castiglioni and Gae Aulenti to Giorgio Morandi, are as stunning as the country’s ancient and Renaissance treasures. And they’re open to the public

Tom Blyth

The British actor went from sidewalk charity campaigner to the star of a new series on Billy the Kid