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Mad for Majolica

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Once upon a Time in Wrexham

Actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney buy a Welsh football club because … why not?

Little Gold Men, Big White Guilt

L.A.’s new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has little to say about movie history—but speaks volumes about Hollywood and our times

Cosmic Chaos

Isaac Asimov’s epic Foundation series comes to Apple TV+

Opera Pick of the Week

As the Metropolitan Opera returns to live performance, an easy fix for fans hooked on the company’s once-complimentary nightly streams

Great Minds …

Both Albert Einstein and Marie Curie visited America during the Roaring 20s. It left a lasting impression

The Big Sleep

A River Runs Through It

Art Basel is Back!

The 50th edition of the famed art fair features work by artists as varied as Camille Pissarro and Kara Walker

All in the Family

Rumbled in the Jungle

The 1974 championship bout between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali, in Zaire, forever changed the lives of both fighters—and the writers who covered it

North Korea as You’ve Never Seen It

Stéphan Gladieu’s otherworldly photos take viewers where they’ve never been allowed to go—inside Pyongyang

David Downton’s Sketchbook

Still Here

Unexplained Phenomena

The Anderson Tapes

The CNN anchor Anderson Cooper takes a candid look at the Vanderbilts, the historic American dynasty from which his mother, Gloria, hailed

Taking a Vaxxation

Here’s why so many Americans are unwilling to get a shot

The Man Behind Roger Ailes and Winston Churchill

John Lithgow joins the show

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Fish Out of Water

Capers Corner

A soundtrack for the mischievous, from Joe Jackson, Jimmy Cliff, Rosanne Cash, Rodney Crowell, and more

Hurts So Good

Once he made it to the top, the rough-around-the-edges, all-American rock star John Mellencamp found out he was really on the bottom

A Pre–Mean Girls Burn Book

The second in an unredacted three-part release of socialite Chips Channon’s diaries is as snobbish, spiteful, and addictive as the first