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In Lichtenstein’s Shadow

In honor of the Pop artist’s 100th birthday, the Parrish Art Museum is restoring a pair of his kinetic sculptures

Paul Henkel

Raised in the art world, the young curator is spotlighting new talent at his Manhattan art gallery

Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s Sketchbook

The Kingmaker

Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis sealed Colonel Tom Parker’s reputation as greedy and conniving. In truth, Presley’s manager was the opposite—someone who would do anything for his client and friend

Sight Unseen

Alice Mason was a celebrated hostess and New York’s real-estate agent to the elite, but while she was showing lavish apartments to clients like Marilyn Monroe, she was hiding a family secret

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Silent Night, Holy Night

The John Adams Nativity oratorio El Niño, distilled

The Comeback King

How a housewife from Edinburgh solved one of the great mysteries of English history—and cleared King Richard III’s name

What Machines Want

Wave to the Camera

A new book of photos by the big kahuna of surfing photography, Jimmy Metyko, captures early-80s Southern California in all its Point Break glory

Acronyms for Adults Only

How to keep up with the texting shorthand your elders use to confound you

Asher Liftin

The 24-year-old art-world darling, whose fans include David Geffen, stages his first solo show in New York City

The Preppy Crack-Up

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

We All Make Mystiques

The unforgettable night in New York when Jackie Kennedy watched as opera’s greatest diva sang Tosca and bungled the high C

Inside the Night Jackie Kennedy Stared Down Onassis’s Mistress

On this week’s podcast, John Mauceri discusses an evening—and two divas—he’ll never forget

Hollywood Beginning

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s new novel captures the actor’s mindset so incisively that Chloë Sevigny and Busy Philipps are early fans

Murder, They Wrote

Long-cold cases get hot again in the season’s best mystery books—and oldie-but-goodie TV dramas

Emperor of the New Order

How a promising young director gave up a comfortable life in Hollywood—and gained true creative freedom for a new generation of filmmakers. An exclusive excerpt from The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

Finding Albert Ballin

How a German-Jewish businessman helped make possible the emigration of 1.5 million Jews from Eastern Europe—then largely disappeared from history

A Lasting Impression

Drawings and watercolors on paper by Impressionists ranging from Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec go on view in London

Marcellus Hall’s Sketchbook

Man’s Best Friends

For his entire career, Michael Frayn avoided writing about people he knew. His new book, written at 89, is about 13 of his closest friends

My Name Is Barbra’s Index

Streisand refused to give readers any shortcuts to her 992-page memoir, so we did it for you