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Dan White

Hollywood’s favorite magician reappears on … Zoom?

Opera Pick of the Week

From the Boston Lyric Opera, a never-before-released video of Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, starring American soprano Deborah Voigt

Tears in Heaven

The George Harrison–Pattie Boyd–Eric Clapton love triangle is one for the ages. But were Boyd and Clapton doomed from the start?

Love in the Time of Márquez

The Glass Menagerie

From Czech sea creatures to Venetian vessels to contemporary sculptures, exhibitions across the world take glass art in delightfully different directions

Donald Trump, Wedding Crasher

We can only imagine how brides react to seeing him at Mar-a-Lago

I Want My MTV!

On the 40th anniversary of the music-television channel, one of its co-founders remembers the songs that started it all

Splendors in the Grass

The Undoing

Designing Woman

Julia Haart, the star of My Unorthodox Life, discusses how she rebuilt her life starting at age 43

India’s Lost Worlds

Joe McKendry’s Sketchbook

A Woman Apart

Oedipus Complex

Inside the mind of Thomas Gilbert Jr., the Upper East Side golden boy who killed his own father

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Gold Standards

Yachts, mansions, Qianlong-dynasty vases … Does anyone live quite as lavishly as these Hong Kong actresses?

The Money Shot

Scottish photographer Albert Watson reveals the stories behind his best work

Billy Howle


Alongside The Crown’s Josh O’Connor and Normal People’s Paul Mescal, the actor leads a new generation of self-made stars

Opera Pick of the Week

Streaming one night only, a new production of Tristan und Isolde from Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper with dream cast Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros

WASP’s Nest

Terrified by the distinctly WASP-ish hell of lacking a life’s purpose, Cold War columnist Joe Alsop created a setting for his self-protective, civic-humanist fantasy

Short List

What to read in the coming weeks, from memoirs exploring masculinity and the cutthroat world of ballet to a look at the history and future of motion

A Victorian Ted Bundy

It’s Complicated

The revolutionary filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl won the hearts of everyone from Andy Warhol and Mick Jagger to Joseph Goebbels and Roger Ailes

The Kids Were Alright

A new documentary explores the gritty intersection of skateboarding and hip-hop in 90s New York