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In Search of the Lost Ark

Back to the Future

Say Bonjour to France’s Most Elegant Castle

Photos of the Château de Haroué celebrate life chez Beauvau-Craon, the family who has called Haroué home for 300 years

Françoise Gilot Is So Over Picasso

After she left him, Picasso tried to get Françoise Gilot blacklisted. Today, Gilot, who turns 100 this fall, is breaking auction records

Does Anderson Cooper Have Money Issues?

The CNN anchor drops by to discuss his complicated relationship with his Vanderbilt family—and their cash

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?

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

Fish Out of Water

David Downton’s Sketchbook

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

The Met Ball Hall of … Fame?

If you thought this year’s event looked like a cross between Halloween and the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, you aren’t alone. They don’t call it the “Costume” Institute for nothing

The Man Behind Roger Ailes and Winston Churchill

John Lithgow joins the show

Monster Mash

Taking a Vaxxation

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

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

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