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
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
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
Art Basel is Back!
The 50th edition of the famed art fair features work by artists as varied as Camille Pissarro and Kara Walker
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
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
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
Taking a Vaxxation
Here’s why so many Americans are unwilling to get a shot
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
The Man Behind Roger Ailes and Winston Churchill
John Lithgow joins the show
