Tax-22
What happens when a $65 million Rauschenberg features an endangered bald eagle? Inside the secretive I.R.S. team that solves art’s riddles …
Annie Clark’s 70s Show
St. Vincent’s latest album, the 70s-themed Daddy’s Home, is releasing in a wave of bad P.R. It’s so good you’ll listen anyway
Tyler Mahan Coe
The man behind the podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones brought country music and its history to a new generation. Three years later, he’s back
Halston’s Halcyon Days
The mononymous American designer behind Jackie Kennedy’s pillbox hat gets the ending he deserves in Ryan Murphy’s new series
Prodigious Young Women
From Kate Middleton to Samantha Cameron to Oscar winner Emerald Fennell, what is it about Marlborough College, the leafy British boarding school?
A Bigger Splash
Venice’s oldest families are up in arms over a law that bars them from participating in this year’s Biennale. Expect protest on a grand scale
On the Road Again
Tunes to complement your wanderlust, from Willie Nelson, the Coasters, Laura Nyro and Labelle, Van Dyke Parks, and more
Singer, Dancer, Marcher, Spy
Josephine Baker broke barriers onstage and off—from Jim Crow Miami to the royal court of Monaco
Have You Heard Our Podcast?
It’s the show that will open your eyes. All you need to do is open your ears
How Do You Say “Avant-Garde” in Spanish?
Photographs by Ramón Masats chronicle the decade that revolutionized Spain
Mind Games
During W.W. I, a pair of British prisoners escaped their captors using a Ouija board. Their story reveals the power of delusion
Opera Pick of the Week
Anthony Davis commemorates the massacre that rocked Tulsa 100 years ago with Fire Across the Tracks, part of the Tulsa Opera’s pandemic recital program Greenwood Overcomes
Diva’s Welcome Back
An interview with French composer Marc-André Dalbavie, whose Le Soulier de Satin, based on the play by Paul Claudel, marks the Paris Opera’s reopening
The New Williamsburg
Hasidim brought “the Jerusalem of America” to South Williamsburg after the Holocaust. All these years later, they’re on the move again
Short List
Books to read this week, from Robert Kanigel’s biography of Milman Parry, the man who reanimated Homer, to novels by Edmund de Waal and Bina Bernard
