Off the Wall
The photographer Horst A. Friedrichs celebrates the magic of independent booksellers and the volumes on their shelves, from the Strand to Shakespeare and Company
Opera Pick of the Week
Sir David McVicar’s Met Opera staging of Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux, starring Sondra Radvanovsky as Britain’s first Queen Elizabeth
Sight and Sound
Eye on Dance, a weekly interview show that ran from 1981 to 2004, was required watching in the dance world. A special archival episode from 1986 is now available for streaming
Re-writing History
Antony Beevor is trading the page for the screen, joining forces with Ridley Scott for a wide-ranging series on W.W. II’s final year
Notes from Under the Sheets
Tracing the pre–Crime and Punishment love affair of Dostoevsky and Polina Suslova, a young, dazzling Russian radical
Frankenthaler and Me
Searching for Helen Frankenthaler gets personal for an author whose past is intertwined with that of the great American artist
Said and Done
Edward Said managed to popularize the idea of a Palestinian state in the Reagan years. His biographer reveals the charm behind the chutzpah
Living for the City
A restaurateur shares his tracks to rebuild New York City to, from Bruce Springsteen, Sister Nancy, Gary Clark Jr., and more
A Sentimental Mood
Perhaps none of the arts have suffered from the pandemic more majorly than jazz. Until the post-vaccine Jazz Age arrives, try the next best thing: live recordings
Acqua Alta
Che disastro! A fictional tale recalling the night Peggy Guggenheim, the grande dame of champagne and art, went missing
Can You Face Life After Zoom?
Bobbi Brown on how to lose the “lockdown look.” Plus, the hottest new chef in Paris; a peek at the Oscar nominations; and more
Artists in Action
Soviet Russia meets Weimar Germany in these avant-garde posters and drawings of the early 20th century, a gift to MoMA from the Merrill C. Berman Collection
The Real Congo
Artcurial Paris’s spring auction focuses on the artists of Congo’s Le Hangar collective, founders of contemporary African art who developed their craft away from Western influence
Power to the Beeple
Is multi-million-dollar crypto-art the latest hustle?
Making Waves
Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek adapt Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves, awarded the 1996 Golden Palm in Cannes, for Opera Philadelphia
Bad Boy Bacon
Francis Bacon’s emergence onto the London social scene—including the time he humiliated Princess Margaret—was as controversial as his paintings
Reverse Migration
Eight questions with Charles M. Blow, the author and New York Times op-ed columnist whose new book is a call to action for Black Americans to move South
