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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Where the Magic Happens

Beatrice Monti della Corte has been welcoming writers to her villa in Tuscany for what feels like forever. Ralph Fiennes and Edmund White recount the extraordinary experience of being there

André Carrilho’s Sketchbook

Going South

Crime and No Punishment

Opera Pick of the Week

The Los Angeles Opera mounts a rare revival of Joseph Bologne’s L’Amant Anonyme with a cast from its young-artists program

Bourgeois Fever

A long career. A merciless eye. Implacable life force. In museums and galleries, Louise Bourgeois is the queen to Picasso’s king

Where Art and Architecture Meet

An interview with the Italian designer Vincenzo de Cotiis, whose savagely sleek work fuses art and architecture with interior design

Heroes and Villains

What happens when you discover your heroine was a vile anti-Semite?

The Turing Enigma

Nearly 70 years after being prosecuted for homosexuality, Alan Turing is joining the Queen on Britain’s £50 note. His nephew warns that the code breaker wouldn’t have wanted to be seen as a victim

Soul-Searching

Broadway’s Light

World-Wise

Songs about our precious planet, from Moondog, Nils Frahm, the Turtles, Rare Earth, Koko Taylor, and more

When the Little Tramp Returned to America

In 1972, 20 years after Charlie Chaplin was forced into exile, the man who helped invent Hollywood came to a garden party in Los Angeles. Everyone was there

Wilder at Heart

The Hollywood Issue!

Just in time for the Oscars: Anjelica Huston! Charlie Chaplin! Picks and pans!

What if … the Queen Enters the Dating Scene?

Single and ready to mingle

Little Ironies

You Heard It Here First

The voice recordings of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton offer a window into two of 20th-century literature’s fieriest spirits

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

Anjelica Huston sculpts her next act

… And a Casting Agent of Thousands

For 60 years, Boaty Boatwright has been the force behind some of the biggest movie and stage careers

Big Bird Goes Blue

Josh Gosfield’s Sketchbook

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook