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Collector’s Collector

Selections from New York fixture Adrian Dannatt’s collection, including pieces by Nan Goldin and Duncan Hannah, are on display at Miguel Abreu Gallery

Opera Pick of the Week

A new performance of von Weber’s Freischütz by Dmitri Tcherniakov, streaming from the Bavarian State Opera in Munich

Bulbs for Spring

This month, a design exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and a lamp show in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, explore the poetics of light

For the Record

Coinciding with the publication of the unredacted Chips Channon diaries, London’s Heywood Hill Bookshop hosts the volume’s editor, Simon Heffer, in conversation with British MP Michael Gove

What Would Elon Musk Do?

On this week’s podcast, a look at his secrets to success. Plus, Woody Allen; Boris Johnson’s domestic problems; and much more

Chips for the Cashing

The diaries of Chips Channon, to be published next week in their first unredacted edition, take delightful aim at British high society and the royal family

Remember When?

An interview with French playwright Florian Zeller, who makes his filmmaking debut with The Father, a moving story of dementia starring Anthony Hopkins

Bank Notes

Ross MacDonald’s Sketchbook

A Scientist of Sorrow

Divine Divas

Music to celebrate the fairer sex with, from Jan Bradley, Mina, Bettye Swann, and Lucinda Williams

First Contact

He’s known as the nerdy genius whose Twitter feed moves markets and bridges bizarre factions of the left and right. But Elon Musk’s greatest skill is scoring talent

London Calling

Roy Mehta’s Brent photographs reveal a rarely seen side of London and its diverse communities

Morfydd Clark

The young Welsh actress landed her breakout role as the star of Rose Glass’s debut thriller, Saint Maud. Next up: the new Lord of the Rings TV series

M Is for Man Ray

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Opera Pick of the Week

Productions of the Holocaust-era Der Kaiser von Atlantis spanning both sides of the Atlantic, from the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the Atlanta Opera

King’s Gambit

The author of the definitive account of the abdication crisis of 1936 reveals new details about Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson, and a covered-up assassination attempt

Any Woman’s Blues

Murder, They Wrote

Time Regained

Publishing next month, the long-lost writings of Marcel Proust promise a window into the mind and work of the French writer

Arab Baroque

Andrea Ferolla’s Sketchbook