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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Ross MacDonald’s Sketchbook

Hidden Tunes

“Whatever story I’m telling, I tell it through music.” An interview with Bruce Adolphe, the mind behind the wildly popular Piano Puzzlers

Southern Gothic

New exhibitions at London’s Alison Jacques Gallery spotlight Black photographer Gordon Parks’s work chronicling the American South and more

The Anti-Intellectual

Push a Little Harder

Sick and tired of it all? Keep on keeping on with Joe Cocker, Curtis Mayfield, Charli XCX, Emitt Rhodes, and more

Open-Air Revival

Liquid Assets

No-Brain Teaser

A few questions that should have been on the cognitive test Trump boasts he “aced”

The Going Is Good

At 61, Kathy Valentine, the subject of a new documentary on the Go-Go’s, shows no sign of slowing down

007 Lives at No. 25

James Bond sleuths believe they have pinpointed his home in London—and discovered George Smiley was a neighbor

Winds of Change

New exhibitions celebrate the outsize life and work of photographer Gordon Parks as well as the artist Khadija Saye, killed in the Grenfell Tower fire at 24

Fake It till You Invade It

Jennifer Weiner

The author of In Her Shoes recommends the best books for the exercise-curious

The Vegas of the South

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Charlie Scheips’s Sketchbook

Catch Him on TikTok

The coronavirus has returned the late Bob Ross, who hosted the wildly popular TV series The Joy of Painting, to the spotlight

A Tale of Two Heroes

Dancing and Dreaming

Songs to lift you out of this slump, from Thundercat, the Zombies, Steely Dan, Cymande, and more

On the Dodge

Retracing the life of Butch Cassidy, the American West’s answer to Robin Hood

Hollywood’s Bomb

A Tonic for the Times

No New Facts