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Fake It till You Invade It

The Vegas of the South

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

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

The (Kanye) West Wing

Imagining his first 100 days

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

Behind The Painted Bird

The contentious Holocaust author Jerzy Kosiński turned down every offer for a film adaptation. A Czech filmmaker finally takes on the story

Sic Trans Gloria

Cancel culture moves into London and tries to rub out the Booker Prize, J. K. Rowling, and her defenders

Dancing and Dreaming

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

Frenemies, Cold War–Style

Dominic West and Damian Lewis take on one of the greatest spy scandals ever

Double-Dip

Duncan Hannah’s Sketchbook

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

All the World’s a Stage

Met favorites get star treatment in the New York opera house’s new series

Master of Disguise

The Sun, the Moon, and the Star

Eve Hewson takes on her biggest role, in the adaptation of the Man Booker Prize–winning novel The Luminaries

Paparazzi Fever

All the Write Moves

Transparency, brevity, color: simple steps for writing well