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Leap of Faith

Extra! Extra! A February 29 soundtrack from the Velvet Underground, Fiona Apple, the Pretenders, Billie Eilish, Mink DeVille, and more

Give Him a Pen …

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

A Guide to the Armory Show and Beyond

Tide Turner

To the Extreme

The Picture of Greed

Michael Winterbottom’s new film is an unsparing portrait of a ruthless fast-fashion billionaire

Famous Last Words

Death doesn’t stop narrators in songs from expressing themselves, as tracks from Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue, the Rolling Stones, the Shangri-Las, and others prove

Enemies’ Enemies

Short List

Josh O’Connor

Between seasons of The Crown, on which he plays Charles, the actor stars in Emma, in theaters now

Bahia Bash

Blood, Toil, Tears, and Churchill

The Leaning Towers of Deutsche

The author of a new book exposes the widespread, historic corruption fueling the German bank’s downfall

Alexandra Fuller

The African-born writer recommends books that depict the complex brutality of colonialism

So Much More than a Shoe

Jenny Kroik’s Sketchbook

La Dolce Vitae

Federico Fellini began recording his dreams around the time he was working on La Dolce Vita. On the centenary of his birth, diary sketches illustrate the filmmaker at his most personal

Opera à la CNN

Flipping the Hitchcock Script

The author of a new book on Joan Harrison re-writes the filmmaker’s prolific history to highlight the woman driving his success

Cloudy with a Chance of Doom

Valentine’s Day After

So, how’d it go? Really? Well, maybe Nick Cave, Marianne Faithfull, Bryan Ferry, Millie Jackson, Todd Rundgren, and the National can help

Photographing the Other

Play It Again, Alex

Air Mail, MatchesFashion, and Lehmann Maupin kick off Frieze Los Angeles with supper and a screening of the latest short film by Alex Prager