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Wondering Eye

François Halard’s photography gets inside the homes and studios—and aesthetic experiences—of artists

Smyth on Smith

Trick of the Light

Anna Sui in Color

A Higher Power

A new biography offers a look into the diary of Israel’s founder

Jacqueline Woodson

Selects three of this year’s best novels

Long Story Short

A Guide to the Venice Biennale

Cathy Graham’s Sketchbook

Sean Penn Picks a Pickled Pepper

Lara’s Song

Museum-Going Etiquette

Spoiler alert: you’re not the most fascinating thing in the place

The Literary Industrial Complex

Italy has more book festivals than it has books

Top Shop

The author, whose new book is out this fall, selects his favorite Scottish bookshop

Joy Rider

Rowland Emett’s A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley heads to auction at Bonhams London

A Better Billionaire

On writing The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg

War Games

Candice Bergen, Star Reporter

A “very lucky” actor and the photojournalism career that got away

In the Picture

Malcolm Mackay

On the crime fiction that never gets old

All Work and No Playlist? Hardly!

Here are Donna Summer, Howlin’ Wolf, Queen, Betty Everett, and more

Bauhaus Revival

Inspectors About Town

The Longest Day