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The Lady Gangster of New York

Vivian Gordon made a name for herself as the sexual extortionist of Jazz Age New York. Then she disappeared

Drew Friedman’s Sketchbook

The Most Expensive Artist You’ve Never Heard Of

Sanyu befriended Picasso and Giacometti yet died destitute. Today, he’s known as the “Chinese Matisse”

Jodie Comer

Fresh off her starring role in the West End and Broadway hit Prima Facie, the actress stars opposite Austin Butler in The Bikeriders

Who Is the Real Rebecca Minkoff?

Accused of hypocrisy and workplace hostility, the fashion designer—and devout Scientologist—has gone from #Girlboss to horrible boss to Real Housewife

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Reality Bites

Is Wall Street Funding a Fourth Reich?

On this week’s podcast, Alessandra Stanley discusses Trump, tech and finance bros, and their newfound love for Trump

Lucian Freud’s “Slave”

David Dawson was the artist’s fixer, confidant, and gofer—and he still lives in his master’s house

Midnight in Toronto

Fifty years ago, Mikhail Baryshnikov, a star of the U.S.S.R.’s Kirov Ballet, defected from his troupe after a performance in Canada. Dance was never the same

The Bikeriders Diaries

Director Jeff Nichols reveals how his new film, based on Danny Lyon’s seminal 1968 photo series of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club, came to be

The Secret Source

While the Mitchell Algus Gallery has launched the careers of many current art-world sensations, Algus himself struggles to pay the rent

The Tortured-Writers Department

Sitting in the cafés frequented by Oscar Wilde and Ernest Hemingway to write a book about Paris sounds like a dream—until it’s time to put pen to paper

Miles Greenberg’s Guide to Montreal

The Canadian artist shares the spots that shaped his adolescence as an art-school dropout

Miloš Karadaglić

The reigning superstar of the classical guitar on recalibrating his priorities

Going Mad!

An exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum, in Massachusetts, offers a window into the mad, mad world of the historic humor magazine

Lunch with Kristen Wiig

On this week’s episode of Table for Two, the comedian and actress reveals that she couldn’t tell Bridesmaids was going to be a success until after shooting was over

David Downton’s Sketchbook

Is the British Museum a Shill for Big Oil?

On this week’s podcast, Rebecca John explains how the oil industry uses the arts to buy our approval

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Back to His Roots

Directors’ Cuts

A new book zooms in on filmmakers’ on-set wardrobes, from Federico Fellini’s fedora on Juliet of the Spirits to John Ford’s serape on The Searchers and Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette uniform

Nuptials of the Rich and Famous

Things are a little different at celebrity weddings. There are certain rules

Hollywood’s Hidden Genius

Elaine May was Mike Nichols’s comedic other half, and directed some of the last century’s quirkiest movies, from The Heartbreak Kid to Ishtar. Then she all but disappeared