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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

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

Publicity for the Devil

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”

Reality Bites

A Great Deal More Night Music

Stephen Sondheim’s orchestrator, Jonathan Tunick, doubles his score in the world premiere of a re-arranged A Little Night Music at New York’s Lincoln Center

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

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

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

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 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

David Downton’s Sketchbook

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

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

The World, According to Artists

Laughter in the Dark

In his new memoir, comedian Paul Scheer takes on his childhood abuse with humor and one-liners

Miloš Karadaglić

The reigning superstar of the classical guitar on recalibrating his priorities

Back to His Roots

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

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