Bidding Wars
Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips are scrambling to dominate Hong Kong’s art market. But are cafés and handbag sales the answer?
Sight Majeure
On the centenary of his death, the French engineer behind the Eiffel Tower is finally receiving an honor befitting his accomplishments
Death Becomes Her
Classic Hollywood movies have played a central, if ambiguous, role in the paintings of Cecily Brown
Staying Gold
A new book of rare and previously unseen photos marks the 40th anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Outsiders, based on the 1967 novel and starring Hollywood stars in their early years, from Tom Cruise to Diane Lane to Patrick Swayze
Sam Ezersky
The twentysomething mechanical engineer behind The New York Times’s Letter Boxed word game wants the solutions to “feel fun and human”
Susanna Moore Isn’t Done Running Away
The author has never been one to stay put. Her new book is no exception
Matters of Form
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston displays a sprawling survey of Simone Leigh’s sculptures
Yuja Wang’s Rach Marathon
Most pianists call it a night after any one of these “warhorses”
Dial “Midwife” for Murder
The little-known story of a 1920s midwife who supplied women with arsenic to kill their abusive husbands
From The Glass Castle to Prohibition
Jeannette Walls looks back at her tumultuous upbringing and her days as a gossip columnist in New York, and discusses her latest book, a novel set in the 1920s
The Hits Keep Coming
After the success of Unorthodox, its co-creator Anna Winger returns to Netflix with Transatlantic, a black comedy about World War II–era refugees
Can a 71-year-old American Musical Revive London?
On this week’s podcast, John Lahr tells us how—and why—Londoners have gone mad for Guys and Dolls
Anna Wintour
The Vogue editor isn’t typically a lady who lunches. But on this week’s Table for Two, she makes an exception for host Bruce Bozzi
Fine-Tuning
In an interview, the pianist Víkingur Ólafsson discusses his affinity for Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto, which he’s playing around Europe
Catherine Lacey
The author discusses her latest novel, a fictionalized biography of a “Frankenstein’s monster of 20 artists and 20 writers” whom she admires, from Kathy Acker to Susan Sontag
Alison Roman
The writer, chef, and cookbook author reveals her travel routine
Solid Sender
A new immersive production of Guys and Dolls in London is an all-around delight
An Amusement Park of Dreams
The first-ever art amusement park—launched in 1987 in Hamburg, and featuring art by everyone from Basquiat to Baselitz to Lichtenstein—has since been all but forgotten. Ahead of Luna Luna’s reopening, next year, a new book surveys this feat of the imagination
Karina Longworth Is Bringing Back the 90s
The podcast host discusses her career, her marriage, and the new season of You Must Remember This, which will focus on Showgirls, Basic Instinct, Eyes Wide Shut, and other 1990s erotic film classics
