Douglas Kirkland’s Dazzling Vision
The Canadian portrait photographer had a knack for making everyone feel like a star
Lunch with Da’Vine Joy Randolph
To kick off Season Two of Table for Two, the Oscar-nominated star of The Holdovers joins host Bruce Bozzi to talk about her operatic past and her electrifying present …
The Beginning of Everything
Polo, parties, and the American Dream … how my grandfather inspired Fitzgerald’s Gatsby
Is a Porn Star All That Stands Between Trump and the End of Democracy?
On this week’s podcast, Jeffrey Toobin explains how Stormy Daniels might be America’s last best hope
The Prisoner’s Song
The Dazed and Confused and Boyhood director, Richard Linklater, discusses trading drama for documentary in his latest, a searing film about the American prison system
The Righteous Gemstones
A new exhibition in Los Angeles puts rare, precious stones on display, and explores the ways gemstones can help cure disease—and save the planet
His Last Duchess
Samuel Ramey and Jessye Norman mesmerize in a 1989 Met performance of Bluebeard’s Castle
Hitting the Ceiling
While Michelangelo’s St. Peter’s Basilica is remembered as a Renaissance masterpiece, the drama around the construction nearly stopped the project
Liar’s Poker, London–Style
How I went from the mean streets of East London to becoming the most profitable trader in the world
Sister Act
How the McLaughlin twins broke the glass ceiling of the male-dominated photography industry during the golden age of magazines
Playing God
On the eve of the Oscars, reiterations of Frankenstein are taking over Hollywood. Why now?
You’ll Never Power-Lunch in This Town Again
On this week’s podcast, Dana Brown discusses what has happened to this Manhattan ritual
From Hussar to Bazaar
An exhibition in Philadelphia honors the graphic designer Alexey Brodovitch, who went from serving in a Russian hussar regiment to being art director at Harper’s Bazaar, where he mentored photographers such as Irving Penn
(Mid-)20th-Century Women
Ruth Orkin’s postwar photographs, collected in a new book, offer a snapshot of the modern woman navigating life in the big city
His Name Is “Dr. Zee”
Mark Zuckerberg: from entitled nerd in flip-flops to … Bond villain?
Confessions of a Literalist
I don’t do simile. Metaphor is out of the question
