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Chasing Vermeer

To Catch a Klimt

Two long-hidden, hugely expensive, and very rare paintings by Gustav Klimt have suddenly popped up in Asia. Who’s the elusive art adviser behind them?

Ellroy Confidential

The Yin and Yang of 1960s Britain

Ada “Bricktop” Smith

The forgotten queen of Jazz Age Montmartre

All Roads Lead to Claudia Cardinale

Heart of Gold

Richard Cœur de Lion returns to the Royal Opera House at Versailles for the first time since the French Revolution

Rock of Ages

Blonde Ambition

In an interview, Pamela Anderson discusses Hugh Hefner, the sex tape with Tommy Lee, and her five failed marriages

Samuel D. Hunter

Darren Aronofsky adapted Hunter’s play The Whale for the screen. The playwright’s latest project, A Bright New Boise, premieres Off-Broadway next week

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

America First

Will the Idaho-Killings Suspect Walk Free?

Howard Blum takes us inside the investigation, and why a conviction of Bryan Kohberger is not a slam dunk

Lunch with Octavia Spencer

The actress joins host Bruce Bozzi to talk about how she made it in Hollywood, whether The Help could be released today, and much more in our podcast Table for Two

Marriage Stories

Works about marital strife made by artist duo Ed and Nancy Kienholz go on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art

A Life Less Ordinary

One Fine Morning stars Léa Seydoux as a woman seeking to balance her everyday obligations with a passionate affair. Its director, Mia Hansen-Løve, tells how the film came to be

Ottessa Moshfegh

The novelist behind My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Eileen—plus its screen adaptation, premiering at Sundance—reveals her travel routine

Dirty Latin

If you want to know how Romans actually talked, then look at their obscene graffiti

Growing Up Gilman

A Rebel with a Cause

In the midst of protests in Iran, a London show by the artist Soheila Sokhanvari spotlights the country’s early feminist icons

An Afternoon with Thomas Mallon

The author and editor of Gore Vidal discusses the influence of Mary McCarthy, his latest book, and the upcoming TV adaptation of his 2007 novel, Fellow Travelers

Paul Cox’s Sketchbook

The Torch Relit

Lise Davidsen’s 2019 Bayreuth debut in Tannhäuser gave Wagnerians something to cheer about

Harry’s Own King’s Speech

Read by Prince Harry, the audiobook version of Spare includes Ali G impressions and off-key renditions of Elton John