Sebastián Faena’s Guide to Buenos Aires
The filmmaker and photographer shares his favorite spots in his home city
Daria Kolomiec
The Ukrainian D.J. and activist is using music and storytelling as a war cry
Lifting the Veil
The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which dramatizes the ongoing turmoil in Iran, is itself an act of protest
Rare Bird, Bass Division
Peixin Chen’s amazing journey from Inner Mongolia to the great lyric stages of the West
The Push Pin Attitude
How the scrappy, ingenious founders of New York City’s Push Pin Studios revolutionized 20th-century graphic design—and left a lasting mark on the culture
Hamlet in Lockdown
How Sir Ian McKellen spent (part of) his pandemic
Nina Johnson’s Guide to Miami
The gallerist shares her favorite spots in her home city
Monochrome Mystique
In Lyon, three paintings of Saint Francis by the 17th-century Spanish artist Francisco de Zurbarán are shown together for the first time, alongside historic and contemporary works
Notes from Underground
Keinemusik’s catchy brand of house music has attracted everyone from bankers to groupies. But is the German D.J. trio anything more than a status symbol?
The Towering Bobby Short
For 36 years there was no more quintessential New York experience than seeing Bobby Short perform at the Café Carlyle
The Diva’s Tragedy
Maria Callas’s life was marked by poverty, drugs, cheating billionaires, and tabloid uproar. Can Angelina Jolie, who plays the opera singer in a new biopic, find the humanity amid the chaos?
Dominique Ansel’s Guide to New York
The French pastry chef shares his favorite specialty food stores in his adopted city
The Rest Is Podcasting
Is there anything that former soccer star, now podcaster and media mogul, Gary Lineker can’t do?
Tirzah Garwood, Lost and Found
Best known for being the wife of British painter Eric Ravilious, the long-overlooked artist and designer gets her due with a major London retrospective
Flameout
At the Paris Opera, a Handmaid’s Tale makeover for Spontini’s Napoleonic La Vestale
Alicja Kwade’s Guide to Berlin
The Polish artist shares her favorite spots in her adopted city
Paradise Found
Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania’s celebrated arboretum and a pioneer public garden, unveils its new, 17-acre expansion
Mafalda Muñoz and Gonzalo Machado’s Guide to Madrid
The design duo behind Casa Muñoz share their favorite spots in their home city
Rebel with a Cause
MoMA pays homage to one of its founders, Lillie Plummer Bliss, a canny collector and early champion of modernism
Is Dr. Strangelove a Bomb?
Armando Iannucci and Steve Coogan transport Stanley Kubrick’s blackly comic Cold War satire to the theater
The Master and the Mirror
The little-known friendship between Henri Matisse and Joan Miró was based on mutual admiration, and an urge to reach greater artistic heights
2024: A Space Odyssey
Stars, black holes, meteorites … An exhibition in New York pays tribute to the late Pop artists, friends, and cosmos enthusiasts Alain Jacquet and James Rosenquist, presenting their work together for the first time
Stop and Paint the Flowers
Rory McEwen’s plant portraits go on show in Wellesley, Massachusetts
Elsinore Informal
A look back at Richard Burton’s Hamlet, which broke Broadway records
