The Nine Lives of Lillian Bassman
Colleague to Alexey Brodovitch, friend to Richard Avedon and Irving Penn … an exhibition in New York celebrates the postwar fashion photographer and art director
Lily Allen’s Revenge Era
The star who redefined confessional pop—and aired the wreckage of her marriage on West End Girl—is now taking her show on the road
Acting Up
From Keith Haring posters to anti–Reagan advertisements, an exhibition collects the works of graphic design that shaped New York’s grassroots response to the AIDS epidemic
Carolina Irving and Daughters’ Guide to Melides
The trio behind the eponymous homeware brand share their go-to spots in the Portuguese coastal village
Queen for a Day
With period rooms and decorative props, and scents and sounds of centuries past, an immersive exhibition in Paris transports visitors from morning to night inside an 18th-century aristocratic home
Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Guide to Chiang Mai
The artist shares his go-to spots in the Thai city
To Sing or Not to Sing?
Meet Luca Micheletti, fourth-generation thespian, first-generation star baritone
Vik Muniz’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
The Brazilian artist and photographer shares his go-to spots in the city he calls home
Lucian Freud’s Paper Trail
A new London exhibition shifts the focus from the British artist’s famous paintings to his lesser-known, lifelong relationship with drawing
Jenner Tomaska and Katrina Bravo’s Guide to Chicago
The husband-and-wife team behind Esmé restaurant share their favorite places to eat in the city they call home
The Singular Power of Avedon
Gabriel García Márquez, Samuel Beckett, Louise Nevelson … an exhibition in Montreal showcases the photographer’s intimate portraits of aging, honing in on our universal mortality through wrinkles, follicles, and blemishes
Sibella Court’s Guide to Sydney
The interior designer shares her go-to spots in the city she calls home
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
After documenting the Vietnam War and the Biafra conflict, the underbelly of London and the Beatles, the British artist Don McCullin turned to antiquity. His photographs of classical statues are now featured in a new exhibition in England
Tina Seidenfaden Busck’s Guide to Copenhagen
The founder of the Apartment design gallery shares her go-to spots in her hometown
Cézanne’s Final Act
With more than 70 works, an exhibition in Switzerland pays tribute to the revolutionary Post-Impressionist’s late period
Keeping Up with the Gould-Gessens
This trio of celebrated Brooklyn writers continues to generate an endless supply of reality-TV-worthy melodrama
Dita Von Teese’s Guide to Los Angeles
The Queen of Burlesque shares her go-to spots in the city she calls home
100 Years of Martha Graham
Amidst its centennial tour, the Martha Graham Dance Company channels its legacy of resistance and protest with a new piece from the choreographer Hope Boykin, set to a reimagined Leonard Bernstein score
Marcus Samuelsson and Andrew Chapman’s Guide to Harlem
The duo behind Red Rooster share their go-to restaurants in the New York neighborhood
Zen and the Art of JB Blunk
Inspired by the American sculptor, lifelong Buddhist, and master of handmade objects, an exhibition in California showcases candleholders created by more than 100 international artists and designers
Soledad Twombly’s Guide to Buenos Aires
The fashion designer behind Rome’s beloved L’Archivio di Monserrato shares her go-to spots in her hometown
The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part III
Norman Mailer swore he’d never work with Lawrence Schiller again. But financial need changed his mind—and literary history
Let There Be Light
For more than a century, month-long exhibitions of J. M. W. Turner’s Romantic watercolors have chased away the January blues in Dublin and Edinburgh
Annie Doble’s Guide to Ibiza
The founder of Annie’s Ibiza shares her go-to spots in one of the cities she calls home
