Quilting Queens (and Kings)
New exhibitions showcase the work of Black artists using cloth as their canvas. They’re honoring a legacy dating back to slavery, when quilts served as navigational signals on the Underground Railroad
Goldberg Inversions
And now, for the next act from Dan Tepfer, jazz pianist and most genial of polymaths: a digitally enabled rendition of J.S. Bach’s epochal Goldberg Variations
Sophie’s Choice
Sophie Ward, the model and actress whose coming-out shocked the world, has written a book
Hockney’s Normandy Invasion
The artist’s most recent work, inspired by his sojourn in the north of France, goes on show this month at Paris’s Galerie Lelong
Art House
Following a four-year, $26-million renovation, West London’s newest arts center, Cromwell Place, is open for business
80 Degrees North
A dazzling Arctic archipelago home to walruses and polar bears is at the mercy of our warming planet
Magic Man
The American photographer Rodney Smith saw the world through black-and-white-colored glasses
Arlo Parks
The London-based singer-songwriter captures the agony and ecstasy of Gen Z
Here and There
Hunter Barnes spent four years photographing the Native American Nez Perce tribe. A new book of his images celebrates the life of this enigmatic community
Huntsville Picture Show
Jonathan Becker’s glamorous portraits of Gloria Vanderbilt complement her paintings in a sprawling display at Alabama’s Huntsville Museum of Art
Man of Letters
Danny DeVito, Edward Norton, and others pay tribute to Bruce Springsteen, whose new 12-track album, Letter to You, is out now
Open Studio
Contemporary artists offer accessible, at-home art projects in a new book, out now
Hats Off!
This month, exhibitions on designers Philip Treacy and Halston pay extravagant tribute to headwear
Come Together
In lieu of an American tour, 21-year-old cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason records Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals at Abbey Road alongside his musical siblings
Art House
As director of Newlands House, a quiet British-countryside gallery, the former Phillips auctioneer organizes an exhibition of works by Ron Arad
