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Renaissance Underdog

Hand’s Turn

The arabesque’s presence in art ranges from Hellenistic times to Islamic design to the decorative arts, music, and dance.

Give Him a Pen …

White House of Horrors

A scandal that prefigured today’s appalling Trump escapades. Plus: chasing, and catching, Cosby

Soprano from the North Country

Change of Pace

Local Time

The fate of Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami, chronicled for years by photographer Claudia Andujar, rests largely in the hands of the country’s rash, racist president

Flower Power

Drag diva, fashion model, and budding beauty impresario Violet Chachki specializes in her own brand of feminine mystique

A Guide to the Armory Show and Beyond

So Much More than a Shoe

Bahia Bash

Tide Turner

Photographing the Other

Play It Again, Alex

Air Mail, MatchesFashion, and Lehmann Maupin kick off Frieze Los Angeles with supper and a screening of the latest short film by Alex Prager

Lost Worlds Retrieved

Leopoldstadt, Tom Stoppard’s new (and perhaps last) play, is an act of historical excavation and personal reparation

Madame de Drama

Opera à la CNN

Three Tenors in One

Pity the Nation

A poem for these times

I’m Still Touring

Frank Sinatra was a master of the long goodbye, but Elton John’s farewell is, like Brexit, a process

Jean Mapping

Frieze Los Angeles

A breezy, essential guide to the fair, now in its second edition

Ballet Chic

Eye to Eyck