The Glass Menagerie From Czech sea creatures to Venetian vessels to contemporary sculptures, exhibitions across the world take glass art in delightfully different directions
August 4, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week From the Boston Lyric Opera, a never-before-released video of Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, starring American soprano Deborah Voigt
August 6, 2021
Burn After Listening A discreet, ultra-cool music festival in Garbicz, Poland, could blow Burning Man out of the water
And All That Jazz Look back at Bert Stern’s classic film, Jazz on a Summer’s Day, which next week comes out in a sparkly new restoration
The Music Man Meet Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate, a proud Chicaksaw composer with a thing for Shostakovich
August 13, 2021
Opera Pick of the Week Everest, Joby Talbot’s intimate epic, expands its already considerable reach as the world’s first (we think) graphic-novel opera
August 13, 2021
Ons Jabeur The young Tunisian tennis pro is gunning for a Grand Slam and paving the way for more of Africa’s rising stars
Gen X Marks the Spot Thirty years ago next month, Nirvana released Nevermind. Music was never the same
Opera Pick of the Week Stone Age Mozarteans up in arms about Munich’s new-school Idomeneo will still surrender to the incandescent Emily D’Angelo
August 20, 2021
Opera Non Buffa Opera is back with the summer festivals of Salzburg, Bayreuth, and Aix-en-Provence, but it’s as bleak as Mozart’s Requiem
An Icelandic River Runs Through It Forget polo: salmon fishing in the North Atlantic, a favorite of Eric Clapton and Prince Charles, is the real sport of kings
Opera Pick of the Week Yuval Sharon’s Twilight: Gods crunches Richard Wagner’s four-night “Ring” cycle into a 60-minute crawl through a parking garage
August 27, 2021
Kate Moennig The actress’s pandemic podcast with The L Word co-star Leisha Hailey has become the new gay go-to
Joan of Art Joan Mitchell, who revolutionized postwar American art alongside “Ninth Street women” Lee Krasner and Elaine de Kooning, finally gets her due
The Bright Side of Life A swarm of musicals open in London’s West End, proving that both the fun and the show must go on
Opera Pick of the Week The certain something in this pandemic Don Giovanni from Prague is the unique aura of the theater in which it was filmed
September 1, 2021
Isaac Benigson The British artist’s colorful work made it to London’s Royal Academy of Arts before he graduated from high school
Paging Picasso! A new book traces the painter’s life—Paris, women, wars, and all
Opera Pick of the Week From La Scala, a timeless account of Verdi’s Un Ballo In Maschera led by Riccardo Muti, his supreme living interpreter
September 10, 2021