Skip to Content

The Phantom of Jacobus Vrel

Paris sees the opening of the first-ever exhibition devoted to a mysterious 17th-century Dutch artist whose works were long attributed to Vermeer

In the Eye of the Storm

Paul McCartney’s Pentax photos from 1964—the year that marked the band’s American tour, and the start of Beatlemania—are collected in a new book

The Art of Forgery

Design Within Reach

Architect Lina Ghotmeh is sprucing up the Serpentine Gallery, just in time for its big summer party

Summer Time

Eleven years after Donna Summer’s death, the Queen of Disco’s collection of lavish costumes, gold records, and handwritten lyrics will go up for auction at Christie’s

Joni Mitchell’s Second Act

Unto Us a Child Is Born

At the National Theatre, The Book of Dust is a lite prequel to His Dark Materials

Spring Migration

The Ghanian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey brings an iteration of his “Afrogallonism” series to the Venice Architecture Biennale

Lee Friedlander, Framed

Collaborating with the cinematic photographer, the filmmaker Joel Coen is staging shows of Friedlander’s work on both coasts

Hidden Gems

For decades, Anne Eisenhower, the granddaughter of President Eisenhower, collected rare and magnificent jewelry. Now it’s going up for auction at Christie’s

The War That Never Ended

Fifty years after the last American troops left, Vietnam is thriving. The U.S., meanwhile, is still dealing with the aftermath—unconsciously or not

Down to Earth

Lartigue on La Côte d’Azur

In the early 30s, the photographer and playboy Jacques-Henri Lartigue took a job shooting a movie on the French Riviera. The film went nowhere—but Lartigue became a legend

Exiled in Style

Picasso, Chaplin, Churchill, Woolf—they all came to Villa Mauresque, in Cap Ferrat, W. Somerset Maugham’s well-appointed refuge from England’s sodomy laws

In Search of Lost Homes

A road trip around France, with stops at the houses of literary stars Colette, George Sand, Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, and Victor Hugo along the way

Go Figure

The Belgian figurative artist Luc Tuymans, who has a new show at David Zwirner, recalls the moment he decided to start painting again—and why he works so fast

Romantic Baroque, Baroque Romance

Seong-Jin Cho’s Handel Project

Not Your Mother’s Tartuffe

At Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, Molière’s masterpiece gets a 21st-century makeover

In the Rehearsal Room

A new play about Richard Burton and Sir John Gielgud offers a rare glimpse into the behind-the-scenes politics of the theater

Reality TV Gets a Makeover

The new series Jury Duty, from veteran Office writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, blurs the line between documentary, sitcom, and Truman Show–esque drama

Rodney Smith’s Leap of Faith

A new book of nearly 200 images, many never before published, chronicles the photographer’s trajectory from a student of theology at Yale to one of the great artists of our time

Van Gogh’s Bitter End

The Original Renaissance Man

Lord of the Spins

Fred Again, the world’s most popular D.J., is hip, hot, and very posh