Design Within Reach
Architect Lina Ghotmeh is sprucing up the Serpentine Gallery, just in time for its big summer party
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
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
Spring Migration
The Ghanian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey brings an iteration of his “Afrogallonism” series to the Venice Architecture Biennale
Unto Us a Child Is Born
At the National Theatre, The Book of Dust is a lite prequel to His Dark Materials
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Lord of the Spins
Fred Again, the world’s most popular D.J., is hip, hot, and very posh
