This Little Light of Mine
How the secret “cabin songs” of the enslaved took over the world
Luke Edward Hall’s Guide to London
The British artist and designer shares his favorite spots in his adopted city
We Are Family (for Now … )
Elliot Grainge is about to join his father, Sir Lucian Grainge, atop the global music industry. Is he a nepo baby? Or a patricide in the making?
Dream Machines
Jean Tinguely’s kinetic sculptures come alive at Pirelli HangarBicocca, a contemporary-art space in Milan
Dirty Beast
Roald Dahl’s sadistic brilliance and disturbing anti-Semitism are the centerpiece of a dazzling new play at London’s Royal Court Theatre
Refik Anadol’s Guide to Istanbul
The Turkish-American new media artist shares his favorite spots in his home city
Moment of Moments
The Albertina Museum, in Vienna, presents a retrospective on Marc Chagall, the Belarusian artist whose Jewish heritage holds particular relevance today
When Lee Met Dave
From the front lines to Hitler’s bathtub, Lee Miller and my father, Dave Scherman, made one of the great photojournalistic duos
This Way to the Time Machine
La Scala, which opened in 1778, looks back to the 1600s
Camille Charrière’s Guide to Paris
From studded bomber jackets to 80s sportswear, the half-French, half-English writer and Internet personality shares her favorite vintage shops in her home city
Dhruv
As an undergraduate at Yale, he pivoted from statistics to songwriting. With his debut album, Private Blizzard, the young pop star is testing a more ambitious sound
World Wide Weber
A Bruce Weber retrospective goes up at the Prague City Gallery, showcasing 300 images taken by the American photographer over five decades
Wild West
Karma, in New York, exhibits 22 vibrant, impasto landscape paintings by the Persian-American artist Manoucher Yektai
Southern Star
The National Gallery, in London, exhibits more than 50 paintings that narrate the story of Van Gogh’s most turbulent period
Mad as a Hatter
Cecilia Bartoli pulls out all stops in a vintage revival of Nina, Paisiello’s runaway smash of 1789
Queen of (Sneaky) Pop
Vienna Teng, the genre-bending Taiwanese singer-songwriter, embarks on a U.S. tour this fall
What Happens in Vegas?
Illustrator Ralph Steadman has been best known for his collaborations with Hunter S. Thompson. An immersive new exhibition may change that
Wong Kar-wai’s Guide to Hong Kong
The film director and screenwriter shares his favorite spots in his home city
Jen Silverman
The playwright makes their Broadway debut with The Roommate, starring Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone
All Wisconsin’s a Stage
While often overlooked, the Midwestern state is home to some of America’s finest theater
