Satch Is Back!
Five spectacular and previously unheard Louis Armstrong recordings from 1968 are finally being released by the BBC, showing him to be a great entertainer to the last
Along Came Polly
Polly Jean Harvey, the fearless singer and two-time Mercury Prize winner known as PJ Harvey, blends her recent work with 90s classics on her European summer tour
Infinity Times Four
From the Donmar Warehouse in London, Nick Payne’s Constellations
Angelica Hicks’s Guide to Brooklyn
The British illustrator and Internet personality shares her go-to restaurants, shops, and bars near her home in Carroll Gardens
Tom Lehrer Doesn’t Want to Talk to You
How did one of the world’s greatest satirists nearly fade into obscurity?
The Nanny Diaries
A solo show in New York honors Vivian Maier, the 20th-century nanny and amateur photographer whose richly nuanced work is only now getting its due
The Bloomsbury Group’s Dark Horse
A new exhibition in London pays homage to Virginia Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell, a long-overlooked pioneer of modern art in Britain
The Way Things Were
Morris Engel’s 1980s telephone-booth photos—published for the first time in AIR MAIL—harken back to a bygone New York City
Jonny Johansson’s Guide to Stockholm
The creative director and co-founder of Acne Studios shares his favorite spots in the Swedish capital
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
In Basel, Anne Sofie von Otter dismantles Schubert’s Winterreise, to transformative effect
Dafydd Jones’s Guide to New York City
The British photographer who captured Manhattan’s high society in the 80s and 90s shares his favorite—and most nostalgic—New York spots
The Afterlife of the Bauhaus
An exhibition in Weimar, Germany, untangles the contradictory legacy of the modernist movement amid the rise of Nazism
Iké Udé’s Guide to Lagos
From beach clubs to hidden art hubs, the Nigerian-American photographer and performer shares his go-to’s in his native city
Morphine, Booze, and Roaring
Brian Cox, Succession’s raging paterfamilias, takes on a Eugene O’Neill classic alongside a dazzling Patricia Clarkson
A Ballet with a Twist
Cathy Marston premieres Atonement, an adaptation of Ian McEwan’s 2001 novel and her first creation as the new director of Ballett Zürich
Eurovision Gets Serious
For decades, the international pop contest was a source of harmless fun for millions. This year, people are bracing for violence
The Gulag of Bernarda Alba
From London’s National Theatre, Lorca’s blistering tragedy of woman’s inhumanity to woman
Sabyasachi Mukherjee’s Guide to Mumbai
The couturier to Bollywood royalty shares his favorite restaurants, hotels, shops, and other go-to’s in the city
Lucca Hue-Williams
The 26-year-old gallerist behind Albion Jeune is bringing fresh perspectives to London’s art scene
L.A. Paints Itself
Since the 1960s, Joan Agajanian Quinn has supported the careers of L.A. artists, from Ed Ruscha to Frank Gehry. Now her rarely shown collection is on view in Laguna Beach
Pitch-Perfect
In an interview, the breakout tenor Jonathan Tetelman chronicles his road from D.J.-ing to starring in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Met
Judi Dench’s Guide to London
The British actress and longtime Shakespeare lover shares her favorite theater, pub, restaurant, and museum in her adopted city
Adultery by the Book
Revived in Berlin, Riccardo Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini recalls the fate of Guinevere, Isolde, Melisande …
From Camera to Canvas
Paintings by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who filmed the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and the Who at their peak, go on display in upstate New York
