Factory by the Sea
In the summer of 1972, Andy Warhol bought a house in the historic fishing village of Montauk. The town was never the same again
Diving For Treasure
The Met Opera takes up Georges Bizet’s youthful romance Les Pêcheurs de Perles
The Midas Touch
Everything the American soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen touches turns to gold
Life of the Party
In celebration of Mikhail Baryshnikov’s 75th birthday, the legendary dancer’s arts center is hosting a day-long concert in upstate New York
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
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
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
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
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
Lee Friedlander, Framed
Collaborating with the cinematic photographer, the filmmaker Joel Coen is staging shows of Friedlander’s work on both coasts
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
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
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
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
