The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
New to Beethoven’s only opera, Lise Davidsen transcends a director’s funny stuff
Remy Renzullo’s Guide to Maine
The American interior decorator shares the spots that epitomize his summers on the coast
A Jewel of the Avant-Garde
The Fondation Maeght, in Saint-Paul de Vence, France, celebrates its 60th anniversary with an expansion, an exhibition … and a party!
Death to the Pop Princess!
As Katy Perry’s latest single bombs, a new wave of Gen Z singers—from Chappell Roan to Charli XCX—is showing how to make music with brains as well as bounce
Christian Louboutin’s Guide to Paris
The fashion designer and creator of the red sole shares his favorite spots in his home city
Stranger than Fiction
Teatro Nuovo gives Carolina Uccelli’s lone surviving opera, Anna di Resburgo, a long-overdue second shot
After Auschwitz
Revisiting the posthumous 2010 stage premiere of Mieczysław Weinberg’s fierce masterpiece The Passenger
Jasper Conran’s Guide to Tangier
The British designer and hotelier shares his favorite spots in the Moroccan coastal city
The Troubles of Taffy Brodesser-Akner
The author of the best-selling Fleishman Is in Trouble has money issues, religious worries, and anxiety about her next novel. It’s not easy being “the female Philip Roth”
FAMM Fatales
Europe’s first private museum dedicated solely to art made by women opens in Mougins, France, featuring works by Frida Kahlo, Lee Krasner, and Marina Abramović
In Bed with Marvin Gaye
In an unpublished interview—given months before he was shot dead 40 years ago—the Prince of Soul talked police brutality, European decency, and his explicit new single
Dream Time Alfresco
Way above 96th Street, Shakespeare’s midsummer madness in classical Harlem Renaissance style
All You Need Is Loot
The market for Beatles memorabilia is valued in the billions and continues to climb. But will your kids care if you own John and Yoko’s Delft porcelain toilet?
In Full Swing
In their only U.S. appearance this year, dancers from Britain’s Royal Ballet grace the venerable Jacob’s Pillow, in Massachusetts
Flying into a Rage
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is furious at airlines, mad at airports, and apoplectic about his fellow passengers not being as angry as he is
The No. 1 from Hell
Recorded for the soundtrack to Four Weddings and a Funeral, “Love Is All Around” was so popular that even the band who sang it grew tired of its success
Air Mail Environments: New York
Our latest creation will immerse you in New York’s glorious sounds, from the hallowed atrium of the Metropolitan Opera to the clank and churn of the Staten Island Ferry
Murder, They Wrote
This month’s best mystery books, podcasts, and TV series
Midnight in Toronto
Fifty years ago, Mikhail Baryshnikov, a star of the U.S.S.R.’s Kirov Ballet, defected from his troupe after a performance in Canada. Dance was never the same
The Most Expensive Artist You’ve Never Heard Of
Sanyu befriended Picasso and Giacometti yet died destitute. Today, he’s known as the “Chinese Matisse”
A Great Deal More Night Music
Stephen Sondheim’s orchestrator, Jonathan Tunick, doubles his score in the world premiere of a re-arranged A Little Night Music at New York’s Lincoln Center
Miles Greenberg’s Guide to Montreal
The Canadian artist shares the spots that shaped his adolescence as an art-school dropout
Going Mad!
An exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum, in Massachusetts, offers a window into the mad, mad world of the historic humor magazine
Miloš Karadaglić
The reigning superstar of the classical guitar on recalibrating his priorities
