Wong Kar-wai’s Guide to Hong Kong
The film director and screenwriter shares his favorite spots in his home city
All Wisconsin’s a Stage
While often overlooked, the Midwestern state is home to some of America’s finest theater
Jen Silverman
The playwright makes their Broadway debut with The Roommate, starring Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone
Taylor-Made Bump
Sabrina Carpenter, Gracie Abrams, and Paramore have all seen their profiles—and sales—rocket after being support acts on Swift’s record-breaking “Eras Tour”
You Didn’t Have to be There
What luck that the mic was live for Keith Jarrett’s catastrophic gig in Cologne a half century ago
Viola and Vera Arrivabene’s Guide to Venice
The Italian sisters and co-founders of ViBi Venezia share their favorite spots in their home city
Let There Be Light
The Getty Center, in Los Angeles, exhibits the photographs of 26 avant-garde artists who made light their subject, such as Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, Thomas Wilfred, and Mary Ellen Bute
Brooke Shields’s Guide to Long Island
The actress, union leader, and C.E.O. shares her favorite summer spots around her Southampton home
The Queen’s Next Move
In Salzburg’s The Tales of Hoffmann, Kathryn Lewek shows four faces of the Eternal Feminine
Conventional Madness
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is maddened by political conventions, sickened by the costumes, and apoplectic at the idiots on and off the stage
‘Til Death Do Us Part
From Ostrava with love, rarities by Smetana
Cy Schnabel’s Guide to San Sebastián
The Spanish-American curator and founder of the Villa Magdalena gallery shares his favorite spots in his adopted city
Roots of Evil
Nearly 100 of Alfred Kubin’s early illustrations go on display at the Albertina Modern, in Vienna
Juan Diego Silva-Zúñiga
The 25-year-old left his life in Mexico to pursue directing. To make his first music video, he had to get scrappy
Konstantin Kakanias’s Guide to Athens
The Greek artist shares his favorite spots in his home city
Where Poetry Comes to Die
Annie Clark, the alternative singer and three-time Grammy winner known as St. Vincent, performs her first self-produced album, All Born Screaming, on her international tour
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
