Spirited Away
Ithell Colquhoun’s Surrealist works go up at the Tate St. Ives, in Cornwall, where the British artist, writer, and sorceress found inspiration in the ancient landscape
Chekhov In Flashes
From London, Andrew Scott’s Off Broadway-bound Vanya
Rolf Sachs’s Guide to Saint-Moritz
The artist and designer shares his favorite spots in the mountain town
Good-Bye, Noughties!
Gone are the fun, messy, and fast times at work—perhaps for the better, says the cast of Bridget Jones
Art Nouveau
In Paris, the Louvre presents its inaugural fashion exhibition, placing designers from Azzedine Alaïa to Yohji Yamamoto in dialogue with decorative arts from Byzantium to the Second Empire
Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer
Why Audrey Hepburn’s granddaughter forewent a career in the spotlight to pursue painting
Setsuko Klossowska de Rola’s Guide to Paris
The Japanese painter and widow of the 20th-century painter Balthus shares her favorite spots in her adopted city
Killing Charlie Hebdo
Ten years ago, Islamist terrorists stormed the office of the satirical French weekly, Charlie Hebdo, killing a dozen people—but the magazine lives on
A Star Is Born
An exhibition in Copenhagen gives the Russian painter Alexej von Jawlensky his due after he spent years in the shadows of Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider group
Heart of Darkness
In Brussels, Fanny and Alexander gets an operatic makeover
Sean Scully’s Guide to London
The Irish-American artist shares his favorite spots in Hampstead, the neighborhood he calls home
A Walk on the Wild Side
Harumi Klossowska de Rola—the artist, jeweler, wildlife enthusiast, and daughter of the 20th-century painter Balthus—brings her enigmatic animal sculptures to Palm Beach
Mona Pirnot
The playwright dishes on how she got David Greenspan to act in her one-man show about, well, David Greenspan
Once upon a Time in Ukraine
A new documentary looks at Russia’s brutal invasion from the eyes of the children living through it
A Fairly Mixed-Up Young Man
In 2015 (ages before Rivals!), Alex Hassell grabbed the brass ring as Shakespeare’s Henry V
Silvia Tcherassi’s Guide to Cartagena
The Colombian fashion designer shares her favorite spots in the port city
A Champion for Clara
Alexandra Dariescu makes a specialty of the other Schumann piano concerto
Crafting Modernity
An exhibition of tapestries by Joan Miró, Henri Matisse, Alexander Calder, and others celebrates the craft’s 20th-century shift from classicism to modernism
Bunkers on Broadway
The playwright Patrick Marber has long struggled with tackling the Holocaust onstage. But now he’s happily directing a revival of Mel Brooks’s The Producers—complete with high-kicking storm troopers
The World in Watercolor
Adam Van Doren’s paintings, inspired by J. M. W. Turner and John Singer Sargent, go on show in Boston
A Christmas Mitzvah
From movie outings to crispy egg rolls, a guide to the yuletide season, the Jewish way
The Last Jazz-Manouche Bar in Paris
The dying art of Gypsy jazz is alive and well at La Chope des Puces, a historic bar tucked behind the 18th Arrondissement
I’m Dreaming of a … Pink Christmas?
The holidays in Oaxaca, Mexico, bring cheer, gifts, and a fierce, century-old competition involving radishes, of all things
All in the Family
Not much is as it seems in Ingmar Bergman’s late, great, very spooky Yuletide bonbon Fanny and Alexander
