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Honor Titus

Rather than go to art school, the musician turned painter apprenticed with his idols. Now he’s Frieze’s brightest star

No Time to Di

The filmed Broadway show Diana: The Musical is now streaming on Netflix and it’s so bad … it’s worse than Cats

Opera Pick of the Week

From San Francisco Opera, a bold new reading of Beethoven’s soul-stirring political thriller Fidelio

Back to Blaxploitation

Inside the Buena Vista Social Club

Twenty-five years after producing the album that became a global sensation, Ry Cooder reveals how fame’s “double-edged sword” affected the group

So Much More than a Shop

Opera Pick of the Week

Double déjà vu all over again: Il Trovatore, Verdi’s warhorse in excelsis, live from Los Angeles, with dueling heroes and two modern-day knights

In Her Own Time

Bob Dylan said Karen Dalton had “a voice like Billie Holiday.” A new film looks at the enigmatic singer’s enormous influence

Elizabeth Neel

With a new show at Pilar Corrias, in London, Alice Neel’s granddaughter forges a path of her own

Françoise Gilot Is So Over Picasso

After she left him, Picasso tried to get Françoise Gilot blacklisted. Today, Gilot, who turns 100 this fall, is breaking auction records

Mad for Majolica

Little Gold Men, Big White Guilt

L.A.’s new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has little to say about movie history—but speaks volumes about Hollywood and our times

A Spy Like No Other

A new film tells the unlikely story of Noor Inayat Khan, a young Indian pacifist turned Allied spy

Opera Pick of the Week

As the Metropolitan Opera returns to live performance, an easy fix for fans hooked on the company’s once-complimentary nightly streams

Art Basel is Back!

The 50th edition of the famed art fair features work by artists as varied as Camille Pissarro and Kara Walker

Rumbled in the Jungle

The 1974 championship bout between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali, in Zaire, forever changed the lives of both fighters—and the writers who covered it

Fish Out of Water

Monster Mash

All in the Family

Opera Pick of the Week

More Verdi from Muti’s La Scala: the Spanish tragedy Il Trovatore

Curtain Up on a New Era

The Lyric Opera of Chicago’s incoming music director, Enrique Mazzola, strives for golden-age excellence—and a new populism

Dream Machine

Phillipa Soo

She originated the role of Eliza Hamilton in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit. Now the American actress is branching out

Opera Pick of the Week

From La Scala, a timeless account of Verdi’s Un Ballo In Maschera led by Riccardo Muti, his supreme living interpreter