Elizabeth Neel
With a new show at Pilar Corrias, in London, Alice Neel’s granddaughter forges a path of her own
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
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
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
Opera Pick of the Week
More Verdi from Muti’s La Scala: the Spanish tragedy Il Trovatore
Phillipa Soo
She originated the role of Eliza Hamilton in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit. Now the American actress is branching out
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
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
Isaac Benigson
The British artist’s colorful work made it to London’s Royal Academy of Arts before he graduated from high school
Paging Picasso!
A new book traces the painter’s life—Paris, women, wars, and all
Opera Pick of the Week
The certain something in this pandemic Don Giovanni from Prague is the unique aura of the theater in which it was filmed
Kate Moennig
The actress’s pandemic podcast with The L Word co-star Leisha Hailey has become the new gay go-to
Joan of Art
Joan Mitchell, who revolutionized postwar American art alongside “Ninth Street women” Lee Krasner and Elaine de Kooning, finally gets her due
The Bright Side of Life
A swarm of musicals open in London’s West End, proving that both the fun and the show must go on
Opera Pick of the Week
Yuval Sharon’s Twilight: Gods crunches Richard Wagner’s four-night “Ring” cycle into a 60-minute crawl through a parking garage
