Masters of Disguise
Stéphan Gladieu’s enchanting photos explore a spiritual West African masquerade of epic proportions
Blake Slatkin
The young music producer has collaborated with Justin Bieber, the Kid LAROI, and Lil Nas X on top hits
Alexandre Assouline
He grew up watching his parents turn a fledgling publishing company into a coffee-table-book sensation. Now he’s helping to run it
Out of the Blue
A century after Gainsborough’s Mona Lisa–esque Blue Boy left the U.K. for California, it’s back on show in London. So who was the boy in blue?
Behind Enemy Lines
A new play revisits the bellicose 1968 Gore Vidal v. William F. Buckley Jr. presidential-nominating debates with the benefit of hindsight
Theater Pick of the Week
From Shakespeare’s Globe, in London, an Elizabethan Twelfth Night for the ages
Opera Pick of the Week
Tesla sings! Les Éclairs at the Opéra Comique, in Paris, takes liberties with the biography of the Serbian visionary, to electric effect
Opera Pick of the Week
The world-premiere telecast of Gian Carlo Menotti’s evergreen Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors resurfaces
Charge of the Minutemen
Before The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight, there was Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris’s “brain-changing” news-radio satire, On the Hour
Linguine, with a Side of Sinatra
At Patsy’s, a motley crew of Frank Sinatra singers meets once a year for chicken parm and shoptalk
Opera Pick of the Week
From Adolphe Adam, composer of the tragic ballet Giselle, an operatic soap bubble starring a postman with a knockout high D
Miami Vice
Downtown New York’s cool set and crypto bros decamped to Miami for a weekend of parties (and some art, where they could fit it in)
A Four de Force
The sole performer onstage, actor and director Ralph Fiennes brings T. S. Eliot’s words to life and into the now
And Five, Six, Seven, Eight!
Lovers of Sondheim bolted to this gritty piano bar in Greenwich Village to grieve—and sing!
Making Trouble
A searing satire of the Black experience in the largely white New York theater, Trouble in Mind sees the light 66 years after it was written
Leading with the Chin
Free Solo’s Jimmy Chin discusses his latest film, his forthcoming book of photography, and why the Hamptons are the bane of his existence
Opera Pick of the Week
Unseen at the Paris Opera since its premiere in 1936, Georges Enesco’s Œdipe returns in a heaven-sent staging by Wajdi Mouawad
Opera Pick of the Week
Der Zwerg (The Dwarf), Alexander von Zemlinsky’s decadent exploration of the female gaze, in rival productions from the transgressive hot spots of Amsterdam and Berlin
The Secret History
An exhibition at the Jewish Museum sheds light on the story of the famed Ephrussi family, told by Edmund de Waal in The Hare with Amber Eyes
World on a String
Tony Sarg transformed the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with his fantastical designs
