Pop Royalty
Little-known paintings by Dame Vera Lynn, “the Forces’ Sweetheart,” whose songs buoyed morale during World War II, go on display in her hometown
One Maestro, One Diva, No Elephants
Riccardo Muti and Anna Netrebko put a Salzburg Aida over the top
Architecture’s Avant-Garde
A look at the transgressive styles that disrupted and remade 20th-century architecture
What Color is Your Parachute?
As Mark Rothko in the award-winning Red, Alfred Molina tackles the big questions
I Do! I Do!
Love finds a way in The Bartered Bride, starring Teresa Stratas
Blake Slatkin
The young music producer has collaborated with Justin Bieber, the Kid LAROI, and Lil Nas X on top hits
Born to Sing Verdi
Hawaiian star baritone Quinn Kelsey anchors the Met’s new Rigoletto
Bowie’s Back
A never-before-released David Bowie album hits the airwaves
Stars and Stripes
For three decades, a zebra-patterned banquette at the El Morocco put you at the center of New York nightlife—as long as you were on the right side of the room
Masters of Disguise
Stéphan Gladieu’s enchanting photos explore a spiritual West African masquerade of epic proportions
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
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
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
