Mamma Tua!
Abba morphs from musical to interactive dinner theater
Louche Cannon
With Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge has caught lightning in a bottle. When someone hits with such a seismic wallop, it’s both a miracle and a mystery. Why now? Why her?
Lovable Geniuses, Preening Taskmasters?
Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, and the complicated truth about band—and Band—dynamics
Larger Than Life
This month, a number of exhibitions pay tribute to those artists that died too young
The Man of Mode
Tim Walker, one of fashion’s most talented eccentrics, reflects on his smashing new show at the V&A
Cultural Evolution
A young audience, an impressive schedule, and a woman president: the 140-year-old Shanghai Symphony Orchestra is very much of the moment
Drop That Corn Dog
No platform is better suited for letting candidates bypass the hokey rituals of retail campaigning than the humble, motley podcast
Cynthia Talmadge
The American artist who takes inspiration from female courtroom villains—and their outfits
George Stubbs, King of the Beasts
The 18th-century British painter was the “Liverpudlian Leonardo,” revered for his portraits of racehorses and other creatures
A Modernist Marie Kondo
The architect and designer Charlotte Perriand went from Le Corbusier disciple to fearless visionary
