Arlo Parks
The London-based singer-songwriter captures the agony and ecstasy of Gen Z
Magic Man
The American photographer Rodney Smith saw the world through black-and-white-colored glasses
80 Degrees North
A dazzling Arctic archipelago home to walruses and polar bears is at the mercy of our warming planet
Art House
Following a four-year, $26-million renovation, West London’s newest arts center, Cromwell Place, is open for business
Sophie’s Choice
Sophie Ward, the model and actress whose coming-out shocked the world, has written a book
Hockney’s Normandy Invasion
The artist’s most recent work, inspired by his sojourn in the north of France, goes on show this month at Paris’s Galerie Lelong
Goldberg Inversions
And now, for the next act from Dan Tepfer, jazz pianist and most genial of polymaths: a digitally enabled rendition of J.S. Bach’s epochal Goldberg Variations
Quilting Queens (and Kings)
New exhibitions showcase the work of Black artists using cloth as their canvas. They’re honoring a legacy dating back to slavery, when quilts served as navigational signals on the Underground Railroad
Feminist of One
She wrote about spanking before Fifty Shades of Grey and profiled Soon-Yi Previn when no one else would go there. Daphne Merkin explains what’s missing from today’s strand of feminism
The Soul of Wit
“Table Top Shakespeare,” comprising brief adaptations of the bard’s works, launches an At Home edition
Cloud Atlas
Dana Schutz, the artist behind the Emmett Till controversy, debuts her first solo show in London, “Shadow of a Cloud Moving Slowly”
Disconcerting
The BBC scraps the “Rule, Britannia!” lyrics from a beloved music program for fear of re-awakening the woke, then reverses its reverse
Good Wood
This fall, artists take inspiration from the nature around them
Bach of Ages
An interview with Chinese pianist Lang Lang, who is releasing two new recordings of Bach’s formidable Goldberg Variations
The Naked City
With America’s newsrooms closed—some maybe for good—a veteran of the Daily News recalls the paper’s action-packed and alcohol-soaked heyday
Next Gen
Ahead of a classical-music festival in Florence’s Boboli Gardens, an interview with its young founder, who aims to promote the genre to a new generation
