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
Ready for Their Close-Up
Duncan Hannah’s “love portraits” of European movie stars
Reappearing Inque
An interview with the founder of a Kickstarter-funded literary magazine that’s defying the rules of digital media
Going, Going, Gonzo
Ahead of the late writer’s centenary, celebrating Charles Bukowski’s work and mourning his world
The Movie Star’s Movie Star
A new podcast evokes the advent of the Valley’s adult-film stars and the awe they earned from their Hollywood equivalents
Hidden Tunes
“Whatever story I’m telling, I tell it through music.” An interview with Bruce Adolphe, the mind behind the wildly popular Piano Puzzlers
Southern Gothic
New exhibitions at London’s Alison Jacques Gallery spotlight Black photographer Gordon Parks’s work chronicling the American South and more
Winds of Change
New exhibitions celebrate the outsize life and work of photographer Gordon Parks as well as the artist Khadija Saye, killed in the Grenfell Tower fire at 24
