White House of Horrors
A scandal that prefigured today’s appalling Trump escapades. Plus: chasing, and catching, Cosby
Local Time
The fate of Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami, chronicled for years by photographer Claudia Andujar, rests largely in the hands of the country’s rash, racist president
Flower Power
Drag diva, fashion model, and budding beauty impresario Violet Chachki specializes in her own brand of feminine mystique
Play It Again, Alex
Air Mail, MatchesFashion, and Lehmann Maupin kick off Frieze Los Angeles with supper and a screening of the latest short film by Alex Prager
Lost Worlds Retrieved
Leopoldstadt, Tom Stoppard’s new (and perhaps last) play, is an act of historical excavation and personal reparation
I’m Still Touring
Frank Sinatra was a master of the long goodbye, but Elton John’s farewell is, like Brexit, a process
Pity the Nation
A poem for these times
Frieze Los Angeles
A breezy, essential guide to the fair, now in its second edition
Xi’s Millennial Problem
Decades into China’s economic boom, the country’s young artists are suddenly reckoning with a government that’s switched gears
Due West
Sixty-three years since its 1957 premiere, a new production of West Side Story, directed by Ivo van Hove, is a testament to the musical’s enduring allure.
