Heart of Darkness
In Brussels, Fanny and Alexander gets an operatic makeover
Sean Scully’s Guide to London
The Irish-American artist shares his favorite spots in Hampstead, the neighborhood he calls home
Once upon a Time in Ukraine
A new documentary looks at Russia’s brutal invasion from the eyes of the children living through it
A Walk on the Wild Side
Harumi Klossowska de Rola—the artist, jeweler, wildlife enthusiast, and daughter of the 20th-century painter Balthus—brings her enigmatic animal sculptures to Palm Beach
Mona Pirnot
The playwright dishes on how she got David Greenspan to act in her one-man show about, well, David Greenspan
A Fairly Mixed-Up Young Man
In 2015 (ages before Rivals!), Alex Hassell grabbed the brass ring as Shakespeare’s Henry V
Silvia Tcherassi’s Guide to Cartagena
The Colombian fashion designer shares her favorite spots in the port city
A Champion for Clara
Alexandra Dariescu makes a specialty of the other Schumann piano concerto
Crafting Modernity
An exhibition of tapestries by Joan Miró, Henri Matisse, Alexander Calder, and others celebrates the craft’s 20th-century shift from classicism to modernism
The World in Watercolor
Adam Van Doren’s paintings, inspired by J. M. W. Turner and John Singer Sargent, go on show in Boston
Bunkers on Broadway
The playwright Patrick Marber has long struggled with tackling the Holocaust onstage. But now he’s happily directing a revival of Mel Brooks’s The Producers—complete with high-kicking storm troopers
A Christmas Mitzvah
From movie outings to crispy egg rolls, a guide to the yuletide season, the Jewish way
I’m Dreaming of a … Pink Christmas?
The holidays in Oaxaca, Mexico, bring cheer, gifts, and a fierce, century-old competition involving radishes, of all things
The Last Jazz-Manouche Bar in Paris
The dying art of Gypsy jazz is alive and well at La Chope des Puces, a historic bar tucked behind the 18th Arrondissement
All in the Family
Not much is as it seems in Ingmar Bergman’s late, great, very spooky Yuletide bonbon Fanny and Alexander
Ignacio Mattos’s Guide to Punta del Este
The Uruguayan chef and restaurateur behind New York’s Estela, Lodi, and Altro Paradiso shares his favorite spots in the seaside city
Going, Going … Godard
Centered around Jean-Luc Godard’s last works, an exhibition in London honors the French New Wave filmmaker’s final years
Rock v. Wade
Singing and abortion rights converge in 1972, a new rock opera from the musician and activist Chadwick Stokes, produced by Laurie David and Sybil Gallagher
Sebastián Faena’s Guide to Buenos Aires
The filmmaker and photographer shares his favorite spots in his home city
Lifting the Veil
The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which dramatizes the ongoing turmoil in Iran, is itself an act of protest
The Push Pin Attitude
How the scrappy, ingenious founders of New York City’s Push Pin Studios revolutionized 20th-century graphic design—and left a lasting mark on the culture
Rare Bird, Bass Division
Peixin Chen’s amazing journey from Inner Mongolia to the great lyric stages of the West
Daria Kolomiec
The Ukrainian D.J. and activist is using music and storytelling as a war cry
Hamlet in Lockdown
How Sir Ian McKellen spent (part of) his pandemic
