A Grand Scale
Paris’s Grand Palais has undergone a $546 million renovation that could well turn it into an attraction to rival the Eiffel Tower
Exit, Pursued by Applause
The hit-making artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater—André Bishop—steps down after 33 years
Up Close and Personal
Heartbeat Opera posts its acclaimed Salome on YouTube
The Miracle at the Truck Stop
At the height of his fame, Burt Reynolds had a dream: to open a dinner theater in the middle of nowhere
Down to Earth
Emily Kam Kngwarray’s first major European exhibition, in London, showcases the late Aboriginal painter’s deep connection to her native Australia
The Dancing Queen Reigns Forever
Despite Abba’s unpopularity in Sweden, the Eurovision sensation managed to appeal to both the West and the East—in the middle of the Cold War
Robert Doisneau’s Paris
Hundreds of the French photographer’s pictures of everyone from miners to countesses to artists—including Picasso—go on display
Treasure Trove
Confiscated by the Nazis during the Second World War, works by everyone from Cézanne to Picasso collected by a Jewish Holocaust survivor go on show in Australia
Bob Evans’s Rolodex to the Rescue
The making of the starriest, most hastily forgotten, and least effective anti-drug special of all time
Caillebotte’s Circle
A Gustave Caillebotte exhibition in Chicago highlights the Impressionist’s paintings of the family, friends, and sitters who shaped his work
Fashion Forward
An exhibition in Paris celebrates Paul Poiret, the early-20th-century couturier who freed women from corsets and inspired designers from Christian Dior to John Galliano
A Match Made in Hell
Suicides, Nazi-esque orgies, and a classic P. G. Wodehouse character: the radioactive legacy of British Fascist Oswald Mosley and Diana Mitford
Shake It Off
Panic Shack, an obscure female punk band from Wales, has gone viral on TikTok, thanks to their girl-power dance moves
A Dutchman in Dublin
Gung-ho Wagner from the Irish National Opera
Alexandre de Betak’s Guide to Paris
The fashion show producer shares his favorite design shops in his hometown
Summer of Cézanne
In Aix-en-Provence, a wave of exhibitions pays tribute to the French painter
Blanca Miró Scrimieri’s Guide to Barcelona
The Spanish fashion designer and co-founder of La Veste shares her favorite spots in her hometown
White Knight In the Trauma Center
From Paris, Kirill Serebrennikov’s off-the-rails Lohengrin
Band of Brothers
How the Gallagher siblings broke up Oasis five minutes before going onstage in front of 40,000 people
The Book of Earthly Delights
Just outside Paris, a new exhibition displays the luminous pages of an illustrated prayer book commissioned in the 15th century by Jean, the Duke of Berry
Christine Sun Kim’s Guide to Berlin
The American artist shares her favorite spots in her adopted city
Front Lines
In his illustrations of war, the British artist George Butler adds color to the oft overlooked human experiences behind global conflicts
Magda Butrym’s Guide to Warsaw
The Polish fashion designer shares her favorite spots in her hometown
Fifty Shades of White
A Robert Ryman retrospective goes up at David Zwirner’s Hong Kong outpost, marking the monochrome painter’s first solo exhibition in Greater China