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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