Miloš Karadaglić
The reigning superstar of the classical guitar on recalibrating his priorities
Nuptials of the Rich and Famous
Things are a little different at celebrity weddings. There are certain rules
Going Mad!
An exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum, in Massachusetts, offers a window into the mad, mad world of the historic humor magazine
Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Guide to Basel
The curator, critic, and artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries shares his favorite spots in the Swiss art town
Fish Tales
An exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum, in Massachusetts, highlights more than 40 delightfully illustrated editions of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick
Tish Weinstock’s Guide to London
The beauty editor and fashion fixture shares her tips on where to find everything from Edwardian lace to Chanel tweed in her home city
Murder, They Wrote
This month’s best mystery books, podcasts, and TV series
Along Came Polly
Polly Jean Harvey, the fearless singer and two-time Mercury Prize winner known as PJ Harvey, blends her recent work with 90s classics on her European summer tour
Hoaxing the Nazis
Using fake tanks, movie-set designers, and an all-too-real General Patton, the Allies ingeniously fooled Hitler in the run-up to D-day
Satch Is Back!
Five spectacular and previously unheard Louis Armstrong recordings from 1968 are finally being released by the BBC, showing him to be a great entertainer to the last
The Daumier of La Dolce Vita
Ava Gardner kicked him in the groin, Peter O’Toole socked him in the ear, and this month Gérard Depardieu pounded him to a pulp. But 79-year-old Rino Barillari isn’t slowing down
Infinity Times Four
From the Donmar Warehouse in London, Nick Payne’s Constellations
Angelica Hicks’s Guide to Brooklyn
The British illustrator and Internet personality shares her go-to restaurants, shops, and bars near her home in Carroll Gardens
The Bloomsbury Group’s Dark Horse
A new exhibition in London pays homage to Virginia Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell, a long-overlooked pioneer of modern art in Britain
The Nanny Diaries
A solo show in New York honors Vivian Maier, the 20th-century nanny and amateur photographer whose richly nuanced work is only now getting its due
The Way Things Were
Morris Engel’s 1980s telephone-booth photos—published for the first time in AIR MAIL—harken back to a bygone New York City
Tom Lehrer Doesn’t Want to Talk to You
How did one of the world’s greatest satirists nearly fade into obscurity?
Jonny Johansson’s Guide to Stockholm
The creative director and co-founder of Acne Studios shares his favorite spots in the Swedish capital
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
In Basel, Anne Sofie von Otter dismantles Schubert’s Winterreise, to transformative effect
Dafydd Jones’s Guide to New York City
The British photographer who captured Manhattan’s high society in the 80s and 90s shares his favorite—and most nostalgic—New York spots
The Afterlife of the Bauhaus
An exhibition in Weimar, Germany, untangles the contradictory legacy of the modernist movement amid the rise of Nazism
Iké Udé’s Guide to Lagos
From beach clubs to hidden art hubs, the Nigerian-American photographer and performer shares his go-to’s in his native city
A Ballet with a Twist
Cathy Marston premieres Atonement, an adaptation of Ian McEwan’s 2001 novel and her first creation as the new director of Ballett Zürich
Morphine, Booze, and Roaring
Brian Cox, Succession’s raging paterfamilias, takes on a Eugene O’Neill classic alongside a dazzling Patricia Clarkson
