Laura Carlin
The London artist whose illustrations and ceramics appeal to children and grown-ups alike
A Monster Among Angels
The Night of the Iguana, now in an eloquent production in London, is Tennessee Williams’s last great work
Hitler’s Blue Period
The Nazis stole Franz Marc’s masterpiece of German Expressionism, setting off an eight-decade search to find it
Not Your Ordinary Radioactive Meatball
Also: true and true-enough crime series to latch on to, set in L.A. and N.Y.
Electric Conductor
How Carlos Kleiber’s opera rehearsals influence the director of The French Connection
Will That Be All?
An exhibition re-creates the atmosphere of a Pompeiian banquet—just before the volcano erupted
Boris-Ripper
Britain’s new prime minister wrote a comic novel with racy language and racial slights
Green is the New Picasso
A slew of new exhibitions add urgency to the plight of the planet
