“I Go Nowhere, See No One”
Greta Garbo’s letters, now up for auction, make public a rare glimpse of the star who loved solitude
Gold Diggers
Sebastião Salgado’s photographs capture the hope, despair, and human suffering in a Brazilian mine
A Modernist Marie Kondo
The architect and designer Charlotte Perriand went from Le Corbusier disciple to fearless visionary
Drop That Corn Dog
No platform is better suited for letting candidates bypass the hokey rituals of retail campaigning than the humble, motley podcast
Cynthia Talmadge
The American artist who takes inspiration from female courtroom villains—and their outfits
Cultural Evolution
A young audience, an impressive schedule, and a woman president: the 140-year-old Shanghai Symphony Orchestra is very much of the moment
George Stubbs, King of the Beasts
The 18th-century British painter was the “Liverpudlian Leonardo,” revered for his portraits of racehorses and other creatures
The Man of Mode
Tim Walker, one of fashion’s most talented eccentrics, reflects on his smashing new show at the V&A
Larger Than Life
This month, a number of exhibitions pay tribute to those artists that died too young
Lovable Geniuses, Preening Taskmasters?
Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, and the complicated truth about band—and Band—dynamics
