Joy Rider
Rowland Emett’s A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley heads to auction at Bonhams London
Museum-Going Etiquette
Spoiler alert: you’re not the most fascinating thing in the place
Year of the Moon
Museums and stages across the world celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing
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