Cloud Atlas Dana Schutz, the artist behind the Emmett Till controversy, debuts her first solo show in London, “Shadow of a Cloud Moving Slowly”
Disconcerting The BBC scraps the “Rule, Britannia!” lyrics from a beloved music program for fear of re-awakening the woke, then reverses its reverse
Bach of Ages An interview with Chinese pianist Lang Lang, who is releasing two new recordings of Bach’s formidable Goldberg Variations
The Naked City With America’s newsrooms closed—some maybe for good—a veteran of the Daily News recalls the paper’s action-packed and alcohol-soaked heyday
Ready for Their Close-Up Duncan Hannah’s “love portraits” of European movie stars
Reappearing Inque An interview with the founder of a Kickstarter-funded literary magazine that’s defying the rules of digital media
August 12, 2020
Going, Going, Gonzo Ahead of the late writer’s centenary, celebrating Charles Bukowski’s work and mourning his world
August 11, 2020
The Movie Star’s Movie Star A new podcast evokes the advent of the Valley’s adult-film stars and the awe they earned from their Hollywood equivalents
Hidden Tunes “Whatever story I’m telling, I tell it through music.” An interview with Bruce Adolphe, the mind behind the wildly popular Piano Puzzlers
July 29, 2020
Southern Gothic New exhibitions at London’s Alison Jacques Gallery spotlight Black photographer Gordon Parks’s work chronicling the American South and more
July 28, 2020
007 Lives at No. 25 James Bond sleuths believe they have pinpointed his home in London—and discovered George Smiley was a neighbor
Winds of Change New exhibitions celebrate the outsize life and work of photographer Gordon Parks as well as the artist Khadija Saye, killed in the Grenfell Tower fire at 24
The Going Is Good At 61, Kathy Valentine, the subject of a new documentary on the Go-Go’s, shows no sign of slowing down
Catch Him on TikTok The coronavirus has returned the late Bob Ross, who hosted the wildly popular TV series The Joy of Painting, to the spotlight
July 22, 2020
