Elena Clavarino
The Rise and Fall of the Art World’s Gadfly
As “Jerry Gogosian,” Hilde Lynn Helphenstein found fame skewering the industry online. But after making her, the Internet destroyed her
The Hardest Day’s Night
With photographs by Jim Marshall, a new coffee-table book revisits the charged, melancholy night the Beatles played the last concert of their final tour
The Great Venetian Spritz Off
With Aperol losing its fizz, Cynar—a faintly medicinal, artichoke-based liqueur—is suddenly on the rise
To Italy with Love
A new coffee-table book offers a visual antidote to the country’s overtourism crisis, capturing its most untouched corners through the eyes of local photographers
Sophie Lou Jacobsen
Inspired by the Memphis Group and known for her playful, wavy home goods, the French-American designer is now channeling Italo disco in a new series unveiled at Milan’s Salone del Mobile
“Serious Photographs Disguised as Entertainment”
With the arrival of warmer weather, two new coffee-table books revisit the late Martin Parr’s wry pictures—and the environmental warning simmering beneath them
Cinema Paraíso
With its glory days as Brazil’s Hollywood long behind it, the northern city of Recife is having a film renaissance, powering productions such as the Oscar–nominated The Secret Agent
Cast Away
On the Caribbean island of Bequia, Mustique’s quieter sister, a cliffside compound likened to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and Antoni Gaudí’s Park Güell offers a different kind of luxury
When Eisie Met Loren
“She was the most captivating and the nicest and the most hardworking actress I’ve ever met”: a new coffee-table book collects the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt’s timeless pictures of the Italian cinema icon Sophia Loren
The View from Here
Why the next Winter Olympics may be hosted in the desert
The View from Here
An investigation has been launched into the Swiss nightclub fire that left 40 dead—many of them teenagers—but trust in the European system remains shaken
Modern Times
A new coffee-table book gathers the work of 300 designers—among them Florence Knoll, Lina Bo Bardi, and Charles Eames—whose creations shaped midcentury style around the world
If Having a Boyfriend Is Embarrassing, What Does That Mean About Husbands?
A viral Vogue article has our newly married editor in a tailspin
