In the mid-1990s, as the surviving Beatles were putting the finishing touches on their Anthology series of archival-trawl albums, Paul McCartney and George Harrison joked that their next release would of necessity be called “Scraping...

I recently survived a screening of the two-hour-and-37-minute film that is House of Gucci. The shiny, ambitious, beautifully filmed and costumed tale of greed and murder is stunning by the sheer number of stars that...

Elon Musk is now the richest man in world history, with an estimated worth of $271 billion. That’s 271 followed by nine zeros, or, to put it another way, more than the net worth of...

Norman Jewison, now 95 and long retired, despite having directed some of the best-known and consequential movies of the past 50 years in every genre—The Cincinnati Kid; The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming;...

How much money is too much money? MacKenzie Scott may have the answer.The ex-wife of the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who according to Forbes is the 21st richest person on the planet with a net...

Among the first female photographers to represent the female nude, Imogen Cunningham challenged gender restrictions in both her profession and her art. Given the span of her career, from 1910 to the mid-70s, the variety...

There are inauspicious times to launch a business and then there are disastrous ones. Alexia Inge chose the latter. It was 2008 and the global financial crisis was in full swing. In February, Northern Rock...

The Italian city of commerce used to be just that. As recently as five years ago, Milan was dismissed by many as the “ugly city,” where lawyers and bankers labored inside gray office complexes and...

Horror movies don’t usually disturb Flora Collins. But after she watched Jordan Peele’s Us—the 2019 thriller in which all humans have doubles living underground, waiting to escape and slaughter their aboveground twin—she left the theater...

After millennia of minding its own business, the Greek island of Mílos is having a moment. Travel + Leisure recently named it the top island in the world. Louis Vuitton has been filming ads there....

My mother was killed in a Dixie Highway car accident in Miami 15 years ago this month. My wife and I spent that awful “holiday season” living in Bruce Weber and Nan Bush’s Golden Beach...

If artistic genius summons the image of a wild-eyed dervish stalking a paint-splattered studio, then René Magritte ignored the memo. The Belgian surrealist didn’t even have a studio, or at least not one that he...

Though Harry Bosch and Renée Ballard get equal billing above the title, this book really belongs to Detective Ballard, Bosch’s spiritual sister and fellow maverick. Whether this indicates the passing of the torch, or just...

Imagine looking out the large plate-glass windows at London’s Heathrow Airport onto the tarmac, waiting for your flight. As you idly watch these wide-body planes, you might notice they’re stacked up on the runway, waiting...

Sharon Stone’s acting career is familiar territory to anyone who has graced a movie theater or turned on a television over the course of the past four decades. In that realm, she is as prolific...

There are few things worse than becoming inured to the magical powers of a song. How quickly we disc junkies go from playing our treasured tunes on repeat to feeling sick at the sound of...