It Was a Great Week for …
… the United States Congress (or, anyway, better than the week Pyotr Kikilyk had—more on him in a moment): Robert Mueller’s testimony was delayed till July 24, freeing up Democrats to bicker among themselves…
July 20, 2019
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Sweden
Hive-Minded
To raise awareness about the world’s imperiled bee population, McDonald’s franchises in Stockholm and…
Italy
Caffè Finito? Non Ancora!
Although the Italian government declared Antico Caffè Greco a cultural treasure in 1953, jaded Romans know…
Indonesia
Good Reef
In an effort to protect marine life from global warming, UNESCO has cordoned off part of the Coral Triangle…
and say that I wish Ted the best of luck in all his future endeavors.”
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Altuzarra ‘Espadrille’ Tote
It travels easily and often on a red-eye to Seoul or a puddle jumper to Mustique…
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Roxanne Assoulin
No offense to the finer stuff, but Roxanne Assoulin’s costume jewelry often delivers…
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Anglo-Italian
“What would Gianni Agnelli wear?” It’s a question more than a few men ask themselves. In 2019, we have…
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Honda Vamos
Many 1970s cars had names that could have been rock bands: Thing, Mini Moke, and the Jimny. Lightweight, utilitarian…
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Altuzarra ‘Espadrille’ Tote
It travels easily and often on a red-eye to Seoul or a puddle jumper to Mustique…
Shop
Roxanne Assoulin
No offense to the finer stuff, but Roxanne Assoulin’s costume jewelry often delivers…
Shop
Anglo-Italian
“What would Gianni Agnelli wear?” It’s a question more than a few men ask themselves. In 2019, we have…
Drive
Honda Vamos
Many 1970s cars had names that could have been rock bands: Thing, Mini Moke, and the Jimny. Lightweight, utilitarian…
On the Internet
Instagroan The End of Silent Suffering
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Vue de Signac
The art of French Neo-Impressionist painter Paul Signac is in high demand. So much so that, in May of last year, his 1915 depiction of the port of La Rochelle, valued at about $1.7 million, was stolen from the Museum of Fine Arts in Nancy, France. (This spring, it was recovered in Ukraine and returned to the museum.) Signac, born in 1863, is best known for his contributions alongside Georges Seurat to the pointillism movement. Throughout his career, Signac also painted watercolors: Lézardrieux, l’Église, painted in Brittany, circa 1929, is on view at Sotheby’s in advance of its sale in the Impressionist and Modern Art Online auction on July 24.
The Man Behind the Craigslist for Sloanes and Squires
“What ho, Nigel!”
Rigoletto, Alfresco
For drop-dead operatic dazzle on a colossal scale, the Bregenz Festival’s floating stage at the Austrian end of Lake Constance takes a back seat to no showcase on earth, not even the fabled Verona Arena. Conventional scenic design is useless here. The action is far away. Nuance is a lost cause. What’s needed is an extravagant visual metaphor that distills the essence of the classic at hand. Engineered like spaceships, each show takes months to build and runs for two seasons, to almost invariably sold-out houses. The new attraction this year is Rigoletto, Verdi’s twisty tragedy of a court jester’s revenge. —Matthew Gurewitsch
Austria’s Bregenz Festival, on through August 18, features Verdi’s Rigoletto on the lake.
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Nielsen Enchanted
It’s not every fairy-tale illustrator who could pull off collaborations with both Walt Disney and Karl Lagerfeld, but the Danish artist Kay Nielsen (1886–1957) forged a sophisticated aesthetic that embraced the strangeness of these tales while mirroring the latent eroticism that have made them stick for centuries. He was, in a word, catnip to big-time make-believers like Disney and Lagerfeld. READ ON
“The Twelve Dancing Princesses,” a Brothers Grimm fairy tale,
was illustrated by Kay Nielsen for In Powder and Crinoline, published in 1913.
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The E-Cyclopic
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The Ratline
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Eat
Mogador Macaron
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Watch
The Candidate
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Ride
The E-Cyclopic
Few sights are more ludicrous than a rider on a foldable bike.…
Listen
The Ratline
Anyone who wonders how so many Nazis managed to evade justice after World War II must tune in to The Ratline…
Eat
Mogador Macaron
India’s famous pastry chef, Pooja Dhingra, has a thing for Paris. She named her Mumbai bakery chain…
Watch
The Candidate
Narcos isn’t the only television series that takes a hard, hypnotic look at Latin American corruption…
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