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Laura Jacobs


Laura Jacobs is the editor of AIR MAIL’s Arts Intelligence Report. Jacobs, a dance critic and formerly a staff writer at Vanity Fair, is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal arts section. She is also the author of Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet. Jacobs lives in New York with her husband, the writer James Wolcott.

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Bird’s Eye View

Museums may be shuttered, but birding is not halted by pandemics. In New York City, a rare visit from three forest-dwelling Barred Owls

Good Grief

New exhibitions spotlight the work of Anselm Kiefer and Berlinde de Bruyckere, artists evoking the pain and mourning of today

Arab Baroque

Bulbs for Spring

This month, a design exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and a lamp show in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, explore the poetics of light

Sight and Sound

Eye on Dance, a weekly interview show that ran from 1981 to 2004, was required watching in the dance world. A special archival episode from 1986 is now available for streaming

From Morocco, with Style—and Wit

Doug Varone in Ten Acts

The choreographer’s first pandemic piece is a mini-series of short films, set to songs from the 1940s and 50s and produced through Zoom

Bourgeois Fever

A long career. A merciless eye. Implacable life force. In museums and galleries, Louise Bourgeois is the queen to Picasso’s king

Where Photography and Fashion Meet

A new volume unites the work of two greats: the photographer Peter Lindbergh and the couturier Azzedine Alaïa

La Scala’s Shining Star

Remembering the Italian ballerina Carla Fracci, Milan’s star dancer who died last month aged 84

Mirror Imaging

The Glass Menagerie

From Czech sea creatures to Venetian vessels to contemporary sculptures, exhibitions across the world take glass art in delightfully different directions

All in the Family

Cosmic Yuri

A new biography details the life of Yuri Soloviev, the best ballet dancer you’ve never heard of

Dior Dreaming

Accompanying an exhibition on Christian Dior at New York’s Brooklyn Museum, an elegant volume spans the many iterations of the French fashion house

Yves Saint Laurent aux Musées

Madame D’Ora! Wien & Paris, 1907–1957

Music Fit for the Medicis

An Untitled Love

Jewels

Head Hi 3rd Annual Lamp Show

Cornell Lab Bird Cams

Seeing Gender

Swan Lake