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Behind Enemy Lines

Finding Gaudí

How the playful details of Antoni Gaudí’s architecture turned one critic into an admirer

Spring Breakers

A new book of photographs evokes the sun-and-booze-soaked days of British holidayers in southern Spain during the 60s and beyond

Kahlo Incorporated

How did Frida Kahlo go from being a little-known artist to a feminist icon to a global brand?

All That Is Solid Melts into Theory

How did a once obscure academic notion called “gender identity” triumph over material reality? Credit—or blame—Judith Butler

Randy Andy Goes Postal

The grubbing and wheedling correspondence of Prince Andrew and Fergie

Brancusi’s Magnum Opus

Bronze, wood, marble, stone … the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, presents the sculptor’s largest retrospective since 1995

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

In A Gentleman in Moscow, the actress beguiles the hero, played by her real-life husband, Ewan McGregor

The Refugee’s Storyteller

Block Head

Nathan Sawaya left his Wall Street law firm to play with Lego. Now his painstaking brick creations sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars

Underworld Toff

He broke out in The White Lotus, and now he’s the lead on Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen. There’s also Bond chatter—but Theo James isn’t buying it

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Pip Carter’s Sketchbook

Who’s Killing the Great Languages of Europe?

On this week’s podcast, Elena Clavarino reports on why—from Italy to Germany to France—English is now on everyone’s tongue

Lunch with Matt Bomer

On this week’s episode of Table for Two, Hollywood’s “most handsome man” discusses getting his start in a Chuck Norris movie, auditioning for The All New Mickey Mouse Club, and much more …

Three Faces of Lise

The Norwegian soprano of the hour explores the heroines of Richard Strauss

A Touch of Smut

Wayne Koestenbaum has been writing seriously salacious poetry for decades. A new collection about New York and its denizens gets down and dirty

Reaching for the Starman

How a stylist went from cutting David Bowie’s mother’s hair to joining the rockstar’s rollicking Ziggy Stardust tour

Anthony Boyle

The Irish actor perfected a Southern drawl to play John Wilkes Booth in Apple TV+’s new thriller

Murder, They Wrote

Revenge—served hot, cold, and everywhere in between—dominates this month’s new mystery books

Paul Cox’s Sketchbook

Introducing the Vermont Country Store’s New Adult Section

Where kinky meets crunchy

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Photography’s Shooting Star

Exhibitions in London and New York honor the prodigious photographer who left behind a timeless body of work following her death, at just 22