The Old Romantic
From Dresden to Berlin, museums celebrate Caspar David Friedrich, the pioneer of German Romanticism who was born 250 years ago
A Feminist Frankenstein
Director Yorgos Lanthimos and screenwriter Tony McNamara discuss their new film, Poor Things, starring Emma Stone as a child-woman like no other
The Best Renaissance Artist You’ve Never Heard Of
At London’s National Gallery, the first-ever exhibition devoted to Francesco Pesellino’s work goes on view
Valhalla Karaoke
Das Rheingold according to Romeo Castellucci
When Life Gives You Lemons …
Produced by Pauline Chalamet and directed by Rachel Walden, the short film Lemon Tree is inspired by a true story from Walden’s grandfather’s childhood
In Lichtenstein’s Shadow
In honor of the Pop artist’s 100th birthday, the Parrish Art Museum is restoring a pair of his kinetic sculptures
Sight Unseen
Alice Mason was a celebrated hostess and New York’s real-estate agent to the elite, but while she was showing lavish apartments to clients like Marilyn Monroe, she was hiding a family secret
Silent Night, Holy Night
The John Adams Nativity oratorio El Niño, distilled
A Lasting Impression
Drawings and watercolors on paper by Impressionists ranging from Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec go on view in London
We All Make Mystiques
The unforgettable night in New York when Jackie Kennedy watched as opera’s greatest diva sang Tosca and bungled the high C
Calder on Their Minds
A Seattle power-collector couple’s love for the great American artist of suspended sculptures reaches new heights at the Seattle Art Museum
Your Grandmother’s Oklahoma!
“Better than the original!” raved Mary Rodgers, the composer’s daughter
School for Scoundrels
Eton College has long played an outsize role in Great Britain’s public life. It’s where some of the country’s most prominent figures were schooled in the art of dissembling
The C-Spot
Nothing validates the dictum that the U.S. and the U.K. are “two nations divided by a common language” quite like this single, four-letter word
The Riling Class
Before the British Invasion, there was the satire boom. Its ground zero was a grotty strip joint turned nightclub in Soho that Peter Cook re-christened “the Establishment”
Whiz Syd
A new documentary traces Syd Barrett’s enigmatic life, from co-founding Pink Floyd to dropping out of the music industry entirely
From Tree to Tree
The hidden history of London’s most interesting—and complicated—family
The New Tribes of London
The traditional types—the Hampstead Intellectual, the Chelsea Hooray, the Shoreditch Hipster—have bitten the dust. Meet the new clichés populating the city’s streets
Pieced Together
In Switzerland, an exhibition of Deborah Turbeville’s collages gives the model turned artist her long-overdue recognition
Pasolini’s Inferno
A fellow persecuted Italian intellectual revisits the little-remembered trials and tribulations that the writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini withstood in the name of his art—up until the end
Can You Take Me Back?
Nearly 30 years after Yoko Ono handed Paul McCartney a fuzzy John Lennon demo titled “Now and Then,” the Beatles have their last-ever song, courtesy of Peter Jackson and A.I.—and it’s incredible
True Grit
Over a six-decade career, Jean–Pierre Laffont, the photojournalist who will receive the French Legion of Honor this month, chronicled everything from street scenes to social movements
Hojotoho!
Sprung from the archives at last, Riccardo Muti’s Die Walküre at La Scala
Lights at the End of the Tunnel
An exhibition of charming tube posters from the Golden Age of Travel goes on show at the London Transport Museum