06/24/2024. The wallpapered-room is filled with antiques and a menagerie of blinged-out taxidermy. A 24-foot-long banquet table has been laid out, but the dinner guests seem to have disappeared, leaving their coats behind. On the table: nucleated eyeballs nestli...

06/24/2024. Ron Simons, who left his job as an executive at Microsoft to pursue his dream of acting but later found his métier as a theatrical producer — one of the relatively few Black ones on Broadway — and won four Tony Awards, died June 12. He was ...

06/25/2024. In the hills above Kamakura, the ancient samurai capital of Japan, Brian Heywood is overseeing 12 workmen as they put the finishing touches on his new home. Framed by blossoming yamazakura cherry trees, the sprawling aerie looks west over Sagami Bay,...

06/25/2024. There will be magic in the mountains of north Georgia the week of July 1st when Black Bear Antiques and Interiors officially opens its doors to the public. The 21,000-square-foot antique ...

06/25/2024. For a night at the symphony, there was a lot of tension in the air. As concertgoers filed in to Davies Symphony Hall this month, they were greeted by players from the San Francisco Symphony passing out bright yellow flyers accusing the management ...

06/26/2024. For decades, visitors flocking to New York for Pride every June found plenty of packed bars and jubilant parties but no easy way to engage with the city’s rich LGBTQ history. Even the area around Sheridan Square, the center of the 1969 Stonew...

06/26/2024. The Fundació Joan Miró presents the first solo exhibition in Spain by Vietnamese American artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen (Saigon, 1976), winner of the eighth edition of the Joan Miró Prize. The show includes some of his most poignant recent video installa...

06/27/2024. Eric Hazan, an influential publisher who brought to France’s attention some of the country’s most incendiary left-wing writers and who was himself a distinctive historian of Paris, died there June 6. He was 87. His death was confirmed by...

06/27/2024. Russell Morash, a public television producer and director who helped turn a cookbook author, Julia Child, into America’s chef and transformed bathroom tile replacement and roof repair into addictive TV with “This Old House,” died on June 19 in Concor...

06/28/2024. In the dining room of her cozy home in Washington, D.C., Mary Timony retrieved her lute from an instrument case that, she joked, “looks like a cat coffin.” Timony, 53, has been on a learning kick recently. “Literally all I’m worki...

06/29/2024. In 2024, as part of its 40th anniversary celebrations, the Fondation de l’Hermitage hosts an exceptional exhibition in partnership with the Museum Langmatt, Baden. This magnificent collection of primarily Impressionist works, acquired between 19...

06/29/2024. The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam says it will return an Henri Matisse painting that has been in its collection since 1941 to the heirs of its former owner, a German-Jewish textile manufacturer and art patron who sold it to fund his family’s esc...

06/29/2024. Central London’s vibrant Fitzrovia neighborhood – an urban village with a bohemian history – is home to many celebrities and art-centric businesses, including Apollo Art Auctions<...

06/30/2024. Paul Sperry, a tenor who championed little-known American art song and spiky contemporary works, and was praised for his incisive performances of the classics, died June 13 in New York. He was 90. His death, in a hospital, was caused by heart fail...

06/30/2024. To many fashionable women in the mid-20th century, no hat was worth wearing unless it was made by Otto Lucas. A London-based milliner, Lucas designed chic turbans, berets and cloches, often made from luxe velvets and silks and adorned with flowers...