When the Ritz Theatre Company raises the curtain on Trolls and Men on Friday, October 9, the audience will be watching something no one has seen before: a world premiere about a small Norwegian theatre company that refused to be silenced during the Nazi occupation. The play's director, Lori Aleixo-Howard, is also the Ritz's full-time Director of Development, and she wears both hats with evident pleasure.

Two months of arts and culture arrive in one edition. August and September 2026 brought farewells to two giants of the arts, a season of festivals that filled the streets of Edinburgh and London, a Golden Lion in Venice, and a run of museum openings that changed the map of the cultural year.

Huck Smith's second essay collection almost had a different name. For most of its life the manuscript was called Raider at the Door, after his dog, and people kept assuming he had written a thriller.

From September 15 to October 15, the United States celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month, honoring the histories, cultures, and contributions of Americans whose roots trace to Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Spain. For a magazine rooted in the cultures of the Caribbean and the Americas, it is a celebration close to the heart.

Every August, the city of Edinburgh transforms into the beating heart of the performing arts world. For most of the month, this year from August 7 to 31, 2026, the Scottish capital hosts the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the largest arts festival on the planet, where thousands of shows spill out of theaters, church halls, basements, courtyards, and street corners in a nonstop celebration of human creativity.

The events described in this roundup have taken place. With the great spring fairs behind it, July settled into the rhythm of the museum season, the months when blockbuster exhibitions, rather than auctions and fairs, define where the art world is looking.