Hilton Als

The actress’s nuanced ambivalence.

Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron

Also: the nostalgia of Vacation sunscreen, Tiler Peck’s Jerome Robbins festival, and more.

Bodies on display, in exhibitions of the work of Sanya Kantarovsky, Lisa Yuskavage, and Johannes Vermeer.

How the artist both hid and found himself in his work, which is featured in a new exhibition.

Willem de Kooning: Endless Painting

Jennie C. Jones’s “Ensemble”

The Human Situation

In “Superfine,” the Africana-studies scholar Monica L. Miller explores the links between style, self-presentation, and survival.

Also: The great Malian photographer Malick Sidibé, East L.A. Latinas in “Real Women Have Curves,” a Maria Callas look-alike contest in a cemetery, and more.