THE MAGAZINE
From Berlin with Love: “Nureyev” - The Price of Freedom
The Staatsballett Berlin premiere of Nureyev could not have been more timely. From the repressive force of Putin’s regime to LGBTQ rights, exile, and the price of artistic freedom, this striking “biography ballet” traces the life of Rudolf Nureyev through memory, objects, and movement, revealing how politics continues to shape the legacy of one of ballet’s most uncompromising figures.
From New York with Love: Notes from the Underground
The New York subway is more than transit. From ceramic mosaics and modernist maps to hidden bronze figures and fleeting poems, Olivia Merola traces the art of moving underground through the city’s shifting narratives. Read on for more.
From London with Love: Is Lucian Freud Overrated?
What happens when Peggy Guggenheim sells your first paintings–and Sigmund Freud is your grandfather? Visiting Lucian Freud’s latest show at London’s National Portrait Gallery, “Drawing into Painting,” I went in curious and left underwhelmed. Read on to find out why.
From Berlin with Love: The Miraculous Return of a Cello Legend
Rain, empty seats, and a changed programme set the scene. What followed was a fragile, powerful encounter with Mischa Maisky—part concert, part reckoning with resilience, ageing, and what it means to return to music after the body almost gives in. Read on for more.
From London with Love: On Lee Miller and the End of Innocence
From Vogue photoshoots to pictures taken in Hitler’s bathtub, Lee Miller’s exhibition at Tate Britain was not what I expected. Read on to discover the erotics, travels, and violence of photography–and find out how a woman’s work defined 20th-century photography.
Letter from New York: Merry Christmas from the Queen of the Night
Join our New York correspondent on a crisp walk through Midtown Manhattan and greet Christmas with the Queen of the Night at the Metropolitan Opera.
Cambridge at Christmas: Quiet Streets, Hidden Traditions, and the Songs You Hear After Dark
Christmas in Cambridge isn’t only found in lights and market stalls—it lingers in quiet streets, late-night footsteps, and the echoes of song after dark. TWoA follows a winter wander through the city, tracing modern student rituals back to Josiah Chater’s 1840s diary and discovering how Christmas survives in the gentlest, most surprising sounds.
From Bruges with Love: Digital Surrealism in Medieval Bruges - “Dalí Cybernetics”
Bruges’s medieval streets welcome an immersive Dalí experience. Yet can a city defined by history support the next chapter of digital art? Melis Seven finds out.
From London with Love: The King of Vogue
A new exhibition is up at London’s National Portrait Gallery: Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World. Step inside the gallery to see how Beaton went from a war photographer to set and stage designer to the King of Vogue. Crisp, direct, and slightly cynical, this is your guide to the latest happenings in London.
From New York with Love: Halloween
Halloween in New York carries its own kind of theatre—costumes, orchestras, and a city that refuses to do anything halfway. This letter moves from childhood memories to a live screening of Psycho, where Herrmann’s strings cut through the hall as sharply as Hitchcock’s edits. Read it now and enjoy some Halloween vibes from NYC.
From New York with Love: Connecting With People
Autumn shows up in New York not on the sidewalks, but in the seats of City Center, where Fall for Dance turns a single evening into a study in how people meet. TWoA follows the night from a pre-show class to the final curtain, watching dancers and audiences negotiate rhythm, effort, and each other. Read this article for a City Letter about connection in its simplest, most unguarded forms.
From Berlin with Love: Gods and Dogs
Berlin’s Festival of Lights floods the city with colour, but inside the Staatsoper the evening turns darker, sharper, and more human. In this article, TWoA follows a night with Staatsballett Berlin as Kylián’s Gods and Dogs and Crystal Pite’s Angels’ Atlas trace loneliness, community, and the uneasy politics humming beneath the surface. Read on for more.
From London with Love: The Art of the Market
Auctions, galleries, dealers—the art world’s holy trinity. But behind Bond Street’s polished façades lies a performance of sleight, spectacle, and subtle inflation. Read our newest Letter from London to discover what truly happens when masterpieces change hands.
From Istanbul with Love: Where Are You Understood?
From Beyoğlu’s streets to Anna Laudel’s galleries, Melis traces her shift from student to curator in this TWoA City Letter—and explores what it means to create, belong, and be understood.
From London with Love: The Power of Abstraction
Why does abstraction make us pause, tilt our heads, and fall silent? In this TWoA letter from London, Louisa traces a journey through Tate Modern—Mondrian, Malevich, Choucair, Pollock, Rothko—to ask how abstraction helps us see a changing world differently. Read on.
From New York with Love: Reflections on Life, Ballet and Becoming a Doctor
Powerful performances make us think differently about our own lives. From New York, Olivia traces how ABT’s Woolf Works sparks questions about growth, care, and the cycles that shape us.
From London with Love: A Night with Vivaldi
A night at St James’ Church turns into an unexpected meditation on memory, music, and the pull of live performance. In this TWoA letter, Maya listens to Beethoven and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons by candlelight—and finds herself tracing the moments that stay with us long after the final note.
From New York with Love: The Frick Collection
With the Frick’s 2025 reopening, a visit to the Upper East Side feels less like a museum trip and more like slipping into a remembered century—emerald rooms, gold-leaf frames, and women whose painted gazes echo across time. Olivia writes from New York about art, weather, and the selves we meet in between.
From London with Love: A Night at the Moulin Rouge
Soho isn’t just a postcode—it’s the pulse of London after dark. In this glitter-soaked TWoA City Letter, follow Maya into the heart of the West End for a night at Moulin Rouge: neon windmills, velvet decadence, and the kind of London chaos where theatre, food, and nightlife blur into one unforgettable story. If you want to know London the way Londoners do, start here.
From New York with Love: The New York Philharmonic
What does a night with the New York Philharmonic feel like? In this luminous TWoA City Letter, follow Olivia up Ninth Avenue into a transformed David Geffen Hall, where Gustavo Dudamel leads Varèse, Ravel, and Gershwin on a voyage that turns New York into something mythic. A love letter to the Philharmonic, to spring, and to the magic of hearing a city through its orchestra.