The country’s signature sweet tastes even better at its charming seaside. Five places to find the fluffiest, crispiest and most decadent Belgian waffles. Plus: Advice on the easiest way to explore the Belgian coast. Read more

In the middle of a 2016 Grand Slam season marked by outrageous displays of style—cartoonish Day-Glo colors, risqué cutouts and corny zebra prints—comes the breath of fresh, crisp air that is Wimbledon, an event known for its traditional rules about tennis-court attire. 

BACK TO THE FUTURE? Kevin Systrom is the founder of image and video-sharing app Instagram. ‘If you look all the way back to the way people communicated initially, there were pictograms, hieroglyphics and cave paintings,’ he says.  Read more

“You hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower,” she complained in 1939. “You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower—and I don’t.” Read more.

The Lululemon CEO on workout trends, yoga pants and why he shuns email. Read more

The Goulandris collection is now at the center of one of the biggest and most complex legal disputes over art in Europe. The saga involves a collection of treasures that have largely been hidden for the past two decades, a secret seller using an offshore company to put up paintings for auction and a fight that boils down to one nonexistent will and one cryptic one. Read more. 

Artist Vik Muniz collects copies of the backsides of major paintings like other people collect baseball cards. In the past 15 years, he and a team of specialists have traveled extensively to photograph and meticulously re-create the B-sides of masterworks such as van Gogh’s 1889 “Starry Night” and Grant Wood’s 1930 “American Gothic” as sculptural objects. Read more.

From Rembrandt’s famous works and favorite haunts to canal-house museums that give you a front-row seat to Dutch history, our guide to culture-rich Amsterdam

Baseball teams have come and gone, but the collector’s cards will always be with us. An exhibit at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, opening on June 10, “The Old Ball Game,” will feature nearly 300 cards (many focused on New York players) from 1887 to 1977. Drawing from the museum’s collection of more than 30,000 cards, the show chronicles their evolution, says curator Allison Rudnick—from larger pieces meant for cabinet displays in the 19th century to trading items. See more photos. 

For years, Annie Proulx was intrigued—and cowed—by the idea of writing a multicentury epic inspired by her Canadian ancestors. A vanishing forest helped her conquer those fears and complete the 713-page novel this year at age 80. Read more

The comedian on impersonating celebrities, not watching TV and her new show, ‘Maya and Marty’. Read more of the Weekend Confidential interview. 

For his new book ‘Beaches,’ photographer Gray Malin took to a helicopter. See more photos. 

‘Homegoing’ by Yaa Gyasi, Born in Ghana and Raised in the U.S.

Behind the sensational success of "Hamilton" are some of the most densely packed, complex rhyming lyrics in the history of musicals. How exactly do they work? Find out with our algorithm

Water lovers around the world are heading to resort areas in the Asia-Pacific for an amphibious lifestyle: buying luxury homes near surfing, snorkeling, deep-sea fishing and other world-class water sports.

Ten years after its independence, Montenegro is drawing international buyers with its mix of new luxury developments and historic coastal towns. 

Their home for the past 20 years has been Vanbrugh Castle, a fortresslike folly built around 1720 by Sir John Vanbrugh, a great Georgian-era architect and playwright.