(1) How Capitalism Can Save Art: Camille Paglia on why a new generation has chosen iPhones and other glittering gadgets as its canvas (WSJ)

(2) Amateurs to the Rescue: Scrappy ‘makers’ add some spark to urban life (WSJ)

(3) A Lament for Lost Children (WSJ)

(4) From Weimar to the White Way: The composer Kurt Weill and his wife, the singer Lotte Lenya, thrived both in Berlin between the wars and on Broadway. (WSJ)

(5) What They Wore Before the War: A vivid memoir of the Nazis’ arrival in Vienna by a Jewish milliner who catered to the beau monde. (WSJ)