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The Martha Graham Dance Company won’t turn 100 until 2026, but evidently it’s not too early to start celebrating. The…

Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Frampton and Mary J. Blige are part of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s class…

The goal for “A Brief History of the Future” wasn’t to ignore climate change or other seam rippers of the…

The first model of the U.S.S. Enterprise, the starship that appeared in the opening credits of the original “Star Trek”…

Archie Moore, an Indigenous Australian artist who has created an installation including a monumental family tree, won the top prize…

Dinh Q. Le, a Vietnam-born artist whose best-known work combined and compared the on-the-ground realities of the 20th-century war that…

A vampire flick with a familiar bite. ‘Abigail’ A group of bumbling criminals kidnap a young girl and hold her…

Nine years ago, while recovering from a serious health crisis, the British society photographer Dafydd Jones decided to return to…

Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music Vampire Weekend recently released its fifth album, “Only God Was Above…

This interview includes spoilers for the ninth episode of “Shogun.” Her character on “Shogun” has just died, but Anna Sawai…

Faith Ringgold, who died Saturday at 93, was an artist of protean inventiveness. Painter, sculptor, weaver, performer, writer and social…

Book bans in public schools continued to surge in the first half of this school year, according to a report…

Maurice El Medioni, an Algerian-born pianist who fused Jewish and Arab musical traditions into a singular style he called “Pianoriental,”…

This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. Milan Design Week, which runs through Sunday,…

People in Venice might hear the jingle dress dancers before they see them. On April 18, some 26 intertribal Native…

Since Ford’s Theater reopened as an active theater in 1968, no one has staged a dramatic re-enactment of Abraham Lincoln…

“I think of quilts as the classic art form of Black people in America,” Ms. Ringgold told The Morning Call…

A president losing grip with reality. Warnings of environmental disaster and apocalypse. An early reference to the Covid vaccine. The…

“I may hold the world’s record for the person who has made the most documentaries about their family directing films,”…

In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their…

Executives at the rental car company Hertz knew what they wanted to project to potential business travelers in the 1970s:…

Movies directed by Francis Ford Coppola, David Cronenberg and Yorgos Lanthimos will compete for the Palme d’Or at this year’s…

In early February, the singer and songwriter Wyatt Flores relaxed on a green room couch in Nashville before headlining the…

In the late 15th century, when the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci completed “Vitruvian Man” — one of his…

Trevor Griffiths, a prolific and avowedly Marxist writer for stage and screen most widely known for his play “Comedians,” which…

The scream was just right — bloodcurdling, if also very funny — and the practical effects crew had finally found…

Casey Benjamin, who brought colorfully expansive saxophone flourishes to the Grammy-winning Robert Glasper Experiment and added rich layers of texture…

“This isn’t fun.” That’s what the choreographer Jamar Roberts told members of the Martha Graham Dance Company at a recent…

Cole Brings Plenty, an actor in the television series “1923,” was found dead on Friday in Kansas after his family…

John B. McLemore, a profanely outspoken, brilliant and troubled restorer of antique clocks, emerged a national figure in 2017 with…

When the musician Laurie Anderson was beginning her career in the early 1970s, an avant-garde artist who wanted to work…

Seinfeld himself has perhaps been the most vocal about the episode in the years since. In a 2014 Q. and…

Lynne Reid Banks, a versatile British author who began her writing career with the best-selling feminist novel “The L-Shaped Room”…

The defining experience of Ema Ryan Yamazaki’s childhood left her with badly scraped knees and her classmates with broken bones.…

For the last decade, Heartbeat Opera has treated the classics like rough drafts: The scores of “Carmen” and “Madama Butterfly,”…

Andrew Scott stars in a Netflix series that looks like what you might get if Antonioni or Resnais had directed…

Chris Domig was ready to throw in the towel. After a year-and-a-half-long search, a church chapel in Gramercy Park was…

Two Paris playhouses, both alike in dignity, putting on rival new Shakespeare productions. Thus expectations were high for a springtime…

The estate of the comedian George Carlin reached a settlement on Monday with the makers of a podcast who had…

Barbara Rush, the supremely poised actress who rose to fame with supporting roles in 1950s films like “Magnificent Obsession” and…

Starter episode: “The Worst Black Bear Attack in History: Part 1” Matt Pycroft, a filmmaker who specializes in documenting far-flung…

This article contains spoilers for “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.” By the end of “Godzilla x Kong: The New…

Julian Phethean’s first canvas in London was a shed in his backyard where he covered the walls with bold lettering…

The first time that Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead shot a scene together, they were in a bathtub, mostly…

Lizzo, the Grammy Award-winning singer and fashion entrepreneur, on Friday declared “I QUIT” on Instagram after citing online criticism she’s…

“You might send a message with the Taylor Swift audience in mind, and now you’re getting that message viewed with…

After decades of designing linear video game adventures such as the Ninja Gaiden and Nioh series, Team Ninja has dropped…

First it was the streamers: the seismic arrival of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+ and the rest, offering television’s…

Vernor Vinge, a mathematician and prolific science fiction author who in the 1980s wrote a novella that offered an early…

The British Museum on Thursday named Nicholas Cullinan, an art historian who currently leads the National Portrait Gallery in London,…

For the past week the best drama on NBC — apologies to Dick Wolf — has been in the news…

The audience for podcasts continue to grow, with 42 percent of Americans 12 and older reporting last year that they…

In just over five minutes, the price soared with a winning in-person bid of $575,000. With a fee to the…

Federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security on Monday raided homes in the Los Angeles area and Miami that…

A few years ago, Holker and Boss had begun working on a picture book, “Keep Dancing Through.” Featuring illustrated versions…

Laurent de Brunhoff, the French artist who nurtured his father’s creation, a beloved, very Gallic and very civilized elephant named…

I want to talk for a moment about categories. You have occupied many — butch, queer, woman, nonbinary — yet…

Cynthia Nixon hadn’t been onstage since 2017, when she and Laura Linney alternated the roles of Regina and Birdie in…

At this Lower East Side cafe, patrons order up charcoals instead of cappuccinos and find the joy of getting their…

This time, the San-Ti, represented by the placid-voiced swordswoman who’s served as their mouthpiece throughout the series, detail their plan.…

Season 1, Episode 3: ‘Destroyer of Worlds’ Anyone else feel like a deer in the headlights? Anyone agree that this…

Like many TV fans, I was thrilled when Netflix saved the ridiculous and wonderful “Girls5eva” from cancellation at the hands…

The blinking lights in the sky make the episode, and not just because they’re the cliffhanger leading you to the…

The Crawleys have endured heartbreak, abandonment at the altar and a burst ulcer. They have celebrated the births of heirs,…

The aliens who menace humankind in Netflix’s “3 Body Problem” believe in doing a lot with a little. Specifically, they…

“The encounter with Weill’s music, which I had never heard before because it was not allowed to be played in…

In the week after he appeared as a presenter at the Oscars, the comic Ramy Youssef, a creator and director…

Famous artists are a favorite subject for documentaries right now — probably because people love to watch them. And there…

In the pre-dawn hours of March 18, 1990, following a festive St. Patrick’s Day in Boston, two men dressed as…

Mr. Janis withdrew from the concert stage — temporarily, as it turned out — and devoted himself to songwriting, a…

Anna Shechtman was 15 when she started building crossword puzzles, and 19 when her first puzzle was published in The…

Joe Camp, a pioneering filmmaker who created a groundbreaking franchise with his “Benji” movies, which brought a lovable live-action dog…

Included in the musical selections are some numbers that Sakamoto hadn’t previously performed as solo piano arrangements, like “The Wuthering…

A South Korean court on Friday found Oh Young-soo, an actor who won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of…

Esa-Pekka Salonen, the music director of the San Francisco Symphony since 2020, announced on Thursday that he would step down…

Michael Culver, the British actor best known for one of the memorable death scenes in the Star Wars franchise, died…

Neil Young will return his music to Spotify, two years after withdrawing it in protest over the podcast host Joe…

“Give this band a name!!” the Instagram caption read. The video showed four bright pink and orange shrimp, antennae seeming…

Eric Carmen, whose plaintive vocals soared above the crunching guitars of the 1970s power-pop pioneers the Raspberries on hits like…

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets…

Harvard’s Schlesinger Library is the nation’s leading repository for women’s history, home to the papers of suffragists and social reformers,…

The best documentary award became part of the Oscars in 1942, and the list of winners is genuinely fascinating. In…

Among the more fascinating inclusions are 26 of the 51 small collotype photographs from the portfolio “Das Werk von Gustav…

In October 2022, Chris Jones of The Chicago Tribune reviewed “The Notebook” when it played at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater,…

It’s been more than five decades since Dustin Hoffman’s character in “The Graduate” was offered a kernel of wisdom about…

It makes perfect sense that Nona Faustine’s introduction to professional photography was through photojournalism. While her photographs are always premeditated…

Akira Toriyama, who was one of Japan’s leading authors of comics and most famous for the highly successful manga and…

Watching Kristen Stewart is always an adventure. A performer who makes good movies better and dreary movies tolerable, she has…

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets…

For the first stretch of “Dream Body Body Building” at the Chocolate Factory Theater, five performers in a row of…

Toward the end of his life, when his memory was in pieces, Gabriel García Márquez struggled to finish a novel…

A new book publisher with an unusual business model, a small footprint and an outsize pedigree that includes some of…

The most prized pigment of antiquity was processed not from a tangle of root or the frothy extract of a…

‘Girls5eva’ Seasons 1-3 Starts streaming: March 14 After failing to find the audience it deserved on Peacock, the funny and…

For TV viewers like me who still haven’t cut the cord, here is a selection of cable and network shows,…

The International Contemporary Ensemble’s Skirball show on Saturday similarly showed the value of presenting Davis’s music on a chamber scale.…

It may have been a warmer than usual winter in Maine, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t gotten mighty cold.…

There are no tigers and elephants; in fact, the only “animal” is an electric dog named Bailey. The clowns are…

Three years ago, Sean Ono Lennon was asked to develop a music video for the 50th anniversary of “Happy Xmas…

‘Satan Wants You’ Stream it on Tubi. I usually only recommend fiction films in this column. But I’m making an…

Richard Abath, a night watchman whose decision to allow two thieves disguised as Boston police officers into the Isabella Stewart…

William Knoedelseder’s book “I’m Dying Up Here,” about stand-up in the 1970s, presents Lewis as the Lothario of the scene,…

The cast surrounding Mary speaks in the elevated tone of melodrama: Tony Macht bright and eager as Abe’s assistant, Simon;…

Last year, Meeson Pae, a Korean American multidisciplinary artist, walked through the Frieze Los Angeles art fair and thought, “One…

As this is a trial, let’s start with the facts. Asaf Sternheim, who teaches writing at a university a lot…

Netflix, the streaming behemoth that has evolved from mailing out DVDs in red envelopes to becoming a hugely important player…

President Biden has come up with a new defense against claims that he is too old to run for another…

The new FX mini-series “Shogun” is getting a lot of credit simply for not being “Shogun,” the 1980 NBC mini-series…

FX premieres a new show set in Japan in the 1600s. A new mini-series starring Kate Winslet airs on HBO.

It helped, Davidsen said, when the Met’s orchestra — led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, its music director — joined the cast…

Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” scored three big wins at the 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday night, adding even more…

As a pop star, Olivia Rodrigo wields a rather unusual arsenal of weapons. She is an acute writer and an…

The tagline of Tyler Perry’s new movie is “everyone’s guilty of something,” but the responsibility for this willfully steamy, decidedly…

She was barefoot at the time and so was Kolesnikov who, in the first half, wore a white top with…

For a jukebox musical set in 1965 New York City — that tackles feminism, civil rights activism and the Vietnam…

In the late 1970s, in Montreal, photography students were obsessed with getting deep blacks — “max black” — in our…

In 1960, Mr. Van Eaton left Sun to join Mr. Riley and the guitarist Roland Janes, both of whom were…

Ewen MacIntosh, a British actor and comedian known for his dry portrayal of Keith Bishop, a lackluster accountant in the…

To Virgil, the audience’s guide through Dael Orlandersmith’s slender, searching new solo play, “Spiritus/Virgil’s Dance,” there is something hellish in…

The character’s death is punctuated by “Aerith’s Theme,” a motif by Nobuo Uematsu that has become a popular instrumental score.…

Some actors come to embody a national cinema through an alchemical combination of demeanor and film choices. You might say…

EC Comics, which specialized in tales of horror, crime and suspense, and was shut down in the “moral panic” of…

Season 4, Episode 6: Part 6 One of the tricky parts of a ghost story like “True Detective: Night Country”…

As a queer teenager growing up in northern Nigeria, Arinze Ifeakandu often found himself searching for books that reflected what…

No one seemed to know what had happened to one of the most important bass guitars in music history, though…

The designer still wants to ‘corrupt the world,’ even as he’s embraced by the mainstream.

But race remained a highly charged topic at Yale, which has had an often contentious relationship with the local Black…

‘Badland Hunters’ Stream it on Netflix. A commando trying to retrieve someone from behind enemy lines is a common enough…

This week’s Valentine blues arrive courtesy of “Bleeding Love,” a father-daughter story about love, lies and family trauma starring a…

The phrase “arc of oblivion” sounds apocalyptic, as if it ought to be uttered in the unmistakable voice of Werner…

In Oklahoma, a small country music station that initially refused a listener’s request to play a new song by Beyoncé…

In January 2019, Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow, the creators of the musical “Six,” were on a writer’s retreat in…

“Players” is an old-fashioned romantic comedy, which means you know the end from the start. That’s not a bug; it’s…

Despite his insistence on “Jeffrey or nothing” for “American Fiction,” Jefferson said he wasn’t quite prepared for the experience. “To…

In the darkest moments of a family tragedy, when the playwright Mona Pirnot couldn’t find the strength to verbalize her…

At the time, Malone was studying sustainable agriculture and experimenting with barter systems — “I thought I was going to…

A few minutes into Usher’s dynamic and sly Super Bowl LVIII halftime show performance Sunday night at Allegiant Stadium in…

If you start at the middle C of a piano and strike every key on your way up to the…

Four decades ago, the Super Bowl became the Super Bowl. It wasn’t because of anything that happened in the game…

In 2017, Rollie Williams was a struggling comedian when he came across a copy of “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore’s…

Meanwhile, Danvers’s young protégé, Peter, has something else to show for all the hard work that has finally gotten him…

In Jez Butterworth’s new play, we — the audience and protagonists alike — are kept waiting and wondering. It’s the…

No one misses the early days and dark theaters of the Covid pandemic, but the emergency workaround of streaming content…

One-word titles like that of the Belgian writer and director Bas Devos’s “Here” can create a minuet of meaning. In…

Somewhere close to the four-hour mark in “Bark of Millions,” the polychromatic cavalcade of splendor that is Taylor Mac and…

The “Holdovers” star Da’Vine Joy Randolph has had a charmed run through awards season so far: Considered the favorite for…

A crew member working on the set of Marvel Studios’ “Wonder Man” TV series at Radford Studios in Los Angeles…

Season 4, Episode 4: ‘Part 4’ There’s a classic bit on “The Simpsons” where a panel of children are seated…

The history of art by women still has its secrets. Some recent revelations include the visionary abstract painter Hilma af…

Don’t be like those people who were asking “who is Bonnie Bear?” when the Grammy for best new artist went…

Like Lubimov, Jacob Greenberg first dived into other keyboard instruments while at conservatory. He now plays modern piano, electric piano,…

Don Murray, the boy-next-door actor who made his film debut as Marilyn Monroe’s infatuated cowboy in “Bus Stop” in 1956…

Taylor Swift, you may have noticed, is everywhere: packing arenas on the Eras Tour; filling theaters with her concert film;…

Carl Weathers, who went from doling out bone-crunching hits as a linebacker for the Oakland Raiders to delivering knockout punches…

Joy and despair, vitality and darkness course through Bruce Springsteen’s songs. The joy, he told the world, came from his…

“There’s no growing and sharing in comedy,” Essman said. “And there shouldn’t be. The comedy is that you keep making…

Melinda Wilson, who rescued her future husband, the Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson, from psychological ruin when they were dating…

Chita Rivera grew up to be a Broadway queen, but you can’t leave out that she was a ballet kid.…

When Albee Zhang received an offer to produce cheesy short-form features made for phones last spring, she was skeptical, and…

As she continued to work in New York — and, after 1964, in Chicago — her paintings eventually embraced figurative…

The Obie Awards, a scrappy but venerable annual competition honoring the best theater staged Off and Off Off Broadway, has…

Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James are superb as a midcentury-modern couple free-falling into addiction in Craig Lucas and Adam…

Everyone from the academy to streaming services splits cinema into two buckets: movies (comedy, romance, horror, whatever) and documentaries, lumped…

Ukraine’s foreign ministry criticized HBO this week after Milos Bikovic was cast in the third season of “The White Lotus,”…

In some less extreme cases, a person may regain consciousness when wrapped in warm blankets, taken inside, or treated with…

The artist Richard Prince agreed to pay at least $650,000 to two photographers whose images he had incorporated in his…

The American Museum of Natural History will close two major halls exhibiting Native American objects, its leaders said on Friday,…

Jesse Jane, a one-time Hooters waitress and beauty pageant contestant who went on to star in the highest-budget film series…

Martin Freeman and Jenna Ortega fight pheromones and cliché in this eye-rolling duel between a teacher and his student.

Melanie, the husky-voiced singer and songwriter who was one of the surprise stars of the Woodstock music festival in 1969…

This is a season of firsts for Dominic Sessa — a wondrous Cinderella moment on the threshold of further adventures…

When the 2024 Oscar nominations were announced this morning, the snubs of the two most prominent women involved in “Barbie”…

Jan. 22, 2024, 5:03 a.m. ET Jan. 22, 2024, 5:03 a.m. ET the Projectionist A few films are likely to…

Ruth Ashton Taylor, who was the only woman on the CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow’s postwar radio documentary unit and…

The Q. and A.’s and cocktail parties are a wrap. The votes have been cast. And on Tuesday, we’ll find…

Toward the end of World War II, Ms. Irvine met a naval officer at Delmonico’s restaurant when he was on…

With 2024 underway and the presidential race in full swing, it was time for “Saturday Night Live” to get back…

Robert de Forest Whitman Jr. was born on May 23, 1935, in Manhattan to a family that traced its roots…

Joe Locke was so moved when he saw “Next to Normal” at the Donmar Warehouse in London last fall that…

A grand jury in New Mexico indicted Alec Baldwin on Friday on a charge of involuntary manslaughter, reviving the criminal…

Some comedy aficionados make the case that Andrew Dice Clay was always as much performance art as stand-up, akin to…

The artist An-My Lê insists that she doesn’t photograph war. For much of her career, Lê has photographed the many…

“Yes, And?” attempts to marry the two sides of her music, providing a throwback musical canvas that she embellishes with…

When Nadya Tolokonnikova, one of the founding members of the anti-establishment punk collective Pussy Riot, reached out to John Caldwell…

This interview includes spoilers for the fifth season of “Fargo.” When Noah Hawley debuted the FX series “Fargo” a decade…

The Manhattan art dealer Brent Sikkema, who represented prominent artists like Kara Walker, Jeffrey Gibson and Vik Muniz, was found…

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Reggie Wells, who parlayed a background in fine art into a trailblazing career as a makeup artist for Oprah Winfrey,…

Jay Clayton, a singer whose six-decade career encompassed freewheeling improvisation, lyrical songs and poetry, and the prescient use of electronics,…

“These people are not drunk,” a choir in quirkily customized blue robes sang on Saturday, “because it’s nine in the…

Peter Crombie, the actor who was probably best known for playing the role of “Crazy” Joe Davola on five episodes…