His colorful figurative paintings were both conservative and iconoclastic, defying the dominant abstract schools of the mid-20th century. Read more ...
The curator Norman Rosenthal knew the artist for over 60 years and still discovered something new when they collaborated on a final blockbuster show. Read more ...
The director narrates a scene from his movie that is a continuation, of sorts, of a sequence he filmed for his feature-length debut, “Duel,” in 1971. Read more ...
After a few attempts that didn’t fully connect, the St. Louis singer was ready to walk away, but not before making a raw album of thrashed pop, “Worst Girl in America.” Read more ...
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On “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” the 23-year-old singer delivers a polished, solemn breakup chronicle that misses her signature adrenaline rush. Read more ...
Whether in Los Angeles, in his native England or traveling the world, the artist always reinvented the world he saw, with psychological insight. Read more ...
The Washington National Opera, which left the center amid the Trump administration’s takeover, says its efforts to retrieve its endowment and other assets have been blocked. Read more ...
After an introduction from Steven Spielberg, Swift gave a lengthy speech encouraging artists to “trust their human intuition” in an industry driven by data. Read more ...
One day before a deadline to take the president’s name off its facade, the arts institution appealed a federal judge’s ruling that also temporarily blocked it from closing. Read more ...
Four decades after the conceptual artist Christo draped the Pont Neuf with fabric, JR, a French street artist, offers his own trick of the eye. Read more ...
A performance artist, dancer, choreographer, videographer, filmmaker and curator, he was a central figure in the downtown Manhattan experimental arts scene. Read more ...
Paul Lightfoot and Sol León brought their blend of stretched balletic line and idiosyncratic gesture to London with a new work inspired by daily ballet class exercises. Read more ...
The size of the award remains to be determined. It only involves the legal fees associated with part of her court battle with Mr. Baldoni, with whom she made a film. Read more ...
Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony was performed in the same week by two of Lincoln Center’s orchestras. Was it coincidence or bad communication? Read more ...
Two courts denied the arts center’s request to suspend the Friday deadline for taking the president’s name off the building’s marble facade. Read more ...
An accomplished jazz guitarist, he appeared on more than 300 episodes of the public television show, playing alongside musicians like Wynton Marsalis and Yo-Yo Ma. Read more ...
The new movie is packed with showstopping action, but one standout sequence has our hero rolling over a pyramid of henchmen. Here’s what it took. Read more ...
Lush historical fiction, gripping thrillers, true crime, laugh-out-loud essays and more: Here are the books you’ve saved most to your reading lists. Read more ...
Self-taught, he became a go-to portraitist for politicians, rock stars and other celebrities. He also documented Indigenous people and inmates on death row. Read more ...
Hunted by slavers, the abolitionist escaped briefly to Britain and Ireland. A new show at the Irish Arts Center combines his speeches with performances by local students. Read more ...
Chad Smith, the orchestra’s president, admitted missteps in terminating Andris Nelsons’s contract but stood by the decision and won’t step down. Read more ...
The BBC said there would be no Christmas special this year and is looking for a production company to take on the sci-fi classic. Followers have already dubbed this uncertain period “the Wilderness Years 2.0.” Read more ...
Our conversations over the years were, at times, philosophical, metaphysical, honest about the daily circumstances of our lives, and dishy, a photography critic says, as he looks back. Read more ...
Orlan transformed herself through plastic surgery in the 1990s for an art project. Now, she is lecturing at the Louvre about changing perceptions of beauty. Read more ...
RuPaul stars as the American president, who must contend with an unfolding transit crisis and drag queens galore as a dangerous storm approaches. Read more ...
In a fast-paced sci-fi fantasy, infused with epic intentions and starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor and Colman Domingo, the filmmaker brings the rest of us home. Read more ...
The final curtain is coming down on two Tony Award-winning performances, a reboot of a 1980s musical and one of the best plays in August Wilson’s American Century Cycle. Read more ...
To promote “Masters of the Universe,” Mattel, the toymaker behind the movie, tapped into one of the hottest trends in health and wellness. Read more ...
In this strange, sensual dramedy, a lusty 20-something and her grieving Persian-British mother travel to an island resort meant for honeymooners. Read more ...
In the late 1960s, he and Saul Ilson oversaw a variety show known for its social and political satire, and together they helped fight network censors over its content. Read more ...
When a son got curious about the origins of a painting his mother bought at a secondhand shop decades ago, Google Gemini had some intriguing thoughts. Read more ...
A self-taught artist, he brought narrative to modern photography with sequences of staged black-and-white images, often accompanied by wry or lyrical captions. Read more ...
At Lincoln Center, the guitarist Reg Bloor, Branca’s widow, will conduct his music for the first time: “Symphony No. 13 (Hallucination City) for 100 Guitars.” Read more ...
Meg Webster creates works that are often fleeting. At 82, with a new show at the Paula Cooper Gallery, now she’s looking for a place in history. Read more ...
Patti Smith, David Byrne, Youssou N’Dour and other artists remember the performances, chance meetings and rainouts of the concert series that has defined New York City summers. Read more ...
