Arts

The director Aurélie Saada, a singer making her feature filmmaking debut, has said that “Rose” was inspired by a dinner gathering at which her grandmother, recently widowed, became entranced with the joie...

Leo Woodall is the first to admit that he doesn’t know a lot about math.In the new mini-series “Prime Target,” streaming on Apple TV+, the 28-year-old British actor stars as Edward Brooks,...

The end of a presidency tends to bring a rush of last-minute monument making, and Joe Biden’s was no different. In his final week in office, he designated nearly 850,000 acres of...

The Tchaikovsky showcased the formidable discipline of the Chicago sound under Muti, with the orchestra’s famous brass section gleaming in the fearsome fanfares that function as the fate motif anchoring the symphony....

The children seem like typical kindergartners: Some beam at the camera; some glance coyly aside; others appear lost in reverie. One slim, dark-haired girl in a pale dress looks precociously serious.She is...

Around 1980, the movie producer Robert Evans recruited Mr. Feiffer to write the screenplay for Robert Altman’s “Popeye.” Mr. Feiffer patterned his script after the Segar newspaper strip, not the animated adaptations...

He grew up listening to county hoedowns on the radio, learning Bach preludes and fugues and studying music theory, harmony and counterpoint. He first played in public at St. Luke’s Anglican Church...

New Year, new reading goals. It’s that season again when anything feels possible: Maybe this is the year you’ll finally tackle that dust-laden copy of “Infinite Jest” sitting on your shelf, or...

Hygge lives on at the Minnesota Orchestra.Visitors stepping into Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis on a recent, frigid Saturday were greeted with a roaring fireplace and Scandi furniture strewed with blankets. Snacks were...

Donald J. Trump has always tried to choose his own stage settings, be it looming over a built-for-TV boardroom in “The Apprentice” or descending down the Trump Tower escalator in 2015. For...