Arts

Early in her career, Nancy Van de Vate, a celebrated modernist composer, would tell people about her work and sometimes be met with dismissive questions like “Do you write songs for children?”...

When the Peruvian writer Gabriela Wiener was a child, she dreaded school trips to museums in Lima, the capital.As her class approached the display cases containing the pre-Columbian ceramic statues known as...

Recently, a guy in front of me at the checkout had just two things in his shopping basket: giant bags of Twizzlers and a naughty nurse costume. My first thought was: I...

‘Coming to America’ (Oct. 31)Stream it here.Eddie Murphy was the biggest movie star on the planet in 1988, and he could’ve easily continued to crank out fast-talking turns in “Beverly Hills Cop”...

Unfortunately for Chuck, Fourth doesn’t see things his way. In Prince’s tough talk about the bomb, Fourth hears a man willing to thumb his nose at the “nanny state” — a man...

This week, the Metropolitan Opera featured one of its most reliable stars in back-to-back shows: its chorus.It just so happens that those performances were both of works by Verdi — the Requiem...

Trouble is afoot in sunny Acapulco. Someone is snatching the town’s mighty wrestlers, the beloved luchadores. They turn up dead, with a rare gland removed. Nobody knows how, or why, this is...

In 1979, when Melissa Etheridge was an aspiring rock star getting ready to leave Leavenworth, Kan., for music school in Boston, she got a 12-string guitar. Her father made a macramé strap...

In the latter part of Michael Gambon’s long and storied acting career, some of the most animated analyses of his performances could be found not in theater or film reviews, but in...

As the acute threat of Covid-19 has waned, it has become easy to forget the surreal devastation of the early days of the pandemic, and the fissures the period exposed in our...