Arts

Whatever Degas’s opinions of Manet’s political thinking — he referred to him once him as “more vain than intelligent” — his belief in the importance of his art held firm, and may...

“We realize he’s crying” must be among the scariest stage directions an actor could find at the top of a script. How do you get from zero to tears with no context?That’s...

It’s almost like the climate crisis has gotten itself a new team of publicists, judging from the boggling array of sessions, panels, VI.P. dinners, workshops and fireside chats happening this week as...

When videos about Eliza Clark’s debut novel “Boy Parts” started going viral on TikTok, she tried to ignore it, at first.The book, which was published in 2020, follows a violent female photographer...

Nearly three years after the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields started a search for a director, Belinda Tate has been named to the job, the museum announced on Wednesday.Tate, the executive...

The opening of “Paul Robeson: ‘I’m a Negro. I’m an American.’” offers an unintentional caveat about the 1989 documentary directed by the East German filmmaker Kurt Tetzlaff. Paul Robeson’s rich baritone undergirds...

Roger Whittaker, a British singer whose easy-listening ballads and folk songs caught the sentiments of perfect summer days and last farewells, touching the hearts of mainly older fans across Europe and America...

Brand’s rise in Britain only began to stall in October 2008 when he recorded an episode of his radio show that included a series of prank phone calls to Andrew Sachs, the...

After decades of stage shows, TV specials and essentially reinventing mind control, Derren Brown is doing something new: He’s getting off the stage, and into the director’s chair.And “it’s been a lot,”...

A Danish artist who delivered two framed blank canvases titled “Take the Money and Run” must repay the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art about $70,000 it had given him to reproduce artworks...