Arts

Mozambique had by then careered into a civil war that would last over a decade and kill over one million people. “It changed everything,” Couto said of the war. His disenchantment gave...

Mary Bauermeister, a German artist who played a signature role in the development of the freewheeling performance art of the 1960s avant-garde, died on March 2 at a hospice in Bergisch Gladbach,...

BUENOS AIRES — The bones of a man, brought into light in a laboratory, had spoken.For years, he was kept inside a blue plastic box on a shelf with hundreds of other...

In the opening lines of Shakespeare’s chaotic “Pericles,” before the play and its prince go chasing off on a series of adventures, there is a phrase so genteelly creepy that 400 years...

Glen Lockett, the influential record producer who, working under the name Spot, helped define the jet-turbine sound of American punk rock in the 1980s, recording groundbreaking albums by Black Flag, Hüsker Dü,...

During his decades teaching literature at Valparaiso University, John Ruff looked beyond words, bringing his students to the school’s art museum to help them acquire what he called emotional wisdom. While discussing stories...

None of the three new libraries was built by the Department of Design and Construction, the agency ostensibly in charge of erecting New York’s public works. The Brooklyn and New York Public...

Animated Feature✓ “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”“Marcel the Shell With Shoes On”“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”“The Sea Beast”“Turning Red”When “The Shape of Water” won best picture a few years ago, I talked...

To paraphrase an old Monty Python sketch, nobody suspects the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction.Certainly the poor dinosaurs didn’t, though for their more obsessive present-day human fans the fact that this movie is called “65”...

The deal paid about $50 million in cash. The Promenade Trust also received $25 million in stock in Sillerman’s entertainment company, CKX, and $22 million in debt relief, according to court documents....