Arts

In October 2019, more than a million Chileans took to the streets in what became the country’s biggest ever protest. Few things united them: Some demanded better education, others greater Indigenous rights....

Alfred Leslie, a second-generation Abstract Expressionist and filmmaker who turned his back on nonrepresentational art in the early 1960s to lead a revival of figurative painting, died on Friday in Brooklyn. He...

At the United Nations’ annual ceremony to mark the Nazi horrors, Karen Frostig described her work to commemorate a concentration camp where thousands of Jews, including her grandparents, were murdered.

A long-delayed Obie Awards ceremony next month will celebrate the resilience of New York’s theater scene, even as it applauds plays and musicals staged beyond Broadway.The time-honored but freewheeling awards ceremony, created...

“When we started, there were no iPhones. There was no YouTube, there was no Uber, no Twitter, no Wi-Fi, no Netflix, no Google. We had Nokias and Ask Jeeves, and that was...

“Our jaws were just hanging open,” Kiely said.Their first visits coincided with an auction last year of Didion’s personal effects, whose runaway sale prices — $9,000 for a set of blank notebooks,...

Whether walking among outsize portraits of artists such as John Baldessari, Kara Walker and Lawrence Weiner, taken by the photographers Catherine Opie and Brigitte Lacombe, or sitting in darkness watching Tacita Dean’s...

In Rushdie’s vision, the city of Vijayanagar — the name means Victory City — is a place of magic and miracles that owes its existence to its creator, the poet Kampana, who...

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies...

Paul Bayard La Farge (some family members render the last name without the space) was born on Nov. 17, 1970, in Manhattan. His father, Thomas, was a writer and English teacher, and...