Arts

Dear readers,Have you checked to see if your local library has a Library of Things? Many branches do, and it’s a great way to satisfy your insatiable desire to experiment with (for...

SARAN, France — On a recent afternoon near Orléans, in the Loire Valley, members of the jury of France’s newest literary prize trickled out of their prison cells.They walked past tall white...

The mournful-yet-heroic tone of so many blockbuster soundtrack themes perfectly suits the Weeknd, who has made it his signature to merge pride, weakness, repentance and persistence. “I thought I could protect you...

Lots of NFT art collections nose-dived in this year’s crypto crash, but a well-stocked library will never lose its value. Museums, galleries and art institutions have not yet lost faith in high-quality...

LONDON — In the middle of AMC+’s new dramatization of the poisoning of the intelligence agent Alexander V. Litvinenko, a police officer asks a pathologist about the state of the man’s organs...

’Tis the season for holiday celebrations, which also means, on TV, ’tis the season for holiday specials. At this time of year, writers take a break from the usual workplace high jinks...

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.“What becomes of the artists’ models?” Audrey Munson asked plaintively...

The Venice Biennale selected the Brazilian museum director Adriano Pedrosa as the curator of its next edition, the organizers of the world’s longest-running contemporary art exhibition said in a statement on Thursday....

LOS ANGELES — In the course of 20 months and in the midst of a pandemic, Harrison Ford filmed a “Raiders of the Lost Ark” sequel in England. He shot a 10-part...

More than 200 works by Philip Guston — the celebrated artist whose paintings featuring Klan imagery recently created a firestorm — are coming to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the personal...