Arts

Film directors walk viewers through one scene of their movies, showing the magic, motives and the mistakes from behind the camera.Film directors walk viewers through one scene of their movies, showing the...

PARIS — A new nation needs heroes; but when the mayhem comes suddenly, you take whatever heroes you can get. In 1991, as the Soviet Union lurched to dissolution and Ukraine prepared...

In Harron Atkins’s multigenerational saga “Still…,” artistic ambitions rub up against personal relationships. Careers wax and wane. A couple forms, bickers, ends — and may or may not be reborn on different...

PRISTINA, Kosovo — For an international art-world gathering, the visitors at Manifesta were younger than what you would expect. Last Thursday, at the Grand Hotel here, dozens of teenage girls roamed the...

The footwear company Skechers said late Wednesday that Kanye West had come to its corporate offices in Los Angeles “unannounced and uninvited” and was subsequently escorted from the building, where he had...

The K stands for “Kindred.” It was a family name, but if there’s anyone who can forgive a fanciful imputation of significance, it is Philip K. Dick. How lovely that a poet...

Leaving his recent “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” aside, Robert O’Hara doesn’t typically direct revivals; nor, leaving Shakespeare aside, does the Public Theater typically produce them. Yet on Tuesday the Public opened...

For the new album, Lafourcade looked up an old friend, Adán Jodorowsky — a son of the avant-garde filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky — once a neighbor of hers in Mexico City. The younger...

It was all just another day on the internet-driven media, where the demands of algorithms lead to celebrity justice meted out on a regular basis. Yet as with many such brouhahas, it...

LONDON — Earlier this month, during the first performance at the West End’s newest theater, @sohoplace, the audience repeatedly cheered the actors performing “Marvellous,” a comedy about a British eccentric. At one...