Arts

And sometimes a barrier between a painting and its audience is contrary to the work’s spirit. Mabel Tapia, the deputy artistic director of the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid, said she would...

This weekend I have … a half-hour, and I need a crowd-pleaser.‘Abbott Elementary’When to watch: Now, on Hulu.If you’re hosting guests this weekend and are plagued by decision paralysis or anxiety dreams...

Jean-Marie Straub, a celebrated filmmaker aligned with the French New Wave who sparked critical debate with films he made with his wife, Danièle Huillet, that were known for their aggressively cerebral subject...

If last year’s production proved anything, it was that size and spirit matter. The littler the children are, the more enormous the stage seems, lending the tale enchantment. Yes, there are memorable...

The actor Justin Hartley, who won fame on “This Is Us,” is no stranger to the themes in the holiday romance “The Noel Diary.” The yearning of adoptees, the tug of interracial...

My childhood Thanksgivings involved television in a very specific sense: After the big meal, all the men in the family would retire to the living room and promptly fall asleep in front...

Late in “White Noise,” after the ecological disaster known as the “airborne toxic event,” on the heels of a professional triumph, and in the throes of marital woe, Jack and Babette engage...

For the potter Clair Catillaz, 38, of the Catskill, N.Y.-based Clam Lab, moon jars represent the iconic form of an admirable ceramics tradition. In 2016, she visited London’s British Museum, home to...

It was 15 years ago with “Enchanted” that the part of Giselle, a fairy tale maiden from Andalasia flung into Manhattan to charm the rats, cockroaches and bachelors, launched Amy Adams into...

Imani Perry won the National Book Award for nonfiction on Wednesday for “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation,” in which Perry, a professor...