Arts

PARIS — King Dagobert’s bronze throne. Charlemagne’s ivory chess pieces. Mozart’s handwritten score of “Don Giovanni.” A 16th-century globe — the first to use the word “America.”In a library? Yes, but not...

Early in the new film “Tár,” an eminent conductor, played by Cate Blanchett, has strewn classical LPs over her floor. They’re designed in the old-school style of the Deutsche Grammophon label, which...

“My entire skill as an artist is that I have incredible sensory responses,” said Curtis, who kept stopping her stories to show off the goose bumps on her forearms. (At one point,...

“Buyers would come from Chiclayo and we’d sell the pieces for a pittance because we didn’t know what they were worth,” Mr. Villareal said. He recalled finding and trading masks, shell necklaces,...

This interview includes spoilers for Sunday’s episode of “House of the Dragon.”The Iron Throne can be a cruel and uncomfortable seat. In the world of George R.R. Martin’s books, it is thought...

LONDON — A monumental mural of a notorious child murderer painted with children’s hand prints. A tent embroidered with the names of all the lovers the artist had slept with. A 14-foot-long...

In the 1980s, newly arrived in Manhattan, in exile from her native Chile, the artist Cecilia Vicuña found beauty in the crumbling buildings and waterfront, the broken sidewalks and vacant lots of...

Kevin Locke, who brought traditional Native American culture to audiences all over the world through flute songs, hoop dances and stories, helping to preserve both the art forms and the Lakota language,...

LONDON ­– When the Pompidou Center in Paris was putting together a special display called “Elles,” of works by women in its permanent collection in 2009, Camille Morineau, the contemporary-collections curator who...

When the New York Philharmonic opened its new home at Lincoln Center in 1962, it held a white-tie gala, broadcast live on national television, with tickets having sold for up to $250...