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This article is part of our Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on how museums, galleries and auction houses are embracing new artists, new concepts and new traditions.In 1997, Rudy Ciccarello saw...

This article is part of our Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on how museums, galleries and auction houses are embracing new artists, new concepts and new traditions.Thousands of handwritten capital letters...

Pain is something most characters try to outrun — or that results, with some logic, from their actions. But in “A Little Life,” a bold and brutal adaptation of the novel by...

Anthony Rapp, right, performing in the musical “Rent” in New York in 1996.Credit...Joan Marcus/Matt Ross Public Relations, via Associated PressThe actors Anthony Rapp and Kevin Spacey both testified in a civil trial...

Hotchner also found a live-action fictional work among her entries — these are rare, as they tend to have high budgets. This selection, “Adam,” by Hope Elizabeth Martinez, focuses on a teenage...

“Insofar as the Impossible” and “Catarina” show how much Rodrigues’s work has gained in ambition over the years. His rise to prominence in France in the 2010s came via intimate, confessional works,...

Still, the Actors’ Equity Association, the labor union representing actors and stage managers, is among those supporting the casino bid, suggesting a contentious road ahead for a proposal that will face a...

The pianist Igor Levit presents compelling ideas with a remarkable ease.On his most recent album, “Tristan,” he casually posits a connection between the well-known grandness of Wagner and the less-recognized grandeur of...

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...

Irvingworld conjures nostalgia for when novel-writing felt more muscular — sport-like, even, when novelists were celebrities duking it out on talk shows. But this sustained sojourn can feel like an unrelenting avalanche...