Arts

The judge tossed the emotional distress claim after Mr. Rapp’s team rested its case on Monday morning. The defense successfully argued that the portion of the lawsuit was based on the same...

PARIS — How do we talk about Rosa Bonheur? A realistic painter of animals, she became the richest and most famous female artist of 19th-century France, burnishing her reputation with savvy self-promotion...

This interview includes spoilers for the first nine episodes of “House of the Dragon.”To this day, Fabien Frankel doesn’t really know how he wound up on “House of the Dragon.”“I got an...

Still, when the musicians of the International Contemporary Ensemble and the organization Composers Now drew up the program for an evening focused on the Iranian Female Composers Association at NYU Skirball on...

Decades into his singularly successful career as an actor, Paul Newman offered a frank admission. “I am faced with the appalling fact that I don’t know anything,” he said.Newman was in his...

They made him at night, in the quiet hours after the bakery had closed. Together they worked, mother and daughter, mixing the materials that would give form to their creation — flour,...

AUSTIN, Texas — When Robert De Niro heard that Marlon Brando’s personal, annotated “Godfather” script was for sale on eBay, he was not too happy. How could such an important cultural artifact,...

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,...