Arts

Abdul Wadud, a distinctive cellist who crossed genres and was a key collaborator with the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis, died on Aug. 10 in Cleveland. He was 75.His son, the R&B...

LOS ANGELES — Those billboards that blight much of the American landscape are, along the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, the landscape itself — a dense, linear forest of sizzling images advertising the...

In the 1970s, long after its encyclopedic collection had been acknowledged as among the world’s finest, the Metropolitan Museum of Art recognized it had slender holdings in South or Southeast Asian art....

At the start of “Learn to Swim,” Dezi (Thomas Antony Olajide) trembles slightly as he puts his saxophone to his lips. The Canadian director Thyrone Tommy cuts from that opening image to...

AS IT TURNS OUTThinking About Edie and AndyBy Alice Sedgwick WohlIllustrated. 259 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $28.Growing up in the first half of the last century, Alice Sedgwick Wohl was taught,...

After months of jumping from one shoot to the next, Kaitlyn Dever finally had some downtime. “I just got back from a camping trip with my family,” she said, sinking into a...

“Trump says the documents the F.B.I. took from Mar-a-Lago are covered by his white privilege — wait, excuse me, I mean his executive privilege.” — DESUS NICE“They also confiscated 8,000 McRibs, nine...

Two years ago Salman Rushdie joined prominent cultural figures signing an open letter decrying an increasingly “intolerant climate” and warning that the “free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a...

It’s one thing to wrangle a few Von Trapp kids. Some Matildas. A Gavroche or two.But a baker’s dozen of newly minted teenagers, raging hormones and all, packed into a handful of...

Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one. Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, Aug. 15-21. Details and times...