Arts

Lawyers for the pioneering chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili filed papers in federal court on Tuesday suggesting that they had settled her defamation lawsuit against Netflix over what they had described as a...

ABC wraps up its new celebrity-adjacent competition show, and Showtime airs a modern TV version of the Richard Gere film.

Mr. Finch wrote for Coagula for most of the 1990s, but by the end of the decade he had moved to Artnet. In a colorful remembrance posted on Coagula, Mr. Gleason wrote...

Elizabeth Strout didn’t bat an eyelash when I admitted, moments after meeting her, that I’d snapped the handle off the toilet in her agent’s bathroom. I almost didn’t mention it — my...

Two of Europe’s liveliest design celebrations return this month, each a multiday, multilayered extravaganza fusing local character with international creative talent. Paris Design Week runs from Thursday through Sept. 17, with scores...

LOS ANGELES — The door to a room at an assisted-living facility swung open, and out darted one of its occupants: a cat named Mignonne, who was eager for some fresh companionship....

Ours is an improbable world, in which Birkenstocks and tie-dye — once signifiers of hippie anti-style, as glamorous as trail mix — are now more chic than ever.But in the early 2000s,...

LONDON — When the playwright Charlie Josephine watched the first performance of their play “I, Joan” at Shakespeare’s Globe last week, they sat in the theater, wracked with nerves.The play, based on...

This article is part of our Design special section on how looks, materials and even creators evolve.LOS ANGELES — Leena Similu leads the way from her porch to her backyard, in a...

Robert LuPone, an actor and dancer who originated the role of the driven director-choreographer in the musical “A Chorus Line” on Broadway and later helped run a vibrant Off Broadway theater company...