Arts

In 1961, Ronni Solbert was living with her partner, Jean Merrill, on the north side of Tompkins Square Park, in Manhattan’s East Village, alongside the immigrants and bohemians who defined the neighborhood’s...

Michelle Obama’s 2018 memoir, “Becoming,” was one of the best-selling books of all time, with more than 17 million copies sold worldwide. Now she has a new book coming out this fall,...

In most places, people either watch parades or march in them. In New Orleans, they have another option: second line.As a noun, “second line” refers to those who follow a brass band...

Few authors (leaving aside Shakespeare, always a special case) have had their works reimagined as frequently, or as liberally, as Jane Austen. Onstage, onscreen and in books, her novels have been recast...

Another 142 purloined Italian antiquities seized in the last year by Manhattan investigators are on their way to the new Museum of Rescued Art in Rome after they were handed over to...

NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ontario — Nobody is coming to rescue Bella Manningham. And that’s a good thing.Bella, the damsel in seemingly self-inflicted distress at the center of “Gaslight,” has been a source of pity...

Of all the major American Pop artists, Claes Oldenburg was the only one who was born in Europe. He was still in grade school when his father, a Swedish diplomat, moved the...

Even the newest of correspondents knows not to go into a war zone without the right training, the right gear and the right exit plan. But some seasoned reporters have learned that...

They left Zambia in 1996 and moved to Idaho, where they worked on grizzly bear conservation.Is ‘Crawdads’ related to her work there?“Where the Crawdads Sing” doesn’t draw directly on Owens’s time in...

The Showtime late-night talk show “Desus and Mero” will not be returning for a fifth season, the network announced on Monday.The show’s hosts, Desus Nice (a.k.a. Daniel Baker) and the Kid Mero...