Arts

A corner of New York hasn’t seemed quite itself since the Frick Collection shuttered during Covid for the architectural equivalent of a full-body spa treatment.For a while the museum that luxuriates in...

What is Panem?Panem is a fictionalized, future version of the United States. People in the country’s 12 districts, which loosely correspond to regions of the U.S., toil to supply resources to the...

Standing in her studio on the South Side of Chicago earlier this winter, the abstract painter and architect Amanda Williams was surprised by a dark blue form that filled the earth-toned canvas,...

A medieval manuscript unseen for 60 years, hand-painted by the renowned French illuminator Jean Pichore and his workshop, is one of the most spectacular exhibits at the 38th annual edition of the...

Inside Kasmin Gallery in Manhattan, more than a dozen employees huddled like a football team. It was late February and the gallery’s president, Nick Olney, was giving his staff a pep talk...

One of the longest-running Nazi restitution cases, fiercely debated within the courts for two decades, seemed to have met its end last year when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth...

‘Black Bag’Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender star as Kathryn and George, a married couple of glamorous spies who turn their espionage skills against each other.From our review:“Black Bag” is the third movie...

Anne Kaufman Schneider, who shepherded the plays of her father, George S. Kaufman, a titan of 20th-century American theatrical wit, into the 21st century with an acerbic sagacity all her own, died...

Dawn Robinson, a founding member of the ’90s R&B group En Vogue, said this week that she had been living in her car for roughly three years after several living arrangements fell...

As far as biblical heroines go, Esther was relatively low-maintenance and docile. She did not take up arms or slay any enemies. For much of her life, she lived quietly amid the...