Arts

When the English artist Somaya Critchlow was at art school around a decade ago, she once showed a tutor a painting she had made of her cousins sitting on a sofa. When...

American officials announced charges on Tuesday accusing a New York man of hiring a hit man to kill his husband, Brent Sikkema, a prominent art dealer, in Brazil amid their contentious divorce...

Between streaming and cable, there is a seemingly endless variety of things to watch. Here is a selection of TV shows and specials that air or stream this week, Feb. 10-16. Details...

Fried memes and hysterical gibberish suffocate the internet nowadays. Every platform is thronged in digital chaos: psychedelic and surreal Instagram Reel art; X users cracking jokes about “gigachads”; an 8-year-old influencer nicknamed...

Tom Robbins, whose cosmically comic novels about gargantuan-thumbed hitchhikers, stoned secret agents and mystic stockbrokers caught hold of millions of readers in the 1970s counterculture, died on Sunday at his home in...

The Weeknd has scored his fifth No. 1 album with “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” posting the biggest overall numbers on the Billboard chart since Taylor Swift nearly a year ago.The release of “Hurry...

Here is my annual critical ranking of the Super Bowl commercials. Included are the new, national ads that were shown during the game itself.The trends? Nothing controversial, as you would expect, but...

The music industry pushed the group behind hits like “Manic Monday” and “Eternal Flame” hard, then pulled them apart. A new book tells their story.

Of course he performed “Not Like Us.”In the lead-up to Kendrick Lamar’s headline performance at the Super Bowl LIX halftime show on Sunday night, most of the chatter focused on whether he...

Tom Robbins, whose cosmically comic novels about gargantuan-thumbed hitchhikers, stoned secret agents and mystic stockbrokers caught hold of millions of readers in the 1970s counterculture, died on Sunday at his home in...