Arts

The children seem like typical kindergartners: Some beam at the camera; some glance coyly aside; others appear lost in reverie. One slim, dark-haired girl in a pale dress looks precociously serious.She is...

Around 1980, the movie producer Robert Evans recruited Mr. Feiffer to write the screenplay for Robert Altman’s “Popeye.” Mr. Feiffer patterned his script after the Segar newspaper strip, not the animated adaptations...

He grew up listening to county hoedowns on the radio, learning Bach preludes and fugues and studying music theory, harmony and counterpoint. He first played in public at St. Luke’s Anglican Church...

New Year, new reading goals. It’s that season again when anything feels possible: Maybe this is the year you’ll finally tackle that dust-laden copy of “Infinite Jest” sitting on your shelf, or...

Hygge lives on at the Minnesota Orchestra.Visitors stepping into Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis on a recent, frigid Saturday were greeted with a roaring fireplace and Scandi furniture strewed with blankets. Snacks were...

Donald J. Trump has always tried to choose his own stage settings, be it looming over a built-for-TV boardroom in “The Apprentice” or descending down the Trump Tower escalator in 2015. For...

The Metropolitan Opera’s next “Ring” cycle is years away. But for local Wagnerians champing at the bit, the New York Philharmonic offered a teaser this weekend in the form of Lorin Maazel’s...

The moment well after midnight when one day slides into the next is usually a lonely time, observed by security guards and nurses, insomniacs and students cramming for exams. But this weekend,...

Pomp and circumstanceOn Monday, President-elect Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated for his second term. And one question that rushes through the minds of Americans (or at least culture journalists at The...

A onetime foulmouthed white rapper remade as an icon of right-wing country rebellion. An iconic disco-pop outfit with a crossover hit often understood to be about gay cruising that has become a...