Arts

“Is this our get-out-of-jail-free card?,” the cinematographer Gabriel Patay, 40, said he wondered after he and his wife, a documentary producer, lost the home they spent nine years restoring.“We are tied to...

J.K. Rowling’s willingness to weigh in on transgender issues has made her a culture-wars combatant since before the turn of the decade. But it hasn’t appeared to affect her lucrative relationship with...

Mike Hynson, who epitomized the image of the bronzed surf god as a star of the hit 1966 surfing documentary “The Endless Summer” and, with his outlaw instincts, embodied the rebel ethos...

Some museums are encyclopedic. Can art fairs be, too? In 2016, the venerable Winter Show at the Park Avenue Armory, which for 60 years was called the Winter Antiques Show, began admitting...

Dear readers,We’re in the midst of a cold snap on the East Coast. I’m writing from under a stack of blankets, hot-water bottle at my twice-socked feet, wrapped in sweaters, a scarf...

Many actors have to leave their support systems behind when they set out to follow their Broadway dreams.But Kara Young, a Tony Award-winning actress who grew up in Harlem — and lives...

Jo Baer, a painter who exchanged the severe abstraction that made her name for a heady mix of dream imagery and deep historical references, died on Tuesday at her home in Amsterdam....

▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube5. Jim Henson as Kermit the Frog: “Rainbow Connection”The only song on our list to receive an Oscar nomination — best original song, from the...

‘Flight Risk’In Mel Gibson’s return to directing, an air marshal (Michelle Dockery) joins a pilot (Mark Wahlberg) to fly a high-level informant (Topher Grace) to trial. Predictably, things go awry in the...

“Today the nominations were announced for the 97th Oscars. Yeah, it was great. And ‘Wicked’ was nominated for best picture. Yes. Yeah, people heard and were, like, ‘Yes, a movie we’ve actually...