Arts

To live in Los Angeles is to be regularly reminded that much of what surrounds its residents is fleeting. That pertains, most essentially, to human life and the natural world, as the...

On a stormy day more than 34,000 feet above Paris, Air France Flight 1205 prepared to make its descent. Flight attendants began checking seat backs and tray tables, and passengers groggily emerged...

When the Scottish playwright David Harrower set out to script a TV adaptation of “The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice” — Jim Swire’s skeptical book laying out who he believed...

Nominations for the Directors Guild of America’s feature-film award were announced on Wednesday, and though “Wicked” led the Screen Actors Guild nominations announced just hours before, that film’s director, Jon M. Chu,...

On Nov. 6, the day after the presidential election, the artist Hank Willis Thomas was at his studio in Brooklyn. His production assistants were poring over tables strewed with blobby red white...

Ask people why American culture is going down the tubes, and the culprits might be partisanship, declining trust in institutions, empty calorie entertainment.Or maybe the answer is an episode of “The Jerry...

Hi, This is James Mangold. I’m the co-writer, director, and one of the producers of “A Complete Unknown.” “Mr. Pete Seeger.” This is Gerde’s Folk City, an early scene in the film....

Theodore Farnsworth, the former chief executive of the parent company of MoviePass, pleaded guilty to securities fraud on Tuesday after federal prosecutors said he had misled investors about the company’s “unlimited” subscription...

Near the end of “A Complete Unknown,” the Bob Dylan biopic that centers on his move into rock in 1965, an earnest, slim, bearded, clearly nervous M.C. struggles to pacify a wildly...

Near the time of his achievement in the Met’s “Ring,” in which he managed to invest the faceless staging with vividness, he began little by little to curtail his opera engagements, particularly...