Arts

James Rondeau, the president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago, has taken a voluntary leave from the museum after an incident on board a flight to Germany last month.During the...

Dear readers,Anyone who is bad at meditating will be familiar with the tension that obtains when you try to force serenity. Nothing could be more aggravating than being told to relax —...

President Trump proposed eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities in the budget he released Friday, taking aim once again at two agencies that he...

The humanities endowment and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.The endowment, the largest federal funder for the humanities, has provided more than $6 billion in grants to museums,...

“It was all fascinating,” he said. “I learned about Impressionism. I learned about Egypt. I grew up at the Boston museum. I owe it everything.” (He has, as a result, donated several...

In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their movies. See new episodes in the series on Fridays. You can also...

Jill Sobule, the singer and songwriter whose hit “Supermodel” and gay anthem “I Kissed a Girl” were followed by three decades of touring, advocacy and a one-woman musical, died on Thursday morning...

Martin Scorsese will produce a new documentary featuring an on-camera interview with Pope Francis that was recorded at Vatican City in December, a few months before the pope died at the age...

Fey has depicted teenhood (“Mean Girls”), budding adulthood (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”), established-and-working adulthood (“30 Rock”) and now the empty-nest era. Some of Fey’s signatures, like social neurosis and a respect for sandwiches,...

‘Solving Your Problems With Chloe Troast’May 4 at 8:30 p.m. at Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, 242 East 14th Street, Manhattan; ucbcomedy.com.In the months since her tenure on “Saturday Night Live” came to...