Arts

Chandelier bidding. Quiet phone banks. Executives wiping their brows.One of the most anticipated auctions of the season proved to be anticlimactic on Monday evening at Christie’s in New York, where many objects...

The Teatro alla Scala in Milan, one of the world’s most revered opera houses, announced on Monday that its next music director would be the South Korean conductor Myung-whun Chung.Chung, 72, a...

May 12, 2025, 7:57 a.m. ETJudge Arun Subramanian is the first person of South Asian descent to be a judge in the Southern District of New York.Credit...Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, via Getty ImagesAt...

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.For more than 20 years, A.O. Scott, who was until recently a co-chief...

Just when it looks as if Dina and Ellie may be zombie chow (or at least Dina … Ellie is still the star of this show), they are saved by someone wholly...

In 1983, William H. Luers, a new American ambassador to Czechoslovakia, bet on a long shot for its future: Vaclav Havel, the often-imprisoned poet-playwright and enemy of the Communist state. But after...

If you’re going to celebrate the election of a new pope, you might as well have some sacramental wine, too.Cecily Strong returned to “Saturday Night Live” in a guest appearance to reprise...

Koyo Kouoh, one of the global art world’s most prominent figures, who had been slated to become the first African woman to curate the Venice Biennale, died on Saturday in Switzerland. She...

This article is part of our Design special section about how food inspires designers to make and do surprising things.In 2019, the artist Allan Wexler moved from the Manhattan brownstone where he...

“Government Cheese” began as what David Oyelowo called “a beautiful experiment.” He had long admired the fantastical storytelling of Wes Anderson and the Coen brothers. But he hadn’t seen that applied to...