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Patriotic, Kremlin-backed pop music isn’t something new for modern Russia, where Mr. Putin has ruled for almost 23 years and where performers favored by the government were always at least moderately nationalistic...

The key to what this film has in store for you lies not with the name of the director (first timer Florian Sigl) nor the screenwriters (Andrew Lowery and Jason Young, whose...

The documentary “Rewind & Play” makes damning use of a 1969 interview Thelonious Monk did with Henri Renaud for the French television program “Jazz Portrait.” Monk’s European tour was set to end...

This article is part of our Design special section on how the recent push for diversity is changing the way the world looks.Creative Activism Gets a 20-by-45-Foot CanvasIn 2018, Malene Barnett —...

This article is part of our Design special section on how the recent push for diversity is changing the way the world looks.A young woman is distressed. She seems unwell. Her body...

After 20 years of leading the Whitney Museum of American Art — and overseeing its risky yet immensely successful move from Madison Avenue to the meatpacking district — Adam D. Weinberg is...

It was not surprising when Quentin Tarantino, an auteur unusually willing to criticize the work of his peers in public, told an interviewer that he didn’t like the original “Scream,” calling its...

Bert I. Gordon, the professed king of the monster movies whose B pictures featured giant rats, giant spiders, giant grasshoppers, giant chickens, a colossal man and 30-foot teenagers laying waste to everything...

Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon MusicIt’s been a triumphant but tragic year already for De La Soul, one of the most formative and innovative groups in rap...

For years, the photographer Tommy Kha hardly spoke to his mother, except for the occasional times they made portraits together at home in Memphis, Tenn. At times, the distance grew, turning mean....