Arts

At Lincoln Center Theater, Phillip Howze’s daring new play offers a hefty critique but takes aim at more targets than it can accommodate.

By Laura Collins-Hughes

Erica Ash started out on sketch comedy shows in the 2000s before appearing in movies like “Scary Movie V” and the satirical reality show “Real Husbands of Hollywood.”

By Sara Ruberg

The series and its many spinoffs have sold more than 200 million copies and revolutionized the world of young adult publishing.

By Clay Risen

Likened to a “court composer” for Germany, he wrote more than 500 pieces and was considered one of the most original and independent musical voices in Europe.

By Jeffrey Arlo Brown

Based on the book series by Holly Jackson, the Netflix series is a British murder mystery with a greener-than-usual detective.

By Margaret Lyons

Try this short quiz about the vibrant cultural movement that came together a century ago — and continues to be influential.

By J. D. Biersdorfer

Discussion about what books children should access has diminished on the national stage. But most rules pertaining to schools and libraries are made at the state and local level.

By Elizabeth A. Harris

The Sentiero dell’Arte e dell’Anima, or Path of Art and Soul, in Pienza, is lined with 28 benches created by well-known artists where visitors can take in the countryside of the Val d’Orcia.

By Ondine Cohane

In influential books, he questioned top-down government programs and extolled the power of the powerless, embracing a form of anarchism.

By Trip Gabriel

A screenwriter’s daughter, she grew up in the glittering world of privilege and its contradictions, which became rich material for her memoirs and novels.

By Penelope Green

At 77, the famous performance artist is determined to endure past 100. She recently introduced some products she hopes will help.

By Jessica Testa

HBO airs a new documentary. The “Game of Thrones” spinoff wraps up its second season.

By Shivani Gonzalez

A conversation about the Detroit rapper’s long and unlikely career as his 12th studio album reaches No. 1.

The band members were traveling on Friday to a performance when their plane crashed in Wyoming. Four others on board were killed.

By Emmett Lindner

A late-life fantasia; a surviving twin’s breakthrough.

She wrote two books about multiple generations of her forebears, including her mother, Lena Horne.

By Richard Sandomir

The head-spinning pace of U.S. political news continues to give the hosts plenty to talk about.

By Trish Bendix

Martin Scorsese, Ethan Hawke and John Turturro are all listed as advisers to a new proposal to buy the former Metro Theater, which closed in 2005.

By Annie Aguiar

He drew praise for his blues-inflected fretwork as his critically acclaimed band rode high, if briefly, during San Francisco’s Summer of Love.

By Alex Williams

The museum reports having hundreds of consultations with Native American groups and says it is also returning 90 objects.

By Zachary Small

This month’s picks include a ’90s coming-of-age tale from India, a Turkish noir set in a zoo, a Romanian drama about provincial politics and more.

By Devika Girish

At the close of his 10-year Madison Square Garden residency, the singer took a victory lap with some of his most ardent fans.

By Thea Traff

An Egon Schiele drawing was returned on Friday at the Manhattan district attorney’s office. The heirs said in a statement that relinquishing the work was “the right thing to do.”

By Tom Mashberg

A diverse cast of characters and a murder to solve each school year have helped make this teen drama one of Netflix’s longest-running original shows.

By Precious Adesina

“Batman: Caped Crusader,” a new animated series, is not concerned with making its hero likable — either to the citizens of Gotham or to its audience.

By Dave Itzkoff

Loren Long has illustrated books by Barack Obama, Madonna and Amanda Gorman. His No. 1 best seller, “The Yellow Bus,” took him in a different direction — one that required time, patience and toothpicks.

By Elisabeth Egan

The singer and songwriter, 75, wrapped his decade-long residency at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night. Up next? A new era in his live career.

By Caryn Ganz

A selection of entertainment highlights this weekend, including “Deadpool & Wolverine.”

By Danielle Dowling

The new installment draws on decades of Marvel and X-Men history. It helps to know the back stories ahead of time.

By Christopher Kuo

A Lincoln Center retrospective puts the spotlight on midcentury movies aimed at the masses that continue to influence filmmakers.

By Carlos Aguilar

The director Shawn Levy narrates a scene from the latest sequel in the franchise.

By Mekado Murphy

Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.

By The New York Times

The film follows a National Ballet of Canada production of “Swan Lake” as dancers and others deal with long-simmering issues of racism and sexism.

By Alissa Wilkinson

Reality TV staples like “Love Island” and “Bachelor in Paradise” often take place in luxury resorts to set the mood. But not all resorts love the attention.

By Calum Marsh

The director Shawn Levy narrates a sequence from his film starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman.

By Mekado Murphy

Colbert said the ex-president was “focused on the real issue gripping the country: desperately workshopping a new nickname for Kamala Harris.”

By Trish Bendix

Thousands of people piled into Madison Square Garden on Thursday to hear Billy Joel’s catalog of hits in the final show of his long residency at the arena.

By Alexandra E. Petri

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

The SAG-AFTRA union wants higher pay for the use of voices and images and protection from losing jobs to artificial intelligence.

By Brooks Barnes and Kellen Browning

The new Hulu series, set at a prestigious Los Angeles dance studio, harks back to the vibes of an earlier age.

By Margaret Lyons

The 1993 album “Doggystyle” went on to sell millions of copies around the world and solidified the career of Mr. Daniel, known as Joe Cool, as a hip-hop illustrator.

By Emmett Lindner

Most record companies didn’t think “The First Family,” which he and his writing partner created, was a good idea. It became the fastest-selling album of the pre-Beatles era.

By Trip Gabriel

Few critics could deny that the highly anticipated super spectacle, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, has its charms — but most left wanting more.

By Reggie Ugwu

When the athletes march in — or float in, as they will in Paris on Friday — you can enjoy the illusion that it’s a small world after all.

By Jason Farago

In this Chinese police procedural, directed by Wei Shujun, solutions are murkier than they first appear.

By Ben Kenigsberg

Based on the life of an Iranian German drug dealer and rapper, Fatih Akin’s interminable drama feels uncomfortably partial to its violent subject.

By Jeannette Catsoulis

This raunchy comedy features Bette Midler, Susan Sarandon, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Megan Mullally on a bachelorette weekend.

By Amy Nicholson

This documentary chronicles the reboot and reopening in Las Vegas of the acrobatic show “O,” which shutdown during the pandemic.

By Glenn Kenny

A loose Netflix adaptation turns Boccaccio’s story cycle into a gleeful satire of class war in plague times.

By James Poniewozik

Klaus Florian Vogt, a Wagner specialist with an ethereal yet mighty sound, is returning to the Bayreuth Festival to sing in the “Ring.”

By Jeffrey Arlo Brown

Nearly lost, Mary Sully’s discovered drawings riff on Modernist geometries and Dakota Sioux beadwork and quilting. Our critic calls it “symphonically bicultural.”

By Holland Cotter

The artist’s new paintings at Gagosian show her working through the loss of her husband, the artist Brice Marden, in a hot palette, feathers and shells.

By Ted Loos

A vibrant coming-of-age story about an awkward teenager in California in 2008 is also a love letter to the director’s mother.

By Alissa Wilkinson

The rap duo’s raw songs and festival-like touring strategy has paid off: Its latest album opened at No. 5 without traditional industry strategies or support.

By Larry Fitzmaurice

The French Riviera resort town brims with the unexpected, including a wealth of prehistory, ancient ruins and newer attractions.

By Chloé Braithwaite

Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure is full of solutions that slide and stump. Play follow the leader in Flock, and take on bulbous hordes in Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess.

By Harold Goldberg

“I guarantee he will attract suburban women, and I already have his slogan: ‘Yes, We Glen!’” Colbert said.

By Trish Bendix

He believed that music could transcend national borders set by colonialism and restore ancient ties, even as it embraced the changes of a globalizing society.

By Giovanni Russonello

Opening-weekend estimates have been a Hollywood fixture since the 1980s. But surveys of moviegoers can fail to capture those who infrequently visit the theater.

By Reggie Ugwu

John Eliot Gardiner is stepping down from three renowned period groups he founded, after he was accused of hitting a singer last year.

By Javier C. Hernández

The actress dialed up the zaniness in the TV reboot of a Terry Gilliam fantasy classic, created by the team behind “What We Do in the Shadows.”

By Esther Zuckerman

I am a photographer, and I primarily cover the military, Congress and the White House. Here are a few favorites.

By Kenny Holston

Steve Porcaro of Toto, who played on some of the biggest hits of the ’80s, has sold the rights to his music, including a pair of unreleased tracks with the superstar.

By Ben Sisario

The ninth annual fan event will include discussions on topics such as sobriety, self-care and body image. Here are six to look out for.

By Sarah Bahr

When listeners were given the power to program an orchestral concert, the results were surprising.

By Zachary Woolfe

Organizers avoided disruption by agreeing to give performers on temporary contracts a greater cut of broadcast royalties.

By Aurelien Breeden

“The Linguini Incident,” a low-budget ’90s film directed by Richard Shepard and featuring Bowie and Rosanna Arquette, makes its way to Blu-ray in a director’s cut.

By Jason Bailey

The museum said it attracted more local visitors during the past year than it did before the pandemic, but only half the international visitors.

By Zachary Small

“Charlie Hustle & the Matter of Pete Rose” examines the contradictions of one of the best (and most complicated) players in baseball history.

By Jonathan Abrams

The author of humorous short stories finds emotional connections in tales that engage with tech. But he’s more interested in the ties between humans.

By Jason Zinoman

For special presentations of that blockbuster and others, companies like CJ 4DPlex have turned splashing and shaking moviegoers into a lucrative art.

By Neima Jahromi

The rising pop star now has five songs on the Hot 100. The venues her team picked out months ago are struggling to fit her ballooning audience.

By Tricia Romano and Chona Kasinger

The actor Ryan Spahn makes his Off Broadway playwriting debut with an immersive, psychologically shallow dark comedy.

By Brittani Samuel

When one quick call can eliminate danger and undermine screams, filmmakers have to figure out a workaround. Sometimes it can even deepen a story.

By Rich Juzwiak

The group worked for decades to build the profile of the genre and its writers. Now romance fiction is booming — but the R.W.A. has filed for bankruptcy. What happened?

By Robert Ito

Colorful primers, inspirational biographies and books by former champions will get kids excited for the Paris Games — and teach valuable lessons along the way.

By Jennifer Harlan

Inspired by the pageantry and competition in Paris this summer? Try some of the many games that will let you taste pixelated glory.

By Annie Aguiar

The Harris campaign’s embrace of the Gen Z term puzzled cable news analysts of a certain age, but Stephen Colbert was glad to clear things up.

By Trish Bendix

She is her own manager, books her own tours and has never had a publicist. And her latest album features a song about communism in the style of Madonna’s “Vogue.”

By Shaad D’Souza

He was best known not for his own playing or singing but for recruiting and polishing the talents of one gifted lead guitarist after another, starting with Eric Clapton.

By Larry Rohter

The wisecracking semi-hero is back, but now he’s part of a bigger universe.

By Alissa Wilkinson

Listen to songs by Clairo, Dawn Richard and Sturgill Simpson plus more.

By Lindsay Zoladz

Misunderstood for decades, the sculptor and filmmaker is pushing ceramic to its limits. He’s dancing. He’s making the best work of his career.

By Jason Farago

The same unflattering supercuts and Photoshop jobs once used to denigrate Harris have now been flipped into celebratory artifacts of her candidacy.

By Amanda Hess

An adaptation of the 1981 film on Apple TV+ gives us time-traveling bandits of greater height and lesser amusement.

By Mike Hale

Camila Sosa Villada, an Argentine transgender author, first inhabited a female voice in stories she wrote as a child. Now her novels are translated in more than 20 languages and being adapted for the screen.

By Natalie Alcoba

The artist aimed to use sleight of hand to point to what he described as the museum’s problematic legacy of colonial-era acquisitions.

By Sarah Hurtes

After news broke that President Biden would endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee, the internet was rife with clips and memes from the show.

By Alexis Soloski

Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature and new movies from Luca Guadagnino and Pablo Larraín will also debut at this year’s event.

By Alex Marshall

She starred in “Doraemon” and other animated shows watched by nearly every child in Japan, and her voice became widely recognized.

By John Yoon and Hisako Ueno