Arts

Meyerbeer, one of the 19th century’s most popular composers, is out of fashion today. But his work is receiving a rare revival at Bard College.

By Oussama Zahr

The prestigious downtown nonprofit Soho Rep will share space with Playwrights Horizons in Midtown Manhattan while figuring out a longer-term plan.

By Michael Paulson

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

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

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

Serge Koussevitzky, a prolific commissioner born 150 years ago, made his mark not only on the Boston Symphony Orchestra, but also on American music.

By David Allen

“Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar” has been woefully neglected. Maybe it was the culottes? But it will fill the “Barbie”-size hole in your summer.

By Alissa Wilkinson

Stars like Edie Falco and Deirdre O’Connell bring a communal quality to Marin Ireland’s play about the aftermath of domestic violence.

By Elisabeth Vincentelli

Jodi Melnick’s new work is performed throughout a gallery installation, while one by Annie-B Parson sprawls in a sculpture park.

By Brian Seibert

The “Late Show” host is putting his aviators on a shelf, now that the president has ended his re-election campaign.

By Trish Bendix

This latest installment in a long-term Frontline series is an intimate look at two American families, who work hard but struggle to make ends meet.

By Margaret Lyons

Robert De Niro thanked President Biden, Spike Lee praised Vice President Kamala Harris and Aaron Sorkin backed her (not Mitt Romney) for the top of the ticket.

By Matt Stevens

He sang tenor on hits like “Standing in the Shadows of Love,” “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” and “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch).”

By Jim Farber

Charli XCX, John Legend and other musicians posted messages supporting the vice president’s nomination, while fans remixed an old speech into pop hits on TikTok.

By Maya Salam

Mr. Walker, who oversaw $7 billion in grants, plans to leave at the end of 2025 after what will have been 12 years.

By Robin Pogrebin

The celebrated 1990s police procedural is coming to Peacock in August.

By Maya Salam

The rapper’s “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)” replaced the pop superstar’s “The Tortured Poets Department” after 12 weeks of dominance at the top.

By Ben Sisario

President Biden’s decision to bow out after a disastrous debate confirms that in a TikTok era, TV is still the biggest political arena.

By James Poniewozik

This bustling borough of New York City has been the setting for many novels — including the books in this short quiz.

By J. D. Biersdorfer

The film was a global phenomenon and seemed to herald a new era of embracing stories by, about and for women.

By Nicole Sperling