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The actor, who was charged with involuntary manslaughter, went on trial more than two years after the fatal shooting of the cinematographer of the movie “Rust.”

Her loyalty to artists and her eye for talent made her a force in a male-dominated business. Among her accomplishments: introducing Bob Dylan to the Band.

His vocals on songs like “Elvira” were a key to the evolution of the group, originally a Southern gospel quartet, into perennial country hitmakers.

I’m the digital editor for the Culture desk at The New York Times. Here are five things that have delighted me recently.

Nicknamed Mom Jovi, she founded the Jon Bon Jovi fan club, and earlier was a Marine and a Playboy bunny.

In books and articles he wrote about the militarization of space and believed that investing in exploration would ultimately “protect Earth and guarantee the survival of humanity.”

Prosecutors portrayed the actor as stubbornly disregarding safety standards, while the defense said he had no reason to think there would be live rounds on the set.

The defense said crew members who are supposed to oversee gun safety on the set had responsibility for ensuring there was no live ammunition in the gun.

The fatal shooting on a film set was more than two years and eight months ago. The case has taken a winding path to the courtroom.

Cole Escola is dressing the part of fashion plate after achieving a new level of fame with the play “Oh, Mary!”

Prague has survived wars and political strife — and through it all, its literary scene has thrived. Jaroslav Kalfar, the author of “Spaceman of Bohemia,” recommends books that connect readers to the city.

“People waited all day for white smoke to emerge from the capital, signaling a new leader,” Jimmy Fallon joked after Congressional Democrats met in Washington on Tuesday.

Mr. Baldwin, who was charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer, has pleaded not guilty.

This stylish sci-fi series, on Apple TV+, stars Rashida Jones as a grieving woman with an unexpected new companion.

More than 500 writers and notable book lovers have shared their picks for the best books of the 21st century. Now it’s your turn.

As the executive director of the Norton Museum of Art, she oversaw an expansion by the British architect Norman Foster. “Great art,” she said, “deserves great architecture.”

Hear tracks by Shaboozey, Sabrina Carpenter, Kendrick Lamar and more.

Admirers said they were “blindsided” by revelations that Munro’s youngest daughter had been abused by her stepfather — and that Munro stayed with him even after she learned of it years later.

David Ellison is poised to soon run Paramount Pictures, among other entertainment assets. But what does that mean in a fractured cultural landscape?

“He’s basically the guy doing 30 in the left lane, and he ain’t moving for anybody,” Jimmy Fallon said of President Biden on Monday.

The ruling was a victory for the actor, who is set to stand trial this week on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer. He has pleaded not guilty.

The artist Cai Guo-Qiang has designed an epic fireworks event for the Los Angeles Coliseum this September.

A theater director and playwright were sentenced to prison, a stark indication of the increasing suppression of free speech since Russia’s attack on Ukraine, their lawyers and critics say.

Under its new director, the event is shining a spotlight on countries and performers rarely represented on the biggest European stages.

This week’s Title Search puzzle challenges you to find a dozen works of fiction that were published during the last years of the 20th century.

Both “Fearless” and “1989” spent 11 weeks atop the Billboard 200, but the 11-week reign of “The Tortured Poets Department” has been uninterrupted.

The Aix Festival is presenting a new version of “Samson,” a never-performed work by Rameau and Voltaire, two of France’s most important cultural figures.

John Neumeier has run the Hamburg Ballet for 51 years, putting his stamp on the company and the city.

The actor is accused of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of the cinematographer on the film “Rust.” He has pleaded not guilty.

Billie Eilish, Charli XCX and Lorde are among a group of young women who are revealing, in their music, the pressure they have felt to look thin.

As Aemond Targaryen, the young actor quickly became one of the “Game of Thrones” prequel’s most intriguing and fearsome characters.

A new arts district, stylish restaurants and a museum that pays homage to the Games greet visitors to this Swiss city, home to the International Olympic Committee.

Years before they ascended to influential leadership roles, they worked at the Public Theater and became cheerleaders for each other’s professional dreams.

Jenn Tran hands out roses on ABC. Kevin and Franklin Jonas host a show with the relatives of stars.

This week brings all-out warfare and the death of a key character.

We asked some literary luminaries to share their full ballots.

As voted on by 503 book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

Andrea Skinner said in The Toronto Star that her stepfather sexually abused her at age 9, and that her mother stayed with him after she learned of it.

In a decades-long collaboration with the director James Cameron, he produced three of the highest-grossing films of all time.

Bookstores once shunted romance novels to a shelf in the back. But with romance writers dominating the best-seller lists, a network of dedicated bookstores has sprung up around the country.

His moving and often painful free-verse observations on friends’ deaths, the Holocaust and other topics won him many devoted fans.

A philandering father; a literary affair.

A longtime “Freaks and Geeks” fan reconsiders what it means to be one of the cool kids.

Jesse Darling is so disillusioned with the art world that he just isn’t sure.

The former “Glee” star turned a childhood fascination with game shows into a TV gig. “I could do it forever,” she says.

A promising player for a storied Norwegian soccer club, he instead found infamy for stealing one of the world’s most famous artworks.

She was a frequent sight on the series, which began in 2019, and impressed fans with her straightforward attitude.

His baroque fusions of bright paint, wood and other detritus wowed the art world. But as his fame faded, he turned his attention to historic preservation.

Tiago Rodrigues said the Avignon Festival, which he leads, would become “a festival of resistance,” juggling activism with the premiere of a new play.

She helped establish the New York Feminist Art Institute. In her own work — monumental pieces carved from found lumber — she evoked ancient feminine imagery.

This Australian series has enough tawdry scandals to qualify as a soap and enough Shakespearean power lust to qualify as a fancy drama.

In this month’s sci-fi picks, life on Mars, a social dystopia set in near-future London and a meet-cute after a spaceship accident.

A new exhibition reminds us that while the famous doll can now do any job, her greatest power is selling stuff — to children and adults alike.

Black Spin Global found an audience with its cheeky coverage of the growing number of ranked Black tennis players. It also offered them a forum.

In the mid-1700s, Christoph Willibald Gluck overthrew the musical excesses around him. A marathon double bill in France shows the vibrancy of his vision.

This month’s picks include a superhero adventure, a dark fantasy tale and films based on beloved television series.

A selection of entertainment highlights this weekend, including Ti West’s new film, “MaXXXine.”

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

Hannah Einbinder, Raanan Hershberg and Mo Welch all take tricky approaches in their quests for laughs.

“Spermworld,” “Onlookers” and “32 Sounds” are worth watching for the different ways they allow us to see the world.

After playing two very different lead characters in a horror franchise, she reflects on what it took to pull off the roles, as well as what’s ahead.

Starting on July 8, we’ll unveil a list of 100. Make sure you’re among the first to find out.

This artist’s indispensable archive of queer and Latino life on display at MoMA PS1 leaves us intoxicated by the energy of a world too long under the radar.

Grégory Milan, who works with Biles and the French national team, has found a home in gymnastics, though his pure dance background is unusual in the sport.

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

After a tremendous “Swan Lake” performance, Chloe Misseldine was promoted onstage at the Metropolitan Opera House. The audience went nuts.

A stubborn matriarch played by Ellen Burstyn lodges in a furniture store and wages emotional warfare with her adult children.

This poignant animated film casts the world of imaginary friends as an arena to reckon with emotional turmoil and loss of innocence.

What begins as a romantic rescue becomes a blood bath when bandits on a train attack and rob passengers and our Romeo cracks multiple heads in return.

In New York’s art show of the summer, paint and prose meet in “The Swimmer,” a psychoanalysis of John Cheever’s suburban nightmare of 1964.

Soak up history, relax in beer gardens that pop open like tulips in summer, and make a pilgrimage to Fenway Park.

The director of “A Quiet Place: Day One” was confident a cat could take on the end of the world. But could the feline actors win over Lupita Nyong’o?

The artist Roberto Benavidez is elevating the traditional piñata with his ornate creations.

Mia Goth returns to Ti West’s horrorverse as an actress fleeing a mysterious stalker and a traumatic past.

Covering everything from ancient civilizations to 20th-century war craft, these shows deliver incisive and engaging history lessons.

It’s actually 118 at the Brooklyn Museum, and the more the better. These vivid color woodblocks have much to teach Instagram, and even Murakami.

Juvenile’s “Back That Azz Up” was a 1999 hit that brought twerking and New Orleans bounce into the mainstream. Here’s the story of how it became a sensation.

Mr. Jacquot, 77, was accused of assaulting two actresses and barred from working with minors. He has denied any wrongdoing.

A founder of the influential music magazine The Fader, he also bridged the worlds of hip-hop and the Fortune 500 with his innovative marketing agency.

The crew is back, but this time around they need to lie low. Sort of.

Akira Kurosawa’s epic has always been known for its action-film artistry, but there is emotional heft and nuance as well.

She painted and sculpted, but she was best known for her oversized still lifes, painted from photographs and crowded with color and detail.

I’m a national political reporter covering the presidential election. Here are five things I’ve recently delighted in seeing, hearing and watching.

A New York Times Book Review editor recommends four books for the summer.

In a lightweight comedy, the actress plays a bartender who dreams of becoming an astronaut. One problem: She has no qualifications for the job.

The 84-year-old American is perhaps best known for her groundbreaking feminist installation “The Dinner Party,” but she is an artist with a formidable range.

At 52 Walker in New York, Diamond Stingily’s site-specific installations tell a story of desire, shame and coming-of-age.

Pierre Coffin helped invent the yellow animated creatures and has supplied their voices for nearly 15 years. He’s as puckish and subversive as his mischievous creations.

State lawmakers voted to pull funding for an outpost of the Pompidou Center in Jersey City, blaming rising costs. The mayor said the decision was retribution.

“He always was a genius,” Herbie Hancock says of his friend and collaborator. Hear a sampling of that genius in these 13 tracks.

An indie comedy set in an Airbnb leans into the ways we distance ourselves from one another.

Although attendance remains down from prepandemic levels, the city’s arts groups are having some success getting audiences to return.

A digital book, “Drawing for Nothing,” highlights some of the best art from canceled animation projects like “Me and My Shadow.”

The second annual Queen’s Reading Room Festival at Hampton Court Palace celebrated what Queen Camilla has called the “great adventure” of the written word.

This week in Newly Reviewed, Yinka Elujoba covers Elmer Guevara’s subtle paintings, James Casebere’s reimagined architecture and John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres’s busts of Bronx residents.

Celebrated for his mastery of dialogue, he also contributed (though without credit) to the scripts of “Bonnie and Clyde” and “The Godfather.”

Eddie Murphy struggles to revive the moribund action-comedy franchise.

This month brings the arrival of “Lost” and the return of Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley.

In an online exhibition, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will explore the account of Yitskhok Rudashevski. He was 13 when the Germans took over Vilnius, Lithuania.