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Trump officials have promised to “make visual arts great,” with a museum exhibition that includes artwork by several people with personal connections to the planners.

Often performing barefoot, she provided the thunder for a breakout feminist band of the 1990s, which had an alternative hit with “Pretend We’re Dead.”

Friends of the “Parallelograms” artist, who was reported missing earlier this week, said she is living in a new care facility.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home looks placid on the surface, but underneath the organization is waging war on itself.

At the height of the psychedelic era, he guided the very vocal San Francisco Mime Troupe’s pointed satire of American militarism, racism and bourgeois values.

The director Yashaddai Owens took his Bolex film camera to Istanbul and Paris to show glimpses of the gifted author before he became a literary quasar.

Kim Sajet left as director of the National Portrait Gallery when she found herself in the White House cross hairs. Now she’s watching another Smithsonian chief go through it.

Savion Glover, Honey Balenciaga and other artists from the world of performance share their favorites, from era-defining musicals to art-house dramas.

In this month’s picks, a portrait of a jazz musician, a French archival family film and an Alabama prison exposé using footage from inmates.

The artist, who died just short of her 100th birthday, subverted racist tropes by turning mammy dolls into warriors and presenting the breadth of the Black experience.

Mitch Winehouse had accused two of the singer’s friends of secretly auctioning her belongings. A judge ruled that he must pay their legal fees.

The creator of Dance Constructions that borrowed from sculpture and performance, she was a deep influence in the early 1960s on ideas about what dance could be.

With their second album, “Who Asked?,” the virtuoso jazz-and-beyond duo Domi and JD Beck re-emerges with ever more intricate songs.

A Dutch fashion iconoclast turns the Brooklyn Museum into her atelier — and a reporter tries to be a couturier for a day.

Cooper Hoffman and Olivia Wilde explore a tie-me-up, turn-me-on relationship in Gregg Araki’s jolly sex comedy.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa directs a satisfying period piece about the tense collaboration between a lord and a cunning envoy.

As the hit series keeps expanding, an ambitious stage adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s prequel saga has found a natural home at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

The best-selling authors Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray recommend gripping books that illuminate hidden chapters of the city’s past.

“I can’t believe I have to say this to Donald Trump, but can you just lie to us?” Jordan Klepper said on “The Daily Show.”

The group announced it would not submit its most recent album, ‘Arirang,’ for consideration a month after the Recording Academy introduced a new category for Asian pop.

The accusations include sex with underage girls and sexually explicit messages. The actor denied the allegations.

First Kiss Moon, the biggest museum and being sure of someone.

Bubba Weiler’s new play about two altar boys at a crossroads includes several beautiful performances, even when the line between sweetness and treacle blurs.

The popular singer-songwriter won, with Markéta Irglová, an Oscar for the song “Falling Slowly” from the film “Once.”

With her family troupe — and later as a solo star — she performed balletic, gymnastic tricks in circuses and theaters, at fairs and on television.

Working from archives and private collections, engineers restored notes and uncovered previously unheard details for a compilation that displays Rainey’s wide-ranging impact.

The artist, whose real name was Vincent Belorgey, was best known for his 2010 hit “Nightcall,” which was featured in the film “Drive.”

After rising to global pop star status with songs about heartbreak, Smith returns with an album about pointedly queer “requited love,” made exactly how and where made them happiest.

His public-radio programs “Saint Paul Sunday” and “Exploring Music” were, at their height, listened to by hundreds of thousands of people a week.

The creative team behind a revival of the rock musical celebrating teenage love and angst turned to open auditions as they cast the show.

The Royal Theater of Rabat is an architectural performance itself, with devilishly difficult curves. It was a homecoming to a world the star designer loved.

The veteran performer is making waves as a blind servant in “The Odyssey.” But he was worried that a scene with dogs would make him the most hated actor in movies.

This Thailand-set vacation thriller is neither silly nor gory enough to chum the waters for audiences at home.

The “Tonight Show” host surmised that Trump might be regretting “picking a health secretary who lives on raccoon meat and Zyn pouches.”

Big booksellers are taking different approaches to dealing with the deluge of titles generated by artificial intelligence.

A law firm hired by Interlochen, the arts school and camp, to look into alumni complaints of sexual abuse fielded dozens of disturbing accounts, primarily from decades ago.

Lili Elbe’s story was told in “The Danish Girl.” Now Tobias Picker’s opera about her life, with a trans opera singer in the lead role, is making its U.S. premiere.

A German scientist, he developed a process for turning corpses into posable figures. His shows drew millions of visitors, and many detractors.

Working with dolls, family photographs, fabric scraps and other found objects, she became a leading figure in assemblage art.

Urbanworld, a New York event, has added a section for movies made with A.I. tools. The union was a sponsor but has been outspoken on the dangers of A.I.

Friends of the influential psychedelic folk songwriter said they had been unable to reach her since her discharge from a care facility eight months ago.

The Spider-Man series is about growing up. Now its superhero has become an adult.

Hear cinephile tracks from Charli XCX, David Bowie, SZA and more.

Her groundbreaking drama just ended after eight seasons. “I’m grateful that we’re going out when people still care,” she said.

The museum, designed by Frank Gehry for the capital of the United Arab Emirates, will show art from the 1960s to the present.

The singer says that for years members of her inner circle have been the victims of hacks aimed at stealing unreleased music, photos and videos.

The decision capped a five-day preliminary hearing in which prosecutors detailed how and why they say the musician killed the 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.

Also among the 13 works up for the British literary award are the latest books from Douglas Stuart, Gwendoline Riley and Emma Cline.

The British pop duo Wham! was the first Western act of its kind to play mainland China. This documentary reveals the hidden agenda of the shows.

The Atlanta History Center replaced an exhibition focused on military history with a reflection of America’s defining conflict.

From culture in Hamburg to sweet confections in Aveiro, the charms of these places are revealed as you drift down uncrowded waterways.

“And let’s just say Iran’s not the only thing he bombed,” Seth Meyers said of the president’s performance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

After recovering from a life-threatening stroke, a fame-hungry musical comedian contends with a worse fate: She might just be average.

The Royal Shakespeare Company called off five preview performances of the epic four-hour production last week, including one just hours before its scheduled curtain.

The musical, set to begin previews next March, is an adaptation of the 1984 film about a musician whose talent is threatened by tumult at home and at the club.

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra came to Caramoor with Handel’s “Tolomeo,” a far-fetched opera seria with a lively score.

The singer-songwriter, 83, has also had surgery to treat basal cell carcinoma on her face, making her “self-conscious about being seen in public,” she said.

A new production at Barrington Stage Company reminds us of how the “singular sensation” changed our relationship to performance.

Mina the Hollower draws inspiration from “The Secret of NIMH,” Victorian literature and 1990s role-playing games.

Tim Foster is a shoe colorist for New York City Ballet, an unexpected but, thanks to a new documentary, no longer unsung hero who practices a delicate, painstaking art.

One of the fascinating women of early literature, Circe becomes a simple witch in Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster.

Paramount is betting that audiences will re-embrace the star a decade after allegations of domestic abuse and a defamation trial.

A travel journal can be a great way to evoke specific details and memories from a trip. Here are some tips on how to lower the barrier to entry and to stay organized.