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Frenzied bidding pushed the polarizing F.P. Journe timepiece into near-record territory despite one dealer calling the design “goofy.”

Architects, artists, clients and partners assess his life and impact over eight decades.

His innovative approach drew crowds to the Musée d’Orsay, one of France’s flagship cultural institutions, which he led from 2008 to 2017.

Gehry, who died on Friday at 96, made an invaluable contribution to classical music by designing spaces with stunning acoustics.

The “Five Nights at Freddy’s” and “I Love L.A.” star found instant success as a child actor. After his “Hunger Games” fame, it felt like it almost all went away.

The pair work together to envision Kristian Hadeland, the protagonist of the author’s latest novel, “The School of Night.”

The rapper chats about the experimental pop collaborators and healthy habits that fueled his sixth album, “Stardust.”

Through trinkets and tales, a U.F.O. story that once captured national attention lives on.

Dan Perlman, a comedian, looks and sounds nothing like Michael Bublé. And yet, for some reason, he was hired to impersonate the crooner at a birthday party.

He designed some of the world’s most recognizable buildings, notably the spectacular Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, his masterpiece.

Everyone loves tiny dancers. Now some artists are considering why they bring us such joy — and what lessons they might have for grown-ups.

The Korean pop outsider Effie and the Brooklyn indie-rock band Geese top our critics’ lists this year.

The filmmaker Chloé Zhao and the novelist-turned-screenwriter Maggie O’Farrell explained the changes they made in the tale of Shakespeare, his wife and their son.

The actor, born in Japan, starred in dozens of film and television shows, including Amazon’s “The Man in the High Castle.” His career spanned more than three decades.

Fleeing an abusive home life, she went on to win a national Space Invaders tournament, taught herself to program and left a trail of popular games in her wake.

The deal to acquire the Hollywood behemoth’s television and film studios as well as HBO Max will bulk up the world’s biggest paid streaming service.

For years he lived a double life, secretly making anti-Communist paintings. He found fame in the late 1980s, once his work was shown outside the Soviet Union.

Gary Goldman, who has battled Disney in court over the franchise, thinks the viper Gary De’Snake is based on him.

In this drama, Lucy Liu offers a compassionate and grim portrait of a parent at the end of her rope.

Under its music director, Manfred Honeck, the ensemble returned to Carnegie Hall for the first time in over a decade, flying in on a high.

A singular genius, Gehry redefined architecture with joyful buildings like the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services restored the funding after a federal court ruled that moves to dismantle the agency were unlawful.

Before returning to New York to lead Roundabout, Christopher Ashley is concluding his 18-year tenure at La Jolla Playhouse with the new musical “Working Girl.”

This production, which retains many of the charms of its 2019 Broadway staging, has lost some of its necessary darkness.

Alvin Ailey’s annual gala began with suits and bare chests on the red carpet and ended with dancing to Madonna’s “Like a Prayer.”

From timeless classics to frothy distractions, we’ve picked the best holiday romances currently available to stream.

This month’s movies include cosmopolitan assassins, flesh-slicing swashbucklers and seasoned supernatural detectives.

The bigger-budget follow-up to last year’s abysmal cult horror hit about haunted animatronic puppets is, at best, marginally scarier.

The Hapsburg family claims the gem, which it secretly kept hidden for decades.

The most compelling releases of the year reimagined hip-hop tracks, deep-rooted collaborations and longstanding inspirations.

The Tony-winning Broadway revival of the notorious Stephen Sondheim flop, starring Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez, gets a live stage recording for the big screen.

WildeHopps, a.k.a. the fox and bunny at the heart of the franchise, has inspired a YouTube movie, TikToks, fancams and more. The obsession goes deep (and sometimes weird).

A new $40-million exhibit, opening nine months after President Trump fired the chief archivist, uses technology to explore the 13 billion-plus items in its vaults.

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

To tell the story of the demonstrations surrounding a World Trade Organization meeting, “WTO/99” assembled scenes shot by the participants themselves.

“Spartacus: House of Ashur,” premiering this month on Starz, brings the cult favorite 2010s action series back in an unlikely way.

The Tony-nominated American playwright and actor has been in custody since airport customs officers found Ecstasy in his bag last month.

For one writer, putting together her annual roundup of streaming holiday movies requires open-mindedness — and a high tolerance for candy-coated clichés.

The host said he wouldn’t have been the third-most-trending person in Google searches this year “without the support of loyal viewers” like the president.

As a member of Booker T. & the MG’s and as a producer, he played a pivotal role in the rise of Stax Records, a storied force in R&B in the 1960s and ’70s.

He put fellow New Jerseyans at the center of his work, and a critic praised the “mysterious emotional tensions” in his pictures of ordinary people.

Ephrat Asherie’s “Shadow Cities” pairs her group’s adept dancers with live music by the great Arturo O’Farrill.

This week in Newly Reviewed, Martha Schwendener covers Meredith James’s anti-architecture monument, Franz Gertsch’s take on Patti Smith, Ragnar Kjartansson’s postcard ode, Analivia Cordeiro’s merging bodies and Guanyu Xu’s hovering photos.

The Netherlands and Slovenia also said they would not take part in next year’s contest, meant to be its celebratory 70th edition.

An architect of Memphis soul, Cropper made his guitar sing and sting. And as a songwriter, he collaborated on more than a few indelible anthems.

Where does a painter’s grief go? Onto the canvas, in spectral realms.

Noah Baumbach’s latest film has George Clooney playing the last of the old-school movie stars.

An exhibition reckons with the revived legacy of an immigrant artist who created ornate illuminations and scathing caricatures of Nazism and the horrors of the Holocaust.

“The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions” is a music theater piece based on Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta’s 1970s book.

Many of the year’s best series seemed to be in conversation with one another, including “Severance,” “The Pitt,” “Andor,” “Pluribus,” “The Lowdown” and others.

The director reunites with Toni Servillo, casting the astonishingly expressive actor as a fictional Italian president facing the end of his term.

The theater that drew acclaim last year for “Les Misérables” is hoping Paris can accept a new “Americano-French musical.”

Despite awareness of taboos, two girls in a Catholic school choir are drawn to each other in this feature debut by the Slovenian director Urska Djukic.

In Scandar Copti’s film, set in Haifa, Israel, secrets and deceptions strain relationships.

Clever sight gags jazz up this “Downton Abbey” sendup about a bookish aristocrat under pressure to marry her first cousin.

Two filmmaking brothers trade tales in a tonally singular documentary.

Kristen Stewart’s feature directing debut stars a riveting Imogen Poots in an uncomfortably visceral tale of abuse and addiction.

This flawed but endearing film stars Emma Corrin as a protective maid and features Charli XCX as a sister with a secret.

The president who says he’s killing traffickers “pardoned a man who smuggled in enough cocaine to give every American resting Kash Patel face,” Josh Johnson said.

The doctor, Salvador Plasencia, had asked “I wonder how much this moron will pay” before supplying the drug to Mr. Perry, who became increasingly reliant on it before his death.

The wrinkle in this year’s Spotify Wrapped release was an estimate of the user’s “listening age.” Some wore it like a badge of honor. Others made excuses.

The Season 12 premiere got back to the show’s roots, introducing a young cast with the kind of hunger and fresh faces that made the original a hit.

Enticements abound in New York City, including Jinkx Monsoon crooning, Dickens reciting Dickens and, for the whole family, the Big Apple Circus.