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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 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.

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.

Across reality shows, social media and best-selling books, women raised in the church have increased its profile across pop culture.

The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in Chicago has built community and pushed musical boundaries for 60 years. Hear 13 tracks from this jazz institution.

“Nessun Dorma?” More like “Ice, Ice Baby,” as a statue in Italy is overshadowed.

The author of novels, histories, biographies and influential political essays, he approached them all with a droll British wit and a steadfast commitment to Western values.

It was all roast beef, chocolate cake and air kisses at the Gotham Awards in Lower Manhattan.

As the season of Nutcrackers, Messiahs, Scrooges and Santas begins, here are some novel ways to enjoy the holidays, including a poetry weekend and a Coltrane tribute.

Paul Williams is known for his ability to elicit both laughter and tears. This week, he and his decades of music will be celebrated at the 92nd Street Y.

Our film critics rank their 10 favorites of the year.

After years focused on international repertory and new work, the company is returning the choreographer August Bournonville, “our place of belonging,” to the heart of its mission.

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.

From “Oh. What. Fun.” to “A Very Jonas Christmas Movie,” a roundup of several new holiday titles to stream this season.

“One Battle After Another,” “Sinners,” “Hamnet,” “Marty Supreme” and “Sentimental Value” are almost certain to be nominated. After that, it’s anyone’s guess.

With the “Fresh Prince” reboot ending next week, Morgan Stevenson Cooper looks back on its path from viral video to Peacock hit.

The Broadway revival, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez, was transformative. Here’s what to know about the show, and the movie.

With an eye on its international fan base, the N.B.A. has welcomed the influence of African singers like Tems, Burna Boy and Rema.

Clare Cory was 59 years old and had been single almost her whole life. She thought her love story was over. Then everything changed.

The president posted 160 times on Truth Social in one night, according to news reports. One host says his “thumbs were as swollen as his ankles.”

His tales of violence and squalor in his native Ozarks had the timeless quality of fables and inspired several movies.

Onstage in Brooklyn, the buzzy producer and musician blasted his songs apart and stitched them back together again.

Hear the Replacements (on Big Star), Sonic Youth (on Karen Carpenter), Stevie Wonder (on Duke Ellington) and more.

After 40 years of making dances as complicated as human consciousness, Tere O’Connor revives his first work at New York Live Arts. Bonus: He will talk about it.

He is best known as a former Hollywood power broker, but Ovitz has filled his Beverly Hills home with a collection that shows how serious he is about art.

After a year of deliberation, the editors at The New York Times Book Review have picked their 10 best books of 2025. Three editors share their favorites.

A conversation with the columnist Ross Douthat about how popular culture is reacting to a second Trump administration.

How one era changed everything about the culture — and why we’re so nostalgic for its creations.

Our critic explores “Reefline,” an underwater public sculpture park that hopes to be a haven for art and corals. But some question the scientific benefits.

He won best director, original screenplay and international feature for “It Was Just an Accident.” Best feature went to “One Battle After Another.”

“On Thanksgiving? Are you confusing that with Festivus?” Jon Stewart said of President Trump’s Truth Social post insulting the Minnesota governor’s intelligence.

“Androgyny,” “apathy” and other words and ideas that defined America’s last monoculture.

Films that take their stories from the Old or New Testament are filling screens big and small. To understand why, it helps to know Hollywood history.

On two of T Magazine’s Holiday Issue covers, an era’s biggest stars appear as Simpsons characters. A third features Chris Ware’s illustrations of the goods of his youth.

The generation known for its irony also taught us something about engaging earnestly with art.

A new exhibition at the Africa Museum in Belgium takes a frank look at a large-scale propaganda painting and the institution’s own past role in adding to the spin.

For Miami Art Week, Devlin has created an open-air installation for Faena Art that invites the public to turn her personal library into a communal one.

Franklin Sirmans, head of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, discusses building its collection, the dearth of Black art museum directors and navigating Florida politics.

Fourteen galleries pulled out of the fair this year, while others chose to stay and embrace the art fray. “It’s a good opportunity to be bold,” says one dealer.

A new show based on a Canadian sports romance novel airs. And a reunion of ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ recaps the third season.

Pace, Di Donna and David Schrader of Sotheby’s are collaborating on an Upper East Side space that will focus on secondary market sales.

The mogul’s lawyers told the streaming service to withdraw a documentary because it was produced by his rival and uses footage they say was “illicitly” acquired.

The FLAG Art Foundation in New York and Serpentine in London have established a 1 million British pound award for five artists.

A show of 76 paintings from the Leiden Collection is on display at the Norton Museum of Art in South Florida.

A new documentary contains zesty character studies of competing New York City tree vendors as they prepare for the holiday season.

“F1: The Movie,” “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley” and “The Life of Chuck” arrive, and “Fallout” and “Percy Jackson” return.

A slew of new titles are coming this month, including the latest “Knives Out” mystery and a film starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler.

Michelle Williams leads an O’Neill drama, Matthew Broderick stars in Molière, and plenty of stages brim with non-holiday fare, Off Broadway and beyond.

Joe Mantello will direct the next revival of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” opening in April at the Winter Garden Theater.

For generations of Algerians, the fierce independence of her persona reflected their struggles in a country torn by civil war and repression.

Created by Aram Rappaport for his streaming service, the Network, the historical drama explores the tensions, sometimes deadly, between art and commerce.

“Prince Faggot,” “Figaro/Faggots” and other productions use the word to shock, provoke, reclaim it for gay men or all of the above. Does that make it OK?

The new Artist Spotlight section of the Miami event will include 30 galleries focusing on a single artist, some chosen in part for their lack of commercialism.

In Budapest, political disputes and aging infrastructure have led to cascading problems, and prolonged closings, at several of the city’s beloved baths.

New problems are plaguing old reels, putting decades of history at risk. One man, armed with hair dryers and a love of tinkering, is leading the charge to rescue them.

The playwright won an Academy Award for “Shakespeare in Love.” But he was also a prolific script doctor who worked with filmmakers like Steven Spielberg.

Spinning off Shakespeare, waltzing through Imperial Russia, bantering about literature or diving deeply into history, Stoppard shared his gifts on the screen.

Ingrid’s connection to the evil entity known as It is revealed, among other dangerous secrets.

And if you’re angry about it, that just proves the point.

The singers did marvelous work at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, where the director Calixto Bieito’s new staging takes place in a hellish dystopia.