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Her four episodes on the sitcom marked a rarity: a disabled actress onscreen.

Mr. Graffman was a child prodigy whose career was curtailed by a neurological condition that restricted him to his left hand.

The medium has been bigger than niche for a long time. That became apparent to everyone in 2025.

Yuval Sharon will leave the financially strained Detroit Opera after this season. In March, he brings his unorthodox vision to Wagner at the Metropolitan Opera.

Two artists spent 30 years cataloging how people dress and learned a lot about humanity in the process.

The movie gets at least one thing right: Rebooting the shlocky, widely-panned creature-feature, starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd, is a goofy idea.

“Not All Travelers Walk Roads,” the 36th edition of the exhibition, sees art as a guide for connecting with one another and with the earth.

In this month’s picks, Sydney Pollack on Frank Gehry, Rob Reiner on Albert Brooks and Mike Figgis on Francis Ford Coppola.

Recent stagings of classics like “La Traviata” and rarities like “Intermezzo” are among the highlights.

Dahlak Brathwaite’s “Try/Step/Trip,” part of the Under the Radar festival, uses the language of step to express the liberating and restricting power of groups.

In 2025, rock was still hanging in. As artificial intelligence infiltrates music, the genre’s handmade imperfections are more crucial than ever.

Critics look back on a year when the balcony scene in “Evita” became a social media phenomenon and audiences swooned for the bear in “Paddington: The Musical.”

Q-UP, the spiritual successor of the video game Universal Paperclips, is a savage critique and a loving appreciation of esports culture.

CNN, CBS and ABC ring in 2026, and a new reality show set in Palm Beach begins.

“And God Created Woman” made her a world-famous sex symbol in the 1950s. She later gave up acting to devote her life to animal welfare.

The actress, who died at 91, had what can’t be taught: charisma and attitude onscreen. Here are some highlights.

The movies made the French actress a star, but photography sealed her stardom.

The annual Vienna Philharmonic Ball anchors a winter calendar of some 450 dances across the city that open a window into Viennese tradition, then and now.

For the first time, Yannick Nézet-Séguin will lead the Vienna Philharmonic’s most-watched event of the year: its annual concert on New Year’s Day.

MusikTheater an der Wien will stage Pablo Luna’s “Benamor,” a rarely seen example of the Spanish zarzuela genre from the Roaring Twenties in Madrid.

In the decades after becoming a megastar, the French actress became as known for her politics as she once had been for her acting career.

No longer something off in the distance, the new technology was all over our screens this past year.

The director Josh Safdie had a personal connection to 1950s players, but he also enlisted professionals to choreograph the action and employed a visual trick.

As church bells chime and peal the New Year, historians say the looting of more than 150,000 bells during World War II left “a sonic gap” in the landscape.

Mario Rodriguez, who had a role in one of Mr. Perry’s films, sued him on Thursday, months after another actor filed a similar lawsuit.

Ms. Lee, a party host in Atlanta, died from multiple cardiac arrests brought on by the flu, according to a social media post.

A former roadie, Mr. Bamonte joined the band in 1990. He played on five albums and in hundreds of shows and was “a vital part of the Cure story,” the band said.

Roaming the American Museum of Natural History in pajamas made for a night to remember for hundreds of children and their brave parents.

In a world filled with digital distractions, these shows will help you indulge, develop or rekindle a love for reading.

When American studios wouldn’t back his film about a laid-off manager committing gruesome murders, the director returned to Korea. Now he has a hit on his hands.

He once thought his comedy career was over before it even began. Now he’s an “S.N.L.” star with a Netflix special coming in January.

“You get to see a bit more of someone than they’d probably like to let you see,” said the actor, who plays Emily’s ex Alfie on the Netflix series.

Anthony Ramos loves hanging out with customers during busy days that may find him writing a new musical, catching a friend in a show or performing in his own.

James Cameron narrates a sequence from his film, featuring Oona Chaplin and Stephen Lang.

James Cameron narrates a sequence from his film.

This month’s picks include a World War I revenge tale, a vampire superhero and female assassins.

The nonfiction spy thriller “The Falcon and the Snowman,” which became a film, grew out of his work as a journalist covering the West Coast for The Times.

One of the first jazz musicians from Poland to gain an international following, he recorded more than 60 albums and played with stars like Miles Davis.

A “Shark Tank” investor, a supermarket magnate and even N.B.A. All-Stars make appearances in the table tennis comedy.

The most memorable illustrations of the year, chosen by art directors at The New York Times.

For very different reasons, new hours from Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Kathleen Madigan, George Civeris and Jay Jurden are worth your time.

The genre peaked in terms of global awareness with “KPop Demon Hunters,” while the industry’s most promising new act was mired in a legal morass.

The nonprofit organization New 42, which earned a Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theater this year, continues to pave the way for a revitalized Times Square.

Bad Bunny, Addison Rae, Audra McDonald, a cotillion class, Bing the dog and many more were subjects of the photographs commissioned by our photo editors this year.

The Berlin Apartment, which owes a debt to What Remains of Edith Finch, lets you relive the challenges its many tenants faced.

Three photo editors from the Culture desk share their favorite images from 2025.

Catch a lush Monet blockbuster, gorgeous Egyptian goddesses and the history of Black Broadway before they’re gone.

An Oxford professor and renowned critic, he was pugnacious, fearless and disdainful of the received wisdom of his intellectual milieu.

The actor stars as a magnetic, striving table-tennis champ in Josh Safdie’s new movie, one of the most exciting movies of the year.

A spotty but thrilling tour of American art from Eisenhower to Nixon shows just how unhinged the ’60s were, and how hard it is to summarize the era.

As England goes to war, a provincial choir master played by Ralph Fiennes is challenged to find available voices in this poignant drama set in 1916.

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

Park Chan-wook, the director of “Oldboy” and “The Handmaiden,” brings comedic flair to the cruel tale of an employee pushed to the brink.

What are you doing to greet 2026? Our suggestions include fancy parties, all-night dance-a-thons, choose-your-own movie double features and a pasta-making class.

Her 1960 essay about the frustrations of educated women prefigured Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique.” She later wrote books on John Quincy Adams and others.

Craig Brewer’s toe-tapping weepie about the triumphs and tragedies of a Neil Diamond tribute band is exactly the movie we need right now.

A stunner of a debut film follows a group of boys at a water polo camp, where an outsider is just trying to fit in.

The actor knows life is fleeting, but he wants to hold on to every moment.

Volleying questions with the table tennis champ Marty Reisman, an inspiration for Timothée Chalamet’s new film, showed that he was a character in his own right.

With its profanity-laced script, Lucas Hnath’s Molière adaptation, starring Matthew Broderick, is a mischievous clash of the old and the new.

In an extraordinary performance, Amanda Seyfried plays the founder of the Shakers in a singular film.

Jim Jarmusch’s uneven triptych, a prizewinner at Venice, saves its best segment for last.