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For her second commission at New York City Ballet, the principal dancer is leveling up. “Symphonie Espagnole,” with a nod to the company’s Balanchine heritage, has a cast of 40.

She won the top journalism honor for criticism while with The Wall Street Journal. She later wrote a wry, perceptive book about the backstage world of opera.

A lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Humanities drew wide attention for revealing how DOGE had used ChatGPT to cancel grants.

Sally Field and Lewis Pullman get help from an eight-tentacled friend in this bland adaptation of a hit novel.

Yes, some memorable mansions were lost to the vagaries of expenses and development, but many remain — and some are even open to the public. A walking guide.

The decision can vary from fair to fair but sometimes solo booths can help visitors focus their attention on a single artist, rather than being overwhelmed by the art of many.

Dozens of French luxury houses and institutions will converge on Manhattan for the cross-cultural exhibition “Hidden Treasures: 250 Years of Franco-American Luxury Stories.”

A flock of sheep and Hugh Jackman star in a delightful Agatha Christie-style mystery set in an English village.

Sitcoms have long treated menopause as a punchline, but newer series like “Your Friends & Neighbors” and “Riot Women” depict it as a matter-of-fact part of women’s lives.

They may be bronze and marble, but Alma Allen’s artworks at the Venice Biennale are as intangible as air.

This week in Newly Reviewed, Will Heinrich covers Ceija Stojka’s naïve expressionism, Mao Ishikawa’s sprawling bodies and a reinstallation of an important show by Peter Hujar.

An older man pays a camboy $50,000 for a night that goes to difficult, existential places in this breakout feature from Elliot Tuttle.

“Double Exposures,” the first museum survey for the artist, highlights a career spent documenting New Yorkers, in ways both traditional and strange.

Academic museums at Princeton, Yale, Cornell and Skidmore have organized several standout exhibitions, worth a venture beyond TEFAF New York.

This May, big-ticket items, and numerous major private collections, will be on offer and provide a major test of the market in a chaotic time.

Frenchness is a common theme among the films selected to open the festival. The opener also premieres in hundreds of theaters across France the day the festival begins.

Lawyers for Ms. Lively and Mr. Baldoni have said the two sides settled much of the contentious dispute. But one major disagreement remains.

The Ministry of Awe, a new immersive experience in a former bank in Philadelphia, aims to help locate the wondrous in the everyday.

A documentary about the popular chain presents its repurposed buildings as protective shells where new businesses can grow.

The best-selling author Fonda Lee recommends fantasy and science fiction novels with older, wiser, absolutely epic heroes.

President Emmanuel Macron has long called the restitution of African art from French museums a priority. Experts say the new law is a seismic moment in that effort.

Ed Gardner is an ideal ambassador for British music. And he is building an important profile abroad, with a trip to the United States this month.

How Jessica Helfand, an artist, started a new chapter in an industrial building.

Scenes from the highly anticipated art event.

Undoubtedly the biggest talker at this year’s Venice Biennale is the Austrian pavilion, where visitors can make their own contributions to the work on show.

The pop superstar teamed up with James Cameron to create a concert movie that, playing with shiny camera technology, reinvigorates the concert experience.

Hans Otte’s “Book of Sounds,” Jan Lisiecki’s fresh take on Mozart piano concertos and the works of an overlooked composer are among our selections.

The star often refuses roles unless he clicks with the filmmaker. That’s how he came to work with Wong Kar-wai, Hou Hsiao-Hsien and now Ildiko Enyedi.

With “Costume Art,” the dress department moves out of the basement to become the gateway to the museum.

Starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Léa Seydoux, this cerebral drama explores the mysteries of plant and human connection.

The movie, directed by Simon McQuoid and based on the cult video game, unleashes another gruesome fighter tournament to determine the fate of the universe.

In Mixtape, you can skateboard to Devo’s “That’s Good,” film a party to Iggy Pop’s “Candy” and wallow in sadness to B.J. Thomas’s “Most of All.”

The new season of “Jersey Shore: Family Vacation” will be the last on MTV. The castmates said it’s only a matter of time before it returns somehow.

After Trump used the terms “miniwar” and “excursion” to describe the conflict in Iran, Jimmy Kimmel predicted that the president would next call the war “a tiff. It will be a $200 billion tiff.”

The long-running musical, one of Broadway’s biggest hits, will be closed through at least May 17 after an electrical fire in its lighting booth.

One of the last Beat Generation artists, he embraced the messiness of everyday life, making collages and assemblages from rusty junk and decaying objects.

The Lebanese-Australian artist almost lost his Venice Biennale commission after he was accused of supporting terrorism. Reinstated, he is arriving in Venice showing not one but two works.

What does it take to play Frank-N-Furter in “The Rocky Horror Show” on Broadway? Luke Evans transforms in five-inch heels and an endless supply of glitter.

Buried treasure, birds on the move and secret library access.

Revisiting “Pride and Prejudice” from Mary Bennet’s point of view, “The Other Bennet Sister” from BritBox offers a different type of onscreen heroine.

Thomas, the beloved mentor and conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, recently died. He offered a road map for a 21st-century career in music.

With her dance partner and onetime husband, Juan Carlos Copes, she reinvented tango for a global stage, including in the hit stage show “Tango Argentino.”

Shakespeare’s brooding prince comes off as bored at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. But Bedlam’s lean production of “Othello” is positively thrilling.

In this parody of the true crime genre, a mother with murderous tendencies reflects on the hard work and thankless sacrifices that go into parenting.

The film’s portrait of the work lives of a young journalist and a top editor holds lessons for us. It’s just that the lessons have changed with time.

The 27-year-old singer, songwriter and guitarist got her start on TikTok in 2020. Now she’s releasing “Gentleman,” her second LP of confident, clever rock songs.

“How are you talking about nuclear war in front of children?” Desi Lydic asked after the president discussed the Iran conflict in a room full of students on Tuesday.

The viola player Brett Dean took a risk that paid off when he left the orchestra to become a full-time composer.

Nominations for the 79th Tony Awards were announced on Tuesday. Here’s who made the list.

Guests at the Met Gala had different interpretations of the night’s dress code.

M.I.A. made the comments at a concert in Dallas, drawing boos from the audience and criticism online.

Our attachment to an institution may seem counterintuitive, especially with comedy, a rebellious art form. But with Stephen Colbert’s program, there was a lot at stake.

Adrien Brody, Jean Smart and other boldface names were left out, while June Squibb, André De Shields and Layton Williams as an iceberg were among the surprises.

With his classmates Charles Moore, William Turnbull Jr. and Richard Whitaker, he designed an icon of modern architecture on a windswept bluff in Northern California.

Hear Kacey Musgraves and Miranda Lambert making peace on the record, and more outstanding collaborations between women in Nashville.

The nominated performers include the film stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rose Byrne, John Lithgow and Lesley Manville.

On Tuesday, Russia opened a pavilion at the Venice Biennale for the first since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine’s own exhibit is just a stone’s throw.

The class-action lawsuit accuses the tech giant and its founder and chief executive of infringing on authors’ copyrights.

Models, designers, D.J.s and performers kept the night going into the early morning.

He no longer feels a sense of ownership, but the program’s former host has harsh words for the network.

The sudden death of a curator, the surprise participation of Russia and an unconventional U.S. entry are heating up the art world Olympics, which begins previews Tuesday.

Lauren Halsey’s porcelain Black statuettes, collected over two decades, depict people singing in church, playing in the park and other scenes of everyday life.

The African Art in Venice Forum is continuing its mission of addressing the continent’s artistic needs, even as it mourns the loss of Koyo Kouoh, a key supporter.