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At the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens in London, a massive outdoor exhibition reveals a lifelong dialogue in the sculptor’s work between nature and human creations.

A pair of unconventional takes to the life of a musician bookend this month’s under-the-radar recommendations for your subscription streaming services.

From the Queens Museum to Times Square, the British artist Sonia Boyce shows art intimately connected to community.

Not even a double dose of Oscar Isaac can rescue this fanciful, oversauced tale of stolen art and spiritual questioning.

SoFi Stadium, the $5 billion event venue near Los Angeles, is on global display for the soccer tournament. But for some who live close by, it is just another headache.

Hollywood actors in starry plays, skittish investors and gate-keeping theater owners have all contributed to an unusually tough climate for song-and-dance shows.

William McDonald, who recently retired as the obituaries editor after nearly two decades, shares how subjects are chosen to be remembered in the newspaper.

“Hey, kids, remember you wanted to go to Disneyland? Instead, we’re going to go see the world’s largest kombucha!” Johnson said of the pool renovation as a tourist stop.

The record industry titan guided Houston from a young star to worldwide phenomenon. But their story together was not without controversy.

Miranda is co-writing the musical — his first since “Hamilton” — with Eisa Davis. It’s based on “The Warriors” film and novel.

Hear a Rosalía tour highlight, forgotten new-wave from the 1970s and more.

Arguing that architecture is a “social act,” he built affordable homes on small lots in Los Angeles and elsewhere, with an eye toward smarter, more equitable design.

The longtime Christopher Nolan collaborator isn’t in the director’s forthcoming Homeric adaptation. But a new audiobook sets Caine’s voice off on its own adventure.

Students from Georgia and Arizona won the top prizes at the ceremony, which was hosted by Bowen Yang and celebrates excellence in high school musical theater.

A historian and others said that a video installation had incorrectly blamed Winston Churchill for a famine in colonial India.

Lincoln Center Theater, basking in the glow of its Tony-winning “Ragtime” run, plans revivals of two more well-known titles this season.

In allocating the borough’s discretionary budget entirely to cultural projects, Brad Hoylman-Sigal said he wanted to send a message to President Trump about the need to keep arts funding.

A new game featuring the voices of Zoë Kravitz and Sadie Sink turns a user’s phone into a controller in an attempt to combine the first and second screen experience.

The museum’s director, Simone Verde, is working long hours as he tries to remake the institution into a living encyclopedia.

Some Michael Jackson fans are experiencing deep, lingering grief after watching the biopic — a potent reminder that he is gone, they say.

Images circulated by an activist group reveal bare marble where President Trump’s name once resided. The Kennedy Center previously told a federal judge it had been removed.

Starting in the early 1960s, the New York artist blurred the line between painting and sculpture with his shaped, protruding canvases.

The Library Company of Philadelphia, created in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, has received a gift of 1,500 volumes about sexuality dating back to the 17th century.

Across the country, audiences will find an abundance of Shakespeare, exciting new plays, and musicals and regional repertories in bucolic settings.

Jimmy Fallon poked fun at the name of the business under fire for turning the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool bright green: “Nailed it.”

Davis “treated me with the same respect and kindness as a 22-year-old nobody as he did after all my success,” Springsteen said after the music executive’s death on Monday.

For Patti Smith, the best guidance was something that Davis rarely granted: free rein.

He rose from a midlevel position at Columbia Records to become one of music’s most powerful executives, shepherding stars like Barry Manilow and Whitney Houston.

The label boss, who died on Monday, had a passion for hits — especially ones he masterminded — during his formidable tenures at Columbia, Arista and J Records.

For years, creators were on the fringes at Creative Artists Agency, a Hollywood talent behemoth. Now the agency is putting them center stage.

The mayor’s appeal comes after several of the rapper’s shows were canceled in Europe. A planned concert in Tampa, Fla., has also raised concern.

The Dance of the Dragons got into full swing with no shortage of blood, flames and intrigue, much of it at sea.

This month, victims are held hostage by demons, a deranged madman, the elements and a monstrosity named Hoagie.

A newly found notebook documenting the composer’s lessons with a student includes seven previously unknown compositions.

Each June, students from around the country come to New York for the Jimmy Awards. We tagged along for a day of their intensive musical-theater residency.

“Suddenly Last Summer,” the composer Courtney Bryan’s first opera, adapts Williams’s play for Bard SummerScape.

Pioneer Winter’s works expand ideas about who gets to be a professional dancer. In “Apollo,” his muses are older dancers, who are like living archives.

Brent Leggs will lead the preservation organization, which has been in the news recently for challenging the Trump administration’s ballroom and Kennedy Center projects.

Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement are routinely asked about performing their musical satires again. They always said no, until this year. What changed?

The hit FX series reaches its fifth and final season. The BET Awards are live in Los Angeles.

A film crew and illustrator meticulously documented her pirouettes and pouts, giving substance to a character depicted previously as a spotlight onstage.

He joined the magazine’s staff at 23. Among the subjects of his profiles were the magician Ricky Jay and a pre-politics Donald Trump.

The Disney-Pixar sequel was expected to make $160 million in North America over the weekend, lifting the summer box office to $1.85 billion to date.

He rose from a hardscrabble childhood to form a pioneering interracial comedy duo. He later spent years opening for Frank Sinatra.

The New York Historical’s expansive Tang Wing highlights the role of protest for America’s 250th anniversary.

Basel’s art history predates the world’s most prominent art fair by a few centuries.

As the anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn approaches, relatives of the two men still grapple with the legacy of a contentious moment in U.S. history.

Claude Guillemot, 69, founded the video game company, which was also known for the hit Far Cry, with his brothers in 1986. He was killed in western France.

The once-closeted star has reinvented her song “Girls Like Girls” as a best-selling Y.A. novel and a new theatrical film. It wasn’t easy.

What is it about a certain kind of film that appeals to fathers? Our writer took a stab at defining Dad Cinema and rounding up its greatest hits.

After 38 years in a tent, Hudson Valley Shakespeare opens one of the most spectacular outdoor performance spaces in the country.

Beloved by actors, he helped create “Cheers” and directed more than 1,000 episodes of hit shows like “Taxi,” “Friends” and “The Big Bang Theory.”

The New York Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson explores how the ‘Toy Story’ films leverage layers of nostalgia as a recipe for success.

Uplift for Juneteenth from Allison Russell, tangled love songs from Tyla and FKA twigs, and more.

A nearsighted artist with a solitary streak stumbled on a world of cultural experiences and authentic connections after years of taking refuge in her bookshelves.

Dismissed for decades by critics as a mere “fashion portraitist” of high-society ladies, Asta Norregaard is now the subject of a major new retrospective at Oslo’s National Museum.

As the breakout horror hit crosses $300 million at the global box office, its art director set off a debate about just compensation for crew members.

“It sucks for anybody to get old,” the “Jackass” stunt performer says, “but for Steve-O, I feel like it is categorically not OK.”

The beautiful game is the inspiring setting for films from countries large (Brazil) and small (Cape Verde). Watch them while the World Cup is in full swing.

In a directing career that included over 70 Met Opera broadcasts, he said his work was “dictated by the music, by key change, by orchestration, by phrasing.”

Colin Farrell and California are still a winning combination in a new season of Apple TV’s sci-fi private-eye series.

Restorers have fixed a gap on the western side of the temple in Athens that had been empty for more than 220 years.

Nearly two years have passed since the “Game of Thrones” prequel aired, and the many shifting alliances and secret betrayals were complex even then.