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Leon Botstein is no longer president of Bard College, but he continues to teach and play a prominent role in the school’s signature music programs.

In “California Schemin’,” the actor’s directorial debut, two Scottish rappers pretend to be American to make it in the business. It was much more personal than he thought.

Ethan Slater and Betsy Wolfe star in “Little Shop of Horrors,” and new casts also charm in “Just in Time” and “Maybe Happy Ending.”

The Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen is driven by fascination with wetlands and a penchant for video games. His exhibition presents a mystical, esoteric world.

The incisive rocker’s impressive new album, “All Set the Bone,” may make his D.I.Y. impulses difficult to maintain.

A new adaptation dispenses with period glamour in favor of a lived-in feel and realism. The goal is to bring emotions to the fore.

“He saved it from forever being lost,” the auction house said of the person who found a Gertrude Abercrombie painting at an estate sale in Kalamazoo, Mich.

“You know what? I’m going to report him to the F.C.C.,” Kimmel said.

With hits like “Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)” and “You Are My Lady,” he made slow jams feel like grand romance.

Gordon J. Davis was New York City’s first Black parks commissioner and one of the most effective. He also led Lincoln Center.

From “On the Waterfront” to “North by Northwest,” Saint specialized in complex sympathetic women who did their best to weather domestic and cultural storms.

The Grammy-winning singer who accused LaBeouf of abuse used a California law to challenge his use of a nondisclosure agreement in a settlement.

The documents were sought by the Democratic lawmaker who is suing to block the closure of the performing arts venue.

A luminous beauty with dramatic depth, she brought a layered intensity to harrowing roles and seduced Cary Grant in the romantic thriller “North by Northwest.”

What better place than the Little Free Libraries of Minneapolis?

The musical, which underwhelmed critics but attracted audiences while touring for years, has been significantly overhauled.

Dial up songs from Greg Freeman, the Womack Sisters and Jim Croce.

The Television Academy is moving its awards telecast to streaming, following the lead of the Oscars.

The studio of the Pop master Tom Wesselmann opened briefly for a peek. Other exhibitions continue at the studios of Donald Judd and Sean Scully.

The potential sale of the groundbreaking painter’s home in New York by his foundation, on the heels of the sale of his Florida studio, has alarmed many in the art community.

Novels by Edwidge Danticat and Valeria Luiselli are among the books up for the fiction prize, while Karl Ove Knausgaard’s latest is a contender for the translated literature prize.

In “Pithoprakta,” a rarely seen Balanchine work set to an extraterrestrial score, New York City Ballet dancers enter a new realm: “It was like nothing we had ever done before.”

The Senegalese writer was lauded as one of the founding fathers of African literature who subtly captured the shock of colonization from the perspective of the continent’s people.

The pressure is on for the sci-fi game Gears of War: E-Day as an Xbox exclusive, with “blood, sweat, and tears” extending beyond its virtual battlefields.

In a life of achievement and disgrace, he wrote best-selling novels with themes he knew intimately: ambition, self-promotion, misbehavior and scandal.

In Salman Toor’s first major solo show in Europe, the artist borrows gestures and compositions from art history to put modern-day outsiders in the forefront.

The novel, written over 50 years ago, has had several adaptations, not all of them good. A new series from Mike Flanagan has Stephen King’s imprimatur.

These spine-tingling stories cast light on creatures of the dark and reimagine superheroes with darker narratives, just in time for Halloween.

In Gears of War: E-Day, it’s fun to see the origins of beloved characters in grand scale, even if its play feels conservative.

Hallberg, the former Ballet Theater star, is now the artistic director of the Australian Ballet, which is bringing “Oscar,” about Oscar Wilde, to City Center.

Hits like “Love to Love You Baby” and “I Feel Love” made her a face of disco, but a new compilation shows Summer’s detours into rock, synth-pop, country and other sounds.

Hans Werner Henze, born 100 years ago and the son of a Nazi, captured the ambivalence of making art in the shadow of the 20th century.

“It’s fun to have a video of the exact moment you lost your campaign,” Jimmy Fallon said after Ramaswamy struggled to lift a child during a campaign rally in Ohio over the weekend.

Marc Summers, the host of the celebrated Nickelodeon children’s show, reflects on the decades since slime and slop first lovingly enveloped our youth.

The veteran rapper and actor reprises his longtime “NCIS: Los Angeles” role of Sam Hanna for the procedural’s new spinoff.

The symphony announced last week that it was pausing the rest of the season after disclosing financial trouble. The concerts are back on now, thanks to a tech company gift.

Daniel Fish’s staging of a C-SPAN segment reveals the complex yet tender relationship between the fiery Larry Kramer and the diplomatic Anthony Fauci.

The museum has been struggling to fit ticket holders into the exceptionally popular display, and it’s also up against the constraints of protecting the artwork.

The actor played the role of the sweetly endearing mouse puppet, a character beloved by children all over the world — and, apparently, Ed Sullivan.

A theatrical adaptation of “Perfection” by Vincenzo Latronico leans into political critique for an audience that looks a lot like the book’s characters.

Much of the trove, offered this fall at Christie’s, comes from a buying spree in the late 2000s and includes Dutch Golden Age art and paintings by Picasso and Manet.

Alejandro G. Iñárritu knows that “Digger” is polarizing. “I prefer that to the lukewarm reception,” he says of the climate-change satire with Tom Cruise.

The actor, now 51, is reprising his Tony-nominated role on Broadway, as an older, wiser Washington.

The Stephen King novel is reimagined for a contemporary audience. And a documentary goes backstage with the reunited Oasis.

The earthy first season of this intergalactic superhero series ended where it began and rarely left: rural Nebraska.

The Australian theater collective Pony Cam and Israel’s Lior Tavori Dance Company were among the offerings in the final three of this year’s programs.

“Verity,” Hathaway’s fifth film of the year, opened this weekend with $33 million months after “The Devil Wears Prada 2” and “The Odyssey” also topped the box office.

The artist behind “Mr. Jambo” and other viral spoofs may be the best musical parodist to emerge this decade.

Taylor Swift made a surprise cameo during the opening monologue of Dakota Johnson, who was hosting “Saturday Night Live” this weekend with the musical guest Turnstile.

Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock are the focus of a blockbuster show at the Met Museum. Four paintings reveal how their high-intensity relationship became a laboratory for ideas.

The center is moving its marquee event off site as it pushes for court approval of a plan to close its main building for a two-year renovation project.

She moved from Chile to Paris, where she used her wealth to support Picasso, Stravinsky and other artists. World War II forced her to go home, where she ended her life.

Five humans convened for a weekend to create new music from scratch. Could they do better than A.I.? Could you even tell the difference?

The prolific songwriter reaches back to celebrate the 50th anniversary of “Songs in the Key of Life,” Wynonna opens up, Jae Stephens knows what she’s worth and more.

“She always had the Syfy channel on, and I just wandered in on so many of them,” the comedian and actor said. “It gets my adrenaline going.”

At 82, the famously roguish leading man has written a memoir, “One Helluva Ride,” that’s as candid and intimate as it is feisty.

New York City Ballet hosted its annual fashion gala, this season pairing three choreographers with designers. The faux pas really added up.

Michael Goessling’s first phone call with his biological father brought a shock: He was speaking to Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers.

This month’s picks include killer sharks, vengeful lawmen and an umbrella-gun assassin.