Fantasizing on the Famous
By ALEXANDRA ALTER
“After,” Anna Todd’s wildly popular web novel based on Harry Styles of the boy band One Direction, is being published as a book.
A look at Phyllida Lloyd’s new all-woman “Henry IV,” and bumpy revivals of “Uncle Vanya” and “East Is East” in London.
“After,” Anna Todd’s wildly popular web novel based on Harry Styles of the boy band One Direction, is being published as a book.
Hundreds assembled near Lincoln Center Plaza on Monday to protest the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “The Death of Klinghoffer,” a raw, penetrating work by John Adams.
Sofar Sounds artists performing in private homes are joining a global network for the annual CMJ music festival this week.
In Paris, Frank Gehry’s new Vuitton Foundation museum is drawing all eyes, and the Pompidou Center is giving the architect a major career retrospective.
The Metropolitan Opera’s first performance of “The Death of Klinghoffer” was disrupted twice, but both protesters were ushered out.
New albums from Aretha Franklin, Annie Lennox and Kiesza recall an array of musical styles, old and new.
Suha Arraf, who directed “Villa Touma,” identified her film as Palestinian at the Venice Film Festival. Israel, which helped finance it, objected.
Wendy Whelan gave her final performances with New York City Ballet after a 30-year career that created roles for some of the most notable ballets of the 21st century.
Mr. Honan’s groundbreaking books included biographies of Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Jane Austen and Shakespeare.
A lawsuit filed by members of the Kainer family contends that Swiss bank officials have not distributed money from sales of their relatives’ art that was looted by the Nazis.
Bereavement plays a part in several current museum exhibitions, on television shows and in films.
Netflix, which was supposed to lay waste to traditional media companies, may have saved them instead.
“Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art showcases Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger and one man’s generosity.
Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s comedy “Birdman” stars Michael Keaton as a onetime movie superhero betting his career on a strange Broadway play.
Plácido Domingo plays a frail, aging man in Verdi’s “I Due Foscari” at the Royal Opera House in London.
“Egon Schiele: Portraits,” at the Neue Galerie, unspools the striking evolution of this Expressionist, who would become one of the 20th century’s most popular artists.
As the children of the collector C. C. Wang dispute their legacy, works have gone missing, dismaying art experts.
Brooklyn may be far away from Cape Town, but the New York borough has inspired a new show at Stevenson Gallery in the South African city called “Kings County.”
Mary Lambert’s “Heart on My Sleeve” and Nico & Vinz’s “Black Star Elephant” are rare recent examples of issues-minded pop.
Over thousands of years, humans have tried to represent the universe in graphic form, whether in manuscripts, paintings, prints, books or supercomputer simulations.
Yuna, a poster girl for young Muslim "hijabsters," has won a clutch of music awards and is currently touring the United States to promote her latest album.
The Warburg Institute is under financial pressure from its host, the University of London, and there are worries that it will be broken up or absorbed by another institution.
The Scottish composer James MacMillan brings top musicians back to his homeland for the Cumnock Tryst.
The Swedish Academy cited the ability of Mr. Modiano, whose novels center on topics like memory, identity and guilt, to evoke “the most ungraspable human destinies” in his work.
Gonkar Gyatso hopes his work, which mixes Buddhist iconography and pop images, will someday be shown in his homeland.
The Berlin Philharmonic’s performance of “St. Matthew Passion” at the Park Avenue Armory, conducted by Simon Rattle, showed why Bach chose other ways besides opera to tell stories through music.
Despite the collapse of the ruble and international sanctions targeting some of Russia's wealthiest citizens, the market for Russian art is at its highest level since 2008, according to a new report.
The 12th annual edition of Frieze, which closes on Sunday, was held, as usual, in a bespoke tent in Regent's Park, and this year featured 162 international dealers.
With nine fairs, seven auctions, and more than 150 selling exhibitions in galleries, London’s “Frieze Week,” which starts Monday, is a hectic seven days in the art world.
Nigerian cinema may be little known outside of Africa, but the country’s homegrown movie business eclipses Hollywood’s and is second only to India’s Bollywood.
A slideshow of arts events taking place across the world this coming week.
A new study tries to show how cinema influences the popularity of certain dog breeds.
Soup cooked with vegetables grown in Fukushima and choreography to rent by the hour are part of Frieze Live, a new program of performance art at the Frieze Art Fair.
The sculptor Vincent Dubourg explores man’s devastating effect on nature, and nature’s ability to destroy the man-made, at an exhibition in Paris through Dec. 20.
Sales are expected to soar during the Frieze London art fair, which brings together so many key players that auctioneers see it as an opportunity too good to miss.
The Hermitage Amsterdam museum’s exhibition ‘Dining With the Tsars’ provides a glimpse into the culture of Russian royalty in its heyday.
“Corcos: Dreams of the Belle Époque” in Padua contains more than 100 works by the mostly forgotten master portraitist Vittorio Corcos.
Ms. Bacall's provocative glamour elevated her to stardom in Hollywood’s golden age, and her lasting mystique put her on a plateau in American culture that few stars reach.
To those who saw him, Robin Williams was a comedic force of nature who delivered humor at warp speed.
Country music is gaining popularity outside North America.
A forthcoming paper by researchers in France and Norway suggests that there may be some cognitive drawbacks to reading even short works of literature on a screen.
Matías Piñeiro’s twist on “Love’s Labour’s Lost” opens at the Locarno Film Festival.
The singer has helped make the Whitsun Festival a key fixture on the opera calendar.
The new London revival of David Mamet’s “Speed-the-Plow,” with Lindsay Lohan and Richard Schiff, seemed a little too cautious.
Artists and performers traveled by boat through an area of Europe torn apart by history.
Wendy Whelan, a principal dancer with New York City Ballet, will give her farewell performance on Oct. 18.
A new generation is shaking up the French capital's narrative status quo.
Anna Netrebko, one of opera’s reigning stars, is singing the dark and demanding role of Lady Macbeth in Verdi’s “Macbeth” at the Met, to acclaim.
Season 4 of “Homeland” begins on Sunday on Showtime on a new and better course, namely where it started, with the focus on Carrie Mathison.
The 2014 Lyon Dance Biennial extended its emphasis this year with an impressive 17 premieres.
In his novel “A Brief History of Seven Killings,” Marlon James tries to make sense of the Jamaica of his childhood, including the 1976 shooting of Bob Marley.
Ton Koopman, a Dutch pioneer of early music, says “the truth” of how old music is supposed to sound can often prove divisive and elusive: “I’d guess we know about 35 percent.”
As “The Good Lie,” a film about Lost Boys who begin new lives in America, finally opens, one of the actors reflects on his own long, strange trip from Sudan.
A look at the four main fashion weeks around the world in New York, London, Milan and Paris.
Singaporeans rushed to see “To Singapore, With Love,’' a recently banned documentary by Tan Pin Pin about a group of self-described political exiles now in their 60s.
Netflix and the Weinstein Company said that they planned to release a sequel to the movie “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” simultaneously on Netflix and a select number of Imax theaters.
One mystery in “Inherent Vice,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel, is whether the author makes an appearance.
Painting still dominates the auctions market, but artworks in new media are vying for collectors' attention.
Bollywood films are gaining a foothold in many international markets, but Britain and the United States remain elusive.
Enda Walsh’s “Ballyturk” opens at the National Theater; the Royal Court stages Rory Mullarkey’s “The Wolf From the Door”; and “The Comedy of Errors” shows at Shakespeare’s Globe.
“Gone Girl,” David Fincher’s movie adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best seller, focuses on a young wife who goes missing.
Long considered something of a niche author among English-speaking readers, the popularity of the Spanish novelist Javier Marías is on the rise.
After a summer of acrimonious contract negotiations, the opera began its season with a production of “Le Nozze di Figaro” by the British director Richard Eyre.
The English National Opera staged Verdi’s “Otello,” while the Welsh National Opera tackled Rossini’s final opera, “Guillaume Tell.”
Recent experiments by a psychologist who studies how people intuitively determine the value of certain objects show how flimsy or essential the term “art” can be.
Steinar Haga Kristensen is one of a new stable of Norwegian artists, including Marius Engh, Ida Ekblad and Nils Bech, who are part of a cultural resurgence in the Norwegian capital.
Encouraged by the soaring prices of original art and the availability of images of prints online, a new international crowd has entered the specialized market.
“Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age,” at the Met, is a display of imperial might, and a roll call of states and kingdoms gone.
The novel, set in a concentration camp, has touched off concerns about sensitivity in Europe, where Mr. Amis’s French and German publishers have rejected it.
The actor Salman Khan’s effect on Indian men is the subject of “Being Bhaijaan,” a documentary by the directors Shabani Hassanwalia and Samreen Farooqui.
With the explosion of street-style blogs, Instagram and Pinterest, fashion photography has become the new visual language.
Film is an increasingly important part of this year’s Art Basel fair — and, by extension, of the collectible contemporary art world.
Palazzo Fortuny, the former Venetian studio of the artist Mariano Fortuny, hosts an exhibition of women artists that highlights Dora Maar, the Surrealist and Picasso muse.
This year the festival has a throwback feel, as it continues to be dominated by well-known, world-class filmmakers who have appeared before.
Princess Grace returns to Cannes on Wednesday, with the opening-night premiere of “Grace of Monaco.” But the movie’s production turmoil has jolted its fairy-tale story.
The potential is strong at Art Basel in Hong Kong, but dealers say it is hard to get the big sales.
The American edition of Frieze has drawn 190 galleries from 29 countries this year, with New York galleries making up nearly a third of the exhibitors, some with major artists in solo booths.
The Teatro Regio Torino's current good health is proof that an Italian opera house can flourish when the right conditions are in place.
An American scholar’s trove of 12,000 Tibetan-language texts has a new home, a lavishly decorated library on the campus of the Southwest University for Nationalities in Chengdu, China.
The Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center opened its library, with 12,000 works, at the Southwest University for Nationalities in Chengdu, China, in October. Archivists plan to scan the texts digitally.
In China’s growing art market, now the second largest in the world, outsize auction results often overshadow false sales data and forged art.
Like their predecessors across history and geography, China’s newly rich have set out to collect the very best the world has to offer.
The Shanghai International Film Festival, which runs until June 22, mixes small regional films with global blockbusters.
The International Herald Tribune, the global edition of The New York Times, has become The International New York Times. A look at its journey.