Taking a Fan’s-Eye View of a Much-Loved Band
By STACEY ANDERSON
“Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets,” a documentary by Florian Habicht, looks at the band Pulp through the eyes of its fans.
A 1963 Andy Warhol painting of Elvis Presley pointing a gun sold for nearly $82 million, contributing to an $852.9 million auction total.
“Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets,” a documentary by Florian Habicht, looks at the band Pulp through the eyes of its fans.
The festival, Qalandiya International, faced special challenges in catering to a fragmented Palestinian society struggling against Israel and recovering from the 50-day Gaza war.
Despite some high prices paid for works by Mark Rothko and Jasper Johns, the week of big-money contemporary art auctions got off to a sluggish start on Tuesday evening at Sotheby’s.
With “Rosewater,” Jon Stewart directs a film about Maziar Bahari, a reporter imprisoned and tortured in 2009 in Iran shortly after the disputed election there.
The Semperoper Ballett was part of a Richard Strauss evening commemorating the 150th anniversary of his birth.
Saying that he’s ready for a detour, Hugh Jackman embraces an eerily enigmatic role in “The River,” now in previews on Broadway.
In “Torobaka” at Sadler’s Wells, the dancers Israel Galván and Akram Khan demonstrate the connections between flamenco and kathak through their powerful and rhythmic footwork.
Mr. de Plata, considered a crowd pleaser rather than an observer of the music’s formal ritual traditions, picked up his distinct style of play as a young boy.
The artist’s 1881 painting of the actress Jeanne Demarsy was bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum for $65.1 million.
Katie Mitchell brings incision and insight to a new London production of “The Cherry Orchard.” “Neville’s Island” explores survival, while “Memphis” tackles race relations.
Sotheby’s sold $422.1 million worth of Impressionist and Modern art, just $1 million shy of its high estimate.
The latest Norton anthology takes on major world religions, in 4,000-plus pages.
The completion of a wave of new construction, partially funded by the European Union, gives Poland several world-class venues for classical music.
A program brought to the Théâtre de la Ville by Dresden’s Semperoper Ballett highlighted some of the American choreographer’s important early works.
The murder of the filmmaker Theo van Gogh prompted a debate about Islam in the West that is still raging ten years later.
“Masterpiece,” the 43-year-old English drama franchise, is capitalizing on the runaway success of “Downton Abbey” by adding new shows and more airtime early next year.
The new director of the Hirshhorn Museum, Melissa Chiu, says the international art scene will have a home in Washington.
In “Goodbye to Language,” Jean-Luc Godard weaves narratives around a man, a woman and a dog.
A new program at the Royal Ballet featuring Frederick Ashton's works makes up for the relative paucity of the choreographer's shows in the last decade.
With “Interstellar,” the director once again creates mass entertainment out of mind-bending fantasy.
After 40 years, the way has been cleared to complete Mr. Welles’s unfinished final opus, “The Other Side of the Wind.”
Emmanuel Carrère’s new book profiles Edward Limonov, the bad boy of Soviet dissident writers.
The Picasso Museum in Paris has reopened at more than twice its previous size, but the vast collection is arranged in a choppy, idiosyncratic way.
Suzan-Lori Parks’s new play reimagines a turbulent turning point in American history through a cockeyed contemporary lens.
Economic troubles are clouding Paris’s role as a cultural beacon as France shifts from state funding and management of the arts toward a greater role by the private sector.
Vishal Bhardwaj’s “Haider,” a film tragedy set in Kashmir, has been fiercely denounced by India’s Hindu nationalists but praised by critics for its frankness.
A new movie about Stephen Hawking’s life brings the man to life, but leaves viewers in the dark about what his science means.
The curator and collector Sam Wagstaff had a seminal influence on photography’s migration to the realm of high art.
Sotheby’s and Christie’s are each auctioning an Egon Schiele work once owned by the Viennese cabaret star Fritz Grünbaum, but they disagree on whether his heirs should be compensated.
New music from Tyshawn Sorey, Jason Marsalis, Bobby Previte, Antonio Sánchez, Clarence Penn and Jim Black.
Taylor Swift leaves country behind on “1989,” her new album, but the implicit enemy is the rest of mainstream pop.
New mysteries by Karin Fossum, Jens Lapidus and more.
“Citizenfour,” about Edward J. Snowden’s quest to expose sweeping government surveillance of citizens, has the effect of a spooky and deeply unsettling thriller.
British dealers struggle to maintain a premier position for auctions of Asian art.
These days, it’s difficult to disentangle how many art buyers are investors, speculators and status-seekers, and how many are “true” collectors driven by a personal passion for art.
E-books have made impressive inroads into the English-reading world, but their success in Europe — even among wealthy, tech-savvy countries — remains spotty at best.
Popular American television shows like "Homeland'' are actually based on programs from Israel, where a cottage industry has developed dedicated to creating television concepts for export.
A slideshow of arts events taking place across the world this coming week.
The Liceu theater in Barcelona has a daunting task as it tries to maintain its rich tradition while operating with a significant reduction in government funding.
On the eve of its 300th anniversary, the Opéra Comique is enjoying a resurrection that has put its historic repertoire and creative reputation back on the map.
The Paris contemporary art fair, FIAC, is effectively doubling this year with the opening of satellite events.
The British sculptor Emily Young describes a collaboration with her quarried raw materials.
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.
Matías Piñeiro’s twist on “Love’s Labour’s Lost” opens at the Locarno Film Festival.
“Grand Design,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, presents 19 large Renaissance tapestries designed by Pieter Coecke van Aelst.
Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain discuss “Interstellar”; its director, Christopher Nolan; and the humor of physicists.
Bartholomeus Spranger, a 16th-century artist who served a cardinal, a pope, and two Holy Roman Emperors, is the subject of a forthcoming show at the Met.
The music industry eagerly awaits the first-week sales of Taylor Swift’s new album, “1989,” as CD sales continue to slump, and Ms. Swift moves farther away from country music.
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.
Mr. Burri was a globe-trotting photographer who documented figures like Pablo Picasso and Che Guevara, as well as urban scenes and war.
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.
The influence of Mr. de la Renta, the fashion designer who died on Monday, was felt throughout the city’s intersecting worlds of power and money.
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.
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.
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.
A new study tries to show how cinema influences the popularity of certain dog breeds.
As the children of the collector C. C. Wang dispute their legacy, works have gone missing, dismaying art experts.
Mary Lambert’s “Heart on My Sleeve” and Nico & Vinz’s “Black Star Elephant” are rare recent examples of issues-minded pop.
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.”
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.