Viscerally Facing Up to Ferguson
By JON CARAMANICA
In a reminder of hip-hop’s politically potent past, two performers strike a chord by sharing their emotions on a shooting in Ferguson, Mo.
As plans for the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi go forth, those involved are hoping to speak to the art history of many nations.
In a reminder of hip-hop’s politically potent past, two performers strike a chord by sharing their emotions on a shooting in Ferguson, Mo.
Mike Leigh’s film “Mr. Turner,” about the British painter J. M. W. Turner, hews to his palette, style and visual records of places he frequented.
Liv Ullmann’s version of Strindberg’s “Miss Julie” features Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell as class-bound lovers repelled and attracted by each other in a battle of the sexes.
Mark Wahlberg stars in a remake of “The Gambler,” a 1974 film with James Caan. The two actors met to discuss both films recently.
Fifteen documentaries are in sharp-elbowed competition to be among the five Oscar nominees for that category, a spot that can save a film from obscurity.
In “Still Alice,” Julianne Moore plays a Columbia linguistics professor who receives a devastating diagnosis.
“The Fab Mind,” a Tokyo exhibition, celebrates the art of repair with examples of aesthetic creativity applied to humanitarian ends, like recycling and land mines.
Philippe Ségalot, a contemporary-art dealer, fell in love with Shaker furniture eight and now plans to show and sell it at the European Fine Arts Fair.
On the London stage, Jamie Lloyd’s production of “Assassins”; a revival of “Accolade”; and Mordaunt Shairp’s 1933 play “The Green Bay Tree.”
Pippi Longstocking’s language has become part of a growing and often uncomfortable debate about ethnicity in Sweden.
Academy Awards are lucrative for all, but are key especially for the success of some art house films.
Mr. Keys was a self-taught musician who never learned to read music but recorded with a Who’s Who of rock. One of his most memorable moments was a howling solo on “Brown Sugar.”
A compromise in Turin, Italy, will keep the music director of Teatro Regio in his post.
Steven P. Murphy, who has run the auction house since 2010, will be succeeded by Patricia Barbizet, the chief executive of the Artémis Group.
The Irish-born artist Duncan Campbell, known for innovative film installations, has won this year’s Turner Prize, the award for a British artist under 50.
Russia and Sweden have the buzziest entries — “Leviathan” and “Force Majeure” — but don’t count out France, Germany, Turkey, Argentina and, in a first, Mauritania.
Since the abolition of Myanmar’s censorship board in 2012, the country’s artists are tackling once-forbidden subjects like politics.
The violinist Kyung Wha Chung, sidelined by injury for almost a decade, returns to the London concert stage on Tuesday.
“Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce,” the first scripted series for Bravo, taps into the separations of the rich and near-famous and all the attendant rituals.
Lynn Caponera, Maurice Sendak’s housekeeper and caretaker for more than 30 years, is pushing ahead to burnish his legacy, amid questions.
New albums from Wu-Tang Clan and AC/DC show that these established groups are still in charge of their sounds.
The mini-series “One Child” sends a young Chinese-British woman into the heart of China’s capital punishment system.
“The Starling Project,” a thriller by Jeffery Deaver, went straight to audiobook on Audible. In fact, Mr. Deaver’s story will not be appearing in print at all.
Ridley Scott’s “Exodus: Gods and Kings” features the 11-year-old Isaac Andrews as the voice and visage of the Almighty.
Cultural figures like David Simon, J. Cole, Patricia Lockwood and others discuss whether and how artists should address social issues like race and class through their work.
Between 1973 and 1989, the East German police seized more than 200,000 objects in hundreds of raids, according to experts and archives, and some are reclaiming the art.
In “The Imitation Game” Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing, whose code-breaking work helped win World War II yet whose homosexuality led him to face indecency charges in Britain.
The collection, including paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet and Gauguin, was squirreled away by Cornelius Gurlitt in a house in Salzburg, Austria.
A consummate stylist, the British author and baroness accumulated numerous awards for the 18 crime novels produced during her 49-year writing career.
Photographs by Moby, the pop musician, at the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery in Chelsea, feature a mysterious cult of masked figures.
The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
We are in the midst of hard times now, and it feels as if art is failing us.
It is getting harder to find buyers of old art, but the market still has its moments at auction, especially for a trophy Turner painting.
At recent sales in London, auction houses struggled to sell top Russian works of art. Some dealers said that the sluggish sales were a reflection of what's going on in Russia.
Art Basel in Miami Beach is adding sections on books, history and women to its lineup.
While art existed in Miami before the Swiss organization decided to base its winter fair there, its presence has fostered an invigorating scene.
Kickstarter, the online crowdfunding group, has teamed up with Art Basel to set up web pages aimed at getting investors interested in new art projects.
Works by Andy Warhol have fetched $560 million so far this year. That is already the artist's highest annual tally ever, and represents almost five percent of the value of the entire global art market in 2014.
A slideshow of arts events taking place across the world this coming week.
A look at some of the statistics behind the books that win national awards.
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.
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.
The Frick has acquired a self-portrait by the 17th-century Spanish master Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.
Steve Tyrell celebrated a milestone when he opened his 10th holiday season show at Café Carlyle on Tuesday.
“Two Tents,” Francesco Clemente’s show at the Mary Boone Gallery, portrays a kind of heaven with hard benches and a hell with busy bees.
The issue was recalled this month when Lincoln Center agreed to pay $15 million to expunge Avery Fisher’s name from Philharmonic Hall, in hopes of luring another donor.
The Lyon Opera Ballet presented William Forsythe’s later works in a triple bill that included a work by Benjamin Millepied.
A Chinese collector’s purchase of a Ming dynasty silk wall hanging for $45 million set a new record for a Chinese artwork sold at international auction.
A letter from Albert Camus to Jean-Paul Sartre surfaces, one apparently written in 1951 before they clashed.
Many journalists and biographers were in the know about the sexual assault accusations against Mr. Cosby. So what took so long for the story to become national news?
“Exhibit B,” a traveling show that mimics the human zoos of the colonial era, is prompting cries of racism in Europe.
Ali Smith says her much-lauded new novel, “How to Be Both,” explores how every great narrative is always about what is on the surface and what is hidden underneath.
The privately held music streaming service said it had about $1 billion in 2013 revenue, and $80 million in net losses.
“Selected Letters of Norman Mailer” presents 714 of the more than 45,000 pieces of correspondence he wrote to his wives, children, friends, critics and a Who’s Who of world culture and letters.
A Long Island man captured his World War II battlefield experiences in poetry and stories, which were privately published in January.
Mr. Baltz was part of the New Topographics movement, known for a seemingly dispassionate, affectless presentation of its subjects.
In the animated “Penguins of Madagascar,” the title animals will lose their cuteness if an octopus named Dave (voiced by John Malkovich) has his way.
Mr. Poots is to give up his current positions as head of the Manchester International Festival and the Park Avenue Armory.
The hip-hop star Rick Ross and two jazz groups — the trio of Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian, from ’72, and the duo of Nels Cline and Julian Lage — have new albums out.
The Public Theater’s production of Shakespeare’s “Pericles, Prince of Tyre” moves along quickly, despite a plot loaded with details.
For all the talk of a growing global interest in art, the record-setting sales are still driven by American artists and buyers.
Gabriel García Márquez’s archive has been acquired by the University of Texas and includes manuscripts, correspondence, photos and personal artifacts related to his important books.
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.
The potential is strong at Art Basel in Hong Kong, but dealers say it is hard to get the big sales.
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.