Arts

Fragments Tell a Story of Pain and Pride

Mark Lyons

Rosa Parks being fingerprinted in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955.

“America I Am: The African American Imprint,” at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, offers proof that the history of America and the history of America’s blacks are inseparable.

• Slide Show: Framing the Black Experience

City Opera Names Steel as General Manager

The tottering New York City Opera has appointed the impresario and conductor George R. Steel as its leader.

Goodbye, Grissom, Leave Us a Maggot

On Thursday, “CSI” bids a tender farewell to William L. Petersen’s character with an episode that also exudes nostalgia for a beloved but changing genre.

Major Gift of Art Pottery to Adorn Met’s Restyled American Wing

The collector Robert A. Ellison Jr. plans to donate 250 American ceramics to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, filling a gap in the museum’s holdings.

• Times Topics: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Actor of the New India Chasing Raw Ambitions

The actor Akshay Kumar, India’s superstar Everyman, is coming to America in “Chandni Chowk to China.”

• Trailers & Clips: 'Chandni Chowk to China'

'Lords of Finance'

Liaquat Ahamed’s book is supposed to be an economic history of World War I and the Great Depression. But there is terrific prescience to be found in its portrait of times past.

• First Chapter