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Dec 30, 2025
Beloved in Finland, Helene Schjerfbeck is just becoming hot in Manhattan, where a show of paintings at the Met Museum is likely to leave you awe-struck.
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Dec 30, 2025
Fiction by George Saunders, Karl Ove Knausgaard and Laura Dave; a bracingly honest divorce memoir; Jennette McCurdy's debut novel; and more.
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Dec 30, 2025
Nonfiction and Y.A. are hurting, but genre fiction and the Good Book are booming. Here's how book sales looked in 2025.
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Dec 30, 2025
The actors were among more than 1,000 people honored by King Charles III in an annual tradition celebrating professional excellence and community service.
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Dec 29, 2025
Marquee names all, they found international fame in the arts, politics, the sciences and beyond.
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Dec 29, 2025
The jazz drummer Billy Hart said the decision was "evidently" connected to President Trump's name being added to the arts center.
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Dec 29, 2025
Marquee names all, they found international fame in the arts, politics, the sciences and beyond.
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Dec 29, 2025
A dance company withdrew from two performances next year, and the arts center's website says two New Year's Eve jazz concerts have been canceled.
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Dec 29, 2025
Mr. Elba received a knighthood and Ms. Erivo was also honored in an annual British tradition celebrating professional excellence and community service.
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Dec 29, 2025
Her four episodes on the sitcom marked a rarity: a disabled actress onscreen.
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Dec 29, 2025
The medium has been bigger than niche for a long time. That became apparent to everyone in 2025.
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Dec 29, 2025
"Not All Travelers Walk Roads," the 36th edition of the exhibition, sees art as a guide for connecting with one another and with the earth.
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Dec 29, 2025
Yuval Sharon will leave the financially strained Detroit Opera after this season. In March, he brings his unorthodox vision to Wagner at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Dec 29, 2025
In this month's picks, Sydney Pollack on Frank Gehry, Rob Reiner on Albert Brooks and Mike Figgis on Francis Ford Coppola.
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Dec 29, 2025
Recent stagings of classics like "La Traviata" and rarities like "Intermezzo" are among the highlights.
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Dec 29, 2025
Dahlak Brathwaite's "Try/Step/Trip," part of the Under the Radar festival, uses the language of step to express the liberating and restricting power of groups.
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Dec 29, 2025
In 2025, rock was still hanging in. As artificial intelligence infiltrates music, the genre's handmade imperfections are more crucial than ever.
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Dec 29, 2025
Critics look back on a year when the balcony scene in "Evita" became a social media phenomenon and audiences swooned for the bear in "Paddington: The Musical."
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Dec 29, 2025
Q-UP, the spiritual successor of the video game Universal Paperclips, is a savage critique and a loving appreciation of esports culture.
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Dec 29, 2025
CNN, CBS and ABC ring in 2026, and a new reality show set in Palm Beach begins.
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Dec 28, 2025
The actress, who died at 91, had what can't be taught: charisma and attitude onscreen. Here are some highlights.
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Dec 28, 2025
The annual Vienna Philharmonic Ball anchors a winter calendar of some 450 dances across the city that open a window into Viennese tradition, then and now.
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Dec 28, 2025
For the first time, Yannick Nézet-Séguin will lead the Vienna Philharmonic's most-watched event of the year: its annual concert on New Year's Day.
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Dec 28, 2025
MusikTheater an der Wien will stage Pablo Luna's "Benamor," a rarely seen example of the Spanish zarzuela genre from the Roaring Twenties in Madrid.
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Dec 28, 2025
The movies made the French actress a star, but photography sealed her stardom.
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Dec 28, 2025
In the decades after becoming a megastar, the French actress became as known for her politics as she once had been for her acting career.
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Dec 28, 2025
"And God Created Woman" made her a world-famous sex symbol in the 1950s. She later gave up acting to devote her life to animal welfare.
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Dec 28, 2025
Two artists spent 30 years cataloging how people dress and learned a lot about humanity in the process.
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Dec 28, 2025
"Not All Travelers Walk Roads," the 36th edition of the exhibition, sees art as a guide for connecting with each other and with the earth.
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Dec 28, 2025
No longer something off in the distance, the new technology was all over our screens this past year.
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Dec 27, 2025
Mr. Graffman was a onetime child prodigy whose career was curtailed by a neurological condition that restricted him to his left hand.
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Dec 27, 2025
Mario Rodriguez, who had a role in one of Mr. Perry's films, sued him on Thursday, months after another actor filed a similar lawsuit.
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Dec 27, 2025
Ms. Lee, a party host in Atlanta, died from multiple cardiac arrests brought on by the flu, according to a social media post.
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Dec 27, 2025
The director Josh Safdie had a personal connection to 1950s players, but he also enlisted professionals to choreograph the action and employed a visual trick.
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Dec 27, 2025
Roaming the American Museum of Natural History in pajamas made for a night to remember for hundreds of children and their brave parents.
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Dec 27, 2025
In a world filled with digital distractions, these shows will help you indulge, develop or rekindle a love for reading.
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Dec 27, 2025
When American studios wouldn't back his film about a laid-off manager committing gruesome murders, the director returned to Korea. Now he has a hit on his hands.
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Dec 27, 2025
He once thought his comedy career was over before it even began. Now he's an "S.N.L." star with a Netflix special coming in January.
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Dec 27, 2025
As church bells chime and peal the New Year, historians say the looting of more than 150,000 bells during World War II left "a sonic gap" in the landscape.
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Dec 27, 2025
"You get to see a bit more of someone than they'd probably like to let you see," said the actor, who plays Emily's ex Alfie on the Netflix series.
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Dec 27, 2025
Anthony Ramos loves hanging out with customers during busy days that may find him writing a new musical, catching a friend in a show or performing in his own.
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Dec 26, 2025
A former roadie, Mr. Bamonte joined the band in 1990. He played on five albums and in hundreds of shows and was "a vital part of the Cure story," the band said.
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Dec 26, 2025
One of the first jazz musicians from Poland to gain an international following, he recorded more than 60 albums and played with stars like Miles Davis.
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Dec 26, 2025
The most memorable illustrations of the year, chosen by art directors at The New York Times.
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Dec 26, 2025
For very different reasons, new hours from Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Kathleen Madigan, George Civeris and Jay Jurden are worth your time.
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Dec 26, 2025
This month's picks include a World War I revenge tale, a vampire superhero and female assassins.
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Dec 26, 2025
For very different reasons, new hours from Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Kathleen Madigan, George Civeris and Jay Jurden are worth your time.
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Dec 26, 2025
James Cameron narrates a sequence from his film, featuring Oona Chaplin and Stephen Lang.
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Dec 26, 2025
The nonprofit organization New 42, which earned a Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theater this year, continues to pave the way for a revitalized Times Square.
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Dec 26, 2025
Bad Bunny, Addison Rae, Audra McDonald, a cotillion class, Bing the dog and many more were subjects of the photographs commissioned by our photo editors this year.
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Dec 26, 2025
The Berlin Apartment, which owes a debt to What Remains of Edith Finch, lets you relive the challenges its many tenants faced.
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Dec 26, 2025
Three photo editors from the Culture desk share their favorite images from 2025.
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Dec 26, 2025
A "Shark Tank" investor, a supermarket magnate and even N.B.A. All-Stars make appearances in the table tennis comedy.
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Dec 26, 2025
James Cameron narrates a sequence from his film.
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Dec 25, 2025
An Oxford professor and renowned critic, he was pugnacious, fearless and disdainful of the received wisdom of his intellectual milieu.
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Dec 25, 2025
The nonfiction spy thriller "The Falcon and the Snowman," which became a film, grew out of his work as a journalist covering the West Coast for The Times.
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Dec 25, 2025
Whether you're a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
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Dec 25, 2025
Park Chan-wook, the director of "Oldboy" and "The Handmaiden," brings comedic flair to the cruel tale of an employee pushed to the brink.
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Dec 25, 2025
A spotty but thrilling tour of American art from Eisenhower to Nixon shows just how unhinged the '60s were, and how hard it is to summarize the era.
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Dec 25, 2025
Catch a lush Monet blockbuster, gorgeous Egyptian goddesses and the history of Black Broadway before they're gone.
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Dec 25, 2025
What are you doing to greet 2026? Our suggestions include fancy parties, all-night dance-a-thons, choose-your-own movie double features and a pasta-making class.
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Dec 25, 2025
The genre peaked in terms of global awareness with "KPop Demon Hunters," while the industry's most promising new act was mired in a legal morass.
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Dec 24, 2025
Her 1960 essay about the frustrations of educated women prefigured Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique." She later wrote books on John Quincy Adams and others.
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Dec 24, 2025
The actor stars as a magnetic, striving table-tennis champ in Josh Safdie's new movie, one of the most exciting movies of the year.
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Dec 24, 2025
Volleying questions with the table tennis champ Marty Reisman, an inspiration for Timothée Chalamet's new film, showed that he was a character in his own right.
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Dec 24, 2025
With its profanity-laced script, Lucas Hnath's Molière adaptation, starring Matthew Broderick, is a mischievous clash of the old and the new.
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Dec 24, 2025
In an extraordinary performance, Amanda Seyfried plays the founder of the Shakers in a singular film.
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Dec 24, 2025
Craig Brewer's toe-tapping weepie about the triumphs and tragedies of a Neil Diamond tribute band is exactly the movie we need right now.
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Dec 24, 2025
As England goes to war, a provincial choir master played by Ralph Fiennes is challenged to find available voices in this poignant drama set in 1916.
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Dec 24, 2025
A stunner of a debut film follows a group of boys at a water polo camp, where an outsider is just trying to fit in.
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Dec 24, 2025
The movie gets at least one thing right: Rebooting the shlocky, widely-panned creature-feature, starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd, is a goofy idea.
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Dec 24, 2025
Jim Jarmusch's uneven triptych, a prizewinner at Venice, saves its best segment for last.
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Dec 24, 2025
The actor knows life is fleeting, but he wants to hold on to every moment.
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Dec 24, 2025
Kate Winslet directs a formulaic script by her son, Joe Anders, about a dying matriarch and her quarreling adult children.
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Dec 24, 2025
With a new batch of episodes arriving on Christmas Day, Matt and Ross Duffer discuss the sometimes obscure movie and video game references in the final season so far.
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Dec 24, 2025
For years she was pigeonholed as a rom-com star. Her turn as a blue-collar mom with a love of Neil Diamond just might vault her back to the Oscars.
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Dec 24, 2025
Everywhere you looked this year, men were feuding. In movies like "Splitsville," "Eddington" and "Friendship," it was gloriously pathetic.
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Dec 24, 2025
A slow start is overcome while learning about an extinct alien race that welcomed a savior.
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Dec 23, 2025
The mogul's lawyers say that a judge issued an excessively steep sentence for prostitution offenses after Mr. Combs was acquitted of more serious charges.
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Dec 23, 2025
The mogul's lawyers say that a judge issued an excessively steep sentence for prostitution offenses after Mr. Combs was acquitted of more serious charges.
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Dec 23, 2025
In his work, he often returned to Manzanar, the camp in which he and his family, along with thousands of other people of Japanese descent, were interned during World War II.
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Dec 23, 2025
Bob Vylan, a punk-rap duo, caused international outrage by chanting the message at the Glastonbury music festival this year.
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Dec 23, 2025
From Gustav Mahler to Lady Gaga, a peek into Lindsay's past 12 months in music.
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Dec 23, 2025
The actor, comedian and YouTuber now faces seven counts of rape and sexual assault in Britain.
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Dec 23, 2025
Across film ("Sinners," "One Battle After Another"), theater ("Ragtime") and TV ("The Lowdown"), four works suggested what achieving racial equality in America would take.
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Dec 23, 2025
The show reunited Kristin Chenoweth and Stephen Schwartz for the first time since "Wicked." It wasn't enough to counter poor word of mouth and other challenges.
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Dec 23, 2025
We want to know why it resonated with you.
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Dec 23, 2025
Ballet Jörgen's holiday scare reaffirmed its mission: taking the art form to remote towns and outposts where most people have never seen a pas de deux.
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Dec 23, 2025
Seven takeaways from the final episodes of "The End of an Era," the Disney series exploring her globe-trotting concert extravaganza.
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Dec 23, 2025
Seven takeaways from the final episodes of "The End of an Era," the Disney series exploring her globe-trotting concert extravaganza.
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Dec 23, 2025
Usually, holiday opera is scarce on major stages in New York. But this year, there are two at Lincoln Center alone.
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Dec 23, 2025
The Metropolitan Opera has invited 70 influencers to help convince a younger, online audience that opera isn't scary or even unaffordable.
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Dec 23, 2025
A gifted Queens rapper (Lexa Gates), a noisy British band (Maruja), a Drake-approved emo songwriter (Julia Wolf), a lo-fi power-pop project (Sharp Pins) and more.
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Dec 23, 2025
Yes, "KPop Demon Hunters" makes the list. But that was just one of the standouts in a great year.
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Dec 23, 2025
Adapted from romance novels, this Canadian series has been a surprise hit for HBO Max.
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Dec 23, 2025
Adapted from romance novels, this Canadian series has been a surprise hit for HBO Max.
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Dec 23, 2025
These days, most best sellers are written by authors with household names. Not these five breakout books.
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Dec 23, 2025
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman and Rita Wilson served a platter of high-octane holiday high jinks in this unhinged 1996 comedy.
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Dec 23, 2025
The British actress's directorial debut, "Goodbye June," is based on a script written by her son and follows a fractured family reuniting in the hospital over the holidays.
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Dec 22, 2025
She was a white actress, he was a popular Black entertainer, and their relationship elicited racist reactions in 1960, including from John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign.
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