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Jun 01, 2020
Your TV needs may vary this week. These are the titles our critic recommends checking out.
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Jun 01, 2020
These essays on American authors — some well known, some unjustly forgotten, some perpetually misunderstood — aim to restore a sense of the "complex fate" of being an American. Read more about the series.
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Jun 01, 2020
Many artists have not been paid since March at the company, which hopes to return on New Year's Eve after its longest interruption in over a century.
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Jun 01, 2020
Lana Del Rey, Doja Cat, and how some in the limelight bristle at social media condemnation.
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Jun 01, 2020
These esteemed black American creators make work that responds to violence against the black body.
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Jun 01, 2020
Every month, subscription streaming services add a new batch of titles to their libraries. Here are our picks for June.
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Jun 01, 2020
The musical's world tour, now in Seoul, weathered a cast outbreak to become perhaps the only major show running. Can theater learn from its example?
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Jun 01, 2020
Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette and Wiley accused the nonprofit of piracy for making over 1 million books free online.
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Jun 01, 2020
The rapper earned his first No. 1 with "Wunna," and now all eyes are on Lady Gaga, whose "Chromatica" is expected to take the top spot next week.
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Jun 01, 2020
Missing parties and parades during Pride Month? These movies will fill your screen with joy, history and rainbows.
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Jun 01, 2020
Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette and Wiley accused the nonprofit of piracy for making over 1 million books free online during the coronavirus outbreak.
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Jun 01, 2020
On Saturday, the artist Jammie Holmes staged his own kind of protest in five cities across the country.
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Jun 01, 2020
The D.J.'s interviews on Apple's Beats 1 have gone from promotional stops to opportunities for deep thoughts, anchored by an impulse to share his own story.
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Jun 01, 2020
Gary Lundgren's comedy, which celebrates the comfort of a local hang, feels poignant during our current pandemic.
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Jun 01, 2020
In search of creative inspiration, a New York-based photographer spent two weeks documenting Bangkok's fresh markets and street vendors.
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Jun 01, 2020
Books scheduled for release this spring and summer are now on track for fall, when authors will be fighting for attention in the midst of a presidential election and an ongoing crisis.
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Jun 01, 2020
In "A Bit of a Stretch," Chris Atkins writes about the nine months he spent at Wandsworth, one of the largest, oldest and unruliest prisons in Britain.
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Jun 01, 2020
Our picks for June, including ‘Queer Eye,' ‘Da 5 Bloods,' ‘Scarface' and ‘LOL: Last One Laughing Australia'
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Jun 01, 2020
Bertrand Bonello's recent film makes its streaming debut on the Criterion Channel. And the heist movie starring Denzel Washington and Jodie Foster arrives on Netflix.
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May 31, 2020
Get help with parenting issues, blast a favorite show tune and, if you dare, sign up for an open mic.
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May 31, 2020
Axe and Chuck grapple with the sins of their fathers. Wendy takes a deeper in interest in art.
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May 31, 2020
Mountains, museums, bridges and Central Park were just some of what he used to make astonishing and popular art with his wife and collaborator, Jeanne-Claude.
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May 31, 2020
The pianist livestreamed "Vexations," a solo of four lines repeated 840 times, to evoke the crisis facing artists during the coronavirus pandemic.
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May 31, 2020
The choreographer took to YouTube to present "#GimmeShelter," a dance film to the Rolling Stones song that has resonance lately.
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May 31, 2020
For stuck-at-homes feeling like submerging into the existential depths of no-exit theater, here's a list of works to read and to watch.
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May 31, 2020
After many years at The Wall Street Journal, she began writing books about the social forces that gave rise to hot-button issues in American culture.
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May 31, 2020
The Greenwich Village club Smalls is booking bands inside the venue again, but audiences will still have to stay home.
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May 31, 2020
A new view of Gober World, where social distancing and supermarket pie are the norm.
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May 31, 2020
In Sag Harbor, April Gornik and Eric Fischl are converting a former church into a community arts center.
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May 31, 2020
Czech theater companies couldn't perform onstage during the early phases of the pandemic. So they took over a parking lot.
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May 31, 2020
Johnny Swing, who makes furniture from coins, prepares for his first solo show.
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May 31, 2020
The Japanese glass virtuoso Rui Sasaki's great subject is the weather.
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May 31, 2020
Even if you're not a pro, you can still record your due together from afar
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May 31, 2020
A new AMC series dramatizes a very real English scandal, while a sci-fi thriller streams on Amazon.
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May 30, 2020
He shot compelling portraits of the Beatles, Georgia O'Keeffe and many others. He also celebrated photography, and Life magazine, in several books.
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May 30, 2020
In William Shivering's "Thieves of Weirdwood," a mirror city's buildings and streets physically reflect the hopes and fears of a "normal," grim, Dickensian city's residents.
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May 30, 2020
In Katherine Applegate's "The One and Only Bob," Ivan's best buddy strikes out on his own.
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May 30, 2020
Ramy Youssef's faith-focused dramedy is back for a second season, and a comedy about the music industry arrives on digital platforms.
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May 29, 2020
The show, about a couple who cheated on a game show, is coming to AMC. It wasn't just a hit in Britain; it changed attitudes toward one of that country's strangest crimes.
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May 29, 2020
A new collection of shorts on HBO Max, "Looney Tunes Cartoons," captures the look and feel of the originals.
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May 29, 2020
On "Chromatica," Lady Gaga strives to bring introspection to the dance-pop that made her a star. But hallmarks like her audaciousness and sense of adventure are in shorter supply.
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May 29, 2020
Her character, a glamorous singer, might remind others of Diana Ross, but that's not what the star was thinking. Really.
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May 29, 2020
The producer born Robert Dixon was responsible for hits like the Shabba Ranks song "Dem Bow," which became a staple of global pop.
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May 29, 2020
Moyra Davey's work moves freely between photography, video and writing but is united in its unwavering attention to the objects and accidents of everyday life.
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May 29, 2020
Early in her career she created brightly colored scenes of black middle-class domestic life. Her later work was increasingly personal and experimental.
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May 29, 2020
After days of presidential complaining about Twitter policies, the live-TV arrest of a CNN crew showed America an actual offense against the First Amendment.
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May 29, 2020
Rolling with the times, the choreographer unveiled four new works, created with the assistance of Zoom. His musicality? It's intact.
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May 29, 2020
The director Andrew Patterson discusses a switchboard sequence from his science-fiction drama featuring Sierra McCormick.
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May 29, 2020
The auctioneer will be in London; the telephone bids will be taken around the world. Viewers will be watching everywhere but in the showroom.
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May 29, 2020
The director Andrew Patterson discusses a sequence from his film, now streaming on Amazon Prime.
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May 29, 2020
The Central Park bird watcher speaks. A re-examination of the chopstick. Farewell, Larry Kramer. Face-timing Pamela Anderson. And more.
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May 29, 2020
In three snappy and ambiguous episodes, the AMC mini-series revisits the cheating scandal that rocked the original "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"
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May 29, 2020
Hear tracks by Rosalía and Travis Scott, Nicole Atkins, Bright Eyes and others.
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May 29, 2020
Jane Moss broadened what had been a stodgy concert season to encompass ambitious, memorable experiences.
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May 29, 2020
With workers in quarantine, the busy neighborhood now feels like a secret backyard for families. Our critic walks with the architect Claire Weisz.
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May 29, 2020
Three new novels transport you to other places — Nantucket, Seoul and the French Riviera.
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May 29, 2020
The nine-woman collective Daughters of Reykjavik was mocked online and in Iceland's news media. So they're taking their message elsewhere.
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May 29, 2020
"Lithopy," a social satire, and other futuristic works, mark a new direction for digital storytelling.
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May 29, 2020
An assignment for all of us to help capture an extraordinary time.
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May 29, 2020
Science and children's museums are studying how to rethink their many tactile exhibits to keep people safe.
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May 29, 2020
These shows will help you weather the financial storm with your sanity intact.
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May 29, 2020
"The Vanishing Half," by Brit Bennett, considers fraught questions of racial identity, personal freedom and community in a story that stretches from the Jim Crow South to 1980s Los Angeles.
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May 29, 2020
The latest installments of political satire from the Washington Post columnist.
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May 29, 2020
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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May 29, 2020
"Parakeet," Marie-Helene Bertino's trippy, surreal new novel, follows a heroine reckoning with her unhappy engagement and other life choices.
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May 29, 2020
On its 45th anniversary, Colin Jost (in "A Very Punchable Face") and Alan Zweibel (in "Laugh Lines") relive their years at "Saturday Night Live."
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May 29, 2020
Maria Golia's new biography of the unorthodox jazz musician captures the many worlds his compositions explored.
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May 29, 2020
A near-silent film from the 1980s is on Criterion Channel. And Steve Carell stars in "Space Force" on Netflix.
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May 28, 2020
The organization says the art installation must go so a redesign of the Washington campus can proceed, but a local review panel indicates there may be alternatives.
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May 28, 2020
A busy character actor, he also appeared on several science-fiction shows, including "Star Trek: The Next Generation," on which he played a Klingon.
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May 28, 2020
Elmo, "Ramy" and a British game show scandal await.
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May 28, 2020
With actors on payroll, Seacoast Rep has removed seats, added tech equipment and is selling tickets for a musical livestreamed every weekend.
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May 28, 2020
The site in northern Italy was excavated in 1922, but then reburied and mostly forgotten about. But not by archaeologists, who made "an important find" of mosaics from the third or fourth century A.D.
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May 28, 2020
Even positive portrayals of Muslim Americans after 9/11 seemed burdened with a responsibility to explain and defend. But that burden is starting to be cast off.
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May 28, 2020
For years, Hou Hsiao-Hsien's work was hard to find in the United States. Now that the movies are streaming, all you need to do is pay attention.
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May 28, 2020
The Canadian Cree artist Kent Monkman is celebrated for paintings that reflect the lives of Indigenous people, but some feel his new work goes too far.
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May 28, 2020
The show, about a couple who cheated on a game show, is coming to AMC. It wasn't just a hit in Britain; it changed attitudes toward one of that country's strangest crimes.
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May 28, 2020
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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May 28, 2020
A year after opening the Shed, Elizabeth Diller is trying to adjust to a world in which she and colleagues can no longer kick around ideas in person.
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May 28, 2020
Get up close to the finest mosaics in Western Europe, 19th-century busts (an earlier form of self-promotion), the archaeology of Turkey, the Met's conservation projects and stately European homes.
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May 28, 2020
In Billy Wilder's 1959 winking comedy, Marilyn Monroe, starring alongside Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, is at the height of her comedic powers.
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May 28, 2020
In a small New Mexico town in the 1950s, an eerie throbbing sound and a lot of questions send two friends in search of answers.
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May 28, 2020
Our culture writers offer suggestions for what to watch or listen to while we're housebound.
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May 28, 2020
Three women struggle with feelings for the same man in this gentle, partly improvised drama.
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May 28, 2020
In the Reagan era, manly men, fighting machines and James Bond ruled the Memorial Day box office, but a young Eddie Murphy and Madonna made a mark.
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May 28, 2020
The song that became "The Star-Spangled Banner" had a modest debut in a newspaper. That first dated printing will be auctioned online at Christie's.
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May 28, 2020
This musical valentine to urban life, from the creator of "Bob's Burgers," is another TV show that has new resonance in the pandemic era. But for once that relevance is delightful, not depressing.
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May 28, 2020
Previously the president of the company's adult publishing division, he succeeds Carolyn Reidy, who died earlier this month.
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May 28, 2020
A new movie by Lewis Klahr, who makes striking, personal assemblages out of cultural detritus.
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May 28, 2020
Dakota Johnson and Tracee Ellis Ross anchor this timid recording-industry story about a pop superstar and her ambitious assistant.
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May 28, 2020
The former "Hamilton" star, whose new TV series anoints him the protector of Central Park, also puts Words With Friends and "Waves" on his list of stay-at-home essentials.
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May 28, 2020
A young Algerian woman rebels against religious extremism in Mounia Meddour's vibrant film.
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May 28, 2020
Galleries and museums are getting creative about presenting work online during the coronavirus crisis. Here are two shows worth viewing virtually.
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May 28, 2020
Ballet and contemporary performers across Europe are returning to work in a different world, with masks, liability waivers and no touching.
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May 28, 2020
In this documentary, aspiring chefs push their limits (and the limits of modern cuisine).
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May 28, 2020
For Ursula von Rydingsvard, it essentially takes a village to create a sculpture.
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May 28, 2020
Stories of the death and rebirth of this city are familiar, but Andrew James's documentary conveys the experience of living there.
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May 28, 2020
In an artistic world that constantly deconstructs itself, the creators of "The Plague" and "Dekalog" turned toward digital tools, with self-filmed actors and direction from the audience.
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May 28, 2020
An important gay civil rights history, the story of human migration and summery, juicy new novels from Kevin Kwan, J. Courtney Sullivan, Max Brooks and Ottessa Moshfegh.
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May 28, 2020
Unforgettable moments lost to time, from Christopher Plummer to Jennifer Holliday, now more than ever remind us of theater's special resonance.
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