![]() | Frank Gehry?s Buildings Sound as Marvelous as They Look |
Gehry, who died on Friday at 96, made an invaluable contribution to classical music by designing spaces with stunning acoustics. | |
![]() | The Area 51 of New England |
Through trinkets and tales, a U.F.O. story that once captured national attention lives on. | |
![]() | Frank Gehry: 12 Essential, Stunning Projects |
A singular genius, Gehry redefined architecture with joyful buildings like the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. | |
![]() | Danny Brown Is Proud of His New Beats and Gym Physique |
The rapper chats about the experimental pop collaborators and healthy habits that fueled his sixth album, ?Stardust.? | |
![]() | With ?Five Nights at Freddy?s 2? and ?I Love L.A.,? Josh Hutcherson Is Back |
The ?Five Nights at Freddy?s? and ?I Love L.A.? star found instant success as a child actor. After his ?Hunger Games? fame, it felt like it almost all went away. | |
![]() | Frank Gehry, the Disrupter, Opened Their Imaginations |
Architects, artists, clients and partners assess his life and impact over eight decades. | |
![]() | Best Albums of 2025 |
The Korean pop outsider Effie and the Brooklyn indie-rock band Geese top our critics? lists this year. | |
![]() | Dancing Babies and Toddlers Are Teaching the Pros a Thing or Two |
Everyone loves tiny dancers. Now some artists are considering why they bring us such joy ? and what lessons they might have for grown-ups. | |
![]() | At the National Archives, a Deep Dive Into the American Story |
A new $40-million exhibit, opening nine months after President Trump fired the chief archivist, uses technology to explore the 13 billion-plus items in its vaults. | |
![]() | Library Agency Reinstates Grants Canceled by Trump Administration |
The Institute of Museum and Library Services restored the funding after a federal court ruled that moves to dismantle the agency were unlawful. | |
![]() | Fans Are Obsessed With This Celebrity Couple. They Star in ?Zootopia.? |
WildeHopps, a.k.a. the fox and bunny at the heart of the franchise, has inspired a YouTube movie, TikToks, fancams and more. The obsession goes deep (and sometimes weird). | |
![]() | After ?Working Girl,? Can Christopher Ashley Bring His Sunshine to New York? |
Before returning to New York to lead Roundabout, Christopher Ashley is concluding his 18-year tenure at La Jolla Playhouse with the new musical ?Working Girl.? | |
![]() | What ?Hamnet? Lost (and Gained) on the Way From Page to Screen |
The filmmaker Chloé Zhao and the novelist-turned-screenwriter Maggie O?Farrell explained the changes they made in the tale of Shakespeare, his wife and their son. | |
![]() | Austria Forms Panel to Study Its Rights to Famed Florentine Diamond |
The Hapsburg family claims the gem, which it secretly kept hidden for decades. | |
![]() | Francis Ford Coppola?s F.P. Journe Sells for $11 Million at Auction |
Frenzied bidding pushed the polarizing F.P. Journe timepiece into near-record territory despite one dealer calling the design ?goofy.? | |
![]() | Guy Cogeval, Boundary-Pushing Museum Director, Dies at 70 |
His innovative approach drew crowds to the Musée d?Orsay, one of France?s flagship cultural institutions, which he led from 2008 to 2017. | |
![]() | A Forensic Artist Brings the Protagonist of Karl Ove Knausgaard?s ?The School of Night? to Life |
The pair work together to envision Kristian Hadeland, the protagonist of the author?s latest novel, ?The School of Night.? | |
![]() | Bublé for a Day, but He Can?t Sing and There?s Little Resemblance |
Dan Perlman, a comedian, looks and sounds nothing like Michael Bublé. And yet, for some reason, he was hired to impersonate the crooner at a birthday party. | |
![]() | Erik Bulatov, Russian Painter Who Undermined Soviet Propaganda, Dies at 92 |
For years he lived a double life, secretly making anti-Communist paintings. He found fame in the late 1980s, once his work was shown outside the Soviet Union. | |
![]() | Frank Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96 |
He designed some of the world?s most recognizable buildings, notably the spectacular Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, his masterpiece. | |
![]() | ?A Christmas Carol? Review: A Gentle Interpretation of a Classic |
This production, which retains many of the charms of its 2019 Broadway staging, has lost some of its necessary darkness. | |
![]() | 20 Holiday Romance Movies to Stream Now: ?Love Actually,? ?Serendipity? and More |
From timeless classics to frothy distractions, we?ve picked the best holiday romances currently available to stream. | |
![]() | Five Horror Movies to Stream Now |
This month?s movies include cosmopolitan assassins, flesh-slicing swashbucklers and seasoned supernatural detectives. | |
![]() | The Pittsburgh Symphony Plays How an Orchestra Should Sound |
Under its music director, Manfred Honeck, the ensemble returned to Carnegie Hall for the first time in over a decade, flying in on a high. | |
![]() | 11 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week |
Whether you?re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about. | |
![]() | ?WTO/99? Review: The ?Battle in Seattle? as Seen by the Participants |
To tell the story of the demonstrations surrounding a World Trade Organization meeting, ?WTO/99? assembled scenes shot by the participants themselves. | |
![]() | ?Spartacus: House of Ashur? Resurrects a Cult Franchise |
?Spartacus: House of Ashur,? premiering this month on Starz, brings the cult favorite 2010s action series back in an unlikely way. | |
![]() | Best Jazz Albums of 2025 |
The most compelling releases of the year reimagined hip-hop tracks, deep-rooted collaborations and longstanding inspirations. | |
![]() | Jeremy O. Harris Is Arrested in Japan on Suspicion of Smuggling Drugs |
The Tony-nominated American playwright and actor has been in custody since airport customs officers found Ecstasy in his bag last month. | |
![]() | Dashing Through a Season of Holiday Movies |
For one writer, putting together her annual roundup of streaming holiday movies requires open-mindedness ? and a high tolerance for candy-coated clichés. | |
![]() | Jimmy Kimmel Thanks Trump for Google Superstardom in 2025 |
The host said he wouldn?t have been the third-most-trending person in Google searches this year ?without the support of loyal viewers? like the president. | |
![]() | Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, ?Mortal Kombat? Actor, Dies at 75 |
The actor, born in Japan, starred in dozens of film and television shows, including Amazon?s ?The Man in the High Castle.? His career spanned more than three decades. | |
![]() | Netflix to Buy Warner Bros in $83 Billion Deal |
The deal to acquire the Hollywood behemoth?s television and film studios as well as HBO Max will bulk up the world?s biggest paid streaming service. | |
![]() | Art Gallery Shows to See in December |
This week in Newly Reviewed, Martha Schwendener covers Meredith James?s anti-architecture monument, Franz Gertsch?s take on Patti Smith, Ragnar Kjartansson?s postcard ode, Analivia Cordeiro?s merging bodies and Guanyu Xu?s hovering photos. | |
![]() | Rebecca Heineman, Transgender Video Game Pioneer, Dies at 62 |
Fleeing an abusive home life, she went on to win a national Space Invaders tournament, taught herself to program and left a trail of popular games in her wake. | |
![]() | Steve Cropper: 9 Essential Songs |
An architect of Memphis soul, Cropper made his guitar sing and sting. And as a songwriter, he collaborated on more than a few indelible anthems. | |
![]() | Inside the Alvin Ailey Gala: Ciara, the Red Carpet and a Madonna Dance Party |
Alvin Ailey?s annual gala began with suits and bare chests on the red carpet and ended with dancing to Madonna?s ?Like a Prayer.? | |
![]() | Eurovision Is in Turmoil as Israel?s Participation Leads to Boycott |
The Netherlands and Slovenia also said they would not take part in next year?s contest, meant to be its celebratory 70th edition. | |
![]() | ?Five Nights at Freddy?s 2? Review: The Robots Are Malfunctioning (Again) |
The bigger-budget follow-up to last year?s abysmal cult horror hit about haunted animatronic puppets is, at best, marginally scarier. | |
![]() | Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta?s Queer Cult Classic Debuts in New York |
?The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions? is a music theater piece based on Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta?s 1970s book. | |
![]() | In Ephrat Asherie?s ?Shadow Cities,? Club Dance Meets Latin Jazz |
Ephrat Asherie?s ?Shadow Cities? pairs her group?s adept dancers with live music by the great Arturo O?Farrill. | |
![]() | ?La Grazia? Review: Paolo Sorrentino?s Portrait of Waning Power |
The director reunites with Toni Servillo, casting the astonishingly expressive actor as a fictional Italian president facing the end of his term. | |
![]() | Jennifer Packer: Art at the Cosmic Edges of Longing |
Where does a painter?s grief go? Onto the canvas, in spectral realms. | |
![]() | Drag Antics and ?a Political Bomb?: Bringing ?La Cage aux Folles? Home |
The theater that drew acclaim last year for ?Les Misérables? is hoping Paris can accept a new ?Americano-French musical.? | |
![]() | Best TV Shows of 2025 |
Many of the year?s best series seemed to be in conversation with one another, including ?Severance,? ?The Pitt,? ?Andor,? ?Pluribus,? ?The Lowdown? and others. | |
![]() | Arthur Szyk: Spotlight Returns to a Forgotten ?Soldier in Art? |
An exhibition reckons with the revived legacy of an immigrant artist who created ornate illuminations and scathing caricatures of Nazism and the horrors of the Holocaust. | |
![]() | ?Merrily We Roll Along? Review: It?s a Hit (Reprise) |
The Tony-winning Broadway revival of the notorious Stephen Sondheim flop, starring Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez, gets a live stage recording for the big screen. | |
![]() | ?Rosemead? Review: A Mother and Her Troubled Son |
In this drama, Lucy Liu offers a compassionate and grim portrait of a parent at the end of her rope. | |
![]() | ?Little Trouble Girls? Review: Teenage Infatuation |
Despite awareness of taboos, two girls in a Catholic school choir are drawn to each other in this feature debut by the Slovenian director Urska Djukic. | |
![]() | ?Jay Kelly? Review: All His Memories Are Movies |
Noah Baumbach?s latest film has George Clooney playing the last of the old-school movie stars. | |
![]() | ?Happy Holidays? Review: Fissures in a Palestinian Family |
In Scandar Copti?s film, set in Haifa, Israel, secrets and deceptions strain relationships. | |
![]() | ?Fackham Hall? Review: Keep Calm and Chuckle On |
Clever sight gags jazz up this ?Downton Abbey? sendup about a bookish aristocrat under pressure to marry her first cousin. | |
![]() | ?Endless Cookie? Review: An Animated Family History |
Two filmmaking brothers trade tales in a tonally singular documentary. | |
![]() | ?The Chronology of Water? Review: Saved by the Pen |
Kristen Stewart?s feature directing debut stars a riveting Imogen Poots in an uncomfortably visceral tale of abuse and addiction. | |
![]() | ?100 Nights of Hero? Review: A Feminist Fairy Tale |
This flawed but endearing film stars Emma Corrin as a protective maid and features Charli XCX as a sister with a secret. | |
![]() | But Who Is the Snake in ?Zootopia 2?? |
Gary Goldman, who has battled Disney in court over the franchise, thinks the viper Gary De?Snake is based on him. | |
![]() | Late Night Thinks the War on Drugs Has Gone a Bit Off the Rails |
The president who says he?s killing traffickers ?pardoned a man who smuggled in enough cocaine to give every American resting Kash Patel face,? Josh Johnson said. | |
![]() | Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter and Shaper of Memphis Soul Music, Dies at 84 |
As a member of Booker T. & the MG?s and as a producer, he played a pivotal role in the rise of Stax Records, a storied force in R&B in the 1960s and ?70s. | |
![]() | Spotify Wrapped Has Users Talking About Their ?Listening Age? |
The wrinkle in this year?s Spotify Wrapped release was an estimate of the user?s ?listening age.? Some wore it like a badge of honor. Others made excuses. | |
![]() | Doctor Who Gave Matthew Perry Ketamine Is Sentenced to 30 Months |
The doctor, Salvador Plasencia, had asked ?I wonder how much this moron will pay? before supplying the drug to Mr. Perry, who became increasingly reliant on it before his death. | |
![]() | Mel Leipzig, Painter Called the ?Chekhov of Trenton,? Dies at 90 |
He put fellow New Jerseyans at the center of his work, and a critic praised the ?mysterious emotional tensions? in his pictures of ordinary people. | |
![]() | ?Vanderpump Rules? Is Back With a New Cast. Here Are 4 Takeaways. |
The Season 12 premiere got back to the show?s roots, introducing a young cast with the kind of hunger and fresh faces that made the original a hit. | |
![]() | Holiday Theater: 15 Shows to Spice Up Your Festive Season |
Enticements abound in New York City, including Jinkx Monsoon crooning, Dickens reciting Dickens and, for the whole family, the Big Apple Circus. | |
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