New York Times Arts

His colorful figurative paintings were both conservative and iconoclastic, defying the dominant abstract schools of the mid-20th century.

Four decades after the conceptual artist Christo draped the Pont Neuf with fabric, JR, a French street artist, offers his own trick of the eye.

The director Steven Spielberg breaks down an action sequence from his new film “Disclosure Day” for Anatomy of a Scene.

One day before a deadline to take the president’s name off its facade, the arts institution appealed a federal judge’s ruling that also temporarily blocked it from closing.

The curator Norman Rosenthal knew the artist for over 60 years and still discovered something new when they collaborated on a final blockbuster show.

Polaroids and photocopiers also gave the artist possibilities for creating in forms vastly different from his paintings.

Despite woes in the recording industry, Levit announced the founding of No Silence, which will release three albums this fall.

The director narrates a scene from his movie that is a continuation, of sorts, of a sequence he filmed for his feature-length debut, “Duel,” in 1971.

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After a few attempts that didn’t fully connect, the St. Louis singer was ready to walk away, but not before making a raw album of thrashed pop, “Worst Girl in America.”

The new movie is packed with showstopping action, but one standout sequence has our hero rolling over a pyramid of henchmen. Here’s what it took.

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Karla Murthy retells her Indian dad’s life story to better understand her own in this deeply personal documentary.

Jimmy Fallon called the president “the only 80-year-old yelling, ‘Get on my lawn!’”

For the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park, the director Saheem Ali presents a strangely low-energy version of the tragedy.

Self-taught, he became a go-to portraitist for politicians, rock stars and other celebrities. He also documented Indigenous people and inmates on death row.

The final curtain is coming down on two Tony Award-winning performances, a reboot of a 1980s musical and one of the best plays in August Wilson’s American Century Cycle.

When a son got curious about the origins of a painting his mother bought at a secondhand shop decades ago, Google Gemini had some intriguing thoughts.

“The Bear” serves its last course, “Ted Lasso” gets back on the pitch, and Larry David makes a TV show with the Obamas.

At the Nevada Museum of Art, five examples of artist-activists shining a light on the Great Basin Desert and beyond.