New York Times Arts

An Israeli artist, he became a global sensation, creating sculptures, paintings, toys and public works that delighted the eye and confounded perception.

The director and actress Olivia Wilde breaks down a tension-filled scene from her new film “The Invite” for Anatomy of a Scene.

Homer’s “Odyssey” has been translated into English countless times, with versions ranging from contemporary and accessible to highly poetic. A.O. Scott, critic at large for The New York Times Book Review, breaks down three translations and explains which one might be right for you.

Why do the characters in so many new novels insist upon eating each other?

Inside the high-wire act of casting celebrities to play themselves, including in movies like “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass.”

The 2016 release has become the most watched movie on Disney+. Parents and experts explain why kids can’t get enough.

Tennessee Williams’s darkly operatic one-act play becomes a proper opera in a new adaptation by the composer Courtney Bryan.

Beyoncé gets amorous, the Rolling Stones stay loud and the Linda Lindas team up with Hayley Williams.

Documents submitted to Congress detailed concerns about competitive bidding processes and a White House order to tear up new bathroom tile because of its color.

Outside of her job as the therapist on the series “Couples Therapy,” she has a favorite clip of the rapper performing and shows it to everyone she knows.

A stirring but tonally muddled new musical about the “poison queen of Palermo” gets an elegant Off Broadway production.

Kerri K. Greenidge appeared to lose her professorship at Tufts University after scholars began scrutinizing her 2022 book, “The Grimkes,” which is no longer listed on its publisher’s website.

An installation honoring the artist, Wim T. Schippers, features a 270-square-foot hexagon spread on the floor of a museum in Rotterdam.

The novelist Dinaw Mengestu, who was elected seven months ago, said the article “continues this approach toward defending some rights while not defending others.”

The best-selling author Kerri Maher recommends books that transport readers to the decade of space travel, counterculture and tumultuous societal change.

The author of an exhaustive two-volume biography, he was “fanatical about his approach to scholarship and infatuated with Melville,” a colleague said.

Best known for contemporary stylings of praise music that topped charts across genres, this singer’s new album of pared-down sacred music, “The Hymns,” put her back atop the gospel charts.

Ahead of the rapper’s three celebratory nights at Yankee Stadium, our “Popcast” hosts debate two major Jay-Z albums.

Upgrade your movie night with these picks, featuring karate-chopping families, rogue assassins and more.

The directors of a new four-part docuseries talked about why the long-running desert festival is important — and like being on “another planet.”