Art & Auctions
An Estate Sale With the Rockefeller Touch
As Christie’s prepares to auction Peggy and David Rockefeller’s sprawling collection, some in the art market predict it will bring in a record $1 billion
Arts
An exhibition at the Barnes Foundation searches for artistic ties between Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste Renoir and Jean Renoir, his filmmaker son.
At a time when it is harder than ever for artists to break through the clutter of social media, Kanye West has captured everyone’s attention.
In Seattle’s expanded Nordic Museum, a striking building houses a collection ranging from ancient stone tools to Angry Birds.
Television Review
‘A Dangerous Son’ Review: Relief Is Hard to Find
An HBO documentary looks at young people afflicted with serious emotional disturbances.
Television Review
‘Sweetbitter’ Review: Delectable Drama
This series, based on the novel of the same name, follows a newcomer to New York and her entrée into the high-end restaurant business.
Theater Review
‘Mlima’s Tale’ Review: A Playwright and Her Prey
Lynn Nottage’s latest, about elephant poaching and illegal ivory trafficking, avoids political-cartoon symbols of good and evil while revealing motives that, as is almost always true in real life, are mixed.
Theater Review
‘Summer: The Donna Summer Musical’ Review: Hot and Cold
Relive the Disco Queen’s life in this slick new musical with plenty of glittering flaws.
Film Review
‘Tully’ Review: Enter the Perfect Nanny
Charlize Theron stars as an overweight mother who’s spread too thin until Mackenzie Davis’s night nanny comes to help.
Film Review
‘RBG’ Review: Courting Progress
This documentary about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reveals the legal titan’s inexhaustible energy and pursuit of women’s rights.
Spurred on by Gucci’s propulsive furry backless loafer, the mule is once again a best-selling style. Fashion historian Nancy MacDonell traces the shoe from its 17th century heyday.
Channel your inner child and give Mom an elevated version of your youthful craft-project presents—from painterly nail polish to an abstract-printed purse.
The indie-folk artist turns to his past and the things that buoyed him in difficult times: familiar television characters and easy listening music
Dead fish, fowl, rabbits and glistening flayed carcasses of beef come alive in the hands of the painter.
For the ambitious man who’d rather take matters into his own hands than skulk into a salon, a primer on at-home nail care.
Television
Carol Burnett, In Charge Again
Carol Burnett, who hosts the new Netflix show “A Little Help With Carol Burnett,” talks about pranks, tricking censors and why female comics aren’t asking her for advice.
Even salon loyalists should consider these hair-dye brands that are using technology and science to improve results—and saving women time and money.
Photographer Sanlé Sory integrated his passion for music into his work while allowing his subjects to express themselves in an Africa that was rapidly modernizing.
Exhibition Review
‘Walk This Way: Footwear From the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes’ Review
A selection of over 100 pairs of shoes from the designer-entrepreneur’s collection is on view for the first time.
Work-from-anywhere lifestyles have inspired ‘elevated lounge pants’ that crossbreed sweats and dress slacks. But how far outside your living room can they go?
