Arts

The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner has occasionally featured some great stand-up comedy. This “S.N.L.” veteran’s set will not join that list.

The final season of Scotland’s most notable TV drama, on PBS’s “Masterpiece,” is a suitably twisty and sardonic send-off for the battling McCall brothers.

Studios obsessively focused on PG-13 franchises and animation in recent years, but movies like “Challengers” and “Saltburn” show eroticism has returned.

Three new arrivals help readers make sense of our mental health crisis. They also offer solidarity.

Incarcerated women serve as guides to the show, which reflects Pope Francis’ longtime commitment to society’s marginalized people.

Celebrated for his long tenure with Lyric Opera of Chicago, he led this and other orchestras with force and a notably energetic podium presence.

Carl Sandburg’s boyhood; Carolyn Forché’s political awakening.

At a time of unsettling news at home and abroad, these shows offer tips and first-person accounts to alleviate a spiraling sense of unease.

An illustrator in New York City imagines the personalities of some local bookshops and how they might be embodied.

The “Fire Country” star talks about the road trips, the farm equipment and the family time that keep him grounded.

This week, fans turned out for a new documentary about Jon Bon Jovi and took in a performance led by Gustavo Dudamel at the New York Philharmonic’s spring gala.

The birth of a pioneering Black dance company comes alive in Karen Valby’s “The Swans of Harlem.”

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is rolling out two new exhibition halls and making its scientists more accessible. And don’t forget the dinosaurs.

Venues across the U.S. and beyond are giving Liz Collins, who first found fame as a fashion designer, the art-world recognition that had eluded her.

“Liberty Equality Fashion” explores radical shifts in fashion that embodied the ideas of the French Revolution and the women who led the charge.

Educational institutions across the United States are spending more money to renovate museums and make them a more integral part of learning.

Many museums around the country have had children’s programs for years — but they are on the rise now more than ever.

At the Carnegie Museum of Art, an installation by the artist Marie Watt celebrates the region’s industrial history with I-beams and glass.

Voice of Baceprot has electrified audiences and built a large following in Indonesia. Now the group is taking its music to the West.

An exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts features an array of artists sharing their views of an increasingly complex world.

The New York Times’s newest podcast, hosted by David Marchese and Lulu Garcia-Navarro, offers wide-ranging conversations with notable guests.

The revival of a 2006 work by Thomas Jolly, the director masterminding the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics, shows his gift for visual flamboyance.

Answering your questions about the sound and substance of the pop superstar’s double album, and the way fans and critics have responded to it.

Sample her seven daring and eclectic albums as her latest, “All Born Screaming,” arrives.

Her distinctive prose and sharp eye were tuned to an outsider’s frequency, telling us about ourselves in essays that are almost reflexively skeptical. Here’s where to start.

The hosts spent much of the week discussing former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan, including the opening arguments and the testimony of David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer. Here’s what they had to say.

Hear tracks by Normani, Nilüfer Yanya, Thom Yorke and others.

The Games were revived from an ancient Greek spectacle, but an exhibition timed for the Paris Olympics argues that France’s fascination with the ancient world played an outsized role.

Philippa Langley devoted years to the search for Richard III’s remains. Now, she’s trying to crack a 15th-century cold case: Did he really assassinate his nephews?

Eduardo Vilaro celebrates his 15th year as artistic director of Ballet Hispánico with a premiere exploring the life of the Afro-Hispanic artist.

This past week has been jam-packed with openings. Our reviewers think these new shows are worth knowing about even if you’re not planning to see them.

Moon Studios’ newest project, the action role-playing game No Rest for the Wicked, was inspired by Dark Souls, Diablo and “Game of Thrones.”

This month’s picks include demonic forces from Mexico, Mongolia, small-town America and hell itself.

At Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, Wardell Milan’s works — which blend drawing, painting and collage — depict scenes of both comfort and chaos.

The director Luca Guadagnino narrates a sequence from his film, featuring Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist.

A documentary celebrates the work of the revered photographer James Hamilton.

A selection of entertainment highlights this weekend, including the film “Challengers,” which stars Zendaya.

Female-centered buddy comedies, rom-coms and Outback thrillers are among the under-the-radar recommendations for your subscription streamers this month.

Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.

The statue will be part of “Ancient Huasteca Women: Goddesses, Warriors and Governors” at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago.

The Atomic Museum in Las Vegas explains to visitors that Nevada and other states also played a role — for better or worse — in the creation of nuclear energy.

Robin F. Williams, whose first solo museum show opened this month in her hometown in Ohio, is evolving through her works, which are often injected with humor.

The baskets of Jeremy Frey from the Passamaquoddy tribe in Maine have caught the attention of the art world.

The painting “Saint Francis of Assisi in His Tomb” became one of the inspirations for Idris Khan in his first solo museum show in the United States.

The Broad Museum kicks off a touring exhibition of the artist’s work over the last 20 years.

Two creatures unearthed in 2006, and finally on display in North Carolina, might hold the key to a major debate over a certain animal’s identity.

This musical adaptation, now on Broadway, is a lot of Jazz Age fun. But it forgot that Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel endures because it is a tragedy.

His expertise on the electromechanical Mellotron helped define the band’s progressive sound in the 1960s and ’70s on albums like “Days of Future Passed.”

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Perhaps you would enjoy “Knuckles,” a Sonic the Hedgehog spinoff that outpaces its origin story.

Possibly the most prolific archival record producer in history, he was a founder of the Mosaic label, which became the gold standard of jazz reissues.

Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist play friends, lovers and foes on and off the tennis court in Luca Guadagnino’s latest.

Read the ruling from New York’s top court that overturned the 2020 conviction of Harvey Weinstein on felony sex crime charges in Manhattan, with context and explanation by New York Times journalists.

Costanzo will be a rare figure in classical music: an artist in his prime who is also working as an administrator.

The spring season at New York City Ballet opened with an all-Balanchine program and a vintage miniature from 1975: “Errante,” staged for a new generation.

Canceled by Disney before it even aired, “The Spiderwick Chronicles” found a new home at Roku and has so far “delivered results beyond expectations,” its creator said.

A discussion about the singer’s new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” her “imperial era,” rumored relationships and production choices.

She devoted her life to showing us how and why.

Zendaya breaks hearts in a stylish tennis love triangle.

This understated tear-jerker sees a dying single father making future family plans for his toddler son.