"The daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Ms. Laforêt won a radio talent contest as a teenager and … went on to appear in 37 feature films, including the 1961 dramas Saint-Tropez Blues,…
"The surprise announcement was made on Tuesday, with the gallery pledging to lend 300 portraits a year to regional galleries and organisations across the UK during the … [£35.5m] revamp…
Lionheart, by director Genevieve Nnaji, includes only 11 minutes of dialogue that aren't in English. A statement from the Academy said that even though the name of the category was changed t…
"Mr. Gaines, who spent his first 15 years on a plantation near Baton Rouge, later moved with his family to Northern California, but in many ways he never left the landscape, rhythms and pain…
For the second time in five years, voters in North Carolina's largest city and surrounding Mecklenburg County defeated a proposal to raise the sales tax locally by a one-fourth of a percenta…
"As a playwright Mr. Branch delved into the black experience, both in the 20th century and earlier, in Off-Broadway plays like A Medal for Willie, about the bitterness that ensues when a bla…
The November 20 event in Tel Aviv was planned as a benefit for a nonprofit providing medical care to indigent patients. But that organization's founder, an Orthodox rabbi, asked that no fema…
Felicia Fitzpatrick: "With its European roots, ballet has always valued Eurocentric body shapes and skin color, leaving little opportunity for Black ballerinas to even attempt to engage with…
After Christina Randall was released from jail after a three-year term for battery and robbery, she finished a bachelor's degree and hoped to get into social work " but with her incarceratio…
The combination of extemporaneous performance and preëxisting art form enacts a trust across time and space. In the heyday of silent pictures, filmmakers expected that their movies would …
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call "The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Life.…
The Platters perform on The Perry Como Show. This episode was originally telecast by NBC on February 18, 1956: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that app…
"Dear God, don't take Adrian away from me. This is the man I've been drawing strength from since I was eleven years old. Never a vigorous man. Not a brilliant man. Not a man whose passing wi…
The first Wal-Mart outside Arkansas opened in 1968 in Smalltown, U.S.A. Its record section had three bins of classical albums, many of them from Victrola, RCA's budget line, which featured r…
The news came from actress Dakota Johnson, who is to star in the feature, titled Crackpot; the item was buried deep in a news-and-gossip column at the trade website Deadline. The project cou…
No doubt social media in particular seems to represent the triumph of the writerly type over the writing itself. But DeWitt, Baker, Whitehead, and Atwood are among our most accomplished writ…
"Conlangs" (constructed languages) are hardly new: Esperanto and Volapük were created in the 19th century; Tolkien claimed he wrote his Middle Earth books so that someone would speak the El…
Neighborhoods with higher street density not only have more patented innovations, but more citations of the patents they generate. This suggests that neighborhoods with denser streets help f…
"A widespread public bewilderment at the 'Deconstructivist' showcase buildings that they are told is great modern architecture is well known. But less well understood is that most of the Wes…
"Alter the status of women and you have affected all the most intimate and significant nodes of life: the relation of wife to husband, mother to child, sister to sibling, daughter to parents…
Situated along the banks of the Huangpu River on Shanghai's version of Museum Mile, the new outpost is a collaboration with the West Bund Group, a Chinese state-owned development corporation…
Gia Kourlas: "He had a different partner this week because his regular one, Lindsay Arnold, had a death in her family. It didn't make his dancing better or worse. It remains consistent in it…
It's probably no surprise that Hallmark channels have increased their annual Christmas movie count by 20 percent since 2017, but Lifetime has more than quadrupled its output in the last two …
Her most famous role was the lead in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love, which she originated in both London and New York (a first for an American in an ALW show), and she garnered a Tony…
"Often when I work with directors, or when I'm directing myself, what you think at the beginning often changes. That's fair and normal. But with this show [American Utopia], the ideas David …