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Because Shakespeare gave his hero and antihero equal weight, the contest between the actors playing them has never been that easy to call.

For the joyous Muslim holiday to work, mothers in New York City spent Saturday night preparing, merging traditions from around the world with ones developed here.

Taken from a First Nation community in Canada, the shrine recently began a more than 3,000-mile journey back from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

The president’s order called for curbing the independence of the sprawling network of museums and urging it to promote “American greatness.”

Online grandstanding, intergenerational head-butting and a lost job, all thanks to one inopportunely timed water break during a hot yoga class.

Rudin stepped away from show business four years ago amid reports that he had bullied assistants. He says he has “a lot more self-control” now.

An update to ChatGPT made it easy to simulate Hayao Miyazaki’s style of animation, which has flooded social media with memes.

Over nearly six decades, this fantastically inventive artist experimented with paint, turning it into a sculptural medium. Our critic calls his survey “scintillating and sweeping.”

Of all the “Buena Vista Social Club” songs, the beloved “Chan Chan” is the most recognizable. But figuring out where in the musical to put it became a challenge.

In a show that features an array of disturbing story lines, the actions — and wardrobe — of a character have gone “too far” for the university.

Creative partners since they were teenagers, the comedy duo’s new series, “The Studio,” pokes fun at the Hollywood system that practically raised them.

A journalist’s inclusion in a national security discussion served as a reminder that you might not know every number in the chat — and that could be a big problem.

The Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam has made dramatic moves to go green, from the materials it uses in productions to the food it serves.

The surprise star of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” talks about her hardscrabble past and fortunate present.

The actress is building a community of artists, thinkers and doers of all kinds, in a storied building in downtown Manhattan.

Millions have been transfixed by videos of Karis Dadson, a California teenager who shows pigs at livestock competitions. She finds the whole thing very weird.

Sasha Stone, who has been covering awards season since the ’90s, has recast herself as a voice against what she perceives as the industry’s liberal status quo.

Some fans correctly predicted some of the episode’s biggest revelations. But other mysteries remain, and many more were introduced.

Teen Vogue’s rollicking Q&A with Vivian Wilson offered insight into her life, her interests and her feelings about her famous father.

Our critics and editors assess the new conflicts introduced by the Season 2 finale and whether it cleared up enough of the show’s many mysteries.

The Evie reader can work. She can be a mom. It’s her choice. It’s just not feminism.

Clocks, elevators and cubicles become dystopian signifiers in the television show, which invokes and inverts workplace cinema.

A Trump appointee at an agency overseeing layoffs came under fire for filming fashion videos at work. But for others in the world of 9-to-5 outfit inspiration, on-the-job content often is the job.

Mr. Cunningham was a milliner before he became a noted style photographer. Eight of his one-of-a-kind hats are now up for auction.

For 20 years, the star of “Grey’s Anatomy” has rarely worked elsewhere. For a new Hulu series, about an adoption gone very wrong, she changes out of her scrubs.

When Lucy’s, a homey New York tavern, closed down and underwent a renovation, some longtime patrons feared the worst.

After surrendering scores of art works thought looted, the museum is looking to its new head of provenance research to police its acquisitions and review its collection.

Are you team tight-on-tight or tight-on-baggy?

In the current moment, it can seem as if anything goes. Our critic explains how to solve the riddle of which cut of jeans is right for you.

The actor, who descends from Hollywood and political royalty, lends some of that privilege to his role as a cocky finance bro in the HBO hit.

Attributing a work to the artist generally requires authentication by the Van Gogh Museum, but lawsuits and an influx of requests have made it reassess that role.

Shoes with teeth. Shoes with soles at right angles. Shoes made from two shoes. Shintaro Yamamoto is the footwear Dr. Frankenstein behind them all.

The museum, based in Henry Clay Frick’s 1914 Fifth Avenue mansion, reopens with a deft expansion worthy of a New York treasure.

As “Severance” nears the end of its second season, the show has created a “cultural moment” that is changing the way people discuss work-life balance.

An editor from the heyday of glossy magazines dishes about Anna Wintour and recounts his long-running feud with Donald Trump.

Can two rivals, bringing Robert Indiana’s long-hidden work into the light, reboot his legacy for a new generation?

The 29-year-old fashion photographer Tyler Mitchell had his own ideas about how to shoot the catalog for the museum’s spring Costume Institute show.

Sofia Gubaidulina’s work, with its thorniness and religious themes, put her at odds with the Soviet government.

A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum explores the cult of Queen Esther, whose story won the hearts of Dutch Masters and some artists today.

With a revival starring Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran in Brooklyn, a look at the carefully weighted balance that actors playing Blanche and Stanley need to strike.

Dario Vitale will be the brand’s new designer.

Broadway is almost back, and pop music tours and sports events are booming. But Hollywood, museums and other cultural sectors have yet to bounce back.

And more of what everyone is going to need next season, from Miu Miu, Saint Laurent and Hermès.

The Duchess of Sussex caused a stir on “With Love, Meghan” when she said Sussex was her last name. But does that break from royal tradition?

Desire comes a distant second to violence in a Brooklyn revival of the Tennessee Williams classic.

In dance, a wordless art, an improvised language of rhythmic noises helps communicate the shape and feel of movement.

There was mystery. There was Jamie Dornan. And there were great clothes.

A fashion show in Paris was staged against a backdrop of 200 people playing Fortnite together. It was a distraction, at best.

It’s the wrong moment for the fashion theatrics of Valentino, McQueen and Dior. But Balenciaga got it right.

Since breaking out in “Atlanta,” the actor has become a dependable Hollywood side man. In “Dope Thief,” a new crime drama, he will finally take the lead.