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From his office on the top floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lucian Simmons has a vantage point from which to survey the huge mission he has undertaken. Below him in gallery after gallery are the artworks and artifacts that the museum has collected across its 155 years in business. Formerly, as head of … Read more

You may have trouble catching your breath from laughing so hard during the first act of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s sophomore Broadway outing, “Purpose,” which opened Monday at the Helen Hayes Theater. Deeply imagined and grave beneath its yucks, it unspools like a brilliant sitcom. Then, also like a sitcom, it jumps the shark. Ah well, mixed … Read more

Anyone who enters the New York City subway at Delancey Street is bound to notice the striking mosaic portraits of fish heads inlaid in the station’s white-tile walls. Bordered in gold, with shades of pink, purple and blue, they give their iridescent subjects all the majesty of a king or queen on an ancient coin, … Read more

The New Yorker has parted ways with its art critic after the magazine received complaints about his behavior at its 100th anniversary party in February, according to two people with knowledge of the decision. The critic, Jackson Arn, who joined the magazine in 2023, was accused of making inappropriate overtures to some of the attendees … Read more

Thomas Moser, a self-taught woodworker who quit his job as a college professor in 1972 to found a furniture company in Maine and then spent five decades resurrecting traditional American styles with an unmatched attention to detail and craftsmanship, died on March 5 at his home in Harpswell, Maine. He was 90. Aaron Moser, one … Read more

President Trump visited the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on Monday for the first time since he stunned the cultural and political establishment nearly five weeks ago by taking over the institution. Mr. Trump made himself chairman of the center’s board last month after dismissing all of the Biden-era appointees, … Read more

Jesse Colin Young, whose sincere tenor vocals for the Youngbloods graced one of the most loving anthems of the hippie era, “Get Together,” a Top Five hit in 1969, before he went on to pursue a solo career that lasted more than five decades, died on Sunday at his home in Aiken, S.C. He was … Read more

Émilie Dequenne, who won best actress at age 17 at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in the Belgian film “Rosetta,” died on Sunday at the Gustave Roussy hospital in Villejuif, France. She was 43. Her death was confirmed by Marie-Laure Calmette, an assistant to Ms. Dequenne’s longtime agent, Danielle Gain. Ms. Dequenne had … Read more

At the Soho Theater in London, a beleaguered weather reporter is giving double meaning to the phrase “hot mess.” The setting is drought-stricken Fresno, Calif., where temperatures are sweltering and wildfires rage on the city outskirts. The presenter, Stacey Gross, has a telegenic glamour and some peppy catchphrases, but underneath is an angst-ridden functioning alcoholic … Read more

Theaters are never truly dark. In between performances, a simple floor lamp is placed onstage and switched on. It’s called a ghost light, and depending on whom you ask, it’s either a practical safety measure or a way to ward off spirits. Some say it actually welcomes them. As audience members entered the auditorium of … Read more