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It’s not every day that a critic gets to review a premiere by Ravel. He died almost a century ago, after all. And while some previously unknown works have come to light over the years, it happens considerably less than once in a blue moon. So my pen was out and alert on Thursday at … Read more

‘Walk on Through: Confessions of a Museum Novice’ Stream it on YouTube. When Gavin Creel died of a rare form of cancer last fall, at the age of 48, he left behind an artistic and emotional hole — he was a beloved presence onstage, especially in musical theater, with an easy wit, a sure flair … Read more

“Ted Lasso” fans who continued to believe will have their faith rewarded: The heartwarming soccer comedy is returning to the pitch. Apple TV+ announced on Friday morning that the series, about a folksy American coach hired to lead the fictional AFC Richmond in England’s Premier League, will come back for another season, its fourth. Jason … Read more

The comedian Chelsea Handler is unapologetic in her latest book, “I’ll Have What She’s Having.” Well, of course, she is. She’s Chelsea Handler, and that’s always kind of been her thing. There are many of the stories you would expect from the former host of the E! show “Chelsea Lately” in her seventh book, which … Read more

The makers of “Meanwhile” (in theaters) describe it as a “docu-poem,” which is a bold choice: Not many people encounter feature-length nonfiction poetry onscreen. But in about 90 minutes, the director Catherine Gund fuses work from multidisciplinary artists, words from the author Jacqueline Woodson, soundscapes by the musician Meshell Ndegeocello, archival footage and interviews in … Read more

Inside Kasmin Gallery in Manhattan, more than a dozen employees huddled like a football team. It was late February and the gallery’s president, Nick Olney, was giving his staff a pep talk before his version of the big game: the opening of the first New York exhibition of work by Robert Indiana since the artist’s … Read more

On a recent afternoon on 42nd Street in Manhattan, a mythological bird was preparing to take flight. Backstage at the New Victory Theater, a black-clad puppeteer put on an elaborately stylized mask and stepped into a beam of light, throwing the shadow of fluttering hands onto a large scrim. Nearby, two other performers were gearing … Read more

When “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” hit theaters in 2018, it served as a delicacy for longtime fans, who found in the film clever allusions to the vast history of Spider-Man comics and animated series. “Into the Spider-Verse” and its sequel, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” was full of Easter eggs plucked from several eras of Spidey … Read more

‘Black Bag’ Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender star as Kathryn and George, a married couple of glamorous spies who turn their espionage skills against each other. From our review: “Black Bag” is the third movie written by David Koepp and directed by Steven Soderbergh that’s been released since 2022, and it’s a banger. It’s also … Read more

Ingrid Daubechies, a mathematician at Duke University, is an expert on many matters, not least the baking of cookies in the shape of pi, the mathematical constant that equals the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, or roughly 3.14159. A sugar cookie recipe works fine, Dr. Daubechies says. But she prefers a savory … Read more