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Dec 19, 2025
His Pulitzer-nominated book "Graven Images" inspired a reassessment of Puritan art, challenging the belief that imagery carved on headstones was meaningless.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Kennedy Center installed President Trump's name on the facade of the arts center, which had been designated as a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy.
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Dec 19, 2025
Thanks to a steamy television adaptation, Rachel Reid's romance novels about closeted hockey players have become mainstream best-sellers.
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Dec 19, 2025
A busy designer who worked on over 100 films, he was also a racecar driver and a painter of photorealistic works, many depicting cars and their operators.
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Dec 19, 2025
Leading the acclaimed salsa group El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, he brought the music of his native island to a worldwide audience for more than 60 years.
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Dec 19, 2025
The release of a "Spinal Tap" concert film that was filmed at Stonehenge has been delayed.
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Dec 19, 2025
A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter priceless specimens and end nearly a century of pioneering research.
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Dec 19, 2025
A busy designer who worked on over 100 films, he was also a racecar driver and a painter of photorealistic works, many depicting cars and their operators.
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Dec 19, 2025
The couple are gearing up for the Broadway opening of "Bug," about a descent into paranoia and psychosis in a squalid motel room.
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Dec 19, 2025
Nearly a decade after the hit sci-fi horror series debuted, cast members including Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo and Maya Hawke gathered in New York City.
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Dec 19, 2025
Despite huge collaborations, top-selling albums and sellout tours, the leading stars of the Dominican genre still feel like they haven't received their due.
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Dec 19, 2025
In this month's picks, torrents, trolls and time travel.
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Dec 19, 2025
The final column of the year looks at the end of things — the end of the world, the end of youth — along with an underrated holiday gem.
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Dec 19, 2025
Some had wondered how the show about Abraham Lincoln's wife would fare after its creator left the Broadway cast. But mirth is abundant as it opens on the West End.
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Dec 19, 2025
Rare recordings of E.E. Cummings, Mary Oliver and more offer a tour through literary history led by authors in their own words — and voices. Take a listen.
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Dec 19, 2025
Two years after the assault, Marco Goecke is staging a nontraditional "Nutcracker." Ballet Basel hopes the focus will stay on his choreography.
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Dec 19, 2025
The newest chapter in the saga of the Na'vi people continues to build their highly detailed world. Here's a guide to catch you up on the developments.
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Dec 19, 2025
Whether you're a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
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Dec 19, 2025
A sport once synonymous with cable now finds its biggest matches on Netflix, Prime Video and DAZN, a European-based sports platform.
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Dec 19, 2025
Julie Taymor's abridged production of Mozart's opera has been trimmed down to 90 minutes as the Metropolitan Opera bids to recruit a new generation.
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Dec 19, 2025
Here are just a few of the year's finest indies, documentaries and international selections, available to stream at this very minute.
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Dec 19, 2025
This documentary could be better, but it offers a helpful lesson for film fans new to the movies of that decade.
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Dec 19, 2025
Museums and the consultants who advise them have been busy reviewing their own precautions in the aftermath of the brazen daylight break-in at the Louvre.
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Dec 19, 2025
As the president addressed the nation about the economy, it was "hard to tell if he was giving a speech or having a seizure on TV," Kimmel said.
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Dec 18, 2025
The clemency decision by Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee could make it easier for the country star to travel internationally.
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Dec 18, 2025
"Plain and Simple," her best-selling 1989 book, was a go-to text of the anti-materialist movement known as voluntary simplicity.
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Dec 18, 2025
For the franchise's third movie, James Cameron throws in new creatures, new landscapes, melodramatic plot lines and big battle sequences. It's a lot.
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Dec 18, 2025
To capture Jane Austen's brief life and enormous impact, editors at The New York Times Book Review assembled a sampling of the wealth, wonder and weirdness she has brought to our lives.
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Dec 18, 2025
Plus: Norwegian ski sweaters, an antique-filled hotel in Jakarta and more recommendations from T Magazine.
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Dec 18, 2025
Roger Ebert said he "hated, hated, hated, hated, hated" Reiner's 1994 film "North." The director took it in stride.
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Dec 18, 2025
In their documentary, Laura Poitras ("Citzenfour") and Mark Obenhaus trace the career highs and lows of the famed investigative journalist.
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Dec 18, 2025
Roger Ebert said he "hated, hated, hated, hated, hated" Reiner's 1994 film "North." The director took it in stride.
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Dec 18, 2025
The famous painting by Grant Wood shows a farmer holding a pitchfork and a woman standing next to him. The earlier sketch is a bit different.
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Dec 18, 2025
Listen to recordings by Maria Dueñas and Daniil Trifonov, works by Thomas Adès and Tania León, and more.
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Dec 18, 2025
How a movement went from dreamworld to vanguard to establishment of its own.
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Dec 18, 2025
An unlikely movie star in the 1990s, she has weathered ups and downs to find herself, at 55, as busy as ever. Next is a role in "Emily in Paris."
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Dec 18, 2025
An unlikely movie star in the 1990s, she has weathered ups and downs to find herself, at 55, as busy as ever. Next is a role in "Emily in Paris."
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Dec 18, 2025
The latest installment to this entertainment juggernaut relies on a cheap, rote formula and easy gags to keep children engaged.
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Dec 18, 2025
Will Arnett and Laura Dern add emotional heft to Bradley Cooper's intimate comedy about a separated spouse who finds solace in stand-up.
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Dec 18, 2025
Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried star in a thriller that is best seen with a full house.
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Dec 18, 2025
Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried star in a thriller that is best seen with a full house.
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Dec 18, 2025
The story of David and Goliath is presented as a feel-good family epic in this animated musical released by the popular religious media company Angel Studios.
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Dec 18, 2025
Thrillers, literary fiction, history, memoirs and more: Here are the most popular books you saved to your reading lists.
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Dec 18, 2025
The band became a major success in 1993 with the hit "Mr. Jones." Since then, the group has done its best to keep rock music alive.
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Dec 18, 2025
Nicole Eisenman's latest exhibition builds on a long tradition of artists using their work to speak out against fascism and oppression.
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Dec 18, 2025
Our critics picked their favorite moments, not necessarily from their favorite shows of the year — a certain "South Park" episode, for example.
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Dec 18, 2025
Sabrina Carpenter, Tate McRae and Addison Rae's music is influenced by the superstar who shot to fame before they were born. They've learned lessons from her hard times, too.
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Dec 18, 2025
Pentridge Prison's radio station played donated albums for its inmates. Twenty-six years after the site's sale, a local shop has landed its vinyl.
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Dec 18, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel called the president's last-minute speech "a surprise prime-time episode of ‘The Worst Wing' tonight on every channel."
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Dec 17, 2025
The novelist Dinaw Mengestu will lead the literary group at a time of escalating threats to free expression at home and abroad.
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Dec 17, 2025
He rose from poverty to become one of the Netherlands' most revered dance makers, creating more than 150 avant-garde works in a career spanning eight decades.
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Dec 17, 2025
The 96-year-old on postcolonial history, his first camera and the importance of talking to younger artists.
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Dec 17, 2025
A group of prominent figures issued a statement memorializing Mr. Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner. "We were their friends, and we will miss them forever."
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Dec 17, 2025
The son of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, who has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, has long struggled with drug addiction.
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Dec 17, 2025
Her work had a clean, minimal aesthetic at odds with the ambiguities it suggested. It was also unusually accessible.
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Dec 17, 2025
Her film "Who Killed Vincent Chin?" earned an Oscar nomination in 1988 and was inducted into the National Film Registry for its cultural significance.
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Dec 17, 2025
He was best known for playing the title character in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century," which ran on NBC from 1979 to 1981.
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Dec 17, 2025
With orange beanies, a roast pig and a mayor-elect, the New York premiere of A24's buzzy Ping-Pong film was its own kind of flick.
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Dec 17, 2025
The first lady is behind a movie that she has said will give a better idea of what it was like for her to move into the White House for a second time.
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Dec 17, 2025
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said that it had reached a deal with YouTube for exclusive rights to the show starting in 2029.
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Dec 17, 2025
"Track Star" is the YouTube series that brings out the music lover in celebrities and civilians alike.
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Dec 17, 2025
Kaouther Ben Hania's dramatized feature about a Palestinian girl who is killed in Gaza City is both powerfully direct and purposefully removed.
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Dec 17, 2025
Across the newsroom, journalists picked their most notable movies from 2025.
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Dec 17, 2025
These moments from his movies brought the laughs, in many different ways.
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Dec 17, 2025
He was best known for playing the title character in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century," which ran on NBC from 1979 to 1981.
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Dec 17, 2025
Just ahead of the Season 2 premiere, the co-creator Geneva Robertson-Dworet talked about the challenge of finding fun in a nuclear apocalypse.
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Dec 17, 2025
The claim was made as part of Warner Bros. Discovery's dismissal of Paramount's hostile takeover offer.
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Dec 17, 2025
Audiences are falling in love with the title character in "Paddington: The Musical." Bringing such a beloved bear to the stage was "a huge responsibility," the show's director said.
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Dec 17, 2025
A group of prominent figures issued a statement memorializing Mr. Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner. "We were their friends, and we will miss them forever."
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Dec 17, 2025
The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to get them back for decades.
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Dec 17, 2025
Just ahead of the Season 2 premiere, the co-creator Geneva Robertson-Dworet talked about the challenge of finding fun in a nuclear apocalypse.
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Dec 17, 2025
Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence and Amanda Seyfried give great performances as women who buck convention. But some voters prize ‘likability' above all else.
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Dec 17, 2025
The Bird's Nest is experimenting with a different way to age.
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Dec 17, 2025
There is plenty of stimulation for young theatergoers in the Royal Shakespeare Company's adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved book.
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Dec 17, 2025
Ravel's depiction of an enchanted garden is so simple and wistful, I never want it to end.
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Dec 17, 2025
"Track Star" is the YouTube series that brings out the music lover in celebrities and civilians alike.
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Dec 17, 2025
This 1941 comic murder mystery is back for a week in a sparkling restoration at Film Forum.
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Dec 17, 2025
We polled film fans in the newsroom. These are the titles that stuck with us this year.
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Dec 17, 2025
Catch Kristin Chenoweth basking in the excess, and Bill and Ted having a Beckettian adventure, before the curtain comes down on their productions and others.
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Dec 17, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel was grateful that Susie Wiles, the president's "future former chief of staff," spilled the beans on her boss in a Vanity Fair article.
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Dec 16, 2025
The son of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, who has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, has long struggled with drug addiction.
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Dec 16, 2025
Matthew Broderick plays Tartuffe and David Cross his naïve prey in this Lucas Hnath adaptation of a 17th-century French comedy classic.
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Dec 16, 2025
The doctor, Mark Chavez, who had used fraudulent prescriptions to acquire the drug and conspired to sell it to Mr. Perry at inflated prices, was sentenced to three years of supervised release.
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Dec 16, 2025
The son of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, who has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, has long struggled with drug addiction.
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Dec 16, 2025
The lineups, which Oscar voters will choose from next month, include the new casting category, which was largely a dress rehearsal for best picture.
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Dec 16, 2025
90 tracks! Five hours! Remix the year in pop however you wish.
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Dec 16, 2025
"This Is Spinal Tap," "When Harry Met Sally …," "Misery": Reiner delivered an incredible number of accessible, original and adult movies that we still cherish.
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Dec 16, 2025
George Frederick Bristow, born 200 years ago this month, struggled to find American champions of his music as orchestras favored European tradition.
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Dec 16, 2025
In researching her new Broadway play, Bess Wohl interviewed my mother. After a performance, we all discussed the play and its themes.
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Dec 16, 2025
A musical adaptation of the story will open at the Majestic Theater next spring. And yes, the score includes "Wind Beneath My Wings."
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Dec 16, 2025
Ellen Arkbro makes music that shifts and churns with no regard for harmony's rules. She's one of the most interesting composers for her instrument working today.
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Dec 16, 2025
On the High Line Plinth next spring, the Vietnam-based artist will resurrect an ancient Buddha, destroyed by the Taliban, as a vision of resilience.
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Dec 16, 2025
Welcome to our Regency Thunderdome, where we will endeavor to answer this question once and for all.
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Dec 16, 2025
Here are four highlights across TV, film and podcasting from the second half of the year.
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Dec 16, 2025
Seth Meyers also scorned President Trump's Truth Social post about the celebrated filmmaker's death.
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Dec 16, 2025
Nick Reiner, 32, is being held without bail on suspicion of murder after the bodies of the director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found in their home.
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Dec 15, 2025
Mr. Reiner, who was arrested in connection with the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner, once estimated he had been in drug treatment 18 times as a teenager.
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Dec 15, 2025
Nick Reiner, 32, is being held without bail on suspicion of murder after the bodies of the director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found in their home.
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Dec 15, 2025
Portraying Luke Spencer, he was one of the best-known soap opera stars in American television. His onscreen romance with Laura Webber, played by Genie Francis, changed the landscape of daytime television.
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Dec 15, 2025
In films like "A Few Good Men," the director's ideas of honor and morality were stated as plainly as could be.
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