Arts

The artist An-My Lê insists that she doesn’t photograph war. For much of her career, Lê has photographed the many preambles and the long wake of violent combat: Vietnam War re-enactments in the forests of Virginia; training exercises in the California desert for Marines headed to Iraq and Afghanistan; and the American military’s “peacetime” activities…

In early 2016, James Farrell, then the head of content at Amazon Studios for Japan, was looking for original programming that could help the streamer gain a foothold in the region. After months of searching, Farrell recalled recently, he was open to any concept, no matter how strange or unconventional. Then, over a late night…

As it has done every year for the past seven straight decades, the Winter Show, the venerable arts and antiquities fair, which benefits the East Side House Settlement in the Bronx, has brought together an incredible range of objects, most of those years under the capacious roof of the Park Avenue Armory. A concert piano…

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When Kaveh Akbar was drinking, he would regularly wake up to find new bruises or gashes on his body, or to find that he’d lost his glasses, his wallet or his car. When he opened his eyes, he might find himself in an alley instead of in his apartment. Once, he got out of bed…

Some comedy aficionados make the case that Andrew Dice Clay was always as much performance art as stand-up, akin to the character comedy of Pee-wee Herman and Andy Kaufman. When I interviewed Clay years ago, my impression was that if that were so, years of doing the persona had infiltrated his real self so thoroughly…

And it’s more of a spectacle than a service. Instead of emulating a leader-follower dichotomy, “Terce” draws from the talents and experiences of a singing, dancing and playing ensemble of 38 “caregivers and makers” — some professional and even virtuosic like Christian, some amateur and unpolished. Keyboards, guitars, woodwinds, strings and percussion are part of…

A couple of months ago, the artist and filmmaker Cauleen Smith gathered a bare-bones crew for a guerrilla-style shoot — no permits; the locations half-scouted, half-figured-out on the fly — around the land that she calls her home and her obsession: Los Angeles. They were filming the city — four days and nights in a…

He earned his fifth Grammy, for best classical crossover album, for “Hornsmoke” (1998), which includes his “Horse Opera for Brass Quintet,” Piano Concerto No. 2 and other serious compositions. Mr. Schickele’s classical recordings also include Quartet No. 1, “American Dreams,” by the Audubon Quartet; “Schickele on a Lark,” by the Lark Quartet; and “The American…

‘Tropic’ Rent or buy it on Vudu or Microsoft. We are in the near future and the European space agency is preparing to launch a mission that will last years if not decades — a length that means filling it with a young crew. Teenage twins Lázaro (Pablo Cobo) and Tristán (Louis Peres) are training…