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He drew praise for his blues-inflected fretwork as his critically acclaimed band rode high, if briefly, during San Francisco’s Summer of Love.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/arts/music/jerry-miller-moby-grape-dead.html
She wrote two books about multiple generations of her forebears, including her mother, Lena Horne.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/books/gail-lumet-buckley-dead.html
The Paris Games began with a new look and sparkled with Celine Dion. But the show suffered from bloat similar to TV’s other spectacles.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/arts/television/olympics-opening-ceremony-tv.html
The 1993 album “Doggystyle” went on to sell millions of copies around the world and solidified the career of Mr. Daniel, known as Joe Cool, as a hip-hop illustrator.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/arts/joe-cool-dead-snoop-dogg-doggystyle.html
Martin Scorsese, Ethan Hawke and John Turturro are all listed as advisers to a new proposal to buy the former Metro Theater, which closed in 2005.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/movies/celebrities-plan-metro-theater-movie-upper-west-side.html
The museum reports having hundreds of consultations with Native American groups and says it is also returning 90 objects.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/arts/design/american-museum-natural-history-native-american.html
The rap duo’s raw songs and festival-like touring strategy has paid off: Its latest album opened at No. 5 without traditional industry strategies or support.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/arts/music/suicideboys-king-gizzard-viagra-boys.html
An Egon Schiele drawing was returned on Friday at the Manhattan district attorney’s office. The heirs said in a statement that relinquishing the work was “the right thing to do.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/arts/design/schiele-fritz-grunbaum-nazis-return.html
The singer and songwriter, 75, wrapped his decade-long residency at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night. Up next? A new era in his live career.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/arts/music/billy-joel-msg-residency-final-show.html
This month’s picks include a ’90s coming-of-age tale from India, a Turkish noir set in a zoo, a Romanian drama about provincial politics and more.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/movies/international-movies-streaming.html
At the close of his 10-year Madison Square Garden residency, the singer took a victory lap with some of his most ardent fans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/arts/music/billy-joel-madison-square-garden-photos.html
A diverse cast of characters and a murder to solve each school year have helped make this teen drama one of Netflix’s longest-running original shows.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/arts/television/elite-netflix-season-eight.html
Loren Long has illustrated books by Barack Obama, Madonna and Amanda Gorman. His No. 1 best seller, “The Yellow Bus,” took him in a different direction — one that required time, patience an...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/books/loren-long-yellow-bus.html
“Batman: Caped Crusader,” a new animated series, is not concerned with making its hero likable — either to the citizens of Gotham or to its audience.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/arts/television/batman-caped-crusader.html
The director Shawn Levy narrates a scene from the latest sequel in the franchise.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine-clip.html
The new installment draws on decades of Marvel and X-Men history. It helps to know the back stories ahead of time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/movies/deadpool-wolverine-refresher.html
Most record companies didn’t think “The First Family,” which he and his writing partner created, was a good idea. It became the fastest-selling album of the pre-Beatles era.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/arts/bob-booker-dead.html
A Lincoln Center retrospective puts the spotlight on midcentury movies aimed at the masses that continue to influence filmmakers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/movies/mexico-cantinflas-maria-felix.html
Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/movies/new-movies-this-week-critics.html
The film follows a National Ballet of Canada production of “Swan Lake” as dancers and others deal with long-simmering issues of racism and sexism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/movies/swan-song-swan-lake-national-ballet-of-canada.html
Reality TV staples like “Love Island” and “Bachelor in Paradise” often take place in luxury resorts to set the mood. But not all resorts love the attention.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/arts/television/love-island-usa.html
The director Shawn Levy narrates a sequence from his film starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/movies/100000009589114/deadpool-and-wolverine-scene.html
Thousands of people piled into Madison Square Garden on Thursday to hear Billy Joel’s catalog of hits in the final show of his long residency at the arena.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/arts/music/billy-joel-madison-square-garden.html
Colbert said the ex-president was “focused on the real issue gripping the country: desperately workshopping a new nickname for Kamala Harris.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/arts/television/stephen-colbert-donald-trump.html
The SAG-AFTRA union wants higher pay for the use of voices and images and protection from losing jobs to artificial intelligence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/business/hollywood-actors-strike-video-game-companies.html
In this Chinese police procedural, directed by Wei Shujun, solutions are murkier than they first appear.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/movies/only-the-river-flows-review.html
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/books/review/6-new-books-we-recommend-this-week.html
He believed that music could transcend national borders set by colonialism and restore ancient ties, even as it embraced the changes of a globalizing society.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/arts/music/toumani-diabate-dead.html
The new Hulu series, set at a prestigious Los Angeles dance studio, harks back to the vibes of an earlier age.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/arts/television/playground-hulu.html
When the athletes march in — or float in, as they will in Paris on Friday — you can enjoy the illusion that it’s a small world after all.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/arts/television/olympics-parade-nations-opening-ceremony.html
Few critics could deny that the highly anticipated super spectacle, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, has its charms — but most left wanting more.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/movies/deadpool-wolverine-movie-reviews.html
The artist’s new paintings at Gagosian show her working through the loss of her husband, the artist Brice Marden, in a hot palette, feathers and shells.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/arts/helen-marden-grief-paintings-gagosian.html
Based on the life of an Iranian German drug dealer and rapper, Fatih Akin’s interminable drama feels uncomfortably partial to its violent subject.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/movies/rhinegold-review.html
This raunchy comedy features Bette Midler, Susan Sarandon, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Megan Mullally on a bachelorette weekend.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/movies/the-fabulous-four-review.html
This documentary chronicles the reboot and reopening in Las Vegas of the acrobatic show “O,” which shutdown during the pandemic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/movies/cirque-du-soleil-without-a-net-review.html
A loose Netflix adaptation turns Boccaccio’s story cycle into a gleeful satire of class war in plague times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/arts/television/the-decameron-review-netflix.html
Klaus Florian Vogt, a Wagner specialist with an ethereal yet mighty sound, is returning to the Bayreuth Festival to sing in the “Ring.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/arts/music/klaus-florian-vogt-opera.html
Nearly lost, Mary Sully’s discovered drawings riff on Modernist geometries and Dakota Sioux beadwork and quilting. Our critic calls it “symphonically bicultural.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/arts/design/mary-sully-metropolitan-museum-native-dakota.html
A vibrant coming-of-age story about an awkward teenager in California in 2008 is also a love letter to the director’s mother.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/movies/didi-review-13-going-on-nerdy.html
Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure is full of solutions that slide and stump. Play follow the leader in Flock, and take on bulbous hordes in Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/arts/arranger-flock-kunitsu-gami-review.html
“I guarantee he will attract suburban women, and I already have his slogan: ‘Yes, We Glen!’” Colbert said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/arts/television/stephen-colbert-glen-powell-kamala-harris.html
The actor Ryan Spahn makes his Off Broadway playwriting debut with an immersive, psychologically shallow dark comedy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/theater/inspired-by-true-events-review.html
The rising pop star now has five songs on the Hot 100. The venues her team picked out months ago are struggling to fit her ballooning audience.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/arts/music/chappell-roan-festivals-live-shows.html
Opening-weekend estimates have been a Hollywood fixture since the 1980s. But surveys of moviegoers can fail to capture those who infrequently visit the theater.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/box-office-projections-tracking.html
For special presentations of that blockbuster and others, companies like CJ 4DPlex have turned splashing and shaking moviegoers into a lucrative art.
John Eliot Gardiner is stepping down from three renowned period groups he founded, after he was accused of hitting a singer last year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/arts/music/john-eliot-gardiner-out.html
The ninth annual fan event will include discussions on topics such as sobriety, self-care and body image. Here are six to look out for.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/theater/broadwaycon-mental-health-panels.html
The actress dialed up the zaniness in the TV reboot of a Terry Gilliam fantasy classic, created by the team behind “What We Do in the Shadows.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/arts/television/lisa-kudrow-time-bandits.html
The museum said it attracted more local visitors during the past year than it did before the pandemic, but only half the international visitors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/arts/design/met-museum-attendance.html
When listeners were given the power to program an orchestral concert, the results were surprising.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/arts/music/festival-orchestra-of-lincoln-center.html
Organizers avoided disruption by agreeing to give performers on temporary contracts a greater cut of broadcast royalties.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/arts/dance/olympic-dancers-strike-opening-ceremony.html
Steve Porcaro of Toto, who played on some of the biggest hits of the ’80s, has sold the rights to his music, including a pair of unreleased tracks with the superstar.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/arts/music/steve-porcaro-toto-michael-jackson.html
“The Linguini Incident,” a low-budget ’90s film directed by Richard Shepard and featuring Bowie and Rosanna Arquette, makes its way to Blu-ray in a director’s cut.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/movies/david-bowie-movie-linguini-incident.html
Inspired by the pageantry and competition in Paris this summer? Try some of the many games that will let you taste pixelated glory.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/arts/video-games-olympics.html
“Charlie Hustle & the Matter of Pete Rose” examines the contradictions of one of the best (and most complicated) players in baseball history.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/arts/pete-rose-gambling-documentary.html
The author of humorous short stories finds emotional connections in tales that engage with tech. But he’s more interested in the ties between humans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/arts/television/simon-rich-saturday-night-live-glory-days.html
When one quick call can eliminate danger and undermine screams, filmmakers have to figure out a workaround. Sometimes it can even deepen a story.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/movies/horror-movies-cellphones.html
The group worked for decades to build the profile of the genre and its writers. Now romance fiction is booming — but the R.W.A. has filed for bankruptcy. What happened?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/books/booksupdate/romance-writers-of-america.html
Colorful primers, inspirational biographies and books by former champions will get kids excited for the Paris Games — and teach valuable lessons along the way.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/books/olympics-sports-childrens-books.html
The Harris campaign’s embrace of the Gen Z term puzzled cable news analysts of a certain age, but Stephen Colbert was glad to clear things up.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/arts/television/late-night-kamala-brat.html