Arts

An officer of the union representing American opera performers resigned on Monday, citing concerns that the union had kept details of its sexual harassment investigation of the opera star Plácido...

Deborah Dugan, the embattled president and chief executive of the Recording Academy, was fired by the group’s board on Monday following weeks of internal turmoil between the organization that runs...

James Lipton, who plumbed the dramatic arts through perceptive, mostly admiring interviews with celebrity actors as host of the Bravo television series “Inside the Actors Studio,” died on Monday at...

In 1739, a group of Africans enslaved in Stono, S.C., revolted and fled for freedom. Very few made it. The rebellion was crushed, and its clearest outcome was the terrified...

CINCINNATI — If you’re a fan of classical music, chances are you’ve fantasized about what you would do with a time machine. You could visit Paris in 1913, to see...

Ulay, the performance artist whose provocative collaborations with Marina Abramovic often led them to push each other to extremes, died on Monday at his home in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He was...

James Lipton, who plumbed the dramatic arts through perceptive, mostly admiring interviews with celebrity actors as host of the Bravo television series “Inside the Actors Studio,” died on Monday at...

The travel writer Paul Theroux once called Miami one of the most overrated places he’d been. “It’s a swamp on a beach,” he said, “and has terrible feng shui.” For...

For 24 seasons, “Judge” Judy Sheindlin has reigned as the stern, hallowed matriarch of what has become the most watched courtroom in daytime television. But this coming 25th season of...

Lynn Evans Mand, who was plucked from obscurity to become the lead singer of the Chordettes, performing with them during the height of their fame in the 1950s and ’60s...