Over the course of his career, Mr. Wurm has become known for sculptures that are to be interacted with, as performance works. His pieces, while ironic, are meant to convey a deeper metaphysical message. Continue reading the main story “To see the sculpture on the basis of humor is legitimate …

AP This photo taken on August 26, 2016 shows Philippine soldiers walking along a highway as they return to camp at the village of Bongkaong, Patikul town, Sulu province on the southern island of Mindanao. The Philippines military said it arrested one of the Maute brothers on Thursday, a senior …

Photo A still from Seth Price’s 2003 video “Holes,” part of “Picture Industry.” Credit Seth Price/Petzel Gallery, New York Two exhibitions opening on Saturday, June 24, at the conjoined Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., promise unfamiliar artists and revisionist viewpoints. The larger …

Photo Oscar Isaac will appear in Sam Gold’s “Hamlet.” Credit Christopher Smith/Invision, via Associated Press The director Sam Gold has made his name with contemporary plays, and of the two shows he brought to Broadway this spring, only the new one — Lucas Hnath’s “A Doll’s House, Part 2” — …

David Gray | Reuters A woman holds an umbrella as a cyclist rides nearby on a rainy day in the central business district (CBD) of Sydney, Australia, March 7, 2017. Australia added a whopping 42,000 jobs in May, flying past the 10,000 additions that analysts in a Reuters poll estimated, …

Photo How do children use the word “Trump”? It attracts all types of prefixes and suffixes and even can become a verb. Credit Brendan Fitterer/Tampa Bay Times, via Associated Press LONDON — It’s the greatest word. The best. After analyzing 131,798 short stories written by children taking part in a …

Getty Images Protesters march during a demonstration against the Dakota Access Pipeline on March 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. A federal judge has handed a lifeline to efforts to block the Dakota Access pipeline. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers didn’t adequately consider …

KARIM JAAFAR / AFP / Getty Images June 11, 2017: Cars in Doha with portraits of Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and text reading in Arabic: ‘Tamim the glorious.’ The diplomatic crisis surrounding Qatar and other Gulf countries has remained a peaceful one for now, but open warfare …

Photo A scene from “Legends of Chamberlain Heights.” Credit Comedy Central Admirers of Comedy Central’s ribald “Legends of Chamberlain Heights” might have watched the 10th episode in December and assumed it was the last. The animated series is about three high school freshmen who aspire to basketball glory, and the …

Photo The composer Gemma Peacocke. Credit Susanna Hancock During her travels in Afghanistan, the journalist and poet Eliza Griswold collected dozens of landays, a form of poetry recited by women at village feasts and in refugee camps, as well as on clandestine poetry phone-ins. The composer Gemma Peacocke has taken …