Since its founding 16 years ago, Ensemble for the Romantic Century has aimed for salon-scale variations on the Wagnerian ideal of Gesamtkunstwerk, in which all the arts are melded into a cohesive unity. The show combines live musical performance with elaborate visual displays and actors reciting from firsthand historical accounts. …

Bitcoin is getting closer to looking like a traditional financial product. Japanese financial information firm Fisco announced Monday it is experimenting with the country’s first bitcoin-backed bond. The news follows other announcements in the last several weeks for bitcoin options, futures and an exchange-traded fund tracking bitcoin derivatives in the …

Pradeep Gaur | Getty Images A Gap store’s work in progress as it’s going to open soon in Select Citywalk on May 27, 2015 in New Delhi, India. Clothing retailer Gap reported better-than-expected same-store sales for the second quarter, helped by strong demand for Old Navy products, fewer discounts, and …

Photo From “Game of Thrones” to the prison yard: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in “Shot Caller.” Credit Scott Garfield/Saban Films “Shot Caller” is the third feature from Ric Roman Waugh (“Snitch,” “Felon”) to illustrate the notion that prisons make criminals instead of reforming them. Once a man is institutionalized, a character in …

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Neel Kashkari, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said on Thursday that the Federal Reserve will take into consideration the state of government efforts to raise the federal debt limit in deciding …

Photo Jon Hamm and Lois Smith in Michael Almereyda’s film adaptation of the acclaimed play “Marjorie Prime.” Credit FilmRise Most fictions about artificial intelligence are not, of course, about artificial intelligence. They use the topic as a metaphor, a scale on which to weigh and measure the assets and liabilities …

Getty Images Tourists walk past a bronze statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis (2ndL) that stands inside of Statuary Hall at the US Capitol August 17, 2017 in Washington, DC. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is calling for the removal of Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol as the contentious …

For a family, the quarters were cramped: 900 square feet, with a closet-size kitchen and a bathroom down the hall. For an artist, which Ms. Sherman considered herself to be, Studio 1208, was near-ideal. Light It was flooded with light from skylights and floor-to-ceiling windows facing north toward Central Park. …

The problem for Three Mile Island is the same one facing many of the nation’s 60 nuclear plants: They are too expensive to operate. Financial pressure on these facilities is mounting as power demand remains stagnant due to improved energy efficiency, prices remain low for natural gas-fired generation and costs …

Josep Lago | AFP | Getty Images Armed policemen stand in a cordoned off area after a van ploughed into the crowd, injuring several persons on the Rambla in Barcelona on August 17, 2017. Authorities urged people to avoid the area around Placa Catalunya. Emergency services asked people in the …