Photo Harry Dean Stanton in Alex Cox’s “Repo Man” (1984). Credit Universal Pictures/Photofest, via Quad Cinema With “Lucky,” opening Friday, Sept. 29, Harry Dean Stanton, who died this month, landed the role of a lifetime as a 90-year-old, desert-town atheist seeking spiritual enlightenment as he confronts the void beyond. (This …

Getty Images C.J. Wilson #98, T.J. Lang #70 and Ryan Pickett #79 of the Green Bay Packers dump Gatorade on head coach Mike McCarthy after they defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 31 to 25 in Super Bowl XLV at Cowboys Stadium on February 6, 2011 in Arlington, Texas. Just because drought-ravaged …

Kevork Djansezian | Bloomberg | Getty Images John Williams, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco U.S. central banker John Williams said on Friday he does not expect market turbulence as the Fed gets under way with reducing its huge balance sheet. “I don’t anticipate any sudden or large effects on …

Alessia Pierdomenico | Bloomberg | Getty Images A poster advertises “Up To 50% discount” in Rome, Italy Euro zone private businesses ended the third quarter with much stronger growth than predicted, bolstered by manufacturers, who had their best month since early 2011, a survey showed on Friday. That growth, alongside …

The centerpiece of the week was a new art fair at Station Berlin, a postindustrial exhibition venue. Art Berlin, featured 112 galleries, almost 80 percent of which were based in Germany. The event, owned and co-organized by the owners of the Art Cologne, replaced the gallery-run Art Berlin Contemporary (ABC), …

Sean Gallup | Getty Images Cars drive past election campaign posters hanging from lampposts on August 22, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. German and broader European equities have enjoyed a stellar start to the year but during a bumpy summer stocks retraced many of those gains. Recent weeks have seen their …

Photo Lady Gaga in “Gaga: Five Foot Two.” Credit Netflix Lady Gaga sheds the glamour but retains her chart-topping talent in a new documentary. And the final season of the Canadian cop drama “19-2” arrives on Acorn TV. What’s Streaming GAGA: FIVE FOOT TWO (2017) on Netflix. The director Chris …

Michele Limina | Bloomberg | Getty Images Axel Weber, chairman of UBS Group “In terms of where China’s going now, the economic situation is clearly improving since the second half of last year and we see that in our business,” Weber said. The Swiss bank said earlier this month that …

KCNA | Reuters People participate in a Pyongyang city mass rally held at Kim Il Sung Square on August 9, 2017, to fully support the statement of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) government. The news indicates South Korean President Moon Jae-In isn’t backing down from direct engagement with …

Photo Sun Yuan and Peng Yu’s “Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other,” a seven-minute video with eight American pit bulls on eight treadmills. Credit Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Beijing, Les Moulins, Habana Two weeks before a much-anticipated exhibition featuring Chinese conceptual artists opens at the Guggenheim, the museum is facing …