However, most Russians — and certainly those at the screening in Moscow on Tuesday — take little or no offense at a bit of nudity in a period costume drama. Photo Michalina Olszanska in the role of Matilda Kshesinskaya, the ballerina who had an affair with Czar Nicholas II. She …

Ahmed Jadallah | Reuters Kurdish Peshmerga military vehicles are seen during a battle with Islamic State militants at Jarbuah village near Bashiqa near Mosul, Iraq October 28, 2016. Kurdish authorities said the Iraqi army is shelling Kurd forces with artillery, Reuters reported on Thursday. The Kurdistan Region Security Council said …

The Peter Blum Gallery has moved to a space on the Lower East Side that is so much like its previous one, on 57th Street, that it seems simply to have slightly expanded its space in all directions. The architectural resemblance can make you laugh, but “Stars Without Distance,” John …

This is all very effective, which is saying a lot. The nostrums of 12-step recovery, even with Emma resisting them bitterly, are not inherently dramatic. Montages of “I’m an addict” sharing sessions, peppered with role play and tearful confession by a strong ensemble of actors, are nothing we haven’t seen …

As a generation turned, house D.J.s turned remixes of Sade ballads into club classics, and a raft of hip-hop artists repeatedly sampled her. So when the owners of East River Tattoo fired back on Instagram, posting a screen shot of the Yelp review beside a caption that said, “Proud to …

But it is only in the last year that her works have made their way to the city that inspired them. With help from the Detroit Historical Society and the Knight Foundation, the theater’s roving production of “Detroit ’67” has traveled to museums, high schools and community centers in the …

For decades, Mr. Landesman, 67, had been a pillar of the international art scene, a man-about-town known from the galleries of Manhattan to the Art Basel fair in Switzerland for his primary-colored suits and deep connections in the industry. The brother of the renowned Broadway producer Rocco Landesman, who once …

On this week’s podcast, the actress Cleopatra Coleman reads “My Body Doesn’t Belong to You,” an essay about a woman who feels increasingly dispossessed of her physical self. Photo Credit Brian Rea Heather Burtman’s essay was published this year in Modern Love and received an outpouring of responses from readers …

Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Wilbur Ross, U.S. secretary of commerce, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Monday, May 1, 2017. Disagreements over controversial pieces of the Republican tax proposal threaten to trip up the party’s efforts to approve a …

Photo Fats Domino sang songs about heartbreak and betrayal with such sly humor, they sounded like a good time. Credit Clive Limpkin/Daily Express, via Hulton Archive, via Getty Images It was boogie-woogie. It was R&B. Then it was rock ’n’ roll. Then it was pop. And it was all Fats …