Arts & Life

At Magnum he offered assignments to the great war photographer and photo essayist W. Eugene Smith after Mr. Smith had had a falling-out with Life. While working for The Times during the Vietnam War, he successfully argued for front-page display of Eddie Adams’s photograph of a Saigon police chief shooting …

Photo Stephen Colbert, pictured during a taping of CBS’s “The Late Show.” He will be overseeing an animated series in the fall that will take on President Trump. Credit Chad Batka for The New York Times Stephen Colbert, not content with mocking President Trump only after dark, will now expand …

Pop acts have long invested lavishly in visuals and theatrics for live performances. The challenge to classical presenters is to find ways to widen the sensory experience of a concert without losing depth or quality of sound — a concern that takes on novel forms when cellists or clarinetists are …

PRIESTS at Brooklyn Bazaar (July 29, 9 p.m.). Priests, a punk band based in Washington, D.C., has attracted a devoted national audience over the last five years with a series of sharply provocative singles and EPs (and wildly fun concerts). “Nothing Feels Natural,” Priests’ recent full-length debut, expands the musical …

Photo Leon Botstein will conduct the American Symphony Orchestra in performances of the Dvorak opera “Dimitrij” at Bard College; see listing below. Credit Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera. ‘DIMITRIJ’ at Bard College (July 28, 7:30 p.m.; July 30 …

Photo The comedian Dave Chappelle will begin a three-week residency at Radio City Music Hall on Tuesday. Credit Rebecca Smeyne for The New York Times Our guide to stand-up, improv and variety shows. DAVE CHAPPELLE AND THE ROOTS at Radio City Music Hall (Aug. 1-4, 8 p.m.). For years withdrawn …

Photo Seth Meyers took cracks at Anthony Scaramucci for his profanity-laced interview with The New Yorker — and his views on health care. Credit NBC Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. What do you think …

Photo Chris O’Dowd and Jessica Williams in “The Incredible Jessica James.” Credit Netflix Jessica Williams of “The Daily Show” fame brings her alter ego — the one she insists she is not — to Netflix. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Last Tycoon,” starring Matt Bomer, arrives on Amazon. And Victoria …

Sure, the dialogue tends toward the “our whole lives have been screwed up” school of rhetoric, as one might expect from an enterprise that walks a commendable knife edge between utter seriousness and a knowing wink at the histrionics of it all. But the tale of Strat’s unbridled love for …

Photo Thomas P. Campbell in 2014 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which he left last month. He is now the the second recipient of the Getty Rothschild Fellowship. Credit Karsten Moran for The New York Times Thomas P. Campbell, who last month ended his tumultuous tenure as chief executive …