Arts & Life

Watchmen was serialized from 1986 to 1987 and became a perennial best seller as a collected edition. But the series soured his relationship with DC Comics, who retained control over the characters, and who in 2012 rolled out a companion series, Before Watchmen. Mr. Moore did not support of the …

“Racial history in this country is a very open, sensitive wound,” said Dodai Stewart, the editor in chief of Fusion, a social-justice culture and news site. “Nothing’s settled, nothing’s healed,” Ms. Stewart said. “I want to believe that this will be handled sensitively. But it’s an emotional subject, and for …

Photo Matt Singer, on guitar, and Liam Hurley of the Big Littles, who play acoustic pop on small instruments. They will perform at the Museum of American Folk Art’s Summer Saturday 2017, a celebration of all things folk. See listing below. Credit Melissa Creighton Our guide to cultural events in …

Photo Abigail Levine will recreate Sol LeWitt’s “Wall Drawing #56,” according to the artist’s painstaking written instructions, as a choreographic exercise at Fridman Gallery over five days. See listing below. Credit Adam Brown Our guide to dance performances. BALLET FESTIVAL at the Joyce Theater (through July 29). This festival of …

ROBERTA SMITH Photo Tala Madani’s small oil “A Banana Is Speaking.” Credit Tala Madani, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York ‘I PLAN TO STAY A BELIEVER’ Through Aug. 19. Andrew Kreps Gallery, 537 West 22nd Street, Manhattan; 212-741-8849; andrewkreps.com. This intense, and intensely timely, summer …

Photo The artist Richard Prince in 2014. His show at the Gagosian Gallery that year, “New Portraits,” has led to several lawsuits. Credit Gian Ehrenzeller/European Pressphoto Agency Richard Prince, who has pushed the legal limits of artistic appropriation for decades, will continue to fight for his art in court. This …

LOS ANGELES — The Getty Museum has made the biggest financial outlay for art in its history, buying 16 drawings and one painting by artists including Michelangelo, Parmigianino and Watteau from an unidentified British collector. Judging from sales records for several of these artworks during weaker art-market periods, the Getty’s …

Photo A screening of “La Cenerentola” at Lincoln Center last year. The Met will again set out some 3,000 chairs — for a screening of Ingmar Bergman’s film of “The Magic Flute,” followed by 10 nights of other performances. Credit Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times One of New …

Photo David Benioff, left, and D.B. Weiss accept the Emmy for outstanding writing for a drama series for HBO’s “Game of Thrones” in 2015. Their next project will be “Confederate,” on HBO. Credit Lucy Nicholson/Reuters The creators of “Game of Thrones” triggered an online uproar on Wednesday with the announcement …

Duke believes in the primacy of visual culture, and most right-wing figures, he says, don’t take enough care to make themselves look good. Newt Gingrich, he tells me, is “disheveled”; Steve Bannon is a “schlub”; Trump’s hair is “problematic.” At the same time, he thinks left-leaning media outlets — which …