Arts & Life

Photo A scene from Season 7 of “The Walking Dead.” Credit Gene Page/AMC John Bernecker, a stuntman for AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” died on Wednesday night after being injured on set in Georgia, according to a local county coroner. Mr. Bernecker suffered a fall and was taken to the Atlanta …

Photo From left, Shailene Woodley, Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman in “Big Little Lies.” Credit Hilary Bronwyn Gayle/HBO Spend your weekend bingeing on the new Emmy nominee “Big Little Lies,” starring Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman in award-worthy performances. Or choose from a collection of films that explore love, sexuality …

But beneath its choppy crime-drama surface, “Ozark” explores deeper issues. It’s a middle-class nightmare amped to the extreme — in a blink everything you’ve worked for is gone, your stability shattered and the future full of peril. The show also suggests, in flashbacks depicting Marty’s descent into money laundering, that …

Raymond Chikapa Enock Phiri was born on March 23, 1947, in what was then called the Eastern Transvaal of South Africa, and grew up near Nelspruit, an agricultural area in what is now the province of Mpumalanga. His stepfather, who was from Malawi, played guitar but gave it up after …

But there wasn’t much time to linger over Ms. Barrett’s startling spatialized recording. Presenters and participants at Empac’s Spatial Audio Summer Workshop had a lot of ground to cover, and only five days to get hands-on experience with tools that are rarely available under one roof. Continue reading the main …

Photo The choreographer and dancer Saburo Teshigawara in his “Sleeping Water” at the Lincoln Center Festival. Credit Stephanie Berger A dance that seeks to represent the experience of sleeping — that sounds like a risky prospect, tempting viewers’ eyelids to droop in a darkened theater. But Saburo Teshigawara’s “Sleeping Water” …

New York’s most high-profile free summer theater program is Shakespeare in the Park, the Public Theater’s annual series at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. (It’s the one that recently found itself the target of protests over an onstage death of a Trumplike Julius Caesar.) But there are other local …

Mr. Cerruti’s collection, compiled over seven decades, contains about 300 paintings and sculptures, 200 rare books (including fine hand-bound editions) and 300 pieces of furniture and other decorative objects. He owned some outstanding paintings: Bacon’s 1957 canvas “Study for a Portrait IX” is a postwar highlight, while the 1918 portrait …

Photo Dave Thomas Brown in Matthew Lopez’s “The Legend of Georgia McBride.” Mr. Lopez’s ambitious new play, “The Inheritance,” will have its premiere next season at the Young Vic. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times A new play about gay life on the scale of “Angels in America”; a revival …

Uptown, the Met Breuer is hosting a broad exhibition of the art of Lygia Pape, Brazil’s most restless modernist; downtown, the Whitney is opening a retrospective of the psychedelic Brazilian Hélio Oiticica. Both artists appear in Galerie Lelong’s healthy introduction to Grupo Frente, the abstract art movement they participated in …