Arts & Life

Photo Ella Edward and James Rolleston in “The Rehearsal,” directed by Alison Maclean. Credit Mongrel International The talented director Alison Maclean has not made a fictional feature film since her superb 1999 adaptation of Denis Johnson’s “Jesus’ Son.” (She hasn’t been idle all this time, though; she’s worked extensively on …

Photo Jarkko Lahti and Oona Airola in “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki.” Credit Sami Kuokkanen/Mubi Sports, drugs, religion and romance: In this goody bag, two popular Nordic exports collide with finely acted love stories starring Alan Rickman and Melanie Lynskey. What’s Streaming THE HAPPIEST DAY IN …

Photo A scene from “City of Ghosts,” a documentary by Matthew Heineman. Credit Amazon Studios/A&E Indie Films, IFC Films In 796, the caliph Harun al-Rashid moved the seat of the Muslim Empire to the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, on the banks of the Euphrates. There, Harun — the inspiration …

Photo Raul Roulien, center, in “It’s Great to Be Alive.” Credit Museum of Modern Art “It’s Great to Be Alive” may not be the nuttiest Hollywood musical of 1933 — a year that brought the Marx Brothers’ “Duck Soup” — but it’s surely the only one to end with a …

Ms. Fineman had little sense of how her recipe might work, but in April she lifted the lid to find the makings of this marvelous exhibition nearly done: some 1,822 images, including 183 videos. Two conversations are displayed as photographic prints on the gallery’s walls; four are slide (and video) …

Photo Participants navigating “A-maze-ing Math” at last year’s Math Metropolis, an event meant to immerse children in the world of arithmetic — even though it’s summer. See listing below. Credit National Museum of Mathematics Our guide to cultural events in New York City for families with children and teenagers. ‘EVERYTHING …

Photo Bill Cosby arriving last month at his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Credit Tom Mihalek/Reuters The judge in the sexual assault case of Bill Cosby said in a court order on Thursday that he was scheduling the retrial for Nov. 6 in Pennsylvania. …

Photo From left, Hampton Yount, Jonah Ray and Baron Vaughn, stars of the reboot of “Mystery Science Theater 3000.” Mr. Yount and Mr. Ray will participate in a live version of the show at PlayStation Theater on Saturday; see listing below. Credit Christopher Gregory for The New York Times Our …

Mr. Meyenberg’s video installation seems mostly cool and banal on the surface, but the surreal terror of falling on the wrong side of a war machine — or becoming one of its cogs — makes this work feel like a memorial, as well as a portentous warning. Continue reading the …

Photo George Barker’s “Silver Springs, Florida,” circa 1886. Credit National Gallery of Art, Washington WASHINGTON — In 1842, America was still young, incomplete and sadly lacking in monuments that might declare it singular. A photograph of Niagara Falls was the only American image included that year in a French picture …