Arts & Life

Photo Rooney Mara and Ryan Gosling in “Song to Song.” Credit Broad Green Pictures Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender and Ryan Gosling star in Terence Malick’s “Song to Song,” about a musician whose dreams of success lead her into the beds of two men. And Naomi Watts plays a therapist whose …

Seated nearby, Eilon Shomron-Atar, a psychoanalyst, was straining to filter out the distractions of some dozen pint-size listeners gurgling and spinning like jacks all around him. Continue reading the main story Bella, his 2-year-old, sat at his knee as Tehilah Eisenstadt, a childhood educator and activist, read to the group …

Photo Mia Weinberger and Richard Spitaletta in “Me the People,” which even has a “Hamilton”-like intro. Credit Stephen Schwartz Has Donald Trump been good for democracy? Maybe not. But his campaign and his few months in office have been a real gift to comedy — especially once writers stopped crying …

Photo A scene from “Mali Blues,” a documentary directed by Lutz Gregor that’s about Malian musicians. Credit Axel Schneppat/Icarus Films The takeover of northern Mali between 2012 and 2013 by radical Islamist forces got a powerful fictionalized treatment in the widely acclaimed 2014 film “Timbuktu,” directed by Abderrahmane Sissako. An …

Sheila Hicks For several years the curator Cecilia Alemani has led an ambitious public art program for the High Line, and this year she has given over its northern stretches to the pioneering fiber artist Sheila Hicks, an American in Paris. For “Hop, Skip, Jump, and Fly: Escape From Gravity,” …

And it is irreverent. Think men cast as Mary, the plain and prudish Bennet sister, and as the snobbish Miss Bingley. A lot of “intentional water spillage.” Mr. Bingley as near to being a puppy as a man can be without being on all fours. Photo Jason O’Connell and Kate …

Photo Ishmael Muslim Ali in “The Skyjacker’s Tale,” a documentary directed by Jamie Kastner. Credit Strand Releasing While it falls somewhere short of being a great documentary, “The Skyjacker’s Tale” may have one of the great documentary gets. It tells the story of Ishmael Muslim Ali, who in 1973, when …

In honor of wedding season, the Modern Love podcast is bringing back two readings about marriage. The first features Kathryn Hahn (“I Love Dick”) reading “The Wedding Toast I’ll Never Give,” by Ada Calhoun. In it, she talks about lessons learned — but seldom shared — from 11 years of …

“You know, the walls were like this and I said we cannot have that,” Mr. Knight said, waving dismissively at a shelving area. “Perforated orange wood!” Filled with enough plastic baubles, china, dioramas, feathers and fabric swatches to send the Etsy crowd into ecstasy, the bi-level exhibition complements “Eloise at …

Watching is The New York Times’s TV and film recommendation newsletter and website. You may have heard that “Game of Thrones” is returning to HBO on July 16. To prepare for Season 7, we’re reviewing and reassessing the first six seasons of the show, with the benefit of hindsight. Each …