Arts & Life

“I can honestly say that I’m the best printer in the world,” he told Calvin Tomkins of The New Yorker in 1990. “It’s my gift.” Mr. Tomkins noted that Mr. Benson had made his boast sound self-deprecating. Continue reading the main story In 1981, Mr. Benson was asked to reproduce …

One contestant, Sky Nathan Frank, 17, who attends the San Diego School of Creative & Performing Arts, said that meeting Mr. Platt was one of the highlights of his week. “Being around actors like him in New York, I can feel the energy in the streets,” Mr. Frank said. Continue …

Photo Angela C. Agrusa, a lawyer for Bill Cosby, speaking to reporters in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Credit Reed Saxon/Associated Press The confusion over Bill Cosby’s planned series of summer town hall meetings continued on Tuesday as one of his lawyers suggested they may not happen at all. Last week, …

“I always felt that this was the grail,” Robert Weil, Liveright’s editor-in-chief, said. “That just getting Nelson Mandela’s actual words to reflect his courage, his wisdom and the unspeakable horrors he went through would be something of extreme historical importance.” Continue reading the main story The letters, many never seen …

Photo The host of Explode! Queer Dance on Saturday night was the South Asian drag queen LaWhore Vagistan. Credit Paula Lobo for The New York Times As audience members took their seats for the final performance of Explode! Queer Dance on Saturday night, the choreographer, performer and dance scholar Thomas …

Until now, only four restituted works have been publicly viewed. The remaining works, from Mr. Gurlitt’s Munich apartment and summer home in Salzburg, Austria, have been displayed only in photographs or through a lost art database. Photo Rein Wolfs, director of the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, Germany. Credit Albrecht Fuchs for …

Photo The first Art & Newport festival will include seven George Condo paintings in a show that he is calling “The Newport Sexx Festival.” Newport, R.I., has long been famous for its music festivals. But public art there has been less abundant. Dodie Kazanjian, a native of that city who …

There’s more to watch than ever before and more streaming services on which to watch it. Here at Watching, a film and TV recommendation website from The New York Times, we direct you toward what’s new and what’s good. Every month, as various licenses expire, streaming services lose movies and …

Photo Sarah Jessica Parker Credit Ryan Pfluger for The New York Times If you are curious about Sarah Jessica Parker’s literary diet, you might look more closely at her onscreen surroundings for clues. The actress tends to hide the books she’s reading on set: in the bag her character is …

Photo Stephen Colbert returned to the air after spending much of last week in Russia. Credit CBS Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. What do you think of it? What else are you interested in? …