Arts & Life

But within his nondescript exterior lurks the heart of a maverick, alert to the evils of a surveillance state where even thinking subversively is a crime. The book painstakingly establishes the grim, color-stripped reality of Winston’s everyday world (which isn’t all that different from the bombed-out, rations-ruled postwar London that …

Photo Paula Vogel’s “Indecent,” at the Cort Theater on Broadway. On Thursday, producers announced that the play, which was set to close on June 25 because of poor ticket sales, would stay open through Aug. 6. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times “Indecent” is not closing on Broadway after all. …

Attuned to the emerging alternative galleries and performance spaces in downtown Manhattan, the journal, published out of Ms. DeAk’s SoHo loft, turned the spotlight on art at the margins: performance art, video art, conceptual art and outsider art. She had a special affection for street art, which she once called …

Far more people came to Expo 67 than expected, at a time when Canada’s entire population was just 20 million, and the islands were more than just a fairground. They were a cosmopolitan pleasure garden, a place to see and be seen. The swankiest Expo denizens were the 1,800 or …

Slide Show Slide Show|25 Photos Parks for Everyone Parks for Everyone CreditNina Westervelt for The New York Times Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts held its opening night gala on June 17 at its home in Katonah, N.Y. The Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, N.Y., held a …

Photo The NPR quiz show host Ophira Eisenberg will share stories about scar tissue, however defined, in a night of narratives at Union Hall; see listing below. Credit Nickolai Hammar Our guide to stand-up, improv and variety shows. DEL CLOSE MARATHON (June 23-25). Now in its 19th year, this weekend …

Bis der Vorhang aufging, hatten Nörgler bezweifelt, ob dieser hoch geschätzte, aber schwer kalkulierbare und zu Absagen neigende Künstler tatsächlich der Rolle gewachsen sein würde. Erst im März sagte er seinen Auftritt für die mit Spannung erwartete neue “Tosca” an der Metropolitan Opera für die nächste Saison ab, weil er …

Photo Ron Howard, who will be directing the Han Solo film, a stand-alone entry in the “Star Wars” franchise. The movie is still slated for May 2018. Credit Willy Sanjuan/Invision, via Associated Press Ron Howard is stepping in to direct the coming stand-alone Han Solo film, two days after Philip …

Photo Nicole Kidman in “The Beguiled,” Sofia Coppola’s new film. Credit Ben Rothstein/Focus Features “The Beguiled,” Sofia Coppola’s new film, looks like a historical drama — it’s set in Virginia during the Civil War — but it often behaves more like a fairy tale. In the first scenes, a young …

Photo The cellist Ashley Bathgate. Credit Caitlin Ochs for The New York Times Echo chambers in which the same voices are multiplied over and over have gotten a bit of a bad rap in recent times. But when a musician engages in conversation with splintered figments of her sonic self, …