Zhang Peng | LightRocket | Getty Images Wanda Plaza in Yantai, Shandong Province, China. Foreign acquisitions made by property developer Dalian Wanda include cinema chain AMC and Legendary Entertainment. The think tank falls under the purview of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), a government agency that heads up …

Photo ArtCenter/South Florida has an ambitious plan for expansion after the sale of a building earned millions toward its endowment. Credit Barbara P. Fernandez for The New York Times Call it an art world Cinderella moment. ArtCenter/South Florida, a scrappy nonprofit in Miami Beach, has long been overshadowed by the …

Photo Scott Vestal, center, is this year’s recipient of the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass. Credit Shelly Swanger Scott Vestal received the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass on Saturday night in a surprise ceremony at the 45th annual RockyGrass Festival in Lyons, …

He sang beautifully and also nonchalantly — as shows of this size go, the performance was astonishingly quiet. He stuck largely to his recent albums, in arrangements that at times felt gestural. “Solo,” which began the set, was firm and urgent, and “Nikes,” which ended it, was seductively sleepy-eyed. In …

I have this really spiritual poet friend who told me that all writing has to be contrition. It’s totally worthless if it doesn’t prepare you to embrace and love the world again. That’s really intense, but I think it was true for me. Those letters were really contrition. Photo Credit …

And where, I’d ask the president, do the nonsymphonic genres of Western music fit in? Thelonious Monk or Stephen Sondheim? Or that 20th-century masterpiece, Frank Loesser’s “Guys and Dolls”? Photo A concert at the Elbphilharmonie concert hall during the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany on July 7. Credit …

Mr. Grotjahn is represented by four dealers — including the heavyweight Larry Gagosian — without the promise of exclusivity they would obviously prefer. He has direct relationships with his collectors and even occasionally sells to them right out of his studio, bypassing his dealers. And his tight control over both …

Matt Nager | Bloomberg | Getty Images Southwest Airlines employee prepares to load bags onto a plane at Love Field Airport in Dallas, Texas. In 2017, the service has already shipped around 200,000 bags and counting, Ewart said. And he can see the company hitting 1 million bags within the …

U.S. Department of Defense | Missile Defense Agency | Reuters A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor is launched during a successful intercept test, in this undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, Missile Defense Agency. The U.S. has conducted a test of its Terminal High …

Felix Kästle | AFP | Getty Images Police stand in front of the disco Club Grey in the southern German town of Konstanz, where a gunman opened fire, killing one and wounding four people before being shot by police, on July 30, 2017. A 34-year-old man opened fire in a …