Photo Otto Dix’s “Leonie” (1923), from the collection of Cornelius Gurlitt. Credit Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH Almost four years after a startling revelation that shook the art world, artworks that had been confiscated by the Nazis from German museums and eventually discovered stashed away by Cornelius Gurlitt, the …

The canal linked the Hudson River to Lake Erie, making trade faster and cheaper and propelling New York’s economic might. To celebrate the bicentennial, the small, artistically vibrant Albany Symphony commissioned new works inspired by each stop on its tour. It paired them with excerpts from a more famous aquatic …

Photo Andy Samberg in “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.” Credit Glen Wilson/Universal Studios Andy Samberg goes for guffaws by spoofing a narcissistic pop star and a doped-up cyclist in an HBO double bill. And “The Salesman,” the Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar winner for best foreign-language film, arrives on Amazon. …

Mr. Henry was long associated with the avant-garde choreographer Maurice Béjart, with whom he collaborated on more than a dozen ballets, including “Arcane” (1955), “High Voltage” (1956), “The Voyage” (1962) and “Nijinsky, Clown of God” (1971). Continue reading the main story Mr. Henry began incorporating electronics into his work in …

The book became a publishing phenomenon and a workplace manual that preached how flexibility in the face of changing times will reward people. Those who are wedded to the past and lag behind, like the intransigent Hem, will not survive. “Spencer built a fable that helps people deal with change …

In 1967, when Mr. Siqueiros was at work on the largest mural in the world, “The March of Humanity,” Mr. Cuevas responded with “Ephemeral Mural No. 1,” a triptych on a billboard in Mexico City, a third of it a drawing of Mr. Cuevas himself signing one of his own …

I’m not here to defend CBS’s decisions. Indeed, there isn’t enough information out there to be sure of who decided what, and on what basis. But I think that the current criticism of CBS is a little beside the point. The battle over “Hawaii Five-0” was lost a long time …

At the Met, however, Ballet Theater can still — sometimes — draw thousands of viewers. Full-evening narratives, virtuoso display, character acting: An audience knows where it is with these ballets. Photo James Whiteside and Misty Copeland in “AfterEffect,” part of American Ballet Theater’s Tchaikovsky-inspired program at the Metropolitan Opera. Credit …

This is clear from the beginning of this docu-series, which opens with the 2014 sale of Beats, a headphone and music streaming company founded by Dr. Dre and Mr. Iovine, to Apple, but told through a misstep — a notorious Facebook video. In the video, Dr. Dre, partying with the …

Angela Merendino | AFP | Getty Images Anthony Levandowski, Otto Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Uber. The question now before the courts is whether Levandowski’s documents, including Alphabet trade secrets, were used to develop Uber’s self-driving cars. Levandowski was paid generously at Google, by a division that is now …