Photo The Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia LaFourcade is coming to Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors. Credit Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times America’s music has always benefited from a permeable Southern border, and free concerts in the coming week celebrate interchanges and connections across the Americas. A concert at Lincoln Center Out …

Photo Japanese actors from the 19th-century, done in woodblock by Utagawa Kunisada. Credit Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)/William Sturgis Bigelow Collection; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, lovers of Japanese woodblock art: Let’s get ready to rumble! In this corner, the prince of portraits, the …

Photo The founders of the Corkscrew Theater Festival: Thomas Kapusta, left, artistic director, and Alexander Donnelly, producer. Credit Jason Moody Photography With the New York International Fringe Festival, normally the biggest fish in the pond, on hiatus for 2017, a number of opportunists have leapt forward with new summertime options …

Photo Eartha Kitt, foreground, and James Dean in a Dunham dance class in the early 1950s. Credit Dennis Stock/Magnum Photos The choreographer, dancer and social activist Katherine Dunham made headlines in 1944, when, after reluctantly performing for a racially segregated audience in Louisville, Ky., she declared that if the theater …

Photo Shelley Duvall starred in Robert Altman’s “3 Women.” The movie is showing as part of Film Society of Lincoln Center’s exploration of 1977. Credit 20th Century Fox Summer is a ripe time for great repertory cinema in New York. BAMCinématek has a long, comprehensive retrospective of the director Jonathan …

Photo Members of So Percussion at Lincoln Center, from left: Adam Sliwinski, Josh Quillen, Eric Cha-Beach and Jason Treuting. Credit Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times It was an unusual sight at a concert by the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. On Wednesday, the front of the stage at David Geffen …

Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook displays his personal Apple Watch to customers at an Apple Store on April 10, 2015 in Palo Alto, California. You might be able to connect to the internet from the new Apple Watch even when your iPhone isn’t nearby. Bloomberg said on Friday that …

Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images A worker solders a component to a circuit board used in a liquid crystal display (LCD) screen for Boeing Co. aircraft at the Rockwell Collins Inc. production facility in Manchester, Iowa, U.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. Shares of Rockwell Collins jumped more …

Photo Win Butler and the rest of Arcade Fire rolled out the band’s fifth album, “Everything Now,” with a controversial marketing plan. Credit Fred Tanneau/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The Popcast is hosted by Jon Caramanica, a pop music critic for The New York Times. It covers the latest in …

Rich Pilling | Getty Images Alex Rodriguez was the first overall draft pick in 1993 and played for the Seattle Mariners from 1994 to 2000 While life as an athlete can be incredibly lucrative, as Rodriguez notes, it can also be short-lived. On average, an MLB player can expect their …