Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new songs and videos — and anything else that strikes them as intriguing. This week, N.E.R.D. snaps back to life, Bruce Springsteen contributes a song to a film about veterans coping with PTSD, and …

FLESH AND BLOOD A former convict (Mark Webber, who wrote and directed) readjusts to life outside prison in a film that fuses documentary and fiction elements. For instance, Cheri Honkala, the Green Party’s 2012 vice-presidential candidate — and Mr. Webber’s mother — plays a vice-presidential candidate running with Jill Stein. …

Heinz-Peter Bader | Reuters Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih talks to journalists during a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna, November 30, 2016. Saudi oil minister Khalid al-Falih said on Saturday that more work was needed to bring global oil inventories down. “There …

Photo Sotheby’s on Friday reported better-than-expected numbers for its third quarter. Credit Ángel Franco/The New York Times Sotheby’s auction house announced Friday that its third-quarter losses were less than half of the losses that the company experienced during the same period last year, primarily because of a scheduling change and …

Photo Brad Paisley performed in Nashville earlier this year. Credit Laura Roberts/Invision, via Associated Press The country music industry just learned the same lesson the National Football League and others have: No matter how much some people may wish for it, there’s no escape from politics. The organizers of the …

Lintao Zhang | Getty Images Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People’s Bank of China, speaks during a press conference at the media center on March 10, 2017 in Beijing, China. China’s central bank boss spelled out his strategy to prevent a future financial crisis, urging broadened equity funding and direct …

Photo Allison Williams and Daniel Kaluuya in “Get Out.” Credit Justin Lubin/Universal Pictures Jordan Peele’s comic horror film airs on HBO. And the latest season of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” streams on Hulu. What’s on TV GET OUT (2017) 8 p.m. on HBO. Guess who’s coming to HBO? In …

Photo Kevin Spacey has played the lead character in the Netflix drama “House of Cards” since it debuted in 2013. Credit Nicholas Kamm/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The studio behind the hit television series “House of Cards” has suspended Kevin Spacey while it investigates what it called “serious allegations” concerning …

Artyom KorotayevTASS via Getty Images Dec 2016: Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to President Donald Trump during the election campaign, makes a presentation during his visit to Moscow. A foreign policy advisor to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign met Russian government officials last year, the New York Times reported …

Sometimes I think Yayoi Kusama might be the greatest artist to come out of the 1960s and one of the few, thanks in part to her long life, still making work that feels of the moment. Other times I think she’s a bit of a charlatan who produces more Kusama …