Arts & Life

The festival’s roman porno offerings — Akihiko Shiota’s “Wet Woman in the Wind” (July 4), Kazuya Shiraishi’s “Dawn of the Felines” (July 4) and Isao Yukisada’s “Aroused by Gymnopédies” (July 14) — follow the regulations. Each is about 80 minutes long, and loud, enthusiastic but relatively tame sex scenes crop …

The play casts Mr. Hall and Lindsay Crouse as doctors reflecting on a pharmaceutical trial in which its two research volunteers have fallen in love. The production, which runs through July 8, brought Mr. Hall to the seaside city of Gloucester, Mass., to work with his co-stars and the play’s …

Photo Naomie Harris in “Moonlight.” She has been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Credit A24 LOS ANGELES — As it races to leave behind its days as an exclusive club primarily for white men, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the …

Photo Karen Pittman in “Pipeline,” written by Dominique Morisseau. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Dominique Morisseau has one of the most penetrating voices to emerge from the last decade of American theater, combining poetic vernacular with a probing social conscience that brings to mind Arthur Miller and August Wilson. …

Photo The drummer Art Blakey, above, will get a tribute from Tony Allen. Credit G. Paul Burnett/Associated Press The fluid, multidirectional heft of Tony Allen’s drumming helped define the sound and gravitas of Fela Kuti’s Afrika 70 band, which pioneered the Afrobeat style in the 1960s and ’70s. Mr. Allen …

Through the characters he has played in nearly 50 years’ worth of Monty Python television shows and films — devious shopkeepers; an aspiring lumberjack; an adventurous knight who just wants a bit of peril — Mr. Palin, 74, has cultivated a reputation for being a sympathetic, likable guy. “Remember Me” …

Photo One of the Kurt Cobain paintings that will be displayed in Seattle; it was used for the cover of “Incesticide,” Nirvana’s 1992 collection of B-sides. LOS ANGELES — The visual arts division of United Talent Agency opened a project space in Los Angeles last year, prompting questions about whether …

Photo The Bottom Line, a nightclub in Greenwich Village, in September 2003. Paul Shaffer is to host a festival with performances from many of the musicians whose careers were shaped at the club. Credit Joe Kohen/Associated Press Paul Shaffer will host a two-night tribute to the Bottom Line, which closed …

Photo A scene from the play “Kafka on the Shore,” part of the Lincoln Center Festival in 2015. The festival’s director, Nigel Redden, announced on Wednesday that he would leave the position after this summer’s festival, his 20th. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times New York suddenly finds itself looking …

Photo Rachel Lindsay on “The Bachelorette,” with, from left, Alex, Adam, Peter and Kenny. Credit Thomas Lekdorf/ABC Another season of “The Bachelorette” is underway on ABC, and unlike Lee, The New York Times is still here for the right reasons. Our resident obsessives are following Rachel Lindsay’s love journey while …