Arts & Life

Photo A still from Seth Price’s 2003 video “Holes,” part of “Picture Industry.” Credit Seth Price/Petzel Gallery, New York Two exhibitions opening on Saturday, June 24, at the conjoined Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., promise unfamiliar artists and revisionist viewpoints. The larger …

Photo Oscar Isaac will appear in Sam Gold’s “Hamlet.” Credit Christopher Smith/Invision, via Associated Press The director Sam Gold has made his name with contemporary plays, and of the two shows he brought to Broadway this spring, only the new one — Lucas Hnath’s “A Doll’s House, Part 2” — …

Photo How do children use the word “Trump”? It attracts all types of prefixes and suffixes and even can become a verb. Credit Brendan Fitterer/Tampa Bay Times, via Associated Press LONDON — It’s the greatest word. The best. After analyzing 131,798 short stories written by children taking part in a …

Photo A scene from “Legends of Chamberlain Heights.” Credit Comedy Central Admirers of Comedy Central’s ribald “Legends of Chamberlain Heights” might have watched the 10th episode in December and assumed it was the last. The animated series is about three high school freshmen who aspire to basketball glory, and the …

Photo The composer Gemma Peacocke. Credit Susanna Hancock During her travels in Afghanistan, the journalist and poet Eliza Griswold collected dozens of landays, a form of poetry recited by women at village feasts and in refugee camps, as well as on clandestine poetry phone-ins. The composer Gemma Peacocke has taken …

Photo The translator Jessica Cohen with the Israeli author David Grossman. His book, a novel that centers on a stand-up routine, has won the Man Booker International Prize, for work written in a language other than English. Credit Daniel Leal-Olivas/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images LONDON — “A Horse Walks Into …

On this week’s podcast, the actor Griffin Dunne reads “Before the Web, Hearts Grew Silent.” In it, the author David Vecsey writes about love in the time of no cellphones or social media. Photo Credit Brian Rea Mr. Vecsey is a staff editor at The New York Times. Follow him …

Mr. Bowman started to look for, and study, Rodin works wherever he could find them, and spent time at the Rodin Museum in Paris learning about its collection and the casting process. Photo The Bowman show includes eight rarely seen drawings, as well as works in bronze and terra cotta. …

And it was rumored that she had an affair with Mick Jagger, the group’s lead singer, when she appeared with him in the 1970 film “Performance.” She always denied that and attributed the intensity of their onscreen chemistry to “method acting.” Continue reading the main story Her relationship with Mr. …

Photo Erin Kommer and Jonah Broscow in the musical “The Man in the Ceiling,” by Jules Feiffer and Andrew Lippa. Credit Barry Gordin SAG HARBOR, N.Y. — Lots of family-friendly musicals don’t aim very high; they rely on lightweight songs and simple storytelling that any kid could grasp. “The Man …