Arts & Life

Migos’s punchy and effective set here proved it with a quick tour of hits and not quite hits that maintained some of the night’s highest energy. When the trio rapped and sing-rapped live to Auto-Tune, it was unerringly beautiful. Stop trying their craft. Photo Desiigner, delivering to his fans. Credit …

Photo Jonny Lee Miller, left, and Ewan McGregor in “T2 Trainspotting.” Credit Jaap Buitendijk/TriStar Pictures,Sony Pictures Releasing Danny Boyle revisits his gleeful Scottish reprobates in middle age in “T2 Trainspotting.” Three French siblings sift through their inheritance in Olivier Assayas’s “Summer Hours.” And “30 for 30” dissects the rivalry between …

The enduring fascination with the case is, of course, fueled by ’90s nostalgia and the feverish draw, much accelerated since 1994, of watching a celebrity behave badly. But “T.” continues a longstanding conversation about Ms. Harding as a misunderstood, class-cornered dark horse to Ms. Kerrigan’s endorsement-deal princess. Continue reading the …

Photo Ashley D. Kelley stars in “Bella: An American Tall Tale,” at Playwrights Horizons. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Tall tales are, by definition, unruly. But Kirsten Childs’s “Bella: An American Tall Tale,” a musical about the eventful travels of a wide-eyed beauty in the 1870s, sprawls in so …

Photo Dianne Reeves has been named one of the National Endowment for the Arts’s class of 2018 Jazz Masters. Credit Andrew Councill for The New York Times The National Endowment for the Arts on Monday announced its class of 2018 Jazz Masters, awarding the annual fellowship to a broad range …

“One thing about Shakespeare’s plays that makes them so alive is that they are extremely labile,” said Stephen Greenblatt, a Shakespeare scholar. “They go in a lot of different directions, and ‘Julius Caesar’ is a strong, extreme case of this.” Photo Arthur Anderson as Lucius, left, and Orson Welles as …

It also lacks a tradition of private giving to state-owned cultural institutions. And so, starved of full-throated government support, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Sydney have fallen increasingly behind their rivals in Australia and around the world. Continue reading the main story The proponents of Sydney Modern …

Photo Jasper Johns’s “Three Flags” (1958) will be on loan to the Broad in Los Angeles from the Whitney Museum of American Art. Credit Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY LOS ANGELES — When the Broad opened here in 2015, it was hard to predict what the museum would …

They were selected at hearings far from the site of the trial, the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., because of concerns about the impact of pretrial publicity — though many of the potential jurors said they too had heard about the case. Continue reading the main story “If they …

Photo Vladimir Putin, left, and Oliver Stone. Credit Komandir, via Showtime In the second hour of “The Putin Interviews,” the filmmaker Oliver Stone invites Vladimir V. Putin on a movie date. Mr. Stone asks the Russian president if he’s ever seen “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying …