Arts & Life

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 …

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 …

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 …

But we had veered off course. We were at the Cedar Lake performance space in the Chelsea section of Manhattan to talk about Mr. Wilson’s Noah’s Ark installation for Van Cleef & Arpels. From Nov. 3 to 19, visitors will be treated to a display of the jeweler’s menagerie of …

Photo Joe Hagan’s “Sticky Fingers” traces the life and times of the Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner. Mr. Wenner does not like the book. Credit Suzanne Vlamis/Associated Press The Popcast is hosted by Jon Caramanica, a pop music critic for The New York Times. It covers the latest in pop …

Photo “It’s my sense that our office culture has been harmed,” Hamilton Fish wrote in offering his resignation. Credit Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images Hamilton Fish, the president and publisher of The New Republic, has resigned from the magazine after allegations of inappropriate conduct. The move came less than a week after …

Randy Nolen is a 66-year-old talent manager based in Indian Wells, Calif. He specializes in the meetings and conventions sector. His clients seek acts that can entertain, say, a thousand conference attendees who have nothing in common except that they work in the insurance industry. Long ago, Mr. Nolen realized …

With her husband, John Woodward, Ms. Woodward exhibited Mr. Hambleton’s art, found studios and lodging for him and cooked for him. A trained nurse, she also attended to many of his medical needs. “He was so charismatic and so manipulative, but once you were in his sphere you couldn’t shake …