A Supergroup That Held Together

When country legends joined forces, their careers saw the benefit.

From Many Styles, One Sound

Across its body of work, the Boston-based sextet Bent Knee taps into cabaret, ’70s piano-based folk, chamber pop, industrial rock, metal, prog rock and more.

Joel Shapiro Makes Forms Fly

A career overview of a master of Minimalist abstraction, with a focus on a new, site-specific work.

Noir From a Poet Of Love and Violence

Nicholas Ray’s ‘In a Lonely Place’ distills the essence of emotion in his story of murder, romance and creeping suspicions.

A Cello Brigadoon in Los Angeles

The Piatigorsky International Cello Festival collected a healthy clutch of great cellists and their acolytes, giving equal time to master classes and intimate recitals.

‘Weiner’ Review: Wild, Weird, Politically Incorrect and True

A documentary offers an intimate look at the colorfully checkered career of one of New York’s most notorious pols.

‘The Nice Guys’ Review: Mystery and Mismatched Sleuths

Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe team up to investigate a disappearance in floozy-filled 1970s Los Angeles.

‘Maggie’s Plan’ Review: Finding a Father

A New York woman develops a strategy to get pregnant in Rebecca Miller’s witty tale of modern life.

‘All the Way’ Review: The Pressures of the Highest Office

The story of LBJ’s presidency reveals a deeply idealistic man and the spirited wife who loved him.

‘Julian Fellowes Presents Doctor Thorne’ Review

Will this adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel fill the ‘Downton Abbey’-shaped hole in fans’ hearts?

Stirrings on the Fenway

A chance to see about 25 of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s best works like never before.

The Best Kind of Political Artist

David Hare, writer of ‘The Judas Kiss,’ creates villains who are fully rounded creatures of flesh and blood.

‘Lady Dynamite’ Review: The Entertainment Superhighway

Maria Bamford’s new Netflix comedy embodies everything that’s best about television’s shift toward the Web.

A Leviathan Talent at the Met

Titanic power and imminent danger provide a compelling backdrop to scenes of struggle and survival.

Cyndi Lauper Takes a Country Road

Cyndi Lauper’s new album follows a sonic path that’s always beckoned.

Rediscovering a Maestro

Celebrating the violinist Yehudi Menuhin during his centenary year.

‘Genius by Stephen Hawking’ Review: Science Meets Reality TV

Ordinary people try to reason like history’s great scientific thinkers and arrive at answers to life’s big questions.

Turning Science Into Art

How the scientist Alexander von Humboldt inspired Frederic Edwin Church’s artistic brilliance.

An Oddball Modernist at 150

Erik Satie’s legacy includes instantly recognizable music, complex works and odd philosophical pronouncements that still inspire artists.

From Page to Stage at the Opera

Operas based on famous books or movies have to offer a new insight into a familiar story.

Moving Beyond Folk

Marissa Nadler pushes her sound beyond its folk roots on her new album.

Art’s Lessons, Filtered Through Verse

Paintings from a Brussels museum of fine art are the focus of W.H. Auden’s musings on suffering.

‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ Review: Tennessee Williams, by the Book

This staging, featuring a fine cast and running in repertory with ‘Death of a Salesman,’ stays loyal to the earliest and best-known productions of the work.

‘Dheepan’ Review: New World Disorder

Three Sri Lankan refugees passing as a family try to restart their lives outside of Paris.

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‘Money Monster’ Review: Stock Tips in the Crosshairs

A package-delivery driver holds a financial guru hostage on live television in this film starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts.

‘Eva Hesse’ Review: The Persistence of the Ephemeral

A documentary appraisal of one of the most influential artists and sculptors of the 20th century.

Is Anti-Semitism a Thing of the Past?

Prejudice different from racism, with which it is confused.

The Fabric of the Future

Marrying the abilities of the machine with the quality of hand-made garments at the Met.

The Whitney’s Portrait Show Is More Famine Than Feast

A sampling from the museum’s collection is a poor entree into the art of portraiture.

Advancing the Frontier in Documentaries

Robert Drew emphasized the visual over the verbal in television journalism.

Attention for New and Old Alike at NYCB

New York City Ballet’s spring season offers the opportunity to take in new works and see dancers make their marks on familiar fare.

A Jazz Record for Jazz Fans

Trumpeter and composer Theo Croker comes from the heart of the jazz tradition.

An Empire of Treasures

A show reveals the opulent majesty of the centuries that followed Alexander the Great’s reign.

‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ by Radiohead Review

On its ninth studio album, Radiohead makes the experimental accessible while challenging the definition of popular music in 2016.

Shakespeare as All-Too-Modern Nightmare

A production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ that’s fixated on playing to today’s tastes.

‘Nascar: The Rise of American Speed’ Review

In this history of the racing association, a tale of American entrepreneurship has to compete with star worship and stories told over and over again.

Edvard Munch: Father of Expressionism

Viewers who flock to this exhibition for ‘The Scream’ might be surprised by Munch’s younger followers.

Anxiety-Free Modernism

Alarm Will Sound‘s ‘Modernists’ is a showcase for the quirky programming sensibility of this new-music chamber orchestra.

An Artist Veiled in Shadow

After painting images of human folly, La Tour turned to the deeply spiritual.

Funky Fashion Hybrids, Free From Precedent

Drawing on influences from the absurdity of American childhood to the energy of Eastern design, he created a sartorial language of his own.

Sound From Louisiana and Beyond

Rock ’n’ roll with a dose of punk and a little bit of funk.

‘Continuum’ Reivew: An Album That’s Expansive and Expandable

The mesmerizing music of Nik Bärtsch and his Mobile ensemble is hard to label.

‘Maron’ Review: Comedy as Catharsis

Podcastless and adrift, Marc Maron is in a dark place in season four of the IFC show.

At SFMOMA, Stairways to Creative Heaven

The expansion of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art makes a clear statement yet about the new era of museums.

In San Francisco, Modern and Contemporary Art Get Room to Breathe

Big-name artists populate a gigantic museum.

‘The Ship’ by Brian Eno Review: On the Wages of Man’s Hubris

This new album is unlike anything else in Brian Eno’s 21st-century catalog.

Notable & Quotable: Rebuilding Palmyra

‘The Isis attack on Palmyra was not a counterfactual fantasy. It really occurred.’

‘René Magritte: The Man in the Hat’ Review

A documentary about the Belgian Surrealist is more rough sketch than fully realized portrait.

Lusting After Fame and Fortune With Robert Mapplethorpe

A dual retrospective of the work of controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe is a worthwhile effort, but one that exposes his limitations.