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Review: Onstage Jay-Z Forgoes Distractions, Drilling Down to the Message

Review: All Life’s a Swirling Proscenium in ‘The Red Shoes’

‘Frog and Toad’ Are Memes

For the Love of Nothing to Do — and of Sloths

A Proposal That Needed No Rehearsal

With ‘The Dress That Eats Souls,’ Toni Dove Erases Boundaries

Oh, the Things You Can Find at Swann’s Illustration Auction

Art Galleries Rethink Their Strategies as Art Fairs Proliferate

What’s on TV Saturday: Black Sabbath’s Final Performance and ‘Arrival’

Yves Bouvier Sells His Geneva-based Art Storage Company

Open Thread: This Week in Style News

Fragments and Elephants: Howard Hodgkin’s Eclectic Art Collection Is Sold

‘Stranger Things’ Season 2 Premiere Recap: Lingering Effects

More Monteverdi: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube

What Are the Billboard Charts Really Measuring?

Halloween Festivals Where the Scariest Specter Is Extinction

The Playlist: Gregory Porter Celebrates Nat King Cole and 8 More New Songs

The Women Behind ‘Good Girls Revolt’ Say the Feminist Show Was Cut Short Too Soon

10 Things to Do in NYC Now

A Dutch Treasure Trove Returns to New Amsterdam

Politicians Are Bad at Podcasting

The Hidden History of Japan’s Folk-Rock Boom

Stephen Petronio’s ‘Bloodlines’ to Honor Merce Cunningham

Weinstein, Hefner and the Poor Excuse that Explains a Lot

Your Week in Culture: Steve Reich, Grizzly Bear and the Bass’s Reopening in Miami

Contemplating a Mystically Charged Two-Hour Piano Epic

‘La Bohème’: Should Opera’s Most Beloved Classic Be Changed?

Review: ‘The Exterminating Angel’ Is a Great Opera for Our Times

A Sunday March, This One Down the Aisle

Gary Hume Loves His Mother. His Art Is a Valentine to Her.

For Claes Oldenburg, a Departure From His Own Tradition

James Corden Lists Things That Are More ‘Fake’ Than the Mainstream Media

David Harbour of ‘Stranger Things’ Never Wants to Play the Dad

Trading Sports Memorabilia, Not Just for Love but for Money

A Provocative Museum Places African Art on the Global Stage

Remembering Jacqueline du Pré, an Icon of the Cello

What’s on TV Friday: ‘Michael Jackson’s Halloween’ and a Joan Didion Documentary

Paul Newman Rolex Sells at Auction for Record $17.8 Million

Lee Ann Womack Returns to Her Roots, Singing ‘to the Common Man’

Classical Music in NYC This Week

Comedy in NYC This Week

Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week

Events for Children in NYC This Week

Dance in NYC This Week

New Ryan Murphy Show for FX Casts Several Transgender Regulars

Art and Museums in NYC This Week

Protesters Deface Roosevelt Statue Outside Natural History Museum

Internetting with Amanda Hess

Review: Amazon’s British Thriller ‘Fearless’ is for the Conspiracy-Minded

Review: Bernstein Brings Alan Gilbert Back to the Philharmonic