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Albert Paley Selling a Sampling of His Metalwork

Azzedine Alaïa, Fashion’s Most Independent Designer, Is Dead at 82

A Spark of Romance Under Fluorescent Lighting

A Good Sport On and Off the Squash Court

What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Night of Too Many Stars’ and ‘Cold Blooded’

Open Thread: This Week in Style News

Creator of Brazil’s Outdoor Museum Inhotim Sentenced to Prison

Taming Prokofiev: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube

Building the First American Group

Risking it All: Reinventing Calvin Klein

A Struggling Historic Library Says It Needs to Sell Its Art

What Christian Artifacts of the Middle East Can Show Us About Tolerance

The Playlist: Demi Lovato Seeks Her ‘Despacito’ and 9 More New Songs

ECM’s Catalog Is Finally Streaming. Here Are 20 Essential Albums.

East Side, West Side: Lighting the Way, Darkly

10 Things to Do in NYC Now

Puerto Rico Mattered at the Latin Grammys. So Did Salsa.

With Change Coming to the Ojai Festival, Watch What Makes it Unusual

Age of Populism: Threats and Theories

Two Operas With Nothing in Common, Except Exhausted Women

A New ‘She’s Gotta Have It’: Spike Lee’s Feminist Breakthrough

Alia Shawkat on Growing Up and Gaining Control

Making (and Seeing) Dance in the Politicized World

Your Week in Culture: ‘Nutcracker,’ James Levine and Christmas Scripted by Charles Dickens

‘Two Weird Stories’ Meet on Match.com

Stephen Colbert Doesn’t Think Much of Al Franken’s Apologies

Embroidering With Björk’s Maskmaker

Science Is Dry, Obscure, Complex? Well, It Makes for Great Comedy

Making Watches for People ‘Who Can Read and Write’

Time, With a Parisian Flair

Claude Sfeir is a Collector’s Collector

Putting a Bugatti on Your Wrist

Wonder Woman’s Gold Tiara, for Your Watch

What’s on TV Friday: ‘Mudbound’ and ‘Active Shooter’

A da Vinci Sold for $450 Million. What Else Could You Buy?

After Leonardo’s Sky-High Sale, the Art World Asks, Is There Still a Ceiling?

Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week

Homesick for Downton Abbey? Here’s a Way to Go Back There

The Politics of Luxury

Toward a New Language of Luxury

Classical Music in NYC This Week

Dance in NYC This Week

Events for Children in NYC This Week

Art and Museums in NYC This Week

Fake News and Transparency

Terry Crews Names Hollywood Executive He Accused of Groping

Comedy in NYC This Week

After ‘Vandalism Got Vandalized,’ a Banksy Is Brought Back to Life

Sarah Silverman Speaks on Louis C.K.: ‘Can You Love Someone Who Did Bad Things?’

Bernstein in the Berkshires: Tanglewood to Celebrate a Local Hero