Inspire

Charlie Puth and Shawn Mendes, Would-Be Pop Kings

11 of Our Best Weekend Reads

4 Buzzy ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Debuts, 1 Fainthearted Production

Apple and Oprah Winfrey Sign a Content Deal

The Playlist: Alessia Cara Grows Up, and 12 More New Songs

For Experimental Jazz Group Onyx Collective, the Only Rule Is ‘No Rules’

Oh! Oh! Ojai: The Week in Classical Music

Comedy Central Cancels ‘The Opposition With Jordan Klepper’

A Tribute to Bach on His Own Turf: 33 Cantatas in 48 Hours

The Black Sitcom Steps Out of the ’90s and Gets Real

For Pride Week at the Joyce Theater, a Painful Look Back

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 10, Episode 12: An Elephant Noise

This Week: New York Circa ’86, Ladyland Festival, ‘The Affair’ Returns

Back to Blue-Chip Works at a More Conservative Art Basel

Colbert Makes Plea on Behalf of Migrant Families Being Split Up

A Critic’s First Orchestra Defines Britain’s Musical Soul

Shape-Shifting Art Tower Completes Prada’s City Within a City

How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend?

Barbra Streisand Debuts Lost Footage From ‘A Star Is Born’ on Netflix

Review: Alvin Ailey Returns to Lincoln Center With a Tribute to Women

Nídia Is Bringing the Sound of Lisbon’s Ghettos to the World

Review: The Philharmonic’s Women Can Wear Pants in the Park

Swahili, the Pulse of Life at the Crossroads

Things to Do in New York: History and Funk and What to Eat at the Queens Night Market

Japanese Gutai in the 1950s: Fast and Fearless

Stephen Colbert Talks Shop With Scaramucci and Avenatti

Restraining Order Issued Against Stan Lee’s Gatekeeper

‘I Never Thought I Would Talk About It.’ So Florence Welch Put It in a Song.

Women of the Philharmonic Can Play It All. Just Not in Pants.

A Soldier’s Racially Charged Suicide Becomes a Powerful Opera

Italian Court Says the Getty’s Prized Ancient Bronze Should Be Seized

What’s So Funny About Orthodox Judaism? This Comic Has One Answer

Christina Aguilera Exults in Her Voice on ‘Liberation’

Folding Bodies Into a Public Space

David Lynch on Michael Jackson and That Crazy Frog From ‘Twin Peaks’

Inquiry Clears Museum Director Who Quit in Conflict-of-Interest Storm

Colbert Perplexed at Trump’s New Appreciation for Kim Jong-un

Can Was 40 Years Ahead of Its Time. A New Book Helps Us Catch Up.

Tiffany Show Reveals Helen Gould’s Role as Arts Patron

At the Berlin Biennale, the Art of Saying ‘No’

Review: ‘The Last Defense’ Aims to Open Once-Shut Cases

The Artwork Was Rejected. Then Banksy Put His Name to It.

It’s Not an Art Collection. It’s Her Life.

All About Odette, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Queen

It’s Time for African Resistance, This Artist Says

Drew Gilpin Faust Wins $1 Million Kluge Prize

James Corden Doesn’t Trust Trump’s Judgment on Kim Jong-un

Doing Justice to the Art of Bruce Nauman

At 84, Sam Gilliam Fires Up His Competitive Spirit

Billionaire Art Collectors Live With Koons, Warhol and Basquiat