CATEGORIES

Alfresco

At Santa Fe Opera, a new orchestration of Monteverdi's "Orfeo."

ALTERED STATES

“Gran Turismo” and Fremont.”

BLANK SPACE

The sly enchantments of Hilary Leichter’s novel Terrace Story.”

THE BIGGEST LOSERS

How the Bible turned a history of defeat into triumph.

MUSICAL EVENTS - REQUIEM FOR A FESTIVAL

Does the end of Mostly Mozart signal a rising disdain for classical music at Lincoln Center?

THE AUTOPSY

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

THE WISDOM OF RUDOLPH GIULIANI

“Matt Damon is a—Matt Damon is a f*g. Matt Damon is also 5’2. Eyes are blue. Coochie-coochie-coochie-coo.”

THE CONTROL OF NATURE HIVE MIND

Is beekeeping wrong?

MAN OF STEEL

Finding material—and a family—in Pittsburgh.

MOVIES - Real-Life Drama, New Fantasies

Though studios’ fall schedules have been shifting because of the actors’ union’s ongoing strike, which bars members from making promotional appearances, the release calendar is nonetheless crowded.

ART - Manet and Degas, Ruth Asawa, Ed Ruscha

“Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick” (opening on Sept. 21) marks a homecoming of sorts for Hendricks, who died in 2017, at the age of seventy two.

DANCE - All-Male Hula, a Tennis Ballet

Outdoor dance is nice, but there’s nothing like being in a theatre, with its dramatic lighting and proscenium.

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC - Afro-Pop, R. & B.Greats, Hip-Hop Diversity

As a summer full of mellow outdoor concerts comes to a close, the fall makes way for multiplicity.

THE THEATRE - Barn-Burner Sondheim, Irish Drama, Antic Musicals

Sharpen your pencils and grab your backpacks: autumn in New York is back-totheatre season. With the city as your campus, there’s a certain scholastic crispness to this fall’s programming.

TELEVISION - Strikes, Game Shows, Novel Adaptations

What we're watching, listening to, and doing this season.

The Mayor Talks a Good Game

Can Eric Adams get by on bluster alone?

Crazy Town

The singular stories of Steven Millhauser.

SHARK BAIT

The Jaws” ecosystem and Broadway's \"The Shark Is Broken.\"

YOU NAME IT

Carl Linnaeus and the effort to label all of life

ANOTHER COUNTRY

The Ukrainians forced to flee to Russia

THERE AND BACK AGAIN

How product returns became an industry

VOICE-OVERS FROM "SEX AND THE SPACE STATION"

As I watched Sergei climb into his formfitting spacesuit, I couldn't help but wonder: Did I want a white Russian form cosmonaut or just a White Russian and a Cosmo?

Why So Serious?

The delights of "Harley Quinn," on Max.

Youth Movement

What happened when the country's schoolgirls took off their veils.

Bodies of Work

Lisa Yuskavage's art shows it all

MOST WANTED

\"Passages\" and \"Lady Killer.\"

YOU HAD TO BE THERE

How a ramshackle street shaped a generation of artists.

The True Margaret

Meera was recalling the tragedy of her first marriage. Married off to an Indian doctor in 1959, she had moved to London only to discover that her new husband, Ravi, already had a wife in the city.

THE GIFT

What should you do with an oil fortune?

HIGH STRUNG

A violinist reinvents her instrument-and her musical persona.