Marquee names all, they found international fame in the arts, politics, the sciences and beyond.
Category: Culture (Arts)
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Artists We Lost in 2025, in Their Words
Robert Redford, Roberta Flack, Diane Keaton and Brian Wilson are among the cultural luminaries who died this year.
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41 Things That Stuck With Us in 2025
Aunt Gladys. Tyler, the Creator. That sex scene in “The Naked Gun.” These are the things Culture staffers couldn’t stop thinking about this year.
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From Improv Class to Mayor-Elect: Zohran Mamdani’s Cultural Influences
In an interview, he revealed the Indian ragas, indie movies, comedy shows and museums in the city that stayed with him.
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Bill Ivey, Who Soothed Critics of Federal Arts Agency, Dies at 81
By reducing the National Endowment for the Arts’s focus on avant-garde work, he eased conservative anger and won increased funding.
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With New Condé Nast Galleries, the Met Museum Gets Fashion Forward
The Costume Institute is bringing its annual blockbuster show to a permanent home off the Grand Hall, due in part to Anna Wintour’s efforts to get “out of the basement.”
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Movement Directors Are the Secret Ingredient to Movies and Runway Shows
The way an actor physically inhabits a character? A model’s distinctive runway walk? Credit a movement director, who can make an ad, movie scene or fashion show feel intensely alive.
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What Is the Human Cost of Haute Couture?
“Lacrima,” a play from the French playwright and director Caroline Guiela Nguyen, explores the hidden stories woven into luxury fashion.
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Gilles Larrain, Photographer of 1970s Drag Culture, Dies at 86
He shot portraits of stars like John Lennon and Miles Davis. But he is best remembered for “Idols,” an intimate look at a vital New York underground.
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Looking for a Day Trip From Paris? Try Lens.
The city, once a mining center, has an outpost of the Louvre that claims “the architectural creativity of the Guggenheim and a collection worthy of the Met.” It’s an easy train ride from Paris.