Thousands of people gathered on the High Line on Saturday for Pigeon Fest, inspired by an artist’s sculpture and an appreciation for the city’s most resilient birds.

Athletes who fly in wind tunnels are capitalizing on the creative possibilities of this young sport.

After a week of stunning and sobering TV-news scenes, the brassy Trumpy production was a surreal viewing experience.

The jury will be asked to determine if two women who engaged in marathon sex sessions with escorts did so willingly or because they were under threat.

Our critics picked 10 performances that have offered a robust alternative to the here and now with a tonic of beauty, rage and wisdom.

As Hiccup, the 17-year-old actor is shouldering the weight of Universal’s new live-action franchise — and living out his childhood fantasy.

Stefan Herheim, the artistic leader of Theater an der Wien in Vienna, is wrapping up his first season inside the newly renovated theater.

Americans are fighting about history. This past week, thousands of students from across the country came together to celebrate it.

In an era of skepticism around live-action remakes, Universal believes audiences will take flight with Hiccup and Toothless again.

Andy Goldsworthy, the British land artist, said he may never make a work like “Hanging Stones” again.

At the Chocolate Factory Theater in Queens on Friday, Martita Abril’s performance expressed life on the border from multiple angles.

The longtime actor, now starring in “FUBAR,” on his many animals, good cigars and wanting his kids to outshine him.

Long a center of artistic development for New Yorkers big and small, the League celebrates its sesquicentenary this year with a dream-themed ball.

The Smithsonian has said it retains power over personnel decisions, but Kim Sajet, the longtime director of the National Portrait Gallery, has decided to leave anyway.

The 150-million-year-old specimen is valued at up to $6 million. Some paleontologists worry this auction and earlier ones are driving fossil market speculators.

The adaptation of E. Lockhart’s Y.A. horror novel comes to Prime Video, and “The Gilded Age” returns for a third season.

She was a proponent of natural childbirth when she joined the group that produced the candid guide to women’s health. It became a cultural touchstone and a global best seller.

His stick-figure sculptures conveyed a surprising depth of emotion, hinting at the threat of imbalance. He also produced more than 30 large-scale commissions.

The movie had stronger-than-expected ticket sales over the weekend, becoming the third PG-rated, live-action hit in three months.

The men were sentenced to two to four years for their roles in the 2019 theft of an 18-carat artwork at Winston Churchill’s ancestral home.

A Hungarian in London; a road trip in Canada.

Many of the most popular shows welcome right-wing arguments and freewheeling conversation. Publishers of other political stripes are noticing, too.

As early as the 1970s, she demonstrated that mass media was fair game as artistic material, and that its power could be turned against itself.

A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition.

An award-winning actor and director, he appeared in scores of stage plays, movies and TV shows over six decades, most often as unsavory characters.

A hit for Julie London in 1955, it was later recorded by — among many others — Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand and Michael Bublé, who praised it for its “darkness.”

The rapper formerly known as Kanye West, one of the few celebrities to publicly defend Mr. Combs, was denied access to the courtroom and briefly watched on closed-circuit video.

Red Bull Theater’s smart “The Imaginary Invalid” and Taylor Mac’s dismaying “Prosperous Fools” attempt to engage with the French writer’s comedy.

The Beach Boys mastermind has been the subject of pop scholarship and major boxed sets, but some corners of his oeuvre remain unreleased.

This month’s picks include a gaslit mother, a hungry shark, vengeful French cops, and more.

Whether you’re in the mood for dragons or a new Wes Anderson, theaters this weekend are filled with fatherly flicks.

A noted art collector as well as a designer, he brought a personal, history-minded approach to his work around Boston and on college campuses.

The group reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987 with the ballad “Always” and went on to leave a lasting impression on modern-day artists.

The writer and director Celine Song narrates a sequence from her film, which also features Chris Evans.

Catch two Tony-winning performances, Sarah Snook in the Oscar Wilde classic and Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond, before these productions and others wrap up.

A conversation about two pop visionaries whose lives, careers and legacies only grew more complex over time.

Each age has its own way of drawing the arc of a human life. Ours is concerned with its unpredictability.

Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.

A museum veteran and a financier are planning Canyon, an organization on the Lower East Side that will focus on video, audio and performance art when it opens next year.