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    Post-Occupy Film 'On the Pulse'

    If you were to peek at the Hotel Chantelle rooftop Monday evening, you might not suspect that guests were toasting a movie about eco-terrorism.

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    Off the Screen; on the Stage

    On Monday night, Glamour magazine pried several stylish scenesters—Zosia Mamet, Emma Roberts—from their smartphones and on to the stage for a night of monologues, "These Girls," at Joe's Pub.

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    Julie Delpy: 'Before,' and After

    Eighteen years after that fateful encounter on a train in Vienna, we're about to meet up with Celine and Jesse again. Then what?

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    Avant-Garde Film's Godfather

    Hans Richter's influence extended from key figures of experimental New American Cinema to Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey."

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    Fluid, Evanescent Images

    Watercolor may be the most unforgiving art medium, but you'd never know it from the works by John Singer Sargent now on display at the Brooklyn Museum.

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    Collecting Art With François Pinault

    As Venice's Palazzo Grassi hosts its first exhibition devoted to a single artist, François Pinault open up about the rejuvenating power of contemporary art.

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    The Ur-Metropolis

    Long before Hong Kong, Dubai and Tokyo, there was Uruk, which arguably contained the origins of urban life as we still know it today.

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    Wagner's 'Orphans'

    In the themes, characters and moods they explore, three early operas that Richard Wagner later excluded from his canon are prophetic, to an often uncanny degree.

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    'Now You See Me' Banks on Magic

    'Now You See Me,' to be released May 31 by Summit, hopes to make movie magic without computer-generated special effects. Director Louis Leterrier hired magic consultants, including David Copperfield, to create and execute some of the more complicated illusions.

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    Music's Best Marketing: Awards

    The digital age is transforming the music industry, but an old standby is boosting record sales: the awards show.

  • 'Star Trek' Transports Overseas

    "Star Trek: Into Darkness" grossed $70.6 million this weekend in the U.S. and Canada, falling short of Paramount Pictures' hopes. But the movie sold better overseas than the 2009 "Star Trek."

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    Meditation on Mortality

    Its theme is one of the most common in literature, yet the poem possesses an uncommon power and more than a few quotable lines.

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    Denmark Wins Eurovision Contest

    Denmark emerged victorious Saturday in this year's Eurovision Song Contest. Emmelie de Forest, 20, won with folksy ballad "Only Teardrops," which handily beat runners up, Azerbaijan and Ukraine.

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    The Most Inspiring Aria of All

    There is one piece of music above all others that inspires me in my work, writes Alexander McCall Smith: "Soave Sia Il Vento" from Mozart's "Così Fan Tutte."

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    Jewels Stolen During Cannes Festival

    Hours after the Cannes Film Festival premiered Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring," depicting a gang of Hollywood jewel thieves, a real-world heist lifted $1.4 million of jewelry from a hotel in Cannes, French prosecutors said.

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    South Africa Gets Some Comic Relief

    A crop of young comics has embraced biting satire as a way to point out the absurdities of today's South Africa, from persistent gaps between rich whites and poor blacks to a president who has four first ladies.

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    In Philadelphia, Design for Children

    The Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition of furniture, toys, textiles, wallpaper and tableware, from mid-20th century modernist classics to present-day pieces, showcases contemporary and abstract approaches by designers from around the world.

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    Art Basel Comes to Hong Kong

    With 245 galleries, including 48 that have never shown in Asia, the event will rival Miami's iteration of the fair in size.

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    Christopher Williams: A Photographer Who Provokes

    The American-born artist has a show at London's David Zwirner gallery and will soon get a retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

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    Don't Miss: May 18-24

    In this column: Edward Hopper drawings in New York, Chagall in Paris and ballet mementos in Washington, D.C.

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    The 'Believe It or Not' Life of Robert Ripley

    The godfather of reality shows and purveyor of freaks empathized with struggling people; he'd been there.

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    Weekend Confidential: Gabrielle Reece

    The volleyball-player-turned-author on being a "submissive" wife and not quite having it all.

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    The Summer Comedy Boom

    From apocalyptic demons to raunchy cops to Google interns, a new wave of comedies is rewriting the rules of Hollywood's high season.

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    In Praise of Raunchy Female Humor

    Paul Feig, the director behind "Bridesmaids," discusses his new movie "The Heat."

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    'Blue Jasmine' and Other Summer Indies

    Woody Allen is back in the U.S. with this dark comedy about a Park Avenue social climber (Cate Blanchett) forced to slum it with her blue-collar sister (Sally Hawkins) when she loses everything.

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    Hollywood's High-Noon Weekends

    Every summer has its competitive showdowns, when audiences feast and studio executives sweat.

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    Also at the Megaplex: 'World War Z,' and 'Man of Steel'

    This summer will feature the usual array of superheroes, aliens, sequels, explosions, car chases and megastars, from Will Smith & Son in "After Earth" (May 31) to Hugh Jackman in "The Wolverine" (July 26).

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    Meet Your New Partner

    Movie cops will pair up, reluctantly at first, trade insults and ultimately realize they can't count on anyone but each other.

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    Platoons of 'Toons

    A record five animated films will open this summer from major studios.

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    Re-Evaluating the Wyeth Dynasty

    A series of coming exhibits and sales are casting a new light on three generations of American painters.

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    Anish Kapoor Strikes While Hot

    The English artist on today's art boom and tilting his Berlin retrospective toward the future.

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    Dan Brown's Secret to Keeping Secrets

    The best-selling author visits locations he never plans to write about, just to keep fans and readers guessing

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    Giddy Highs for Contemporary Art in Historic Christie's Sale

    The art market is on fire right now. Christie's in New York made auction history Wednesday when it sold nearly half a billion dollars worth of postwar and contemporary art in less time than it takes to watch a feature film.

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    20 Odd Questions: Julie Delpy

    The "Before Sunrise" actress talks about Paris, indie films and philosophy.

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    Taking Flight

    Wayne McGregor's new ballet, "Raven Girl," brings Audrey Niffenegger's fairy tale to the stage.

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    Anna Piaggi's Costume Drama

    When the style icon died last year, she left behind a colossal stockpile of clothing and accessories, the true extent of which only she knew. Now her family is struggling to find a permanent home for what might very well be the world's largest, unruliest most thrillingly unexplored closet.

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    How 'The Heatles' Make Their Music

    Underappreciated is the significant retooling that Miami underwent after assembling the powerful trinity of LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade, a sometimes painful process that fashioned the Heat into the offensive wrecking crew it is today.

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