Our photographer followed 95 young musicians for six days as they prepared to perform with Gustavo Dudamel, the next music director of the New York Philharmonic.

The annual event brings art collectors to the city, but the spirit of freedom that draws artists there has been damaged by the fallout from the Oct. 7 attacks.

She wrote her much-anticipated second novel, “Real Americans,” while also creating the Ruby, a co-working collective for writers and other artists.

Elfriede Jelinek’s latest play deals with collective calamity and individual grief, but is let down by a chaotic production.

The Games were revived from an ancient Greek spectacle, but an exhibition timed for the Paris Olympics argues that France’s fascination with the ancient world played an outsized role.

In “Message in a Bottle,” a dance show opening at City Center, Sting’s songbook helps tell the story of a family fleeing conflict.