Here is the latest Arts News from The New York Times.
Game of Thrones: ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 4: An Hour of Ice and Fire
There was plenty of action of both of this story’s signature climes.
What’s on TV Monday
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” crowns a winner and struts about gender identity. “Mike & Molly” and “Castle” come to an end. And “19-2” returns for a second season of policing in Montreal.
2016 TV Upfronts: Last Season, and Next, at the Networks
At the annual television upfront presentation for advertisers, the broadcast networks will introduce new shows. Here is a rundown of each network’s previous season and plans.
Theater Review: Review: ‘Daphne’s Dive,’ Where Everybody Knows You’re Broke
Quiara Alegría Hudes’s ensemble drama, which opened at the Signature Theater on Sunday, sympathizes with Philadelphia waifs and strays.
Fear the Walking Dead: ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 6: Mexico
The group finally approaches Baja.
Silicon Valley: ‘Silicon Valley’ Season 3, Episode 4: Irrepressible Genius
Sunday night’s episode is a surprisingly deep consideration of integrity in the face of compromise.
Veep: ‘Veep’ Season 5, Episode 4: The Death Bump
Much like in Season 3’s “Crate,” elation and sadness smack into each other, turning Selina into a bundle of uncontrollable, hysterical feeling.
Review: In the Sanctuary of ‘The Spiritual Side of Coltrane’
The saxophonist Joe Lovano assembled a kind of dream team for a concert that is part of a 90th-birthday tribute to John Coltrane and Miles Davis.
Short Films to Explore the Art Market
The four films will look at auctions, galleries, patrons and art fairs and will be shown on Artsy and UBS Art Studio.
Boom Box Comics Tell Stories of Teenagers, With a Light Heart
Boom Box, an imprint of the comic book publisher Boom Studios, is drawing critical acclaim for its coming-of-age adventures told with a sprinkle of glee.
Rhinebeck Writers Retreat Awards Summer Residencies
This year’s crop of musical writers includes Brian Crawley and Adam Gwon.
Review: Yuja Wang Tackles Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier,’ Assured to a Fault
The Chinese pianist Ms. Wang also played two early Brahms ballades, Schumann’s “Kreisleriana” and five encores.
Review: Waging Battle With Scarcity and Borders at La MaMa Dance Festival
Cardell Dance Theater looks at emigration in “Supper: People on the Move,” and the Tiffany Mills Company faces famine in “After the Feast.”
Review: Ute Lemper Seeks Truth and Justice in a Collaboration With Paulo Coelho
At Symphony Space on Friday, the chanteuse performed most of “The 9 Secrets,” a song cycle based on Mr. Coelho’s novel “Manuscript Found in Accra.”
A Sirius Satellite Founder to Give Keynote at Moogfest, Protesting Bias Law
Martine Rothblatt, a transgender woman, will speak out against North Carolina’s bathroom law at the music and technology festival.
A Word With: Steven Spielberg
The director, in Cannes with “The BFG,” discusses the original author’s anti-Semitism and explains why “Jaws” remains a painful memory.
Books of The Times: Review: ‘White Sands’ Asks Why We Visit the Places We Do
Geoff Dyer’s various pilgrimages make for a humorous and thoughtful examination of the reasons we ache to travel.
A Collector’s-Eye View of the Auctions
Adam Lindemann, who sold a Jean-Michel Basquiat at Christie’s for $57.3 million last week, dissects the action at the New York sales.
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Highlights the Struggle for Acceptance
Season 8, with its shocking and sad moments, affirmed the importance of “Drag Race” as a rare space on TV that relishes honesty and exploration.
Julius La Rosa, Singer Who Was Fired on the Air by Arthur Godfrey, Dies at 86
Mr. La Rosa surged to fame in the 1950s under Arthur Godfrey, who fired him during a live broadcast, forcing Mr. La Rosa to reinvent his career.
New Albums: Blackball’s Stylish Distortion, Lesley Flanigan’s Choral Hypnosis
Also out this week: music from the bassist Andy González and the electronic composer Robert Curgenven.
‘Captain America: Civil War’ Tops North American Box Office
“Money Monster,” which was released Friday, came in third, but the studio behind it was very happy with that result.
What’s on TV Sunday
Po meets his father on “Kung Fu Panda 3.” “60 Minutes” celebrates the career of Morley Safer. And Selina ends up in the hospital on “Veep.”
Katherine Dunn, Author of ‘Geek Love,’ Dies at 70
Ms. Dunn’s third novel, “Geek Love,” which revolves around a married couple who breed mutant children as sideshow freaks, has sold hundreds of thousands of copies.
Outlander: ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 6: Promises
It was only a matter of time before the elaborate confident game Claire and Jamie have been playing would upend the promises they’ve made.
Jamala, Ukrainian Singer, Named Winner of 2016 Eurovision Contest
Jamala’s choice of song, a ballad that seemed to evoke Soviet abuses in World War II, spurred challenges that cited a ban on political subject matter.
Scene Stealers: The Art Museum in Steve Tisch’s Backyard
The Los Angeles mogul shows what keeping up with the Joneses looks like for today’s megawatt collectors.
Review: Julia Mapp’s ‘Luxury Rentals’ Asks What Is Precious
The rising premium on real estate takes on a larger significance when space is considered as a condition essential to dance in Julia Mapp’s new work.
What’s on TV Saturday
Michael Moore dreams on, in “Where to Invade Next.” “The Stanford Prison Experiment” examines a psychological study. And Drake rules on “S.N.L.”
Martin Friedman, Whose Vision Shaped Walker Art Center, Dies at 90
Mr. Friedman remade a Minnesota landmark into a cultural destination, and after retirement delighted Manhattan with art at Madison Square Park.
The Saturday Profile: Advocating a War in Iraq, and Offering an Apology for What Came After
For Kanan Makiya, an intellectual who helped make the case for the 2003 invasion, writing a novel became a way to acknowledge his role in what befell his home country.
Review: John Storgards’s Debut With the New York Philharmonic
The Finnish conductor ended his evening with the New York Philharmonic with Sibelius’s Second Symphony.
Bryan Cranston takes his L.B.J. to TV in ‘All the Way’
This film about President Lyndon B. Johnson on HBO has the same frontman, Bryan Cranston, and writer, Robert Schenkkan, as the 2014 Broadway play.
Review: A Birthday of the Darmstadt Avant-Garde
A three-day festival in New York celebrated the fruits of a German summer music workshop that proved to be a wellspring of experimental compositions.
Op-Ed Contributor: Why I Love Eurovision, and Why You Should, Too
It’s a campy guide to world politics. Tune in.
Review: In ‘Map of Hell,’ Danny Trejo Dives Into a Scary Underworld
This National Geographic Channel special roams from teachings in ancient times to evangelical Christian tenets, with side trips to things like horror movies.
Yve Laris Cohen, Melding Identities as Laborer and Artist
Mr. Cohen’s Company Gallery performance-exhibition is the re-creation of Isamu Noguchi’s set for the Martha Graham dance “Embattled Garden.”
Review: ‘My Paris,’ a Portrait of Toulouse-Lautrec in Song and Dance
Bobby Steggert portrays the French painter’s bohemian days and nights in the Montmartre section of Paris.
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