Review: ‘Sunset Song’ Shows a Woman’s True Grit
In Terence Davies’s film, scenes of Scottish rural life are stitched together in a slow-moving story rife with both natural beauty and tragedy.
At New York Botanical Garden, Time to Smell the Impressionists’ Roses
Visitors to “Impressionism: American Gardens on Canvas” can admire paintings of peonies, roses and zinnias alongside the real, fragrant, living things.
Books of The Times: Review: Nathaniel Philbrick’s ‘Valiant Ambition’ Revisits Benedict Arnold
Mr. Philbrick illustrates Washington’s warring instincts but few of his interactions with Arnold.
Critic’s Notebook: Even on Alert, It’s Still Cannes
Security concerns aside, the film festival maintains its traditions of silliness and controversy.
Antiques: In Maritime Logbooks, a Trove of ‘Extraordinary’ Imagery
Dying whales and sailors’ burials at sea evoke “the age of sail” in 19th-century illustrations at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts.
Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Rachmaninoff and Work by a Mahler Proxy
Yannick Nézet-Séguin led Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto at Carnegie Hall, and Mahler’s Tenth Symphony, which was completed by Deryck Cooke.
Popcast: Radiohead and James Blake
In pop music it was the week of gray English miasma with two examples of records whose punches were weary, patient, dystopian and abstracted.
Inside Art: Warhol Museum Is Adding Long-Sought ‘Do It Yourself (Sailboats)’
The Andy Warhol Museum has a wish list of pieces that it has always wanted for the collection. “Do It Yourself (Sailboats)” was one of them.
Review: Passion Pursued in ‘Do I Hear a Waltz?’
Encores! revives a 1965 romantic work that features music by Richard Rodgers on the wane, and Stephen Sondheim on the rise.
Anatomy of a Scene: ‘The Lobster’
Yorgos Lanthimos narrates a sequence from “The Lobster,” featuring Colin Farrell.
‘Gods and Mortals at Olympus,’ Right There on Fifth Avenue
In basement galleries of the Onassis Cultural Center, visitors can see ancient artifacts from the lower slopes of Mount Olympus.
Bad Boy Family Reunion Recalls 1990s New York Hip-Hop
The tour, at the Barclays Center, will include Mase, Total, Faith Evans, Mary J. Blige, Lil’ Kim and Jay Z.
Brad Williams Returns to Showtime With ‘Daddy Issues’
The comedian gets a second special, on May 20.
Art Review: Revisiting the Constructed Edens of Roberto Burle Marx
A survey of the Brazilian landscape architect, whose designs include the promenade along the Rio de Janeiro beachfront, is at the Jewish Museum.
Settlement Reached in Joan Rivers Malpractice Case
Lawyers for the comedian’s family said the settlement with the doctors and the Manhattan clinic where Ms. Rivers, 81, died was “substantial,” but didn’t reveal a dollar amount.
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