At 92, the architect Frank Gehry has the luxury of focusing on what matters to him most — but he's not scaling back. “What would I do?” he said. “I enjoy this stuff.”

“It was golden, spectacular, alarming, otherworldly.” Was it a plane crash, meteorite or aliens? This weekend, let yourself escape with these five narrated articles.

It’s not particularly embarrassing to admit that you’re an amateur gardener or an amateur baker. But outing yourself as an amateur actor tends to invite mild ridicule — or it used to. The pandemic has pushed more theater fans into performing.

Stay entertained this week with a sourdough bread baking class, an Earth Day-themed yoga class or a drawing class from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. 

Passion, planning and a willingness to scrap just about everything is what allowed some major international film festivals to deliver robust versions of themselves despite Covid-19. Here’s what their organizers learned from the experience.

Liam Scarlett's rise to fame in the dance world was rapid. His subsequent downfall, amid allegations of sexual misconduct, happened just as abruptly.

Louis Menand says his ambitious new book about culture during the Cold War was also “a way of filling in the blanks in my own story.”

Asian-American artists are generating subway posters, leveraging social media and staging Zoom webinars. “Our community couldn’t take being invisible any longer,” one artist said.

The death of Helen McCrory is likely to rob theatergoers of many great performances. “Imagine what we would have lost if Judi Dench, Maggie Smith or Helen Mirren had died in her early 50s,” writes Ben Brantley.

Re-entry into our pre-social distancing lives is going to be such a joy. Re-entry into our non-stretchy pants? Maybe not so much.