Arts
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Trevor Noah Tearfully Signs Off from ‘The Daily Show’
Noah told viewers not to be sad, saying, “You should be happy — the African leader is peacefully leaving power. That is never a guarantee.”
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15 Fresh Takes on a Classic Tradition: The Holiday Album
New releases from Alicia Keys, Lindsey Stirling, Regina Belle and others revisit songs already entrenched in the Christmas canon and hope to introduce some future contenders.
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2022 Reading Picks From Times Staff Critics
The books they read this year that have stayed with them.
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‘Empire of Light’ Review: They Found It at the Movies
Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward pursue a bittersweet workplace romance in Sam Mendes’s look back at Britain in the early 1980s.
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An Ailey Dancer’s Career Blooms, at the Company and Beyond
At 30, Jacquelin Harris is expanding her repertoire, with role debuts in store for the latest Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater season.
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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Vocals
Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong were A-list celebrities at the top of their art form. Today’s jazz singers are finding new paths. Listen to these 11 favorites.
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What We Learned From ‘Harry and Meghan,’ the Netflix Series
In the first episodes, the couple describe ongoing harassment from the media and wanting to continue Princess Diana’s legacy.
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Is Sight and Sound’s List of 100 Greatest Films Too Tasteful?
To our chief critics, news that “Jeanne Dielman” topped the magazine poll was a welcome jolt. If only there had been more room for the weird and messy.
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Best Songs of 2022
Seventy-two tracks that identify, grapple with or simply dance away from the anxieties of yet another uncertain year.
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Best Art of 2022
This was a year whose high points included an adult-feeling Whitney Biennial, a major survey of contemporary Puerto Rican art, and one of the great big-little exhibitions of all time.