| Opera Company Sues to Collect $17 Million From the Kennedy Center
- The Washington National Opera, which left the center amid the Trump administration’s takeover, says its efforts to retrieve its endowment and other assets have been blocked.
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:45:39 +0000
|
| Some Leftists Are Boycotting This Film. Everyone Should Watch It.
- The inanity of the leftists who’d censor such a film shouldn’t distract us from the right-wing nightmare it reveals.
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:37:48 +0000
|
| Rick Jackson, Georgia Governor Candidate, Is Also a Film Producer Battling the IRS
- Rick Jackson, a billionaire, wants to be Georgia’s next governor. But the I.R.S. has questioned how his low-budget movies turned into tax windfalls.
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:14:07 +0000
|
| They Bought a Famous Puzzle in Cryptography. Now They’re Opening It Up.
- A San Francisco company paid nearly $1 million for the solution to an unsolved code in Kryptos, a sculpture on the C.I.A. grounds. Soon it will become an online challenge.
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:07:08 +0000
|
| David Hockney’s Sense of Style Never Wavered
- The painter David Hockney’s clothes roared with mirth and maximalism.
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:34:16 +0000
|
| Brawls, Biting and Bliss in a City Craving a Knicks Championship
- Decades of bottled-up hopes and frustrations have created a frenzy around the New York Knicks that has brought out the worst in some fans.
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:27:44 +0000
|
| What the SpaceX I.P.O. Means for You, and a Giant Act of Vandalism in D.C.
- Plus, the Friday news quiz.
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:23:32 +0000
|
| Fact-Check: Trump’s Claims About His Arch, Reflecting Pool Repairs and Other Renovation Projects
- President Trump has made false or exaggerated claims of a Civil War-era push for a triumphal arch, hundreds of millions spent on repairs on the Reflecting Pool, and an absence of working fountains.
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:05:16 +0000
|
| ‘Disclosure Day’ Review: Spielberg Plays His Greatest Cosmic Hits
- In a fast-paced sci-fi fantasy, infused with epic intentions and starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor and Colman Domingo, the filmmaker brings the rest of us home.
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:02:16 +0000
|
| With iPhones and Faxes, David Hockney Embraced Tech
- Polaroids and photocopiers also gave the artist possibilities for creating in forms vastly different from his paintings.
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:44:37 +0000
|
| Kennedy Center Appeals Order to Remove Trump’s Name
- One day before a deadline to take the president’s name off its facade, the arts institution appealed a federal judge’s ruling that also temporarily blocked it from closing.
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:42:17 +0000
|
| David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88
- His colorful figurative paintings were both conservative and iconoclastic, defying the dominant abstract schools of the mid-20th century.
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:19:45 +0000
|
| Knicks in Five? Please Don’t Tempt the Jinx Gods.
- Some Knicks fans have predicted series sweeps. Others, conditioned by decades of failure, pay more heed to jinxes and superstitious rituals.
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:17:06 +0000
|
| SpaceX’s I.P.O. Will Help Fulfill Elon Musk’s Political Vision of America
- The SpaceX I.P.O. will enable its founder to build — and scale — his peculiar vision of society.
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:08:40 +0000
|
| Risk Strait of Hormuz or Wait? Shipping Companies Face a Costly Dilemma.
- With more than 500 ships still stranded in the Persian Gulf, pressure on the shipowners and sailors is growing by the day.
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:07:49 +0000
|
| A Dangerous Limbo Leaves Iran, and the World, Between Peace and War
- Since announcing a nominal cease-fire two months ago, Iran, Israel and the U.S. have remained locked in low-intensity violence that has become a new normal.
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:30:13 +0000
|
| Inside Cesar Chavez’s Labor Union, Women Faced a Culture of Sexual Abuse
- Many of the women who helped lead the fight for Latino civil rights say they were quietly waging their own battles with harassment, misogyny and sexual assault inside the powerful United Farm Workers union.
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:48:10 +0000
|
| A Trillionaire?
- SpaceX is expected to make Elon Musk even richer when its stock begins trading today.
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:24:46 +0000
|
| What I Learned From David Hockney
- The curator Norman Rosenthal knew the artist for over 60 years and still discovered something new when they collaborated on a final blockbuster show.
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:21:12 +0000
|
| How SpaceX’s IPO Compares With Saudi Aramco, Uber and Others
- The previous record was set over six years ago. But SpaceX, whose stock begins trading on Friday, is on track to raise tens of billions of dollars more.
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:08:14 +0000
|
