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With a new fall offering, Yale becomes the latest university to offer a course on the cultural impact of the Puerto Rican star.

Her "Bunheads" and other ballet shows were canceled quickly. This new series, created with her husband, centers on fictional companies in New York and Paris.

The goal is to make the school's programs more accessible and to ease the burden on graduates pursuing careers in the arts.

This year's colorful and wide-ranging edition of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers fair is a bursting capsule history of the medium.

The new rule, announced this week by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, was greeted with laughter and disbelief that it had not been required all along.

R.B. Schlather's vibrant staging of Handel's "Giulio Cesare," playing in the Hudson Valley, is a bright spot in a bleak landscape for Baroque work.

Ryan J. Haddad follows up his Obie-winning "Dark Disabled Stories" with a rom-com.

Devotees of the human figure, Cecily Brown and Christina Ramberg turn the Benjamin Franklin Parkway into a showplace for the female gaze.

New research undermines the traditional view that Shakespeare was a distant, neglectful husband to his wife, Anne.

The Chinese artist's commentary "on what is unfolding politically and culturally in our time" has a lighthearted note: cat-patterned camouflage. The work inaugurates a new art series at the park.