Caravaggio, Baroque’s Bad Boy, Gets a Blockbuster Show in Rome

Some 430 years after the Lombard artist Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio, swept into Rome to enchant, and land, well-placed patrons with his bold yet intimate artistry, Caravaggio is again grabbing the spotlight, with a blockbuster exhibition at the National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini. Chronologically organized, the exhibition, titled “Caravaggio 2025,” … Read more

Russian Missile Strikes Hotel in Zelensky’s Hometown

new video loaded: Russian Missile Strikes Hotel in Zelensky’s Hometown transcript Back transcript Russian Missile Strikes Hotel in Zelensky’s Hometown Residents and aid workers said they received warnings only a few minutes before a missile struck a hotel in the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelensky in central Ukraine. We got to the hotel at 8 … Read more

‘Oedipus’ and ‘Rocky Horror Show’ Are Returning to Broadway

Roundabout Theater Company, the largest nonprofit on Broadway, will present three very different classics next season: a Greek tragedy, a drawing-room comedy and a monster musical. The English writer and director Robert Icke’s “Oedipus,” a new version of the seminal Sophocles drama about a king who inadvertently kills his father and marries his mother, will … Read more

New Zealand Dismisses Top Diplomat to U.K. After His Remarks on Trump

New Zealand on Thursday recalled its top diplomat in Britain after he made comments questioning President Trump’s understanding of history at a public event, in a sign of the unease and sensitivities around expressing disagreements with the Trump administration. Phil Goff, New Zealand’s high commissioner to Britain — the equivalent of an ambassador between Commonwealth … Read more