Wall Steet Journal: Entertainment

The cellist’s plea to save this Louis Kahn-designed musical boat from the scrapyard has drawn bids from Estonia, France, the U.K. and U.S.; The 90-year-old conductor, and skipper, moves on

From his early days as a superagent to his current reign as NBCUniversal’s vice chairman, Meyer has built a career on relationships. In his first profile in nearly two decades, the industry heavyweight goes off-script.

In her next film, Florence Foster Jenkins, directed by Stephen Frears, Meryl Streep gives full-throated life to an eccentric socialite and self-styled diva—and her uproarious off-key singing.

This month, a full-size commentary on James McNeill Whistler’s iconic Peacock Room goes on display at the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington, D.C.

With the release of her new book, the actress and fashion darling talks about the thrill of the vintage-shopping hunt and the awards-show dress that split when she sat down.

Medical ethics are at odds with the ideal of human perfection in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘The Birthmark.’

Through a half-century, the AACM has grown from a collective of ambitious Chicago musicians to an engine of creative inspiration and practical outreach that has touched nearly all corners of modern music.

British composer Benjamin Britten and American poet Sylvia Plath together in ‘The Night Dances’; the JACK Quartet in the Lincoln Center Atrium series; and more in this week’s Classical Scene.

Ralph Gardner Jr. learns about still lifes from his cousin George Wachter, who is Sotheby’s co-chairman of Old Master Paintings Worldwide.

‘Santu Mofokeng: A Metaphorical Biography’ at the Walther Collection; Jitka Hanzlová’s horses at Yancey Richardson; and ‘Jean Pagliuso’s Poultry and Raptor Suites’ at Mary Ryan Gallery.