The Coen brothers’ “Inside Llewyn Davis,” which follows a New York folk musician, injected some levity into the Cannes Film Festival.

The Electric Daisy Carnival turned the Citi Field parking lot into a festival for electronic dance music over the weekend.

The news that the Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons, 34, has been named music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is the latest in what has felt like a youth trend in major American ensembles.

In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new book, “Americanah,” the main characters find the race matters where ever they go.

In their first joint interview, the guitarist Pat Metheny and the saxophonist John Zorn talk about Mr. Metheny’s new album, a recording of Mr. Zorn’s music.

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