“The Cleveland Show,” which will feature Seth MacFarlane’s co-creator and fellow “Family Guy” writer Mike Henry, illustrates Mr. MacFarlane’s clout at Fox.

On Friday, France celebrated the famed anthropologist and author Claude Lévi-Strauss’s centenary with films, lectures and free admission to the museum he inspired, the Musée du Quai Branly.

After years of dramas sprinkled with nonwhite supporting actors, the excitement surrounding Barack Obama could usher in more minorities in leading dramatic roles.

As promised by its frigid title, “Antarctica” serves up gay life in Tel Aviv as a frozen wasteland of casual hookups and emotional vacancy.

Each week seems to bring more releases of television series and specials on DVD. While it is impossible to see everything, a critic can still cull the best of the year, even if from a vaguely arbitrary list.

Andreas Gursky at Matthew Marks, Al Held at Paul Kasmin Gallery, Neil Jenney at Barbara Mathes and more.

A German jury has selected the Italian architect Francesco Stella to rebuild the Berlin City Palace.

Mr. Gibson was a playwright who had a gift for creating strong, popular female characters and wrote “The Miracle Worker.”

Dorothea Röschmann is to perform the role of Donna Elvira in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.”

“Rosie Live,” the NBC variety show starring Rosie O’Donnell, attracted only modest interest on Wednesday.