Jay-Z Teams Up With Samsung to Release New... ArtsBeat The announcement was made in a three-minute commercial during halftime of the NBA finals on Sunday night. 1 day ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Chappelle Will Lead Comedy Tour ArtsBeat The comedian Dave Chappelle will headline a monthlong comedy tour that will include Flight of the Conchords and Hannibal Buress. 1 day ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Talking ‘Mad Men’: In the Echo Chamber ArtsBeat On "Mad Men," certain themes reasserted themselves this week -- or was it simply repetition? 1 day ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Anatomy of a Scene Video: ‘Man of Steel’ ArtsBeat Zack Snyder, the director of "Man of Steel," narrates a scene from the film. 1 day ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

A Shot of Sublime Dread at Bonnaroo ArtsBeat Swans came through with grooves in their Sunday afternoon performance at Bonnaroo. But they refused to be groovy, and that felt like healthy dissent. 1 day ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Mainstream Pop Amid Smaller, Obsessive Pas... ArtsBeat Saturday at Bonnaroo started with the explosive and recondite and opened out gradually, over about twelve hours, into open, cool-headed, mass sing-alongs. 1 day ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

TimesTalks Luminato Festival Video: Joni M... ArtsBeat The singer, songwriter and painter Joni Mitchell talks with The Times's chief pop music critic, Jon Pareles, about her work and her life. 1 day ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Some Misses and Hits at Boston Early Music... ArtsBeat At the Boston Early Music Festival a concert by the Hilliard Ensemble disappoints but Convivium Musicum saves the (next) day. 2 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Amid Turmoil in Turkey, Musician Loses Piano ArtsBeat The police were said to have taken the piano and vehicle of Davide Martello, who had been playing on and off in Gezi Park, in Taksim Square. 2 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

TimesTalks Luminato Festival Video: Atom E... ArtsBeat The film and stage director Atom Egoyan talks with Daniel J. Wakin, deputy culture editor at The Times. 2 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story