A teeming MOMA series highlights the political power of Portuguese filmmakers’ innovative methods, from the nineteen-sixties to the present day.

“Plunkitt of Tammany Hall,” a collection of political sermons attributed to a crooked machine boss, is a handy reference for New York City’s current political chaos.

Kenneth Lonergan explores the emptiness of celebrity in “Hold On to Me Darling,” while Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” proves as moving as ever.

“Dear Dickhead” is set in the messy aftermath of a public reckoning, before its characters have achieved any kind of resolution.

The technology’s promise can sound like science fiction—it might help us adapt to a radically different climate, or grow organs for people in need—but experts are also concerned about its potential side effects.

The Met’s new exhibition on Siena—the first of its kind in America—shows how the possibilities of strange, colorful ooze sparked the Renaissance.