April 15, 2024

A musical about the groundbreaking Art Deco painter is vocally thrilling but historically a blur.

A shrub in impoverished Nepal now supplies the raw material for the bank notes used in Asia’s most sophisticated financial system.

Frustrated by higher prices, many Pennsylvanians with fresh pay raises and solid finances report a sense of insecurity lingering from the pandemic.

Lawmakers raising national security concerns and seeking to disconnect a major Chinese firm from U.S. pharmaceutical interests have rattled the biotech industry. The firm is deeply involved in development and manufacturing of crucial therapies for cancer, cystic fibrosis, H.I.V. and other illnesses.

From Japan, Ando designed an exhibition for Zeng, the Chinese painter, which generates a sense of surprise and discovery — what LACMA’s director calls “a strange, poetic thing.”