It started as a quarrel on a quiet Stockholm street, but the case of ASAP Rocky, the rapper detained in Sweden on a preliminary charge of assault, has escalated to become an international incident, with politicians and diplomats weighing in, and his celebrity backers pulling strings at the White House. On Friday a court in Stockholm approved a request from prosecutors to hold Rocky in detention for six more days, on the grounds that the rapper was a flight risk. A spokesman for the Swedish Prosecution Authority said another hearing…

“My maternal grandfather, who was a humble gardener, loved Verdi and Puccini,” the Danish composer Poul Ruders recalled recently. “And when I was 10 or 11, he took me first to see ‘La Bohème,’ and then to see ‘Aida.’” “But the experience,” he added, “did not turn me into an opera freak. I only know a few operas — perhaps four or five.” He was being either modest or mischievous: Mr. Ruders has by now composed five operas of his own. As he spoke, seated alongside Becky and David Starobin…

To hear Beyoncé speak is such a rare occurrence that any new instance of it, no matter how fleeting, feels special, like catching a glimpse of a shooting star. So naturally, her involvement with Disney’s remake of “The Lion King”— she voices the adult Nala and created a companion album featuring new music inspired by the movie — has dominated the film’s promotional tour, complete with a meeting between Queen Bey and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, at the British premiere. But how much (non-singing) Queen Bey should audiences expect to…

EL PASO — The young migrants often arrived at night. They were teenagers from Central and South America, brought by border agents to the Tornillo Detention Facility and led to rows of metal bunk beds in military tents ringed by barbed wire. Human touch, even a simple hug, was rare inside this secured temporary city, where nearly 3,000 unaccompanied minors at a time were confined between June 2018 and January 2019. In this harsh environment, the Chihuahuan Desert, imagination and faith helped them make it through. The Rev. Rafael Garcia,…

There’s London and then there’s Richard Curtis’s London. The 62-year-old filmmaker has spun the city into a cozy, romantic oasis in back-to-back cinematic hits — from “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and “Notting Hill” to ”Love Actually.” His latest film is “Yesterday,” a comedy about the enduring power of the Beatles. Mr. Curtis was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and moved to England when he was 11. He credits his outsider perspective for the snow globe version of London that he portrays in films. “I think in some ways it…

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. If you’re interested in hearing from The Times regularly about great TV, sign up for our Watching newsletter and get recommendations straight to your inbox. ‘Nothing’ to Rally Around The hosts pounced on President Trump’s response to criticism of his Wednesday rally in North Carolina, where people in the crowd chanted “send her back” — referring to Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born congresswoman from Minnesota….

The Studio Museum in Harlem is a movable feast these days. With a new David Adjaye-designed headquarters under construction on West 125th Street, the museum is distributing its exhibitions among various locations around town. Its annual artists-in-residence show has found a berth at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens. Now 50 years old, the residence program has long had a reputation for being a career clincher, though it could be argued that this year’s three participants — Allison Janae Hamilton, Tschabalala Self and Sable Elyse Smith — were already…

What’s Streaming QUEER EYE Stream on Netflix. After bringing their infectious brand of self-love to New York City for World Pride, the Fab Five are back for the fourth season of “Queer Eye,” serving up new looks, new renovations and newfound confidence to a handful of men and women in the Kansas City area. And this season, the gang gets personal, revisiting the grooming specialist Jonathan Van Ness’s alma mater, to make over his former orchestra teacher. “You have literally saved people’s lives,” Van Ness tells the teacher in the…

Even within the gruesome history of torture and execution devices, it ranks as a thing of unspeakable cruelty — a harrow that punctures the skin of the convicted prisoner by writing the crime of which he has been accused on the surface of his naked body, over and over again. The process takes 12 hours altogether. And the condemned man is never told beforehand why this is happening to him. That instrument of annihilation sprang from the toxically fertile mind of Franz Kafka, who made it the centerpiece of his…

But the absurdity and sarcasm quickly pall; Ms. Feiffer evidently wants the audience to experience the household’s emotional depletion firsthand. (She says she sextupled the title for maximum annoyance.) Seated on two sides of a narrow platform cluttered with detritus from various decades between 1900 and now, theatergoers can’t help but feel they are trapped along with the Prozorovs in an eternal (or at least a 95-minute) headache. Anachronism and anomie are the keynotes of Mr. Cullman’s inventive production. That platform set, by Mark Wendland, is lit by Ben Stanton…