New York Times - International Arts

An author and sportsman, he helped create the game of paintball and wrote the book and movie that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name.

A self-taught ornithologist, he won a MacArthur fellowship for his precise, resplendent illustrations that appeared in definitive field guides to tropical songbirds.

Ludwig Göransson’s soundtrack for Christopher Nolan’s film resurrects an ancient instrument, the aulos, to evoke the tormenting allure of the sirens.The depiction of an aulos being played in ancient Greek art. It appears in both martial scenes and domestic ones, like this banquet.

Over 40 years after his breakthrough at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the actor tackles Chekhov and the Bard in two productions that subtly resonate with his own story.

A newly restored 1979 documentary examines how Linton Kwesi Johnson’s dub-infused poetry documented the challenges faced by Britain’s Black Caribbean population.Linton Kwesi Johnson in “Dread Beat an Blood.”