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Lexee Smith, who works closely with Addison Rae, is an outlier: a commercial dance artist with an experimental bent. nyti.ms/4jRw98S

Wayne Lewis, the dapper vocalist and keyboardist who was a founder of the group Atlantic Starr, a fixture of the 1980s rhythm and blues scene, has died at 68. nyti.ms/43PvmiE

Red Bull Theater’s smart “The Imaginary Invalid” and Taylor Mac’s dismaying “Prosperous Fools” attempt to engage with Molière’s comedy. nyti.ms/4mXAcmK

Arthur Hamilton wrote the enduring torch song “Cry Me a River” for the 1955 film “Pete Kelly’s Blues.” Ella Fitzgerald’s rendition was cut from the film, but a version sung by Julie London became a hit. nyti.ms/4n1eIW4

Graham Gund, whose sensitivity to historic preservation made him a leading architect in and around Boston in the 1980s and who moved to national prominence in the 1990s with acclaimed buildings for art institutions and college campuses, has died at 84. nyti.ms/3HFJMdP

Harris Yulin, who perpetually played the bad guy both onstage and onscreen, was a man of a hundred faces. Since 1963, he had played at least as many parts, including J. Edgar Hoover, Hamlet and Senator Joseph McCarthy. He has died at 87. nyti.ms/3TnUHvm

What’s on TV this week? “We Were Liars,” the adaptation of E. Lockhart’s Y.A. horror novel comes to Prime Video, and “The Gilded Age” returns for a third season. nyti.ms/4kL9rR8

Joel Shapiro, a celebrated American sculptor whose wooden stick men used the spare forms of Minimalism to express surprising depths of feeling, has died at 83. nyti.ms/3HI8dYa

“A lot of people, I’ve discovered, don’t like history. Which is kind of weird to me.”  This past week, thousands of students from across the country came together for National History Day. nyti.ms/3HGYCkm

The 17-year-old Mason Thames plays Hiccup in the live-action version of “How to Train Your Dragon.” He’s still freaking out at the opportunity. nyti.ms/4l4cbZo

Athletes who fly in wind tunnels are capitalizing on the creative possibilities of the young sport of indoor skydiving. nyti.ms/44b652W

“Television was a one-way medium, its audience tending to become passive,” Dara Birnmaum once said. “I wanted to show the aggressive conditioning forced upon viewers by these programs.” nyti.ms/4e213de

Our critics picked 10 dance performances that have offered a robust alternative to the here and now with a tonic of beauty, rage and wisdom. nyti.ms/4jJWpBX

Does Arnold Schwarzenegger feel competitive with his son Patrick? “I hope and wish that he will do bigger things than I’ve ever done,” Arnold said, adding: “It’s fantastic when kids are performing better than their parents.” nyti.ms/4ecBOFl

Hearing Black American music on the radio at an early age, Mr. Suso dreamed of bringing traditional West African music up-to-date enough to connect with a global audience. He eventually did just that. nyti.ms/43QdFiY

Stefan Herheim, one of opera’s most in-demand provocateurs, has put down roots at Theater an der Wien in Vienna. nyti.ms/45qp0sK

Foday Musa Suso, a griot, kora virtuoso, multi-instrumentalist and composer whose work with artists like Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass helped thrust the sounds of West African tradition into conversation with the world, has died at 75. nyti.ms/3TlX6qj

The judge overseeing Sean Combs’s federal trial dismissed a juror on Monday after the man gave inconsistent information about where he lives, raising concerns that he had been seeking a spot on the jury of the high-profile case. nyti.ms/4jWOe5A

As early as the 1970s, the video artist Dara Birnbaum demonstrated that mass media was fair game as artistic material, and that its power could be turned against itself. She has died at 78. nyti.ms/3HIzJop

Gonzalo Garcia, a former principal at New York City Ballet and San Francisco Ballet, takes over Miami City Ballet as it celebrates its 40th anniversary. nyti.ms/43YHRbS