NEW YORK — In the center of New York City’s spring greenery, artist Maya Lin has installed the barren, brown trunks of 49 dead Atlantic White Cedar trees in a Manhattan park as a Ghost Forest to warn of the danger of climate change and the threat of rising sea water.

BERLIN —  The Berlin Film Festival, which took place online earlier this year, will show most of the movies that were part of the competition at outdoor cinemas across the German capital next month, taking advantage of falling coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection numbers.

LONDON — Britain’s Prince Harry and US chat show queen Oprah Winfrey will premiere their television documentary series on mental health issues later this month, with singer Lady Gaga and actress Glenn Close among those contributing.

LOS ANGELES — US television network NBC on Monday dropped its broadcast of the Golden Globes ceremony in 2022 after a Hollywood backlash over the ethics of the group that hands out the annual awards for film and television and its lack of diversity.

LONDON — London’s Victoria & Albert museum unveiled a revamped look for its gallery holding the Raphael Cartoons last week, following a refurbishment carried out to mark 500 years since the Italian Renaissance master’s death.

AFTER 17 years, American film director Zack Snyder returns to the world of zombies in Army of the Dead which premieres on Netflix this month.

PHILPOP returns this year with a digital bootcamp for up-and-coming songwriters and composers.

NIPPON Ichi Software’s Poison Control hits all the check marks of a standard game from the Japanese developer and publisher. It’s got fun characters, a nice art style, and a witty story to wrap it all up. Blend all these together inside a third-person shooter cum role-playing game hybrid, and you have the makings of an extremely interesting game, with a lot of personality. After all, what other game throws you in hell to clean it all up?

BUCHAREST — Visitors to Dracula’s castle are more likely to find puncture marks in their arms than their necks this month, after medics set up a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination center at the Transylvanian attraction.

LOS ANGELES —  Wrath of Man, a heist thriller starring Jason Statham, is leading box office charts with its $8.1 million debut.

Billionaire Elon Musk dropped a surprise early in his hotly anticipated turn as host of Saturday Night Live, saying in his monologue that he “is the first person with Asperger’s” to host the show, before clowning through skits for the first global livestream of the NBCUniversal comedy show.

THE PAÎNDEMIC has forced many of us to stay at home. Women who once had to juggle duties at work and home now do so on an exponential scale, as the division between the spheres have been blurred in work-from-home setups. The same delineation has also affected how we dress  —  while working outside gave the opportunity to both show off and show purpose, what’s the point now, when the most any others see of us are locked into the dimensions of a small computer monitor?