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What Postmasters Gallery curator Magda Sawon calls the "canonization" of Gerhard Richter inspired her to respond with a witty, stimulating group show, "Richteriana." The...
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"They have Hendrix-ed me," says cult-hero novelist Padgett Powell of the unlikely wild success in the U.K. of his last book, The Interrogative Mood, a novel composed entirely...
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New York City Ballet
June 5 through 10
American Ballet Theatre
June 21 through 23
What better ballet to see in June—preferably with a lover—than one based on...
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ARIES [March 21–April 19] "My soul is a fire that suffers if it doesn't burn," said Jean Prevost, a writer and hero of the French Resistance during World War II. "I need...
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Once upon a time, scandal equaled death, but that was then; show-biz careers have become as unkillable as franchise films, reality shows, and the Olive Garden.
There are so...
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It's 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky coast of a fictional New England isle. Twelve-year-old Sam (Jared Gilman), a scrawny, bespectacled outcast with an unusual...
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There was a time in Spain when pork was the law. The Spanish Inquisition ramped up in the 1400s to brutally enforce a Christian culture. So while Spain's Jewish and Muslim...
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Restaurant dining outdoors is one of the greatest pleasures a New York summer has to offer. In fact, the city has long since surpassed Paris in the breadth and excellence of...
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Seven years ago, when Little Pepper opened on Roosevelt Avenue across from the Bland housing projects, it was hard to get diners to go there. Located on the subterranean level...
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The year is nearly halfway over, and in an effort to keep up, I've been crafting a Spotify playlist containing the notable albums that have come out this year. Even though...
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Last month, seeking an interview with the elusive Sacramento experimental noise-rap band Death Grips, I e-mailed the address posted at the bottom of the band's website,...
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Twenty-seven years ago, Alan Cumming made his professional theater debut, appearing as Malcolm in a Glaswegian Macbeth. This summer, he'll return to the tragedy, reprising his...
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Like most theater critics, I am a slow learner. (Why else would we still be theater critics?) So I didn't realize, until last month, that the Broadway League was trying to...
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Just down the street from the Arab Spring but eclipsed by its fiery limelight, a modest popular movement is spreading, which hopes to bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian...
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It would seem churlish to say that Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway lack for anything. We have more than 200 brick-and-mortar theaters (to say nothing of parks, repurposed...
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Ellsworth Kelly
June 5 through September 3
America's foremost abstract painter, it turns out, is a closet realist. Who knew? This summer, the Met will have proof of Kelly's...
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In just two feature films, writer/director Joachim Trier has proved to be unparalleled in exposing the foibles and delusions of all the sad young literary men—or of one...
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Can any one of the millions of Americans who saw Men in Black 2 in 2002 describe its plot today? A single scene? I saw both MIB movies upon their original release and have as...
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When his predecessor first took office, even basic familiarity with a Web browser was considered the exclusive domain of geeks, but Mayor Bloomberg kicked off his 2012 with a...
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Despite spending the previous evening performing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and hosting a celebratory after-party at downtown hot spot Le Baron, Santi White, a/k/a...
