Edward Hopper

America First: MOMA's Homegrown Modernism

Peeping Ed: Watching Hopper Watch

Summer Guide: Art

Bitter Homes and Gardens: 'Better Homes' at SculptureCenter

The Old, Weird Modernity

George Bellows gets a big retrospective at the Met

Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters

A Visit With Art-World Hero Chuck Close

Getting some face time, as he gears up for his new fall show

Argento—Cinema in the Blood

Bowery Diner: A Cup of Joe and Some Whelks, Please

A classic kind of American restaurant goes upscale in New York 2012

Edward Hopper's Nighthawks Diner Most Likely Never Existed

​While untold millions have gazed upon the brightly lit, lonely confines of the diner pictured in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, the West Village eatery that was said to inspire it most likely never existed at all.

Here's Another Way to Celebrate Easter: Dessert and a History Lesson

AleBovini/FlickrSweet, sweet Sunday.​ Easter, whether you celebrate it or not, has one universally appealing factor - treats, and lots of them. As if that's not enough, the bunny brought New York the nicest weather of the year, which makes everything much sweeter. So, we've found an ideal wa ... More >>

Vijay Iyer Tops the Fourth Annual Village Voice Jazz Poll

Historicity and records from other fresh faces take our 2009 jazz poll

Buschel's Missing Person Gestures Towards Missing Profundity

New York Film Festival 2009: The Year of Over-80 Filmmakers

100 is the new 60

Frozen Yogurt on a Frozen Evening

It's 21 degrees outside, one of the coldest evenings of the year, and a frigid wind is whipping up Bleecker Street, scattering trash and making black plastic bags fly through the air like witches. Oh! City of wonders: There in the window of Pinkberry's late this Sunday evening sits a ... More >>

New Stamps: Old TV, Liberal Activist Judge, Poe, Others

The Post Office has announced its commemorative stamps for 2009. Alaskan and Hawaiian statehood are honored, which should please Sarah Palin and Barack Obama, and four stamps depict stages in the career of Abraham Lincoln on the bicentennial of his birth. Literature is represented by Edgar Allen Poe ... More >>

POP Montreal Interview: Poster Boy Jack Dylan

Are You Living in Pete Hamill's Brooklyn, Or Ours?

Edward Hopper, Lonely Guy

Etchings from this Yankee existentialist come to Craig F. Starr

De Cock Crows

A Belgian installation artist uses MoMA as the subject of his MoMa show

No Context: Tony Conrad at Performa

America Cannes

Art imitates life as U.S. directors command this year's fest, with only China rivaling for celluloid domination

Behind Enemy Lines

Letters sees WWII from Japanese POV, as Eastwood continues to chip away at the hero myth

Pablum Picasso

Moving beyond its current Picasso exhibit, a new vision for the Whitney

Playing It Straight

Alas, the Whitney now looks almost as conservative and canonical as the Modern

What's Stranger Than Paradise?

Or, How We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the 'Burbs

After The Rehearsal

Flirting with Disaster: Discussing Days of Heaven and Dylan classics with Sam Shepard

Listings

Being Here

The United States of Anxiety

They Aim to Please

Race Against Time

Spite Club

Terence Davies on the Cruel Inventions of ‘The House of Mirth’

Finding the Modern Tradition’s Common Denominator

Theater

Heroic Comrades, Meet the Common Man

Shadow of the Ivory Tower

NYU'S building frenzy blocks the sun and burns the community

Our Century, Ourselves

Imitation of Life

Screen Test

World's Hardest Movie Quiz 1999