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  • Zen Paintings at Japan Society Show a Master at Work

    How do you make an artwork sing? Let your unconscious mind do it. That’s the message...

  • What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in April

    Travis Diehl covers Marian Zazeela’s abstract calligraphy, Christopher Baliwas’s “Skin 2 Skin” show and Luigi Zuccheri’s...

  • The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance

    An interracial soirée that included intellectual and artistic luminaries set in motion one of the most...

  • Lil Nas X Runs New York Half Marathon in Coach Sneakers

    The rapper and singer, clad in bulky designer sneakers and the official race T-shirt, was a...

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    Climate Protesters Disrupt Broadway Play Starring Jeremy Strong

    A performance of a new production of Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” was interrupted by...

  • Artist Featured in ‘Erotic Carnival’ Ad Campaign Sues Museum of Sex

    Julia Sinelnikova says the museum plastered an image of a kiss with a girlfriend all over...

  • 2024 New York International Children’s Film Festival Preview

    A range of films, many of them animated, some hilarious, some serious, bubble up at this...

  • Melvin Way, Outsider Artist Who Depicted Inner Mysteries, Dies at 70

    He struggled with schizophrenia, but he drew praise for the intricate diagrams he drew on scraps...

  • Jeffrey Gibson Will Bring Sculptures of Ancestral Spirits to Met Facade

    The Met named its 2025 art commissions, which include Gibson’s facade sculptures and a roof garden...

  • Charles Stendig Dies at 99; Introduced Fanciful Furniture From Abroad

    For nearly two decades he traveled to factories throughout Europe, sometimes behind the Iron Curtain, to...

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    What to Know About This Crazily Crowded Broadway Spring Season

    Why are 18 shows opening in March and April, and which one is for you? Our...

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    Broadway’s Crunchtime Is Also Its Best Life

    Eighteen openings in two months will drive everyone crazy. But maybe there should be even more.

  • Finding Your Family

    For many, the bonds formed by choice can be as profound, as tortured, as those into...

  • Lucy Sante Discusses Her Memoir and Her Gender Transition

    In her memoir “I Heard Her Call My Name,” the author reflects on her life and...

  • Raven Chacon’s Sound-and-Art Symphony at Swiss Institute

    At the Swiss Institute, a Pulitzer-Prize winner makes art warmed — socially and spiritually — by...

  • Goodbye Mostly Mozart, Hello Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center

    The renamed ensemble will present a mix of new and old in its first season under...

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    Rubin Museum, Haven for Asian Art, to Close After 20 Years

    It is the first major art museum in New York to close within recent memory. The...

  • Jury Finds Sotheby’s Did Not Help in Any Fraud of Russian Oligarch

    Dmitry Rybolovlev had accused the auction house of aiding a Swiss art dealer who he says...

  • When Master Photographers Spin the Color Wheel

    A centenary exhibition of Saul Leiter’s photos reveals his painterly way with Kodachrome. And a new...

  • Broadway Shows to See This Winter and Spring

    A guide to the shows onstage now and scheduled to arrive this winter and spring, including...

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    The Man in the Sequined Tuxedo Who Built a Dance Community

    Joe Lanteri, whose New York City Dance Alliance turns 30 this year, wants his dancers to...

  • Phill Niblock, Dedicated Avant-Gardist of Music and Film, Dies at 90

    Making music with no melody or rhythm and films with no plot, he became a darling...

  • Eric Berryman Channels the Folklore of His Ancestors

    In his theater work, Eric Berryman injects forgotten voices from the past into the present moment.

  • Martha Diamond, Painter Who Captured New York Vistas, Dies at 79

    Her work, at the border of representation and abstraction, influenced younger painters but did not gain...