Art
Seeing the playwright's process, the countless drafts, and the lukewarm reception of his early plays is a reminder that the struggle to make art can be overcome — and that we should, through the hardship, carry on.
Books
The authors of a book about Lynch's influence on art try too hard to crack the mystery of his film Mulholland Drive.
Performance
Transmissions shows, deftly and in detail, that ballet is not the rigid art form that some envision it to be.
Art
An exhibit at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology looks at society's obsession with the body through garments from the late 1700s to our time.
Performance
A Nutcracker that keeps the wintertime magic of Tchaikovsky's opulent score, while speaking the language of Brooklyn.
Books
I'm Not Here, written under a pseudonym, uneasily follows an immigrant family as they go about their everyday life.
Art
The first US retrospective of the works of Richard Gerstl provides a detailed profile of the painter who is known more for his tempestuous personality and his tragic death than for his artistic innovations.
Books
Jane Mai and An Nguyen's So Pretty/Very Rotten attempts to give a broader sociological context to this subculture that quietly began in the Tokyo district of Harajuku in the 1970s.
Books
Clinical psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison's Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire intimately details the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's mental illness and how it shaped his poetic output.
Books
In the first episode, Barron team up with Sasha and Malia Obama to investigate a “mysterious anomaly” brought about by the rise of the 45th president.
Art
When American Ballet Theatre decided to revive Richard Strauss’s surrealist, saccharine 'Whipped Cream,' Mark Ryden was the ideal candidate to create the set and costumes.