Performance
Set against the economic optimism and then despair of a family-owned paper company going public, Trade Practices, presented by HERE on Governors Island, asks audience members to invest in its story lines. The immersive theater production that kicked off on Labor Day Weekend stages the experience aro
Art
It isn't often you're given the luxury of unwinding in a library aboard an old vessel, unless you're Charles Darwin or Steve Zissou.
Opinion
Did you know that, if you have enough money in New York City, you can buy a public street? OK, not buy, but lease one, for a really long time. That's what Kaufman Astoria Studios did in Queens, and someone is not happy about it.
Art
While dating back 3,000 years, no one recognized how special the oracle bones of the Shang Dynasty were until 1899.
Art
What if the day Picasso and Le Corbusier had spent wandering the Unité d'habitation in Marseille turned into a real structural collaboration? Italian illustrator Federico Babina has imagined such collisions of visual artists with architects in a series called Artisect.
In Brief
In order to visit the Galleria Borghese in Rome, you must buy timed tickets online in advance.
News
As the official Guggenheim Helsinki design competition drew to a close this week, a rival contest was announced: Next Helsinki.
Art
At the height of the Iraq War in 2006, attorney Susan Burke invited fashion photographer Chris Bartlett to focus his lens on a new subject.
Art
Last Sunday afternoon, as baffled tourists watched, an old-fashioned “Happening” occurred under the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Art
DULUTH, Minn. — It was a magnificent sight when it first launched. Floating 20 feet from shore, Sean Connaughty’s “Ark of the Anthropocene” seemed to glow on the dark waves of Lake Superior, drawing on real science, Biblical narrative, and science fiction all at once.
Art
Within and beyond the American artworld, the politics of race have assumed a central position this year with a degree of ugliness that feels particularly virulent.
Comics
Last weekend, just about all our friends from Brooklyn with kids took over the hotel.