Arts

There was a point, during Cassandra Trenary’s debut as Juliet last summer at American Ballet Theater, when it became easy to forget that she was performing the role at all. She just...

“I soon realized that I got little satisfaction, and no pleasure, trying to convince some clothing manufacturer to buy periwinkle blue lining from me instead of, say, royal blue from my competitor,”...

A recently discovered letter written by President Abraham Lincoln that offers a glimpse into his thinking during the early part of the Civil War sold this week in Pennsylvania for $85,000, according...

Listen along on Spotify as you read.1. Cher: “All I Really Want to Do” (1965)Cher’s debut single, produced by her then husband Sonny Bono, was this jangly cover of the opening track...

The David Kordansky Gallery has mounted a wonderful wormhole of an exhibition, “Doyle Lane: Weed Pots.” Its point of access is the small unassuming “weed pot,” a frequent accent in modern California...

The Studio Museum in Harlem announced Thursday that it had taken the significant step of parting ways with David Adjaye, the charismatic Ghanaian British architect who is building its new home in...

If the latest flurry of news around two dueling plans to fix New York’s Pennsylvania Station has left you scratching your head, you’re not alone. Various officials I have spoken with are...

‘My Father’s Dragon’Stream it on Netflix.“My Father’s Dragon,” an adaptation of the 1948 children’s novel of the same name by Ruth Stiles Gannett, follows a young boy named Elmer (Jacob Tremblay, recently...

Leaning close in the flickering candlelight, Sonya and the man who makes her stomach flutter share a sneaky midnight snack. He is Astrov, her houseguest, and he is frankly a bit of...

Newly ReviewedQueensEdgar CalelThrough Aug. 7. SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City, Queens; (718) 361-1750; sculpture-center.org. Open Thursday-Monday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m.In important ways the New York contemporary art world was a much...