Arts

More than two decades ago, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery acquired a 19th- century album filled with nearly 2,000 silhouette portraits, including those of two former presidents.Before displaying the cut-paper portraits, made...

When you sing the music right, Mozart is like medicine, a balm for the voice. It’s indescribably beautiful, and just so genius. But it can be deceptive. It sounds very simple and...

After spending an afternoon in a crowded gallery, an artist discovers there’s more to view than just what’s on display.Send any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to...

THE HALF MOON, by Mary Beth KeaneThe experience of reading Mary Beth Keane’s absorbing new novel, “The Half Moon,” feels — pleasantly — like breathing, or maybe just living. When we meet...

Yoga was an accident that paid the bills. “I had moved back to the city after college and was living with a friend on Ludlow Street,” Ms. Auder said. “I was depressed...

The creator of “A Black Lady Sketch Show” has achieved a number of comedy “firsts,” but she prefers to focus on who’s next and how she can help them get there.

Emile Griffith fought Benny Paret on March 24, 1962, in a highly anticipated welterweight championship bout at Madison Square Garden.In the 12th round, Griffith knocked Paret into the ropes and pounded him...

“Peter Pan & Wendy” is a case study in one of the agonies of growing up: the realization that some of the entertainment that tickled us as youngsters — as in the...

When did audience members become so wanton and disorderly? Since theaters reopened a year and a half ago, reports of fights, vomiting, public urination, public sex, and the verbal and physical abuse...

This article is part of our Museums special section about how art institutions are reaching out to new artists and attracting new audiences.At the Queens Museum, they’re getting ready for a show....