Utopian visions mingle with dystopian nightmares in this ambitious exhibition about the video revolution—a global story of formal radicalism and political struggle. Thanks to the curators Stuart Comer...

“What I produce bears the traces of my life and of what I see everywhere,” the Iranian abstract artist (and force of nature) Behjat Sadr once said. This entrancing survey...

In 1957, while construction was still under way, Frank Lloyd Wright led a reporter through the Guggenheim. As they ascended the spiral, Wright said of the oculus overhead, “You will...

“Horses: The Death of a Rider” (at the Vito Schnabel gallery, through July 29) is a jewel of a show,...

Clay proves to be terrifically funny stuff in “Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture,” an invigorating exhibition...

The conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s interpretive style—dynamic, muscular, decisive, and, well, loud—finds its best outlet in extroverted, highly dramatic pieces. Undertaking the Metropolitan Opera’s annual...

The Renaissance composer William Byrd was a devout Catholic whose abstention from Protestant services landed him on recusancy lists and subjected him to fines in Elizabethan England. One of his...

The pianist and writer Jeremy Denk, a Bach interpreter of refined warmth and insight, spent much of last year touring his interpretation of Book 1 of the composer’s mammoth...

Inspiration struck Joseph Alessi, the New York Philharmonic’s principal trombonist, when he heard the pianist Makoto Ozone and the...

On Site Opera, which specializes in location-specific stagings around the city, is in the middle of a multiyear rollout of Puccini’s “Il Trittico,” a collection of three one-act operas...

For forty years, this company has been a vital institution in the New York flamenco scene but, also, a troupe without a strong identity, relying on a continually changing roster...

Free dance performances in Bryant Park continue with two split bills. The first features two up-and-coming contemporary choreographers: Terk Lewis, formerly with Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and the charismatic and questioning...

As “Summer for the City” kicks off, open-air performances and social-dance evenings take over the plaza at Lincoln Center, through...

The dance offerings in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s series of free, site-specific performances are both known and unknown. In “Zero Station,” the astonishingly attuned duo of Molly Lieber...

A ballet dancer who transformed herself into a cross between a visual artist and a choreographer, Hollander is no stranger to museums, having created site-specific, concept-driven, systems-investigating performances at the...

You could say that Vietnamese food is trending in New York, what with the recent buzz around several new restaurants....

In the days after my most recent meal at Teranga, the new café at the Africa Center, a cultural institution...

According to its Web site, Wayan, a new restaurant on a prime block of Nolita, offers “Indonesian cuisine with a...

It’s a shame that Au Cheval, the new outpost of a Chicago restaurant that makes what many people consider...

Study the menu carefully at O:n°, a new restaurant just outside Koreatown—you could be quizzed on it...

Gus Van Sant’s 1992 movie—his funniest to date but also his least adventurous—tells the story of Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman, pushy and perky), a suburban...

The French director Claire Denis’s three recent collaborations with the actress Juliette Binoche are modernist twists on classic genres,...

The director David Lowery’s bighearted Texan melodrama, set in the seventies, stars Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara as a young married couple, Bob Muldoon and Ruth Guthrie, who try...

John Ford’s bluff and sentimental comedy, from 1952, set in the Irish countryside, is as much an anthropological adventure as a romantic rhapsody. It stars John Wayne as Sean...

The Criterion Channel, a prime site for streaming classic movies, also offers noteworthy new international and independent films, including “Cette...

Among the most fitting festivities of Pride Month is a celebration of the disco queen Sylvester, whose gender-and-genre-bending career ascended with hits such as “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)...

Last month, the complete discography of Moving Shadow, one of drum ’n’ bass’s foundational labels, went live on Spotify. It’s an immense catalogue, studded with many of the...

The years leading up to the recording of Jana Horn’s new album, “The Window Is the Dream,” found the singer with a broken turntable, a wonky laptop speaker, and...

When tickets for the Cure’s North American tour went on sale in March, the front man Robert Smith expressed...

Simple arrangements go an engagingly long way on “How to Love,” the new album by Dan Willson, an Edinburgh-based troubadour who performs as Withered Hand. Recently resurfaced after a nearly...

In 2007, Jennifer Romolini launched a column for Lucky magazine called “eBay Obsessed,” for which she trawled the resale site...

This podcast, hosted, since 2015, by the actor-comedian Griffin Newman and the Atlantic film critic David Sims, dissects the filmographies of notable directors—Elaine May, the Wachowskis, Hayao Miyazaki,...

When the journalist and author Jo Piazza started the podcast “Committed,” in which she interviewed married couples about staying together...

The first season of “The Turning,” an investigative podcast series hosted by the Minnesota-based producer and reporter Erika Lantz, focussed...

Do you ever glance up at the vastness of space and wonder what it all means? Does thinking about black...

Nora Ephron’s iconic romantic comedy “When Harry Met Sally,” from 1989, posed the age-old question of whether a heterosexual...

The premise of Peacock’s “Mrs. Davis,” a new sci-fi series from Tara Hernandez (recently of “The Big Bang Theory”...

If there is a current bard of scattered, middle-age confusion, it’s the actor Kathryn Hahn, who has, in the...

In 2019, Netflix débuted its first “sports docusoap,” “F1: Drive to Survive,” a reality show about Formula 1 racing. It...

The meta television show—one that borders on absurdist art and attempts to subvert the medium itself by calling...

What are writers looking for when they set stories amid the radical movements of the sixties? Some of it, surely, is the moral certainty of that already settled era, its...

Once upon a time in Chicago, a Britney Spears jukebox musical was poised to make its world première. Then, alas,...

Eboni Booth’s delicate, dream-quiet play is a character study in search of a character: thirty-eight-year-old Kenneth (William Jackson Harper, astonishing on the edge of tears) certainly has traits—...

Translating a film to the stage stumps even the great Mira Nair, who conceived and directed this musical adaptation of her stunning 2001 film. It’s a violation of texture,...

Before the play starts, DJ (Khloe Janel) bathes the house with pop and R. & B. from the early two-thousands, but the work itself begins with Marvin Gaye’s “Star-Spangled...

Pickleball mania reaches a fever pitch with CityPickle, in Central Park’s Wollman Rink, where fourteen newly installed courts welcome...

Karl Lagerfeld, who died in 2019, once said, “I am very much down to earth. Just not this earth.” During...

After skipping two years, for obvious reasons, a beloved holiday tradition is back in the streets of East Harlem—...

At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, bird-watchers should prepare to be house-hunters, too: the garden-wide installation “For the Birds,” on view...

When was Rockaway Beach discovered by surfers? One charming, if perhaps apocryphal, story claims that the first person to paddle...