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On one of the top opera recordings of the year, there isn't a tenor or soprano to be heard, it is conductor Jose Serebrier's labor of exquisite love, Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from the Operas leading the resplendent B...

Election Day is tomorrow, and you can use your playlists to supercharge as you get out and vote. Find tunes that will charge you up with the right energy and send you the motivational message you need to be hearing, as w...

The masterful Jane Monheit performed with violin virtuoso Mark O'Connor Saturday night at New York City's 92Y.

Asking an audience to believe that Chastain could stroll through Washington Square Park without attracting the eye of a single bachelor requires a highly active imagination.

BERLIN — An American Jewish man whose father's extensive collection of unique posters was seized by the Nazis and only returned after years of legal...

During Hurricane Sandy, there were pieces of metal siding being blown down the street outside, clanging around in the wind. And the trees were shaking violently. But in my warm studio, I was at peace and composing up a s...

James Franco's epithet is still in the making, but "jack of all trades" wouldn't be far off. Last week, the actor, artist, screenwriter, blogger, musician,...

NEW YORK — There are some seriously messed-up issues with food in Samuel D. Hunter's smart new play, "The Whale." Hunter examines the way one...

NEW YORK — Carnegie Hall will reopen Wednesday for the first time since Superstorm Sandy forced it to shutter its doors. The concert hall announced...

As soon as Richard Grant, executive director of the Diebenkorn Foundation, glimpsed the three drawings in an Upper East Side apartment several years ago, he...

It's a good thing that the Paul Thiebaud Gallery in San Francisco has two floors. Kim Frohsin, whose work will be on view there through December 22 is currently taking advantage of both levels to present dual shows that ...

Art fairs have come to be judged in terms of money, not content, although there are always exceptions: Documenta, for instance. FIAC 2012 in Paris...

The tone of the evening could best be characterized as lugubrious, focusing upon suffering, torture, and martyrdom. The only moments of relief came in the joyful, celebratory choruses of St. Cecilia's spiritual triumph o...

With the preliminary recovery from Sandy's wrath now underway, artists and art organizations who need financial and other assistance have a variety of sources available....

Call him a musical Nate Silver. Bob Dylan predicted Monday night at a Wisconsin concert that President Obama would win today’s election by ”a landslide,” the AP reports. The singer made his prediction ...

As Americans head to the polls today to determine the outcome of the U.S. presidential election between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, they are encountering...

I ran around like crazy trying to view all the good shows that opened this past weekend. The exceptional photography dealer Catherine Edelman is celebrating her 25th anniversary in the business with a large exhibit of ph...

We're nervous about the election too. Maybe Obama and Romney depicted in food will help.

NEW YORK — Superstorm Sandy, which darkened Broadway while smashing into the eastern U.S. last week, predictably ravaged the box offices around Times Square, with...

By David Rosenberg When was the last time you took a break from shopping to vote—without leaving the mall? Have you ever picked up a...

The political views of some authors are apparent, be it through their writing or their public personas. It's no mystery who Kurt Vonnegut (perhaps the...

Though it lacks a killer soundtrack and isn't as high-definition as you might expect, this NASA simulation of a disk galaxy's birth and development is...