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NEW YORK -- They're platinum. They're "fascinating." And now One Direction is MTV's 2012 Artist of the Year. MTV says the fivesome is "the clear...

Damien Hirst--the insanely wealthy British artist-provocateur famous for encasing a dead shark in formaldehyde--has severed ties with the well-heeled Gagosian Gallery, which represented him for the last 17...

On Wednesday night at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, Vocal Arts D.C. presented an old-fashioned recital by a journeyman singer. It was completely pleasant and completely unspectacular. Vinson Cole, the teno...

There's just one thing I'd like to clarify. It sounds like I'm railing against the establishment, and their mistake of rejecting me. But here's the thing -- I don't think they were wrong.

Two fathers have teamed up to make a controversial documentary about an act of terrorism that claimed the life of one man's son and put...

American pianist André Watts returned to Lincoln Center last week to play four concerts with the New York Philharmonic, performing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No.2 with Slovakian conductor Juraj Valcuha.

In this day and age, there is almost a digital buffer between people and the lives we live. Nearly every interaction is filtered through some sort of screen. L.A.-based fine artist Andrea LaHue, or street artist Random A...

It's hard not to smile when we see one of Keith Haring's strong and simple street art specimens. The thick graphic lines, bright colors and...

Breathe through the nerves... Remember you like to sing... Don't do this unless you love it... Instead of trying to get the gig, just be the best you can be, and forgive yourself and others for circumstances beyond your ...

Somewhere, in the noise and delicious chaos of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Nam June Paik exhibition, the Korean-born trailblazer of video art can be seen on a screen saying this: “I would rather be...

The rockabilly cats portraying Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins in the stage musical “Million Dollar Quartet” don’t come from Broadway. They’re not even actors; they�...

Time was when a feature film about classical music was an excuse to get a lot of great musical stars on-screen. The renowned ­pianist and sometime statesman Ignace Jan Paderewski played in 1937’s “Moonlig...

All good things must come to end, including Alec Baldwin on "30 Rock." Baldwin took to Twitter to share a photo from his last day...

As a playwright, I relish the abundance of serious drama on offer in what many consider the theatre capital of the world; I also admire how seriously Londoners take their theater.

Remember Mummenschanz? The name might throw you, but one look at the Swiss masked theater troupe and I guarantee you'll experience a flutter of familiarity....

Need to snag a Carl Kasell Autograph Pillow for the public radio fanatic in your life? NPR is doing its part to scratch that item off old-time ‘Morning Edition’ listeners’ wish lists with a stock of K...

Tom Cruise? Really? That’s the question that Lee Child, author of the popular Jack Reacher thriller novel series, has been fielding for the past year about the casting of Cruise in the lead role of “Jack Rea...

Try taking a look at ABC’s “The Bachelor” franchise by the numbers, and it’s impossible to count the hot tub scenes, candlelit dinners, dramatic confrontations and on-camera breakdowns that have...

A 22-year-old New York City-based artist, Vegezzi is making his name with a recently published book of photographs depicting jaunts through the boroughs of New York City stealing (and exploring) spaces like only a gang o...

Through Dec. 24, visit Sassanova for a new 30 percent-off discount every day. The deals will rotate, so one day you’ll get the reduced price on kids’ clothing, the next day, shoes or handbags or jewelry. 10...

Jack Reacher, the hero of Lee Child’s wildly popular thriller novels who is finally coming to the big screen Dec. 21, fails to pass any number of smell tests, some quite literal. He’s a voluntarily homeless...

Ever hear of R.E.M.? How about The Smiths? If so, it's unlikely you would have if it weren't for college DJs. Having a cool radio...