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Contestants knew to expect laughs when they found out Joan Rivers would be a guest judge on "Project Runway," but she proved a tough critic...

In strange art news this week, New York Magazine reports School of Visual Arts (SVA) MFA candidate Marc Bradley Johnson was recently prevented from debuting...

So this happened this week: Ron Swanson is not exactly known for his smile, so who knew the mustachioed handy-man of "Parks and Recreation" could...

After stepping foot on the music scene in the late 1950s as a solo artist, Jackie Wilson forever changed the face of Pop Culture. The...

In recent years, debates about the meaning and future of America have been dominated by a bellicose right wing, on the one hand, and a progressive intellectual and political establishment disengaged from -- even scornful...

I stepped out at twilight into 30 inches of newly fallen snow, into a world as vivid and haunting and empty as Charles Meryon's mid-nineteenth century Paris. Bob Dylan's Not Dark Yet echoed in my head.

ASHFORD, Ireland — If historical fiction guru Michael Hirst has his way, a legendary Viking raider named Ragnar soon will conquer North America on behalf...

From the creators of the cult gay indie hit "Were The World Mine," SPEAKproductions studio is getting ready to debut their latest work, "The Go...

NEW YORK -- For more than a century, Cooper Union has been a one-of-a-kind meritocracy: Open to any student qualified to walk through its doors....

On the March 1 episode of "Malibu Country" (8:30 p.m. EST on ABC), Blake Shelton joins his country music colleague Reba to play her wayward...

Only six episodes of "Spartacus" remain and dissent is starting to grow among our hero's ranks, as Agron (Dan Feuerriegel), Crixus (Manu Bennett) and Gannicus...

Just when we thought we already knew all of the most commonly misheard song lyrics, Jeff Wysaski is back with another compilation of hilariously wrong...

Sometimes finding a happy medium between the things you love can be a near impossible task, but Murad Osman has managed to capture some of...

I was introduced to Stabler's work last spring -- my first real studio visit -- and I remember feeling filled with a similar light. Gallery 151's A Long Way from Dixie presents a tighter series of works than I had seen a...

It’s 7:58 p.m. Act Four is running its course. Beth Krynicki, stage manager, turns the page of her mocked-up score; she mutters a command into her headset, which Jill Krynicki executes at stage left. Lynn Krynicki...

The artist arrives at the museum without an entourage. He greets the press and publicists with a low-pitched “hello” and moves toward the familiarity of his de facto manager. He wears his usual costume �...

A tiny slip of paper containing a handwritten poem by 13-year-old Charlotte Bronte is expected to fetch as much as $67,000 when it goes to auction next month in London, according to the Telegraph. The newspaper quotes a ...

NEW YORK — The debut of Tom Attea's new play is likely to benefit from some holy timing – he's written a play about a...

Art experts enjoy claiming that markets for fine art have no logic. So for example in 1978 Robert Hughes, of Time magazine, declared that "The...

We often write about the glory days of air travel, back before the TSA, long lines and bag fees. But what did that era look...

Cora Cohen's paintings, now on view at Guided By Invoices, invite the viewer to pause, to slow down and to step out of the demands of our time-bound reality. She does this with work that is the visual equivalent of a lar...

In banging a soundboard in an open piano, feeling both the power and energy, Bill Youse drove home the point that Steinway is the Rolls Royce of piano manufacturers. That makes the abstract artist Lynx the new hood ornam...