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"Cutting" 12 " x 9 " 2012, Graphite and watercolor on paper. From the series "Everyday Balaclava" I've been thinking about activism lately. Public acts...

To those who are uninformed and not exposed to significant experiences or opportunities for education in the arts, the visual arts are often relegated to the same realms as pseudoscience.

A vocal coach in Canada is creating a lot of buzz with his titillating technique for improving his students' singing skills: He puts sex toys...

Bobby Brown spent a mere eight hours behind bars Wednesday, reports the L.A. Times, getting released almost as soon as he reported to serve a 55-day sentence for DUI. No VIP treatment for the '80s R&B star, just standard...

NEW YORK — Mezzo-soprano opera star Rise Stevens, who sang with the Metropolitan Opera for more than 20 years spanning the 1940s and 1950s, has...

If the moniker Shovels and Rope conjures images of hot sun and hard labor, that’s as it should be. The Charleston, S.C.-based husband-and-wife duo, who performed Wednesday night at the 9:30 Club, performs music th...

Deliver + sausage = Deli-sage: The guy at the pickle barrel who dispenses advice along with the kosher dills — the swami of salami. Appetizing + gallbladder = Zingbladder: The special talent that earned little Jas...

Sliding doors are a versatile design detail that can be used to remove or add a sense of enclosure. Click to Continue »

Nick Cave brought his Bad Seeds and scads of morosity to the Music Center at Strathmore on Wednesday. Fans were out of their seats from first note to last, either in rapture or because the shock-friendly performer gave �...

NEW YORK — Of all the unlikely venues for an opera, you'd have to go some to top The Box, a nightclub in a seedy...

John Noble had just started to settle back in his native Australia when "The Good Wife" came calling. Despite the fact he had just wrapped...

By Christina Knight for NYC-ARTS. On March 19, the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a young Arab-American composer was wrestling a problem...

Behind the curtain at the Metropolitan Opera. In order of appearance: set up for “La Rondine,” set assembly for “L’Elisir d’Amore,” stage rehearsal of “Rigoletto”...

New York City and Tokyo are known for their hustle and bustle. So to show the just how quick the pulses of these metropolises are,...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel defended Pope Francis on Thursday against accusations he failed to speak out against repression during the 1976-83 military dictatorship in their na...

Indie rockers The National announced the title of their new record on Thursday. Called "Trouble Will Find Me," the album is set for release on...

With its insta-social, insta-vintage snapshot-sharing network, Instagram would be the ideal way to keep up with the lives of your favorite authors... if it weren't...

You know that excruciating experience of getting a song gets stuck in your head, giving whatever activities you're occupied with an unwelcome soundtrack? Rune and...

This production misses the mark because it emphasizes the wrong sets of emotions. In a dark, noir-like setting, Holly gets wrapped up in the nightlife. Fred gets lost in the shuffle. But you never feel that either of the...

Happy 7th bday @twitter. Thanks for broadening & cheapening our lives into an epic parade of excruciating minutiae. (Can we get a retweet?) — Dan Zak (@MrDanZak) March 21, 2013 It's the birthday of the thing that ...

Happy 7th bday @twitter. Thanks for broadening & cheapening our lives into an epic parade of excruciating minutiae. (Can we get a retweet?) — Dan Zak (@MrDanZak) March 21, 2013 It’s the birthday of the thin...

Everything's coming up roses — and daffodils and daisies and anemones, too. Designers with a floral fixation strew blooms on sheaths, skirts, shirts and shoes on spring runways from New York to Paris. One particul...