Is anyone on Broadway busier than Lynn Nottage? This season, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Ruined (2009) and Sweat (2017) introduced Broadway to her new play Clyde’s to ecstatic reviews; wrote the book for the jukebox musical MJ, about Michael Jackson, featuring a large ... More

The Yale-educated playwright Clare Barron hails from Wenatchee, Washington, but has made a huge splash on the theater scene in New York. Her most recent play, Dance Nation, was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize, so theater lovers are champing at the bit for her latest project, More

When stage director James Lapine reached out to the dancer and choreographer Michelle Dorrance to work on his latest project, Flying Over Sunset, “I was instantly drawn to his writing and the nature of the work itself,” says Dorrance. The musical, which just ended its ... More

Over seven decades, Agnes Martin solidified her reputation as a pioneer of minimalism and abstract painting with iconic artworks that continue to inspire. Phaidon’s highly coveted Agnes Martin: Paintings, Writings, Remembrances, the first and only career retrospective of the American artist, has returned to the marketplace ... More

This Harlem-based actress will likely turn out to be one of the MVPs of this year’s theater season. She more than held her own opposite more seasoned performers Uzo Aduba and Ron Cephas Jones in Second Stage Theater’s recently-closed production of Clyde’s by Lynn Nottage. Young ... More

In a posthumous book, The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011, edited by Mary Venturini, the late artist and art critic Edith Schloss writes about a community of American abstract expressionist painters, musicians, photographers, dancers and artists who took up ... More

When one fantasizes about toppling the patriarchy, one's vision might include taking a sledgehammer to outdated male statues or storming the capital with a Mad Max-style flamethrower guitar. But as glorious as it may be to imagine claiming hyper-rugged instruments as patriarchy-fighting silver bullets, a new exhibit at the ... More

Between Elon Musk launching a $100,000 Tesla into the stratosphere to Netflix’s splashy sci-fi flick The Cloverfield Paradox, space travel is trending. At first glance, “Pagan’s Rapture,” painter Carrie Moyer’s new solo show at DC Moore, seems to conform to the trend. With titles like Return to Gynadome and Hot ... More

While the 2018 Grammys may have left many viewers and critics, as Solange would say, “weary of the ways of the world,” the show’s attendees had stamina to burn following the show’s broadcast last night. Despite her much-contested loss to Ed Sheeran for Best Pop Solo Performance, ... More

On Friday night at its 19th Annual Winter Wonderland Ball, the New York Botanical Garden gave new meaning to the phrase “deck the halls.” Coinciding with the beloved Holiday Train Show inside NYBG’s palatial conservatory, the ball, which was presented by Etro and Saks Fifth Avenue, provided a backdrop of ... More