Last Thursday in New York, stars like Girls' Jemima Kirke, Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon, Alexis Krauss and more came out to celebrate the launch of EndGame, a new global initiative spearheaded by activist Leigh Blake to defeat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Held at the McKittrick Hotel in ... More

For his first solo show, Hush, at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York-based artist James Weingrod has taken on the biggest themes of them all: infinity and the universe. Visible from the street and on view 24/7, his ... More

Fantastico, a window installation by the Spanish design team Wanda Barcelona that was unveiled Monday evening at the W New York hotel in Union Square, truly lives up to its name. The Barcelona-based trio, which is best ... More

Once upon a time, Williamsburg was just another Brooklyn neighborhood filled with bodegas, Polish diners and the occasional performer on the subway platform. And if you were at the Bedford L stop in 1997, there's a chance you would have encountered Howard Fishman, a singer and guitarist known for ... More

Once upon a time, Tribeca—the Manhattan neighborhood whose namesake film festival kicks off April 17—wasn't as tony as it is today. "I became acquainted with Tribeca probably 25 years ago," Jane Rosenthal, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival and the More

As she gears up for the launch of her fourth solo album, Talk a Good Game (Universal Republic), which will be released on June 4th, Kelly Rowland is making a concerted effort to keep the coordinating Tina Knowles-designed ensembles Destiny's Child was famous for wearing (and ... More

Last year, art lovers got more than an eyeful of Glenn Ligon’s work when he was the subject of Glenn Ligon: America, a sprawling mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibit displayed the work that the New Yorker is best known for—works on ... More

After a quarter century spent curating some of the most closely-watched festivals in the world, Richard Peña, the trail-blazing head of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, is stepping down from the job. But don’t worry, it’s a happy ending. Peña, who oversees the annual ... More

The tent pole movies at the New York Film Festival, which opens its 16-day run September 28, are more than likely going to end up in a theater near you—even if it’s an art-house cinema slightly off the beaten path. The festival is opening with Ang ... More

Some people called him a “wonderful terrible mirror.” Others said he was exploitative and manipulative. But that’s really beside the point. Richard Avedon was one of the greatest photographers in the world, both in fashion and portraiture. He died in 2004 at the age of 81, and his work is ... More