Allison Lichter

We are, of course, talking about squash blossoms. The flowering delicacies are only available during these hot summer months.

You think you’re hot? Imagine being encased in fur. Then think about how hot you would be.

The Times Square bomb attempt will not be a focus of the jokes at this year's Arab American Comedy Festival.

The panel of twenty-seven theater professionals met last night on West 47th Street to decide this year’s nominees for the Tony Awards, which honor the best of Broadway in the past year.

Listen to what drama critics Elisabeth Vincentelli and Adam Feldman had to say about this year's picks.

There are three types of prosciutto on Danny Meyer's new Roman-style restaurant, Maialino. Two are from Italy. The last one is from Norwalk, Iowa.

Actor Alice Ripley and the cast of ...

Every two years, the Whitney Museum of American Art takes a crack at making sense of the ever-sprawling world of contemporary art. This year, the Biennial curators have picked fifty-five artists for the 2010 snapshot.

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Nine hours of speaking and thinking about words. The marathon show "Lipsynch", explores voice, speech and language, from babies crying, to soloists singing an aria, to characters struggling with their identities.

Canadian Director Robert Le Page says sound is instrumental to human expression. And he says ...

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This weekend, over a hundred conceptual artists will use the city's public space as their canvas -- creating projects that hope to inspire civic engagement and new perspectives on city life.

It's part of the three-day "Conflux festival." NYU professor David Darts is a co-chair of ...

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Commuters passing through the 59th Street – Columbus Circle subway station can now see one of the last commissioned works by the late conceptual artist Sol Lewitt. The piece is called “Whirls and Twirls (MTA),” and its brightly colored tile design is 11 feet high, ...

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It's Fashion Week in Bryant Park. It's the last time designers will set up their fall runways in the park. Next September, Fashion Week moves its tents to its new home in Lincoln Center. Tonight, retailers citywide will be open until 11 PM, as part ...

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The Pulitzer-Prize winning composer John Adams has written operas about Richard Nixon and the atom bomb, but this week, New Yorkers are getting his take on something a little more upbeat – a mythical love story set in south India. The opera is called A ...

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Bringing art out onto the streets that's the aim of The Big Draw an annual hands-on art festival sponsored by the Drawing Center and the River to River Festival.

Among the offerings Eco-artist Eve Mosher will give participants recycled water bottles full of river water along ...

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Denny Chin is a United States District Judge based in Brooklyn.

But he's also an amateur actor -- he and a group of fellow judges and lawyers re-enact hiistoric trials. Their most recent effort is a one-hour version of the trial of atomic spies Julius and ...

Studio 360 asked the design firm Worldstudio to come up with a new design for the Gay Pride flag. Below are some ideas – plus the winning flag from our listener design challenge.

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Eighteen films, an all-night movie marathon, and movies in the park. that's some of what's happening as part of the BAM CinemaFest, The Brooklyn film festival marks the 10th anniversary of BAM's Cinematek -- a series devoted to art house films.

Florence Almozini is the director ...

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The Grand Concourse is celebrating its Centennial, and as part of the festivities, the Design Trust for Public Space has hosted a design competition to rethink the future of the famed boulevard.

More than 400 people from some 25 countries sent in ideas -- including turning ...

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The Bushwick section of Brooklyn is crawling with small art galleries, in teeny storefronts, forsaken industrial spaces, and private living rooms. And this weekend those galleries and more than 200 artists' studios are open to the public. It's part of the "Arts in Bushwick" festival. ...

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Ernesto Neto wants you to stroke, sniff and crawl inside the massive sculpture he's built inside the Park Avenue Armory on Park and 66th Street. The Brazilian artist draped hundreds of yards of soft, stretchy lycra around the historic Drill Hall. The twisting canopy hangs ...

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Composting could be a class at the University of Trash. The experimental university, an art project at the Sculpture Center in Long Island City, relies on the public to propose its curriculum. The University of Trash is what artists Michael Cataldi and Nils Norman call ...