Gisele Regatao

"Something unlike anything that has ever been done,” said choreographer Karole Armitage about her piece for the Ocean Life hall at the American Museum of Natural History.

In an era when everyone is a photographer, Polish artist Piotr Uklański is trying to make sense of the medium with his new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum.

This revival is set on a luxury passenger train in the 1930s, and it's the actress who keeps it from going off the rails.

A new exhibit shows the American president opposed anti-Semitism, which was rampant even among the generals in the Union army, and relied on a Jewish doctor to cure his troubled toes. 

A hip-hop musical about a founding father; two irreverent takes on slavery; a 24-hour play about life in America from 1776 to 2016. Here's how four playwrights are telling U.S. history.

A new exhibit celebrates Aldus Manutius, a Venetian printer who died 500 years ago and was the first to print classics in thin volumes.

The shoe-box holding the truth about ad man Don Draper and journals from the TV show creator are among the items in a new exhibit. 

Like her daughter Lena Dunham, photographer Laurie Simmons offers a fresh look at our notions of beauty with her new exhibit at the Jewish Museum.

The sculpture and drawings of Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian are inspired by Persian architecture, the geometric forms in Islamic patterns, and Sufi cosmology.

The play "The Audience" comes from the same team as the Academy Award-winning film "The Queen."

The New York City Drone Film Festival is the world’s first event dedicated to the art of drone cinematography. 

For WNYC's art critic Deborah Solomon, the museum's mid-career retrospective of the pop-artist is too much about the worship of a celebrity, and not enough about art.

The knight-errant who fought against windmills and imaginary dragons inspired the new exhibit at the Frick Collection.

Venezuelan artist Alex Da Corte says he wants to explore fear and memory.

The new play "Bright Half Life" captures the politics and emotional processing common in lesbian relationships back in the 80s and 90s, when very little about being gay was legal.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' "An Octoroon," based on a slavery-era work, shocks and delights at Soho Rep.

"Do we exist or are our lives on the screen more authentic than what takes place everyday in our kitchen?" asks art critic Deborah Solomon after visiting the New Museum's Triennial.

The instantly recognizable work of artist Kehinde Wiley is on Fox's "Empire," and in a new retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum.

Nathan Lane has something to sell, and you don’t want it, in Eugene O’Neill’s great American tragedy.

This is American history as seen through a New York lens.