“I’m not a bad guy… I’m like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.” That’s Yunior speaking, the hardheaded young Dominican-born protagonist of Junot Diaz’s new book of short...

Winding your way through the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Warhol wonderland is a bit like trying to make sense of a connect-the-dots drawing. The shape and the subject are there somewhere but where?

If you’re smart enough and talented enough to boot, it doesn’t take that long to grow up. Constellation Theatre Company’s bright revival of Taking Steps by Alan Ayckbourn at Source in Washington, DC is a case...

If you think Fly Me to the Moon is a swinging ’60s ballad, you’re getting close, but if you guess it’s a winning black comedy by Northern Irish playwright Marie Jones about a race horse aptly named after the...

We all know from the fairy tale books the fate of Humpty Dumpty, who fell off the wall, and how “all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again.”

Lasantha Wickrematunge is probably not a name most people in the Western World would recognize. His martyrdom as the editor-in-chief of Sri Lanka’s critical newspaper, The Morning Leader was, unlike the parts that...

When you first step over the threshold into the Triton Gallery on Ninth Avenue in New York City, you better catch your breath and take a peek at your shoes — they may have turned red in the instant.

You remember the familiar lyric by George Gershwin? — “Nice work if you can get it and you can get it if you try.” The work in question is ART with capital letters, a broad and beautiful perspective of...

Most of us know where the great paintings can be found, right? The Louvre in Paris, the Prado in Madrid, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New...

Whatever you think about the color pink, it’s probably pretty harmless. From baby girl shower blankets to that sweet-sixteen wallpaper you picked out for her, it’s bound to please.