You know the odd thing about miracles? They rarely happen at the Vatican in the heart of Rome.

Jean-Édouard Vuillard was believed to have three muses throughout his artistic career — his mother, and two fascinating patrons, Misia Natanson and Lucy Hessel, whose intimate involvement and support for the...

From the opening shots of Ron Honsa’s transcendent documentary on dance, Never Stand Still, we feel the tingling sensation of something other-worldly about to happen. A solo dancer spins on a solitary deck, a...

We all know how to start a fire, right? Rub two sticks together long enough and you’ll get something to ignite. Theoretically, maybe, but in the world premiere of David Rabe’s new play, An Early History of Fire...

Imagine Raymond Chandler, Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller, and JFK showing up in a rural wasteland near the French-Swiss border. Add a few snowdrifts, a rundown hotel, an unsolved murder, and writer’s block.

Encountering the work of Alex Kisilevich is a little like spotting a Kallima butterfly for the first time. Kallima comes from the Greek word “kali,” which means beautiful, but put aside your perceptions of that...

Race and real estate and the volatile values of each collide in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris, which opened April 19 at the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway. If you think it’s about...

The relativity of time is a tricky business for most of us, so armchair traveling to the birth of Cleopatra in 69 B.C., or back to the completion of the Great Pyramid of Giza in 2560 B.C. feels far enough, thank you...

Most of us remember the thrill and terror Alice faced, falling down the rabbit hole into another stranger, topsy-turvy world. Be prepared. Winding your way from floor to floor of the Whitney Museum’s 2012 Biennial...

Gershwin wrote “Rhapsody in Blue,” Picasso painted Le Demoiselles d’Avignon, and Babe Ruth knocked another one out of Yankee Stadium. But wait. There’s another risk taker you may not know about — yet....