Philip Glass will occupy Lincoln Center. At 10:30 p.m. on Dec. 1, Glass will appear as a part of a general assembly in the plaza and deliver a sta...
Steve McQueen's "Shame" -- the NC-17 film starring Michael Fassbender as a sex addict and Carey Mulligan as his damaged younger sister -- hits theater...
How do you "recreate the essence of life in digital form"? For generative artist, the answer is in using technology -- like computer algorithms, an...
What do tween blockbuster "Breaking Dawn: Part 1" and Alexander Payne's infidelity dramedy "The Descendants" have in common? Well, according to Jam...
This is the fifth in an occasional series examining the recession's impact on culture, The Recessionary Arts. Find out more about the series here. ...
No Don Draper, but lots of swordplay -- the new video for Major Lazer's track "Original Don" is here and it should probably come with a "Don't try thi...
No, this video has not been sped up: The man you see furiously flicking his fingers is doing it all in real time. araabMuzik, a former drummer and...
Michael Chabon's "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" could be coming to a screen near you. According to Collider, director Stephen Daldry...
For the millions of fans who love the goth feminist hacker Lisbeth Salander and have been waiting for David Fincher's new version of the Stieg Larsson...
Is poetry a form of protest? John Kinsella, an Australian poet who recently withdrew from the shortlist of the T.S. Eliot Prize because of his obje...
Dance with Arcade Fire! Or at least, dance in front of your webcam and watch the zombified hipsters of Arcade Fire's new interactive music video for "...
Looking for that Radiohead fix? Lucky you: "The Daily Mail" and "Staircase," two previously unreleased tracks, are now available for fans to feast on....
What was the music that inspired The Beatles to write their songs? Though, over the past 50 years, music historians, cultural enthusiasts and mega-...
The top seven highest-grossing movies of 2011 were all sequels, many of which were tricked out with epic battles, blinding explosions, vampires, werew...
If you're not feeling especially Christmas-ready, why not flood yourself with as many holiday songs as you can? Start with Rufus Wainwright's stripped...
To evaluate classical music in 2011 shows us a divided land. One troubling trend shows the continued financial struggles of classical music organizati...
Maybe you've already heard Lykke Li's "Wounded Rhymes," but you probably haven't heard it like this. In her recently released "The Lost Sessions, V...
"So great is the suffering depicted in Shakespeare's 'King Lear' that one has trouble finding the words to write about it," begins the Folger Shakespe...
Like the first season of "Portlandia," the second will skewer the absurdities of a certain subsection of the American creative class -- the tattooed, ...
Forget that Nikon. It's all about the smartphone these days. A new study by NPD shows that the percent of photos taken with a smartphone grew from ...
Those eyebrows. Those cheekbones. That Marlene Dietrich. It's the screen goddess' 110th birthday, and to celebrate, we've put together some of the ...
This tribute to David Lynch is easier to understand than most of Lynch's own films, though not by much. Richard Vezina's "David Lynch in Four Movem...
Opera Boston, a company known for its cutting-edge repertory, will shut down due to a $500,000 budget deficit. The company -- Boston's second larg...
The Queen of Country Music will soon get her life story told on Broadway. Dolly Parton, the monumentally successful country singer, plans to bring ...
A painting by Leonardo da Vinci has been cleaned for presentation -- but did the Louvre ruin the original in the process? According to the Guardian...
