In the best of times, the life of an artist is difficult. Lean years, sacrifice and solitude are the norm. Add a natural disaster and life becomes even more precarious.

Such is the fate of seven artists in residence at the Smack Mellon gallery, whose building in Dumbo...

Most New Yorkers treat construction cranes with wariness. Urban survival instincts tell pedestrians to avoid anything that tall and heavy in the midst of the city, which has had its share of crane accidents over the years.

But artist Brandon Vickerd sees cranes differently. The towering structures remind...

For all the changes on Governors Island -- the public access, bike paths, music festivals and picnic spots -- it is the island's past that inspires a group of artists who work in a light-filled former Army warehouse that sits just to the right of the ferry slip...

A sweet yellow and white house sits tucked away on a street in Hastings-on-Hudson that dips steeply toward the Hudson River.

Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, its Gothic Revival design, gingerbread trim and lovely grounds make the house, Ever Rest, a popular stop on the historical...

The two red and black steel structures at the corner of Eighth Avenue and West 46th Street whir and churn just like rigs in the empty fields of Texas.

In fact, the sculptures (yes, they are works of art) look so much like the real thing that about half...

Enrico Miguel Thomas takes his moniker, "The Subway Artist of New York," seriously. He sets his easel on platforms and draws as people rush by and the wind from arriving trains whips his canvas.

Lately, he added a new complexity to his work. Instead of plain paper, he...

When Ray Cullom, executive director of the Queens Theatre, heard a hint of skepticism in the voice of an interviewer about his certainty that theatergoers would trek from all over New York to see new productions on his stage in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, he was quick to explain.

It was a blip, really. For the briefest of moments, Michael Moore, filmmaker and champion of the underdog over big corporations, on Tuesday went unrecognized in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, where Occupy Wall Street protesters are calling attention to many of the same issues Moore does in his documentaries.

Tom Hennes, whose Thinc Design firm creates interior exhibits for museums, came to the Sept. 11 project with experience in subject matter that evoked painful emotions and memories.

He was working on a reconciliation memorial in South Africa in 2007 when he -- along with a multimedia production...

This summer is truly the season of the Brits in New York City. Not only has the Murdoch hacking scandal brought England and its institutions -- the Scotland Yard, Fleet Street and Downing Street -- to our headlines, but the fine actors of Britannia are ruling the city's summer theatrical...

Where would you find the city's most in-demand beekeeper on a day he's not rescuing a swarm of wayward bees and fielding a million news media inquiries about the finer points of the urban apiary?

This past Wednesday, like most Wednesdays, Andrew Cote, head of the

"You can't stop change" is a truism applicable to any New York City neighborhood, especially those that are attractive to the young, hip and creative.

Take, for example, Bushwick in Brooklyn, where last weekend an open studio event showed off the work of the many artists who live or...