Shops attached to museums have advanced way beyond Claude Monet totes, a Rembrandt calendar, Degas notecards and a Van Gogh refrigerator magnet. Those were the Dark Ages of museum merchandising. The great museum shops of contemporary New York feature...

Based on an uncanny ability to communicate the wisdom of the streets, Brooklyn-born character actor Thelma Ritter (1902 or 1905?-1969) found her way into some of the best supporting roles in motion pictures of her generation. After performing in school...

During the holidays in New York, the sounds of the season fully resonate in the city's spectacular venues such as Carnegie Hall, The Cloisters, the Met's Medieval Sculpture Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, among others, as well as in the city's many historic...

Movies and television programs that film on location in New York are fairly ubiquitous these days. Walking through the city it's easy to stumble upon movie crews and their rows of equipment and catering trucks and rolls of cable necessary for shooting...

This winter, several museums in New York plan to show the work of well-known contemporary artists. Kiki Smith installs a site-specific installation at the Brooklyn Museum exploring the life cycle of the woman artist. Tino Sehgal will present a new...