Exhibition Review
A Treasure House of Shifting Aspirations
By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
As it grows in size and ambition, the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens is finding inventive ways to explain its purpose and mission.
Alexei Ratmansky’s “Opera,” created for La Scala Ballet, has its premiere in Milan.
As it grows in size and ambition, the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens is finding inventive ways to explain its purpose and mission.
Even as it prepares to open a $34 million cultural building, the Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn faces money problems.
Discovery’s “Dude, You’re Screwed” transforms survival into sport.
Hailu Mergia, a onetime star of Ethiopian music now driving a cab in Washington, led an earthy evening of funk at Baby’s All Right in Williamsburg on Thursday.
In “Mr. Stink,” Hugh Bonneville of “Downton Abbey” fame plays a homeless man who is befriended by a kind-hearted girl.
Approximately 500 high school and college students recorded themselves delivering lines from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” in 15 seconds or less using Instagram.
The Mike Stern Band, led by the guitarist Mike Stern, reaches a blues-rock bliss state in its shows at the Iridium.
Megan Kendzior’s “Witness” invokes the horrors of the Holocaust with slow footsteps, shivers and shoes as props at Danspace Project.
The blockbuster model, despite a surplus of coming titles and a frightful recent track record, remains a profitable model for the biggest filmmakers.
Mr. Vizzini addressed depression and other adolescent issues in works like “It’s Kind of a Funny Story.”
The Goren Trophy is awarded to the player who wins the most masterpoints during the Fall North American Championships.
“American Hustle” and “12 Years a Slave” are among a critic’s favorite films of the year.
The film critic A. O. Scott picks his favorites of 2013 from an ever-broadening field.
Movies like “Nebraska,” “Gravity” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” express a creeping sense of powerlessness in modern society.
Juicy escapism predominated on television this year, with series like “Scandal,” “Revenge” and “House of Cards” eclipsing offerings like ‘The Newsroom.’
Many of Mike Hale’s favorite television series this year — “The Hollow Crown,” “Prisoners of War” and “Moone Boy” among them — were produced abroad.
Fictional series had their share of death this year, but so did reality programming — which added extra interest in bare bodies.
Popular acts like Laura Marling, Nine Inch Nails, M.I.A., Janelle Monáe and David Bowie made room for the newcomer Lorde among a list of the best albums of the year.
Albums from the young jazz singer Cecile McLorin Salvant, the band Deafheaven and the duo Body/Head lead Ben Ratliff’s favorites for 2013.
Albums from Drake, Kanye West and Ashley Monroe are among Jon Caramanica’s favorite releases of the year.
Standout records from Wayne Shorter, Andy Bey, Earl Sweatshirt and Cécile McLorin Salvant.
From “The Glass Menagerie” to “Matilda,” Ben Brantley exults in an embarrassment of riches that poured forth this year on and off Broadway.
New plays by Amy Herzog and Annie Baker — as well as usual classics and unusual genres — are among a year’s most pleasurable productions.
New York City Opera ends with “Anna Nichole” and “Mosè en Egitto,” as Nico Muhly has a debut with a Metropolitan Opera-Lincoln Center Theater coproduction.
Four productions of Handel operas — an “Almira,” an “Aci, Galatea e Polifemo” and two takes on “Radamisto” — testify to the popularity of early music.
Performers like Diana Damrau and Chris Thile bring sensitive craft to transformative shows.
Janet Cardiff, Rand Steiger, Kevin James and other artists have incorporated room acoustics into provocative compositions.
The Pulitzer-winning Caroline Shaw and the opera composer Nico Muhly are among several younger classical stars with early successes.
As the art world went about its usual rounds, some maverick standouts — Paul McCarthy’s fun-house Armory show, Steve McQueen’s politically goading solo exhibition — relieved the tedium.
In a year of standout shows like the Met’s “Interwoven Globe” and “The Encyclopedic Palace” in Venice, the Detroit Institute faced a serious threat.
The last 12 months have brought a fine crop of new choreography and experimental works.
Indelible moments in 2013 from American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet and downtown dance.
Trisha Brown Dance Company presented what were announced to be her last works, and Pam Tanowitz bounced back from the misstep of “Untitled (Blue Ballet).”
Though some games, like Tomb Raider, offer heroines, some gamers are personally filling a gap by creating strong female characters of their own.
Like their predecessors across history and geography, China’s newly rich have set out to collect the very best the world has to offer.
The year’s best books, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
Ben Stiller, Kate Winslet, breakthrough performances, movie listings and more.
A Times critic admits to feeling envy in response to readers’ picks of the best actors they ever saw perform in William Shakespeare’s plays.
The American Contract Bridge League’s Player of the Year title goes to the winner of the most platinum master points at the three North American championships.
The Russians took the gold medal at the world team championship, with China winning the silver and Ukraine the gold.
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