Arts

Defeating monsters is what horror fiction does best. By creating stories about the beasts that terrify us — demons and tyrants, killers and bullies and ghosts — horror writers lead...

The last afternoon I spent at New York Theater Ballet was for a rehearsal in February. Now I was back again, and it was surreal — not just because the...

“Sometimes I think we should move out of the city.” Grace Fraser, the extremely put-together Upper East Side therapist at the center of the HBO mini-series “The Undoing” (premiering Sunday),...

For 17 years, New York City Center’s annual Fall for Dance festival has relied on a winning formula. Offer high variety at a low price, sprinkle in some stars and...

Only a skeleton staff at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden witnessed the blizzard of cherry blossoms scattered by spring breezes during the pandemic shutdown. Delicate blooms of wisteria tumbled over pergolas...

This has been a good year to try new things indoors. Especially for Bruce Nauman. The controlled terrain of this artist’s studio has always been more than a work space;...

Deana Lawson, whose images of African-Americans embody both the majestic and the quotidian, has become the first artist working in photography to be awarded the Guggenheim Museum’s Hugo Boss Prize....

LEIPZIG, Germany — Last spring, the German newspaper Die Zeit received a surprising piece of reader mail, from Neo Rauch, one of the country’s best-known artists. It wasn’t a letter,...

A few days ago, I attended the premiere of an hourlong dance performance. In New York City. Indoors. With more than 100 other people. Let me rephrase that. A few...

MAYORAL FEAT In April, while the average stir-crazy citizen was binge-watching “Tiger King,” Pete Buttigieg took a different tack: He started writing a book. First, the former presidential candidate and...