The ’60s were raw, urgent years, indicting form in favor of free expression, and with independent cultural eruptions on every corner, from bucolic college campuses to the dark depths of inner cities. Trying to...

As part of the venerable New York Film Festival, Convergence is a mini-event, a celebration of the short form documentary film that takes place over a weekend.

The convergence, or crossroads, here is the...

To most, the Fabulous Fifties bring to mind images of girls in poodle skirts and pancake makeup, diners and juke boxes, a time when Elvis first gyrated into our living rooms on TV and being named prom queen was the...

In 1960s British cinema, an archetype developed of the frumpy or middle-aged woman who, brought to a dead stop by her boring or chaotic life, decided to change things with neither grace nor guile. In a series of...

Ever since 9/11, the American public’s fascination with the possibility of a post-apocalyptic, doomsday scenario in our country has manifested itself time and time again in our artistic output (think Cormac...

The line between right and wrong can often be blurred by politics and nowhere more so than in Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People. The play centers on a pair of brothers on different sides of a moral debate. At...

The Imaginary Invalid, by Molière, was first produced in 1673, but the production staged at Bard College in mid-July as part of Bard Summerscape’s 2012 festival was as up to date — and funny...

This is the ninth full season of Bard Summerscape, a compendium of the Bard Music Festival (now in its 23rd year) and related theater, dance, and film festivities that take place on the Bard College...

The atmosphere around the Pop International Galleries, on Soho’s main drag, West Broadway in New York City, was prickly with expectation just before sunset on Monday, June 25. On the door was a small...

The art fair, in its current incarnation, has become a necessary evil. People with less and less time to go from country to country or even from gallery to gallery to see artists’ work, happily form an...