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New York shrinks to the size of a holiday train
For a few weeks every winter, a miniature New York takes over the New York Botanical Garden. Trains pass familiar landmarks, but…
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The New Museum throws its doors open to the world
The New Museum’s latest Triennial takes its title from artists who challenged the authority of galleries. Can the expanded institution make room…
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One Flight Up brings live jazz back to the Financial District
Drummer Joe Strasser and Mark Quinn have opened an intimate jazz club at 108 Greenwich Street, with evening sets, late-night jams and…
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At the Met, Lee Krasner steps out of Jackson Pollock’s shadow
The Met’s new exhibition puts Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock side by side across their full careers, changing the balance of a…
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When manga leaves the page
At the Brooklyn Museum, more than 600 original drawings turn a mass medium back into something intimate, physical and handmade.
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CultureCon turns the Brooklyn Navy Yard into a ‘Museum of Us’
The two-day gathering of 12,000 creatives returns with John Legend, Mahershala Ali and Colin Kaepernick, but its sharper pitch this year is…
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Billy Crystal returns to Broadway with ‘860,’ a house built from memory
The comedian’s new solo show, now in previews at the Imperial Theatre, turns the Palisades home he lost into a stage for…
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Roy Lichtenstein comes home to New York
The Whitney’s major new Lichtenstein retrospective brings Pop art back to the New York that made it famous, in a culture now…
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Daniel Humm is trying to make himself small again
After two decades at Eleven Madison Park, Daniel Humm is heading to the West Village with a wood-fired, à la carte restaurant…
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At Mythily, Rasika Venkatesa puts her grandmother’s name on the door
The young chef’s first permanent restaurant turns memories of Chennai, years in elite kitchens and a close study of Tamil cooking into…