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As the Metropolitan Opera celebrates its 125th anniversary, the company is working to appeal to contemporary audiences. Opera productions “are like shells that have to be shed,” explains Peter Gelb, the general manager ...  read more »

Edmund White has written a powerful play about Timothy McVeigh, sensing some method in the man's violent madness. "Terre Haute" ends its off-Broadway run in New York this weekend. Emily Bobrow speaks with the playwright ...  read more »

"Will I ever have the chance to wear my tuxedo?", Bradley Freedman asks, plaintively, about a suit he accidentally inherited. "After all, a tuxedo in the closet seeks opportunities ..."   read more »

New York Police seem to have apprehended a clever billboard graffito who calls himself Poster Boy. Last summer, Jeffrey MacIntyre interviewed the man himself for this retrospective of his work ...  read more »

Where oh where can the urban oenophile go to produce wine? To SoHo, naturally, where City Winery has just opened to fill this wine-making gap. Molly Young tries her hand at making a Syrah ...  read more »

How do you draw the line between art and craft? David McFadden, head curator of  the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, says don't bother. He talks about the museum's sensibility and new location with Ariel Ramchandani ...  read more »

Cyril Power, a British printmaker, "allows light, noise and speed into everything he sees", observes The Economist's Books and Arts editor in her Art.view column. After lingering in the shadows for decades, Power's work is now finally getting the attention it deserves ...  read more »

On the eve of Veterans' Day, Emily Bobrow reviews two off-Broadway plays that let soldiers speak for themselves about their time in Iraq ...  read more »