Since the first production The Nutcracker in St. Petersburg more than century ago, its charming story, dazzling choreography and magnificent Tchaikovsky score have combined to make it one of the most popular and enduring ballets the world over. San Francisco Ballet makes the beloved ballet its own, resetting it during the 1915 Panama Pacific International [...]

Moore in America: Monumental Sculpture at The New York Botanical Garden is the largest outdoor exhibition of Henry Moore’s artwork ever presented in a single venue in the United States, and has been extended through January 11, 2009. Twenty major Moore sculptures are positioned throughout the Garden’s 250 acres and among its 50 gardens and [...]

The New York Historical Society showcases more than 100 famous paintings by artists of the Hudson River School together, including Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, John F. Kensett, Jasper F. Cropsey and Albert Bierstadt, in a series of exhibitions drawn from the Society’s extraordinary American art collection. “School”, in this sense, refers to a group [...]

The Eldridge Street Synagogue on the Lower East Side is a place where thousands worshiped, but which time and indifference almost destroyed. This is the story of a landmark building that would have been destroyed had it not been for the efforts of a few dedicated preservationists.

Envisioned as a dynamic learning resource for scholars and the general public alike, the unique design of the Luce Center allows visitors a behind-the-scenes look at a working museum collection. New acoustiguides are also periodically added to this versatile display space. The wealth of significant objects housed in the Luce Center their power to fascinate, [...]

The legendary Plácido Domingo joins new superstars Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón — one of the leading dream couples in contemporary opera — for an open-air concert at the steps to Vienna’s magnificent Schönbrunn Palace. Domingo, still a thrilling opera superstar after 45 years, remains a peerless master of suave lyricism. Netrebko, the fiery Russian [...]

This exhibition at the Museum of Natural History explores explores every aspect of how nature’s most majestic creatures have shaped our world. The sound is unmistakable: the thundering hooves of a running horse. Horses have been racing across the landscape for more than 50 million years – much longer than our own species has existed. [...]

A comedy of mistaken identity and love unfolds onstage at the critically-acclaimed Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s Twelfth Night. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Hudson Valley at Boscobel, a stunning 19th-century estate, a group of dedicated and talented actors assemble to perform this Shakespeare classic.

Live from the Lincoln Center’s Kaplan Penthouse, violinist Gil Shaham plays the music of Sarasate with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

The Museum of Arts and Design’s Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary is the inaugural exhibition at the Museum of Arts & Design for it’s opening in a new building at 2 Columbus Circle in September 2008. The exhibition features work by 50 international established and emerging artists from all five continents who create objects and [...]