Art and Culture

An architectural rendering of a possible new look for the Moda Center, which has proposed a $600 million upgrade. Image: Our New Moda Center. Column…
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Right now on the Bowery, a busy Manhattan thoroughfare, two supersized lovers embrace several stories up into the blue spring sky. Strapped against the New Museum’s industrial mesh exterior, the pair are frozen in a state of plasticized…
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Visitors will discover that it’s a dramatically different place than a decade ago: lines of bikes and throngs of pedestrians where lanes were once jammed with cars, greenery encroaching on former pavement, summer swimming in the…
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Washington — a city built from scratch to be the nation’s capital — has always been a battleground for a so-called “American architecture.” From the city’s creation in the 1790s, grandiose classical intentions were a distinct part of it.…
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These proposals, the rush to realize them, the stacking of key oversight groups with Trump loyalists and flunkies and the collaboration of firms like Shalom Baranes Associates, have upended and effectively destroyed the process of…
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Alex Ross has written an elegy for the Kennedy Center, arguing that the idea of a national arts center was always more noble dream than reality (The New Yorker). Preservation groups disagree enough to sue — demanding the White House…
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Stephen Sondheim was so firmly established as a divine eminence in the theater world that, in his 80th year, he wrote a song of self-parody called “God.” Unlike his celestial counterpart, however, Sondheim never sought to make creations…
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A view of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in February. On Monday, a group of eight architecture and…
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Trump administration official Kari Lake praised President Trump effusively in a January 2026 appearance on Voice…
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Tempting as it is to blame Trump for the Kennedy Center’s fate, he does not bear sole responsibility. The idea of a national arts center was always more of a noble dream than a reality. Kennedy’s own reputation as an arts patron rang a…
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