At last! You may have lost track of how many proposals and promises for an airy and gorgeous new Penn Station have come and gone, but the Charlie Brown football of transportation projects is back, urging us to believe that this time the plan will stick. T... See more
Is there anything more hopeful or emblematic of change than a garden in its first scraggly youth? Only a playground, perhaps. Magnificent versions of both grace the new Obama Presidential Center on the South Side of Chicago. The soil remains exposed for n... See more
For her Tony-nominated Death of a Salesman score, Caroline Shaw knew she had to do something different. The composer-singer-violinist Caroline Shaw already has a Pulitzer Prize (she was 30 in 2013, when she won it for Partita for 8 Voices ) and a trio of ... See more
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is growing without getting any bigger. Its future Tang Wing will poke not an inch farther into Central Park than the old modern-art galleries did (or that’s the promise, anyway). Ever since Kevin Roche megasized the complex ... See more
Barbara Hannigan with the New York Philharmonic at Geffen Hall. To call a musician a virtuoso can be double-edged. The term implies godlike deftness and speed but also a certain impersonal coldness — skill at the expense of passion. I’ve had the word ratt... See more
