The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, the foundational document that established Manhattan’s famous street grid. Featuring an original... | Learn More

Characters as diverse as Mickey Mouse, the historical Buddha, Tomb Raider Lara Croft, and the Green Lama have something in common: Tibet. For more than sixty years Tibet has figured in comic books from around the world, at times creating and at times perpetuating notions of an otherworldly... | Learn More

"Highway Records proudly presents its first split EP, epic release by Italian talent Francys (Time Has Changed, Resopal, Composite) and respected Russian producer Andrey Burtaev, mostly known under his Electrosoul System alias. “Crossing The White Line” and “Don’t So... | Learn More

Frank Oscar Larson (1896-1964) was born in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, of Swedish immigrant parents and lived in Flushing, Queens most of his life. As an adult, Larson spent his days at a branch of the Empire Trust Company (now Bank of New York Mellon), working his way up through... | Learn More

The Queens Museum of Art (QMA) presents Queens International 2012: Three Points Make a Triangle, the fifth iteration of its biennial, showcasing artists living or working in the borough. The 2012 edition features 31 artists based in established and upcoming art hubs in Queens and comprise a ... | Learn More

Back in New York after its groundbreaking 12-year Broadway run, RENT, set in NYC's East Village, is a modern take on the classic Puccini opera, La Boheme. It tells the unforgettable story of a group of young artists learning to survive, falling in love, finding their voices and living for today.... | Learn More

Broadway's sold-out smash is back for a limited time only! Named one of the year's best by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, and more, don't miss the darkly comic thrill-ride Liz Smith declares, "Broadway's hottest date night!"... | Learn More

Celebrating over four thrilling years Off-Broadway, the unique and innovative Fuerza Bruta: Look Up will dazzle and overwhelm you from the moment you enter the nightclub-like lobby. Inside the theatre, flying performers, pumping beats and ethereal dream sequences evoke the feeling of a nonstop,... | Learn More

This exhibition of photographs by Camilo José Vergara will be shown in two rotations: Harlem: The People and Harlem: The Place. Vergara’s images serve as powerful and poignant witness to the changes that have occurred over the past four decades in one of the most... | Learn More

The Obama Presidency: A Look Behind the Scenes/Photographs by Pete Souza Chief Official White House Photographer

This exhibition of 56 photographs by Pete Souza, the chief official White House photographer, forms a visual diary of nearly two years of President... | Learn More

Shortly afer its opening in 2004, the Rubin Museum of Art received a long-term loan of more than one hundred works of art known as the Nyingjei Lam Collection. This collection abounds in exquisite sculpture from the Himalayas and the regions immediately to the south, including works in metal,... | Learn More

Daring, ground-breaking and absolutely spectacular, Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark is Broadway's most popular new show! Experience one of the world's greatest superheroes come to life on stage in an exhilarating new production that has performers literally flying over the audience and the entire... | Learn More

The Rare Book and Manuscript Library presents a major exhibition of works by the idiosyncratic illustrator, designer, and writer, Edward Gorey (1925-2000). The exhibition draws from the large and important collection of Gorey's works donated to the Columbia University Libraries by noted... | Learn More

A play about power, ambition, political secrets, ruthlessness and the race for the presidency, Gore Vidal's The Best Man is set at the national convention where two candidates are vying for their party's nomination during the primary season. Don't miss James Earl Jones,... | Learn More

Olivier Award winner Tracie Bennett gives what the critics have raved is nothing short of "the performance of a lifetime" in Peter Quilter's highly acclaimed End of the Rainbow. It's 1968, and Judy Garland (Bennett) is poised to make a triumphant... | Learn More

Each summer, Columbia University School of the Arts  welcomes more than 300 students to work with internationally renowned artists and arts scholars on Columbia's campus in New York City and at Columbia's Global Center in Paris - the unparalleled cultural and academic opportunities of an Ivy... | Learn More

There's a new Reno on board at Anything Goes! Stephanie J. Block (Wicked, 9 to 5) has set sail on the S.S. American, alongside Tony and Academy Award winner Joel Grey (Cabaret, Wicked). Don't miss them in this saucy and splendid, Tony Award-winning production of... | Learn More

Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize & London's Olivier Award for Best Play, Clybourne Park is the wickedly funny and fiercely provocative new play about race, real estate and the volatile values of each. Act One takes place in 1959, as nervous community leaders anxiously try to... | Learn More

For decades, Joseph Alsop was the most powerful journalist in the country. He was beloved, feared and courted in equal measure by the Washington political world. But as the '60s approached and American culture entered a time of dizzying change, the intense political drama Joe was embroiled in... | Learn More

Be there when Nicky Silver's deliciously savage new Manhattan comedy, The Lyons, arrives on Broadway, direct from its sold-out run at the Vineyard Theatre. The incomparable Linda Lavin stars as Rita Lyons, the indomitable matriarch of a dysfunctional family at a... | Learn More

Falling trousers, flying fish heads, star-crossed lovers, cross-dressing mobsters and a fabulous on-stage band are just some of what awaits at the most "deliriously funny" (The Daily Telegraph) new play to cross the pond in decades. Direct from a sold-out run at London's National... | Learn More

Gold, silver, and other precious materials were often used to adorn objects of religious devotion, especially the sacred books of the living traditions of Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Christianity, and Islam. Materials used to produce them have always been of the best quality worthy of sacred... | Learn More

Don’t miss Topher Grace (“That 70’s Show,” In Good Company) and Olivia Thirlby (Juno, Being Flynn) in this new comedy from Paul Weitz (American Pie, Meet the Fockers) with Mark Blum, Lisa Emery, Topher Grace, Christopher Jackson, Maureen Sebastian, and Olivia... | Learn More

Now is the best time to catch Broadway's musical comedy hit, featuring a bright new star - Disney Channel icon and member of The Jonas Brothers, Nick Jonas! You'll delight to his riotous rise up the corporate ladder as he struggles to juggle the promotion, the corner ... | Learn More