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May 2nd, 2008 at 9:07 am

This week, a teenage pimp, an immigrant adrift in New York City, and a child with an acrobatic imagination vied for your votes. So which film won?

May 2nd, 2008 at 8:45 am

In 1974, Robert Sam Anson asked Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel a simple question: “Do you think the Jews can ever feel safe wherever they are in the world?” Watch Wiesel’s answer.

May 1st, 2008 at 6:18 pm

American Masters: Marvin Gaye premieres Wednesday, May 7 at 8 p.m.; excerpts from the show are online, including part of a short but sweet American Bandstand appearance from 1964. Gaye sings “Pride and Joy”, his first top 10 single. Watch it here.

April 30th, 2008 at 12:37 pm

How many opera-lovers have already heard the nine high Cs Juan Diego Flórez sang recently in “Ah, mes amis (Pour mon âme)” from La Fille Du Régiment at the Metropolitan Opera?

April 29th, 2008 at 3:10 pm

Mark Bittman, food columnist for the New York Times and host of public television’s “The Best Recipes in the World,” visited our studio for a live interactive webcast right here …

April 29th, 2008 at 11:48 am

“Every age,” writes Shakespeare scholar and cultural critic Marjorie Garber, “creates its own Shakespeare.”

April 29th, 2008 at 11:21 am

The Fragonard Room inside the Henry Clay Frick Estate is the setting for an ensemble of canvases by Fragonard and a remarkable group of French furniture from the eighteenth century. Walk through the room online with Colin Bailey from the museum as your guide.

April 28th, 2008 at 8:34 am

The opera stage is filled with tragic characters who have lost touch with reality—one of the best-known examples being Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, seen in Mary Zimmermann’s new Met …

April 25th, 2008 at 10:30 am

The Korea Society just opened a new exhibition, Inside North Korea with the New York Philharmonic, a collection of photographs by award-winning photographer Mark Edward Harris. The collection documents …

April 24th, 2008 at 1:16 pm

It’s spring in New York, and Philip Glass is bursting out all over — from Satyagraha at the Met to new box sets of previously recorded works and even a documentary about the composer at IFC Center.



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