The group approach to art-making has rarely been more visible. Sometimes artists pair up, sometimes other professionals join in -- and occasionally viewers are expected to lend a hand.

Americana Week’s fairs are worth braving the chill—even just to browse.

The films that rocked Cannes arrive Stateside at the New York Film Festival.

Done with Down and Dirty Pictures? Five more film volumes go into wide release.

From bock to wurst: Beer gardens where more than buds bloom.

Theater-festival season brings in hundreds of new plays.

Knicks, horses, even card tricks: These camps are recipes for summer-break sanity.

Most salad bars range from bad to worse, but several strive for farmer’s-market quality and often succeed. No wonder they’re packed at lunch: New York’s non-chefs need to exercise creative control somewhere, after all.

Neighborhood watch: picks from the East Village Film Festival.

The Nutcracker Suite premiered in 1892, but only after World War II did the Tchaikovsky ballet become a New York family rite. Today, there's an interpretation for any sugarplum -- child or not.The