Now that the mayor has done his best to purge New York City of murder, smoking, and trans fats, he’s turned his attention to another nuisance: catastrophic climate change.

Tristan was reinvented, Michiganders showed up to perform Steve Reich, Berlin seemed almost as interesting as New York, and a spirited 26-year-old Venezuelan woke everyone up.

Green roofs sprouted in the South Bronx, the Glass House opened wide, bus shelters got chic, Frank Gehry finally built something in New York.

The new Times headquarters has all the visual appeal of a column of newsprint.

An unsentimental valentine from the New Museum.

Carnegie Hall celebrates Berlin’s two great eras—one of which is just getting started.

Thankfully, the delirious New York of the Hudson Yards proposals won’t get built.

Measha Brueggergosman ought to be headed to an opera house near you.

Gustavo Dudamel makes an enormously charismatic New York debut.

Barber’s Vanessa isn’t the forgotten marvel they say it is—but it’s a great vehicle for City Opera’s star soprano.