Could high-definition opera at the movies become as addictive as popcorn?

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.

Until a few years ago, West 19th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues was best known as the heart of West Chelsea’s parking-lot district.

Lincoln Center is already starting to look like the battleground for some fascinating—and potentially ugly—opera wars.

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

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.

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

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

An unsentimental valentine from the New Museum.

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