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In small new-music venues, failure is an option—and a route to success.

Two Jewish cultural centers reinvent themselves for the demographics of a changing city.

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

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

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.

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.