Lee Rosenbaum

After two years of construction, the Whitney Museum of American Art is showing off its new downtown home. The edgy new building designed by Renzo Piano sits on Gansevoort Street between West Street and the High Line and overlooks the Hudson River. But how does it measure up to the museum's previous digs?

The Latin pop superstar Juanes is set to perform in Havana this Sunday. And, the New York Philharmonic is considering the Cuban government's invitation to perform there later his year. Today: a Soundcheck Smackdown on the effectiveness and appropriateness of music as a diplomatic tool. Guests include cultural commentator and ...

Culture writer Lee Rosenbaum, blogger and contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and Dayo Olopade, Washington reporter at The Root, talk about the revamping of the White House art collection.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has just appointed a new director. Roberta Smith, art critic at the New York Times, and Lee Rosenbaum, a cultural journalist and blogger, talk about Thomas Campbell's rise to power.