Gisele Regatao

Glass walls and four terraces facing the High Line park are some of the highlights of the new building designed by Renzo Piano. Two critics offer their reviews in this audio tour.

Fencing in Bryant Park in Manhattan, Zumba at Poe Park in The Bronx and meditation at the Conference House Park in Staten Island are some of the classes available this spring.  

Santiago Calatrava, behind the gigantic ribs of steel at the World Trade Center PATH transit hub, designed two rooms to present 40 small sculptures by Alexander Calder.  

A new revival of the 1951 production maintains the sweep and romance of the original Rodgers and Hammerstein show while toning down the more problematic parts. 

Once a 1950s movie classic, it's now a Broadway musical. It's fresh — and fantastic.

A new show by art students features sculpture, painting and other media set around the theme of finding a sense of place connected to where the artists are from.

After the success of Avenue Q, puppets are back on Broadway in "Hand to God."

Playwright Octavio Solis and novelist Justin Torres explain how their writing reflect their own struggles growing up, and that of many who are living on the edge.

Hilary Mantel's award-winning novels are now on Broadway.

Pamela Romanowsky could have gone to medical school, but she ended up writing and directing “The Adderall Diaries,” which is premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival.  

Two new novels imagine the city experiencing apocalyptic events. 

An exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History offers a look at the world of animals and plants with superpowers.

Two new exhibits show how Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jacob Lawrence fought to portray the African-American experience in a white art world.

"About Elly" focuses on a group of college friends who are spending a fun weekend at the beach that turns into a tale of deception and the struggle between modernity and tradition.

Meet the Qu’osby family, created by "The Daily Show's" Aasif Mandvi to fight racism with jokes about terrorist camps and Facebook.

The Standard Hotel, High Line is one of the places around New York City which offers pop-up petting zoos for the holidays. 

Skylight is about economic differences, clashing ideas, and at its most poignant it's about something simple: two people who love each other but can't see eye to eye. 

Neue Gallerie founder Ronald Lauder, who bought this painting for $135 million, says it’s the best in the museum’s collection. But WNYC's art critic says it's pretty underwhelming.

The New York Public Library is showing about 80 photos by William Meyers, who captured scenes from under-explored areas of the outer boroughs for 20 years.

 “The goal was to correct the fact I was taught nothing about Latin America with three degrees in architecture," said MoMA curator Barry Bergdoll about the new exhibition.