Kanye West has become more powerful than anyone could have imagined. After seeing the man in the flesh two nights in a row las week—once at his triumphant, perhaps summer-defining headlining set at Governors Ball, and then at his bizarre, often disorienting Yeezus album listening pa...

For a young artist whose past works include videos of herself dancing in her underwear with middle-aged men who have picked her up in parking lots, Laurel Nakadate's current exhibition, "Strangers and Relations," is uncharacteristically un-polarizing.

Consisting of 20 large-scale colo...

Writer-director Paul Andrew Williams's Unfinished Song is a full-frontal attack on its audience's tear ducts. Shamelessly manipulative, it's a highly effective if not very good film, its success entirely due to the talents of its cast. They bring heart to a script that is unabashedly abou...

Even with its inspired izakaya menu and a selection of sake vast enough to rival Tokyo's finest sake bars, the scene at midtown's Sakagura is literally underground. During a 20-minute wait for a table, a little eavesdropping offers whispers of context and diners' first impressions:

"No...

In Bert and Arnie's Guide to Friendship, the obnoxious behavior of the leads is heartily indulged, gently critiqued, and eventually subjected to a rather perfunctory alteration. Enjoyment of Jeff Kaplan's film will vary given your capacity to simultaneously laugh and wink at the hijinks o...