Carl Swanson

His new film, The Shape of Water, is an old-fashioned love story, with the Creature from the Black Lagoon as the misunderstood leading man.

Can you spot your sign?

We saw it last night at Joe’s Pub.

Natalie Frank’s Story of O pictures scared a lot of people. Including her gallerist.

Just don’t write on his cappuccino, please.

A new exhibition features works by artists responding to mankind’s not so stately ordering up of a change in the world’s weather.

The Good Doctor star is now ABC’s No. 1 star, and he comes with zero negative side effects.

The Gagosian show is part of her imagining her own mythic ancestors, a genealogy for a canon that women are no longer so lonely in.

Artist Isa Genzken’s 26-foot-tall flower is planted where the bongos once tried to put a stop to neoliberalism.

Ian Schrager on getting over his embarrassment for doing time for stealing from the disco, and having Roy Cohn as his lawyer.

$1,500 for a Carl Andre! Cheap!

The artist reflects on the objects and memories that made him.

What were they thinking about when they made that?

Here are the art shows to see this fall: “The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists,” Pope.L, Amy Sherald, “Tokyo Pop Underground” at Jeffrey Deitch, “JR: Chronicles” at Brooklyn Museum, Hans Haacke at New Museum, and more.

“I love a hillbilly and Brad Pitt fantasy moment. And I love serial-killer movies.”

Trump mentor. Joe McCarthy protégé. AIDS victim. More than three decades after his death, he still haunts American life.

Her joyful-despite-everything pandemic paintings at Gagosian.

From the childhood comforts of Sesame Street to the gleeful pop perversities of Avenue Q, a new show captures the heritage of puppetry in the city.

Rirkrit Tiravanija’s long-simmering career retrospective at MoMA PS1 called “A Lot of People” celebrates avoiding making art. The artist is most famous for cooking Thai food in art spaces. At PS1, there will be cooking, tea-making, and drinking.

The writer Lucy Sante always tried to keep a safe distance from herself — and her own desires. Until, at 66, she broke free.