THE SILENT WOMAN By Susan Dodd Morrow. 322 pp. $25 "The lives of artists" dead and gone have long compelled artists still living; since Giorgio Vasari first coined the phrase, we've been offered a rogues' gallery of those who went before....

Staatsballett Berlin ballerina Polina Semionova lives for the now. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? When I was young I wanted to do ice skating or ballet, but what was important for me was always...

With Eartha Kitt meowing her way through a fresh batch of catnip at The Carlyle, Tammy Grimes and the legendary Marilyn Maye back at the Metropolitan Room, and jazz icon Mark Murphy at the Iridium, the fall cabaret scene is off to a rousing start....

Any museum that devotes an exhibition to the neo-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is guaranteed boffo box office receipts. Few artists have achieved as much posthumous celebrity or, rather, had it thrust upon them. Myth has all but engulfed the man. Van Gogh’s sister-in-law,...