Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook The performance portion of “Edges of Ailey” at the Whitney Museum of American Art was best when it stepped away from tradition. By ...

A ceremonial procession snakes onto three levels, with six women fully clad in white following two men in black in the middle spilling out of a church. Below them, a colorful crowd of congregants ...

Music’s in the air, and there’s painting and sculpture in imaginative variety as an art museum gives rare treatment to an ephemeral medium. The hourlong, mural-like video art by Kya Lou and Josh ...

The dry, flat scrublands of Southeast Texas, never an easy place to make a life, were more hardscrabble than ever during the Depression. Growing up black in a succession of Texas hamlets, under the ...