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Galerie Gmurzynska artist Louise Nevelson was not only one of the most successful women artists of her time—but a style icon.

Jay DeFeo (1929–1989) and Bruce Conner (1933–2008) had that kind of telephone talk marathon a listener feels present at, despite time and place making such an experience impossible. It endures in its strangeness, having been imitated by a photograph of Conner’s telephone dial, to which Defeo responded by a sending of one of his body photos with the dial stuck on: about which he writes: “I had become the telephone.” But we hear it, savor it, and applaud Bruce Conner for memorializing it five years after her death.

The first-ever West Side Fest is bringing free admission to museums, parks, performing arts centers, and cultural institutions in the west side of Manhattan

'The Lights,' by acclaimed novelist Ben Lerner, is a poetry collection but so much more — part of a project that makes us question how we experience time.

Highlights include surveys of new work by notable contemporary artists and historical giants alike.