CAMBRIDGE — Midway through Act Two of the American Repertory Theater’s outstanding production of “Real Women Have Curves,’’ a scene of joyous abandon takes place in a dress-making factory. Half a ...

Arms intertwine tenderly as a woman embraces another in the engraved ink drawing on one side of a hollowed gourd in Jeanne Morningstar Kent’s “Gagalwanogan — A Hug.” On the other side, two little ...

Manhattan’s 57th Street is where artist meets buyers in the U.S. The art dealers, who have to charge up to 50% commission to pay 57th Street’s high rents, and the art critics, who have to scurry all ...

Since 1989, Z.K.M. has predicted some of the biggest trends in art. Just don’t call it a museum. By Annalisa Quinn KARLSRUHE, Germany — Many of the artworks at Z.K.M. are not so much viewed as braved.