Culture Interviews

That was the standard practice of the explorers in the Victorian period: 'I paid you thousands of dollars to go far off into the forests of India to bring me back this plant. I want this plant.'

'I believe in every aspect of one’s life it is so important to embrace and express one’s originality.'

A 19-year-old Emily Dickinson, teamed with Edgar Allan Poe, is the last line of defense between the everyday and a world of magic, ghosts, and vampires.

"The one or two times I've gone off course is when I began to believe that there was only one right way to create art, and there isn't."

"The ‘political’ is still a taboo, and the idea of what constitutes the political is really wide."

'The first endeavor of the association is to develop a procedure which maintains superior quality along the Cru Bourgeois du Médoc. The association is guaranteeing a high caliber of wine for the consumer.'

'As a matter of fact, the only blood you see in our show is that Ray takes a ketchup bottle and sprays it on the window. And we don’t care if the audience sees it’s ketchup.'

Playwright, director, and cast answered audience questions on Somkin's new play about the choices a pregnant woman faces.

Recently Flux began publishing its budget with its Open Book program. Then the company again broke ground by debuting a pay-what-you-can policy it calls Living Ticket.

The curator of NYBG's famous orchid show talks about the incredible diversity of orchids and his 15 years working with them.