Armando Guareno programmed the New York International Latino Film Festival for five years before noticing that the city's Dominican community lacked a film festival of its own.

If you’ve ever lost track of an embarrassing home video, you could find your antics projected on the big screen this weekend at the Anthology Film Archives.

Most people head inside when the weather turns snowy and cold, but for serious photographers, wintry weather can be a dream come true.

Some of the hottest names in jazz are performing Friday night in the West Village at the seventh annual Winter Jazzfest.

For many New Yorkers with roots in Latin America or the Caribbean, the holiday season doesn’t end until 12 days after Christmas. On Thursday, El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem is marking Three Kings Day with a festive parade down Third Avenue.

For the last 20 years on Christmas Day, New York City historian Seth Kamil has been leading groups on a walking tour of the Jewish Lower East Side. On one recent holiday, almost 700 people showed up to take the tour.

It's that time of the year again when Puerto Rican New Yorkers dust off old family recipes and prepare tasty batches of a holiday rum drink made with eggs, cream, coconut milk, and spices.

An arts organization in upstate New York, has commissioned a sculpture using five huge mangled pieces of steel from the World Trade Center.

At the Museum of Arts and Design’s new Center of Olfactory Art, visitors might soon be able to smell the next great masterpiece.

Just over a year old, Parwaz Playhouse bills itself as the first major Pakistani-American theater company in the U.S. Currently, eight first- and second-generation Pakistani–American actors, playwrights and directors make up the company.

The new director of the Schomburg Center for Research In Black Culture, Indiana University history professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad, plans to do a lot of listening in his first days on the job.

Your Facebook wall may be a work of art. A new exhibit at Outpost Artist Resources in Queens called the #TheSocialGraph explores the emerging field of social media art.

The Morgan Library Museum in Manhattan reopens to the public on Saturday after a $4.5 million restoration of its ornate interior.

Houdini: Art and Magic, opening Friday at the Jewish Museum, explores the life of master illusionist Harry Houdini and his lasting impact on contemporary culture.

An exhibit at The New Museum explores the growing impact of the Internet on artistic expression. “Free” opened this week with contributions from 22 contemporary artists from a range of disciplines—including sculpture, photography, collage, installation, and video.

Twenty thousand poets and poetry lovers are gathering in Newark’s burgeoning arts district this weekend for the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival.  Held once every two years, the festival is the largest poetry event in North America.

A new exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum makes it easy to see why Marco Polo and other early European traders were dazzled by the treasures they saw in China. Check out our slideshow of some of the work which never seen before outside China.

With a new exhibition space on the Bowery measuring only 25 feet wide, the Sperone Westwater Gallery decided to build upwards instead.

Eight artists are vying for the opportunity to transform New York City's eyesores into artwork.

Before it was “New York”, it may have been "Nueva York". That’s the name of a new exhibit at El Museo del Barrio that explores the history of Spanish-speaking people in New York City.