016 Poiret: King of Fashion
Curator Harold Koda explains Paul Poiret's significant contributions to the world of fashion. The video version includes a special animation feature.

Architecture: Whitney?s Downtown Sanctuary
Optimism is in the air again at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has just released a preliminary design by the Italian architect Renzo Piano for its proposed satellite museum downtown.

Cosmic Collisions - Spectacular New Planetarium Show (Fri, May 16)
EcoTarium, 222 Harrington Way, Worcester, MA
A spectacular new space show, Cosmic Collisions, blasts into the EcoTarium on Saturday, February 16, 2008. Narrated by award-winning actor, director, and producer Robert Redford, the film will be showing in Massachusetts' only digital planetarium, the new Alden Digital Planetarium. Featuring stunning images from space and breathtaking visualizations based on cutting-edge scientific data--many seen for the first time--the dazzling new Cosmic Collisions reveals the explosive encounters that shaped our solar system. Audiences will feel the ground shake beneath them! Cost: $5 plus museum admission; $4 members Through Friday, Feb 13.

Art Review | Fausto Melotti: Italian Sculptor Attuned to the Harmonic Occupation of Space
Fausto Melotti?s work defies convention and unites disparate strains of 20th-century Italian art.

Art: You Bet Your Tintype, Buckaroo
A Texan inspired by his roots uses a style of early photography to portray the roughhewn cowpunchers of the West.

004 Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh
Actor Sam Waterston narrates the story of the famous Egyptian queen Hatshepsut.

Art: This Is His Life: A Blue Whale and Hello Kitty
Boyish wizardry ? rather than the acts of rebellion for which he is best known ? is what now most interests the artist Tom Sachs.