The week of worms?also known as the Festival of Ideas, a four-day sequence of art, speeches, and a street festival all imagining the city's future?fast approaches, and with it some details about the ...

The band REM has a new album coming out in March (many among us hope it’s great so we can stop listening to Murmur over and over again). To promote it, they’ve released individual tracks for the song ...

After 15 albums and 31 years in the music business, the band REM is breaking up. In a farewell to fans, frontman Michael Stipe wrote on the band's website that a wise man once said "the skill in ...

Rem Koolhaas, the globe-trotting architectural philosopher and provocateur, is impatient for his daily swim. We meet in front of NYU’s Coles Sports Center, a place he has chosen mostly for the pool ...

LOWER EAST SIDE?Move over Bjarke Ingels, Papa Bear is here! Last night Rem Koolhaas kicked off the New Museum's Festival of Ideas for the New City with a keynote address, and today the mindmelting ...

EXCLUSIVE: One of the hottest actors this pilot season, Jason Isaacs, is off the market. After fielding more than half-dozen offers, Isaacs has settled on the lead role in NBC’s drama pilot REM, from ...

“I think that preservation has become a default position,” Mr. Koolhaas said. “If you don’t know what to do, preserve it. Bureaucrats and planners are suffering, because they don’t know what else to ...