The Walker Art Center’s Out There performance festival goes global this year, so we got an artist in Beirut on the horn.

A former president, a Marilyn Monroe musical and Moe’s bar rag are among the most compelling draws this winter.

For the best-picture Oscar, the academy prefers to reward films that show art over craft.

Plus: Minneapolis Institute of Arts family day.

21st-century mayhem abounds in Sara Levine’s comic debut novel about a self-absorbed young woman who annoys everyone.

The past is both oppressor and inspiration in this collection, winner of a National Book Award.

The human experience, boiled way, way down, told through objects in the British Museum.

Dining suggestions that are sure to fit the bill as you begin 2012.