Mark Ryden’s oil painting Abraham Lincoln, Barbie Roberts, and Bee is one of the show’s biggest attractions and smallest ...

Photo by Sam Bates In a usual year, the School of Art’s MFA thesis exhibition would be at the Miller Institute of Contemporary Art (Miller ICA) in the Purnell Center for the Arts building.

The pop trailblazer has spent decades fighting church, state and misogyny. At 71, she is heading our way with the show she’s always dreamed of.

The actress is building a community of artists, thinkers and doers of all kinds, in a storied building in downtown Manhattan.