Applying the paint with the brush is just 10% of creating art, painter Mark Rothko tells his assistant in “Red,” onstage in a satisfyingly taut production from The Ensemble Company. “The ...

Red boldly represents political movements and religious identities.” Salvador Dalí, Dahlia unicornis (from Floridali) (1968). Photo courtesy of Nassau County Museum of Art.

From 178th Street in New York City the mightiest of suspension bridges is being built, across the Hudson River. Its span will be 3,500 feet, its weight 90,000 tons, its cost $60,000,000. Like ...