On Sunday afternoon, some 150 visitors came to Green-Wood Cemetery, crunching their way through freshly fallen leaves to view the graves of the cemetery’s famous and infamous residents. The nearly 500 ...

Janine Antoni “I unfold, I infold” (2019), mixed media gilded with 24 karat gold leaf Installed: 12 3/4 x 24 3/4 x 7/8 inches, flat: 12 3/4 x 28 1/4 x 7/8 inches (all photos by the author for ...

This photo provided by Death of Classical, LLC shows a scene from a dress rehearsal of Purcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas" to be performed in the catacombs of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery. Pictured ...

Hidden from view, Green-Wood Cemetery’s atmospheric catacombs are rarely open to the public. The vaulted space, originally created in the 19th century, happens to provide an ideal acoustic environment ...

Twenty years older than Central Park and 30 years older than nearby Prospect Park, Green-Wood Cemetery once provided a peaceful respite for busy, still breathing New Yorkers (yes, back in the day ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — “When I am laid in earth,” ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — “When I am laid in earth,” the heroine sings just before she dies at the end of Henry Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas.” Rarely will the aria be heard in a more fittingly sepulchral ...