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Gerhard Skrobek, 85; Artisan Behind Hummel Figurines, Dies
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 11:06pm GMT
Mr. Skrobek was the premier postwar artisan of the figurines that have graced millions of mantels around the world for nearly three-quarters of a century. -
George Tabori, 93, Writer of Refugee Life, Is Dead
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 11:05pm GMT
Mr. Tabori was an internationally known playwright whose work sounded the depths of the refugee experience. -
Movie Review | 'The Simpsons Movie': We’ll Always Have Springfield
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 11:02pm GMT
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“The Simpsons Movie” is full of the anarchic, generous, good-natured humor that is the show’s enduring signature. -
Antiques: A New Stop on the Circuit of International Fine Art Fairs
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 10:59pm GMT
Tags: Arts antiquities
The first Salzburg World Fine Art Fair will feature thirty-one European dealers of antiquities, furniture, fine art and jewelry. -
Inside Art: The New Museum Sets the Date
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 10:51pm GMT
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The New Museum of Contemporary Art will open on the Bowery on Dec. 1. with an exhibition of sculpture and collage by 30 artists. -
Art Review | 'Survey of Paris Abstractions': Following the Leader, and Sometimes Moving Past
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 10:45pm GMT
An exhibition of drawings, sculptures and lighting designs at the Noguchi Museum focuses on how Constantin Brancusi affected Noguchi’s work. -
Art: MoMA Plunge
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 10:42pm GMT
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Take a vacation within the Modern's walls to the Riviera and Long Island, Provence and Cape Cod, courtesy of the artists. -
My City: 52 Ways to Cool Off, and All of Them Free
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 10:19pm GMT
The city’s pools are great for people watching, learning about a new neighborhood and offer a measure of cool, chlorinated bliss. -
Movie Review | 'No End in Sight': In the Beginning: Focusing on the Iraq War Enablers
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 10:10pm GMT
“No End in Sight” offers an emphatic, well- supported answer to a question that has already begun to be mooted on television talk shows: Who lost Iraq? -
Midsummer Night’s Screen
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 10:05pm GMT
Summer moviegoing often involves an icy air-conditioned theater. But in New York the season includes movies with a setting that is equally cool: the outdoors. -
Art in Review
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 10:03pm GMT
Reviews of "The Color Line" at Jack Shainman Gallery, Jill Magid at Gagosian Gallery, “Good Morning, Midnight" at Casey Kaplan and more. -
Movie Review | 'The Camden 28': A Draft-Board Break-In That Put Activism on Trial
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 9:40pm GMT
Concise, inventive and unabashedly partisan, “The Camden 28” is a small movie that contains multitudes. -
Movie Review | 'No Reservations': If You Can’t Stand the Analysis of Work and Parenthood, Get Out of the Kitchen
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 9:38pm GMT
“No Reservations” is a factory-sealed romantic comedy. But the emotional details of its characters’ journeys are surprising, honest and life-size. -
Movie Review | 'This Is England': In Thatcher’s Britain, a Fellowship of the Skins
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 9:32pm GMT
A modest, near-flawless gem, “This Is England” is a humbly, if insistently political, autobiographical homage to a lost world of youth. -
Movie Review | 'Molière': A Playwright in Prison, in Love and in Ruffles
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 9:29pm GMT
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Molière, wrote more than 30 plays, every one of them a hundred times more witty and insightful than the movie “Molière.” -
Dance Review | 'Ballet National de Marseille': I May Be Writhing on the Floor, but on Screen I’m Soaring Like Superman
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 9:25pm GMT
If you can overlook the complete lack of interesting dance in “Metapolis II,” it brings you an anthology of initially arresting effects of film, video, interlocking mobile décor and lighting. -
Movie Review | 'Laura Smiles': A Life Derailed
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 8:15pm GMT
Part domestic drama, part thriller, “Laura Smiles” is so ambitious that its ultimate failure is more depressing than anything in its dark script. -
Books of The Times: The Boys From Dolores
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 8:13pm GMT
The author has created an atmospheric, richly evocative history of Cuba’s past and present, using Fidel Castro’s school as a starting point. -
Just When You Thought It Was Safe .. It Might Be
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 6:30pm GMT
One fin slicing the water can ruin a whole day at the beach. But why the hysteria? The first new show of Discovery Channel’s 20th annual Shark Week, and highlights from the next six, suggest that you really have to go out of your way to provoke a shark. -
Theater Review | 'Tom Crean: Antarctic Explorer': A Life Defined by Enduring the Worst of Nature, Twice
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 6:27pm GMT
Aidan Dooley’s passion onstage belies the encyclopedic economy of the title of his one-man show. -
Like Brigadoon, the Music Had Vanished
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 6:13pm GMT
The story of the revival of “The Day Before Spring,” a lesser-known Lerner and Loewe musical that played on Broadway in 1945, began with a simple conversation over lunch. -
Encores! Season to Feature Some Well-Known Names
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 4:53pm GMT
Christine Ebersole, Beth Leavel and Rosie O’Donnell will all star in productions during City Center’s 15th Encores! season. -
Arts, Briefly
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 4:32pm GMT
Boos for a debut at Bayreuth, Beyoncé falls, YouTube catches her, J. K. Rowling spills the Potter beans and more culture news. -
What's on Tonight
Posted: July 26th, 2007, 4:22pm GMT
8 P.M. (TCM) UNDER THE YUM YUM TREE (1963) Turner Classic Movies gets frisky with a trio of sex romps, starting with this comedy in which Jack Lemmon plays a lothario landlord who tries to seduce his comely tenant (Carol Lynley, above with Mr. Lemmon), despite her fiancé. In “Come Blow Your Horn” (1963), at 10, Frank Sinatra plays a bumbling virgin turned ladies’ man, thanks to the inspiration of his older brother (Lee J. Cobb). And in “Boys’ Night Out” (1962), at midnight, Kim Novak plays a beguiling sociology student researching the mating proclivities of the middle-aged man by moving in with some. James Garner, Tony Randall and Howard Duff are her unsuspecting guinea pigs. -
Books of the Times: Beyond ‘Moby-Dick’: When America Went A-Fishing for the Whale
Posted: July 20th, 2007, 7:56am GMT
Eric Jay Dolin dutifully chronicles the long history of whaling in North America, from the voyages of Capt. John Smith. -
Norman Mailer, Unbound and on Film: Revisiting His Bigger-Than-Life Selves
Posted: July 20th, 2007, 7:55am GMT
“The Mistress and the Muse: The Films of Norman Mailer” is a fascinating and wide-ranging retrospective taking place for two weeks in Manhattan. -
Television Review: Guy-TV Gumbo’s Latest Recipe
Posted: July 20th, 2007, 4:19am GMT
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Spike’s eight-part series borrows so many images and plot points from classic guy films that “The Kill Point” is its own inside job, a greatest-heists collection. -
Sekou Sundiata Dies at 58; Performer of Text and Sound
Posted: July 20th, 2007, 1:56am GMT
Mr. Sundiata was a poet and performance artist whose work explored slavery, subjugation and the tension between personal and national identity. -
Museum Review: Touch Me Feel Me Science
Posted: July 20th, 2007, 1:26am GMT
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In the Liberty Science Center’s new science museum, everything is urgent and personal. And under this new model, something familiar is illuminated in unexpected ways. -
What’s on Tonight
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 11:35pm GMT
8 P.M. (Nickelodeon) THE LAST DAY OF SUMMER (2007) Will tomorrow never come? Luke Malloy, a tweenage rocker who’s afraid of taking the stage and of taking the bullying that’s sure to arrive on the first day of middle school, wishes for a long, hot summer and gets stuck in time. Jansen Panettiere (above center, with Jon Kent Etheridge, left, and Eli Vargas), the younger brother of Hayden (the “Heroes” star), plays Luke. -
Dmitri Prigov, 66, Poet Who Challenged Soviet Authority, Dies
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 11:29pm GMT
Mr. Prigov was a prolific and influential Russian poet and artist who at one point was incarcerated in a Soviet psychiatric hospital as punishment for his work. -
Antiques: Chinese Porcelain With a French Twist
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:57pm GMT
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The Frick Collection offers a gem of a show on ormolu-mounted porcelain jars. -
Art in Review
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:56pm GMT
Tags: Arts
Reviews of Alex Hay at Peter Freeman, “Creative Growth” at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, “Not Your Parents’ MTV” at Postmasters and more. -
Inside Art: Hugh Grant Parts With ‘Liz’ (a Warhol)
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:55pm GMT
Tags: Arts
Christie’s will not confirm that he is the seller, but experts familiar with his collection have identified it as his painting. -
Art Review | 'The Shapes of Space': Space Exploration, Conducted on a Spiral
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:53pm GMT
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The Guggenheim Museum’s spirited if sometimes disjointed display of works from its collection offers a good argument for expansion of its New York branch. -
Architecture Review | 'Lost Vanguard': The Silent Radicals
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:43pm GMT
The Museum of Modern Art’s show is a touching, sometimes melancholy portrayal of Russia’s architectural ferment and the brutality with which it was ultimately suppressed. -
Television Review: A Crash Course in Martial Arts With Multicultural Footnotes
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:35pm GMT
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As a travelogue and an exercise in improving foreign relations, the History Channel’s show on martial arts is charming and, despite its subject matter, harmless. -
Music Review: Recorders, Harpsichords and Bassoons, Grown Up
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:34pm GMT
Marion Verbruggen showed a tremendous measure of subtlety, variety of color and outright virtuosity with a wooden pipe with a program of Baroque works at the Frick Collection on Wednesday afternoon. -
Television Review: Middle School Sounds Scary, and Summer Is No Picnic
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:33pm GMT
Everything about “The Last Day of Summer” will remind you, and not in a good way, of “Groundhog Day.” -
How They Did It. The Show, That Is.
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:23pm GMT
“My First Time” is a new Off Broadway play in which four actors recount stories about people’s first sexual experiences. -
Muggle Soirees Herald ‘Harry’ Finale
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:22pm GMT
For many Harry Potter fans, the release of the final installment is a great excuse for a big shindig, from London to Los Angeles. -
Theater Review | 'Seussical': A Smaller Seuss, for Those With Big Imaginations
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:15pm GMT
This engaging little musical, whose cheery voice could be heard only intermittently in the big, bad Broadway production, has been liberated at last. -
‘Sopranos’ Tops Drama Contenders for the Emmys
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:14pm GMT
Also prominent on the list of this year’s Emmy nominees were “Heroes,” “30 Rock” and “Ugly Betty.” -
Music Review: Sounds to Quiet a Crowd While Recalling Faded Times
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:13pm GMT
Lew Tabackin set at Smalls on Wednesday contained a few originals, a ballad standard full of fast, braying lines and some ’50s jazz that ran parallel to bebop. -
At the Corner of Dawg & Monroe, a New York D.I.Y. Bluegrass Festival
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 10:07pm GMT
Thousands of people will gather on a hillside farm this weekend in Ancramdale, N.Y., about two and a half hours north of New York City, to hear and play bluegrass. -
It Makes a Great Sound; Just Watch Out for Spikes
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 9:52pm GMT
The ensemble So Percussion’s studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is an experimental sound factory, where ceramic pots, metal objects and typewriters are crammed in among an array of traditional instruments. -
Movie Review | 'Goya's Ghosts': The Inquisition in Spain: Expected and Even Hailed
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 9:48pm GMT
“Goya’s Ghosts,” the new feature from the director Milos Forman, is an unwieldy mix of political satire and lavish period soap opera. -
Movie Review | 'Sunshine': On a Mission to Replace the Sun, Fighting Demons From Inner Space
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 9:47pm GMT
The end may be nigh in “Sunshine” — the Sun is dying, as is, alas, poor Earth — but director Danny Boyle is having a grand old time. -
Movie Review | 'I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry': Dude (Nyuck-Nyuck), I Love You (as If!)
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 9:46pm GMT
“I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry” is sporadically funny, casually sexist, blithely racist and about as visually sophisticated as a parking-garage surveillance video. -
Movie Review | 'Walking to Werner': On the Road
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 8:22pm GMT
The documentary “Walking to Werner” is a deeply self-reflexive work, perpetually at risk of disappearing into its own iris. -
Movie Review | 'In Search of Mozart': A Tribute to a Master Composer
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 7:58pm GMT
Setting the record straight literally and figuratively, “In Search of Mozart” is an adamantly linear, myth-busting stride through a prodigiously talented life. -
Movie Review | 'Cashback': Adolescent Concepts of Beauty
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 7:47pm GMT
Beware films with protagonists depicted as vastly more sensitive than their fellow characters. The result may be a crock like “Cashback.” -
Arts, Briefly
Posted: July 19th, 2007, 7:09pm GMT
Cameras roll on Tom Cruise film, premiere is planned for Hemingway play, BBC suspends editors and more culture news. -
Jerry Hadley, Operatic Tenor, Is Dead
Posted: July 18th, 2007, 5:23pm GMT
The American tenor was noted for his bright lyric voice, lively acting and adventurous choice of repertory. -
Movie Review | 'Live-In Maid': A Dust-to-Dust Attachment Till Salary Did Them Part
Posted: July 18th, 2007, 11:06am GMT
“Live-In Maid,” Jorge Gaggero’s remarkably assured first film, examines the complicated relationship between an upper-class Buenos Aires woman and her housekeeper. -
Arts, Briefly
Posted: July 18th, 2007, 6:19am GMT
Hollywood writers and producers at odds, a Tintin controversy, Jerusalem Symphony enjoys a reprieve and more culture news. -
Books of the Times: Down the Halls of a Wonder House, the Mirrors Cracked
Posted: July 18th, 2007, 6:06am GMT
Leslie Garis’s memoir evokes the sunny simplicity of small-town postwar America, and a bright young girl’s exploration of her small world. -
New Potter Book May Have Made Its Way to Web
Posted: July 18th, 2007, 12:43am GMT
What appear to be pages from the eagerly awaited final installment in the series have been circulating online. -
Dance Review | Oasis 2007 and Changing Room : Street Seen: Performance for Summer Storefront
Posted: July 18th, 2007, 12:31am GMT
What is it about a dancer in a window that makes heads snap on a balmy summer evening? -
NBC Stands by Thursday Comedies, Despite Ratings
Posted: July 18th, 2007, 12:23am GMT
NBC brought out a panel of stars and producers on Monday, hoping to send a message: Thursday is comedy night again, just like the old days. -
U.S. Imposes Restrictions on Importing Cypriot Coins
Posted: July 17th, 2007, 10:55pm GMT
The new rules would essentially bar the importation of any ancient coin from Cyprus unless authorized by the Cypriot government. -
Dance Review | Pilobolus : A 36-Year Conversation Between Art and Athletics
Posted: July 17th, 2007, 10:13pm GMT
With Pilobolus Dance Theater, where acrobatics are liquefied into poetry, the somersault proves as basic as the upright stance and turnout of the legs are to ballet. -
Summer Cinema’s One-Week Wonders
Posted: July 17th, 2007, 10:10pm GMT
This summer is proving the apotheosis of the one-week blockbuster. -
The Philharmonic Picks New Music Director
Posted: July 17th, 2007, 10:08pm GMT
The New York Philharmonic reached into its family tree and plucked Alan Gilbert, the 40-year-old son of two Philharmonic musicians, as its next music director. -
In Act 2, the TV Hit Man Becomes a Pitch Man
Posted: July 17th, 2007, 10:05pm GMT
For his next act, Matthew Weiner has crossed the Hudson River from New Jersey to Madison Avenue and turned the clock back nearly 50 years to the late 1950s, where “Mad Men,” the new dramatic series he has created for AMC, begins. -
Freshening Up a Dark, Obscure Opera With 75 Onstage and a Toy Eagle
Posted: July 17th, 2007, 9:51pm GMT
Leos Janacek has entered the opera mainstream in recent decades, but this Czech composer’s final and darkest opera, “From the House of the Dead,” has been largely overlooked, perhaps understandably. -
Music Review | New York Philharmonic : A Short Summer Season, Long on Reasons to Listen
Posted: July 17th, 2007, 9:47pm GMT
The New York Philharmonic’s Concerts in the Parks series has always been lots of things to lots of people. -
Dance Review | Company So Go No: When Librarians Go Bad, Texts Tumble
Posted: July 17th, 2007, 9:44pm GMT
There’s a lot going on in Company So Go No’s “Art of Memory,” a 50-minute dance-theater romp conceived and directed by Tanya Calamoneri that spans several continents and decades in source materials alone. -
Movie Review | 'Summercamp!': A Care Package for Nostalgic Campers
Posted: July 17th, 2007, 9:38pm GMT
Nostalgic as only a project steered by two former campers can be, “Summercamp!” is a riot of talent shows and campfires, canoeing and holistic clowning. -
Movie Review | 'Scrap Heaven': A Hijacked Bus and a Trio of Misfits
Posted: July 17th, 2007, 9:37pm GMT
In the writer and director Sang-il Lee’s “Scrap Heaven,” three strangers share a general dissatisfaction with life — and a fateful ride aboard a hijacked bus. -
City Folk Who Feel the Call of the Do-Si-Do
Posted: July 15th, 2007, 1:38pm GMT
Though the pastime’s popularity has declined since 1976, many large American cities support a modest but resilient square-dancing and contradancing scene. -
Music: Brazil’s Musical Mutants Resume Their Strange Trip
Posted: July 15th, 2007, 8:37am GMT
After 30 years apart, the band Os Mutantes has reunited, winning over a new generation of pop cognoscenti. -
Music: Let’s Play Two: Singular Piano
Posted: July 15th, 2007, 8:36am GMT
A two-keyboard piano from the late 1920’s allows a pianist to provide a visual and aural experience for Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. -
Correction: Let Her Entertain You. Please!
Posted: July 15th, 2007, 2:34am GMT
An article last Sunday about Patti LuPone, who is playing Rose in a three-week run of “Gypsy,” at City Center, misstated the age of Arthur Laurents, the author of the book of the musical. He turned 90 yesterday, not 89. -
Correction: ‘Ring’ Pilgrims: On the Horns of a Devotion
Posted: July 15th, 2007, 2:34am GMT
An article last Sunday about fans of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle misstated the given name of a psychiatrist who was quoted on the large medical contingent that travels to see productions. He is Alan Kagan, not Alex. -
What’s on Tonight
Posted: July 15th, 2007, 1:58am GMT
9 P.M. (Lifetime) STATE OF MIND File this one under “didn’t see it coming.” The ever-affecting Lili Taylor stars in this new drama about a New Haven psychiatrist whose life goes into a nose dive when she catches her husband cheating on her with their couples therapist. Now it’s time to pull up and level off. Devon Gummersall (above right with Ms. Taylor) plays the young lawyer she brings in to fill her spouse’s office space. Derek Riddell, Theresa Randle and Mido Hamada play her mostly supportive doctor colleagues. Kevin Chamberlin (above left) plays the office manager who’s a doctor in his own mind. -
Seeking His Inner Her, Size XXXL
Posted: July 14th, 2007, 10:17pm GMT
John Travolta thought hard before taking on “Hairspray.” Now he’s the man playing Edna, and he’s playing it straight. -
Virtual Frets, Actual Sweat
Posted: July 14th, 2007, 9:44pm GMT
Playing Hendrix for a night has become the new karaoke. -
Harry Potter and the Four Directors
Posted: July 14th, 2007, 10:19am GMT
A lot more than Harry’s physique has changed since the release of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” -
Architecture Review | Akron Museum of Art : A Fine View, on the Outside at Least
Posted: July 14th, 2007, 5:39am GMT
The new addition to the Akron Museum of Art underscores how hard it can be to strike a balance between daring architecture and enjoyable spaces for viewing art. -
Arts, Briefly
Posted: July 14th, 2007, 4:00am GMT
Two new McCarthy novels on the horizon, a new deal for Aaron Sorkin, BBC chief to stay put and more culture news. -
The Saturday Profile: Carving Plight of Coal Miners, He Churns China
Posted: July 14th, 2007, 3:20am GMT
Zhang Jianhua’s temerity in representing Chinese coal miners through life-size sculpture has earned his work what might be called a soft ban. -
Hoping to Lure Visitors by Recalling Departures
Posted: July 14th, 2007, 2:25am GMT
The BallinStadt museum is dedicated to the five million Europeans who passed through Hamburg, Germany on their way to North and South America. -
Movie Review | 'Captivity': A Supermodel Captured, but Not by a Camera
Posted: July 14th, 2007, 1:41am GMT
“Captivity” the movie has been thoroughly eclipsed by “Captivity” the marketing. -
Playlist: Sounds Dire, Droll, Dreamy and on the Edge of Kitsch
Posted: July 13th, 2007, 11:54pm GMT
Reviews of new releases by Ulrich Schnauss, Loudon Wainwright III, Mem Shannon, Tiny Vipers, Bob Brozman, Mogwai and more. -
Dance: Plenty of Flash. But Drama? And Poetry?
Posted: July 13th, 2007, 11:40pm GMT
A close look at American Ballet Theater’s flashy production of “Swan Lake” tells you a lot about its spring season. -
Art: Moments in Time, Yet Somehow in Motion
Posted: July 13th, 2007, 11:14pm GMT
JoAnn Verburg produces photographs that seem more like studies in experience than studies in motion. -
Dance Review | 'Slow Dancing': A Lens That Captures Dance’s Every Facet: Grace, Muscles and Even Cellulite
Posted: July 13th, 2007, 10:49pm GMT
Like much public art, “Slow Dancing” is as much about the experience of watching as it is about the work itself. -
The Superhero as Society’s Mirror, From World War II to Iraq
Posted: July 13th, 2007, 10:25pm GMT
“Reflecting Culture: The Evolution of American Comic Book Superheroes” begins with the birth of Superman in June 1938 and ends with the death of Captain America in March 2007. -
Video Games | E3: Can Sony Revitalize Its Games? Yes, Maybe
Posted: July 13th, 2007, 10:20pm GMT
It appears that after more than a year of gobsmacking miscalculations, missteps and plain old mistakes, Sony’s game group is possibly getting its act back together. -
Music Review | 'King Lear': Poor King Lear, Alone but in a Crowd
Posted: July 13th, 2007, 10:14pm GMT
Wu Hsing-kuo’s remarkable one-man “King Lear,” which the Lincoln Center Festival presented on Thursday, expanded codified Chinese opera style to include Buddhist chant, contemporary music and electronics, and Western elements — beyond Shakespeare’s play itself, of course. -
Dance Review | Jacob’s Pillow: Turning a Danish Prism of Joy
Posted: July 13th, 2007, 10:01pm GMT
In the current program presented at Jacob’s Pillow by the soloists of the Royal Danish Ballet, the two most substantial dances are the excerpts from Act II of “La Sylphide” (1836) and Act III of “Napoli” (1842). -
Art: Salons History Never Knew
Posted: July 13th, 2007, 9:52pm GMT
A pioneer of scatter art goes back to her hometown with more high-glamour fantasies. -
DVD: It Came From the ’60s, Cheesy but Influential
Posted: July 13th, 2007, 9:42pm GMT
This summer “The Outer Limits” is being rereleased on DVD, as good a way as any to revisit a wildly hit-or-miss series that blended cold war paranoia with space age allure. -
A Part Made for Her, About Life With a Maid
Posted: July 13th, 2007, 9:33pm GMT
Argentina’s movie queen Norma Aleandro took a chance on a novice director with a good script to make “Live-In Maid.” -
The Hit Maker of Barrow Street
Posted: July 13th, 2007, 9:20pm GMT
Scott Morfee is an example of an almost extinct breed: the creative commercial Off Broadway producer. -
Television: The Beautiful People, the Uglier the Better
Posted: July 13th, 2007, 9:19pm GMT
Once, we gaped at celebrities; now we study every scar, nip and tuck. -
Feel Free to Shout at the Visitors From Japan
Posted: July 13th, 2007, 9:16pm GMT
Kabuki has always been theater for the rowdy masses, as audiences can discover when Heisei Nakamura-za opens a weeklong engagement at the Lincoln Center Festival. -
The Actualizer
Posted: July 13th, 2007, 5:54pm GMT
Milton Katselas may be the best acting coach in Hollywood. Does it matter that he’s a Scientologist? -
Footsteps | The Farneses’ Rome: A Family Who Had It Flaunted It
Posted: July 13th, 2007, 5:42pm GMT
For the Farneses, who turned Rome into a work of art, one palace was never enough. -
Journeys | Religious Art: European Artists Return to Church
Posted: July 13th, 2007, 4:55pm GMT
As a wave of contemporary art installations is being unveiled in cathedrals, churches and chapels across Europe, religious spaces are once again becoming showcases for many artists. -
CD Reviews: Modern Dutch, Kingly Praises, Munich’s Maestro
Posted: July 13th, 2007, 3:19pm GMT
Reviews of new releases by Utrecht String Quartet, Munich Philharmonic and the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra and Chorus. -
Natural Architecture
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 9:44pm GMT
Visitor information for Wulingyuan National Park in China. -
Operatic Tenor Is Brain Damaged
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 1:02pm GMT
Jerry Hadley apparently shot himself in the head with an air rifle at his home in upstate New York and suffered brain damage, the police said. -
Books of The Times: Families Lost, and the Ties That Fray
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 12:26pm GMT
A pair of new writers explores young deaths, sexual infidelities, and unraveling marriages in their debut collections. -
Charles Lane, Hollywood Character Actor, Dies at 102
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 11:51am GMT
Charles Lane was a veteran character actor whose lean frame and stern features were familiar to millions of movie and television fans, most of whom, it is safe to say, never knew his name. -
Potter Has Limited Effect on Reading Habits
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 11:42am GMT
The truth about Harry Potter and reading is not quite a straightforward success story. -
Movie Review | 'Nice Bombs': Back in Iraq, Unearthing Old and New
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 11:12am GMT
With “Nice Bombs,” Usama Alshaibi, a Chicago-based filmmaker, adds his noncommittal voice and unsteady camera to the Iraq conversation. -
Movie Review | 'Drama/Mex': Sex, Shouting and Temptation Once Upon Today in Acapulco
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 11:05am GMT
“Drama/Mex” means to say something about its country of origin, though it’s hard to know exactly what. -
Arts, Briefly
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 3:20am GMT
New 007 novel due in ’08, another book by Bill Clinton, Live Earth did best live and more culture news. -
Doug Marlette, Cartoonist Who Won the Pulitzer Prize, Dies at 57
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 1:43am GMT
Doug Marlette was a Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist who also created “Kudzu,” the popular syndicated strip. -
Television Review | 'Code Monkeys': Like an Arcade Game With a Potty Mouth
Posted: July 10th, 2007, 11:52pm GMT
The cable channel G4 takes its title from the four generations of video games: text, sprites, polygons and textures. To some tech-literate boys, and a few girls, those are the four G’s. -
Missing Ironworker Rejoins His Colleagues
Posted: July 10th, 2007, 11:09pm GMT
An iron figure that is part of a life-size depiction of a celebrated photograph of ironworkers seated on a beam over the Rockefeller Center construction site has been recovered. -
Metro Briefing | New York: Manhattan: Busta Rhymes Faces Four Trials
Posted: July 10th, 2007, 11:00pm GMT
The rapper is accused of attacking two men, driving drunk and driving with a suspended license. -
Dance Review | Athens Epidaurus Festival: In a Land Rich in History, Contemporary Dance Thrives
Posted: July 10th, 2007, 10:09pm GMT
No major choreographer has yet emerged from Greece, but there’s a reasonably active contemporary dance scene here. -
Music Review | Young People’s Chorus of New York City: Hitting All the Stops and High Notes of a Subway Ride
Posted: July 10th, 2007, 10:08pm GMT
On Monday, Francisco J. Núñez and his Young People’s Chorus opened “Summer Stars” with the kind of eclectic program that has become their trademark. -
Video Games: Their Thumbs May Be Too Busy to Raise, but Gamers Agree With Critics
Posted: July 10th, 2007, 10:02pm GMT
Are gamers actually more discerning than consumers of other media? -
On EU Tube (LOL!), Sex Sells (Duh!)
Posted: July 10th, 2007, 9:56pm GMT
Imagine how the carpets of power in Brussels must have buzzed with excitement when some hip marketeer came up with the idea of reaching out to the public through a newly created Web site linked to YouTube. -
Theater Review | 'Xanadu': Heaven on Wheels, and in Leg Warmers
Posted: July 10th, 2007, 9:53pm GMT
This new, improved “Xanadu” is an outlandishly enjoyable stage spoof of the outrageously bad movie from 1980. -
Producer Versus Studio in a Case of Money and Ego
Posted: July 10th, 2007, 9:48pm GMT
Alan Ladd Jr. is raising his voice in a courthouse cri de coeur over a series of perceived slights by Warner Brothers.