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Ruling Gives Heirs a Share of Superman Copyright
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 10:00pm GMT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY
The co-creator of Superman had sold his rights to the character 70 years ago for $130. -
Bridge: Switching Gears, From a Magazine to a Quiz
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 10:44am GMT by By PHILLIP ALDER
The final edition of Bridge Today magazine, edited by Pamela and Matthew Granovetter, will be published shortly. -
Robert Fagles, Translator of the Classics, Dies at 74
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 8:12am GMT by By CHARLES McGRATH
Mr. Fagles was a renowned translator of Latin and Greek whose versions of Homer and Virgil became unlikely best sellers. -
Television Review | 'Sense and Sensibility': The Dashwood Quest for Civil Unions
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:27am GMT by By GINIA BELLAFANTE
The screenwriter Andrew Davies's latest adaptation of Jane Austen proves again that we should all suffer the misfortunes of real estate endured by the downgraded heroines of Austen’s tributes to love and property. -
Movie Review | 'Superhero Movie': Up, Up and a Ways Off the Track
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:23am GMT by By A. O. SCOTT
To call “Superhero Movie” a satire, or even a parody, of the genre specified in its title would be misleading, since those terms imply at least an attempt at wit. -
Dance Review: Trying to Feel Iraq’s Contrasting Realities
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:21am GMT by By JENNIFER DUNNING
The American invasion of Iraq has seldom been addressed directly in modern dance in New York, so the notion that Victoria Marks would take on this overwhelming issue was very good news. -
Stars and Slime at Kids’ Awards Show
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:19am GMT by By JACQUES STEINBERG
On Saturday night more than six million children and their parents are expected to tune in to the 21st annual “Kids’ Choice Awards” on Nickelodeon. -
Music Review: 2 Smooth Veterans, Still Cruising Along the Road
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:18am GMT by By NATE CHINEN
Dave Brubeck and Ramsey Lewis have a few things in common beyond their vocations as jazz pianists. -
Dance Review: Provoked by a Force of Nature
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:13am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS
A performance can occasionally provoke near-simultaneous sensations of impatience, irritation, fascination and curiosity. Such was the case on Wednesday during Wendy Osserman’s new “Out of Place." -
Theater Review | 'Juno': A Mother Whose Life Song Is About Tenement Nightmares, Not Broadway Dreams
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:13am GMT by By BEN BRANTLEY
Theatergoers who are truly passionate about the history and development of the musical will want to take advantage of the fleeting return of “Juno” to New York. -
Music Review: A Conductor Steps in, With Big Shoes to Fill
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:11am GMT by By BERNARD HOLLAND
On Thursday at Avery Fisher Hall, Michael Christie took on Elgar’s Violin Concerto, the Copland Third Symphony and a big-time symphony orchestra sitting in front of him. -
Zeffirelli, Still Singing Praises of Opera Splendor
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:09am GMT by By DANIEL J. WAKIN
Franco Zeffirelli represents an era of grandiose, sumptuous opera direction that, while still strongly represented at the Met, is fading. -
Arts, Briefly: Art and the Nazis, Times Two
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:07am GMT by Compiled by Peter Edidin
The Leopold Museum Private Foundation of Vienna has been accused of knowingly purchasing works that could have been stolen by the Nazis, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. A law professor commissioned by Austrian Jews found that at least 11 of the foundation’s works, including some by Egon Schiele (whose “Liegende Frau” is above), Anton Romako and Albin Egger-Lienz, belonged to people persecuted by the Nazis and that the collector Rudolf Leopold certainly knew that they might have been looted. “He knew, or he must have known, that these paintings belonged to people who were persecuted by the Nazis,” said Georg Graf, the professor. “Because of that knowledge, he must have been aware of the possibility that these were stolen goods.” Mr. Leopold, in an interview with Die Presse, disputed the allegation. “In my eyes, the pictures were acquired lawfully,” he said. The Austrian culture minister, Claudia Schmied, said at a news conference this week that she expected the foundation to approve an independent examination of its collection. ... The National Gallery in London said its painting “Cupid Complaining to Venus,” by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder, was once part of Hitler’s private collection and may have been looted during World War II, The Washington Post reported. A researcher, Birgit Schwartz, spotted the painting — showing Cupid complaining to Venus that he has been stung by bees after stealing honey — in a photograph of Hitler’s private gallery contained in an album at the Library of Congress in Washington and brought it to the attention of the National Gallery. The museum has been unable to account for the painting’s ownership or whereabouts from 1909, when it was sold at auction in Berlin, to 1945, when an American war correspondent took it from a warehouse of art guarded by American troops in southern Germany, a National Gallery spokesman said. -
Arts, Briefly: Firings at the Voice
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:06am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO; Compiled by Peter Edidin
The Village Voice has dismissed its dance critic, Deborah Jowitt, leaving the weekly with no full-time staff dance writers. Ms. Jowitt, right, began at the newspaper in November 1967 and was one of its senior arts writers. She said in a telephone interview that she learned on Tuesday that her position was being eliminated “for economic reasons,” along with that of the film critic Nathan Lee. Julie Lichtenstein, a spokeswoman for the paper, said in an e-mail message: “Financial constraints force us to convert two full-time positions to freelance jobs. Both Deborah Jowitt and Nathan Lee have been asked to continue writing for The Voice.” Ms. Jowitt said, “I was told that the dance page would continue to exist,” adding that her dismissal “came as a complete shock to me.”. -
Arts, Briefly: Repatriated Art in Rome
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:06am GMT by By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO; Compiled by Peter Edidin
Nine classical artifacts that until recently belonged to the New York philanthropist Shelby White will go on view Saturday at the Palazzo Poli in Rome as part of an exhibition of illicitly excavated antiquities returned to Italy by American museums, dealers and collectors. Among the pieces Ms. White handed over this year after long negotiations are two from the fifth century B.C., a bronze statuette of a nude youth and a calyx-krater attributed to the so-called Eucharides Painter. A 2,500-year-old krater attributed to the Greek master Euphronios will go back to Italy in two years under the agreement Ms. White reached with the Italian Culture Ministry. In a statement issued on Friday by both sides, Ms. White said that her collection had been purchased at public auction from dealers whom she and her husband, Leon Levy, who died in 2003, had “believed to be reputable.” She said she had nonetheless concluded, based on Italian government evidence, that “their export from Italy was questionable.” The Italian government has never accused Ms. White or Mr. Levy of any wrongdoing, and the joint statement said that Ms. White had “shown great sensitivity and taken the initiative voluntarily to offer to return 10 items.” The exhibition at the Palazzo Poli is an expanded version of “Nostoi: Recovered Masterpieces,” a show of some 70 pieces recovered mostly from four American museums, which opened in December at the Quirinale, or presidential palace, in Rome. -
Arts, Briefly: Resurgent ‘Apprentice’
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:06am GMT by By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by Peter Edidin
NBC’s “Apprentice” finale earned Thursday’s highest ratings. Nielsen estimated that 12.1 million viewers tuned in from 9 to 11 p.m., the largest audience since the finale of “The Apprentice 4” in December 2005. Ratings for the series had fallen since its inaugural 2004 season, which averaged almost 21 million viewers an episode, reaching its lowest level a year ago, with an average of just over seven million viewers. For the night over all, NBC ranked first, just ahead of CBS, which broadcast N.C.A.A. basketball. Fox was third and ABC fourth. -
Arts, Briefly: The Stars Return
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:05am GMT by Compiled by Peter Edidin
George Clooney and Renée Zellweger, below, the stars of “Leatherheads,” the new 1920s-era comedy-romance-football movie, returned Thursday to Greenville, S.C., where some of the film’s scenes were shot, The Associated Press reported. The actors greeted fans and accepted keys to the city, more than 400 of whose residents worked as extras on the movie. The city, which reportedly enjoyed its brush with celebrity, decided to hold its own gala premiere on April 4 at the local Camelot Cinemas, the same night that the two stars attend the opening in Hollywood. -
Dance Review: The Dance Has a Meaning, but That’s Not the Point
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:03am GMT by By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
After an absence of some 36 years, Merce Cunningham's “Second Hand” has been revived. -
Music Review: Hip-Hop Assurance, R&B Suffering
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:01am GMT by By JON PARELES
Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige have collaborated on each other’s songs, and now they are sharing the Heart of the City tour, which came to Nassau Coliseum on Thursday night and reaches Madison Square Garden in May. -
Music Review: Playing the Odds as a Way of Life
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 3:59am GMT by By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
A revival of Prokofiev's “The Gambler” opened on Thursday night at the Metropolitan Opera, with Valery Gergiev conducting a blazing performance. -
An Appraisal: A Star Who Mastered a New Moral Ambiguity
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 3:53am GMT by By DAVE KEHR
Richard Widmark never quite shook the dark associations of his early roles, even after his studio, 20th Century Fox, rehabilitated him as a leading man. -
Fallen Lawman With a Wagonload of Women
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 1:48am GMT by By SUSAN STEWART
“Prairie Fever,” an original western on the ION network on Saturday night, opens with a gunfight that is almost comic in its intensity -
Dance Review: Feet, Arms and Foam Tubing, All Moving to Led Zeppelin
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 1:06am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS
While Laura Peterson doesn’t alter the seating for “Electrolux,” a new work performed Thursday night at Dance New Amsterdam, she works wonders all the same. -
Music Review | Pocket Concertos: Reaching the Final Turn in 3 Years of Bumpy Road
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 1:04am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN
Even by the adventurous standards of the Miller Theater, the Pocket Concertos series that it started in 2006 came with built-in land mines. -
Arts, Briefly: Footnote
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 12:52am GMT by Compiled by PETER EDIDIN
Katie Holmes is in negotiations to star in a Broadway-bound revival of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons,” the British newspaper The Daily Mail reported. John Lithgow is already attached to the production, scheduled to open this fall. Eric Falkenstein, the show’s producer, would not comment on the report; messages left for Ms. Holmes’s agent and publicist were not returned.