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Weekend Explorer: The Melting Pot on a High Boil in Flushing

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 7:53am GMT by By JOHN STRAUSBAUGH

The free expression and diversity of religious beliefs is a tradition that goes back three and a half centuries, to Flushing’s beginnings.

Movie Review | 'Iron Man': Heavy Suit, Light Touches

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 7:15am GMT by By A. O. SCOTT

“Iron Man” is an unusually good superhero picture. Or at least — since it certainly has its problems — a superhero movie that’s good in unusual ways.

Art Review | 'Action/Abstraction': Rivalry Played Out on Canvas and Page

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 6:22am GMT by By ROBERTA SMITH

This exceedingly handsome show features works by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Barnett Newman.

Art in Review

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 6:16am GMT by By KAREN ROSENBERG, KEN JOHNSON and ROBERTA SMITH

Mary Cassatt at Adelson Galleries, Gary Panter at Clementine, Mel Bochner at Peter Freeman Inc. and more.

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Books of The Times: The Pulpit Wouldn’t Be So Bully Without Them

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 5:32am GMT by By CARYN JAMES

Robert Schlesinger’s valuable and painstakingly researched book charts the history of presidential speechwriters from the age of Jackson to our age of spin.

Arts, Briefly: Yale Students' New Art

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 4:50am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

Aliza Shvarts, the Yale University student whose senior art project created a frenzy last month has submitted a different work to the senior thesis exhibition, The Yale Daily News reported. Ms. Shvarts’s original work supposedly included documentation of repeated artificial inseminations and induced miscarriages. The university has said that it found no evidence to back up Ms. Shvarts’s story. It also would not allow her to show that work in a campus art exhibition unless she admitted that it was a fiction, which she did not do.

Art Review | Philip Guston: Primal Instincts Hooked to an Art Against Artifice

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 4:50am GMT by By KEN JOHNSON

The Morgan Library & Museum offers a spellbinding survey of Philip Guston’s drawings.

On Throne, Onstage, Online and on Cellphone

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 4:07am GMT by By BEN SISARIO

Madonna celebrated the launch of her new album Wednesday night with an intimate show for 2,200 at New York City’s Roseland Ballroom.

Theater Review | 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses': What Lurks Beneath the Ruffles

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 4:06am GMT by By BEN BRANTLEY

Ben Daniels is making a sensational Broadway debut in Rufus Norris’s eye-filling, very imbalanced revival of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses.”

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Antiques: An Architect’s Eye Reflected in Silver

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:37am GMT by By WENDY MOONAN

A show of metalworks at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, covers work by 37 architects.

Inside Art: Sampling a Lifetime of Eclectic Collecting

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:34am GMT by By CAROL VOGEL

A sampling of an eccentric collector’s collection will be auctioned on July 9 at Sotheby’s in London.

Television Review: Spinsterhood Is Powerful (Until a Catch Shows Up)

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:31am GMT by By GINIA BELLAFANTE

PBS’s adaptation of “Cranford” sends a message that single life turns women into dithering twits.

Movie Review | 'Redbelt': In a Chokehold, on the Mat and in Life

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:31am GMT by By MANOHLA DARGIS

“Redbelt” is a satisfying, unexpectedly involving B-movie that owes as much to old Hollywood as to Greek tragedy.

Movie Review | 'As Tears Go By': Struck by Love in a Moody Underworld

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:30am GMT by By NATHAN LEE

“As Tears Go By,” Wong Kar-wai’s first feature film, heralds a new vision not yet in perfect focus.

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Movie Review | 'Made of Honor': My Best Friend’s Big Fat (Shouldn’t Happen) Scottish Wedding

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:29am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

The romantic comedy “Made of Honor” adds tart satirical flavors to a cotton-candy formula without sabotaging the sugar rush.

Movie Review | 'XXY': Confronting the Perils of Puberty Squared

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:28am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

The moody, surreal “XXY” explores the world of Alex, an intersex teenager navigating the treacherous emotional and hormonal rapids of uncertain gender.

Movie Review | 'Mister Lonely': Marilyn Monroe Returns Home to Her Husband, Charlie Chaplin

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:28am GMT by By A. O. SCOTT

“Mister Lonely” is enigmatic, its moods and meanings sometimes elusive, but nearly every frame is an image of arresting clarity and beauty.

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Movie Review | 'Son of Rambow': Lonely Boy’s ‘First Blood’ and First Pal

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:27am GMT by By MANOHLA DARGIS

“Son of Rambow” is a likable, lightly sticky valentine to childhood, the 1980s and the dawning of movie love.

Four Decades of Music That Redefined Free

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:25am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

A new book and a panel discuss the American avant-garde music movement of the last 40 years.

Music Review | Frank Wess: Saxophone With Subtext

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:21am GMT by By BEN RATLIFF

Frank Wess converged the swing-era languages of Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins, using dynamics and silence and restrained strength on Wednesday at the Village Vanguard.

Theater Review | 'Endgame': Loads of Grim Laughs Among the Garbage Cans

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:18am GMT by By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

The new production of Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” is specifically grim but never merely glum.

Music Review | Orchestre National de France: From France Avec Style, a Mingling of Generations

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:17am GMT by By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

The orchestra’s David Fray coupled works by Bach and Pierre Boulez in lucid, sensitive and imaginative performances at Avery Fisher Hall on Wednesday.

Dance Review | New York City Ballet: Recalling the Standard-Setter of Symphonic Ballet

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:16am GMT by By ALASTAIR MACAULAY

There was joy and wonder to be found in Wednesday’s “Symphonic Balanchine” program at the New York State Theater.

Music Review | Washington National Opera: Amid the Baroque and the Bluster, Love Blossoms

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:15am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

After a run at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Plácido Domingo sang his first American Bajazet on Wednesday in a new Washington National Opera production of “Tamerlano” at the Kennedy Center.

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