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Eddy Arnold, Country Singer, Dies at 89
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 4:05pm GMT by By BILL FRISKICS-WARREN
Mr. Arnold was a gentleman crooner who took country music uptown and sold more than 85 million recordings over seven decades.
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Theater Review | 'Top Girls': Ladies Who Lunch? No, Here’s to the Power Players
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 2:49pm GMT by By BEN BRANTLEY
Caryl Churchill’s “Top Girls” opened in a well-acted revival directed with intelligence and sensitivity by James Macdonald.
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A Casting Call for Sexy Cars (Hybrids Need Not Apply)
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 1:48pm GMT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY
Vehicles, both hot and not, have been enjoying an on-screen heyday. But Toyota’s Prius has remained something of a novelty act on the big screen.
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Where a Little Awkward Whimsy Can Take You
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 10:04am GMT by By DAVE ITZKOFF
It was an appropriately low-key reception for the low-key band, Flight of the Conchords, at Town Hall on Tuesday.
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Americans Are Heaviest Bidders on Impressionist and Modern Art at Sotheby’s
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 6:51am GMT by By CAROL VOGEL
Unlike at the Christie’s sale, which was dominated by European buyers, at Sotheby’s Americans took home 67 percent of the work, and Europeans bought 27 percent.
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Victor Christ-Janer, Modernist Architect, Dies at 92
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 5:54am GMT by By ROBIN POGREBIN
Mr. Christ-Janer was a member of a group of influential architects who built Modernist homes and offices in New Canaan, Conn.
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Frances Yeend, Soprano at City Opera and the Met, Dies at 95
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 5:53am GMT by By MARGALIT FOX
Ms. Yeend was an internationally known soprano who appeared regularly with the New York City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera in the decades after World War II.
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Moscow Journal: A Treasure Is Restored, With Culture Its Bounty
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 4:45am GMT by By SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY
For two decades after the Soviet collapse, Pashkov House was a crumbling eyesore. Now it’s is one of the few restoration projects lauded by preservationists.
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Music Review | Philadelphia Orchestra: With Divorce Almost Complete, a Happy Collaboration (With Lots of Help)
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 4:06am GMT by By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Tuesday’s performance by Christoph Eschenbach and the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall must have been a deeply gratifying but bittersweet experience for all involved.
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Disney’s Newly Crowned Prince, Plucked From a London Stage
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 4:05am GMT by By BROOKS BARNES
A movie franchise returns with a newly crowned hero: Ben Barnes as Prince Caspian.
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Books of The Times: Forget It, Comrade. This Is Moscow.
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 4:03am GMT by By JANET MASLIN
Tom Rob Smith’s tightly woven debut novel is a thriller set in a Soviet era when serial killers didn’t exist. Officially.
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Music Review | No Age: Staging Their Happenings in an Art-Punk Mode, Embracing the Threat of Chaos
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:59am GMT by By JON CARAMANICA
No Age, an art-punk twosome from Los Angeles, is known for performing jagged, exceedingly brief songs at unlikely locales — they thrill by purposeful happenstance.
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This Taste of the Big Top Has a Big Board Flavor
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:57am GMT by By CELIA McGEE
With “Corporate Carnival,” the World Financial Center becomes a bustling showcase.
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Art Review | Fausto Melotti: Italian Sculptor Attuned to the Harmonic Occupation of Space
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:56am GMT by By KAREN ROSENBERG
Fausto Melotti’s work defies convention and unites disparate strains of 20th-century Italian art.
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Dance Review | Paris Opera Ballet: Bringing Balanchine’s ‘Four Temperaments’ to a Fevered Pitch
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:54am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS
Wilfried Romoli, one of the Paris Opera Ballet’s stars, brought exceptional presence and intensity to his final performance on Tuesday.
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Music Review | Till Fellner: Pianist of Apollonian Finesse Finds His Inner Dionysus
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:52am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN
At Zankel Hall on Tuesday Mr. Fellner was as thoughtful and surprising as ever in his performance of works by Mozart, Schumann, Lizst, Holliger and Ravel.
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NBC Plans 24-Hour News for the New York Region
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:51am GMT by By BILL CARTER
The new channel will de-emphasize the identity of NBC’s flagship station, WNBC, Channel 4, rechristening it a “content center” and making it one part of a larger media presence.
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Arts, Briefly: Goats Eat Free at the Getty
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:50am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
The Getty Center in Los Angeles has contracted about 60 goats, including the one shown above, to eat the brush on its 110 acres. If left unmanaged, the brush could serve as fuel for wildfires.
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Arts, Briefly: Betty Comes Home
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:49am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER; Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
After two years in Los Angeles production of the popular ABC drama “Ugly Betty” may move to the city in which it is set: New York.
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Arts, Briefly: All That Jazz in Montreal
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:48am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
The 29th Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, which is being dedicated to Oscar Peterson, will run from June 26 to July 6 and present more than 3,000 musicians.
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Arts, Briefly: Idolatry Outdraws Terpsichore
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:48am GMT by By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” celebrated its 100th episode on Tuesday, drawing solid ratings for the night but not enough to overcome Fox’s advantage with “American Idol.”
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Arts, Briefly: Amy Winehouse Arrested Again
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:48am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
The Grammy Award-winning soul singer Amy Winehouse was arrested on Wednesday in London on suspicion of drug offenses and held after she turned herself in at a police station.
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Arts, Briefly: R. Kelly Trial to Start
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:47am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
After six years of repeated delays, the R&B star R. Kelly is to stand trial on child pornography charges; jury selection will begin on Friday in Chicago, The Associated Press reported.
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Arts, Briefly: Extended Visits for Britney Spears
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:47am GMT by Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Britney Spears was awarded extended visits with her sons after a child custody hearing in Los Angeles Superior County Court on Tuesday, The Associated Press reported.
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Arts, Briefly: Madonna Is No. 1
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:47am GMT by By BEN SISARIO; Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
As expected, the new Madonna album, “Hard Candy” (Warner Brothers), has opened at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, selling 280,000 copies, Nielsen SoundScan reported