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William Wharton, Author, Dies at 82

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 6:18am GMT by By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Mr. Wharton was a successful painter whose first novel, “Birdy,” won a National Book Award and became a critically acclaimed movie.

A Panoramic View of the City, Framed With Art

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 6:01am GMT by By ANNE BARNARD

A new exhibition at the Queens Museum of Art juxtaposes drawings by Stephen Talasnik with its New York panorama, which has long inspired Mr. Talasnik’s work.

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Art Review | Jan Lievens: A Forgotten Baroque Painter, Shown Free of Rembrandt’s Shadow

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 5:38am GMT by By KEN JOHNSON

Jan Lievens, the subject of an interesting exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, is not a household name now, but in his time he was famous for his portraits and his religious and history paintings.

Movie Review | 'Dear Zachary': A Provocative Story of Loss

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:45am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

It is impossible not to be fired up by Kurt Kuenne’s incendiary cri de coeur, “Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.”

Movie Review | 'Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback': United by Shared Ambivalence

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:43am GMT by By NATHAN LEE

“Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback,” an ambitious but unfocused documentary, bids to immortalize this short-lived if influential group.

Movie Review | 'My Name Is Bruce': The Evil Dumb

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:42am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

In “My Name Is Bruce,” a silly horror comedy that only a cultist could love, Bruce Campbell, the star of countless B-movie thrillers, mercilessly spoofs himself.

Books of The Times: You Thought It Was Hell? War Is Sporty

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:34am GMT by By BARRY GEWEN

In Martin van Creveld’s survey of conflict in societies throughout history and around the world, peace is the aberration, pacifism a quixotic ideal.

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Antiques: Let Them Have Splendor: France’s Lavish Century

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:34am GMT by By WENDY MOONAN

The cliché that the very best always sells will be tested on Thursday in New York at Sotheby’s sale “Important French Furniture, Decorations, Ceramics, Silver and Carpets.”

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Art Review | International Fine Print Dealers Association Print Fair: Stretching the Concept of Print to Its Outer Limits

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:31am GMT by By KAREN ROSENBERG

In what is shaping up to be a subdued art season, the annual International Fine Print Dealers Association Print Fair at the Park Avenue Armory is a reassuring presence.

Inside Art: Pigs, Worms and Pink in the Atrium at MoMA

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:31am GMT by By CAROL VOGEL

MoMA’s first site-specific commission for the atrium is “Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters),” a video, sound and sculptural installation by Pipilotti Rist.

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Art Review | Joan Miró at MoMA: Miró, Serial Murderer of Artistic Conventions

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:29am GMT by By HOLLAND COTTER

“Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937” is an absorbing, invigorating and — Miró would be mortified — beautiful show at the Museum of Modern Art.

Art Review | 'theanyspacewhatever': Museum as Romantic Comedy

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:27am GMT by By ROBERTA SMITH

The Guggenheim’s exhibition “theanyspacewhatever” aims to resensitize people to their everyday surroundings and, moreover, to one another.

Movie Review | 'Splinter': Night of the Living Spastic, Ravenous Porcupine Flesh-Eaters

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:19am GMT by By A. O. SCOTT

With “Splinter,” the director Toby Wilkins honors the conventions of the horror genre with skill and enough wit to keep the scares sharp.

Movie Review | 'The Matador': All the Life Surrounding Death in the Afternoon

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:19am GMT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

Stripping away centuries of civilization, “The Matador” confronts something primal in human nature, daring us to do the same.

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Movie Review | 'One Day You’ll Understand': In Search of Family History Despite the Threat of Pain

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:18am GMT by By A. O. SCOTT

“One Day You’ll Understand” contains no great revelations or surprises, but rather is suffused with a quiet glow of sympathy and enlightenment.

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Movie Review | 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno': Skin Flick? Nah, It’s a Love Story

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:17am GMT by By . A. O. Scott

“Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” in spite of its lewdness, follows a gee-whiz romantic-comedy formula that would not be out of place on the Disney Channel.

Theater Review | The Big Apple Circus: One-Ring Show Sings Many Different Tunes

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:16am GMT by By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

“Play On!,” the 31st edition of the Big Apple Circus, performed under its little big top in Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center, shining a spotlight on the music essential to the spectacle.

Television Review | 'Brotherhood': Mobster and Politician, Neither Rolling in Clover

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:16am GMT by By GINIA BELLAFANTE

“Brotherhood,” which begins its third exceptional season on Sunday, is yet another Showtime drama featuring main characters who rationalize self-interest as altruism.

Music Review | Metro Station: Answering Flirty Come-Ons With Squeals or Singalongs

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:15am GMT by By JON PARELES

Trace Cyrus and Mason Musso of Metro Station sang peppy songs about barely legal sex to squealing young girls, many with parents in tow, at the Nokia Theater on Wednesday.

Music Review | Enrico Pieranunzi: Two Hands, Many Keyboard Styles

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:14am GMT by By BEN RATLIFF

The Italian jazz pianist Enrico Pieranunzi, who is usually known for his good taste and good experience, gave a dull performance on Wednesday night at Birdland.

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Music Review | Daniel Bernard Roumain: Nodding Orchestrally to Two Historical Figures, and to His Own Haitian Roots

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:14am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

Daniel Bernard Roumain’s overcrowded score, performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Wednesday, involved Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin and the Haitian singer Emeline Michel.

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Arts, Briefly: Free Tickets for Met’s Faust

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:13am GMT by Compiled by Dave Itzkoff

The Metropolitan Opera will be offering 3,000 free tickets for its final dress rehearsal of Berlioz’s “Damnation de Faust.”

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Arts, Briefly: The God Delusion Jr.? Dawkins Is Working on a Children’s Book

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:13am GMT by Compiled by Dave Itzkoff

The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has said he is writing a book for children that would explore their relationships with fairy tales.

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Arts, Briefly: ‘Doctor Who’ Actor Steps Down

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:12am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

The actor David Tennant announced that he would not play the time-traveling Doctor in the next season of the series, scheduled for 2010.

Arts, Briefly: Painting Stolen by Nazis Is Returned to Heirs

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:12am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has returned a painting by Fernand Léger to the heirs of a French art collector after the museum concluded that the painting had been stolen by the Nazis during World War II.

Arts, Briefly: Digital Mystery Tour: The Beatles' First Video Game

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:12am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

The game developer Harmonix and the publisher MTV Games entered into a partnership with the Beatles’ Apple Corps Ltd. to produce an interactive game.

Arts, Briefly: Hollywood Set, Broadway Name

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:11am GMT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY; Compiled by Dave Itzkoff

David Rockwell, whose Rockwell Group has designed sets for Broadway shows including “Hairspray” and “Legally Blonde,” has signed on as set designer for the next Academy Awards show.

Arts, Briefly: Footnotes

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:11am GMT by Compiled by Dave Itzkoff

“Black Watch,” Gregory Burke’s play about a Scottish Army regiment’s perspective on the war in Iraq, has extended performances through Dec. 21 at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

Arts, Briefly: The Phillies Win! (Fox, Too)

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:11am GMT by By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

The Philadelphia Phillies’ World Series triumph provided a ratings victory for Fox on Wednesday night.

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Video Game Review | Dead Space: Lost in Space, Facing Horror’s Greatest Hits

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:10am GMT by By SETH SCHIESEL

Dead Space, a new sci-fi horror game from Electronic Arts, sticks to familiar genre tropes but delivers the thrills.

Music: The Music Is Classical, and the Bar Is Busy

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:08am GMT by By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

Le Poisson Rouge is following in the path of places like Joe’s Pub in the East Village and Barbès in Park Slope, clubs that mix classical and contemporary fare.