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Angelina Jolie’s Carefully Orchestrated Image
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 7:04am GMT by By BROOKS BARNES
In exchange for pictures of Angelina Jolie’s new twins, People magazine had to agree to positive coverage of her.
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Museum Review | The National Museum of American History: America’s Attic, Ready for a Second Act
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 6:58am GMT by By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
When the National Museum of American History reopens, it may begin to shed its reputation as one of the more cramped and confounding corners of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Music: How Axl Rose Spent All That Time
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 6:51am GMT by By JON PARELES
“Chinese Democracy” is the Titanic ship of rock albums: It’s outsize, lavish, obsessive, technologically advanced and, all too clearly, the end of an era.
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Endowment Drying Up, a Museum Seeks Help
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 6:35am GMT by By EDWARD WYATT
Faced with a severe financial crisis, officials of the Museum of Contemporary Art have had talks about a possible joint venture or merger with several other Los Angeles institutions.
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Movie Review | 'Twilight': The Love That Dare Not Bare Its Fangs
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 5:44am GMT by By MANOHLA DARGIS
It’s love at first look instead of first bite in “Twilight,” a deeply sincere, outright goofy vampire romance for the hot-not-to-trot abstinence set.
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Donald Finkel, 79, Poet of Free-Ranging Styles, Is Dead
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 5:42am GMT by By MARGALIT FOX
Mr. Finkel was a noted American poet whose work teemed with curious juxtapositions, which in their unorthodoxy helped illuminate the function of poetry itself.
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CW Says It Is Retaking Control of Its Sunday TV Lineup
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 5:39am GMT by By BILL CARTER
he CW network has canceled its low-rated Sunday lineup and ended a $15 million deal with Media Rights Capital, the company that produced the shows.
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Ailes Agrees to Remain at Fox News 5 More Years
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 5:31am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
The News Corporation announced Thursday that Roger Ailes, the chairman and chief executive of Fox News, had signed a new five-year contract with the company.
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Irving Gertz, Composer for Monsters of the Movies, Dies at 93
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 5:30am GMT by By MARGALIT FOX
Mr. Gertz was a prolific though often uncredited B-movie composer whose melodies haunt a spate of pictures with words like “Hell,” “Thing” and “Creature” in the titles.
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Movie Review | 'I Can’t Think Straight': Love Beyond Boundaries
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 5:21am GMT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Plugging the same two actresses into different Sapphic scenarios may be a valid filmmaking strategy but it can be an extremely boring one.
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Movie Review | 'Special': Going Bonkers, Superhero Style
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 5:19am GMT by By NATHAN LEE
“Special” puts an indie spin on the current Hollywood vogue for moody superhero psychodrama.
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Books of The Times: Voters Are Red, Voters Are Blue
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 5:17am GMT by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Calvin Trillin tells the story of the 2008 presidential election, in light verse.
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Antiques: The China Trade, Portrayed in Porcelain
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 5:09am GMT by By WENDY MOONAN
Kentshire Galleries is hosting a selling exhibition of Chinese export porcelain in its Manhattan shop at 700 Madison Avenue, at 62nd Street.
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Art Review | Pipilotti Rist: Tiptoe by the Tulips (or Stretch by the Apples)
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 5:08am GMT by By KAREN ROSENBERG
“Pour Your Body Out,” a site-specific installation by the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, is arguably the first project to humanize the atrium of the Museum of Modern Art.
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Inside Art: Auction Slump Has Silver Lining for MoMA
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 5:05am GMT by By CAROL VOGEL
After the recent drop in auction prices, artworks that were once out of reach for museums have suddenly become affordable again.
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Art Review | 'Art and Love in Renaissance Italy': Eternal Objects of Desire
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 5:03am GMT by By ROBERTA SMITH
“Art and Love in Renaissance Italy” at the Metropolitan Museum promises romance, desire, expensive gift items and possible sex in the land of Romeo and Juliet and delivers on all counts.
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Art Review | 'Beyond Babylon': Global Exchange, Early Version
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 5:02am GMT by By HOLLAND COTTER
“Beyond Babylon,” a big, prescient, concentration-taxing exhibition, is the latest in the museum’s illustrious line of panoramic archaeological shows.
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Arts, Briefly: McCain vs. Browne: Round Two
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 5:00am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
While the détente continues between Senator John McCain and President-elect Barack Obama, normal relations have yet to be restored between Mr. McCain and the singer-songwriter Jackson Browne.
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Music Review | The Academy Is ...: Armed With Guitar and Emotions
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:59am GMT by By JON CARAMANICA
The band seamlessly connected the dots between emo and early 1980s soft-rock in their show at the Roseland Ballroom on Wednesday.
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Arts, Briefly: $1 Million Donation? The Author Did It
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:59am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
Patricia Cornwell, the best-selling author, has made a commitment of $1 million to the Harvard Art Museum’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies.
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Television Review | '24: Redemption': Saving the World in Less Than a Day
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:58am GMT by By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Kiefer Sutherland is back as Jack Bauer in “24: Redemption” on Sunday on Fox, but the title is a bit misleading.
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Theater Review | 'Super Vision': Pulling the Plug on Digital Bonding
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:58am GMT by By JASON ZINOMAN
“Super Vision” is an audacious meditation on the erosion of privacy.
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Television Review | 'A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All': Unwrap the Presents, Unleash the Parody
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:54am GMT by By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Stephen Colbert is delightful, a few of the song parodies are clever, but over all, the show is too long and more than a little strained, much like the holiday specials it mocks.
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Music Review | MATA Interval: Pop-Classical Intersections, in Tune With Any Season
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:54am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN
The bimonthly series tend to feature young composers who disregard the classical-pop divide. Wednesday’s installment was a showcase for the violist Nadia Sirota and the guitarist Andrew McKenna Lee.
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Theater Review | 'Jester of Tonga': A King Becomes the Fool in a South Seas Scandal
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:53am GMT by By JASON ZINOMAN
The whimsical “Jester of Tonga” is a rare example of puppet theater about bad investments.
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Movie Review | 'The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)': Convulsions of a Family and an Abandoned Country
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:52am GMT by By A. O. SCOTT
“The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)” is quiet, contemplative and impressionistic, which makes the story it has to tell all the more powerful.
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Movie Review | 'Lake City': Suds, Southern Scenery and Fistfuls of Weaponry
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:52am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
When Sissy Spacek speaks her clichéd lines in the mediocre screenplay of “Lake City,” her delivery lends them a resonance that is not in the written words.
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Movie Review | 'Bolt': Canine TV Action Star Discovers That Life Is the Best Reality Show
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:51am GMT by By A. O. SCOTT
“Bolt” is at once a knowing, satirical sendup of the Hollywood fame-and-fantasy machinery and a sleek product of the Disney-Pixar industrial complex.
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Movie Review | 'Were the World Mine': Puck’s Love Potion, Splashed Across Town
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:50am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
“Were the World Mine,” an indie alternative to Disney’s “High School Musical” franchise, is a small, endearing film.
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Music Review | Hinder: Bad Boys, but Not Afraid to Show Their Sensitive Side
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:50am GMT by By JON PARELES
The multimillion-selling band from Oklahoma performed an entertaining set of blues rock and power ballads to the willing crowd at the Nokia Theater on Wednesday.
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A Piece of Cleveland With a New York Accent
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:49am GMT by By BEN SISARIO
Hundreds of artifacts are being prepared for the opening on Tuesday of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC, a $9 million branch of the Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.
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Dance Review | Urban Bush Women and Jant-Bi: Crossing Continents to Explore History and Identity
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:49am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS
“Les Écailles de la Mémoire,” an exploration of black identity, has perfect timing politically speaking, but is only intermittently compelling to watch.
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A Jersey Boy’s Moment as Broadway’s New Pal
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:43am GMT by By PATRICK HEALY
Christian Hoff has his first shot at a major leading role with the lead in Roundabout Theater Company’s revival of “Pal Joey.”
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Arts, Briefly: Rockefeller Grants Announced
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:43am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
The Rockefeller Foundation has announced the recipients of its New York City Cultural Innovation Fund awards, which will give a total of $2.7 million to 16 cultural organizations.
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Arts, Briefly: Tanglewood Schedule Announced
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:43am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
The Tanglewood Music Festival, the annual summer arts celebration in Lenox, Mass., has announced its 2009 program.
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Arts, Briefly: Michael Jackson, Live in Court
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:42am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
A British court that nearly had to settle for video testimony from Michael Jackson will instead receive him in person.
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Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:42am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
Laura Linney has been named the host of “Masterpiece Classic,” a spinoff of the PBS series “Masterpiece Theater,” which was divided into three different shows in 2007.
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Arts, Briefly: CBS Wins the Night
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:42am GMT by By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
“Criminal Minds” and “CSI: NY” led CBS to another victory in the ratings on Wednesday, according to Nielsen’s estimates.
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Arts, Briefly: 'American Buffalo' Goes the Way of the Buffalo
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:41am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
The Broadway production of “American Buffalo” has posted a provisional closing notice and is likely to end its run on Sunday, a publicist for the show said.
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Theater Review | 'On the Town': Drop Me Off at Broadway, 1944
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:41am GMT by By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
The fleet’s in this weekend, at least on 55th Street, where a radiant production of “On the Town” has docked at City Center through Sunday.
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Theater Review | 'Dividing the Estate': Inherit the Windfall
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:38am GMT by By BEN BRANTLEY
The problems confronting the sprawling, anxious, compulsively talky Texan clan of 1987 in “Dividing the Estate” will be familiar to many American families at the moment.
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Art in Review
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 3:16am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Martín Ramírez at the American Folk Art Museum, “I Am a Man” at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Zaha Hadid at Sonnabend and more.
