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Art in Review
Posted: December 18th, 2008, 10:49pm GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Indirect Object” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, John Marin at Meredith Ward Fine Art, Zoe Strauss at Bruce Silverstein and Matt Mullican at the Drawing Center.
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City Room: Ask About the Big Apple Circus
Posted: December 16th, 2008, 6:03pm GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
This week, Guillaume Dufresnoy, the incoming artistic director of the Big Apple Circus, will answer selected readers’ questions about the show.
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Critics’ Choice: New CDs
Posted: December 15th, 2008, 4:55am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
New releases from Keyshia Cole, the All-American Rejects, Anthony Hamilton and Sean Conly.
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Dance in Review
Posted: December 7th, 2008, 10:42pm GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Reviews of performances by Misnomer Dance, Streb and LeeSaar the Company.
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Critics’ Choice: New CDs
Posted: December 7th, 2008, 9:14pm GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
New releases from Common, Omara Portuondo and Musiq Soulchild.
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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.
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Music in Review
Posted: November 9th, 2008, 11:18pm GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Tetzlaff Quartet at Zankel Hall and “Petite Messe Solennelle” at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola.
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Critics’ Choice: New CDs
Posted: November 9th, 2008, 10:38pm GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Reviews of new albums by T-Pain, David Archuleta, Deborah Cox and Butch Walker.
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Art in Review
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 12:21am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Nasreen Mohamedi at Talwar Gallery, Vivan Sundaram at Sepia International, Donald Moffett/Yuichi Higashionna at Marianne Boesky and more.
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Art in Review
Posted: October 17th, 2008, 5:43am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Medardo Rosso at Peter Freeman, Pushpamala N. at Paris Autumn, Jordan Wolfson at Swiss Institute and more.
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Critics’ Choice: New CDs
Posted: August 24th, 2008, 9:11pm GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
New releases from the Game, B. B. King and Solange.
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Critics’ Choice: New CDs
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 6:25am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
New releases from The Academy Is ..., Aaron Parks, Ra Ra Riot and Donny McCaslin Trio.
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Critics’ Choice: New CDs
Posted: August 10th, 2008, 9:29pm GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
New releases from Yung Berg, David Sanborn, Heidi Newfield and Rebecca Martin.
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Art in Review
Posted: August 8th, 2008, 3:00am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Painting: Now and Forever, Part II” at Greene Naftali, “Neti-Neti (not this, not this)” at Bose Pacia, Scott King at Bortolami Gallery and more.
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Critics’ Choice: New CDs
Posted: August 3rd, 2008, 8:50pm GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
New releases from Randy Newman, Lloyd, Ludacris and DJ Drama and Alyssa Graham.
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Critics’ Choice: New CDs
Posted: July 27th, 2008, 7:54pm GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
New releases from Supergrass, the Roy Hargrove Quintet, Old 97’s and Santogold.
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Critics’ Choice: New CDs
Posted: July 20th, 2008, 10:33pm GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
New releases from Miley Cyrus, O.A.R., Ratatat and One Day as a Lion.
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Critics’ Choice: New CDs
Posted: July 14th, 2008, 3:00am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
New releases from Nas, Randy Travis and David Banner.
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Critics’ Choice: New CDs
Posted: July 7th, 2008, 5:29am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
New releases from John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis, Jim Jones & Byrdgang and the Watson Twins.
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Critics’ Choice: New CDs
Posted: June 29th, 2008, 10:22pm GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
New releases from Vanessa Hudgens, Wolf Parade, Alkaline Trio and Soulja Boy.
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2008 Tony Award Winners
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 8:27am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
A complete list of winners of 2008 Tony Awards, with links to the original New York Times reviews.
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Critics’ Choice: New CDs
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:33am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
New releases from the Hold Steady, Plies, Katy Perry, Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos and Bonnie (Prince) Billy.
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City Room: Ask About the Health of the Arts
Posted: May 6th, 2008, 9:38pm GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Randall Bourscheidt, the president of the Alliance for the Arts, is taking questions about the economic health of the arts in New York City.
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Arts, Briefly: April Madness Favors CBS
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 4:54am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
CBS’s coverage of the men’s college basketball championship led the network to a ratings victory on Monday, while “Dancing With the Stars” buoyed ABC in second place. Nielsen’s overnight estimates suggested that CBS’s live broadcast attracted slightly fewer viewers than the championship game a year ago, which drew 19.6 million. Even so, the basketball game, which followed repeats of CBS’s “Big Bang Theory” at 8 p.m. (10.2 million) and “Two and a Half Men” at 8:30 (12.2 million), still dominated its time-slot competitors. ABC earned its highest ratings early in the night thanks to “Dancing With the Stars,” which averaged 19.5 million viewers from 8 to 9:30. The rest of ABC’s lineup, “Samantha Who?” at 9:30 (11 million) and “The Bachelor” at 10 (7.2 million), struggled to attract comparable ratings. NBC ranked third over all, drawing its largest audience for “Medium” at 10 o’clock since May 2006 (10.7 million). Fox finished fourth for the night. -
2008 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music
Posted: April 8th, 2008, 5:04am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The winners included Junot Diaz for fiction, Saul Friedlander for general nonfiction and Tracy Letts for drama. -
Dance in Review
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 7:04am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Reviews of performances by the Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan, Ursula Eagly and David Dorfman and Dan Froot. -
Arts, Briefly: 'Transformers' Star Fails to Appear in Court
Posted: March 20th, 2008, 5:05am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
A $1,000 bench warrant was issued for the actor Shia LaBeouf on Tuesday after he failed to appear in court on a charge of unlawful smoking, The Associated Press reported. According to the warrant, which did not contain details of the location of the offense, Mr. LaBeouf, 21, the star of the forthcoming “Indiana Jones” movie and the blockbuster hit “Transformers,” was cited last month. He was scheduled to appear in a Los Angeles County court Tuesday on the misdemeanor offense, but neither he nor his lawyer showed up, according to court documents. -
Arts, Briefly: Clooney Movie Heads to Kentucky
Posted: March 20th, 2008, 3:12am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
George Clooney will screen his new movie “Leatherheads” in Maysville, Ky., on Monday, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Clooney’s father, Nick, said that the actor will visit this northern Kentucky town, which is approximately 16 miles west of Augusta, Ky., where the star grew up. Nick Clooney and George Clooney’s aunt, Rosemary, were born in Maysville, and the town holds special significance for the family: it’s where Rosemary Clooney’s movie “The Stars Are Singing” was given its premiere in 1953. The Times reported Wednesday that Greenville, S.C., where the movie was filmed, will have its own premiere, probably without Mr. Clooney and the cast. More than 400 extras from the Greenville area are in the film. -
Arts, Briefly: Finalists Announced for Magazine Awards
Posted: March 20th, 2008, 3:11am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The New Yorker leads the list of 128 finalists with 12 nominations for the 43rd annual National Magazine Awards. Marlene Kahan, executive director of the American Society of Magazine Editors, made the announcement on Wednesday. The 2008 awards, known as the Ellies, had a record-setting 1,964 entries from 333 print and online magazines, the society said. Twenty-five winners will be announced at a gala on May 1 at Jazz at Lincoln Center in Manhattan. Other publications with multiple nominations include New York, Vanity Fair, National Geographic, GQ and The Atlantic; first-time finalists include Babble, Bloomberg Markets, Budget Travel, Chow, Condé Nast Portfolio, Domino, Good, The New York Times Magazine, Paste, Play: The New York Times Sports Magazine, Radar and T: The New York Times Style Magazine. -
Arts, Briefly Compiled by Julie Bloom | Battlestar Galactica Prequel Announced: Battlestar Galactica Prequel Announced
Posted: March 20th, 2008, 3:09am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Sci Fi Channel has approved a two-hour pilot for the prequel to “Battlestar Galactica,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. The announcement was made at the cable channel’s presentation of its new schedule Tuesday in New York. The prequel, “Caprica,” created by David Eick and Ronald D. Moore, the team behind “Battlestar,” is set 50 years before the hit show. -
Arts, Briefly: Tolkien First Edition Is Auctioned
Posted: March 20th, 2008, 3:07am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
A first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1937 novel “The Hobbit” was sold at an auction at the Bonhams auction house, London, for £60,000 ($122,000), twice its predicted value, on Tuesday, Agence France-Presse reported. Inscribed by the author and dedicated to Elaine Griffiths, a friend of Tolkien’s who helped with its publication, “The Hobbit” has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide since its first print run of 1,500 sold out. The auction also included the last known photo of Tolkien, taken in Oxford in 1973, and the first foreign-language edition of the book, a Swedish translation from 1947. “The Hobbit” was originally written for Tolkien’s children and preceded his fantasy trilogy, “The Lord of the Rings.”. -
Arts, Briefly: Footnote
Posted: March 20th, 2008, 3:07am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Regis Philbin, Martin Short, Charles Grodin and Paul Shaffer will present an evening of comedy and music at Studio 54 on April 14. The proceeds will go to veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. -
Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Posted: March 19th, 2008, 2:29am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
After a critically lauded run last year at Primary Stages, Horton Foote’s “Dividing the Estate” is moving to Broadway. Lincoln Center Theater will produce the play, a comic portrait of a Texas family, at a Shubert theater to be announced. Performances are to begin on Oct. 23, with opening night scheduled for Nov. 20. Michael Wilson is directing; Elizabeth Ashley, Arthur French, Hallie Foote, Penny Fuller and Gerald McRaney star. ... “Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps” is moving to the Cort Theater, following its limited engagement at Roundabout Theater Company’s American Airlines Theater. Performances continue through March 29 at the American Airlines and will resume April 29 at the Cort. Opening night is May 8. ... The Irish Repertory Theater will extend its run of the musical “Take Me Along” from April 13 to May 4. ... Sierra Boggess and Sean Palmer, from “The Little Mermaid,” will make their Town Hall debuts in “The Broadway Musicals of 1954” on April 7, part of the “Broadway by the Year” series. The show includes songs and dances from “The Pajama Game,” “Peter Pan,” “The Boy Friend” and “Fanny,” among others. Emily Skinner, Noah Racey, Cheyenne Jackson and Kendrick Jones will also appear. ... “I’ve Got Your Number: Romance, the Rat Pack and Carolyn Leigh,” part of the 92nd Street Y’s “Lyrics & Lyricists” series, will run from March 29 to March 31. It features Debby Boone, Loston Harris, James Naughton and Karen Ziemba. -
Arts, Briefly: Gay and Lesbian Group Gives Awards
Posted: March 19th, 2008, 2:28am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Barbara Walters, right, and “60 Minutes” shared the award for television news magazines at the 19th annual Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards in New York on Monday, Reuters reported. Ms. Walters won for “My Secret Self: A Story of Transgender Children,” on ABC’s “20/20,” and “60 Minutes,” on CBS, won for “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” about the United States military’s policy on gay and lesbian service members. The award for outstanding film in limited release went to the Hebrew- and Arabic-language film “The Bubble,” about a love affair between and Israeli soldier and a Palestinian man. “For the Bible Tells Me So” was named outstanding documentary. Among the other honorees for coverage of gay and lesbian issues were The New York Times, GQ magazine, CNN.com and the television series “Boston Legal.”. -
Arts, Briefly: Young Conductor Leads Russian Orchestra
Posted: March 12th, 2008, 4:07am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Alondra de la Parra, above, a 27-year-old Mexican student at the Manhattan School of Music, has cut short her spring break to head for Florida. She’s not going to seek a suntan but to step in to conduct the Russian National Orchestra in concerts this week that feature the flutist James Galway on Wednesday, and the violinist Joshua Bell on Friday. Ms. de la Parra, a candidate for a master of music degree in May from the Manhattan School of Music, was studying conducting in Salzburg, Austria, during the break when a call came inviting her to step in for an ailing Teodor Currentzis, the director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater, who was to lead the Russian National Orchestra in the performances as part of the Festival of the Arts Boca in Boca Raton, Fla. Ms. de la Parra, the founder and music director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, which is based in New York, will lead works by Mozart, David Overton and Schubert on Wednesday and by Tchaikovsky and Debussy on Friday. -
Arts, Briefly : Irate Prince Scraps Art Loan
Posted: March 12th, 2008, 4:06am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Irked by a tax dispute with Germany, Crown Prince Alois of Liechtenstein has canceled a planned loan of family-owned art to the Neue Pinakothek museum in Munich, Bloomberg News reported. Last month Prince Alois, right, called the methods employed by Germany to obtain information on tax evaders an “attack” on Liechtenstein, which punishes infringements on its banking secrecy. And a written statement from the prince’s office said, “All other approved loans for exhibitions in Germany will also be retracted.” The Neue Pinakothek exhibition “Viennese Biedermeier Painting From the Collection of the Prince of Liechtenstein” was to have run from May 21 to Sept. 21. “It’s a shame,” said Herbert Rott, the curator responsible for the show. “We hope we can reschedule it for a later date.”. -
Arts, Briefly: Leonard Cohen Hits the Road
Posted: March 12th, 2008, 4:05am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
One day after his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Canadian singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen, 73, below, announced plans on Tuesday for his first tour in 15 years, Reuters reported. The tour, beginning in Toronto on June 6, will include an appearance at the Glastonbury Festival in Britain on June 29. The final announced date is Aug. 29 in Vienna, but organizers said more performances were expected. ... The rock band Van Halen has postponed all shows through April 19 while the guitarist Eddie Van Halen, 53, undergoes tests for an unspecified medical condition, Reuters reported. The announcement came a week after the band postponed four concerts for the same reason. Fans were asked to keep their tickets, which will be honored at makeup dates. ... The rapper the Game, whose real name is Jayceon Taylor, has been released from a Los Angeles jail after serving 8 days of a 60-day sentence for possession of a firearm in a school zone, The Associated Press reported. -
Arts, Briefly: A Painful Commemoration in Vienna
Posted: March 11th, 2008, 4:28am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
An exhibition at the Vienna State Opera house that opened on Monday details how its Jewish employees were purged under Nazi rule, Reuters reported. Few of the 92 who lost their jobs and survived the war were reinstated. The exhibition is part of a national commemoration of Austria’s willing acceptance of annexation by Hitler’s Germany, whose forces took control on March 12, 1938. “The Opera is one of the institutions ready to face up to its past even if it was painful at times,” the Austrian chancellor, Alfred Gusenbauer, said in opening the exhibition. “Such institutions in Austria in 2008 are sadly still the exception.” The anniversary has prompted a wave of reflection, with special television programs and an appeal by the Roman Catholic Church to learn the lessons of the past. A candlelight vigil will take place on Wednesday, the anniversary, at the city’s Heldenplatz (Heroes’ Square), where jubilant Austrians gathered to greet Hitler days after the annexation, and both houses of Parliament will hold a special joint session on Wednesday morning to mark the anniversary. -
Arts, Briefly: Oliviers Go for Big Hair
Posted: March 11th, 2008, 4:28am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
London’s Olivier Awards proved a triumph for the West End production of the musical “Hairspray,” which won best new musical as well as the awards for best actor in a musical for Michael Ball, above right; best actress, Leanne Jones, above left; and best supporting actress, Tracie Bennett. Kristin Scott Thomas won best actress in a play for her role in “The Seagull,” and Chiwetel Ejiofor was named best actor for the title role in “Othello.” The latest production of George Bernard Shaw’s “Saint Joan” won for best revival, and Rory Kinnear was best supporting actor in a play for his performance in “The Man of Mode.” “The Magic Flute” was named best musical revival, and Simon McBurney’s production of “A Disappearing Number” was named best new play. Rupert Goold won the best director award for his production of “Macbeth,” which is now at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Andrew Lloyd Webber was honored for lifetime achievement. -
Arts, Briefly: Britain Seeks to Silence a Former Secret Agent
Posted: March 11th, 2008, 4:27am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The British government is trying to prevent a former MI5 member from publishing a book on the inner workings of the secret service, The Daily Telegraph in London reported. The 300-page manuscript is said to reveal some successes, failures and recruiting techniques of the covert organization. The author reportedly penetrated the Irish Republican Army and organized gangs and recruited agents to infiltrate jihadist groups plotting terror attacks in Britain. Legal proceedings, to be held in secret, are expected to begin at the High Court in London this week before a senior judge, who will rule on whether publication would breach national security. The controversy is reminiscent of the “Spycatcher” scandal of 1987, when the government unsuccessfully tried to prevent Peter Wright, another former MI5 officer, from publishing details of his work to uncover a traitor within the security service. Attempts to ban “Spycatcher” failed, and the book went on to sell more than two million copies. -
Arts, Briefly: No. 1 Detective Agency Goes From Book to TV
Posted: March 11th, 2008, 4:26am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
HBO, the Weinstein Company and the BBC have announced a partnership to create a television series from Alexander McCall Smith’s “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” books. A two-hour pilot was filmed on location in Botswana, directed by Anthony Minghella, and 13 one-hour episodes will begin filming this summer. Jill Scott plays Precious Ramotswe, the proprietor of the only female-owned detective agency in Botswana; Anika Noni Rose plays her secretary, Grace Makutsi; and Lucian Msamati is Ramotswe’s devoted suitor, J. L. B. Matekoni. -
Arts, Briefly: Heath Ledger's Will
Posted: March 11th, 2008, 4:26am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Heath Ledger’s will left nothing to his former girlfriend and their 2-year-old daughter because it was filed in Australia in 2003 and never updated after they became part of his life, The Associated Press reported. A copy of the will, filed in Manhattan Surrogate’s Court, shows that Mr. Ledger, a native of Australia, left everything to his parents and three sisters. The will offers no hint at the size of the estate, but papers filed with it value the actor’s New York City assets at $145,000, including $100,000 in miscellaneous bank accounts. Mr. Ledger’s father has said the family would provide for the actor’s former girlfriend, the actress Michelle Williams, and their daughter, Matilda Rose. -
Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Posted: March 11th, 2008, 4:26am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Daniel Walker Howe, a professor emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles, has won the third annual New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize for “What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848” (Oxford University). The award, which carries a $50,000 prize, will be presented on April 4, when Mr. Howe will also be named American historian laureate.... Francine Prose, having finished her one-year term, has re-upped for another as president of the American center of PEN, the international writers organization, The Associated Press reported. Ms. Prose runs unopposed in a vote to be held this week.