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Slide ShowTheater Review | 'Next Fall'
Leaps of Faith to Transcend Urban Angst
By BEN BRANTLEY
“Next Fall” is that genuine rara avis, a smart, sensitive and utterly contemporary New York comedy.
Andrea Boccalini
Ivan Alovisio, left, one of the actors in “The Demons,” directed by Peter Stein, right.
A 12-Hour Play, and Endless Bragging Rights
By PATRICK HEALY
“The Demons,” a 12-hour production of a grim Dostoyevsky novel that will be performed only twice, may be the must-see show of the New York theater season.
Television Review
Battlegrounds on ‘Tiny Specks of Earth’
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
“The Pacific,” a 10-part World War II mini-series that begins on Sunday on HBO, follows a Marine division through tropical battlegrounds that have since faded from the collective memory.
Movie Review | 'Green Zone'
A Search for That Casualty, Truth
By A. O. SCOTT
In “Green Zone,” action under pressure is a test and a revelation of character.
Art Review | Otto Dix
Always Outrageous, Frequently Disturbing
By ROBERTA SMITH
This retrospective of Otto Dix’s unforgiving art, the first show of its kind ever held in North America, is engrossing yet sadly flawed.
Music Review
Beethoven and Franck, With Sparkle From Muti
By ALLAN KOZINN
For the final week of his visit with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, Riccardo Muti is conducting a peculiarly balanced program.
How Shall We Know Him? Through His Dances and More
By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
Perhaps the two books on Paul Taylor currently in preparation will finally reveal something about a choreographer who has worked hard to be inexplicable.
Music Review
Dancing Around Death, With Elephant in Room
By JON PARELES
Layne Staley, the late front man for Alice in Chains, was not mentioned onstage during the band’s performance at Terminal 5 on Tuesday, but his absence was central.
TV vs. Off Broadway: TV Wins, Slightly Delaying 'The Kid'
March 12, 2010,
Book Review Podcast: Jim Frederick and Luc Sante
March 12, 2010,
Ousted at Variety, Critic Heads to New York Film Festival
March 12, 2010,
Art Review | 'Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present'
Performance Art Preserved, in the Flesh
By HOLLAND COTTER
With the opening of “Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present,” a long-building energy wave of performance art hits the Museum of Modern Art full force.
Music Review
Teamwork Wins Wars and Operas
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Valery Gergiev led the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra and chorus in a concert performance of Berlioz’s epic opera “Les Troyens” on Tuesday and Wednesday nights at Carnegie Hall.
Movie Review | 'Mother'
Fierce Love: Better Not Make This Mom Angry
By MANOHLA DARGIS
A son’s arrest for murder leads to a parent’s crusade in “Mother.”
Anatomy of a Scene: 'Mother'Art Review | 'Twilight Visions'
Once Shocking, Now Poetic
By KEN JOHNSON
Many photographs in this absorbing show at the International Center of Photography set up poetic contrasts between the new and the old.
Arts & Leisure Preview
How Oscar Found Ms. Right
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Kathryn Bigelow’s two-fisted win at the Academy Awards has helped dismantle stereotypes about what types of films women can and should direct.
Inside Arts
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Music Review: Entertaining With a Folksy Palette of Despondency
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Johnny Alf, a ‘Father of Bossa Nova,’ Dies at 80
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Museum Sets Grand Stage for Strings and Horns
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Movie Review | 'Delta': Trouble in the Village
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Movie Review | 'She’s Out of My League': Playing the Odds of Love
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Movie Review | 'White on Rice': Domestic Dramedy
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Movie Review | 'Tales From the Script': More Than Words
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Movie Review | 'Our Family Wedding': Walking Down the Comedic Aisle
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What to Do With an Empty Storefront? A Makeshift Art Gallery
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Movie Review | 'The Exploding Girl': Treading Softly Around a Minefield of Emotions
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Inside Art: A U.S. Moment for Yves Klein
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Movie Review | 'Severe Clear': A Marine Searches for Meaning in the Sands and ‘Steel Rain’ of Iraq
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Books of The Times: 'The Solitude of Prime Numbers'
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Movie Review | 'Children of Invention': That American Dream: Scheme and Scramble
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Art Review | 'To Live Forever': Taking It With You in Ancient Egypt
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Music Review: Her Two Faces: Belter and Crooner
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Movie Review | 'Remember Me': A Rebel, Brooding and Smoking His Way Out of Bourgeois Normalcy
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Television Review: What a Charming Loser, What TV-Sharp Kids
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Movie Review | 'Stolen': Kidnapping Melodrama
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Art in Review
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High & Low | Peterborough, N.H.: ‘Our Town’ Is Yours, Too
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When Laid-Back, Low-Key Is Just the Ticket
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Antiques: There’s a New Deal at Roosevelt’s Dorm
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F.C.C. Ponders Action on Cable Fee Disputes
Podcast: Music
On this week’s Popcast, a review of the new CD by Broken Bells, a collaboration between Dangermouse and James Mercer of the Shins, plus a preview of the bands and parties at this year’s SXSW festival.
Opinion
The Score
American composers discuss the challenges of creating “classical” music in the 21st century.
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Longer editions of selected event listings in the New York area this week are now available online.
Art | Classical & Opera | Dance | Jazz | Movies | Rock & Pop | Theater | Children’s Events | Spare Times
The Week in Arts
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Tharp Is Back Where the Air Is Rarefied
Weekend
The Drama of How the Race Is Run
The Week Ahead
March 7 — March 13
Fair Swamped by Second Raters
By SOUREN MELIKIAN
At the 23rd European Fine Art Fair, the addition of galleries and dealers has turned it into a collector's supermarket.
FX Harsono's Rebellious, Critical Voice Against 'Big Power' in Indonesia
By SONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOP
For the past four decades, Mr. Harsono has provided a critical voice against political and social oppression in Indonesia. Some of his seminal works are now on show at the Singapore Art Museum, until May 9.
On the London Stage
Love May Die but Its Phantoms Play Enduring Roles in London
By MATT WOLF
Temperatures rise in “Ghosts” and irony betrays “Sweet Nothings,” as Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Love Never Dies” opens.
Redesigning the Concept and Role of the Automobile
By ALICE RAWSTHORN
The vision of smart, eco-savvy cars free from the threat of congestion, crashes, pollution and parking spats could soon become reality, according to the authors of a new book, "Reinventing the Automobile."
The Foundations of Russian Culture and Art
By SOUREN MELIKIAN
“Holy Russia,’' an exhibit at the Louvre through May 24, examines the impact of Western, Eastern and Middle Eastern culture on Russia since its conception.
China's First Lady of Opera
By ROBERT TURNBULL
The person who has been carefully nurturing many of China's top singers in the Western opera tradition for international careers is the 93-year-old Zhou Xiaoyan.
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