Weekend Arts

Movie Review | 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon'

Abstinence Makes the Heart ... Oh, You Know

By MANOHLA DARGIS

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Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) transforms to a wolf and approaches Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Bella (Kristen Stewart) in The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

The big tease turns into the long goodbye in “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.”

“Precious,” about a disadvantaged young woman played by Gabourey Sidibe, left, has sparked controversy over its meaning.

To Blacks, Precious Is ‘Demeaned’ or ‘Angelic’

By FELICIA R. LEE

“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” has sparked heated debate about its meaning since its limited release.

Oprah Winfrey, with Tom Cruise, in a 2008 photo. Ms. Winfrey's show on ABC will end on Sept. 9, 2011, in its 25th season.

Winfrey Bets on Her Future With Cable

By BRIAN STELTER and BILL CARTER

Oprah Winfrey will end her daytime talk show in 2011 as she prepares to start a cable channel of her own.

Art Review | 'The Origins of El Greco'

The Origins of El Greco Christ Pantokrator, from the 14th century, is among the religious works in this show at the Onassis Cultural Center.

Saints at a Cultural Crossroads

By HOLLAND COTTER

A lustrous exhibition at the Onassis Cultural Center of Venetian Crete, where East met West, and artists painted the divine.

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Music Review

Kepler Martin Achrainer, center rear, sings the title role in Philip Glass’s new opera about the astronomer and mathematician, with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz a the Brooklyn Academy.

Glass Looks to the Heavens, Again

By ALLAN KOZINN

Philip Glass’s weighty and tangled opera, “Kepler,” which arrived at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Wednesday, examines the relationship between science and religion.

Theater Review | 'The Orphans' Home Cycle'

“The Orphans’ Home Cycle”: Jenny Dare Paulin and Bill Heck in the first
installment of Horton Foote’s nine-play cycle at the Signature Theater.

Heart of a Small Town, Vast in Its Loneliness

By BEN BRANTLEY

The first part of Horton Foote’s “Orphans’ Home Cycle” is a thrilling demonstration of an artist soaring into the realm of the epic.

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Exhibition Review | 'Leonardo da Vinci's Workshop'

“The Last Supper,” “Mechanical Lion” and “Robot Soldier” at the exhibition “Leonardo da Vinci’s Workshop” at Discovery Times Square Exposition.

Flights of Mind, Brought to Life

By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

The Discovery Times Square Exposition’s show actually brings you closer to understanding the real workshop of Leonardo: his mind.

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Andy Samberg appearing as a guest star on “Yo Gabba Gabba!”

Nickelodeon’s Stepchild, Eager for More Love

By DAVE ITZKOFF

As the musical children’s show “Yo Gabba Gabba!” continues to take significant steps into mainstream popular culture, its producers crave more support from its network.

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Opening Wide His (Repaired) Heart

By DAVE ITZKOFF

After heart surgery, the comedian Robin Williams has become more introspective and more grateful for what he has.

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Art Review | 'Tim Burton'

A toy house inspired by Tim Burton’s six-episode Internet series, “The World of Stainboy.”

A World of Macabre Misfits

By KEN JOHNSON

Given the appeal of Tim Burton’s movies, you would hope that the Museum of Modern Art’s expansive retrospective of his noncinematic art would be equally exciting. Alas, it is a letdown.

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The Reichstag in Berlin in 1995, wrapped in polypropylene fabric by Jeanne-Claude and Christo.

Jeanne-Claude, Christo’s Collaborator on Environmental Canvas, Is Dead at 74

By WILLIAM GRIMES

Jeanne-Claude worked with her husband, Christo, on dozens of environmental arts projects, including “The Gates” in Central Park in 2005.

Oscar Short List of Documentaries Draws Controversy

By MICHAEL CIEPLY

A screening committee from the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences overlooked at least a half-dozen prominent films.

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Books of The Times

'Eating Animals'

By JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
Reviewed by MICHIKO KAKUTANI

Jonathan Safran Foer uses his literary gifts to give the reader some very visceral, very gruesome descriptions of factory farming and the slaughterhouse.

Sunday Magazine: An Essay Adapted From ‘Eating Animals’

Inside Arts

A Surprise Gets Buzz for Oscars

Opening Arms and Ears to Cuban Music

How to Conserve Art That Lives in a Lake?

Jon Pareles reviews “The Fall” by Norah Jones; Ben Ratliff on the latest release from Austrian experimental band Radian entitled “Chimeric”; and the California folk singer-songwriter Alela Diane talks to Ben Sisario about her new album “To Be Still.” Sia Michel is the host.

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The Beginnings of Divination

By SOUREN MELIKIAN

An exhibit at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington on the Fal-Nameh, or Book of Omens, may lead to discoveries that will throw some light on its emergence in 16th-century Iran and Turkey.

What Is Real, What Isn't?

By RODERICK CONWAY MORRIS

"Art and Illusions" at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence shows off 150 works of trompe l'oeil from antiquity today.

On the London Stage

From left, Richard Griffiths, Adrian Scarborough and Alex Jennings in “The Habit of Art.”

A Poet, a Composer and a Love of Theater

By MATT WOLF

“The Habit of Art,” the Alan Bennett play, has at its complexly poignant core W.H. Auden and Benjamin Britten.

On the London Stage, a 'Little Voice' Grown Powerful

By MATT WOLF

Jim Cartwright's "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice'' tells of a teen familial face-off; and "Pains of Youth" presents a creepy image of pre-wartime doctors.

Moscow's Second Stage Revels in the Homegrown

By GEORGE LOOMIS

The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theater in Moscow is showing a dynamic new "Hamlet" and an insightful staging of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor."

Mistakes in Typography Grate the Purists

By ALICE RAWSTHORN

Typographic gaffes often crop up in various public places as well as in television programs and movies, offending designers who work with typefaces on a daily basis, and study them lovingly.