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Film: Cue the Director’s Adrenaline With “Shutter Island,” Martin Scorsese finds his next “something else.”
A Reluctant Return to the Spotlight Sade will release “Soldier of Love,” her first new album in 10 years, on Tuesday.
High Art Meets High Jinks Onstage As a theater director, Diane Paulus is a proud populist. But will her kind of theater instruct and transform? Or simply entertain?
Film: Turncoats Who Become Heroes Why do heroes in films like “Avatar” and “District 9” become the rebels?
Film: His Hair’s Not Always Perfect A field guide to the creatures whose hairy faces paved the way for the newest lupine film.
Operatic Style Designed to Suit Your Living Room The Swiss national television network is venturing into prime-time opera programming.
A Road to Redemption (Hint: Be Polite) “How to Make It,” an HBO series about young fashion world entrepreneurs that has its debut next Sunday, is the latest step in Rob Weiss’s return from Hollywood exile.
Composer’s Intent? Get Over It For contemporary works, “definitive” performances probably matter less than the interpretations.
Action Star Learns Merits of Tenderness One of the most celebrated choreographers of his generation, Wayne McGregor is an adventuresome experimenter, intent on pushing his disparate audiences.
Putting the Wrongs of History in Paint The Belgian painter Luc Tuymans has become known for examining the visual residue of trauma and the collective desire to forget.
Hamlet, Keats and Now Off Broadway Ben Whishaw is making his American stage debut in “The Pride,” a play about gay identity and the price of sexual liberation.
Television: Manhattan, as Seen From Hollywood With the new season of “24,” which is set in New York, Hollywood is again redrawing the map of the city.
DVDs: Carnal, Gum-Crackin’ and Dangerous to Know On DVD this week is “Bad Girls of Film Noir,” a two-volume collection that contains eight little-known titles from the Columbia Pictures archive.
Playlist: From the Nevada Desert to Roads Less Traveled Releases by Gonjasufi, José James, Sam Sadigursky, Joe Cuba and Irmin Schmidt & the Inner Space.
New Albany Journal: A Voting Result That Faulkner Could Drink To In a couple of months, a person will be able to buy a beer legally in New Albany, Miss., William Faulkner’s birthplace, for the first time in more than 50 years.
Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord The murders of people warbling “My Way” in karaoke bars have spawned urban legends about the song and left Filipinos groping for answers.
Letters: Independent Film: Why We Go to Screenings
Letters: Film Ratings: Take on Violence, Too
Letters: Mel Gibson: Not Always About Justice
A Touch of Fame Works Its Magic in Market The triumphant sales of Impressionist and Modern masters in London last week consecrate the power of myth.
An Art Market Suddenly at Dizzying Heights A historic sale of Impressionist and Modern art at Sotheby\'s in London netted a total of £146.82 million, or $235.65 million.
Ramayana Casts Its Ancient Spell An exhibition in Singapore traces how the Hindu epic, with numerous heroes and villains and its powerful message of good triumphing over evil, spread through the centuries throughout Southeast Asia.
Energetic Bidding Drives Sale of Impressionist and Modern Masters Christie\'s in London sold a total of £76.83 million worth, while records were set for an Otto Mueller and a Natalia Goncharova.
2 Verdi Offerings to Put a Smile on Your Face Not known for his funnybone, Giuseppe Verdi produced two comedic operas, the well-known \"Falstaff\" and the lesser \"Un Giorno di Regno,\" which have been revived in recent productions in Italy.
Debating Sustainability While most designers would agree that sustainability is important, they\'re very likely to disagree about everything else to do with it. What exactly is sustainable design? What constitutes success? And failure?
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