Friday, August 28, 2009

8/28 NYT > Arts

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James Lord, Biographer and Memoirist, Is Dead at 86
August 27, 2009 at 10:58 pm

Mr. Lord was an intimate of Picasso and Giacometti whose biographies and memoirs provide a vivid picture of the artistic milieu of Montparnasse after World War II.


Art Review: Philadelphia, Surreal to Silly
August 27, 2009 at 10:46 pm

At the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a backstage tour of the making of Duchamp's last work.


Museum Review | Stoogeum: A Tip of the Hat to Pokes in the Eye
August 27, 2009 at 10:46 pm

A cleverly named and impressively designed museum a half-hour's drive from Philadelphia serves as a a shrine to devotees of the Three Stooges.


Art Review | 'Adventures in Modern Art': A Collector Captured by His Prizes
August 27, 2009 at 10:46 pm

A show of brash, boisterous American painting from the first half of the 20th century, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.


Art to Make You Laugh (and Cry)
August 27, 2009 at 10:44 pm

There is a particularly Philadelphian brand of hardy, low-budget, do-it-yourself, do-it-for-love creativeness evident in art and art spaces across the city.


Music: It's Not Over Till the HD Video Is Screened
August 27, 2009 at 9:00 pm

The Metropolitan Opera is offering outdoor broadcasts from past seasons to whet opera appetites.


Antiques: Art-Glass Luminaries Reunited for Exhibition
August 27, 2009 at 8:49 pm

The work of a popular stained-glass designer returns to the spotlight in two upcoming shows.


Movie Review | 'We Live in Public': Embracing Life Under Scrutiny, Before the Dawn of Nonstop Tweets
August 27, 2009 at 8:38 pm

"We Live in Public" looks at one man's experiments with issues of privacy.


Movie Review | 'At the Edge of the World': Avast, Eco-Pirates, Here Be Whalers
August 27, 2009 at 8:26 pm

"At the Edge of the World" is an intrepid record of modern-day piracy and the high-stakes battle between commerce and ecological survival.


Movie Review | 'Still Walking': Buried Heartaches Rise at a Quiet Family Reunion
August 27, 2009 at 7:46 pm

The Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda has a deceptively simple touch with the quiet, stirring film "Still Walking."


Movie Review | 'Gospel Hill': A Quiet Little Town With an Unsolved Murder and Greedy Developers
August 27, 2009 at 7:31 pm

The formidable talent and serious intention poured into Giancarlo Esposito's "Gospel Hill" go only a tiny way toward enlivening an overpopulated film.


Music Review | Marc Ribot's Sun Ship: Questing After Coltrane's Messy Transcendence
August 27, 2009 at 6:53 pm

The dauntless, combustible energies of jazz's 1960s avant-garde have long held a deep attraction for the guitarist Marc Ribot.


Books of The Times: First Time for Taxis, Lo Mein and Loss
August 27, 2009 at 6:48 pm

Lorrie Moore has written her most powerful book yet, an indelible portrait of a young woman coming of age in the Midwest in the year after 9/11 and her initiation into the adult world of loss and grief.


Television: Necks Overflowing With Rivers of Metaphor
August 27, 2009 at 6:45 pm

"True Blood" has become an allegory for nearly every strain of tension in American life as the series, a hit for HBO, charges along under the spell of its own unmodulated id.


Movie Review | 'The September Issue': The Cameras Zoom in on Fashion's Empress
August 27, 2009 at 6:43 pm

"The September Issue" has little to say about fashion, the real ins and outs of publishing or the inner workings of the magazine's meanie-in-chief, Anna Wintour.


Send in Rude Clowns and Various Oddballs
August 27, 2009 at 6:21 pm

By week 2 of the New York International Fringe Festival the menu of more than 200 shows shrinks to a few hits everyone's talking about.


Movie Review | 'Big Fan': Giants Die-Hard Takes One for the Team
August 27, 2009 at 6:03 pm

"Big Fan" is a spasmodically funny and bleak film about the love that speaks its name.


Arbitrator's Ruling Favors Piven in 'Plow' Dispute
August 27, 2009 at 5:50 pm

An arbitrator found that Jeremy Piven did not violate his contract when he withdrew from the revival of "Speed-the-Plow."


Dominick Dunne, Chronicler of Crime, Dies at 83
August 27, 2009 at 2:12 am

After giving up producing movies in midlife and reinventing himself as a best-selling author, television personality and reporter, Mr. Dunne's celebrity often outshone that of his subjects.

 

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