| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:59:00 GMT | | | A futuristic art pavilion, commissioned by Chanel and designed by London architect Zaha Hadid, will make a temporary appearance in Central Park this fall. | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:45:32 GMT | | | “The Dark Knight,” “Iron Man” and “Hancock” test the limits of the superhero film. | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:45:37 GMT | | | A coalition of arts organizations has asked the city for $15 million that would go to so-called culturally specific organizations, serving blacks, Hispanics, Asian-Americans and American Indians. | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:53:55 GMT | | | Hugh Jackman, who was on hand to promote “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” managed to find exactly the right words for the crowd at the 39th annual Comic-Con convention. | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:31:02 GMT | | | Lee Israel forged more than 400 letters from Noël Coward, Dorothy Parker and other literary celebrities, a criminal career she recounts in her book, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:14:51 GMT | | | The stage adaptation of this Beckett story is being captivatingly performed by Ralph Fiennes. | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:01:57 GMT | | | There’s no mercy for the comfortable in the songs of Jarvis Cocker. It’s not because he’s some revolutionary outsider, but because he’s one of them. | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:47:26 GMT | | | Elegance without ostentation: that would describe the overview of Leonard Bernstein songs that the pianist Bill Charlap and the singer Kurt Elling brought to Bernstein’s theater music. | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:27:28 GMT | | | A construction boom tied to the Olympics is threatening two types of housing in China’s capital. | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:19:23 GMT | | | The film version of “Brideshead Revisited” opens Friday, but for loyalists, the 1981 British television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel obviated any need for a revival. | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:23:55 GMT | | | Brunonia Barry’s debut novel, set in modern-day Salem, Mass., puts a new spin on the witch hunts. | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:58:16 GMT | | | Laurie Anderson tried on a basketful of murky perspectives like so many pairs of sunglasses in the first of her five Lincoln Center Festival performances. | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:48:37 GMT | | | Some of Beijing’s traditional courtyard homes are being refurbished with a mix of modern sensibility and respect for original detail. | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:56:41 GMT | | | At the Summer North American Bridge Championships in Las Vegas the Spingold Knockout Teams reaches the Round of 16. | |
| | Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:32:45 GMT | | | The game industry is surging both financially and in cultural relevance, and over four days at E3 last week it was obvious why. | |
| | Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:36:15 GMT | | | If New York has a Bach temple, it is Holy Trinity Lutheran Church on Central Park West. | |
| | Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:38:58 GMT | | | “Maktub” is a brief but intensely muscular exploration of partnering set to an eclectic collection of recorded music, including Matmos, Max Richter and the Balanescu Quartet. | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:37:42 GMT | | | An ingenuous 24-year-old man-child is at the center of John Crowley’s wrenching melodrama “Boy A.” | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:42:47 GMT | | | Richard Brody demystifies Jean-Luc Godard’s legend to elucidate his life, his times and his work. | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:52:24 GMT | | | An Australian state government has withdrawn financial support for a proposed engagement of the Paris Opera Ballet, and the troupe has responded by canceling its planned 2009 Melbourne tour. | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:49:48 GMT | | | Sony Pictures Classics has bought Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut, “Synecdoche, New York,” for an undisclosed amount. | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:50:01 GMT | | | The musical “Robin and the 7 Hoods” will open on Broadway during the 2009-10 season, its producers said. | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:50:40 GMT | | | Courtney Love, the widow of Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, has been sued by a management firm that accuses her of failing to pay commissions for the partial sale of her share of the band’s publishing catalog. | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:27:32 GMT | | | The Royal Opera House in London has decided to offer all 2,200 seats for the opening night of its fall season exclusively to readers of the British tabloid The Sun. | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:51:48 GMT | | | This week a new contender takes over the top spot on the Billboard album chart: the untitled album by the veteran New York rapper Nas. | |
| | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:26:55 GMT | | | Drawing an average of 12.9 million viewers on Tuesday, NBC’s reality show “America’s Got Talent” lifted the network to No. 1 in the ratings for the night. | |
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