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Music: Stones, Chieftains, Beach Boys and El Gran Combo Turn 50
The Rolling Stones, the Chieftains, the Beach Boys and El Gran Combo, all 50 years old and still relevant.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 23:28
The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain on why he loathes "Midnight in Paris" and is seriously rooting for "The Tree of Life."
Source : carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 23:03
CINEMA: Berlin Film Festival competition dips into the past
This year’s selection at the Berlin International Film Festival spans genres and geography, but features a large number of movies that look backward to various periods of history. UK director Mike Leigh (pictured) will serve as jury chair.
Source : www.france24.com | 03-Feb-2012 23:02
ArtsBeat: Oh the Easy (Stuff) People Say
Why did the videos of things girls, New Yorkers and even college freshmen say catch on? It's all about that word.
Source : artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 22:59
The Carpetbagger: 'Transformers' and 'Rango' Try Campaigning on TV
"Transformers" and "Rango" take to video to make their Oscar cases, and the Kodak Theater may not be the Kodak for much longer.
Source : carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 22:30
ArtsBeat: 'Big Bang' on CBS Holds On Despite Fox's 'Idol' Comeback
The broadcast networks took an all-hands-on-deck approach to the first night of February sweeps on Thursday and gave television viewers a full slate of new content.
Source : artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 22:24
The Carpetbagger: In the Sewers With 'In Darkness'
Agnieszka Holland discusses her choice to make a third Holocaust-related film, "In Darkness," which is up for an Oscar.
Source : carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 21:40
ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: The Real 'Downton Abbey' and the Feminism of Elizabeth Taylor
Judith Newman talks about three books that explore the real-life inspirations for the hit TV series "Downton Abbey."
Source : artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 21:00
Critic's Notebook: Stripping on TV: ?House of Lies,? ?Revenge? and Others
The strip club scene has been a staple of television, not to mention movies, for a long time, but increasingly it has become another boring cliché.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 19:58
The Carpetbagger: Another Silent Jean Dujardin Picture, But This One Upsets the French
Movie posters featuring Jean Dujardin in Paris are deemed misogynistic by the French authorities
Source : carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 18:39
ArtsBeat | London Theater Journal: Porcelain Portrayal of a Fragile King
God save the king, as portrayed by Eddie Redmayne in the Donmar Warehouse's production of "Richard II," because he sure isn't up to saving himself.
Source : artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 16:48
A Nonfan?s Guide to the Key to the Super Bowl
Even if you’re watching only to see Madonna, all you need to know about the big game is where the fairy dust falls.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 08:47
Art In Review: ?Anonymous Tantra Paintings? at Feature Inc.
With their simple geometric shapes and quirky details, the small works in “Anonymous Tantra Paintings” at Feature Inc. are not intended foremost as art but as aids to meditation rituals.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 08:47
Music Review: Ed Sheeran at the Mercury Lounge
The British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran was aggressively sincere in his set at the Mercury Lounge on Tuesday night.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 08:43
Music Review: Keren Ann in American Songbook Program at the Allen Room
Keren Ann brought her dreamy music to the Allen Room on Wednesday evening.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 08:43
Movie Review: ?Kill List? Is Ben Wheatley?s Second Feature Film
Evil stalks two hit men at loose ends in “Kill List,” which delves into horror, psychodrama and religious rot.
Source : movies.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 08:43
Movie Review: ?Bad Fever,? Directed by Dustin Guy Defa
In “Bad Fever” the painfully awkward hero longs for a career in comedy, though it’s clear from the outset that his real gift is for tragedy.
Source : movies.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 08:43
Movie Review: ?Big Miracle,? With Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski
Unlikely allies find themselves working together to save three whales trapped in ice in Alaska in “Big Miracle.”
Source : movies.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 08:43
Movie Review: ?Splinters,? a Documentary on Indigenous Surfing in Papua New Guinea
In the documentary “Splinters” competition surfers skim the waves off Papua New Guinea while being weighed down by personal problems back in their village.
Source : movies.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 08:43
Weekend Miser: ?The Liar Show? and ?The Rejection Show?
Call their bluff and win a T-shirt at “The Liar Show,” at the Cornelia Street Café, or heal through humor at “The Rejection Show,” at Littlefield.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 07:48
Antiques: Loving ?Lover?s Eyes? and Loving Cereal
A Birmingham, Ala., collection of “lover’s eyes”; a book about breakfast cereals; and a modernist jewelry designer with a compulsion for detail.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 07:47
Inside Art: MoMA Acquires Works by Valie Export and Martha Rosler
MoMA has purchased important works from the 1960s and ’70s by the feminist artists Valie Export and Martha Rosler.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 07:47
Art In Review: Rashid Johnson?s ?Rumble? at Hauser & Wirth
“Rumble,” Rashid Johnson’s solo show at Hauser & Wirth, was partly inspired by that gallery’s town house, which once belonged to the boxing promoter Don King, organizer of the 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle” heavyweight fight.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 07:47
Performances for Valentine?s Day, or Thereabouts
Beyond Broadway, possibilities for dates with a New York sweetheart include love songs, comedies, burlesque and readings in the buff.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 07:43
Art Review: ?Gran Fury: Read My Lips? at 80WSE
“Gran Fury: Read My Lips,” an exhibition at New York University’s 80WSE gallery, recalls when members of a collective of AIDS activists channeled their outrage through art.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 07:40
Art Review: Henry Taylor?s Portraits and Other Paintings at MoMA PS1
Paintings by Henry Taylor are visual equivalents of the blues, reflecting the rough world of his own experience, but with a spirit of generosity and love.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 07:37
Rosanne Cash, the Rubin Art Museum?s Resident Musician
Rosanne Cash is the unofficial house musician at the Rubin Museum of Art in Chelsea. (She lives in the neighborhood.)
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 07:30
Art Review: ?American Vanguards? at the Neuberger Museum
The new exhibition at the Neuberger Museum reunites the Four Musketeers of New York painting: John Graham, Arshile Gorky, Stuart Davis and Willem de Kooning.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 07:30
Art In Review: On Kawara?s ?Date Painting(s)? at David Zwirner Gallery
Canvases that consist of the day, month and year of its making, recorded in simple white sans-serif text on a solid background, make up many of the works on view in On Kawara’s show “Date Painting(s) in New York and 136 Other Cities,” at the David Zwirner Gallery.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 07:30
Art In Review: Bryan Drury?s ?Portraits? at Dean Project
The painter Bryan Drury, whose intensely realistic portraits register pores, wrinkles, grainy skin and a certain strangeness, has a show at Dean Project.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 07:30
Art Review: ?Van Gogh Up Close? at Philadelphia Museum of Art
“Van Gogh Up Close,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, examines the artist’s relationship to nature at its most intimate.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 07:17
Movie Review: ?Woman in Black,? Starring Daniel Radcliffe
“The Woman in Black,” starring Daniel Radcliffe, isn’t especially scary, but it keeps you on edge, and without the usual vivisectionist imagery.
Source : movies.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 07:14
Music Review: Susan Graham and Malcolm Martineau at Carnegie Hall
Susan Graham’s Carnegie Hall recital with Malcolm Martineau on Wednesday included music by Purcell, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt and more.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 07:00
Music Review: ?Sounds Reimagined: John Cage at 100? From Juilliard
How does one have a new take on a subject that is a single, prolific, wildly imaginative composer like John Cage? The Focus! Festival gives it a try.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 06:43
Movie Review: ?Windfall,? a Documentary on Wind Turbines, by Laura Israel
The documentary “Windfall” shows the bitter rancor sowed among the residents of rural Meredith, N.Y., when the wind turbines came to town.
Source : movies.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 06:43
Movie Review: Dane DeHaan in ?Chronicle,? Directed by Josh Trank
In Josh Trank’s “Chronicle,” three teenage boys inexplicably acquire extraordinary powers.
Source : movies.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 06:43
Movie Review: Ewan McGregor and Eva Green in ?Perfect Sense?
In David Mackenzie’s “Perfect Sense,” a chef and an epidemiologist find love as an epidemic sweeps the planet, slowly depriving human beings of one sense after another.
Source : movies.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 06:43
Movie Review: ?Carol Channing: Larger Than Life,? by Dori Berinstein
“Carol Channing: Larger Than Life,” a documentary by Dori Berinstein, chronicles the career of that theatrical clown “with huge saucer eyes, gigantic red lips and a massive smile.”
Source : movies.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 06:43
Movie Review: Madonna?s ?W.E.? With Andrea Riseborough and Abbie Cornish
“W.E.,” Madonna’s film about Wallis Simpson also time-travels to the almost-present to tell the story of a bored New York housewife intrigued by Mrs. Simpson.
Source : movies.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 06:43
Dance Review: Whelan and New York City Ballet Newcomers at Koch Theater
Wendy Whelan and some young dancers making their debuts in “Interplay” were highlights of New York City Ballet’s program on Wednesday.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 06:30
Movie Review: ?The Innkeepers,? a Paranormal Film Directed by Ti West
During the final weekend at a New England inn, two employees capture ghostly images and haunting sounds on their cellphones and webcams.
Source : movies.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 06:30
Music Review: Johann Johannsson?s Music With Images at Winter Garden
Industry was translated into elegy in music by the Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson at the first program of the four-night Silent Films/Live Music series.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 06:23
Camilla Williams, a Lyric Soprano, Is Dead at 92
Miss Williams made her debut at the New York City Opera in 1946 to rave notices. She was the first black woman to secure a contract with a major United States opera company.
Source : www.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 06:03
Theater Review: ?Look Back in Anger,? Starring Matthew Rhys
In the Roundabout Theater revival of John Osborne’s 1956 landmark play, “Look Back in Anger,” Matthew Rhys plays the British working-class antihero.
Source : theater.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 05:57
ArtsBeat: In 'American Idol' Auditions, a Sigh of Relief
Fans of "American Idol" breathed a sigh of relief as the shows devoted to mass auditions ended last night and the program moves on to the winnowing phase in Hollywood next week.
Source : artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 05:54
ArtsBeat: 'Clybourne Park' to Open as Planned on Broadway
The Broadway theater owner Jordan Roth on Thursday night assured the cast of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Clybourne Park" that the show would open on Broadway in April as planned, despite the departure of two of its lead producers.
Source : artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com | 03-Feb-2012 05:51
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