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British TV Ads Show Their Arty Side at Yerba Buena Center
Next weekend the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will bring the latest batch of award-winning British commercials to the Bay Area for the first time.
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Performance Art Gains Favor; Fights Ensue
With performance art now fashionable, there’s a search for revenue that angers some artists.
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Film: Niels Arden Oplev and ‘Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ Hit U.S.
“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and its celebrated director arrive in America, each trailing big expectations.
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Passing the Baton at the Verbier Festival Orchestra
While young orchestras have been around forever, marketing them as billboard attractions is something new.
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DVDs: Norma Talmadge, a Heroine When Silence Spoke Volumes
Although she was perhaps the biggest female star of the silent era, Norma Talmadge is barely remembered today.
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television: From Elmore Leonard, a Lawman Ready to Shoot
“Justified,” a modern-day western beginning on FX on Tuesday, is the latest in a long line of series and films based on Elmore Leonard stories.
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Elizabeth Marvel Plunges Into the Briny Deep of Character
The actress Elizabeth Marvel has drawn praise over the years from critics and theatergoers for her poise and dexterity with both classical roles and contemporary parts.
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Film: ‘The Runaways’: The Girls Who Kicked In Rock’s Door
The most striking thing about “The Runaways,” a new film about the trailblazing bad-girl rock band from the 1970s, is how authentic it feels.
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Playlist: New CDs From Zola Jesus, No More Shapes and Walter Smith III
New CDs from Zola Jesus, No More Shapes and Walter Smith III.
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Film: Ben Stiller: There’s Something About Mortification
Noah Baumbach’s “Greenberg” crystallizes the Ben Stiller persona.
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Angel Corella, Ballet Expatriate, Returns Home
The American Ballet Theater alumni Angel Corella now has his own dance company, the Corella Ballet Castilla y León, which opens on Wednesday night at City Center.
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In Defense of Ambroise Thomas’s ‘Hamlet’
Ambroise Thomas’s “Hamlet” returns to the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday, no doubt to be furiously denounced once again as a travesty of Shakespeare’s tragedy.
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Kathryn Bigelow: How Oscar Found Ms. Right
Kathryn Bigelow’s two-fisted win at the Academy Awards has helped dismantle stereotypes about what types of films women can and should direct.
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Fair Swamped by Second Raters
At the 23rd European Fine Art Fair, the addition of galleries and dealers has turned it into a collector's supermarket.
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The Bare Essence of Yasuko Yokoshi’s Choreography
Yasuko Yokoshi’s work, which will be performed at Dance Theater Workshop beginning Wednesday, boils down modern dance and traditional Japanese dance to their bare essence.
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MUSiC: Brad Mehldau and Jon Brion’s Jazz-Pop Encounter, the Sequel
The latest collaboration between the jazz pianist Brad Mehldau and the pop producer Jon Brian, who teamed on the influential album “Largo” eight years ago, will be released on Tuesday.
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For Donald Glover, ‘Community’ Is Only Part of His Comedy
The comic Donald Glover has thrived as a writer and actor on network sitcoms like “Community,” but traditional television comedy comprises only a portion of his output.
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Kazan, Tennessee Williams and Target Margin Theater
Target Margin Theater’s new show revisits an experimental Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan production that flopped on Broadway.
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FX Harsono's Rebellious, Critical Voice Against 'Big Power' in Indonesia
For the past four decades, Mr. Harsono has provided a critical voice against political and social oppression in Indonesia. Some of his seminal works are now on show at the Singapore Art Museum, until May 9.
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On the London Stage: Love May Die but Its Phantoms Play Enduring Roles in London
Temperatures rise in “Ghosts” and irony betrays “Sweet Nothings,” as Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Love Never Dies” opens.
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Redesigning the Concept and Role of the Automobile
The vision of smart, eco-savvy cars free from the threat of congestion, crashes, pollution and parking spats could soon become reality, according to the authors of a new book, "Reinventing the Automobile."
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Review: The Foundations of Russian Culture and Art
“Holy Russia,’' an exhibit at the Louvre through May 24, examines the impact of Western, Eastern and Middle Eastern culture on Russia since its conception.
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China's First Lady of Opera
The person who has been carefully nurturing many of China's top singers in the Western opera tradition for international careers is the 93-year-old Zhou Xiaoyan.
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