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Abroad: Caravaggio in Ascendance: An Antihero’s Time to Shine
By one new metric, Michelangelo has been bumped from his perch atop the Italian art charts by Caravaggio.
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Christie’s Wins Bid to Auction $150 Million Brody Collection
The art collection of the Los Angeles philanthropist Frances Lasker Brody will be sold at Christie’s in New York in May.
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South by Southwest to Honor Film and TV Title Sequences
In a competition at the South by Southwest festival, film and television titles get the credit(s).
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Theater Review | 'Neighbors': At Public Theater, Racial Commentary in Caricature
“Neighbors” is a simultaneously overheated and undercooked new play that sacrifices cogency and meaning for pure sensation.
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Theater Review | 'Top Secret': A Vietnam War-Era Fight at New York Theater Workshop
While “Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers” offers a cogent, informative peek into a historic chapter in 20th-century journalism, as an evening of theater it is static.
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Music Review | North/South Chamber Orchestra: New Works by Max Lifchitz and Others at Merkin Concert Hall
The concert presented by Max Lifchitz and his North/South Chamber Orchestra at Merkin Concert Hall on Monday was billed as a 30th-anniversary gala.
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Music Review | Yelawolf: Alabama Rapper at Brooklyn Bowl, With ‘Trunk Muzik’ Mixtape
Yelawolf, while an easy fetish object — white, rural, tattooed, skateboarder-friendly, an anomaly among anomalies — isn’t an outsider in Southern rap.
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For City Opera Season, Bernstein, Strauss and New Works
The struggling New York City Opera, operating with a slender financial cushion, announced plans on Tuesday for another stripped down, five-production season.
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Architecture Review: A Paris Tribute to an Almost-Sideways View of the World
There’s something both touching and disturbing at the heart of “Claude Parent: Graphic and Built Works.”
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Music Review | Harvey Milk: At Le Poisson Rouge, Playing Like Its 1993
There’s a lot of meta-sublimity going on right now in indie rock. Sometimes it really is sublime. Now Harvey Milk is on tour for a record it made in 1993.
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MtyMx Expands Indie-Rock Frontier to Mexico
MtyMx, a rock music festival in Monterrey, Mexico, will take place on the grounds of a drive-in movie theater over three days beginning March 20.
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Charles B. Pierce, Director of ‘Boggy Creek,’ Dies at 71
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Theater: At Adelphi Theater in London: Same Phantom, Different Spirit
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s belated sequel to “The Phantom of the Opera” feels as eager to be walloped as a clown in a carnival dunking booth.
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Food Stuff: A New Anthology of Gastronomica Magazine
“The Gastronomica Reader” is an anthology of more than 40 essays from the thought-provoking food magazine.
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MGM Said to Be Considering an Arranged Bankruptcy
In such a move, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer would be taken over by its creditors in exchange for debt forgiveness, people briefed on the matter said.
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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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TV Providers Seek New Federal Rules on Retransmission Rights
With a petition to the F.C.C. and a letter to Congressional leaders, cable and satellite providers said the current rules were “broken and in need of repair.”
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Movie Review Leads to Suit Against Variety
The complaint accuses Variety of contractual breach, negligence and unfair business practices in connection with the film, “Iron Cross.”
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Advertising: ‘Mad Men’ Dolls in Barbie’s World, but Cocktails Stay Behind
Mattel is planning versions of Barbie and Ken styled after four “Mad Men” characters in a promotion for the television series as well as for Barbie.
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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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Contemporary Arts Fair Veers Into 'Emerging' Territory
Works by artists from emerging regions - like Asia and Africa - are among those being showcased at the revamped Paris fair at the Grand Palais that runs from March 18 to 22.
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Review: Better the Devil You Don't Know?
The Bayerische Staatsoper is offering a devil opera for our time: "Die Tragödie des Teufels" ("The Tragedy of the Devil") by the Hungarian composer Peter Eotvos, which received its world premiere last week in Munich.
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