"Green Zone," a Jason Bourne thriller in spirit, is closer to what the Iraq War must have looked like than anything previously captured in a fiction film, writes Joe Morgenstern.
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Considered fusty in the boom years, Europe's biggest showcase of classic art is now the event of the season, with $4 billion worth of Gauguins, Botticellis and Roman statues.
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Three musicians working in Twyla Tharp's "Come Fly Away" recall their days playing in his band.
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"The Addams Family: An Evilution" offers a selection of Charles Addams's cartoons and a chance to contemplate the peculiar character of his loving, twisted Addams Family.
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Jean-Luc Godard's groundbreaking debut feature remains a cult classic 50 years on.
Glimmerglass Opera, the 35-year-old summer opera festival in Cooperstown, N.Y., has named Francesca Zambello as its artistic and general manager.
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Tiny Tim's former manager hopes to open a museum for eight tracks, one of the clunkiest and most short-lived music formats of all time.
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The final event of the Guggenheim Museum's year-long 50th-anniversary celebration invites artists to reimagine the rotunda at the center of Frank Lloyd Wright's famous spiral.
The Morgan Library opens its new exhibition, "Letters by J.D. Salinger," on March 16. Less than two months after his death, the dam of silence Salinger spent half a century building has finally sprung its first leak.
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Celebrating the neglected waterway's flora, fauna and cultural identity as seen through the eyes of 25 or so local artists.
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The average age of the top 10 living artists from China, ranked by the value of their works sold last year, is 77. The list shows a shift in collectors' tastes toward classical art from contemporary paintings.
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Broken Bells, the pop duo featuring Brian Burton, aka Danger Mouse, and James Mercer of The Shins, releases its self-titled debut—the kind of textured pop album that reveals new joys with repeated exposure.
The Chicago theater company's slate of plays for 2010-11 illuminate in various ways the identity issues of the Facebook/Twitter age.
Troubled Broadway musical "Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark" suffered a new blow as Evan Rachel Wood announced she was quitting her role of Mary Jane.
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Chinese film director Jia Zhangke, the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, talks about the relationship between political freedom and art in China.
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Silvano Vinceti probes history's coldest cases. But he's no expert, he's a TV host.
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The Metropolitan Opera's production of Shostakovich's "The Nose," designed by William Kentridge, stunningly captures and communicates the work's anarchic spirit.
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An Oscar win by "The Cove" could give the documentary about bloody dolphin hunting in a Japanese fishing town the audience its makers had wanted to reach: ordinary moviegoers in Japan.
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The audience for Sunday night's Academy Awards grew for the second time in as many years, indicating that live events continue to draw big audiences amid the overall fragmentation of the television landscape.
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After last year's death of its renowned choreographer, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company embarks on a final tour before disbanding and letting other companies carry on its legacy.
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World-renowned concert pianist Byron Janis on his musical journey to understand the "bittersweet melancholy" behind Chopin's sublime music.
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"The Hurt Locker" became the lowest-grossing film ever to win the Oscar for best picture. The film's director, Kathryn Bigelow, was the first woman to win best director.
Facing weak ticket sales, "Miracle Worker," the Broadway play about Helen Keller, starring Abigail Breslin, may close after days of opening.
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It took 12 years and a team of media experts to launch Marcela Valladolid, a new Mexican-cooking star on the Food Network.
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Box-office hit "Avatar" is favored to win in many circles, but Hollywood insiders have chosen "The Hurt Locker" in earlier awards this season.
Pink Floyd: Have Albums Hit 'The Wall'?
This week, Pink Floyd successfully blocked their label, EMI, from selling the band's albums on a track-by-track basis. The lawsuit has raised questions about the future of the album as a mode of expression.
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After a successful run Off Broadway, the cliché-infested and cloyingly sentimental "Next Fall" arrives on Broadway—proving you can fool some of the people most of the time, says Terry Teachout.
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HBO's miniseries "The Pacific" sears the senses with intense combat scenes while illuminating the men who fought and died there.
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With "Greenberg," Jennifer Jason Leigh and Noam Baumbach formalize a filmmaking bond.
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Singer John Oates of the 1980s duo Hall & Oates is winning over new fans with his old mustache.
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The back-to-the-'80s comedy "Hot Tub Time Machine" is generating word of mouth—and bubbles.
Cynthia Crossen recommends books that focus on the unsentimental complexities of marriage and motherhood.
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Films at South by Southwest, the creators of "Curious George" at New York's Jewish Museum. Fox's "Sons of Tucson" and a new book by Michael Lewis are on the cultural calendar.
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Tim Burton's version of "Alice in Wonderland" catches the look but fumbles the spirit of Lewis Carroll's classic, while in "Brooklyn's Finest," cops moan and the plot groans.




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Elif Batuman's debut book, "The Possessed," is a sometimes-tongue-in-cheek account of her study of Russian literature.
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How the egg sacs of the shad went from lost ingredient to cool harbinger of spring. Plus: What to drink with shad roe
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Key looks from the just-ended runway shows suggest fall's fashions are going to be sporty and classic—but far from boring. Here's how to pull off the latest looks, from fur hoodies to goat fleece.
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Airlines are threatening to cancel scores of flights in response to new rules that give fliers more rights.
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All-electric vehicles are on their way, but there is still that little matter of limited driving ranges to overcome.
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Researchers at MIT, working with the PGA Tour, have come up with a way to solve one of golf's biggest conundrums: how to determine who are the truly great putters.
Tim Westergren has revolutionized the way we listen to music with Internet radio site Pandora.com. Rebel Yell
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Jeff Daniels, who was in the original cast of "God of Carnage," returns to the Broadway show–but this time in the role first played by James Gandolfini.
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Celebrity-rating services that track stars' appeal with the public often show sharply contrasting scores. That can make it difficult for casting agents and product advertisers to know which actors mean money in the bank.
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Last year the Oscars stemmed a steady decline in viewership. As president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Tom Sherak has taken a gamble in hopes that the rebound continues.
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This article is a journey that's here for the right reasons. As the "Bachelor" finale looms, a look at the new lingua franca of television.
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With the success of "Shutter Island" comes word of the next Scorsese-DiCaprio collaboration. Can Leo be convincing as Ol' Blue Eyes?
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"Hurt Locker" director Kathryn Bigelow faces off against ex-husband and "Avatar" director James Cameron in two Oscar categories. Hollywood is taking sides.
Do an interactive version of this week's puzzles, or view a PDF.
—Jim Fusili on 2009's best rock and pop music“Many of the best recordings seemed to encapsulate the changes in popular music over the past few years—genre-mashing, crosscultural communication, the re-emergence of the singer-songwriter and the joys of sophisticated chamber pop, among them—while others took familiar traditions in new directions.”
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