Adam Elsheimer's "The Flight Into Egypt" is a small gem of a masterpiece.
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PBS has evolved into a viewer-driven, ratings-conscious enterprise, but its mission to bring the fine arts back to the public airwaves needs to go beyond ultrasafe programming.
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A crop of shows with dysfunctional leading women—including Toni Collette, Edie Falco, Mary-Louise Parker and Laura Linney—has given the cable network a burst of momentum.
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The setbacks of the musical "Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark" have led to speculation about whether the Broadway show will go on, but Reeve Carney is still getting ready to don the tights.
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Alex Chilton, an influential musician who achieved success with two rock groups in the '60s and '70s, has died. He was 59.
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Ron Long writes about Antony Gormley's naked man statues being installed around New York, and says that they are rare examples of public art that is entertaining.
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Does rational choice theory explain Jessica Simpson?
An exhibition of more than 150 photographs made by the American artist Stephen Shore in the 1970s and '80s is currently at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere.
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Ballerina Leanne Benjamin tackles dramatically demanding work in her on- and off-stage lives.
The former co-owner of a defunct Manhattan art gallery pleaded guilty to stealing $120 million from investors and art owners.
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Two new churches designed by Duncan Stroik avoid the modern designs and ersatz-traditional schlock of recent years and return to a more traditional Roman Catholic architecture.
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Which 'Wonderland' is best? David Mermelstein looks at the many film interpretations of the Lewis Carroll classic, including Tim Burton's latest.
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Five favorite words every manager longs to hear from his faded '80s rock act of a client.
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KISS's Paul Stanley doesn't just front for the iconic rock band—he has sold millions of dollars of his art work.
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As the city's 34th international film festival kicks off, the local movie industry is re-evaluating its role in Chinese-language cinema.
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The reopening of an Art Deco movie palace in Alameda, part of a $37.3 million redevelopment project, has aided a city bruised by the recession.
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A notorious miser, the Italian artist drew on every piece of scrap he could find, working out visual ideas as well as, yes, poetic verses.
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Two recent albums by musician and scholar Mick Moloney celebrate Irish and Jewish life in late-19th-century New York.
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In "Bowery to Broadway," Christopher Shannon describes the ways in which Hollywood has depicted the world of Irish-Americans. Peter Duffy reviews.
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Sony signed a recording deal with Michael Jackson's estate valued at as much as $250 million for 10 albums over seven years.
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The composer's new one-act opera, "At the Hawk's Well," employs antique, often non-Western dramatic forms and musical influences to conjure an exotic atmosphere.
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Mary Anne Goley helped select works for the offices of Fed chairmen Paul Volcker, Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke. The artistic tastes of these sobersides will surprise you.
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Virgin America hopes to get a lift from a new reality show, "Fly Girls," featuring five of its female flight attendants. The carrier calls it "a calculated risk."
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"Zeno's Conscience" takes a wry look at life's paradoxes.
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Alexey Titarenko's "Saint Petersburg in Four Movements" at the Nailya Alexander Gallery, and other shows worth seeing in New York.
To Spoil or Not to Spoil? Delving Into the Ryan Seacrest/Twitter Dilemma
TV spoilers bring out strong emotions in people. The Internet is currently buzzing over "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest's results-spoiling tweet following the east coast airing of "American Idol" on Wednesday night.
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"Greenberg" scintillates with intelligence, razor's-edge humor and austere empathy for its struggling lovers, while Stieg Larsson's pierced and piercing heroine makes for an indelible "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."
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Reality television was no match this week for the real-life drama on display by Democratic congressmen Eric Massa and Patrick Kennedy.
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Two new Broadway plays evoke dearly departed celebs: Tallulah Bankhead in "Looped" and Zero Mostel in "Zero Hour." Neither gets beyond skin-deep impressions.
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With their new album 'Vol. 2' hitting stores, a look at why Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward of the duo She & Him are the Sonny & Cher of the indie scene.
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Tim O'Brien's Vietnam story collection, "The Things They Carried," still inspires filmmakers.
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"The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire," opening at the Getty Villa in Malibu, Calif., shows the Aztecs through their conquerors' eyes.
Cynthia Crossen recommends books to read on the plane and by the sea.
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On the cultural calendar, a new look at Matisse, the music of VV Brown, Judith Shulevitz's Sabbath memories and Andrew Jackson the rock star.




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How Fred Harvey's whistle-stop restaurants in cowboy country helped build a business empire.
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Producers are moving toward the high end, but exactly what you're drinking isn't always clear.
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The jet-set designer courts royals, socialites and celebrities with luxurious, feminine looks.
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The World Expo that begins May 1 promises to be nothing less than a coming-out party for Shanghai, China's commercial and financial capital.
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Why robocars, and not high-speed rail, could revolutionize transportation in the next decade.
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A new owner, helped by Web sleuths, investigates which famous course architect really designed Long Island's North Shore Country Club course.
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The musician fights precipitation to promote "The Rainwater LP."
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.
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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