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Arts & Entertainment
Before the Oscars, before the Westminster Dog Show, there will be the Golden Collar Awards.
American Symphony Orchestra's program, "Orientalism in France," at Carnegie Hall Friday, evokes the color, beauty and atmosphere of the region as composed for a Western sensibility.
Rudy Van Gelder has been an engineer to the jazz greats, forever changing the way sound is recorded in the studio. On Saturday the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences will honor Mr. Van Gelder with a Trustees Award.
An old train trestle that appeared on the back cover of an R.E.M. album is crumbling, prompting some fans to try to preserve it—before its day of reckoning.
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Walt Disney and Univision are in talks to create a new 24-hour cable-news channel that will broadcast in English.
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Action film "Chronicle," about three teenagers who gain superpowers, grossed $22 million at the weekend box office, putting it in the top position.
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Disney and John Lasseter hope to boost the U.S. box-office punch of Studio Ghibli, the Japanese company behind 'Spirited Away' and other award-winning movies, with "The Secret World of Arrietty," based on "The Borrowers."
Why do we adore a celebration of British pecking orders? Because hierarchies are as American as apple pie.
As in-house florist for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Remco van Vliet creates arrangements that are usually 10 to 12 feet high. Those he does for parties sometimes reach 20 feet, making his arrangements perhaps the tallest in the city.
The Louvre's new project, designed by Italy's Mario Bellini and France's Rudy Ricciotti, will debut in September.
"Snapshot: Painters and Photography," looks at what seven late-19th-century European artists did with their new Kodak hand-held cameras.
Exhibitions listed this week include baseball cards featuring African-American pioneers in the major leagues, Eugène Atget's photos and Bill Traylor's drawings.
Ella Fontanals-Cisneros of Miami will bring part of her collection to Havana.
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After his musical closes, director Michael Mayer focuses on a TV show about a musical: "Smash."
With his third feature film, François Truffaut injected the French New Wave with an exhilarating does of life in "Jules and Jim."
On the agenda: obsolete law in Washington, Harvard professors and the Ming dynasty in San Francisco.
The makers of the "Paranormal Activity" movies bring their horror formula to TV.
The 74-year-old singer's new album, "Let It Be Roberta," is a soul-house reloading of Beatles hits.
Nine full-length paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir hang together for the first time at an exhibit opening Tuesday at the Frick Collection in New York.
Curt Schilling, one of the most famous pitchers in recent Major League Baseball history, has a new career now as the head of a videogame company. His new game, "Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning," a single-player, role-playing videogame, will be released Tuesday.
Netflix premieres a fish-out-of-water series; plus eerie new stories from Dan Chaon and a new album from Bahamas.
The greats of European Surrealism come under the hammer at auctions in London. Miró leads with monumental canvasses that are a rarity at auction. Other Surrealist artists on offer include Magritte, Dali, Tanguy, Picabia and Ernst.
In director Georges Lavaudant's staging of "The Cherry Orchard" at the Palais Garnier in Paris, the new opera is a series of soliloquies, set to music that can't seem to find its way.
The National Theatre's new production of 1773 comedy "She Stoops to Conquer" offers a raucously enjoyable evening.
For centuries up until the Renaissance, portraits adhered to strict, near abstract conventions that smoothed over individual attributes.
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Mike Kelley, a Los Angeles artist who rose to fame in the 1980s by making fun-house sculptures from stuffed animals, has died, police said Wednesday. He was 57.
Poland's 1996 Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, whose simple words and playful verse plucked threads of irony and empathy out of life, has died. She was 88.
In Yosemite National Park, no climb on El Capitan is more famous than the Nose. Michael J. Ybarra sets out to scale it in one day.
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This week's film calendar leads off with a career tribute to Hungarian master Bela Tarr at Film Society of Lincoln Center, followed by the sexy Cinekink series at Anthology Film Archives and "The Miners Hymns' at Film Forum.
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Anthology Film Archives pays tribute to the seminal New York filmmaker Amos Poe, who helped lead the downtown cinema scene out of the underground in the late 70s and early 80s.
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When Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a state law last year allowing movie theaters to serve alcohol, the future of film exhibition in New York took an auspicious turn.
Fighting to preserve America's 20th-century musical treasures.
Art prices swelled last year, lifting sales at Christie's to $5.7 billion last year, up 14% from the year before. Sotheby's said it auctioned off $4.9 billion of art last year, up 14.5% from the year before.
What's an Oscar Nomination Worth? A Sweatshirt, For Starters
Oscar-nominated actors including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Rooney Mara and Michelle Williams turned out for Monday's annual Academy Awards nominees luncheon, but perhaps the liveliest guest was producer Brian Grazer, who entertained the crowd with a tale of his Oscar mishap.
Meanwhile, "The Woman in Black" features Daniel Radcliffe and the deathly horror flick, and "Windfall" shows "green" energy's dark side.
NBC's "Smash" starts off as a musical with a Marilyn Monroe fixation, but soon leaves the legend behind as its drama of rivalry and ambition takes flight.
New releases of past television series include "Downton Abbey: Season 2" and a double episode of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" from Quentin Tarantino.
It's easy to see why John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" was so electrifying when it was first staged half a century ago. What's surprising is that Sam Gold's revival should be so theatrically potent.
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The queen of "mumblecore" is back with an under-the-radar gem after a two-year dance with mainstream cinema.
On the '70s fashion scene in New York City, ditching it all for Jack and Hollywood, and moving forward after the death of her husband.
With the help of French interior designer Jacques Grange, Francis Ford Coppola has transformed a 19th-century palazzo in his family's Italian hometown into a grand hotel.
Thomas Flohr's upstart VistaJet is modeling itself as a luxury designer brand, featuring graffiti-tagged planes, chic stewardess uniforms and a foxy top exec who happens to be the owner's 25-year-old daughter.
Archaeologists are racing to save Afghanistan's cultural heritage before the Chinese start digging on one of the world's most valuable new copper mines.
For decades, Japan simply imported wares of foreign cultures, but recession has led to invention. The country has begun creating the finest American denim, French cuisine and Italian espresso in the world.
Anne Pasternak has installed floral carpeting in Grand Central and soothed a mourning city by bringing light to the September 11 memorial. Meet the visionary forging the path of public art.




While Americans fret over modern parenthood, the French are raising happy, well-behaved children without all the anxiety. Pamela Druckerman on the Gallic secrets for avoiding tantrums, teaching patience and saying "non" with authority.
See for yourself why everybody's new favorite meat has two horns and a goatee.
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High-top work shoes and brogues get a new bounce in their step with sneaker soles.
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A writer attempts an art-inspired challenge, traveling around the globe on a tight budget to visit all 11 Gagosian Galleries in hopes of winning a Damien Hirst print.
With the SkyActiv suite of fuel-saving technologies, the compact Mazda3's already-copious driving pleasure meets the bliss of spending less on gas, says Dan Neil.
In an era of unemotional, statistical analysis, in which intangibles have been pushed aside for numerical truths, it can't come down to heart, can it?
No, you're not seeing double. The season, looks from the hottest Academy Awards hopefuls leap from the screen into your wardrobe.
"The Grey" and its depiction of wolves is far from alone in offending, says Joe Queenan—movies get all kinds of animals grievously wrong. Pigs can't talk, for one thing.
Is it hypocrisy to create devotional works of art without faith?
The Philadelphia Museum of Art offers about 40 works in "Van Gogh: Up Close."
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