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Waldo Hunt, King of the Pop-Up Book, Dies at 88
An advertising man turned novelty-book packager, Mr. Hunt was almost single-handedly responsible for the postwar revival of the pop-up book in the United States.
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H. C. Robbins Landon, Haydn and Mozart Scholar, Dies at 83
Mr. Landon was an American musicologist, who had a knack for making musicology seem exciting to the general public.
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Books of The Times: Limelight Lives, Burned by Booze
A rowdy collection of riotous tales about four of the British Isles’ most stylish drunken actors: Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O’Toole and Oliver Reed.
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Music Review | Baby Jane Dexter: Not Shy in the Way She Works a Lyric
Baby Jane Dexter’s new show at the Metropolitan Room is aptly named “All About Love” because it covers so many aspects.
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Abroad: City, and Artist, Under Construction
The Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition of Frank Auerbach’s paintings from the 1950s and early ’60s conjures up early postwar London.
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The TV Watch: Community Standard or Double Standard?
The fallout over Adam Lambert’s performance on the American Music Awards is a reminder of television’s policy regarding gay men: Do tell, just don’t show.
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Dance Review | New York City Ballet: Scene Stealers at City Ballet’s Gala Night
It’s an exciting time at City Ballet, which also has a clutch of rising stars and a looming spring season with an astounding seven premieres and four commissioned scores.
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Music Review | Richard Tucker Music Foundation: Opera’s Night to Take New Voices Into the Fold
The annual concert of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation took place at Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday evening.
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Music Review | New York New Music Ensemble: From Electronica’s Infancy, When Computers Filled Rooms, Not Laps
The New York New Music Ensemble played works by Mario Davidovsky at Merkin Concert Hall on Monday.
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Music: Debussy’s Homage to Poe, With the Blanks Filled In
Opéra Français de New York presented what was promoted as the American premiere of “a rare double bill of two works by Debussy” last weekend at Florence Gould Hall.
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Music Review | Sonic Youth: Old Rockers Harnessing the Old Power
Sonic Youth has dismantled and reassembled so many rock-band strategies over the years that it can begin to feel unnerving when a simple, durable idea takes hold.
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Music Review | 'Nozze di Figaro': Pratfalls at the Palace, Upstairs or Downstairs
The only thing missing from the Metropolitan Opera’s latest revival of Mozart’s “Nozze di Figaro” on Monday night was a starter’s pistol.
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Music Review | Kaija Saariaho: Finnish Composer Bursts Some of Her Own Myths
Kaija Saariaho’s music is consistently exciting and eventful, and the International Contemporary Ensemble played a compact but persuasive selection of her works.
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Music Review | Andrea Marcovicci: Ever a Huckleberry Friend, Come Rain or Come Shine
Andrea Marcovicci’s new show at the Oak Room, a tribute to the songwriter Johnny Mercer, should perpetuate her reign as the queen of high-class cabaret nostalgia.
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So Many Dark Sides
With his Broadway debut in David Mamet’s “Race,” James Spader sticks to his favorite role: the snake.
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Theater Review | 'The Age of Iron': A Story So Complicated It Needs Two Playwrights
The Trojan War essentially boils down to a lot of smack talked in a sandbox in “The Age of Iron,” a labored epic adapted and directed by Brian Kulick.
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Movie Review | 'The Princess and the Frog': That Old Bayou Magic: Kiss and Ribbit (and Sing)
It’s not easy being green. But to judge from how this hand-drawn movie addresses, or rather strenuously avoids, race, it is a lot more difficult to be black.
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Video Game Review | Borderlands: The Thrill’s in the Gunplay, With Lots of Guns to Play With
With its gritty sense of style and comic-book-inspired art direction, Borderlands by Gearbox Software is one of the finest guilty-pleasure shooter games of recent years.
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Television Review | 'Ben 10: Alien Swarm': Teenage Hero Wears His Powers on His Wrist
In making a live-action movie out of a children’s cartoon that exists in large part to sell products, Cartoon Network hasn’t succeeded in creating something that will interest older teenagers, let alone adults.
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Books of The Times: Power and Style, in the Ring and the World
Wil Haygood’s biography of Sugar Ray Robinson captures the great midcentury boxer’s grace and power as well as it’s been captured.
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Movie Review | 'Old Dogs': A Bit Mangy, but Up for New Tricks
To describe the knockabout family comedy “Old Dogs” as a ramshackle mess doesn’t begin to evoke the confusion and sloppy continuity of the movie.
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Movie Review | 'Ninja Assassin': Hero Who Can’t Keep His Shirt On
The best thing about “Ninja Assassin” is its refreshingly honest title.
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Movie Review | 'Me and Orson Welles': When a Bombastic Young Man Bestrode the Boards of the Mercury Theater
“Me and Orson Welles” pays tribute to youthful creative ambition where and whenever it may thrive.
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Google to Put Iraqi Artifacts Online
Google’s chief executive said his company would create a virtual copy of the collections of Iraq’s National Museum and make the images available online by early 2010.
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Rihanna: Fiercely Introspective
Rihanna’s new album, “Rated R,” is a response to her breakup with Chris Brown.
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Music Review | The Pixies: Pixies Celebrate Milestone for Fans of a Cult Album
The Pixies’ show on Monday at Hammerstein Ballroom was sturdy, dutiful and not particularly thrilling.
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Learning His Body, Learning to Dance
A determined choreographer has done what therapists could not: She has dramatically changed the way Gregg Mozgala, a 31-year-old actor with cerebral palsy, walks.
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ABC Drops Adam Lambert, and CBS Picks Him Up
Two days after giving a sexually charged performance, Adam Lambert found himself abruptly dropped by one network morning show and just as abruptly booked on another.
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A History of 20th-Century Russia, Warts and All
A new two-volume history of Russia's turbulent 20th century is being hailed inside and outside the country as a landmark contribution to the swirling debate over Russia's past and national identity.
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Movie Review | 'The Road': Father and Son Bond in Gloomy Aftermath of Disaster
The most arresting aspect of “The Road” is just how fully the filmmakers have realized this bleak, blighted landscape of a modern society reduced to savagery.
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The Adam Lambert Fallout: Were You Not Entertained?
The singer's routine at the American Music Awards has divided critics as well as ArtsBeat readers, between those who believe Mr. Lambert has been the victim of a double standard, and those who feel he simply should have given a better performance.
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Charis Wilson, Model and Muse, Dies at 95
Ms. Wilson, who was lover, muse, model, amanuensis and wife of the photographer Edward Weston and the subject of many of his best-known nude portraits.
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Theater Review | 'The Starry Messenger': All Those Lonely Souls, Each Under the Same Night Sky
This gentle, compassionate comic drama re-establishes Kenneth Lonergan as a possessor of all the crucial parts of a good dramatist’s anatomy.
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Theater Review | 'Fela!': Making Music Mightier Than the Sword
There has never been anything on Broadway like this kinetic portrait of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, a Nigerian revolutionary of song.
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Architecture Review: Matching Architecture to the Art in a New Miami Museum
The design for the Miami Art Museum is not a regurgitation of outmoded historical forms.
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Book Calls Jewish People an ‘Invention’
The book by Shlomo Sand, which mixes respected scholarship with dubious theories, spent months on the best-seller list in Israel and is now available in English.
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Television Review | 'Frontline: The Card Game': In Love Affair With Credit, It’s Business as Usual
“The Card Game,” a new “Frontline” report having its premiere on Tuesday on PBS, explores the questionable practices of the American credit card industry.
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Television Review | 'Apollo Wives': The Women Left on Earth When Space Called Men
“Apollo Wives,” a breezy documentary being shown Tuesday on BBC America, gives the spouses of the Apollo astronauts a chance to talk about the space program as they saw it.
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A Survey Shows Pain of Recession for Artists
A major new survey of American artists and how they are weathering the economic downturn has found that slightly more than half experienced a drop in income from 2008 to 2009.
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Dance Review | Lee Sher and Saar Harari: Seeking New Sensations
There are four prima dancers — or, at times, prima donnas — in the latest collaboration by the Israeli artists Lee Sher and Saar Harari at Performance Space 122.
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Dance Review | The Royal Ballet of Flanders: Renewing a Classic, Adventure Intact
William Forsythe’s “Artifact,” performed on Friday in Germany by the Royal Ballet of Flanders, is rarely seen anywhere in its full-length version.
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Music Review | Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro: Cuban Musical Pioneers Celebrate an Island’s Soul
There’s no antiquarian dust on Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro, the Cuban band that got started in 1927 and performed on Thursday at S.O.B.’s.
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Dance Review | Ishmael Houston-Jones and Dan Safer: Beer-Guzzling Bravado With a Tender Touch
Ishmael Houston-Jones and Dan Safer shared the evening with a program titled “Splice: Panic Journals” at Dance New Amsterdam on Thursday.
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Books of The Times: The Voice That Helped Remake Culture
Terry Teachout’s eloquent and important new biography restores Louis Armstrong to his deserved place in the pantheon of American artists.
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Daniel Rowen, an Architect Who Favored Modernism, Dies at 56
Mr. Rowen was a highly regarded architect whose modernist designs for houses, apartments and commercial spaces attracted a number of prominent clients.
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Proud to Be an American: Remembering the 2009 American Music Awards
How will history record the pageant that was the 37th annual American Music Awards? Will it be remembered for the victories of Michael Jackson and Taylor Swift, or the performances of Adam Lambert and Jennifer Lopez?
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Artist Eyes' Views of Filipino History
A country's complex past and its storytelling tradition come together in "Thrice Upon a Time'' an ambitious exhibition running through Jan. 31 at the Singapore Art Museum
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The Media Equation: A Triumph of Avoiding the Traps
Oprah Winfrey’s gut intuition, about knowing when to say no and when it is time to go, is worth studying at every business school in the country.
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Swift and Jackson Win Big at AMAs
Taylor Swift overshadowed the late Michael Jackson at the American Music Awards on Sunday, winning five awards including artist of the year.
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Theater Review | 'Dreamgirls': Hopeful Divas Back Where It All Began
Robert Longbottom’s revival of “Dreamgirls” is a bluntly drawn, pastels-saturated production.
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