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The New York Times: Art

09/03/2010 04:14 AM
Once Around the Park, Then Farewell
Getting ready to leave New York, but already missing the High Line, the Shakespeare Garden and more.


09/03/2010 05:23 AM
Time Marches ... Backward!
The Museum of Modern Art and TCM are revisiting ?The March of Time? series, short films created from 1935 to 1951 that examine foreign affairs and social issues.


09/03/2010 03:43 PM
Movie Review | 'Going the Distance': Nothing Keeps Them Apart Except a Continent
In ?Going the Distance,? Drew Barrymore and Justin Long are young lovers struggling through a cross-country romance.


09/03/2010 04:15 AM
Flouting the Mainstream, Forgoing a Corporate Stamp
This weekend?s All Tomorrow?s Parties music festival in Monticello, N.Y., promises to be hugely loud and, as always, sponsor free.


09/03/2010 04:13 PM
Art Review: Antics Aside, a Dalí of Constant Ambition
An exhibition counters the notion that late work by Dalí is bad, and that most Dalí is late work.


09/03/2010 04:23 AM
Movie Review | 'Machete': Growl, and Let the Severed Heads Fall Where They May
Robert Rodriguez?s splatter comedy ?Machete? is a live-action comic book with roots in the pungent swamp of 1970s B movies.


09/03/2010 03:16 PM
Loving the Lowbrow (It Has Its Own Hall of Fame)
?Bad art? ? rescued from trash heaps and thrift shops ? has become a genre in itself, with its own fans.


09/03/2010 06:58 PM
Arts & Leisure Preview: 'Boardwalk Empire,' Harvey Pekar, Cherry Jones and More
Wisdom, insights and observations from this weekend's Arts & Leisure section.


09/03/2010 06:17 PM
Book Review Podcast: Isabel Wilkerson
Featuring Isabel Wilkerson on her history of the Great Migration, "The Warmth of Other Suns"; and Sean Wilentz on his book "Bob Dylan in America."


09/03/2010 07:09 PM
Good Day for Paul Hogan: 'Crocodile Dundee' Star Can Return to U.S.
Mr. Hogan had been prevented from leaving Australia, where authorities said he owed millions in unpaid taxes.


09/03/2010 05:20 PM
In a Forest of Instruments, Signs of Evolution
For many composers, synthesizers are last decade. Innovations like the mutantrumpet and the flute with a glissando headjoint are expanding the range of concert sounds.


09/03/2010 04:45 AM
Art Review: Landscapes Framed by a Chevy
Lee Friedlander?s ?America by Car,? opening Saturday at the Whitney Museum, consists of black-and-white photographs taken from inside cars.


09/03/2010 04:41 AM
Books of The Times: Simon Wiesenthal, the Man Who Refused to Forget
A detailed biography of the legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal shows him to be a complicated hero, an angel with dirty wings.


09/03/2010 03:19 PM
Movie Review | 'A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop': Remade in China: Coen Brothers? Tale of Infidelity and Revenge
The director Zhang Yimou honors the unlikely affinity between himself and Joel and Ethan Coen with a remake of their movie ?Blood Simple.?


09/03/2010 04:45 AM
Art Review: A Language Explorer Who Heard Echoes of Africa
Lorenzo Dow Turner dug deep to find many African-inflected elements in the Gullah language and culture.


09/03/2010 06:58 PM
A Symphony of Steel
In lots throughout New York City, drums are being pounded in preparation for the Steel Band Panorama Competition.


09/03/2010 04:05 PM
Vance Bourjaily, Novelist Exploring Postwar America, Dies at 87
Mr. Bourjaily?s novels often explored what it meant to be an American at a particular historical moment.


09/03/2010 05:03 AM
Cammie King, Scarlett and Rhett?s Girl, Dies at 76
Ms. King played Scarlett O?Hara and Rhett Butler?s ill-fated little girl, Bonnie Blue Butler, in ?Gone With the Wind.?


09/03/2010 04:50 AM
Art Review: The Allure of the Homespun in the Maw of the Digital Age
?Underground Pop,? at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, N.Y., highlights the tension between college-trained sophistication and fictions of naïveté.


09/03/2010 04:14 AM
Theater Review | 'It Must Be Him': Has-Been Writer Hopes to Break Out of a Slump
In ?It Must Be Him,? a comedy by Kenny Solms, Peter Scolari plays a television writer who?s trying to revive his career.


09/03/2010 04:28 AM
Movie Review | 'The Winning Season': Redemption as a Team Sport
An alcoholic finds self-respect as the coach of a high school girls? basketball team in ?The Winning Season.?


09/03/2010 04:28 AM
Movie Review | 'Last Train Home': A Family Caught in the Wheels of China?s Industrial Locomotive
This documentary by Lixin Fan traces the conflicts between married migrant factory workers in Guangzhou and their daughter, strains partly resulting from China?s accelerating economy.


09/03/2010 05:00 AM
Antiques: Furniture as Sculpture: A Craftsman?s Legacy
An exhibition about the Pennsylvania carver and sculptor Wharton Esherick, known for his mid-20th-century undulating furniture, opens on Sept. 7 in galleries at the University of Pennsylvania.


09/03/2010 04:28 AM
Movie Review | 'Etienne!': Rodent Road Trip and Human Bonds
A boy loses his rodent and finds a girl in ?Etienne!,? a sunny-sweet fable about healing wounds with the balm of the open road.


09/03/2010 04:23 AM
Movie Review | 'Our Beloved Month of August': A Film Within a Film
The Portuguese director Miguel Gomes blurs the line between nonfiction and fiction.


09/03/2010 04:23 AM
Movie Review | 'Clear Blue Tuesday': A Post-9/11 Pop Musical
The film about living in New York post-9/11, is earnest and well meaning and, while dangerously sentimental at times, never quite crosses the line into maudlin.


09/03/2010 03:17 PM
Movie Review | 'Prince of Broadway': A Street Hustler Becomes a Reluctant Father
Like its subject, the movie is sharp, charismatic and so light on its feet we never know which way it will turn.


09/03/2010 05:30 AM
Movie Review: ?Max Manus?
?Max Manus? is a solidly acted biopic of World War II derring-do.


09/03/2010 05:30 AM
Movie Review: White Wedding
The bungled wedding story and the road movie collide happily in ?White Wedding.?


09/03/2010 05:47 AM
The Tipsy Diaries: The Kitchen Sink in Your Drink
It?s an infuse-a-palooza out there, as infused spirits make serious headway in bars and restaurants of all kinds.


09/03/2010 05:00 AM
Urban Athlete: Chorus-Line Calisthenics
For beginning hoofers or advanced, Broadway dance routines can be an alternative to the gym.


09/03/2010 04:50 AM
A Miniature-Golf Odyssey (Obstacles Included)
A tour of miniature-golf courses among the five boroughs.


09/03/2010 03:43 PM
Educational Deals this Weekend
Free superhero-fueled tutoring in Brooklyn, gardening classes for Young Sprouts near Battery Park and Sunday night fun on the Lower East Side.


09/03/2010 04:28 AM
House Tour: New Preston, Conn.
On Lake Waramaug, a converted boathouse has a stone foundation, a wraparound deck and direct access to the water.


09/03/2010 04:30 PM
Arts & Leisure Preview: The Unfinished Tale of an Unlikely Hero
Harvey Pekar, the obsessive chronicler of everyday lives, was collaborating at the end of his life on a Web project whose fate in print remains uncertain.


08/26/2010 03:25 PM
The Week Ahead: Aug. 29 ? Sept. 4
A listing of cultural events this week.


09/03/2010 02:07 PM
Review: In Venice, Feting Architecture (or Is It Art?)
Under the curatorship of Kazuyo Sejima, the 12th Architecture Biennale is above all marked by its diversity, unified under the usefully unspecific overarching title of ?People meet in architecture.?'


09/03/2010 02:30 AM
Review: Venice Festival Opens With Glimpses Into the Pitfalls of Passion
Darren Aronofsky?s in-competition movie ?Black Swan? and Tran Anh Hung?s ?Norwegian Wood? tell of the agonies of professional dancing and of triangles within triangles.


09/02/2010 05:00 AM
Crescendo, in Double Time
Russians entered the French festival scene this summer with an open throttle and an open checkbook.


09/01/2010 04:30 AM
Venice Gears Up for 67th Film Festival
The film festival opens Wednesday and continues through Sept. 11 and will present dozens of features from 34 countries.


08/31/2010 06:46 AM
Beijing Opera, a Historical Treasure in Fragile Condition
Fans of the Beijing Opera Academy of China fear that it could fall victim to modernization as the economy surges, but the government is helping support the art form.


08/30/2010 07:00 AM
Design: An Italian Designer?s Homage to His Native Country
In a dazzlingly ambitious exhibition at La Triennale Design Museum in Milan, Alessandro Mendini has assembled a collection of objects to illustrate Italy.


 
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