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Wiz Khalifa Raps Beyond His Years
By JON CARAMANICA
Celebrating the release of his first major-label album, “Rolling Papers,” Wiz Khalifa offers a performance one might expect from a much older rapper.
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The guitarist Jeff Beck and the singer Imelda May performing Monday night at the Beacon Theater on a tour honoring Les Paul’s music.
Jeff Beck, along with Imelda May and her rockabilly band, knocked out one three-minute hit after another at the Beacon Theater on Monday night.
Season 5 of ‘Mad Men’ Is Delayed Until 2012
By BRIAN STELTER
The AMC drama “Mad Men” will not kick off its fifth season this summer because of a deepening dispute with the show’s creator, Matthew Weiner. The show is now expected to return early next year.
A Piece of ‘Gone With the Wind’ Isn’t Gone After All
By CHARLES McGRATH
A Connecticut library will display four chapters of the final typescript of “Gone With the Wind,” which many thought had been destroyed.
Living Legend Tries to Make a Living
By BEN SISARIO
Clyde Stubblefield, James Brown’s “Funky Drummer,” is hoping to finally get some royalties for his work.
Music Review
Words or Music: Why Choose?
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
On Monday night at the Met, Renée Fleming sang the Countess in Strauss’s “Capriccio,” her first performance of the complete role at the house.
Movie Review | 'Le Quattro Volte'
Eternal Complexities of the Very Simple Life
By A. O. SCOTT
“Le Quattro Volte,” an idiosyncratic and amazing new film by Michelangelo Frammartino, is so full of surprises that even to describe it is to risk giving something away.
Wounded in Crossfire of a Capital Culture War
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and KATE TAYLOR
G. Wayne Clough, the new Smithsonian chief who was picked to turn it around, is caught in a collision of art and politics.
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George Tooker, Painter Capturing Modern Anxieties, Dies at 90
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Mr. Tooker’s haunting images of trapped clerical workers and forbidding government offices expressed a peculiarly 20th-century brand of anxiety and alienation.
Dancing Past the Censors: 1500s Chinese Erotica
By SHEILA MELVIN
The Beijing Dance Theater’s adaptation of “Jin Ping Mei,” or “The Golden Lotus,” a Ming dynasty novel known for its explicit sex, was commissioned for the Hong Kong Arts Festival.
Dance Review
A Classic Comedy Upended: Changing Female to Male, and Old to Young
By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
The Paris Opera’s “Coppélia,” shown on movie screens including the BIG Cinemas in Manhattan, diverges significantly from the original.
Books of The Times
‘Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India’
By JOSEPH LELYVELD
Reviewed by HARI KUNZRU
In this new study, Joseph Lelyveld re-examines and humanizes Gandhi.
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Farley Granger, Screen Star of the 1950s, Dies at 85
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Lee Hoiby, 85; Composed Operas and Songs
Podcast: Music
Jon Caramanica on Chris Brown’s new album “F.A.M.E.” plus Ben Sisario talks to Jack White, formerly of the White Stripes, about his Nashville-based record label.
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Memoir (or Is It?) of Sex and Opium
By JOYCE HOR-CHUNG LAU
An explicitly erotic 1943 manuscript by British Orientalist Edmund Trelawny Backhouse is soon to be on bookstore shelves.
Rodarte Steps Up to a Widening World
By JESSICA MICHAULT
The fashion brand has been on a roll of late, designing some of the key costumes for the movie “Black Swan,” and is now looking ahead at a European show.
Coming Clean on the Story of Dirt
By ALICE RAWSTHORN
An exhibition in London explores how society's relationship with debris has changed through the centuries.
Resplendent Diversity at the Maastricht Fair
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The European Fine Art Fair that attracts a who's who of collectors is not just for billionaires.
Iraqi Artists, Actors and Designers Try to Build New Lives in Jordan
By RANA F. SWEIS
Iraqi refugee artists, musicians, actors, fashion designers, writers and intellectuals have achieved prominence in Jordan.
The Gothic Pioneer Horace Walpole Finally Gets His Due
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Architectural historians now widely acknowledge that Walpole's house, Strawberry Hill, on the banks of the Thames, led to countless other edifices in a similar style.
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