Inside Art
Partners Create a Superdealership
By CAROL VOGEL
Former executives at Sotheby’s and Christie’s join forces as part of a new partnership of superdealers.
Sperone Westwater, New York
Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore “Lullaby” (1997), suggesting a plain of sleep, sex, illness and death, is part of a show spanning two galleries at New York University.
“Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore,” a retrospective in two galleries at New York University, reflects an intellectually fervent maverick commenting on contemporary issues.
Critic’s Notebook
New 9/11 Programs Are a British Task
By MIKE HALE
For the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, specials include relatively thoughtful documentaries from Testimony Films about firefighters and a remarkable survivor.
The New Season
Film Is Dead? Long Live Movies
By MANOHLA DARGIS and A. O. SCOTT
Digital technology is changing movies in such groundbreaking ways that “film” is usually a word of convenience and tradition.
Rap Rivalry and Twitter Outrage Lead Pitchfork to Pull Video
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Knoedler Gallery to Auction Its Inventory
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Theater Talkback: Finding Inspiration in Improvisation
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Socrates on the Beach: An Island Walk
By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER
“Island Night,” a 12-hour overnight walk on Fire Island, hosted by the arts group Elastic City, is part philosophic dialogue, part poetic reverie and part nature walk.
Movie Review | 'Bachelorette'
The Bride, Ahem, Needs That Dress
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
“Bachelorette,” the film version of Leslye Headland’s play, comes at you with the crackling intensity of machine-gun fire.
Books of The Times
‘The Yellow Birds’
By KEVIN POWERS
Reviewed by MICHIKO KAKUTANI
“The Yellow Birds,” a brilliantly observed novel by a veteran of the war in Iraq, stands with Tim O’Brien’s enduring Vietnam book, “The Things They Carried,” as a classic of war fiction.
Inside Arts
Music Review
Generations United For Improvisation, Refined but Violent
By BEN RATLIFF
The emerging jazz duo of Peter Brötzmann and Jason Adasiewicz, now on tour, offered a set of improvisation at Le Poisson Rouge.
Music Review
Songs of Innocence, à la the Monkees
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Marin Mazzie, in her show at 54 Below, uses cabaret as a time machine to revisit her musical past.
Movie Review | 'Keep the Lights On'
The Enduring Erotic Life Cycle of an Unpromising Relationship
By A. O. SCOTT
“Keep the Lights On,” by Ira Sachs, follows two men as their relationship grows, falters and endures over more than a decade.
Music Review
A Centennial, With Toy Pianos and a Coffee Table
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
John Cage’s centennial was commemorated this week by programs at the Stone, in the East Village, and Symphony Space, on the Upper West Side.
Last Chance
Collaborative and Solo, With a Certain Feminist Bent
By MARTHA SCHWENDENER
T-shirt descriptions inspired the works in “Raw/Cooked: Ulrike Müller,” at the Brooklyn Museum.
Movie Review | 'The Eye of the Storm'
Hello, Mummy! We’re Here About That Inheritance
By MANOHLA DARGIS
The theme of filial ingratitude looms in Fred Schepisi’s dramatically unsteady, blustery if likable film “The Eye of the Storm.”
Movie Review | 'Toys in the Attic'
Intricate and Odd, With Little Child’s Play
By MANOHLA DARGIS
“Toys in the Attic,” not always childlike, is an animated tale full of odd characters.
Movie Review | 'Beauty Is Embarrassing'
Far Beyond ‘Playhouse,’ Artist Remains Playful
By ANDY WEBSTER
“Beauty Is Embarrassing” looks at the artist Wayne White, known for his work on “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” and other projects.
Movie Review | 'Hello I Must Be Going'
Divorce Blues, Waylaid by a New Infatuation
By A. O. SCOTT
A 19-year-old actor’s passionate, late-adolescent restlessness awakens some of a 30-something divorced woman’s dormant enthusiasm for life.
Television Review | ‘Cheer’
Leaps, Flips, Twists and Pyramids Pave Way to Texas
By NEIL GENZLINGER
The reality show “Cheer” on CMT focuses more on cheerleaders than on their parents, and their leader doesn’t veer into abusiveness for the benefit of the cameras.
Movie Review | 'The Inbetweeners'
Unhappy Hooligans, Dripping With Lust
By MANOHLA DARGIS
The teenage characters of a popular British TV sitcom take their antics to the big screen in “The Inbetweeners.”
Art Review
Common Threads, Uncommon Ties
By KEN JOHNSON
“Bound Unbound: Lin Tianmiao,” at Asia Society, focuses primarily on theatrical, technically refined installations by this Chinese artist that have been less widely shown.
Art Review
Treasures of an Heiress From a Personal Paradise
By KAREN ROSENBERG
The home at the center of “Doris Duke’s Shangri La” unites diverse styles and periods with great taste and great wealth. Its treasures are on display in New York.
Movie Review | 'The Words'
A Few Hungry Writers, Playing Fast and Loose
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
In “The Words,” a novelist comes up with the story of a writer who plagiarized yet another writer. Where did that come from?
Antiques
A Chinese Dealer, Trafficker in Mystery
By EVE M. KAHN
Christie’s is auctioning research materials used by C. T. Loo, a leading dealer in Chinese artifacts in the first half of the 20th century.
Art In Review
Eric Yahnker: ‘Virgin Birth ’n’ Turf’
By KEN JOHNSON
Eric Yahnker, the animator and satirist, shows his gift for visual one-liners in his New York debut at The Hole.
Art In Review
‘Kindergarten’
By KAREN ROSENBERG
“Kindergarten,” a group show at Ricco Maresca Gallery, experiments with color, shape and pattern in the fashion set out by the 19th-century German educator Friedrich Froebel.
Art In Review
Max Brand: ‘no solid footing — (trained) duck fighting a crow’
By ROBERTA SMITH
Max Brand’s solo debut in New York at MoMA PS1 features big, colored drawings that create menageries of renderings, figures and doodles.
Art In Review
‘The Double Dirty Dozen (& Friends’
By KEN JOHNSON
“The Double Dirty Dozen (& Friends),” a group show at Freight + Volume, revels in representations of the unrepressed libido.
Weekend Miser
Blistering Bands and Bingo
By A. C. LEE
Shades of the old 1970s and ’80s downtown New York at the Ding Dong Lounge and Le Poisson Rouge.
Urban Athlete
Step and Lunge and Forge Bonds
By SHIVANI VORA
At the 92nd Street Y, an exercise class called Relentless has several components and tends to have repeat participants.
Movie Review | 'Detropia'
Moody Shots of Detroit’s Urban Decay
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
In the documentary “Detropia,” residents lament their city’s plight and artists seek real estate bargains.
Movie Review | 'Las Acacias'
Softening a Trucker’s Rough Edges
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“Las Acacias” follows the interaction between a trucker and a woman with toddler.
Movie Review | 'Versailles ’73: American Runway Revolution'
A Fashionable Face-Off in 1973
By RACHEL SALTZ
“Versailles ’73: American Runway Revolution” reflects on a battle between American and French designers.
Movie Review | 'Desperate Endeavors'
Living in a Material World
By RACHEL SALTZ
“Desperate Endeavors” is a 1970s immigrant tale about American materialism.
Movie Review | 'Serving Up Richard'
A Man, and a Potential Meal
By NEIL GENZLINGER
Suburban cannibalism is central to the plot of “Serving Up Richard.”
Movie Review | 'Green'
Friendship Turns Into a Tense Triangle
By NEIL GENZLINGER
In “Green,” a couple’s friendship with a woman is the source of tension.
Movie Review | '[REC] 3: Genesis'
These Wedding Crashers Are Zombies
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Newlyweds struggle to reunite after an undeadly virus separates them in the Spanish-language horror film “[REC] 3: Genesis.”
Movie Review | 'Mulberry Child'
Back to China, Clueless Child in Tow
By NICOLAS RAPOLD
Mulberry Child,” a documentary heavy on re-enactments, shows the generation gap between a Chinese-American writer and her daughter.
Movie Review | '[REC] 3: Genesis'
These Wedding Crashers Are Zombies
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Newlyweds struggle to reunite after an undeadly virus separates them in the Spanish-language horror film “[REC] 3: Genesis.”
Still Life
Flea Market
By ROBERTA SMITH
Finding the unexpected in paintings from out-of-the-way places.
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What's on Television
Religion: Back With a Vengeance at Venice Festival
By RODERICK CONWAY MORRIS
Unorthodox love stories abound, as do tales of spiritual crisis.
Theater Review
A Shrew, and Broadway, Tamed
By MATT WOLF
Shakespeare's Globe Theater hits its mark with a new "Taming of the Shrew," while the BBC Proms honor a selection of old musicals.
At Either End of the Ceramics Route
By SHEILA MELVIN
China's National Museum joins forces with two British museums to celebrate porcelain.
Hands-On Evolution of the BlackBerry
By ALICE RAWSTHORN
The 9900 model shows how much the design merits of particular products has changed in the past six years.
Violence and the Spirit in Murky Pakistan
By RODERICK CONWAY MORRIS
Mira Nair's out-of-competition film, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," in which a Pakistani Muslim is the central protagonist, opened the 69th Venice International Film Festival
Witness to a Fading Lifestyle on the Anatolian Plain
By SUSANNE FOWLER
Photographs by Josephine Powell, an American who spent years with nomads in Turkey, are on display in Istanbul.
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