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Music Review | Joanna Newsom: At Town Hall, Singing in Tongues, Some of Them Strung
Joanna Newsom drew mostly from her new album, “Have One on Me,” during a sold-out 90-minute show at Town Hall on Thursday night.
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Jane Sherman, 101, Dancer and Writer
Ms. Sherman was a writer who not only chronicled the excitement of early-20th-century American dance but also lived through it as a performer.
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Television Review | 'Life': On Discovery, Wonders of Nature, With Oprah Winfrey
The wealth and variety of material in “Life,” an 11-part documentary that begins Sunday on Discovery, may surprise even regular viewers of nature programs.
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Music Review | New York City Opera: At the David H. Koch Theater, Opera With a Madcap Plot
The charming contours of “L’Étoile,” Emmanuel Chabrier’s three-act gem of a comic opera, are revealed in a vibrant, season-opening production at New York City Opera.
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Charles Muscatine, Chaucer Scholar, Dies at 89
Mr. Muscatine was a scholar who transformed Chaucer studies by turning attention to the French models for Chaucer’s poetry and an education reformer.
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Music Review | Les Arts Florissants: Les Arts Florissants at BAM Opera Festival
An intimate production of the French Baroque pastorale “Actéon,” performed by Les Arts Florissants, opened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Thursday night.
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Dance Review | Elaine Summers Film and Dance Company: Elaine Summers Film and Dance at Danspace Project
Elaine Summers Film and Dance Company presented a film and work by Ms. Summers on Thursday at Danspace Project.
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Dance Review | Stefanie Nelson Dance Group: ‘Proximity Spiral’ Seeks Fun With Numbers
In her new “Proximity Spiral,” which opened at the Joyce SoHo on Thursday night, the choreographer Stefanie Nelson explores intimacy using numbers.
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Theater Review | 'The Cocktail Party': Shaken and Stirred at a T. S. Eliot Comedy
The sparkling veneer of a respectful production of T .S. Eliot’s “The Cocktail Party,” at the Beckett Theater, hides a much more brooding, sanctimonious and didactic play.
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Bridge: Surprising Strength? Don’t Discount Offense
At the Spring North American Championships in Reno, Nev., when the premier event, the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams, ends on Sunday, a team that has never won the title will be crowned.
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Music Review | Chris Dingman: Vibraphonist Dazzles, but Without Fanfare
The jazz vibraphonist Chris Dingman performed at the Jazz Gallery in the South Village on Thursday night.
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Music Review | New York Philharmonic: At Avery Fisher Hall, Modernism and Egyptian Mythology
Christoph Eschenbach led the New York Philharmonic through works by Berg, Schoenberg and Brahms at Avery Fisher Hall on Thursday evening.
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Television Review | 'Jerseylicious': The Style Network Sets Another Reality Show in New Jersey
“Jerseylicious,” a witless reality show on the Style Network about a beauty salon in Green Brook, N.J., and the vapid people who work there, begins on Sunday.
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Few MoMA Visitors Seem Upset by Abramovic Show
Visitors to the new Marina Abramovic retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, a survey of an often arduous strain of performance art, seem more intrigued than repulsed.
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Surfer Blood Is Between Buzz and Break at South by Southwest
Surfer Blood, from West Palm Beach, Fla., is playing its first South by Southwest, yet the introductory phase of the band’s life span is to some extent already over.
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‘Undercover Boss’ Is Surprise Reality Show Hit for CBS
“Undercover Boss” on CBS is — so far at least — the breakout television hit of the year, with the largest audience and the strongest appeal to younger viewers.
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Lena Dunham Finds Her Worth in ‘Tiny Furniture’
Art imitates life in Lena Dunham’s “Tiny Furniture,” the winner of the juried narrative film prize at South by Southwest.
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Maastricht Signals an Art Market on the Rebound
The European Fine Art Fair, a major barometer of the mood of the market, has seen buoyant buying interest this month.
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Iraqis Gather to Watch Hollywood’s Take on a War That Has Enveloped Their Lives
For those who gathered to view “The Hurt Locker,” to watch the film was to relive a recent chapter of their lives.
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Arts: Taking a ‘Little Mermaid’ to Dark New Depths
For audiences weaned on the Walt Disney version of “The Little Mermaid,” John Neumeier’s bleak ballet adaptation at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House may be a bit of a shock.
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Special Report: Museums: Reopening of Palazzo Grimani Revives Memory of Creator
Giovanni Grimani was not only a passionate collector and patron of the arts but also an extraordinary architect and interior designer.
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Special Report: Museums: Don't Think of Them as Mausoleums
Restaurants and events are attracting increasing numbers of visitors to museums despite the economic downturn.
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Design: From Lab to Life, a 'New World of Objects'
The title of a new exhibition, "Joris Laarman Lab," sums up the show perfectly because it features some of the experiments the designer and his collaborators are conducting in Amsterdam.
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Fair Swamped by Second Raters
At the 23rd European Fine Art Fair, the addition of galleries and dealers has turned it into a collector's supermarket.
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FX Harsono's Rebellious, Critical Voice Against 'Big Power' in Indonesia
For the past four decades, Mr. Harsono has provided a critical voice against political and social oppression in Indonesia. Some of his seminal works are now on show at the Singapore Art Museum, until May 9.
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