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UPDATED FEBRUARY 7, 2003 12:19 AM ET

PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW | THOMAS STRUTH
Where Truth Dares to Meet Your Gaze Where Truth Dares to Meet Your Gaze
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
Thomas Struth's photography sensitizes viewers to the peculiar cosmologies of the human condition.

THEATER REVIEW | 'MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM'
Old Blues, New Riffs Old Blues, New Riffs
By BEN BRANTLEY
This hollow new revival of August Wilson's play starring Charles S. Dutton and Whoopi Goldberg lacks the enthralling music of Mr. Wilson's words.

Fiery Romantic, Burning Alone Fiery Romantic, Burning Alone
By JAMES R. OESTREICH
Commemorations for the quintessential Romantic composer Hector Berlioz's 200th birthday are heating up around New York City.
A Man, Like His Music, of Quicksilver
A Time to Enjoy Berliozian Riches
Fiery Romantic, Burning Alone: The Ingenious Berlioz

MY MANHATTAN
Treasures Buried in Plain Sight
By JUDITH DUNFORD
New York is a thrift shopper's paradise, with stores ranging from haughty consignment shops on Madison Avenue to tiny shops in church basements.

ART REVIEW | 'CHALLENGE OF THE MODERN'; 'AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTISTS'
What Modernism Meant in Black Artists' World What Modernism Meant in Black Artists' World
By GRACE GLUECK
Two shows of contemporary African-American works reflect the historic tension between conformity to white expectations and issues of cultural identity.

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MOVIE REVIEW | 'SHANGHAI KNIGHTS'
Galahad in Shining Cowboy Duds
By ELVIS MITCHELL
Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) and Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson) travel to Victorian England in this rousing, cheerful sequel to "Shanghai Noon."
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ART REVIEW | THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH
Works That Helped Invent the Image of an English Elite Works That Helped Invent the Image of an English Elite
By HOLLAND COTTER
Thomas Gainsborough's portraits, many of a visionary, fantastical chic, helped to invent the image of a new social elite and paved the way for Romanticism.

AN APPRAISAL
Balancing Reason and Emotion in Twin Towers Void Balancing Reason and Emotion in Twin Towers Void
By HERBERT MUSCHAMP
The two designs chosen as finalists for the World Trade Center site illustrate the confusion of a nation torn between impulses of war and peace.
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ART & DESIGN

An Appraisal: Balancing Reason and Emotion in Twin Towers Void

Beijing Journal: A Factory Is Transformed by the Art of Real Estate

At Home With Robert Indiana: Mr. Love Finds an Island, If Not Entirely to Himself

Two Finalists Are Selected for the Void at Ground Zero

Sailors, Runaways and Now, Bicoastal Hoteliers

DANCE

Dance Review | Martha Graham Dance Company: Revealing Graham's Vocabulary

Dance Review | Flamenco Festival New York: Flamenco as a Narrative, and Simply as Itself

Dance Review | New York City Ballet: Laughs Leap Among Favorite Themes of Robbins and Tchaikovsky

Dance Review | Arthur Aviles Typical Theater: 'Cinderella' Set in a Puerto Rican Ghetto

TV Review | 'Dance in America': Four Regular Guys Who Work in Tights

MUSIC

Amid Much Anticipation, a Rapper Makes a Debut

Getting Game Boy to Play Their Tune

The Pop Life: Up-and-Comers Down Under

Music Review: A Tribute to Lou Harrison Just Before His Death

Jerome Hines, Who Sang at the Met for 41 Years, Dies at 81

TELEVISION

TV Review | '20/20': A Neverland World of Michael Jackson

The TV Watch: Prime-Time Shows Are Getting Sexier

Cablevision Unimpressed by YES Offer

Turner Opposed ABC Deal

Anthony Eisley, of TV's 'Hawaiian Eye,' Dies at 78

THEATER

Kevin Spacey Puts Down New Roots at the Old Vic

Theater Review | 'Kimberly Akimbo': This Girl's Sweet 16 Is Bitter Old Age

Bitter Showdown Over Orchestra Size Looms on Broadway

Theater Review | 'Fifth of July': 60's Radicals Reunited, This Time as Ensemble

John L. Dales, 95, Executive for Actors Guild, Is Dead

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ALBUM SHOWCASE
Pergolesi's 'Marian Vespers'Pergolesi's 'Marian Vespers'
James R. Oestreich discusses a new recording by the Choir of New College, Oxford, and the Academy of Ancient Music.


BOOKS OF THE TIMES | 'THE DANTE CLUB'
/ All Literary Allusions Abandon, Ye Who Enter Here
By JANET MASLIN
In Matthew Pearl's ingenious new mystery, someone appears to be staging murders that mirror the punishments of Dante's "Inferno."
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