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Mel Bochner's "Event Horizon" at the Peter Freeman Gallery.
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At Art Basel, competition heats up the market
By CAROL VOGEL
In an overheated market, the contemporary art collectors who lined up to be first in the door at the invitation-only opening day of Art Basel on Tuesday morning knew that if they spotted something they liked, there was no time to dillydally or someone else would snap it up.
Slide Show: Art Basel
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For 4 international ballerinas, a final curtain call
By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
There are never so many true ballerinas that it's comfortable to say goodbye even to one of them, but coincidence has ordained that this month brings the formal farewell performances of four international ballerinas: Darcey Bussell, Kyra Nichols, Alessandra Ferri and Patricia Barker.
'12:08 East of Bucharest': Looking for the heroes of Romania's revolution
By ALAN RIDING
In his first feature film, "A fost sau n-a fost?" (12:08 East of Bucharest), Corneliu Porumboiu goes in search of the heroes of Romania's revolution in his hometown, Vaslui. The film stars Mircea Andreescu, Teodor Corban and Ion Sapdaru.
Review: In "12:08 East of Bucharest" a Romanian town slouches toward revolution and beyond
London reclaims its Royal Festival Hall with style
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
The Royal Festival Hall in London has reopened after a major two-year, $234 million renovation and the London Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment took part in a gala concert.
Book Review: Shades of Difference
By JEREMY HARDING
"Mac" Maharaj spent nearly 40 years as an anti-apartheid activist. "Shades of Difference," by Padraig O'Malley is a collaborative biography, bringing together the author's analysis and Maharaj's own reflections, transcribed from hours of interviews. The result is exactly what O'Malley set out to achieve: "a portrait of Mac and of South Africa." It is a striking success.
Blanche Marvin: London's best-loved theater critic
By MARY BLUME
Marvin is acknowledged within the theater community in London as a major force, not in terms of an executive position since she has none, but as what one critic calls a great wise presence who touches a lot of people's lives.
In a Berlin war bunker, Christian Boros creates a showcase for art
By ANDREAS TZORTZIS
For Christian Boros, a former World War II bomb shelter is the ideal location for the one thing Hitler's architects never thought would inhabit the place: art.
'The Sopranos': Amid fanfare, an HBO series fades to black
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
There have been many good Mafia movies, but fans of HBO's "The Sopranos" had to look to literature to find comparable depictions of the complexity and inconsistencies of American family life.
- Are you talkin' to me? One final whack at that HBO mob
Sandy Gallin: From managing careers to remodeling Hollywood homes
By LAURA M. HOLSON
Sandy Gallin, who used to manage the careers of musicians like Dolly Parton, Mariah Carey and Michael Jackson, has reinvented himself. He now buys high-end houses, remodeling them and selling for a tidy profit — and earning a reputation as a tastemaker among Hollywood's status-conscious real estate obsessives.
The pianist Leon Fleisher: A life-altering debility, reconsidered
By HOLLY BRUBACH
Weeks shy of his 80th birthday, the American pianist Leon Fleisher maintains a schedule most people half his age would find exhausting, performing widely and recording. He rejects the suggestion that - with the focal dystonia that for some 30 years severely limited his use of his right hand still in remission - he's making up for lost time.
Ousmane Sembene, 84, Senegalese filmmaker and writer
By A.O. SCOTT
Widely seen as the father of African cinema, Sembene was a crucial figure in the postcolonial cultural awakening.
Tina Brown, Princess Diana, and the cult of celebrity
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
Tina Brown, the once highly conspicuous editor of Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and the short-lived Talk, has just written "The Diana Chronicles," about the British princess who, like her, reigned as a golden girl over the trans-Atlantic media world during the 1980s and '90s.
A match made in tabloid heaven
A publishing quandary: Do excerpts help sales?
Tom Stoppard's 'Coast of Utopia' and 'Spring Awakening' sweep Tony Awards
An art show in Kassel, Germany, rivals Venice Biennale
Monumenta show symbolizes contemporary art revival in Paris
'Heartbroken' cast of 'The Sopranos' gathers in Florida to watch series' final episode
Horror movies destined for home video
At the Louvre, a secret world in Corot's drawings
Tyler Brûlé: London's Olympic logo meets with derision
Movie review: 'Crazy Love'
Entr'acte: Damien Hirst's 'ethical' art: a diamond skull for a mere $100 million
New York galleries make an early splash
Shrek producer Katzenberg: 'More Shreks are coming!'
Celebrity justice cuts both ways for Paris Hilton
Neo-Realists in China start to earn praise at home
Friends of Scott Fitzgerald and Picasso, Gerald and Sara Murphy were muses of Modernism
In Taiwan, 'Spider Lilies' fuels a small gay renaissance
Why Dutch women don't get depressed
Review: In 'Ocean's Thirteen' Soderbergh's Vegas hits a jackpot
Deal on Afghan treasures is questioned
A Tony strategy: Hugs and handshakes
Rapper with attitude updates 'Frenchness'
Book Review: Her Way
Concert halls push the limits of design and sound
On London stage, 2 actors' barnstorming styles
Berlin operas: A grim myth and an abstruse fairy tale
Vienna cache is one of largest Holocaust archives
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