Sheryl Crow is releasing "Detours," a darker album than her earlier ones.
Sheryl Crow releases "Detours" By JON PARELES In Crow's new album, more darkness surfaces, but the choruses stay hopeful, and there's a streak of 1960s peace and love.
At Christies, 2nd highest ever European auction By SOUREN MELIKIAN Impressionists and Modern Masters paintings, particularly pictures with an immediate impact through contrasted colors and simple outlines, sell like hot cakes. Christies sold 100 paintings for an aggregate £105.37 million.
A film that mirrors, but is not about, Putin's life By SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY The title of a new Russian movie might well be "Love Story: The Putin Chronicles," yet the producer is curiously adamant that it has nothing to do with Vladimir Putin and his wife.
Jasper Johns: Color in shades of gray By CAROL VOGEL To hear it from curators, gray is not just a familiar color for Johns but the essence of a long metaphysical journey, an exploration of "the condition of gray itself." At least that's the premise of a sprawling exhibition of his work that opened Tuesday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Museum of American Finance: A walk down Wall Street By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN As the market quavers, the dollar sinks and subprime lenders go belly up, the time was right for the opening of this museum, a tribute to the "forces that have made New York City the financial capital of the world."
Jack Johnson rides his mellow green wave By NATE CHINEN The surfer-filmmaker-singer-songwriter continues to work for environmental awareness. His fifth album was recorded entirely with solar energy.
Book Review: The Commission By EVAN THOMAS In "The Commission" Philip Shenon makes bureaucratic warfare exciting, largely because he has a keen grasp of human frailty and folly.
Behind the violence of Bieito's 'Flying Dutchman' By GEORGE LOOMIS A catalogue of excesses does not tell the full story of a Calixto Bieito production. And so it is with the Staatsoper Stuttgart's new production of "Der fliegende Holländer," (The Flying Dutchman) which marks the Catalan director's first confrontation with Wagner.
At 71, the dancer Trisha Brown bows out By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO Trisha Brown's innovations and influence are hard to overestimate. But Brown will be remembered as a singular dancer who is ending her career gracefully at 71 - and on her own terms.
Heath Ledger's family returns to Australia to prepare for burial AP As Ledger's hometown of Perth prepared for his funeral, residents of the city in the southwest corner of Australia expressed sadness at the Oscar-nominated actor's sudden death — and outrage at rumors that he was a drug user.
