The Name Might Escape, Not the Work
By MANOHLA DARGIS and A. O. SCOTT
The faces, bodies and performances of character actors can linger in your memory even if you can’t quite recall their names.
The New Season
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Leslie Feist
The Bounty of Solitude
By JON PARELES
“Metals,” Leslie Feist’s album that is to be released Oct. 4, ignores all the glossy, computerized, impersonal pop of the 21st century. It’s made for intimacy, not for mass-market broadcast.
Familiar Faces Wear Classic Roles
By BEN BRANTLEY
This season is bounteous with familiar characters from other chapters of dramatic literature, who were last seen in the vicinity only a decade or so ago and are being given fresh life by new interpreters.
Playwrights Bring Uncommon Bond to Broadway
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
In a season in most ways typical, three black women will see their plays reach Broadway.
It All Leads to This: Cunningham’s Final Bow
By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
Although several new works will have their premieres, the most exceptional dance events of the rest of the year will be the remaining performances by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Guest No Longer, Conductor Raises His Profile at Met
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Fabio Luisi has become the Metropolitan Opera’s music director in all but name.
The New Season
Listings of the concerts, films, plays, TV shows and other events that will fill the fall arts season.
Retrofitting the Feminine Mystique
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
A gender power shift on TV is obvious in new nostalgic period dramas (“Pan Am” and “Playboy Club”) and sitcoms (“Whitney” and “New Girl”) about hard-edged single women.
Mosaics of the East From the Met to San Francisco
By HOLLAND COTTER
The Metropolitan Museum reopens its Islamic collection and will have an exhibition on painters of India, and other Asian artists are spotlighted around the country this season.
For Spectacle’s Sake, Museums Get Specific
By ROBERTA SMITH
This fall, New York museums are promising a fair amount of high-production-value Conceptual-art spectacle.
Inside Arts
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Stretching in New Ways and Places
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New Layers Amid the Song and Dance
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New Fantasy: Viewing Like It’s 1979
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Just a Little Moonlighting on Broadway
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Not Quite Gone, A Punk Band Is Coming Back
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On Top of Country but Also Above It
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On Common Ground: The Pairing of Piano Men
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Reputation and Monolith, Both Stand Tall
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Altering Landscapes for Art
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The Future, Retrenched
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Conjuring Abstraction And Subtlety Onstage
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A Writer of Bodies Delves Into Survival
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Philip Glass, A Minimalist Maximized
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For This Director, Mozart’s Message Is That Love Hurts
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Pride at the Piano: Schiff Playing Bartok
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For Spectacle’s Sake, Museums Get Specific
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A People Story, but It Has Dinosaurs, Too
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Shooters Face Off, and the Legend of Zelda Continues
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A Heartthrob Finds His Tough-Guy Side
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Handling Disasters, On Screen or Off, With Aplomb
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A Father-Son Journey Continues
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The Storyteller Who Returned From the Cold
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The New Season DVDs: Movies That Said, ‘Look What I Can Do’
Podcast: Music
This week: Jon Pareles and Ben Ratliff assess the cultural impact and staying power of Nirvana’s “Nevermind” 20 years after its release; and we take a listen to new records by Daniela Mercury and Gilad Hekselman. Ben Ratliff is the host.
New York Today
The Scoop
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The Listings
Longer versions of selected event listings in the New York area this week are now available online.
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Video Feature: Artists Reflect on Sept. 11
To mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11, The New York Times asked eight artists in disciplines like dance and film to talk about how that day and its aftermath have informed their work and lives.
Outdone by Reality
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
In the last 10 years, some eloquent or daring works of art about 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq eventually did emerge, but none were really game-changing.
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A Biennial Blooms Where It's Planted
By COLINE MILLIARD
Over the last couple of decades Lyon has emerged as a prime destination for contemporary art.
Seeking the Paraphernalia of Grandeur
By SOUREN MELIKIAN
British traditionalists commune with their own in a huge buying spree of items at Christie's sale at Cowdray Park.
Rare Unfurling of the Reluctant Philip Roth
By CELESTINE BOHLEN
The documentary "Roth on Roth" is based on 10 hours of footage, eight of them conversations with the famously interview-averse writer.
From Old Disco to New Media, Istanbul Capitalizes on Biennial
By SUSANNE FOWLER
With 4,000 art-world professionals and 700 journalists descending on the city this week, curators are using the event to expand their presence.
A Simplified and Secretive Istanbul Biennial
By SUSANNE FOWLER
The curators are taking a back-to-basics approach, at least in their choice of locations, and channeling an artist's aesthetic for a more visual and visceral punch.
E.U. Extends Royalty Protection to Music Performers and Producers
By JAMES KANTER
The extension, to 70 years from 50, handed ailing record labels and aging pop stars two more decades of income from hits recorded in the 1960s.
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