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Saturday, February 22, 2014

Arts

Several members of HowDoYouSayYaminAfrican? in a studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn, surrounded by hanging bead sculptures by Sienna Shields.
Karsten Moran for The New York Times

Several members of HowDoYouSayYaminAfrican? in a studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn, surrounded by hanging bead sculptures by Sienna Shields.

An energetic collective of mostly black, mostly queer artists from Seattle to Paris plans to debut work at the 2014 Whitney Museum Biennial.

Photographers Band Together to Protect Work in ‘Fair Use’ Cases

As courts try to decide which artists make “fair use” of others’ work in “transformative” pieces, groups of photographers are entering the legal and legislative debates.

Television Review

The Fun of Having a Single Parent

This weekend NBC is introducing two feel-good sitcoms about the healing properties of broken homes.

Music Review

The Music of Fire, Stars, Tears and Light

Angel Olsen brought her second album, made of indie rock with country as a mode of thinking rather than a style guide, to Le Poisson Rouge.

Exhibition Review

Where Death Was a Friend, and Gods Were Ordinary Folk

“Masters of Fire,” at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, offers a look at a trove from the Copper Age.

Music Review

A Tenor Finds Energy for Intense, Lyrical Pain

The tireless German tenor Jonas Kaufmann quickly followed up his challenging role in “Werther” at the Met with his Carnegie Hall recital debut on Thursday.

Collectors of Keith Haring Works File Lawsuit

A lawsuit accuses the Keith Haring Foundation and its directors of hurting the value of collectors’ property.

Last Chance

Imitation of Life, Outsiders Version

“Macho Man, Tell It to My Heart,” a group show running through Sunday, includes drawings by James Benning that copy works by outsider artists.

Dance Review

Cacophony Amid the Cool Marble

John Heginbotham and Alan Pierson collaborated for a piece on Thursday night at the Metropolitan Museum.

Watching ‘Downton Abbey’

Weekly recaps of the PBS costume drama, which ends its current season on Sunday.

Theater Review | 'My Mother Has 4 Noses'

A Daughter’s Loyalty Shines Through Song

The singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke, who wrote “My Mother Has 4 Noses,” performs it at the Duke on 42nd Street.

Music Review

Descents Into Sounds Of Dementia and War

A premiere by Lisa Renée Coons about mental illness and dementia was a highlight of “Lines on a Point,” a program by the American Composers Orchestra.

Dance Review

The Magnetic Pull of Touching, and Not Touching

TAO Dance Theater reprises “4,” in which four dancers move as a pack with no physical contact, and debuts “5,” where five dancers roll across the floor and on one another without letting go.

Music Review

Casting Shadows on ‘Ice Cream Castles in the Air and Feather Canyons Everywhere’

Jessica Molaskey applies her acting skills to interpreting the songs of Joni Mitchell, adding another dimension.

Bridge

Semifinals of the District 24 Grand National

A second team in the semifinals of the qualifying event is Kelley Hwang, Michael Kopera, Michael Lipkin and Michael Radin, all of New York City.

Press Play
Noteworthy New Music

Exclusive: ‘To Live Alone In That Long Summer’ by Barzin

This is the fourth album by the Canadian singer and songwriter Barzin Hosseini.

Paper Gallery
Artistic Forecasts, From Sun to Snow

New art books display Gerhard Richter’s abstracts, Leonora Carrington’s Surrealism and William Christenberry’s look at the American South.

A Woman at a Crossroads

Idina Menzel is finding that her lead role in the new musical “If/Then” parallels her own life — perhaps too closely sometimes.

Snapshot | Lo-Fang
Learning to Deal With Billboards

Lo-Fang, whose real name is Matthew Hemerlein, has a new album coming out, is opening for Lorde and trying to define the sound of the decade.

What's on Television

Find your comprehensive television listings with this easy-to-use program guide.

Bridge Column
Bridge

Slam Swing at a Qualifier for Grand National Teams

The final stage of the Grand National Teams will take place in Las Vegas in July, at the start of the Summer North American Championships.

Chess Column
Chess

Princeton a Repeat Champ at Amateur Tournament

Princeton University’s “A” squad was only the second team to ever win the Amateur Team East championship two years in a row, and the last time that happened was in the mid-1970s.

Arts & Entertainment Guide

Noteworthy cultural events in New York City and beyond.
    Theater Review

    Trapped in Beckett’s Agony

    “Happy Days’' returns to London, while the new play “Rapture, Blister, Burn,’' explores the choices women make.

    ‘Rigoletto,’ Uprooted and Retold

    Christopher Alden's new production is set in a salon of a gentlemen's club, circa 1880, somewhere off Pall Mall.

    News From the School of Life

    A conversation with Alain de Botton, the Swiss-born, London-based author who has made a career of applying great ideas of philosophy and literature to everyday life.

    Facing the Camera

    In “Playtime,” Isaac Julien turns a spotlight on his own artistic circle.

    An Eye for Flesh and Fashion

    The photographer David Bailey's five-decade career is the subject of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

    A Literary Tour on the Blue Danube

    "Danubia,'' by Simon Winder, offers a quirky and fun trip through the old Hapsburg Empire, whose history is bloody, complicated and rarely humorous.

    Set in a Mysterious Realm, Handel’s Baroque ‘Alcina’ Returns to the Stage

    A Norwegian production, directed by Francisco Negrin, revives the composer's opera with period instruments.