Arts

He May Have Left His Heart, but He Brought His Hands

Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times

Tony Bennett performed standards and holiday songs on Tuesday night with the Count Basie Orchestra at the Apollo Theater.

On Tuesday night at the Apollo Theater, where he performed with the Count Basie Orchestra, Tony Bennett kept demonstrating the meaning of lyrics with perfect hand gestures.

A Contemporary Art Museum Considers Ways to Salvage Its Future

When the Museum of Contemporary Art’s trustees meet in Los Angeles on Thursday to discuss financial rescue plans, the future of one of the nation’s greatest collections of postwar art will hang in the balance.

Italian Cultural Paradox: Love It, Live in It, Leave It to the Creaky Bureaucracy

A half-dozen structural revamps of the culture ministry during the last decade haven’t really done much except to shuffle around the burden of a creaky and defensive bureaucracy.

Mahler Fan With Baton Cues Unrest in the Ranks

To some of the musicians who perform for Gilbert Kaplan, he is a talentless conductor who brings little to the work.

Bewitched, Bothered and Opening

Several people involved with “Pal Joey” said that the show seemed destined to enter theater lore as one of the more artistically troubled experiences of Broadway in recent years.

• Times Topics: Roundabout Theater Company