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Messages That Conduct an Electric Charge
By HOLLAND COTTER
Glenn Ligon’s retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art is a tight but ample show that refers back to America’s slave-holding past and forward to the Obama present.
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Mia Wasikowska in “Jane Eyre.”
Cary Joji Fukunaga’s “Jane Eyre,” starring Mia Wasikowska, is a splendid example of how to tackle the daunting duty of turning a beloved work of classic literature into a movie.
Interactive Feature: Glenn Ligon: Art Out of Words
Conan in the Wilderness
By DAVE ITZKOFF
A new documentary, “Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop,” directed by Rodman Flender, shows another side of Mr. O’Brien that his co-workers call “Mean Conan.”
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‘The Tiger’s Wife’
By TÉA OBREHT
Reviewed by MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Téa Obreht’s debut novel, “The Tiger’s Wife,” gives an indelible picture of a Balkan country reeling from the fallout of civil war, while exploring the essence of storytelling.
Art Review
Crawling for Peace in a Not-Quite Salt Mine
By ROBERTA SMITH
In “nothingtoodoo” at the Mary Boone Gallery, Terence Koh is performing an abject kind of penance: slowly circling a cone of salt on his knee’s for eight hours at a stretch.
A Broadway Makeover for ‘Priscilla’ Queens
By PATRICK HEALY
The campy musical “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” has undergone some Americanization as it prepares to open on Broadway.
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Music Review
Romantics Meet (Composer and Pianist), and Sparks Fly
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
The pianist Evgeny Kissin presented a virtuosic Liszt program at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, as part of the commemoration of that composer’s 200th birthday.
Inside Art
Cy Twombly Artworks Acquired by MoMa
By CAROL VOGEL
Two paintings and seven sculptures by Cy Twombly will be acquired by the Museum of Modern Art.
Movie Review | 'Red Riding Hood'
The Girl Who Sighed Wolf
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Catherine Hardwicke’s “Red Riding Hood” is a goofily amusing screen fairy tale that includes bloodshed, but it’s generally tamer than its often-gruesome source.
‘Spider-Man’: Turn On the Changes
By PATRICK HEALY
Producers will cut some of Julie Taymor’s signature touches as they reshape the Broadway show “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.”
Art Review
What the Peripatetic Picasso Kept in His Closets
By KEN JOHNSON
One thing you can say for sure about Picasso is that he never got stuck. A viewer-friendly exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, captures his infectious fluidity over eight decades.
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Antiques: Arthur Szyk’s Haggadah and Singapore’s Sunken Arab Treasure
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Movie Review | 'Elektra Luxx': Subject Is Sex (Sort Of), Milieu Is Zany (Sort Of)
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Movie Review | 'Monogamy': Cheating on His Fiancée With a Camera
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Art in Review: GEOFFREY FARMER
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Sipping Serenity in the City
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Don’t Take This Hunk at Face Value
By JONAH WEINER
The actor Bradley Cooper will be a team player in “The Hangover Part II” and a leading man in “Limitless.”
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Different Strokes
By MELENA RYZIK
For its first album in five years — “Angles,” due on March 22 — the Strokes have embraced a newfound sense of group dynamics.
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Theater Review
On London Stage, It's All About Winning
By MATT WOLF
A TV talent show star plays Dorothy in the staged version of "The Wizard of Oz," while "Spelling Bee" looks at competitive culture and "Drowning on Dry Land" pits a loser against a children's clown.
Kurt Weill Festival Focuses on One Man, With Many Beats
By GEORGE LOOMIS
An event in the German city of Dessau features both operas and musicals to honor the composer who fled to Paris and then New York in the 1930s.
Ancient Arab Shipwreck Yields Secrets of Ninth-Century Trade
By SONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOP
An exhibition of artifacts from an Arab dhow discovered near Indonesia offers a magnificent glimpse of trade along a maritime silk road of ninth-century Asia.
The Female Factor
Women at the Drawing Board
By ALICE RAWSTHORN
Design has been a man’s world since the Industrial Revolution, but there are encouraging signs that female designers may fare better in the future.
The Gloomy Brilliance of Lucas Cranach the Elder
By SOUREN MELIKIAN
An exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg leaves the distinct impression that the painter was one of the strangest Renaissance artists in Germany.
Postwar Italian Artists Find Their Niche
By CLAUDIA BARBIERI
The Tornabuoni gallery is helping fuel a new appreciation for a breakout generation of artists.
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