Good Week for Warhol as ‘Liz #5’ Sells for $27 Million
By CAROL VOGEL
The auction at Phillips de Pury & Company produced thin or no bidding; 12 of 50 lots failed to sell.
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From left, Ellie Kemper, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne, Maya Rudolph and Wendi McClendon-Covey in "Bridesmaids."
“Bridesmaids” celebrates the giddy, liberating humor of the writers Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo.
Art Review
A Glow From Within and on the Surface
By HOLLAND COTTER
The century-old Tibetan Collection has been reinstalled at the Newark Museum, highlighting an astonishing body of art, from gilded sculptures of deities to silver filigree chopsticks.
Dance Review
When Brecht and Weill Danced, Revisited
By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
The New York City Ballet opened its Spring Gala on Wednesday night with “The Seven Deadly Sins,” then closed with “Vienna Waltzes.”
Art Review
Downsizing In a Burst of Glory
By ROBERTA SMITH
A radiant exhibition of quilts at the American Folk Art Museum, which is soon to decamp from its building on West 53rd Street, is a kind of elegy to the museum’s potential.
Critic’s Notebook
Paris (and Cannes) in the Spring, Through Woody Allen’s Eyes
By MANOHLA DARGIS
The Cannes Film Festival led with Woody Allen’s new movie, “Midnight in Paris”; other early screenings have included Julia Leigh’s “Sleeping Beauty” and Gus Van Sant’s “Restless.”
Slide ShowMusic Review
Strife of ’64, in Somber Tones
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Led by the Dutch composer Jaap van Zweden, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra presented a vivid New York premiere of “August 4, 1964” at Carnegie Hall, as part of the Spring for Music festival.
On Broadway, Old Friends Walking on Air
By BEN BRANTLEY
Two seemingly moribund staples, the musical and the comic drama, have come throbbing back to life.
Tony Awards Ballot
Down-and-Outs Are Center Stage Once Again
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
A bad economy has inspired a number of new plays on Broadway that feature working-class characters.
Inside Art
The Metropolitan, in All It’s Hilarity
By CAROL VOGEL
Caricatures and satirical art at the Metropolitan Museum; new visual and performing art at the High Line park; and a David Smith steel sculpture purchased by Colby College.
Books of The Times
‘Electric Eden’
By ROB YOUNG
Reviewed by DWIGHT GARNER
Rob Young’s new book explores folk music during the 1960s and early ’70s in Britain.
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Art in Review: MARK GROTJAHN: ‘Nine Faces’
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Podcast: Music
This week: Emmylou Harris in conversation and performance; pondering the potentially odd future of Tyler the Creator, and a look at the week’s new releases
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The Week in Arts
Summer Movies
The critics' take on girls in action movies, Maria Bello's tough dramas, Michael Fassbender on his rise from bit player to leading man and more.
Special Section
Special Gallery Section
What’s Blooming Indoors
Critics for The New York Times report on their art-world spring awakenings in four Manhattan neighborhoods.
Interactive Guide
Eurovision Song Contest Is a Sequined, Campy Balm
By JACK EWING
The contest that gave the world Abba is one of the few cultural institutions that binds Europe together; it is even the subject of academic scholarship.
Andy Warhol and a Teddy Bear Steal the Show at Christie's
By SOUREN MELIKIAN
An art auction on Wednesday amounted to a celebration of the New York School, with record bidding sessions.
Moods as Well as Gavels Swing as Contemporary Sales Continue
By SOUREN MELIKIAN
At Sotheby's art sale on Tuesday, bidders displayed a new resistance against wild estimates for artists like Warhol and Koons.
Stellar Auction at Sotheby's for Some Classics of Contemporary Art
By SOUREN MELIKIAN
Works by Thiebaud, de Kooning and others in the collection of the late New York dealer Allan Stone heralded the arrival on the market of "antiquities'' of Contemporary art.
Cannes Festival Rolls Out a Very Red Carpet
By JOAN DUPONT
The Cannes festival opens its 64th year with lighter fare, then the goings get heavier. Robert De Niro heads the jury.
When Sixtus IV Needed a Painter
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A rare exhibition explores the work and peers of Melozzo da Forlì, who was called upon to make the Vatican Library a place of prestige.
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