Dance Review
Right Bank Meets West Side
By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
The Paris Opera Ballet opened its New York season with an all-French program at the David H. Koch Theater.
A Two-Step Invasion of Brazilian Energy
By LARRY ROHTER
Willie Davis for The New York Times
Dancers at Miss Favela Brazilian Botequim.
From Lincoln Center to Battery Park, forró, the highly danceable Brazilian music style, is energizing young New Yorkers.
Art Review
Vivid Hallucinations From a Fragile Life
By HOLLAND COTTER
The Yayoi Kusama retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art goes beyond this Japanese artist’s best-known work from her decade-plus stay in the United States to include some of her most complex and personal pieces.
Music Review
Serenading a Glowing Sky
By STEVE SMITH
The New York Philharmonic revived its tradition of free outdoor concerts with one in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, where sunset and stars provided a backdrop for Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 and Respighi’s “Fountains of Rome” and “Pines of Rome.”
Art Review
Mining the Old, the New and the Borrowed
By KEN JOHNSON
“Just Knocked Out,” an exhibition of Lara Favaretto’s work from the last 15 years, is now at MoMA PS1.
Art Review
A Jeweler Picks Up Where Nature Left Off
By ROBERTA SMITH
The 18th-century Saxon court jeweler Johann Christian Neuber fashioned natural treasures like semiprecious stones and gold into artistic bonbons, on view in “Gold, Jasper and Carnelian,” at the Frick.
Movie Review | 'Ice Age: Continental Drift'
The Chatty Cathys of the Prehistoric World
By A. O. SCOTT
“Ice Age: Continental Drift” has antic animation and celebrity voices (Nicki Minaj and Drake as mammoths, for example) that never seem to stop talking.
Movie Review | 'Trishna'
A Little Bollywood Flavors This ‘Tess’
By MANOHLA DARGIS
In “Trishna” Michael Winterbottom takes on Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the D’Urbervilles.”
Arts & Leisure
‘Your Land,’ and Guthrie’s, Preserved
By LARRY ROHTER
A new boxed set from Smithsonian Folkways recognizes the breadth in the music of Woody Guthrie, who would have turned 100 this month.
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The TV Watch
Where Cholera and the Good Life Rub Shoulders
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Haitians and foreign aid workers agree that television should educate the masses and promote social conciliation. But that goal yields mixed results.
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Movie Review | 'Farewell, My Queen'
As the Bastille Falls, Gossip in Versailles
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Benoît Jacquot’s look at three days in the life and lies of a doomed monarch presents Marie Antoinette, Versailles and the fall of the Bastille, from the perspective of servants.
Books of The Times
‘To Forgive Design’
By HENRY PETROSKI
Reviewed by CORNELIA DEAN
In “To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure,” Henry Petroski examines man-made calamities that improved the world.
Dance Review
Fleet Deities And Activists
By GIA KOURLAS
With a mix of modern and West African dance, Ronald K. Brown and his dance company, Evidence, use the music of Nina Simone and Fela Anikulapo Kuti to pay tribute to the fortitude of activists.
Movie Review | 'The Imposter'
Missing Child Seems Found, but His Family Is at a Loss
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Bart Layton’s documentary “The Imposter” lays out the strange tale of a French con artist who was accepted by a Texas family as its missing teenage son.
Theater Review
Well-Traveled Revolutionary Returns
By BEN BRANTLEY
The Broadway revival of “Fela!” is about a lot of individual performances — every single dancer, singer and band member — forming a collective whole in which singular style is never sacrificed.
Movie Review | 'Deconstructing Dad'
An Artist and Inventor Whose Medium Was Sound
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
In “Deconstructing Dad,” Stan Warnow tries to understand his elusive father, the musical inventor Raymond Scott.
No Rest for the Wicked, Undead or Ghoulish
By ERIK PIEPENBURG
This summer, a number of horror-themed events — including films, live performances and staged readings — are giving the city a jump start on the Halloween season.
Movie Review | 'Alps'
Beyond Word Games, Puzzles About Reality
By A. O. SCOTT
A mysterious quartet impersonates the dead to help, somehow, the bereaved in the Greek film “Alps.”
Movie Review | 'Grassroots'
A Countercultural Civics Comedy: Hotheaded Upstart vs. Polished Incumbent
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
“Grassroots” is a true David and Goliath story in which a naïve candidate for Seattle City Council goes up against an entrenched incumbent.
Antiques
Let the Games (and the Sales) Begin
By EVE M. KAHN
Olympics memorabilia, from an 1896 photograph to a 2012 poster, will be on sale in London this summer, along with major artifact exhibitions at museums in London, Athens and Berlin.
Movie Review | 'Union Square'
A Reunion of Two Sisters; One Is Refined, One Isn’t
By A. O. SCOTT
Nancy Savoca’s “Union Square” is the tale of two sisters, played by Mira Sorvino and Tammy Blanchard, divided by temperament, geography and class.
Music Review
The Constant Entertainer
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Ben Vereen’s show at the Broadway cabaret 54 Below reflects his upbeat philosophy.
Media Decoder Blog
Steven Tyler to Leave 'American Idol'
By BILL CARTER
Steven Tyler, the lead singer of the venerable rock band Aerosmith, said Thursday that he would leave "American Idol" on Fox and return full time to the band.
Art In Review
Sarah Dornner
By KAREN ROSENBERG
A video by Sarah Dornner at Bureau synthesizes a variety of disparate designs.
Art In Review
Amy Feldman: ‘Dark Selects’
By ROBERTA SMITH
“Dark Selects,” Amy Feldman’s New York debut at Blackston, features four large, simple abstractions.
Art In Review
Ella Kruglyanskaya: ‘Woman! Painting! Woman!’
By KEN JOHNSON
“Group Shoe,” at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, is intriguingly eclectic yet matched in exuberance by Ella Kruglyanskaya’s solo exhibition there.
Art In Review
‘B-OUT’
By HOLLAND COTTER
“B-Out,” at Andrew Edlin Gallery, assembles art tributes to larger-than-life figures like Elizabeth Taylor, Nina Simone and Larry Craig.
Art In Review
Zoe Strauss: ‘10 Years, a Slideshow’
By ROBERTA SMITH
Zoe Strauss sums up her 10-year “I-95” photographic project with a slide show at the Bruce Silverstein Gallery.
Weekend Miser
Woody Guthrie Biopic to Screen on Coney Island
By A. C. LEE
Rooftop Films presents a free outdoor screening of “Bound for Glory” on Saturday night.
Movie Review | 'Ponies'
The Seedy Betting Parlor Where Dreams Go to Die
By NEIL GENZLINGER
“Ponies” involves the interactions of three immigrants from different continents who converge at a ratty New York City betting parlor.
Movie Review | 'It’s the Earth Not the Moon'
Exploring Every Corner of a Remote Port of Call
By DANIEL M. GOLD
“It’s the Earth Not the Moon” is a three-hour voyage to Corvo, the smallest and northernmost island in the Azores, on Europe’s western edge.
Movie Review | 'Gei Oni (valley of Strength)'
Challenges of Marriage in 1880s Palestine
By NICOLAS RAPOLD
“Gei Oni” (“Valley of Strength”), set in the late 19th century, tells the story of a young Jewish couple facing the arduous challenges of settlement in Palestine.
Movie Review | 'Drunkboat'
Damaged Souls Looking to Sail Away
By RACHEL SALTZ
In “Drunkboat” John Malkovich plays an alcoholic former poet looking to escape from a Chicago suburb.
Movie Review | 'Family Portrait in Black and White'
Fostering Mixed-Race Children in Ukraine
By NEIL GENZLINGER
“Family Portrait in Black and White” portrays a woman in Ukraine and the more than 20 adopted and foster children she has taken in.
Movie Review | 'Ballplayer: Pelotero'
Baseball Dreams and Schemes
By NEIL GENZLINGER
Ballplayer: Pelotero” is a stark documentary that examines the process of scouting young baseball players in the Dominican Republic.
Movie Review | 'Red Lights'
Male Psychic Meets Female Ghostbusters
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“Red Lights” stars Robert De Niro as a blind psychic, and Sigourney Weaver and Cillian Murphy as skeptical scientists who investigate paranormal events.
A Forest Amid the Suburbs
By JULIA LAWLOR
South Mountain Reservation is a wooded area of more than 2,000 acres in densely populated Northern New Jersey.
Arts & Leisure
The Curse of the Outcast Artifact
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL and TOM MASHBERG
Rules designed to guard the provenance of antiquities are creating difficulties for some collectors and museums in the donation, sale and purchase of those objects.
Multimedia
Build a Pop Song
Make your own mix of Calvillo’s song “Right Now,” and see if your choices match Kuk Harrell’s.
VideoStill Life
Scenes From the Meadowlandscape
By DANA JENNINGS
Going to and from Manhattan by train, a New Jerseyan marvels at the feast of painterly visions available to commuters.
Still Life
Statue of Liberty, Viewed From Afar With Affection
By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
The dance critic Alastair Macaulay assesses the Statue of Liberty’s form and line from various angles and distances, including from his bedroom window.
Still Life
Grazing in the Stacks of Academe
By BEN RATLIFF
A writer finds refuge from the heat, and from the world, in the stacks of Butler Library at Columbia University.
The Hot List
From 20 Critics, a Ticket to Summer
We asked 20 arts critics for The New York Times to share the one thing on, or inspired by, the cultural calendar that they most looked forward to.
The Listings
Noteworthy cultural events in the New York metropolitan region this week.
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What's on Television
A Rock Fated to Anger Nations
By MELISSA EDDY
A 35-ton boulder from Venezuela used in an art installation in Berlin is sought by a tribe that claims it has religious import.
Theater Review
Pushing Plays to Unusual Places
By MATT WOLF
Two absurdist comedies, "Birthday'' and "The Physicists," challenge London audiences to keep pace.
Design
Messing With Mother Nature
By ALICE RAWSTHORN
An exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London examines the implications of enhancing our mental and physical potential.
Inside the Mind of an Art Dealer
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A Dutchman in Paris reveals mysteries behind his 3 decades in the business.
A Selection of the Most Promising 2010 Cairanne and Rasteau Reds
Eric Pfanner picks his favorite 2010 Cairanne and Rasteau reds.
The Ghosts of Ballets Russes Return to Paris
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