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 Dance: Dancing Locally, Stepping Globally
The free open-air dance performances in Damrosch Park covered quite a range, deriving from the Ivory Coast, Haiti, Brazil and the Alps — that is, the Alps as rendered by Hollywood.
Books of The Times: The Business of Politics, the Politics of Business
In his new book, “The Wrecking Crew,” Thomas Frank turns to the question of “How Conservatives Rule” once they’ve gotten into office.
Art Review: The Painter and the City: Parallel Tales of Growth
An exhibition in its final weeks at the Yale Center for British Art, “Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool,” is the first to focus on this period of the 18th-century painter’s career.
Theater Review | 'DĂ©sir': Liaisons Dangereuses and Bodies Acrobatic
If the televised Olympics are too sanitary and the hole-in-the-wall strip clubs too sleazy for your tastes, then perhaps you’ll find voyeuristic contentment in “Désir.”
Video Game Review: A Conquer-the-World Strategy Game That’s at Home in the Living Room
Melding intellectual depth with a relatively easy-to-grasp graphical presentation, Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution is by far the best strategy game to grace a living room console.
Television Review: Searching for Justice, Settling for Truth
“The Judge and the General,” on the PBS series “P.O.V.,” follows the efforts of a Chilean judge to bring the dictator Augusto Pinochet to justice for some of the crimes committed by his regime.
Manny Farber, Iconoclastic Film Critic and Artist, Dies at 91
Mr. Farber was a painter whose spiky, impassioned film criticism waged war against sacred cows like Orson Welles.
Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: Larisa Shepitko
Two harsh but hauntingly beautiful fables — “Wings,” released in 1966, and “The Ascent,” from 1977 — are the best-known films of the director Larisa Shepitko.
Theater Review | 'Elizabeth Rex': Shakespeare Cast Party by Royal Command
There’s a ripping good performance taking place in a barn on West 21st Street in Manhattan. The play is “Elizabeth Rex.”
Music Review | Ron Miles and Bill Frisell: Two’s a (Quietly Harmonious) Crowd
Trumpeter Ron Miles and guitarist Bill Frisell evinced their uncommon musical rapport at the Jazz Standard on Thursday.
Music Review | The Gaslight Anthem: Telling Stories Inside Stories, in Songs With Shades of Punk and Pop
The Gaslight Anthem brought rich, punk storytelling and shades of another Jersey export to the Knitting Factory on Saturday.
Music: Prokofiev, a Russian in Exile Who Became a Soviet at Home
Most of the concerts at the Bard Music Festival on Saturday and Sunday centered on a single issue: What effect did returning to Russia have on the composer’s music and career?
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