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Arts, Briefly: The Stars Return Compiled by Peter Edidin (Arts)George Clooney and Rene Zellweger, below, the stars of Leatherheads, the new 1920s-era comedy-romance-football movie, returned Thursday to Greenville, S.C., where some of the films scenes were shot, The Associated Press reported. The actors greeted fans and accepted keys to the city, more than 400 of whose residents worked as extras on the movie. The city, which reportedly enjoyed its brush with celebrity, decided to hold its own gala premiere on April 4 at the local Camelot Cinemas, the same night that the two stars attend the opening in Hollywood. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Firings at the Voice Claudia La Rocco; Compiled by Peter Edidin (Arts)The Village Voice has dismissed its dance critic, Deborah Jowitt, leaving the weekly with no full-time staff dance writers. Ms. Jowitt, right, began at the newspaper in November 1967 and was one of its senior arts writers. She said in a telephone interview that she learned on Tuesday that her position was being eliminated for economic reasons, along with that of the film critic Nathan Lee. Julie Lichtenstein, a spokeswoman for the paper, said in an e-mail message: Financial constraints force us to convert two full-time positions to freelance jobs. Both Deborah Jowitt and Nathan Lee have been asked to continue writing for The Voice. Ms. Jowitt said, I was told that the dance page would continue to exist, adding that her dismissal came as a complete shock to me.. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Repatriated Art in Rome Elisabetta Povoledo; Compiled by Peter Edidin (Arts)Nine classical artifacts that until recently belonged to the New York philanthropist Shelby White will go on view Saturday at the Palazzo Poli in Rome as part of an exhibition of illicitly excavated antiquities returned to Italy by American museums, dealers and collectors. Among the pieces Ms. White handed over this year after long negotiations are two from the fifth century B.C., a bronze statuette of a nude youth and a calyx-krater attributed to the so-called Eucharides Painter. A 2,500-year-old krater attributed to the Greek master Euphronios will go back to Italy in two years under the agreement Ms. White reached with the Italian Culture Ministry. In a statement issued on Friday by both sides, Ms. White said that her collection had been purchased at public auction from dealers whom she and her husband, Leon Levy, who died in 2003, had believed to be reputable. She said she had nonetheless concluded, based on Italian government evidence, that their export from Italy was questionable. The Italian government has never accused Ms. White or Mr. Levy of any wrongdoing, and the joint statement said that Ms. White had shown great sensitivity and taken the initiative voluntarily to offer to return 10 items. The exhibition at the Palazzo Poli is an expanded version of Nostoi: Recovered Masterpieces, a show of some 70 pieces recovered mostly from four American museums, which opened in December at the Quirinale, or presidential palace, in Rome. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Art and the Nazis, Times Two Compiled by Peter Edidin (Arts)The Leopold Museum Private Foundation of Vienna has been accused of knowingly purchasing works that could have been stolen by the Nazis, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. A law professor commissioned by Austrian Jews found that at least 11 of the foundations works, including some by Egon Schiele (whose Liegende Frau is above), Anton Romako and Albin Egger-Lienz, belonged to people persecuted by the Nazis and that the collector Rudolf Leopold certainly knew that they might have been looted. He knew, or he must have known, that these paintings belonged to people who were persecuted by the Nazis, said Georg Graf, the professor. Because of that knowledge, he must have been aware of the possibility that these were stolen goods. Mr. Leopold, in an interview with Die Presse, disputed the allegation. In my eyes, the pictures were acquired lawfully, he said. The Austrian culture minister, Claudia Schmied, said at a news conference this week that she expected the foundation to approve an independent examination of its collection. ... The National Gallery in London said its painting Cupid Complaining to Venus, by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder, was once part of Hitlers private collection and may have been looted during World War II, The Washington Post reported. A researcher, Birgit Schwartz, spotted the painting showing Cupid complaining to Venus that he has been stung by bees after stealing honey in a photograph of Hitlers private gallery contained in an album at the Library of Congress in Washington and brought it to the attention of the National Gallery. The museum has been unable to account for the paintings ownership or whereabouts from 1909, when it was sold at auction in Berlin, to 1945, when an American war correspondent took it from a warehouse of art guarded by American troops in southern Germany, a National Gallery spokesman said. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Bridge: Switching Gears, From a Magazine to a Quiz Phillip Alder (Arts)The final edition of Bridge Today magazine, edited by Pamela and Matthew Granovetter, will be published shortly. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Dance Review: Feet, Arms and Foam Tubing, All Moving to Led Zeppelin Gia Kourlas (Arts)While Laura Peterson doesnt alter the seating for Electrolux, a new work performed Thursday night at Dance New Amsterdam, she works wonders all the same. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Music Review | Pocket Concertos: Reaching the Final Turn in 3 Years of Bumpy Road Allan Kozinn (Arts)Even by the adventurous standards of the Miller Theater, the Pocket Concertos series that it started in 2006 came with built-in land mines. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Robert Fagles, Translator of the Classics, Dies at 74 Charles Mcgrath (Arts)Mr. Fagles was a renowned translator of Latin and Greek whose versions of Homer and Virgil became unlikely best sellers. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Movie Review | 'Superhero Movie': Up, Up and a Ways Off the Track A. O. Scott (Arts)To call Superhero Movie a satire, or even a parody, of the genre specified in its title would be misleading, since those terms imply at least an attempt at wit. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Television Review | 'Sense and Sensibility': The Dashwood Quest for Civil Unions Ginia Bellafante (Arts)The screenwriter Andrew Davies's latest adaptation of Jane Austen proves again that we should all suffer the misfortunes of real estate endured by the downgraded heroines of Austens tributes to love and property. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Dance Review: Trying to Feel Iraqs Contrasting Realities Jennifer Dunning (Arts)The American invasion of Iraq has seldom been addressed directly in modern dance in New York, so the notion that Victoria Marks would take on this overwhelming issue was very good news. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Music Review: 2 Smooth Veterans, Still Cruising Along the Road Nate Chinen (Arts)Dave Brubeck and Ramsey Lewis have a few things in common beyond their vocations as jazz pianists. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Dance Review: Provoked by a Force of Nature Roslyn Sulcas (Arts)A performance can occasionally provoke near-simultaneous sensations of impatience, irritation, fascination and curiosity. Such was the case on Wednesday during Wendy Ossermans new Out of Place." 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Music Review: A Conductor Steps in, With Big Shoes to Fill Bernard Holland (Arts)On Thursday at Avery Fisher Hall, Michael Christie took on Elgars Violin Concerto, the Copland Third Symphony and a big-time symphony orchestra sitting in front of him. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Fallen Lawman With a Wagonload of Women Susan Stewart (Arts)Prairie Fever, an original western on the ION network on Saturday night, opens with a gunfight that is almost comic in its intensity 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Ruling Gives Heirs a Share of Superman Copyright Michael Cieply (Arts)The co-creator of Superman had sold his rights to the character 70 years ago for $130. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Theater Review | 'Juno': A Mother Whose Life Song Is About Tenement Nightmares, Not Broadway Dreams Ben Brantley (Arts)Theatergoers who are truly passionate about the history and development of the musical will want to take advantage of the fleeting return of Juno to New York. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Art: Uptown, Downtown, Fairs Found All Over Karen Rosenberg (Arts)If the health of an art capital can be measured by the number of fairs in town, New York is in pretty good shape. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Zeffirelli, Still Singing Praises of Opera Splendor Daniel J. Wakin (Arts)Franco Zeffirelli represents an era of grandiose, sumptuous opera direction that, while still strongly represented at the Met, is fading. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
An Appraisal: A Star Who Mastered a New Moral Ambiguity Dave Kehr (Arts)Richard Widmark never quite shook the dark associations of his early roles, even after his studio, 20th Century Fox, rehabilitated him as a leading man. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Dance Review: The Dance Has a Meaning, but Thats Not the Point Alastair Macaulay (Arts)After an absence of some 36 years, Merce Cunningham's Second Hand has been revived. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Stars and Slime at Kids Awards Show Jacques Steinberg (Arts)On Saturday night more than six million children and their parents are expected to tune in to the 21st annual Kids Choice Awards on Nickelodeon. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Music Review: Playing the Odds as a Way of Life Anthony Tommasini (Arts)A revival of Prokofiev's The Gambler opened on Thursday night at the Metropolitan Opera, with Valery Gergiev conducting a blazing performance. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Music Review: Hip-Hop Assurance, R&B Suffering Jon Pareles (Arts)Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige have collaborated on each others songs, and now they are sharing the Heart of the City tour, which came to Nassau Coliseum on Thursday night and reaches Madison Square Garden in May. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
The Ethicist: Tuition Break Randy Cohen (Magazine)Dilemmas of charitable giving to sons and to Jesus. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
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