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Arts, Briefly: Footnote Compiled by Peter Edidin (Arts)Katie Holmes is in negotiations to star in a Broadway-bound revival of Arthur Millers All My Sons, the British newspaper The Daily Mail reported. John Lithgow is already attached to the production, scheduled to open this fall. Eric Falkenstein, the shows producer, would not comment on the report; messages left for Ms. Holmess agent and publicist were not returned. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Resurgent Apprentice Benjamin Toff; Compiled by Peter Edidin (Arts)NBCs Apprentice finale earned Thursdays highest ratings. Nielsen estimated that 12.1 million viewers tuned in from 9 to 11 p.m., the largest audience since the finale of The Apprentice 4 in December 2005. Ratings for the series had fallen since its inaugural 2004 season, which averaged almost 21 million viewers an episode, reaching its lowest level a year ago, with an average of just over seven million viewers. For the night over all, NBC ranked first, just ahead of CBS, which broadcast N.C.A.A. basketball. Fox was third and ABC fourth. 09AM Mar 29, 2008
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
Arts, Briefly: Footnotes The New York Times (Arts)Daniel Walker Howe, a professor emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles, has won the third annual New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize for What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford University). The award, which carries a $50,000 prize, will be presented on April 4, when Mr. Howe will also be named American historian laureate.... Francine Prose, having finished her one-year term, has re-upped for another as president of the American center of PEN, the international writers organization, The Associated Press reported. Ms. Prose runs unopposed in a vote to be held this week. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Fix It Up, Give It Away Brian Stelter (Arts)Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Oprahs Big Give vaulted ABC to first place for Sunday night, according to Nielsen. Extreme Makeover was the most-watched program with 12.4 million viewers, and the second week of Oprahs Big Give averaged 11.8 million, down 3.7 million from the week before, Nielsen estimates. Helped by an audience of 11.6 million for 60 Minutes, CBS finished second for the night in total viewers but finished in fourth place in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic. A two-hour 100 Most Outrageous Moments of All Time on NBC added viewers every half-hour, peaking with 10.6 million viewers at 8:30. But a Law & Order repeat at 9 garnered just under seven million viewers for the hour. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit delivered 8.5 million at 10. On Fox, the animated comedies The Simpsons and Family Guy averaged more than seven million viewers. Fox was fourth overall but second among the 18- to 49-year-old set. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Heath Ledger's Will The New York Times (Arts)Heath Ledgers will left nothing to his former girlfriend and their 2-year-old daughter because it was filed in Australia in 2003 and never updated after they became part of his life, The Associated Press reported. A copy of the will, filed in Manhattan Surrogates Court, shows that Mr. Ledger, a native of Australia, left everything to his parents and three sisters. The will offers no hint at the size of the estate, but papers filed with it value the actors New York City assets at $145,000, including $100,000 in miscellaneous bank accounts. Mr. Ledgers father has said the family would provide for the actors former girlfriend, the actress Michelle Williams, and their daughter, Matilda Rose. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Arts, Briefly: No. 1 Detective Agency Goes From Book to TV The New York Times (Arts)HBO, the Weinstein Company and the BBC have announced a partnership to create a television series from Alexander McCall Smiths The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency books. A two-hour pilot was filmed on location in Botswana, directed by Anthony Minghella, and 13 one-hour episodes will begin filming this summer. Jill Scott plays Precious Ramotswe, the proprietor of the only female-owned detective agency in Botswana; Anika Noni Rose plays her secretary, Grace Makutsi; and Lucian Msamati is Ramotswes devoted suitor, J. L. B. Matekoni. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Britain Seeks to Silence a Former Secret Agent The New York Times (Arts)The British government is trying to prevent a former MI5 member from publishing a book on the inner workings of the secret service, The Daily Telegraph in London reported. The 300-page manuscript is said to reveal some successes, failures and recruiting techniques of the covert organization. The author reportedly penetrated the Irish Republican Army and organized gangs and recruited agents to infiltrate jihadist groups plotting terror attacks in Britain. Legal proceedings, to be held in secret, are expected to begin at the High Court in London this week before a senior judge, who will rule on whether publication would breach national security. The controversy is reminiscent of the Spycatcher scandal of 1987, when the government unsuccessfully tried to prevent Peter Wright, another former MI5 officer, from publishing details of his work to uncover a traitor within the security service. Attempts to ban Spycatcher failed, and the book went on to sell more than two million copies. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Oliviers Go for Big Hair The New York Times (Arts)Londons Olivier Awards proved a triumph for the West End production of the musical Hairspray, which won best new musical as well as the awards for best actor in a musical for Michael Ball, above right; best actress, Leanne Jones, above left; and best supporting actress, Tracie Bennett. Kristin Scott Thomas won best actress in a play for her role in The Seagull, and Chiwetel Ejiofor was named best actor for the title role in Othello. The latest production of George Bernard Shaws Saint Joan won for best revival, and Rory Kinnear was best supporting actor in a play for his performance in The Man of Mode. The Magic Flute was named best musical revival, and Simon McBurneys production of A Disappearing Number was named best new play. Rupert Goold won the best director award for his production of Macbeth, which is now at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Andrew Lloyd Webber was honored for lifetime achievement. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Summerstage Concerts Ben Sisario (Arts)Crosby, Stills & Nash; Mavis Staples, above; the experimental Brooklyn rockers Battles and Black Dice; DanceBrazil; and the Mexican pop singer Julieta Venegas will be among the performers at Central Park SummerStage this year, the City Parks Foundation has announced. Crosby, Stills & Nash will play on July 29 in one of the six paid benefit concerts during this 23rd SummerStage season. The other performances, along with the Afro-funk scion Seun Kuti and the vintage-soul revivalists Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, are free, beginning with Ms. Stapless concert on June 13. The complete lineup will be announced in April. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Arts, Briefly: A Painful Commemoration in Vienna The New York Times (Arts)An exhibition at the Vienna State Opera house that opened on Monday details how its Jewish employees were purged under Nazi rule, Reuters reported. Few of the 92 who lost their jobs and survived the war were reinstated. The exhibition is part of a national commemoration of Austrias willing acceptance of annexation by Hitlers Germany, whose forces took control on March 12, 1938. The Opera is one of the institutions ready to face up to its past even if it was painful at times, the Austrian chancellor, Alfred Gusenbauer, said in opening the exhibition. Such institutions in Austria in 2008 are sadly still the exception. The anniversary has prompted a wave of reflection, with special television programs and an appeal by the Roman Catholic Church to learn the lessons of the past. A candlelight vigil will take place on Wednesday, the anniversary, at the citys Heldenplatz (Heroes Square), where jubilant Austrians gathered to greet Hitler days after the annexation, and both houses of Parliament will hold a special joint session on Wednesday morning to mark the anniversary. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Gloria Shayne Baker, Composer and Lyricist, Dies at 84 Margalit Fox (Arts)Ms. Baker composed the hit Christmas song Do You Hear What I Hear? 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Malvin Wald, Creator of Naked City, Dies at 90 Dennis Hevesi (Arts)Mr. Wald conceived and was a co-writer of the 1948 crime film The Naked City, a prototype for modern police dramas. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'Fabulous Divas of Broadway': Wigs, Wit and Eyelashes of Theaters Great Ladies Pat Ryan (Arts)So many divas: 32 in Alan Palmers one-man show. Thats about 2.7 minutes per diva. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Music Review: As Mallets Fly, Bells Ring, Woodblocks Knock, Drums Beat Bernard Holland (Arts)The stage of Weill Recital Hall became a crowded playpen of percussion instruments for Martin Grubingers evening of new and recent music on Friday. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Dance Review: Flexing Those Mind and Body Muscles Claudia La Rocco (Arts)On Saturday, as part of the sprawling survey WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens honored a choreographic firebrand, Yvonne Rainer. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | '27 Rue de Fleurus': Alice in Charge Rachel Saltz (Arts)The creators of 27 Rue de Fleurus, a misguided new musical at Urban Stages, want to give Alice B. Toklas a chance to shine. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Dance Review: Mysterious Creatures in a Laid-Back World of Dance Jennifer Dunning (Arts)There are dances that seem to open a door and welcome you into another world. Laura Pawels pieces beckon from rocking chairs on a front porch, where old friends are engaged in murmured, antic conversation. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'Six': Plays by Numbers Neil Genzlinger (Arts)Six, an evening of one-acts by Asian-American writers, has its highlights even if it is a bit too long. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'The Scariest ': Stage Frights Jason Zinoman (Arts)The title of this shrewdly produced series of nine spooky short plays raises a question: Who is the scariest of The Scariest? 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Music Review: Soprano Returns, Bellini and Komitas in Tow Allan Kozinn (Arts)On Saturday evening, the Armenian-Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian was in fighting trim, or at least fine voice, in a recital at Zankel Hall. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Music Review: In a Pianists Expanding Repertory, Currents of Energy, Humor and Drama Allan Kozinn (Arts)When Garrick Ohlsson played in the Peoples Symphony Concert at Town Hall on Sunday afternoon, he made a point of demanding quiet. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Music Review: Perspectives on Nature, After a Storm Steve Smith (Arts)This adventurous amateur chorus, founded by the conductor Clara Longstreth in 1968, celebrated its 40th anniversary with the New York premiere of Ronald Pereras Why I Wake Early. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Dance Review: A Seasons Worth of Splashes From Paul Taylors Rich Reservoir Alastair Macaulay (Arts)Everything in Paul Taylor's dance theater has its opposite and underside. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Critics Choice: New DVDs Dave Kehr (Arts)The Forbidden Hollywood Collection is devoted to the frank and racy films that emerged from Hollywood before the strict enforcement of the Production Code in 1934. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
At MSNBC, Tucker Is Out, and David Gregory Is In Jacques Steinberg (Arts)Tucker, the struggling early-evening talk show led by the often bow-tied Tucker Carlson, was canceled on Monday by MSNBC and replaced by a new politically oriented program featuring David Gregory. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Western Authors Celebrate a Master Felicity Barringer (Arts)A weekend conference in California dedicated to Wallace Stegner was partly a discussion of the authors works and partly an homage to Stegner by writers he influenced. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Books of The Times: Why Knowledge and Logic Are Political Dirty Words Michiko Kakutani (Arts)There are few subjects more timely than the one tackled by Susan Jacoby in her new book. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Abroad: The Spoils of War in Peaceable Sweden Michael Kimmelman (Arts)Its hard to find anyplace in Europe today where people arent squabbling over cultural property and the spoils of war. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
News Analysis: Formula for Idol: Popular Yet Predictable Edward Wyatt (Arts)American Idol seems to have settled into the ruts dug by previous years. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inducts Madonna Jon Pareles (Arts)Madonna led the list of musicians and songwriters in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 23rd annual induction ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
A $100 Million Donation to the N.Y. Public Library Robin Pogrebin (Arts)The librarys venerable lion-guarded building is to be renamed for the financier Stephen A. Schwarzman. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Footnote Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder (Arts)Baby Mama, written and directed by Michael McCullers, a former Saturday Night Live writer, will open the Tribeca Film Festival on April 23. 09PM Mar 07, 2008
Arts, Briefly: New at Lincoln Center Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder (Arts)Lincoln Center Theaters LCT3 is a new program dedicated to producing the work of emerging playwrights, directors and designers. 09PM Mar 07, 2008
Arts, Briefly: For Fox, Cheating Pays Brian Stelter (Arts)Foxs Moment of Truth delivered 15 million viewers on Wednesday night. 09PM Mar 07, 2008
Arts, Briefly: New Museum in Madrid Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder (Arts)A new museum of contemporary art, the CaixaForum, has opened in Madrid. Artists represented in its opening show include Cindy Sherman, Anselm Kiefer and Georg Baselitz. 09PM Mar 07, 2008