• New Envoy?s Old Advice for Children: Read More

    New York Times - Arts / 2010-01-04 20:28:47 / 3 Comments
    Katherine Paterson, the children?s novelist and author of ?Bridge to Terabithia,? will be appointed the national ambassador for ... Read and comment | Read original article
  • Music Review: In a Hall of Glass, Performing for an Audience of Shoppers

    New York Times - Arts / 2010-01-04 18:57:20 / 2 Comments
    Leif Ove Andsnes, one of today?s most respected pianists, performed at the new Apple Store on Broadway and 67th Street on Sunday... Read and comment | Read original article
  • Television Review | 'Wild Recon': A Toxic Workplace, With Ill-Tempered Clients

    New York Times - Arts / 2010-01-04 18:53:07 / 4 Comments
    A herpetologist scours Australia in search of dangerous creatures and their venom in ?Wild Recon,? an odd but engaging program b... Read and comment | Read original article
  • Music Review | Green Mountain Project: One Monteverdi Work and 400 Years of Debate

    New York Times - Arts / 2010-01-04 18:49:51 / 2 Comments
    Happily, Monteverdi?s 1610 Vespers is a work that can stand up to multiple interpretations and, in fact, almost demands them. ... Read and comment | Read original article
  • Books of The Times: Late Midlife Crisis, Prompted by a Violent Encounter

    New York Times - Arts / 2010-01-04 18:43:31 / 4 Comments
    Over the years, in a succession of novels, Anne Tyler has created a male character instantly recognizable as a distinct species ... Read and comment | Read original article
  • A City Ballet Star?s Reinventions

    New York Times - Arts / 2010-01-04 18:35:55 / 2 Comments
    This week Peter Boal, 44, returns to New York, not as a dancer but as the artistic director of Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seatt... Read and comment | Read original article
  • Art Review: Inside, Outside, All Around the Aesthetics

    New York Times - Arts / 2010-01-04 18:08:23 / 1 Comments
    An example of the trend in mainstreaming self-taught art is ?Approaching Abstraction,? a thought-provoking exhibition at the Ame... Read and comment | Read original article
  • Pulling Out All the Stops to Rescue a TV Hero

    New York Times - Arts / 2010-01-04 17:56:19 / 2 Comments
    At times in the new season of ?Chuck,? the NBC spy comedy beginning its new season on Sunday, the title wimp becomes a warrior. ... Read and comment | Read original article