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Music Review: Body Language, Translated and Remixed
At the All Tomorrow?s Parties festival in the Catskills, Iggy and the Stooges played ?Raw Power.?
A Bronx Film School Tale
The Ghetto Film School in the Bronx aims to broaden the pool of filmmaking talent by providing opportunities for young people who might otherwise be overlooked.
Lessons of the Summer Box Office
Movie attendance was down, but some films ? like ?Toy Story 3? and ?Inception? ? made out very, very well.
Books of The Times: War Intrudes on a Man?s Bucolic Idyll
Existential concepts like authenticity and selfhood, and people?s ability or inability to apprehend reality, lie at the heart of Tom McCarthy?s disappointing and highly self-conscious new novel.
Dance Review: This Time the Trouble Isn?t Wicked Stepsisters
With nudity and more, Ann Liv Young?s ?Cinderella? at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn meant to be provocative, but this critic found it dull.
Music Review: Arena Full of Fans Caught Brazilian Fever and Had to Sing Along
The Brazilian pop star Ivete Sangalo sold out Madison Square Garden on the Brazilian Day festival weekend.
Critics? Choice: New CDs
New CDs from Sara Bareilles, Vijay Iyer and the Steeldrivers.
Going to Extremes to Seek Dramatic Accuracy
A New York dominatrix taught Domination 101 to Sutton Foster and others in Second Stage?s ?Trust? so they could portray S&M accurately.
Video Game Review: It?s the Same Old Mob, Now Sampled for Gamers
Mafia II is full of scenes reminiscent of ?Goodfellas,? ?The Godfather? and other pop-culture takes on organized crime.
Movie Review | 'We Are Family': Mom-Stepmom Two Step
?We Are Family,? a film based on ?Stepmom,? is about a hard-to-believe relationship between two women.
Music Review: Hearing ?Spring? as Summer Fades
The Tannery Pond summer concert series in New Lebanon, N.Y., included performances of Beethoven, Liszt, Schoenberg, Czerny and Cage.
Bridge: The Best of the Netherlands
From one deal in the White House Top 12 event, two very different contracts.
The Week Ahead: Sept. 5 ? Sept. 11
A listing of cultural events this week.
Die-Hard Fans Follow Iron Maiden Into the Digital Age
The success of Iron Maiden's latest album and the continued loyalty of its fans offer the troubled music industry some tips on survival in the digital age.
Looking at Digital Downsides
A multipurpose digital printer ? one that can scan, fax, make copies and print photos ? is an inexpensive technical marvel. Yet it has some glaring flaws: It?s unattractive and unsustainable.
NYT > Art & Design
The Unfinished Tale of an Unlikely Hero
Harvey Pekar, the obsessive chronicler of everyday lives, was collaborating at the end of his life on a Web project whose fate in print remains uncertain.
Revisiting Max?s, Sanctuary for the Hip
Two coming exhibitions shed new light on the glory days of Max?s Kansas City, an oasis for artists in the 1960s and ?70s.
Paul Conrad, Cartoonist, Dies at 86
Mr. Conrad?s editorial cartoons in The Los Angeles Times and other papers slashed presidents, skewered pomposity and exposed what he saw as injustice for six decades.
Murakami Art in Thanksgiving Parade
Takashi Murakami's superflat characters about 40 feet long when their balloon incarnations are completed, and about three stories tall when filled with helium.
California Lawmakers Approve Bill on Stolen Art Claims
The legislation would make it easier for people to try to recover artworks from museums.
Sing Along With Yoko Ono!
ArtsBeat tries to provide a libretto.
Art Review | New Jersey: A Harmonic View of Nature, in a Cultural Tangle
An exhibition of American and Native American works at the Montclair Art Museum, drawn from its own collection, spans more than 800 years.
African Art Museum Again Delays Opening of Site on Fifth Avenue
The museum said it had pushed back the planned opening of its new site from April to September or October 2011.
Loving the Lowbrow (It Has Its Own Hall of Fame)
?Bad art? ? rescued from trash heaps and thrift shops ? has become a genre in itself, with its own fans.
Art Review: Antics Aside, a Dalí of Constant Ambition
An exhibition counters the notion that late work by Dalí is bad, and that most Dalí is late work.
Art Review: A Language Explorer Who Heard Echoes of Africa
Lorenzo Dow Turner dug deep to find many African-inflected elements in the Gullah language and culture.
Art Review: Landscapes Framed by a Chevy
Lee Friedlander?s ?America by Car,? opening Saturday at the Whitney Museum, consists of black-and-white photographs taken from inside cars.
Art Review: The Allure of the Homespun in the Maw of the Digital Age
?Underground Pop,? at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, N.Y., highlights the tension between college-trained sophistication and fictions of naïveté.
Co-Owner of Missing Painting Says He Is a Victim
Tom Doyle said he still planned to sue a friend who claimed to have lost his $1.35 million painting, ?Portrait of a Girl,? declaring, ?I?ve really got a lot of people mad at me.?
At Lincoln Center, Information Is Architecture
The architects behind the redesign say the media installations are an expression of an attempt to make the complex more inviting and immediate.
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9/6/2010 - US artists support Israelis' settlement protest
The names on the letter include Oscar-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave, Cynthia Nixon of "Sex and the City" and playwright Tony Kushner.
Shammi, Asha share thoughts at screening of 'Teesri Manzil' in Mumbai
Bollywood movie veterans Asha Parekh and Shammi Kapoor here shared their thoughts at the special screening of 1966 box office hit movie 'Teesri Manzil' here over the weekend.
Faith-based movie productions find green pastures in central Florida
Te'Bella Med Spa Te Bella Med Spa is one of the area's leading facilities of choice among women and men seeking rejuvenating skin care procedures.
George Clooney shoots first at box office
George Clooney outgunned his rivals at the Labor Day holiday weekend box office in North America with a low-caliber opening for his assassin drama "The American," as the lucrative summer moviegoing season wound down on a traditionally weak note.
Roth slams horror film critics
Producer Eli Roth arrives at a screening of Liongate's 'The Last Exorcism' at the Arclight Theater on August 24, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.
Venice: Deneuve hits the Lido to promote 'Potiche'
French director Francois Ozon's says he was inspired to go ahead with his latest film, a battle-of-the-sexes comedy, after the presidential election pitting Nicolas Sarkozy against Segolene Royale.
Well worth a dime
Thelma Massengill stands in the doorway of the photo trailer that she and husband Lawrence operated at the end of the 1930s.
Strict building codes help New Zealand
A facade lies collapsed while another building burns Saturday morning in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Get your portraits done, Bollywood poster style
You can now get your portraits done Bollywood style. Indian Hippy, a two-year-old online company, offers hand-painted portraits customised to suit your preferences.
'Never Let Me Go,' no need to spell it all out
Keira Knightley, left, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield in the movie "Never Let Me Go." The dystopian drama "Never Let Me Go" wasn't supposed to be the movie Mark Romanek directed this year.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Journal/Sam Green Angelica Hamilton, Jackie Schenck and Michelle Knor pose for pictures on the Jagermeister motorcycle at the Sugar Pine Ranch Rally last year.
Taylor Lautner Reaches Settlment in RV Lawsuit
Sorry Taylor Lautner fans - it appears the "Twilight" hunk won't have to do those pushups.
A Steel Symphony, Pounded Out in Brooklyn
As the sun sets over a string of tire repair and auto body shops in Brooklyn, the first jaunty notes of a jangly symphony ring out.
Sommer thrilled with new baby
Actor Rich Sommer arrives at AFI Associates & Sony Pictures Classics' premiere Of 'Get Low' held at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater inside The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on July 27, 2010 in Beverly Hills, California.
'Unique' soprano scoops opera prize
A "uniquely special" Scottish soprano has won a nationwide search to find an opera star.
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Opportunities for artists to participate in art exhibitions and competitions
14th Annual Lines into Shapes Art Competition and Sale - Estes Park, Colorado
$5,000 in awards. Deadline: September 10, 2010
Quilt National '11 - Athens, Ohio
Over $6,000 in cash and prizes. Deadline: September 10, 2010
Natural World Photography Show - Fort Collins, Colorado
Over $1500 in cash and awards. Deadline: September 14, 2010
Santa Fe Workshops First Ever Photography Contest - Online Competition
Over $14,000 in prizes. Deadline: September 15, 2010
International Juried Photography Exhibition 2010 - Richmond, Virginia
Up to $1000 in cash prizes. Deadline: September 15, 2010
International Exhibition of Fine Art in Miniature - North Bethesda, Maryland
$6,000 in awards. Deadline: September 25, 2010
Blossom II: Art of Flowers - Houston, Texas
$65,000 Total Cash Awards - $25,000 Best of Show. Deadline: September 30, 2010
PWP 35th Anniversary Women's Juried Photography Exhibition - New York, NY
$3000 in cash, group show at SohoPhoto, cover of Imprints magazine. Deadline: September 30, 2010
TeraBella Media Photography Competition - Online Exhibition
First Place receives $500 and online display. Second Place receives $250, and Third Place receives $125. Deadline: September 30, 2010
The Art of Photography Today II - Denver, Colorado
Best of Show: $500, Best in each Category: $200, Merit Awards: $50. Deadline: October 1, 2010
Artisphere Festival - Greenville, South Carolina
$10,000 in prize money. Deadline: October 21, 2010
Sakuraba Gallery Online Contest - Online Exhibition
Cash awards totaling $2,600. Deadline: October 25, 2010
Viridian Artists Juried Competition - New York, NY
First Place $500.00, Second Place $200.00, Third Place $100.00. Deadline: November 5, 2010
Au Naturel: The Nude in the 21st Century - Astoria, Oregon
$1000 in cash prizes; Up to $2000 in purchase awards; One artist will receive a solo show. Deadline: November 7, 2010
Yosemite Renaissance XXVI - Yosemite, California
$4,000 cash awards. Deadline: November 13, 2010
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