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Critic’s Notebook: Honey They’ve Shrunk the Pop Stars (but Christina Aguilera Fights On)

Thu, 08/17/2006 - 12:00am
In her new double CD “Back to Basics,” the pop diva doesn’t tailor her voice to fit this year’s fashions.

Günter Grass Under Siege After Revealing SS Past

Thu, 08/17/2006 - 12:00am
The Nobel Prize winner’s admission of what he did during the war has Germany abuzz.

On 65th Street, Glimpsing Lincoln Center’s Future

Thu, 08/17/2006 - 12:00am
A bridge goes down as Lincoln Center’s overhaul kicks in.

Critic’s Notebook: All in the Timing: Classical Concerts Don’t Have to Start at 8

Thu, 08/17/2006 - 12:00am
The Mostly Mozart Festival’s “A Little Night Music” series shows that audiences are tired of being locked into the 8 p.m. concert slot.

With a New Classification System, the New York Public Library Makes a Change for the Clearer

Thu, 08/17/2006 - 12:00am
Dozens of shelves along the southeastern wall of the quarter-acre Rose Main Reading Room of the New York Public Library stand eerily empty, but please remain calm.

TV Review: That Narrator in the Third Season of ‘Laguna Beach’ Is, Like, So Lame

Wed, 08/16/2006 - 12:00am
There’s a new top girl on the reality show’s third go-round, but will she be able to fill such large, overdressed, shopaholic shoes?

Theater Review: ‘Kiki & Herb’: The Road to Catharsis With Those 2 Immortals

Wed, 08/16/2006 - 12:00am
This hyper-magnified cabaret concert has the heat and dazzle of great balls of fire.

A New Film Documents One Town’s Automotive Version of Graffiti

Wed, 08/16/2006 - 12:00am
“Tire Tracks” memorializes the work of drivers who use a combination of technique and raw horsepower to create a kind of rural car- and truck-made graffiti.

Lawrence Sacharow, 68, Noted Off Broadway Director, Dies

Wed, 08/16/2006 - 12:00am
An Obie Award-winning director and a pioneer of biographical theater, Mr. Sacharow was perhaps best known for his 1967 play “The Concept.”

Last Chance: At a Group Show in Chelsea, the Art Is Sharp but the Categories Blurry

Wed, 08/16/2006 - 12:00am
Though the Chelsea art world will soon lock down for the end of August, there is still time to see one of the best of the many group exhibitions that have crowded the neighborhood this summer.

Two Urban Makeovers of the Industrial Age

Wed, 08/16/2006 - 12:00am
Now at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt: Paris and Berlin, in flux in the 19th and early-20th centuries, as captured by the stenographers of a new urban age.

Where Bel Canto Meets Paintbrush

Tue, 08/15/2006 - 12:00am
Opening a new gallery, the Met paints a picture of its new season using the borrowed brushes of some heavy-hitting contemporary artists.

Travel: Tighter Security Is Jeopardizing Orchestra Tours

Tue, 08/15/2006 - 12:00am
With new concerns about carry-on baggage, it has gotten tougher to be a classical musician.

City Expands Its Role in Brooklyn Cultural District

Tue, 08/15/2006 - 12:00am
In Fort Greene, a reorganization of development power and a "ninth-inning good idea" for a theater site.

Julio Galán, 46, Mexican Painter of a Personal, Dreamlike World, Dies

Tue, 08/15/2006 - 12:00am
A provocative Neo-Expressionist painter, Julio Galán was Mexico’s best-known young artist in the late 1980’s and 90’s.

Theater Review: Patti LuPone in ‘Gypsy’: Light the Lights, Boys! Mama Rose Hears a Symphony

Tue, 08/15/2006 - 12:00am
Ms. LuPone sang with exciting power and warmth in this production at the Ravinia Festival, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra played with a clarity that made you take notice.

Critic's Notebook: The Nazis and the Salzburg Festival: A Disputed Film History

Tue, 08/15/2006 - 12:00am
Festival officials are miffed by a documentary that they say includes a sometimes inaccurate account of the festival’s intertwined relationship with the Nazis.

Big Chill of ’36: Show Celebrates Giant Depression-Era Pools That Cool New York

Mon, 08/14/2006 - 12:00am
A new photography exhibit celebrates the Depression-era pools that have cooled off generations of New Yorkers.

Classical Music Review: At Caramoor, a Pianist Shows Why She’s Also a Winner

Mon, 08/14/2006 - 12:00am
Even without the cachet of the Gilmore Artist Award, it was clear from the opening bars of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 that Ingrid Fliter possessed a remarkable talent.

Scandal in Brazil Over Villa-Lobos International Piano Competition

Mon, 08/14/2006 - 12:00am
The new competition has had its luster tarnished by accusations that the process of selecting the contestants has been manipulated.