Robert Frank, from "The Americans"
A Detroit rodeo, both from 1955.
By PHILIP GEFTER
No one has had a greater influence on photography in the last half century than the Swiss-born Robert Frank, especially through his book "The Americans." In January a comprehensive publication, "Looking In: Robert Frank's 'The Americans,"' will accompany a major exhibition in Washington.
ANIMATION
By ERIKA MILVY
A best-of compilation of Comedy Central's "Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist," a forerunner to the popular "South Park" show, was released this month.
THEATER REVIEW | 'SHREK THE MUSICAL'
By BEN BRANTLEY
"Shrek" is not bad. But it does not avoid the watery fate that commonly befalls good cartoons that are dragged into the third dimension.
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REVIEWED BY JANET MASLIN
"Panic," edited by Michael Lewis, carries the cautionary message that the wisdom brought by a financial collapse is wisdom that rarely sticks.
By BRUCE HEADLAM
'Gran Torino' has brought talk of a best-actor award for Eastwood. But when asked whom he makes films for, he says, "You're looking at him."
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REVIEWED BY JANET MASLIN AND JAY PARINI
Marjorie Garber's latest academic treatise on the Bard is out to assert that "Shakespeare makes modern culture, and the latest novel by Benjamin Markovits imagines the life of Lord Byron from the viewpoint of his young wife.
By ALICE RAWSTHORN
The designer of a new double-decker bus is to be announced before Christmas. Is it possible for the new bus to become as popular as the original?
By CHARLES MCGRATH
The novel was improbable as a big Hollywood movie, especially one starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in their first post-"Titanic" outing together.
REVIEWED BY THOMAS MALLON
Modestly proportioned, this new book by Annie Leibovitz is trim-sized more for the nightstand than the coffee table.
By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
ARCHITECTURE I.M. Pei's aim in designing the Museum of Islamic Art was to integrate the values of an earlier era into today's culture - to capture, as he put it, the "essence of Islamic architecture."
By ERIC PFANNER
Britain, which had balked at a proposal to extend the EU copyright on musical recordings to 95 years from the current 50 years, has offered a compromise of 70 years.
By SOUREN MELIKIAN
While the recession is pushing down the artificial inflation of recent years, sales of antiquities this week at Christie's and Sotheby's in New York were strong.
By SCOTT MALCOMSON
Conor Foley in 'The Thin Blue Line' laments the transformation of humanitarianism into an aspect of politics, while Gareth Evans, in 'The Responsiblity to Protect,' argues for something like its institutionalization.
By RODERICK CONWAY MORRIS
A Rome exhibition of the work of Giovanni Bellini shows how the Venician artist absorbed influences yet remained supremely and unmistakably himself.
By ROBERT D. MCFADDEN
Page appeared in men's magazines in the 1950s, setting the stage for the sexual revolution of the '60s.
MOVIE REVIEW
REVIEWED BY A.O. SCOTT
Steven Soderbergh's film walks its sanctified hero through the stations of his martyrdom.
By STEVE COATES
In "Martial's Epigrams," the scholar Garry Wills provides enthusiastic verse translations of Marcus Valerius Martialis, Rome's most anatomically explicit poet.
By LORRAINE ADAMS
While controversy surrounded the publication of Jones' novel, which is told from the point of view of Muhammad's third and youngest wife, A'isha, the book itself is merely a badly written example of that subspecies of genre fiction, "historical romance."
By ANN FINKBEINER
In the substantive and lively book "Sun in a Bottle" Charles Seife looks at nuclear fusion - the process which, after decades of experiments and numberless careers, still doesn't work but still nobody quits.
By D.T. MAX
'The Lost Art of Walking" is not a travel book so much as an omnium-gatherum for those who like to ride what was once called "the marrow bone coach." It is perfect for the armchair walker.
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- Book review: 'The Man Who Invented Christmas'
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- The comic writer Robert Siegel visits his darker side
- BOOKS: Book review: A Financial History of the World
Art
- Qatar's Museum of Islamic Art: Despite flaws, a house of masterpieces
- COLLECTIONS: An ownership battle for a cache of Mexican art
- ART: A rare glimpse into a forgotten Hindu world
- ART: Korean artists grapple with tradition and transcendence
- ARTS & ANTIQUES: Forgotten art of French illustrator George Barbier is rediscovered at Fortuny Museum show
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- THEATER REVIEW | 'OPENING NIGHT': A natural Cassavetes woman, theatricalized, magnified and multiplied
- 'Ulysses' ponders the 'fragility of coherence'
- London theater: An exhilarating 'August: Osage County' and an excellent 'The Pride'
- THEATER: Can Liza Minnelli pull off another comeback?
- OBITUARY: Gerald Schoenfeld, a Broadway icon, dies at 84
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Iranian artwork, once stifled by a revolutionary government, is now back on the international market.
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A. O. Scott takes a look at Monty Python's high and low-brow film about Judea in the time of Christ.
Lebowskifest celebrates the Dude, bowling and, most importantly, drinking White Russians.
Katie Holmes speaks about what it's like to grow up in the spotlight and her desire to kick some butt.
A. O. Scott looks at what this unusual Danish film has to say about Thanksgiving feasts.
A. O. Scott reviews John Ford's 1940 film based on John Steinbeck's novel about the Great Depression.
The British comedian's stand-up special has its premiere on HBO on Nov. 15.
A. O. Scott looks back at George A. Romero's 1968 horror classic.
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