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Shanghai youths sending text messages. Technology has put more data instantly at our fingertips - or rather at our thumbs - and we've all improved at multitasking.
By ALICE RAWSTHORN
Old skills haven't suddenly become useless with new technologies, just less useful than they would have been 10 years ago. What have we replaced them with?
By SARAH LYALL
Robert Downey Jr. plays Sherlock Holmes in Guy Ritchie's version of "Sherlock Holmes' set for release in November. The new Holmes is man of action, a chaser, shooter and pummeler of criminals.
By JIMMY WANG
Home-grown rap, an avenue of self-expression for young Chinese, cannot get broadcast but its fan base is growing.
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REVIEWED BY ANTHONY JULIUS
The fact that he was born a Jew is essential to understanding Benjamin Disraeli's political and literary careers, according to the author Adam Kirsch.
By DAVID CARR
Nominations are not victories, but they create an abundance of tea leaves with which to divine the intentions of the Academy.
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
After a debilitating stroke, Jean-Paul Belmondo, makes a different kind of comeback, starring in "Un Homme et Son Chien" (A Man and His Dog).
FILM
By MANOHLA DARGIS
The 2009 Sundance Film Festival opened with a whisper that grew more hushed with each passing day.
By SOUREN MELIKIAN
The exhibition "Byzantium 330-1453" on view at the Royal Academy until March 22, shows a disparate assemblage of works in every imaginable style. ""Byzantine Art" a fit-all category that covers no artistic reality but it may yet have a long life, judging from the show "Byzantium 330-1453" on view at the Royal Academy in London.
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Some of the Britain's brightest minds have resolved one of the country's biggest cinematic cliffhangers: How the robbers could have got away with the gold at the end of "The Italian Job."
By RODERICK CONWAY MORRIS
"Pompeo Batoni, 1708-1787: The Europe of Courts and the Grand Tour," an absorbing exhibition of more than 90 paintings and drawings from collections in Europe, the United States and Russia, to mark the 300th anniversary of the artist's birth.
AP
The world is getting a musical present for Felix Mendelssohn's 200th birthday — the first performances of 13 long-lost works of the German composer.
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"Inkheart," directed by Iain Softley aims for a blend of whimsy and tingly suspense but botches nearly every spell it tries to cast.
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By TONI BENTLEY
Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911-1925 by Akim Volynsky.
By MARTIN WALKER
Jonathan Brent's book on his efforts to uncover the Soviet era's past sheds new light on Russia's present.
By LEE SIEGEL
"A Day and a Night and a Day" seems meant to be a novel that captures the pulse of our age.
By VANESSA GRIGORIADIS
Though "Voluntary Madness" is vastly less researched than her first book, the project is conceptually similar: Norah Vincent checks herself into three additional institutions, masquerading as a mental patient who tells the intake counselor that she doesn't feel "safe" in the real world.
By ANTHONY DOERR
For the most part, in "Water Dogs" Lewis Robinson sticks to what he excelled at in his first book, the story collection "Officer Friendly": socioeconomic oppositions, menacing undercurrents and small-town absurdities.History of the World.'
ART REVIEW | 'RAPHAEL TO RENOIR'
By HOLLAND COTTER
Candy box displays like "Raphael to Renoir: Drawings From the Collection of Jean Bonna" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are natural crowd pleasers.
By DAVID CARR
"Passing Strange," a musical by the rocker Stew is back in Utah, this time as a filmed version of the live show, directed by Spike Lee.
By DANIEL J. WAKIN
Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma and two colleagues performed at President Barack Obama's inauguration, but the music had been recorded.
By BROOKS BARNES
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" dominated the nominations for the Academy Awards, picking up 13 nominations including best picture.
AP
The world of comics, long adored by the French, is being embraced for the first time by Paris' Louvre museum.
ABROAD
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
The permanent exhibition at the new Bergen-Belsen Memorial is a model of its kind, focused on the meticulous and sober reconstruction of the past.
AP
Spanish police say they have confiscated dozens of fake Dali artworks that were to be put on sale in the southern town of Estepona.
PEOPLE
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BOOKS
REVIEWED BY ART WINSLOW
In his book on a meaningful life, Dacher Keltner has devoted himself to studying the social functions of emotion.
By SONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOP
"Serenity in Stone: The Qingzhou Discovery," an exhibition of 35 sculptures at the Peranakan Museum in Singapore, highlights the rapid stylistic representational change in Buddhist sculptures that took place over a 50-year period in the sixth century.
By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
Jean Nouvel's Copenhagen Concert Hall, which opened here on Saturday, is a loving tribute to Hans Scharoun's 1963 Berlin Philharmonie.
BOO REVIEW
By DWIGHT GARNER
Temple Grandin's "Animals Make Us Human" concentrates on the emotional rather than the physical life of animals, although the two are clearly related.
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BOOKS
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
"The Breakthrough" by Gwen Ifill, and "What Obama Means" by Jabari Asim offer some cogent insights into the political and cultural environment in which Barack Obama forged his momentous victory.
By BROOKS BARNES
Most of the job cuts will come out of the studio's headquarters in Burbank, California, in a mix of layoffs, the elimination of open positions and outsourcing.
By MICHAEL CIEPLY
One of the jobs served up this year at the film festival involves feeding Mike Tyson. And one of the festival's jobs, bluntly put, is to sell documentaries.
By PATRICK HEALY
The actor and comic Will Ferrell hopes to make his last pronouncement on the Bush era with nothing less than a one-man show on Broadway, "You're Welcome America. A Final Night with George W Bush."
By GEORGE LOOMIS
The Deutsche Oper Berlin's new production of 'Die Ägyptische Helena" ("The Egyptian Helen") by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal is a decided success.
By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
. New York City Ballet's new quadruple bill, each work by a different choreographer, is called "Four Voices."
PEOPLE
AP
A roundup of the day's celebrity news.
BOOKS
REVIEWED BY DWIGHT GARNER
This memoir by Diana Athill, 91, who had a storied career as a book editor in London, is a rumination on late old age,
By HUA HSU
Animal Collective has acquired a cult following drawn to its whimsically experimental, wildly unpredictable approach to song. In its new album, "Merriweather Post Pavillion,"one has to imagine being under water in a lagoon.
BOOKS
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
The new president's love of language and reading has helped him to communicate and shaped his sense of the world.
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