- Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Velázquez Rediscovered.” Through Feb. 7. | “The ‘Young Archer,’ Attributed to Michelangelo.” Ongoing. | “Vermeer’s Masterpiece ‘The Milkmaid.’ ” Through Nov. 29. | “Art of . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Velázquez Rediscovered.” Through Feb. 7. | “Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868.” Through Jan. 10. | “American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915.” Through Jan. 24. | “ . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Velázquez Rediscovered.” Through Feb. 7. | “The ‘Young Archer,’ Attributed to Michelangelo.” Ongoing. | “Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868.” Through Jan. 10. | “American . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Velázquez Rediscovered.” Through Feb. 7. | “The ‘Young Archer,’ Attributed to Michelangelo.” Ongoing. | “Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868.” Through Jan. 10. | “American . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Velázquez Rediscovered.” Through Feb. 7. | “The ‘Young Archer,’ Attributed to Michelangelo.” Ongoing. | “Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868.” Through Jan. 10. | “American . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Velázquez Rediscovered.” Through Feb. 7. | “The ‘Young Archer,’ Attributed to Michelangelo.” Ongoing. | “Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868.” Through Jan. 10. | “American . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“The Drawings of Bronzino.” Opens Jan. 20. | “American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915.” Through Jan. 24. | “Velázquez Rediscovered.” Through Feb. 7. | “Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“The Drawings of Bronzino.” Through April 18. | “Velázquez Rediscovered.” Through Feb. 7. | “Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania.” Through Sept. 6. | “Peaceful Conquerors: Jain Manuscript Painting . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“The Drawings of Bronzino.” Through April 18. | “Velázquez Rediscovered.” Through Feb. 7. | “Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania.” Through Sept. 6. | “Peaceful Conquerors: Jain Manuscript Painting . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915.” Through Jan. 24. | “Velázquez Rediscovered.” Through Feb. 7. | “Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania.” Through Sept. 6. | “Peaceful Conquerors . . ....
- Anthony Lane: “Green Zone” and “Mother.”
The fact that “Green Zone” begins with a bombing raid should come as no surprise, given that the director is Paul Greengrass. He made two of the “Bourne” films and “United 93,” and his attitude to the average viewer remains that of a salad . . ....
- Peter Schjeldahl: Grand and Grandiose
Peter Schjeldahl on “Abstract Expressionist New York,” at MOMA....
- Peter Schjeldahl: Monsters and Shy Beauties
Peter Schjeldahl looks at “Chaos and Classicism,” at the Guggenheim....
- Peter Schjeldahl: Loving Modigliani.
The adept biographer Meryle Secrest begins “Modigliani: A Life” (Knopf; $35) strategically, making a passionate case for the art of an illustriously self-destructive painter whose prestige, as I see it, rests more on his perennial appeal to sensitive adolescents than on grownup critical favor. I recall . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Hisham Matar: “Naima.”
My mother did not like the heat. I never saw her in a swimsuit or in sudden surrender closing her eyes at the sun. The arrival of spring in Cairo would set her off planning our summer getaways. Once we spent the holidays high up in the Swiss Alps, where . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Hisham Matar: “Naima.”
My mother did not like the heat. I never saw her in a swimsuit or in sudden surrender closing her eyes at the sun. The arrival of spring in Cairo would set her off planning our summer getaways. Once we spent the holidays high up in the Swiss Alps, where . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Anthony Lane: “Robin Hood.”
What do you get if you mix “Gladiator,” “The Return of Martin Guerre,” “Saving Private Ryan,” “Elizabeth,” “Troy,” “The Seventh Seal,” and a hundred buckets of mud? The answer is “Robin Hood”—the latest version . . ....
- Anthony Lane: “The Way Back” and “Biutiful.”
The new Peter Weir film, “The Way Back,” is set in Siberia, and then in Mongolia. Then in Tibet. And India. And, at long last, Poland. All of which would suggest that Weir has maintained his obsession with the restless, the fugitive, and the lost. It was there . . ....
- John Lahr: Rick Elice’s “Peter and the Starcatcher.”
In a review of the 1904 début production of J. M. Barrie’s play “Peter Pan,” the British critic Max Beerbohm wrote, “Mr. Barrie is not that rare creature, a man of genius. He is something even more rare—a child who, by . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Peter Schjeldahl: Angst in new Japanese art.
The art journalist Tetsuya Ozaki, writing in the catalogue for “Bye Bye Kitty!!!,” a show of new Japanese art, at the Japan Society, dubs that country’s youth of today the “floating generation,” who are reacting against “the collapse of the grand narrative and . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Anthony Lane: The long, strange history of 3-D.
Did you enjoy “Rottweiler”? How about “Bwana Devil” or “Black Lolita”? Maybe you preferred “International Stewardesses,” although you might know it under the more thoughtful title of “Supersonic Supergirls.” You will not need reminding that these are among the crowning . . ....
- Anthony Lane: “Drive” review.
The hero of “Drive” (Ryan Gosling) is unnamed, from start to finish. That fact alone puts him in distinguished company: with the Preacher in “Pale Rider” (1985), for instance, played by Clint Eastwood, who had already enshrined the Man with No Name in three al-dente . . ....
- Anthony Lane: “Nine,” “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus,” “The Young Victoria,” and “A Single Man.”
The beginning of “Nine” feels like an end. The first words we hear are “You kill your film,” uttered at a press conference by an Italian movie director named Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis). We then find him at the Cinecittà film studios, in Rome . . ....
- Peter Schjeldahl: Damien Hirst and the Young British Artists.
The art of Damien Hirst puts me in mind of a New Yorker cartoon by Peter Steiner, from 1997. One of two vultures on a bare branch argues, “Sure, dead is important. But it has to taste good.” That finicky gourmand speaks to my sense of “The . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Anthony Lane: “Bad Teacher,” “Terri,” and “The Names of Love.”
Waiting for “Bad Teacher” to begin, I caught a trailer for the upcoming “Horrible Bosses.” What is it with these titles? Studios may think that they can palm us off with flat, sour recitations of what their products contain, but, back in 1975, no one would . . ....
- Anthony Lane: “The Debt” and “Gainsbourg.”
The first twenty minutes of “The Debt” are a mess. We flash back and forward in time, flit from one location to the next, and soon arrive at the conclusion that the director, John Madden, must have pressed “Shuffle” rather than “Play.” Gradually, things . . ....
- Peter Schjeldahl: New York mashups.
8220;Certainly whatever funny happens to you / Is OK. To demand more than this would be strange / Of you,” John Ashbery wrote. He addressed a wispy personage who, as is often the case in his work, could be himself or anyone: “you who have so many lovers, / People . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Peter Schjeldahl: “The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini” at the Met.
People became persons in fifteenth-century Italy. Track the effect in “The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini,” at the Met. Start, circa 1425, with the “absolute novelty” (it says in the catalogue) of a gilded-bronze reliquary bust, housing a saint’s skull, by . . . (Subscription required.)...
