Coldplay Changes, and Stays the Same- June 24, 2008 At a free concert at Madison Square Garden on Monday night, Coldplay displayed little of the verve that characterizes the best parts of their new album.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/arts/music/25cold.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss An Appraisal: A Master of Words, Including Some You Cant Use in a Headline- June 24, 2008 George Carlin, who died on Sunday at 71, had a gift for saying and thinking things that other people wouldnt or couldnt.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/arts/24appr.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Dia Art Foundation Names a Curator as Its Next Director- June 24, 2008 After two years of flux, the Dia Art Foundation said on Monday that it had hired a prominent contemporary-art curator, Philippe Vergne, deputy director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, as its director.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/arts/design/24muse.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Football Talk Soon Turns to Race on Imuss Show- June 24, 2008 Don Imus waded into racially treacherous waters again on his new radio program in a brief exchange about a suspended professional football player, Adam Jones.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/business/media/24imus.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Christian Novel Is Surprise Best Seller- June 24, 2008 The Shack is the most compelling recent example of how a word-of-mouth phenomenon can explode into a blockbuster when the momentum hits chain bookstores.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/books/24shack.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Japanese-Style Game Shows: Cash for Winners, Humiliation for Losers- June 24, 2008 Human Tetris. Slip n Slide bowling. These stunts are trademarks of Japanese game shows and theyre about to be introduced to American television viewers.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/arts/television/24tetr.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Dance Review: In a Salute to Robbins, Variations Mr. B Might Not Have Considered- June 24, 2008 At many points the current Jerome Robbins Celebration at New York City Ballet only adds to the puzzle of just who Robbins the artist was.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/arts/dance/24thar.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Critics Choice: New DVDs: The Furies and Solo Sunny- June 24, 2008 New this week are the 1950 Freudian western The Furies and Konrad Wolfs 1980 film Solo Sunny, from former East Germany.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/movies/homevideo/24dvds.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Arts, Briefly: Footnotes- June 24, 2008 Apparently not everything that happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas. The 25th annual MTV Video Music Awards will be held in Los Angeles on Sept. 7. ... The original cast recording of The Hired Man, part of the current Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, will be on sale at the theater starting Tuesday. The show continues through June 29 (britsoffbroadway.com). ... The comedian Don Reed will present his autobiographical solo show East 14th: True Tales of a Reluctant Player, about...http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/arts/24arts-FOOTNOTES_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rs... Arts, Briefly: At Ballet Hispanico- June 24, 2008 Tina Ramirez, the founder of Ballet Hispanico, announced Monday that she was hanging up her shoes after 38 years as artistic director. I am planning to continue as a roving ambassador and spokesperson for the company and school and to carry forward my work as an advocate for dance education, she said in a news release. Ms. Ramirez, above right, was awarded the National Medal of Arts for in 2005 for her work over the years. She has said that her father, a bullfighter, first taught her to dance...http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/arts/24arts-ATBALLETHISP_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&emc... |