Performing Arts
  • Oliver Lake's Reflections (Visual Art from the Celebrated Saxophonist)

    In his hometown of St. Louis, where he first played drums and then discovered the saxophone, Oliver Lake was a formative member in the late 1960s of the Black Artists' Group (BAG), a collective ...

  • It's Kendrick Lamar Week and There's Nothing You Can Do About It

    ...because he's on talk shows, racking up rave reviews all over the place, and his album, "good kid, m.A.A.d city," comes out today.

  • Not So Free Radicals: The Anarchic, Decidedly Middle-Class Romance of "Hello I Must Be Going"

    by Graham Fuller Published: September 6, 2024 "Once you've flown the nest, return at your peril" is the message encoded in the title of "Hello I Must Be Going," a mild but affecting ...

  • The Tonally Off-Kilter Trailer for Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit"

    http://blogs.artinfo.com/spotlight/2012/09/19/new-trailer-for-peter-jack... Spotlight ...features scary wolves, giant monsters, weird elves running around, and ...

  • Ralph Fiennes In, Angela Lansbury Out Of "The Grand Budapest Hotel"

    ....also of note, Bill Murray, Jude Law, and Owen Wilson confirmed for the cast by Hollywood Reporter. Until, of course, they are not.

  • Bumpy End for Smooth Jazz?

    Proclaiming the death of things, especially art forms, is one trope that will never die. But here's an interesting and perhaps unexpected version: The supposed death of "smooth jazz." If "smooth ...

  • Must Watch: The Violent and Profane "Django Unchained" Trailer

    | The latest trailer for Quentin Tarantino's much-anticipated "Django Unchained" premiered last night and gives us a much fuller view of what to expect from the director's slavery-revenge epic. ...

  • Harris Savides, 1957-2012

    | "I don't think you can ever make a movie that looks amazing when you'retrying to make it look amazing," said Harris Savides, the influential cinematographer who passed away today at the age of ...

  • Must Watch: The Tense and Ominous Trailer for "Zero Dark Thirty"

    | The riveting trailer (watch the teaser here) for Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, has arrived just in time to capitalize on pre-election fever. Sure to ...

  • Jason Schwartzman, Of Course, Takes a Room in "The Grand Budapest Hotel"

    | Since we're invested in bringing you every bit of news about Wes Anderson's upcoming "The Grand Budapest Hotel," we figured you'd be interested in this latest bit of casting news, even if it ...

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