| 单词 | enigmatic |
| 例句 | Other courses are more enigmatic, concealed in sweet sauces or spiced soups; unidentifiable meats hidden in pastries and glazes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z One was the enigmatic Voynich Manuscript, written in a language no one could read. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Royal scouted the city jail for runaways the lawyer might defend, ran messages between enigmatic persons, and distributed funds from antislavery societies to relocated fugitives. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z His enigmatic beauty seemed better suited for dim Gothic chambers and the silence of ruined castles, aristocracy that had cracked around the edges, clothed itself in ivy, and crawled back into the wilderness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z With Rush, however, Adams began to slip Jefferson into their conversation as an example of the kind of enigmatic temperament destined to flourish in the history books. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The street was as black, as threatening, as enigmatic as before. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Her smile was generous, enigmatic, slightly crooked, and kind. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z "Open it and see," she says, with an enigmatic smile. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z This was the difficult part, because the Book expressed itself in such an enigmatic style. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The puzzled reader is put on notice that her ability to understand the world counts for nothing; her role is to behold the enigmatic pronouncements of the great scholar. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But except for one or two enigmatic features, nothing of the sort is apparent in the exquisite profusion of Martian surface detail uncovered by unmanned spacecraft. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother tried to explain, yet each time she did I found her explanations vague, cryptic, obscure, ambiguous, enigmatic and too fantastic to be believable. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess, it’s just women are so, um...well, you guys—not guys, your people, girls—are very enigmatic.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z I do remember imagining myself in a pith helmet and white linen jodhpurs, my face enigmatic behind a veil of mosquito netting. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Never fussed, and watched the world through enigmatic, questioning, dark eyes. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he cut them off at the eyes, “the windows of the soul,” rendering them even more enigmatic. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Surprisingly, Baby Kochamma accepted this explanation, and the enigmatic, secretly thrilling notion of Men’s Needs gained implicit sanction in the Ayemenem House. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Of all the dark, obstructive, enigmatic souls I had met in this bleak city, his was the darkest. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Of the six cast members of Good Boys and True, Courtney is the most enigmatic and easily the most perplexing. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z His enigmatic silence, however, unquestionably had mischievous consequences, for it prolonged the scheming in the House and, somewhat ironically, convinced Jefferson that Burr could never be trusted. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The astronomer Halton Arp has found enigmatic and disturbing cases where a galaxy and a quasar, or a pair of galaxies, that are in apparent physical association have very different red shifts. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If she did ordinary things, they became enigmatic. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The first enigmatic bargain concerned the expansion of slavery into the West and actually occurred in the Confederation Congress that was also meeting in Philadelphia. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Perhaps Penelope imagined it, but it seemed to her that a dark look briefly shadowed the face of the enigmatic old coachman. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Tall, clean-shaven, and wearing his dark master’s robes, he reminded me of the enigmatic Silent Doctor character present in many Modegan plays. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In 1973, Bill posted an enigmatic letter alluding vaguely to plans for an extended trip and then disappeared without a trace; to this day nobody knows what became of him. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lord Indra and the Dharma Raja are...enigmatic,” he said. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He was disappointed, but not inclined to believe Yossarian, for he had been given a sign, a secret, enigmatic vision that he still lacked the boldness to divulge. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He had no personal grudge against the children that she knew of, but, after all, he was a very enigmatic coachman. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The origin of the name is an enigmatic quotation from James Joyce: “Three quarks for Muster Mark!” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She wondered if this was Papadimitriou’s own house: it would be interesting to see how this enigmatic figure lived. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z And though even Duntz had forfeited his composure—had shed, along with tie and coat, his enigmatic drowsy dignity— the suspect seemed content and serene; he refused to budge. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z This seems rather enigmatic on the face of it, but actually I cannot think of a better metaphor for Julian’s personality. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z And on that enigmatic note he waved to Harry, who understood himself to be dismissed. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Rowan would have continued picking at Goddard’s enigmatic responses, but his attention was grabbed by a beautiful party girl approaching in a bikini that seemed almost painted on. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The question was, how to put the strands together and make a model of an enigmatic molecule? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In that sense the secret is locked forever in the vast recesses of Burr’s famously enigmatic mind at that most pregnant moment. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Perhaps among the contents of the Encyclopaedia Galactica will be a set of summaries of such civilizations, the information enigmatic, tantalizing, evocative—even after we succeed in translating it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s harder to tire of lead characters if they are enigmatic and easily replaced. The TV Watch: ?Law & Order?: Soon to Be Gone but Not Forgotten 2010-05-16T21:40:00Z Hayes is seldom remembered as an enigmatic, restless creative, and even less so as a political leader. How Isaac Hayes Changed Soul Music 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z As for the cast, Puig writes that "Franco has flashes of chilling manipulation as an enigmatic sociopath and Hill hints at his character's underlying despair, but neither is convincing enough." 'True Story': James Franco-Jonah Hill drama doesn't convince critics 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z "Mad Men", starring Jon Hamm as enigmatic advertising executive Don Draper, has won four consecutive Emmy awards for best TV drama series despite a relatively small audience. Low-key "Mad Men" finale gets record audience 2012-06-11T21:36:49Z “Empty Man Lone Ready” it reads in one corner — a spare, enigmatic phrase that nonetheless gets its meaning across. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z From her first appearance, hunched in a wheelchair, partly obscured by darkness and a green eyeshade, Redgrave draws you in, making you wonder about the enigmatic Bordereau. ‘The Aspern Papers’ Review: A Dead Poet’s Society, Once Removed 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Despite such sympathy for his subject, Mr. Sullivan fails to give us any new insight into Jackson’s enigmatic personality or his growing retreat into a fantasy bubble world of his own making. Books of The Times: ‘Untouchable,’ Michael Jackson’s Life, by Randall Sullivan 2012-11-12T21:52:09Z After two quiet, enigmatic roles, maybe she needs to write herself something different next time. 'Sound of My Voice' is infuriatingly creepy 2012-05-03T20:17:11Z You send out these beautiful, enigmatic, polished telegrams, although once I started reading the book, I realized some of them are lines from the novel. “You get a cookie for being offended”: Mat Johnson on the fine art of racial satire 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Around that core battle of wills, the series, which streams an episode a week beginning on Monday, plants assorted side plots, enigmatic characters and period-drama clichés. Review: ‘Close to the Enemy’ Is One Cryptic Postwar Drama 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z He wasn’t, however, always forced to be straightforwardly enigmatic and haunted. Accommodating Harry Dean Stanton's unique character-player starpower was not easy 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z After completing this simple task, Malevich became the author of the most famous, most enigmatic, and most frightening painting known to man: “The Black Square.” The Square 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z The text is an enigmatic and poignant expression of a self that feels itself unreal. A Dance Steals the Show at an Opera Festival 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z One element devoid of ambiguity, albeit hazily painted, sends an enigmatic message: In the foreground, the dark silhouette of a woman apparently holding a baby rises above the lower edge of the composition. Contemporary Art Works of Often Subtle Beauty 2010-10-08T15:11:00Z But despite her exemplary range, many American viewers maintain an image of her as an aloof, exquisite, possibly imperious, possibly enigmatic beauty. Review: ‘The Midwife’ Is Unflappable, Until the Past Blows In 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Trintignant's performance as Georges is disturbing and enigmatic: at no point does he lose his composure and break down. Amour – review 2012-11-15T15:29:01Z The works in the Los Angeles artist’s “Reverie,” at Randall Scott Projects, combine watercolor with either pencil or ink to depict female figures in enigmatic settings. In the Galleries: Creating objects of power The results are visually striking and intriguing, if enigmatic. The truth is out there, or is it? Conspiracies and secrets in the art of Abel Alejandre 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z The leading Oscar contenders, The King's Speech and The Social Network, both offer fictionalised portraits of familiar but enigmatic public figures – a monarch and a monumentally successful entrepreneur. Why fact-based stories are destroying the art of fiction 2011-01-23T00:04:25Z And he, too, is a haunting figure, an enigmatic alloy of decency, selfishness, murderous rage and tenderness. ‘The Homesman’ Stars Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z The Friedmans did, however, provide an enigmatic message about the manuscript in an article in Philogical Quarterly, “Acrostics, Anagrams, and Chaucer,” published in 1959. The Unsolvable Mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z The book is as much personal remembrance as strategic reflection, and is chock-full of aphorisms and enigmatic adages. When to Wage War, and How to Win: A Guide 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z The enigmatic old man is back too, or a version of him. In His Final Fiction, Sam Shepard Chases Familiar Themes 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Mia Hansen-Love’s latest film, “Bergman Island,” is a simultaneously enigmatic and provocative treatment of the knotty intertwining of life and art. ‘All Is Forgiven’ Review: A Distinctive First Feature 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z He referred to him as a “creepily silent 36-year-old heir to a real estate fortune” before admitting that he doesn’t “know enough about them to eviscerate them” because of the enigmatic interviews they give. John Oliver on Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner: president 'can't even get nepotism right' 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z A new novel from the author of “The Sense of an Ending” and “Flaubert’s Parrot” centers on a charismatic, if enigmatic, professor and her lifelong impact on a former student. 13 New Books Coming in August 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Boards of Canada might reasonably have expected to be the only enigmatic, vastly influential techno duo returning after an eight-year hiatus with an ingenious viral marketing campaign in 2013. Boards of Canada: Tomorrow's Harvest – review 2013-06-06T20:15:01Z Meeting Sofia Coppola is an enigmatic, opaque experience. Sofia Coppola: 'Is this psychoanalysis?' 2010-12-01T21:30:00Z Old and run-down as it was, and possibly also due to its enigmatic number, none of the regular drivers wanted it, so it was mine. “I’d like it if you’d go back to the hotel with me”: My life as a female cabbie 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z The enigmatic packaging here poses so many questions. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z The ending of “Mrs. Osmond,” it turns out, is just as enigmatic as that of “The Portrait of a Lady.” Whatever Happened to Isabel Archer? ‘Mrs. Osmond’ Picks Up Where Henry James Left Off 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Few cinematic genres are as simultaneously alluring and enigmatic as the erotic thriller. Where have all the erotic thrillers gone? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z But a combination of his enigmatic privacy and low profile on film – he cropped up a lot without dominating a movie – meant that he remained largely unknown to the wider public. John Wood obituary 2011-08-10T14:21:55Z Meanwhile, Marlohe does enigmatic and sultry with a quiet grace, whether as a duplicitous siren worth James Bond saving in "Skyfall" or in New York with a budding novelist. A promising romance blooms in '5 to 7' 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z This beautiful book by Mazower, a historian at Columbia University, revolves around his grandfather Max’s enigmatic postwar silences. Surviving Europe’s Horrendous 20th Century 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Among the most beautiful of the composer's works, it's also widely regarded as among the most enigmatic, controversial and difficult of symphonies to perform. My perfect Proms 2010-07-08T21:45:00Z Like many of the pieces in the lineup, “Melismantra” proved beautiful and enigmatic. Review: Gyan Riley Begins an Intimate Residency at the Stone 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The idyllic facade of a peaceful suburb begins to crack when an enigmatic artist and her daughter move to town. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z The results are small, enigmatic and airless, like icons. Review | These painters found calm in an age of distraction — more than a century ago 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z He falls in love with Jane Seymour, a quiet, enigmatic girl for whom the phrase "plain Jane" was first coined. 'Bring Up the Bodies' a wonderful, terrible sequel to 'Wolf Hall' 2012-05-04T03:31:52Z As the most stolid figure in Eilenberger’s book, Cassirer is also, somewhat perversely, the most enigmatic. How Wittgenstein and Other Thinkers Dealt With a Decade of Crisis 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z The chorus, bolstered by hearty male harmonies, is instantly memorable — “You never held it at the right angle” — yet no less enigmatic. New Music: Albums From Neko Case, Ariana Grande, Gorguts and Chelsea Wolfe 2013-09-02T21:24:22Z “Sunrise” and “Sunset,” the enigmatic outer movements, unfolded with elusive gestures and Middle Eastern harmonies, a long, eerie melody unfurling on the viola in the final movement. Music Review: Avi Avital Helps Revive, and Grow, an Instrument 2014-01-19T22:08:54Z Inspired by Arthur Rimbaud's despairing poem, "The Drunken Boat," this enigmatic coming-of-age movie often seems destined to sail off the deep end. 'Drunkboat': Excellent cast on choppy waters 2012-07-12T18:21:06Z The voices are gentle, sharing unisons and then harmonizing with wistful, enigmatic tidings: “I miss you already/you were too gone too soon/I can’t understand you/The phone is gone.” The Playlist: Christine and the Queens’ Clever Pop, and 8 More New Songs 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Lindsay Seers, Gateshead Seers's enigmatic film, It Has to Be This Way2, is projected on to a circular screen inside a structure apparently based on a Swedish fort on the west African Gold Coast. Exhibitionist: The week's art shows in pictures 2011-02-12T00:05:00Z The channel stars Francis, a well-behaved gray toy poodle, and an enigmatic Japanese woman simply referred to as “Chef.” Want to be the next Food Network Star? Upload a YouTube video instead. 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z For the most part, these women indeed meet Émile, their agent of mercy, halfway — a process the director, Paul Vecchiali, depicts as an eerie, enigmatic dance of death and desire. ‘The Strangler’ Review: All the Pretty, Pitied Corpses 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z Perhaps it fits that Didion remains as enigmatic here as she always has in her prose. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z His latest series are fully clothed, their faces set in enigmatic contemplation. This week's new exhibitions 2011-04-01T23:06:02Z Now a rare film of the enigmatic writer will bring Saint-Exupéry back to life when it is auctioned at Sotheby's next month. Haunting film of Petit Prince author Saint-Exup?ry for auction 2010-04-09T18:40:00Z Max had overplayed his hand, and as he's taken away by the police, he cracks a small, enigmatic smile. "Guilt" writer discusses the twisty finale, the importance of that enigmatic smile and Season 2 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z The story takes the form of a yearlong diary by enigmatic Gesine Cresspahl, who was born in Germany the year Hitler came to power and has escaped to New York along with her young daughter. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Television loves the myth of smart, stylish murderers and the enigmatic detectives who pursue them, and if you enjoy those types of shows, don’t watch “The Killer Speaks.” Critic’s Notebook: Real Murder in ‘The Killer Speaks’ and ‘Cell Block Psychic’ 2014-04-30T19:58:13Z The movie interweaves three enigmatic stories without forcing them to connect. | '3 Backyards': What?s Really Beneath Those Manicured Lawns (and Suburban Smiles) 2011-03-11T02:00:47Z It’s become a poignant end-of-summer tradition in which the wild, enigmatic nature of experimental dance finds, at the beach, its missing twin. Trisha Brown on the Beach: Catch a Wave of Dancing Bliss 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Perhaps a clue to such Englishness lies in that camp, oddball hybrid of the enigmatic and the loopy, the mysterious and the facetious. Paul Morley meets morris dancing trio The Belles of London City 2010-04-23T11:37:00Z The action around her is enigmatic and fraught with mysticism. ‘The Burial of Kojo’ Review: A Dazzling Modern Fable 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Asked about that electrifying moment, Craig was both enigmatic and pleasingly matter-of-fact. Deadpool: the pansexual superhero who has never had a non-heterosexual experience 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Other passages were more enigmatic, as when the upstage curtain opened and a German nature film about ducks played on the revealed wall, complete with English dubbing. Whole Selves Becoming Visible 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z In Crais' previous book, "The First Rule," the enigmatic Pike was in the forefront, and he was a compelling focal point indeed. 'The Sentry': Robert Crais' story of a strong man with a blind spot 2011-01-13T21:05:05Z “She has helped shine a little light on an enigmatic character many think they know but few actually understand.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z The disc opens with the bright-hued, energetic “Obsolete Objects” and includes the enigmatic “Ellis Island,” the rhythmically incisive “Totentanz” and the nostalgic “Parlour Games.” Classical Playlist: Bang on a Can All-Stars, Meredith Monk, Kojiro Umezaki and More 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z She's so unique and she's been so mysterious for all of these years, so enigmatic, that it seems like it would be hard for someone else to replicate that sort of image and iconography. "You couldn’t buy your way in": Anna Wintour biographer on her power, from the Met Gala to Wimbledon 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z In Gran Torino, a tall, lanky, enigmatic stranger comes to the aid of poor immigrants from south-east Asia. Hey, cowboy 2010-04-25T23:06:00Z His reintroduction into artmaking was assisted by Agnès B., the enigmatic fashion designer and art patron whose soft spot for street art has nurtured the careers of untold artists. Futura, a King of Graffiti, Returns to His Roots 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z She lives in London and Scotland with her husband and four children and Henry, a friendly but enigmatic cat. Top tips for writing animals with human characteristics: Jennifer Gray 2012-10-02T12:35:27Z The former was a murky, enigmatic piece about the existential contortions of love and desire, largely lost to history. How Thatcherism politicised the arts in Britain 2013-04-09T10:51:09Z While the TV version of Crazy Eddie was an exhibitionist, Antar was an enigmatic figure who never gave interviews and at various times disappeared completely. Remembering Crazy Eddie: His Prices Were Insane 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Diaz uncovers the secrets of an American fortune in the early 20th century, detailing the dizzying rise of a New York financier and the enigmatic talents of his wife. The 10 Best Books of 2022 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z The young thrusters struggle with this lucrative but enigmatic market, botching judgments about the appeal, for example, of electric bicycles to the elderly. TV highlights 12/06/2013 2013-06-12T06:00:03Z If Jesse seems enigmatic, it’s only because he’s a quiet, solitary kid; his father does plenty of talking for everyone. ‘The Cathedral’ Review: A Boy, a Home, a World 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z The enigmatic fusions of Pop and conceptual art, centered on texts, produced by Mr. Ruscha in California in the 1960s, are now considered ahead of their time. Fall Art Auctions See Significant Declines 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z First up was the large, enigmatic interior “Family Issues I,” from 2019, by Mohammed Sami, a London-based Iraqi exile whose paintings are currently the subject of an enthusiastically reviewed show at Camden Art Center. Kandinsky Painting Sells for $45 Million at Auction 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z When I tell her it was Lady Gaga's Bad Romance she responds with an enigmatic "Oh." Alicia Keys: 'Everything I do comes from a primal place' 2011-07-14T20:30:02Z Hope manifests itself in the form of Scott Bean, an enigmatic parenting expert who treats children on the autism spectrum with painful observations and tender care. The powerful story of one family’s struggle to save an autistic child 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z The 92-year-old protagonist is sent to an elder-care institution, where she unlocks a world of enigmatic abbesses, murder plots, mythology and apocalypse. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z For Mr. Naharin, 64, a playground is what he calls his studio, where he creates slippery, enigmatic dances that flicker between strident assertions of bold physicality and buttery fluidity. ‘Mr. Gaga’ Comes to Town 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Some were shot, others were blown up, while still others died from an enigmatic wasting illness, though were likely poisoned. ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Review: An Unsettling Masterpiece 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z Adriaen Coorte, the enigmatic painter of still lifes about whom almost nothing is known despite the 65 pictures credited to him, was bound to intrigue the collectors. Art Review: Dutch Masterpieces, Assembled by Art Lovers 2011-04-22T11:00:04Z The seven viewpoint characters fail to hold the center, and Oppenheimer remains as vague and enigmatic at the end as he was at the start. Review | A novel attempt to understand the father of the atomic bomb 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z What do you do if you’re a busy museum, and an eminent and famously enigmatic artist in late career tells you he’s prepared to go public with new work? Art Review: ‘Jasper Johns: Regrets,’ a New Series at MoMA 2014-03-21T16:46:57Z To me, everything about his dynamic debut album, from its picture postcard cover to its enigmatic song titles, seemed novel and intriguing. The inauspicious arrival of Bruce Springsteen 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z So reverberant chant in Bathari, a language spoken by perhaps a few dozen people in Oman, sounds alongside enigmatic footage of rock formations. Dying Languages Cry Out in ‘Last Whispers’ 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z After the enigmatic actor’s arrest, his fellow protesters carried on the project without him. Shia LaBeouf’s anti-Trump project livestream shuts down after neo-Nazis hijacked the exhibit to spread their hate 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Set in a future that’s at once recognizable and enigmatic, the movie envisions a world so outwardly peaceful it can be hard to believe that it takes place on Earth. ‘After Yang’ Review: Do Androids Dream of Sheep, Babysitting, Being? 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Yet the same elements that give her solo work an enigmatic, awkward grace — close harmonies, an introverted performance style, the modest colors of a Wurlitzer organ — are magnified to unflattering effect in her first opera. Music Review: ‘The Vienna Rite,’ by Judith Berkson, at Roulette 2012-11-05T19:43:03Z In Oz's current book the birds and animals are back, though the enigmatic sense of unease remains. Scenes from Village Life by Amos Oz - review 2011-08-05T09:00:03Z Despite her warmth and attentiveness, there's an enigmatic quality to Rojo. Tamara Rojo 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z In Portuguese, the sentiments are enigmatic and questioning, and a gorgeous samba-flavored arrangement enhanced the mystique. Review: Brian Stokes Mitchell Blends Songs and Theater in ‘Plays With Music’ 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z A cult classic and a favourite of Steven Spielberg, the film sees an enigmatic car delivery driver named Kowalski embark on a Benzedrine-fuelled race to drive a Dodge Challenger from Denver to San Francisco. Ill-advised car journeys on film – ranked! 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z An enigmatic and much-admired cult figure among rock 'n' roll fans, White is ranked No. 70 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." White Stripes' Jack White to play WaMu Theatre Tuesday 2012-08-09T20:28:05Z He wants to keep it open-ended and affordable — admission is free and there is no cost to see the art — with a mixture of unpredictable offerings that keep LagoAlgo’s identity enigmatic. A Mexico City Design Landmark, Reborn as Something Else 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Sarah Waters One of the books I'll be taking on holiday I've actually just finished, but it's such an impressive, enigmatic, multi-layered novel that I want to read it all over again. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z In both America and Britain, where Losey spent much of the balance of his career after being blacklisted in Hollywood, he specialized in stern, chilly, often enigmatic dramas that combined the political and the psychological. DVD: Joseph Losey?s Dark Hall of Extramarital Mirrors 2011-06-17T19:43:11Z The new group calls itself, with enigmatic aplomb, Every house has a door. 'Mary': Slave drama provokes without much truth 2011-02-15T03:12:57Z The book follows Shadow Moon, a quiet ex-con who takes a bodyguard job with an enigmatic employer. The Essential Neil Gaiman 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z The selection illustrates how sensual and enigmatic, how deliciously ambiguous abstract photographs can be, given the medium's innate illusionism. 'Light, Paper, Process' an inventive subversion of photography 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Closing night began promisingly with the Norwegian sound artist Maia Urstad’s enigmatic “IONOS” — an atmospheric dialogue among three radio amateurs that resulted, at one point, in contact with another user somewhere out there. For This Experimental Festival, Bring Your Swimsuit and Dancing Shoes 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z He’s an increasingly enigmatic young rap magnate who struggles with self-expression to the point of continuing to play his own therapist on his records. Tyler, the Creator is His Own Worst Enemy on Wolf 2013-04-03T11:00:02Z Back in Hamburg, he began work on the enigmatic atlas. This Atlas of Art and Memory Is a Wonder of the Modern World 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z She went on to play a prominent — if often enigmatic — role in the timeline of Matt Smith’s Doctor, making Capaldi’s Doctor the third incarnation of the character she’s played against onscreen. Alex Kingston Will Return to 'Doctor Who' 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z But it's quite possible that the enigmatic Ma meant to provoke as well as please. Ma Jir-Bo's Hong Kong 2010-09-16T13:40:00Z In one, a pretty fashion model surrounded by ginormous white kittens is posed in a boat like Diana, the Roman goddess of nature and fertility, above the enigmatic legend, "Where are the snows." Creative era of Jess Collins, Robert Duncan brought full circle 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z These enigmatic and generally solitary sea-dwellers include octopuses, cuttlefish and squid, all of which have big and complex brains and act in ways that suggest alien minds. Exploring the origins of consciouness, cephalopod and human, with Peter Godfrey-Smith in 'Other Minds' 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z We tend to view celebrities’ lives as episodic, especially ones that possess an enigmatic public persona. Like His Films, David Lynch’s The Big Dream is Enigmatic and Opaque 2013-07-19T09:45:37Z It’s an enigmatic drama about a young female assassin’s attempt to restore order after a kill gone wrong. Cannes 2015: all the winners - live! 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z He liked her, mostly because of how little she said, and how she encouraged an air of enigmatic formality. ‘The Arrangements’: A Work of Fiction 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z This, says Gibbons, is "the cartoon Godard we are familiar with: the Godard of the grand gesture" and this side of the great director - enigmatic, contrary, haughty - hasn't dulled with age. Close up: Jean-Luc Godard pronounces film dead 2011-07-14T15:24:59Z More perplexing was a chatty interior monologue from the perspective of Greta Garbo walking through Manhattan that renders the enigmatic actress a one-dimensional dullard. A Literary Catalog of Things Lost to History 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Still, the jumps are only the culmination of the solo, which begins more meditatively as the dancer glides from one spotlight to the next in an enigmatic display of form and fervor. ‘Caught,’ by David Parsons, Performed by Alvin Ailey Dance 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z In some instances, he and other animals exchange gazes, creating a complicated circuitry of looks that remain rightly enigmatic. One Indelible Scene: A Donkey’s Escape in ‘EO’ 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z And just as Sherman assigns numbers to her pictures rather than titling them, so the authors encourage readers to interpret Sherman’s enigmatic scenes for themselves. Review | A new look at the Statue of Liberty and other best children’s books 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Sanders evinces a similar fasciation with surfaces throughout “Ghost in the Shell,” whether they’re grimy, gleaming, glistening or dissolving into an enigmatic haze of pixels. Review | ‘Ghost in the Shell’ brings an anime classic to life, with mixed success 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Engaging, but ultimately a little cool and enigmatic. Gillian Anderson: The Fall girl who never bowed to Hollywood demands 2013-06-09T14:47:32Z Ms. Krog, a Norwegian jazz singer with more than 50 years of experience as a solo artist, knows how to inhabit an aura of enigmatic stillness. Review: Karin Krog, a Norwegian Star, Plays at Joe’s Pub 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Its poems, many about loss, were enigmatic and fragmentary, as with “In the Hospital”: Saskia Hamilton, Poet Who Edited Another Poet’s Letters, Dies at 56 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z “It’s intrinsic to her, that certain enigmatic je ne sais quoi,” Mr. Doonan said. Isabelle Huppert: ‘The Best Way to Please Is Not to Please’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Strand is the most enigmatic of the foursome. Review | Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz and the artists they inspired 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z In an animated feature, “The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special,” Tom Hanks reprises his role as a frustratingly enigmatic dancing man in a pumpkin-patterned suit. What’s on TV Saturday: Black Sabbath’s Final Performance and ‘Arrival’ 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z The finest is Hammons' devastating 1988 "Skillets in the Closet," an enigmatic, worn and weathered cupboard whose open door reveals 13 rusting cast-iron skillets hanging from twisted coat-hangers on a rack. 'Hard Edged' art at California African American Museum widens perception of black artists' work 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z He offers motley quotations, all of them enigmatic yet pertinent, from figures as varied as Tom Waits and the French feminist Hélène Cixous. Whether You’re Making a Meal or Cleaning an Oil Spill, There’s a Fungus for That 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z She’s an ordinary, guileless, somewhat clueless young woman — kind of basic, as they say nowadays — pulled into the orbit of an enigmatic aristocrat with peculiar tastes and dark secrets. Review: In ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Movie, Sex Is a Knotty Business 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Largely abstract, the paintings nonetheless also feature enigmatic symbols drawn from the digital sphere. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z If, in Britain, Bozzwell's highly enigmatic, poetic brand of vocal post-minimal techno doesn't quite fit in anywhere, in Germany that is seen as a positive advantage. Bozzwell ? the enlightenment 2010-12-27T12:32:54Z Smith has delved deeply into Cossa’s shadowy life and enigmatic work. ‘How to Be Both,’ by Ali Smith 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Bridges' enigmatic other Super Bowl ad was more interesting. Super Bowl movie ads: Grading 'Tomorrowland,' 'Furious 7' and more 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z “Our relationship,” he writes, “largely depended upon my never becoming fluent, on my having an excuse to speak in enigmatic fragments or koans.” Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z Fargo's Billy Bob Thornton, who plays the enigmatic Lorne Malvo, was named best actor in a mini series or movie - beating British contender and co-star Martin Freeman. McConaughey wins best TV actor award 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z Either way, it now seems certain that Leto isn’t part of the main mission, which will apparently involve taking down some kind of “enigmatic, insuperable entity”. MTV's exclusive movie trailers: five things we learned 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z In some ways, it overlaps with, let’s say, Magritte, who as a painter was economically and art-historically valued and got appropriated by advertising and the graphic arts, since his ideas were often also enigmatic aphorisms. First Encounters with the Art and Presence of Saul Steinberg 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z In the 1990s, models were expected to be silent and enigmatic – that was part of their glamour. Model Charli Howard: ‘They told me I was fat’ 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z The mood is simmering and enigmatic in four Berio miniatures, which divide two Beethoven sonatas and Schumann’s Opus 17 fantasy, in which Mr. Haefliger is grand yet restrained. Classical Playlist: Ailyn Pérez and Stephen Costello, Milton Babbitt, Handel and More 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Not surprisingly, Cooper is a brooding and enigmatic investigator with a faraway look that suggests that he is channeling the thoughts of murderous psychopaths. Television Review: On the Scent of Psychopaths: Penetrating the Criminal Mind 2011-02-15T22:51:38Z Both, he said are “wryly enigmatic in their own way.” ArtsBeat: Coming to Trafalgar Square: An Unusual Horse and a Giant Thumb 2014-02-07T19:17:16Z The enigmatic piece ended on a grating note, as if reflecting frustrations of thwarted listeners. Annie Gosfield’s ‘Signal Jamming and Random Interference’ 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z The effect is enigmatic, elusive and more than slightly creepy. Gems to See, Sail and Serve 2010-10-03T15:00:00Z But if Ms. Kawakubo is enigmatic, she hardly designs in a vacuum. Fashion Review: At C?line, a Tough Follow-Up 2010-03-08T04:45:00Z Offered the opportunity to put the matter to rest, he referred back to that enigmatic statement. After Withdrawing From Bayreuth, This Conductor’s Silence Grows Louder 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Punctuating the songs are enigmatic fragments of dialogue from the films. Music Review: ‘Ghosts of Love’ Evokes David Lynch’s Films 2014-01-21T19:18:39Z She wrote of the experience in “Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life,” a series of enigmatic essays in which she traced her depression and lifelong desire to disappear. A Mother Loses a Son to Suicide, but Their Dialogue Continues 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z One key problem, amid the babble, is whether the enigmatic Cloud Atlas ever had a chance to build a clear identity with audiences. Cloud Atlas: how Hollywood failed to put it on the map 2013-02-20T17:16:47Z So far, plot specifics are notably thin on the ground, and the first teaser trailer was as enigmatic and context-free as it's possible to be. The Master: a master of disguise 2012-06-27T16:13:32Z Slides, whoops and whooshes rush through “Play,” with half-buried lines of aching lyricism dissolving into fragments of scales that are passed around the orchestra with the enigmatic intimacy of dialogue in Beckett plays. Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic Makes the Familiar Feel Fresh 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Parnell was an enigmatic and controversial figure, as anyone who has read the early pages of Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” will know. The Murders That Touched Off Ireland’s Bloody Campaign for Self-Rule 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Deeply influenced by Samuel Beckett, his enigmatic language and visions in turn impacted plays by David Mamet, Sarah Kane and many others. A passion for Pinter inspires 'Fortnightly' series at ACT 2011-06-22T19:33:05Z Ms. Jarcho is a smart and sensitive writer, and there are terrific passages here, especially some of the more menacingly humorous lines given to the enigmatic cabdriver. ‘Nomads’ at the Incubator Arts Project 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z "Perfect Sense" is a solemn sci-fi parable set in present-day Glasgow, whose deepening sense of foreboding is sustained by the enigmatic, pseudo-biblical reflections of an unseen narrator. 'Perfect Sense': Whiffs of love amid sensory-loss epidemic 2012-02-16T21:36:10Z They are also kinetic feasts, full of the loose jumps and twists, enigmatic gestures and silky unpredictable transitions. The Week Ahead: Aug. 7 ? 13 2011-08-04T16:07:59Z As in his other work, that exact purpose, however, always remains just a bit enigmatic, something for the viewer to untangle as they take their seat in the artist's carefully constructed asylum. Daniel Joseph Martinez offers a front-row seat to a famous artistic murder -- starring himself 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z The studio system challenged him to create a blockbuster and he replied with the sprawling, enigmatic “Dune,” starring his favorite leading man Kyle MacLachlan. “Twin Peaks”: Can a classic succeed at being happening again? 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z “Taste of Cherry” follows an enigmatic driver who picks up passengers on the outskirts of Tehran. What Makes Kiarostami a Modern Master? Start Here 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z The idyllic facade of a peaceful suburb begins to crumble when an enigmatic artist and her daughter move to town. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z So part of the dazzle of “The Affair,” a Showtime series that begins Sunday, is that it puts a puzzling, almost maddeningly enigmatic frame around the least mysterious impulse in the world. ‘The Affair’ on Showtime Stars Dominic West and Ruth Wilson 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The notion that only an enigmatic gunslinger can deliver the innocent from evil doesn’t originate with Pale Rider; it comes from Shane, arguably the greatest western of them all. The meaning of Clint: what watching 40 Eastwood films has taught me 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Plucking an enigmatic postcard with the phrase “We know where you live” from the dark recesses of your home mailbox might alarm anyone unfamiliar with Radiohead’s elaborate, vaguely playful approach to the album rollout. Radiohead Thinks the Internet Is Turning Us All Into Creeps 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Her Odette reveals a capacity for voluptuous passion within doomed captivity; her Odile is extraordinarily cool, enigmatic, even poignant, notwithstanding sweeping brilliance. Review: ‘Swan Lake’ Features an Authoritative Sara Mearns 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Tom Hanks went online this week to launch Electric City, his so-far pulpy and enigmatic dystopian animation series. Jerry Seinfeld’s New Web Series: Java, Jalopies and Jokes 2012-07-20T13:52:44Z But the series sometimes seems caught in the void created by Franklin’s careful image management; the central figure turns reserved and enigmatic at key moments. Review: ‘Genius: Aretha’ Speaks Loudest When It Sings 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z He’s a big draw primarily because of his enigmatic evil. Jamie Lee Curtis: I’m Waving the Banner for Generations of Women 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Created by David Chase, “The Sopranos” faded to enigmatic black in 2007, though it endures, including on HBO, its original home for six seasons. ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ Review: The Best Really Is Over 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z “Sociopaths can be incredibly entertaining and amazingly enigmatic.” Baz Luhrmann Is Ready for Rhinestones, Cadillacs, Dr. Feelgood and a Svengali 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z When “Little Man, Little Man” was first published in 1976, critics didn’t know what to make of an experimental, enigmatic picture book that straddled the line between children’s and adult literature. A James Baldwin Book, Forgotten and Overlooked for Four Decades, Gets Another Life 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z He was also an enigmatic figure, according to the film’s director Pat Collins, and “Song of Granite” seems to mirror what the character says about singing. Review: In ‘Song of Granite,’ Fragments of an Irish Folk Singer’s Life 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z I asked the theatre attendant whether it was enigmatic or elliptical. What's the best arthouse film that makes no sense? 2010-10-20T11:00:00Z Felix Mendelssohn’s tuneful “Songs Without Words” accompanied Morris’s frisky and enigmatic “Words.” Mark Morris Dance Group’s many surprises flow naturally at GMU 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z In the second movement of “Symphony in Three Movements,” a bracing finale on Friday, Ms. Hyltin and Mr. Stanley shared a similarly close yet enigmatic partnership. Review: Peck Adapts Andersen, and Good Fights Evil Amid Fine Plumage 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z But at City Opera, the work was set in a grim public park, and Mr. Alden’s antic, enigmatic direction made its impact in relation to the specificity of that location. Dudamel Leads Mozart’s Opera With a Zaha Hadid Set 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z That’s a shame, because for its first hour or so “Annihilation” presents a bracing if enigmatic example of filmmaking at its smartest and most highly attuned. Review | Natalie Portman stars in the enigmatic, ultimately unsatisfying ‘Annihilation’ 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z An enigmatic grandfather who roped him into games factors in the story, too. Review | This Zoom magic show delivers a box to your house. Then it blows your mind. 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Catherine E. Coulson, an actress best known as the enigmatic Log Lady in the TV series “Twin Peaks,” died Sept. 28 at her home in Ashland, Ore. She was 71. Catherine Coulson, mysterious Log Lady of ‘Twin Peaks,’ dies at 71 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z I'm of two minds about Benedict Andrews' staging, which doesn't provide a level playing field for the enigmatic, physically whimsical Huppert. Cate Blanchett brings an extravagant fierceness to 'The Maids' 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z There’s a cryptic opener and an equally enigmatic credit sequence, but soon the Wilsons are laughing at their vacation home. ‘Us’ Review: Jordan Peele’s Creepy Latest Turns a Funhouse Mirror on Us 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Improbable coincidences continue, along with overwritten dialogue that veers from self-consciously enigmatic to windy and pretentious. | 'Letters to the End of the World': Anton Dudley?s Play About the Effects of AIDS 2010-05-10T21:44:00Z It is at once disturbing and enigmatic, but not without comedy. Actor Vicky Krieps: ‘I spent a whole day staring into greenery to avoid Daniel Day-Lewis’ 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z Its rendering of time and the vicissitudes of identity are complex and enigmatic, but deeply moving at the same time. What is the best Oscar-winning film of all time? 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Richard Ford’s new memoir, “Between Them,” makes clear the enormous difficulty of truly knowing that enigmatic pair who invented us. Richard Ford’s new memoir, ‘Between Them: Remembering My Parents’ 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Leos Carax, the enigmatic French director behind spectacularly peculiar films like “Holy Motors,” would rather be talking about love. Leos Carax on ‘Annette’ and the Cinema of Doubt 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Neon simply identifies something new, enigmatic and unclassifiable. 100 years of neon 2011-08-27T23:05:03Z Making him the butt of a joke does not entirely undo his lingering, enigmatic threat to Western complacency. Art Review: Armory Show, Modern and Contemporary, at Piers 92 and 94 2012-03-08T23:15:02Z The shadow paintings feature enigmatic blurs of dark and light in various colors. Alas, mere 'Shadows' 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z But when a troubled user, an enigmatic cloaked dragon, begins wreaking havoc, reality bleeds into this seemingly idyllic escape. Animation That’s More Than Kids’ Stuff 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Her wish for erotic transport settles on her boss, the enigmatic Peregrine Gibbons, who eventually invites her on a promising excursion to the country. A Novel of World War II Espionage With an Unlikely Heroine 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Sure, they’re drawn together by physical attraction, but what keeps them together isn’t some enigmatic gravitational pull, it’s their efforts to make the relationship work. In These Romance Novels, the Characters Are Sexy, Hot and Toting a Ton of Emotional Baggage 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z What happens when a young, relatively inexperienced writer is tapped to write the biography of an enigmatic Russian model turned inscrutable first lady? 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z But Dürer's most unforgettable print is Melancholia, an enigmatic reflection on the mysteries of creation and the expectation for artists to be somewhat wired to the moon. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z Hopper is known for enigmatic paintings of isolated people in urban settings, images that only hint at what emotions and thoughts the subjects might have. Critic?s Notebook: A Blizzard This Summer at Glimmerglass 2011-08-02T16:06:03Z The piece, which had its premiere last month in Tel Aviv, where he and his company are based, is as opaque and enigmatic as all of Mr. Naharin’s choreographies. Montpellier Danse Offers Globe-Trotting Via Choreography 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Keaton nonetheless emerges in all his enigmatic, melancholy glory. Review: ‘The Great Buster’ Brings a Deadpan Genius Back to Life 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Like a Harold Pinter play, the movie shrouds its threat in enigmatic atmosphere. Stoker: Gloom with a View 2013-03-01T04:30:31Z Jesus of Nazareth continued this prophetic tradition, preferring enigmatic parables to propositions – overturning tables in the temple to illustrate a point, and transforming a simple, valedictory meal into a mystical emblem. William Blake's passionate humanity 2010-08-12T15:00:00Z Stephen Colbert, whose ratings have been up lately, wondered whether Mr. Trump’s enigmatic reference to “S.C.” in a Friday tweet might have been about him: Stephen Colbert to Trump: Thanks for a Great 100 Days 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z For many of the ambitious young people who circled Andy Warhol, the enigmatic pop artist opened otherwise inaccessible doors but also cast an inescapable shadow. They Know the Blessing and Curse of Warhol and Basquiat 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z Tinker is enigmatic, adorable and lives his life according to George Washington's Rules of Civility. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles ? review 2011-07-15T13:46:01Z An enigmatic pink-robed figure reinforces the brooding air of a dingy corridor. A hotel of horrors 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z For now, the pasta remains enigmatic — much like Cage himself. The peculiar mystery of Nicolas Cage's favorite pasta shape 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z The songs were wide-open vistas, meditative and soothing — even if one of them was an enigmatic suicide note. CMJ 2014: S's Resentment, Odessa's Tranquility 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z In the conflagration that is prefigured in the enigmatic beginning of the book it is Charlie Karr who, if there was ever any doubt, finally becomes that central character she has always yearned to be. Review: ‘The Liars’ Club,’ by Mary Karr 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Late-era Dylan favors dad jokes so cheesy that they seem almost transgressive, a liberating escape from his enigmatic image. Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan, Our Most Underappreciated Comic 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Brooding and enigmatic, and evoking vivid gestures — a 2 a.m. bummed cigarette, keeping vampire hours, the grimy romance of city living — the album doesn't sound dated. The secret to Interpol’s ongoing success 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z At the end, we are left with a sadder, more enigmatic picture. ‘The Homesman’ Stars Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z The most enigmatic dadaist, Marcel Duchamp, was at that time little-known and had officially retired from making art, but his works and ideas provoked intense creativity in these Americans. Duchamp and Lichtenstein ride again – the week in art 2013-02-15T13:01:35Z ‘AUTOMATIC WRITING’ The group Object Collection has created an enigmatic staged version of this Robert Ashley experiment from the 1970s, in which the pioneering composer played with the possibilities of involuntary speech. Classical Music and Opera This Fall: 59 Programs, Premieres and More 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Tis March, when enigmatic teasers for returning spring TV shows pop up like crocuses. Spring Break Is Coming: Watch the Parody School of Thrones 2013-03-12T13:10:04Z More than $20,000, in the case of the enigmatic "Carlos", who says he "closed the book real quick and ran for my car" on discovering what it contained. A man found $20,000 in a secondhand book. Can you top that? 2012-11-16T16:07:55Z It's the no-particular-place-to-go lassitude that brings out the movie's enigmatic tone: comedy, tension and resignation on the long slide to disaster. The Paperboy – review 2013-03-14T15:00:01Z This morning, the crooner is expansive on subjects that he has long swatted away with enigmatic responses, including politics, and an hour stretches into four. Johnny Mathis, the voice of the ’50s, was always ahead of his time. Now he’s ready to talk about it. 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z What “The Uncommitted” seems to address is the enigmatic nature of Mr. Pärt’s music. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-15T22:27:24Z Across the Ness, enigmatic structures jut from the shingle: barracks, armouries, listening stations, beacons, watchtowers, bunkers, and two huge blast-chambers nicknamed the pagodas. Robert Macfarlane's Untrue Island: the voices of Orford Ness 2012-07-08T18:01:01Z Those are the times when even the troubled and enigmatic former P.O.W. seems more trustworthy than the C.I.A. officer who suspects him. Television Review: ?Homeland,? Starring Claire Danes, on Showtime ? Review 2011-09-29T16:32:19Z The book is divided into multiple sections titled “Before” and “After,” with enigmatic subtitles that underscore that overwhelming cleavage. Her Father Vanished. Years Later, Her Family Is Figuring Out How to Mourn. 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Flint paints a fairly nuanced portrait, and in so doing gets to the center of why Le Corbusier remains such an enigmatic and compelling figure. Book review: Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z For Bartok’s Piano Concerto No. 3, the orchestra was joined by Mr. Lupu, an enigmatic and almost willfully individualistic pianist. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-04T21:59:54Z They receive unexpected help from two enigmatic interlopers — call them Intruder He and Intruder She — who encroach on the weekend big time. ‘The One I Love,’ With Elisabeth Moss and Mark Duplass 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Not to give anything away, but two clues you might miss involve a red bedspread and an enigmatic priest. | 'The Double Hour': Romance or Film Noir? Both, and a Thriller 2011-04-14T23:37:10Z Don’t tell the Iranian authorities, though by now they should be familiar with movies that explore the enigmatic qualities of everyday life while at the same time inviting ruminations on the ambiguities of cinema itself. Movie Review: He?s Jafar Panahi, but ?This Is Not a Film? 2012-02-29T00:00:06Z With a poetic, often enigmatic libretto by Alice Goodman, the work is consciously modeled on the Bach Passions, with Bach’s Evangelist metamorphosed into the opera’s nameless Captain, helplessly recalling the loss of his ship. ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Human consciousness and outer space may be puzzles of entirely different kinds, but they’re equally enigmatic. In the galleries: The roots of these gardens run deep 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Starring as the enigmatic millionaire with a dark secret is Sean Brown, ex of EastEnders, while the role of flapper Daisy is taken by Melissa Sturridge, seen in TV's The Borgias. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-08-03T23:05:34Z "Alaska," Green's first novel, tells the story of Miles, a Florida teen who goes to prep school in Alabama for his junior year and falls for an enigmatic girl named Alaska. Rebecca Thomas to direct adaptation of John Green's 'Looking for Alaska' 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Maybe by then we’ll have a better idea of this enigmatic musician who is both a progressive and romantic. Getting to know — or at least trying to — Matthias Pintscher at an L.A. Phil concert 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Often enough, Ocasek brings the enigmatic tension and the other Cars bring the party: it’s a thrilling complementary energy that keeps a listener wondering and satisfied at once. Ric Ocasek’s Eternal Cool 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z That sentiment applies to Mr. Porumboiu’s dryly funny, enigmatic new work. From Romania, ‘When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism’ 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Few characters in ballet make as lasting an impression as the Sleepwalker, an enigmatic character with long, flowing hair who makes her unseeing entrance on point, holding a candle. Rehearse, Ice Feet, Repeat: The Life of a New York City Ballet Corps Dancer 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The content was enigmatic — sometimes wordless, sometimes poetic — but the evocation of apocalyptic distress was indelible. Diamanda Galás Gives Voice to Unbearable Pain, Once More 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z The lineup on the first half of the concert included a lively riff on the nostalgic melodies of “Bad Boys” and an enigmatic, melancholy version of “The Izu Dancer.” Music Review: Movies as a Form of Music 2010-12-19T22:31:25Z She then became an enigmatic screen beauty with a quirky edge, unforgettably in David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart. Isabella Rossellini: the Bee movie star 2012-09-29T23:05:16Z While Santa was clearly tied to rituals around good and bad behavior, to Dad’s mind there was something enigmatic about this rabbit that delivered those child-crazying baskets of sugar. Tulips and pancakes and other Easter miracles: My Jordanian dad didn’t quite get Easter, but the similarities between Lent and Ramadan moved him tremendously 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Mamet subtly shifts gears as Leigh, who seems controlled and enigmatic, may be using the situation to her own advantage. Review: 'Really Really' is clever look at GenMe 2013-02-20T22:58:08Z They meet under the rubric Friends of Saul, named for the group’s enigmatic and never-seen organizer. Review: The Human Voice Versus the Internet in ‘Octet’ 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z The status of her sympathies, and of the filmmaker’s, remains tantalizingly enigmatic. Critic?s Notebook: Modest Methods, Big Ambitions 2011-03-22T22:58:03Z But the seated whispering woman at the back of the stage seemed like an enigmatic distraction. In 'Adler & Gibb,' the business of art — painted with familiar brushstrokes 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z “The painter’s most famous work” means that other works were less famous, less important, less enigmatic; in other words, they were less worthy. The Square 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z In “Antiquities,” the latest of her many books, Ozick employs her virtuosic literary style to weave an enigmatic tale about the ephemeral nature of memory and the transience of life. Review | With ‘Antiquities,’ Cynthia Ozick is as vibrant on the page as ever 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z In the evening, perhaps there would be enigmatic silences between gentle characters accompanied by the plinkety-plunkety-plink of wind-chimes and later a full and plangent moon. The Raid ? review 2012-05-17T14:29:02Z It was at that moment that I realized something I’d noticed during the pandemic, but never quite focused on: Masked women tend to look enigmatic, intriguing, exotic. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: What I learned during the pandemic 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Editor of The Faber Book of Exploration I’m rereading William Fiennes’ The Snow Geese, a glorious quest by the author, who had been confined by poor health, in search of the strangely enigmatic birds. What travel writers are reading right now 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z The teaser trailer for the film offered little indication of what it’s actually about, which is both in keeping with the Radiohead frontman’s enigmatic tendencies and catnip for fans. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Anima’ and ‘Laurence Anyways’ 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Its pouchlike body is pushed in on three sides, one of which bears the enigmatic image of a peasant woman and a goat delicately rendered in low relief. Art Review: In ‘Making Pottery Art’ at the Met, Beauty Is Political 2014-02-13T21:07:22Z Emails between this trio to discuss their hypotheses on her bizarre behavior are scattered throughout the novel, along with some enigmatic therapists’ notes on both Abigail and her mysterious double, known only as “A.” Review | ‘You Again’ is a captivating mystery about a woman who keeps colliding with her younger self 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z You have a beautiful, enigmatic heroine who falls in love with two men and manipulates them into fighting to the death over her. Bollywood Carmen: Bizet goes bhangra 2013-06-05T19:00:01Z Given how enigmatic he is, and how in control of everything he does, I was surprised how easygoing and open he was when I photographed him. ‘Everything Crossed Over’: Michael Clark’s Cheeky World of Dance 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z He emerges as a new man — specifically as a famous general, whose identity he assumes with the tacit consent of North Korea’s enigmatic, terrifyingly puckish Dear Leader. 2012′s best — so far 2012-07-04T14:00:00Z A previously unknown self-portrait lurking unnoticed for five decades within a supremely enigmatic work? Now You See Him, Now You Don’t: Duchamp From Beyond the Grave 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z After these delightfully brazen disclaimers, the lecturer decides to tell his listeners about the “deadly honey” of melancholy and what makes it “the most enigmatic of attractions.” ‘The World Goes On’ — and So Do the Sentences 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z The music, from a 2012 concert in Guelph, Ontario, is at once ecstatic, enigmatic and volatile, often suggesting a flow of complex systems. Review: ‘Rova Channeling Coltrane’ Offers More Than a Live Performance 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z The movie audience is a singular and enigmatic organism. Perspective | As theaters reopen, a crucial cinematic ingredient is back: The audience 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Behind his sunny disposition and his easygoing demeanor lay a much more serious, distant and enigmatic person that few people ever saw. Phil Hartman biographer on the toxic marriage that killed the comedy legend 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Around the same time he wrote “If Beale Street Could Talk,” Baldwin was working on “Little Man, Little Man,” an enigmatic picture book pitched halfway between children’s and adult literature. What to Read Before or After You See ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Pinsky was at a transitional moment in his poetic career, moving from the discursive, coolly rational style of “Essay on Psychiatrists” and “An Explanation of America” toward a more enigmatic mode of questioning lyricism. When Robert Pinsky Wrote a Video Game 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Robin Wright’s Claire Underwood was always the show’s most enigmatic character and when she became president at the end of season five, she said “My turn” directly to the camera. Don Draper, Eleven, Selina Meyer lead AP roles of the decade 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z AMC has released key art for the mysterious-as-usual April return of Mad Men, inviting fans to read symbolism and clues into an enigmatic pen-and-ink drawing that people are already dissecting like the cover of Sgt. Spring Break Is Coming: Watch the Parody School of Thrones 2013-03-12T13:10:04Z We expect to see a lot of people dressed this Halloween as Teddy Perkins, the eccentric and enigmatic character at the center of an extraordinary Season 2 episode of Donald Glover’s “Atlanta.” 8 last-minute pop-culture Halloween costumes for 2018 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Only Kafka's side of the correspondence survives, so that Felice's tremendous silence sounds in our ears as both enigmatic and, somehow, tragic. Rereading: John Banville on Kafka's other trial 2011-01-14T14:18:55Z And Washington truly “ranks as the most famously elusive figure in American history, a remote, enigmatic personage more revered than truly loved.” Books of The Times: Dusting Off an Elusive President?s Dull Image 2010-09-27T23:42:00Z What ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Terminator’ Owe to ‘La Jetée’ Chris Marker, who died earlier this year at 91, was an enigmatic figure, reluctant to be photographed and prone to biographical embellishment. The Inspiration Issue: What ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Terminator’ Owe to ‘La Jetée’ 2012-09-26T15:52:19Z A podcaster trying to interview an enigmatic old seafarer is captured by the man, who intends to turn him into something inhuman. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z With that enigmatic opening line of “Beloved,” Toni Morrison, who died Monday at the age of 88, placed her indelible stamp on American literature. Perspective | Toni Morrison not only remade American literature, she challenged us to resist the tenacity of racism 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The man with the informal wardrobe and enigmatic Date Lab application was a good listener, very down-to-earth. Date Lab: He was nervous that he would come off as ‘a weird guy’ 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z The images on screen, black and white and suspended for long periods, are truly enigmatic. Review | Whistles, rumbles, bleeps: New Icelandic music sounds like no string quartet you’ve ever heard 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z “Man of the Hour” is an experienced biographer’s attempt to understand both this family rift and her enigmatic, highly intellectual grandfather. An Acclaimed Biographer Takes On Her Grandfather, the Atomic Scientist James B. Conant 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z What are her motives and why will her enigmatic elder sister only communicate online? Lies, paranoia and jealousy on the internet's social networks inspire Hollywood 2010-10-23T23:07:00Z “Zero Contact” stars Anthony Hopkins as Finley Hart, an enigmatic engineer and genius whose death is reported in the opening credits. ‘Zero Contact’ Review: A Token of the Times 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z The advertising campaign was similar, with enigmatic posters asking, “Who is Filibus???” This 1915 Silent Film Was the ‘Joker’ of Its Day 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z The book seemed like a happy haunting, so deftly did Moser divine Lispector’s secrets and unlock the workings of her alluring, enigmatic sentences. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z But on an evening trip to the nearby town, he encounters an enigmatic and lovely red-haired woman. In Orhan Pamuk’s New Novel, a Youthful Obsession Yields a Haunted Life 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z But he is definitely one of the most enigmatic characters I’ve ever played. There Are Worse Roles Than the Seducer. Ask Alexander Skarsgard. 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Shooting in various African countries, she creates formally acute images of shadowy people in enigmatic situations. Art Review: ?New Photography 2011? Features 6 Artists at MoMA - Review 2011-10-14T05:00:49Z He’s an object of greater-than-usual curiosity from fans, curiosity he can’t help but fuel with each development in a fairly enigmatic life. Why Jon Hamm Can't Escape Don Draper 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z But Rattle's overly brash approach, occasionally bordering on the strident, robbed Rachmaninov's dark-hued visions of some of their essentially enigmatic ambiguity. JLCO/LSO/Rattle – review 2012-07-27T20:30:01Z For answers to this and allied questions, his mind turned as of habit to Giles Oakley, his enigmatic mentor and self-appointed patron. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – extract 2013-04-12T20:01:02Z The book centers on Miles Halter, a reserved student fascinated with famous last words and an enigmatic girl, Alaska Young. Read It Before You See It 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The object of Ferret’s affection, the enigmatic Cecily, is an actress in a traveling troupe who plays Marie Antoinette in the chamber of horrors, where hourly she is beheaded for the benefit of fairgoers. ‘The Swan Gondola’: mysteries of Omaha in a cinematic novel 2014-03-10T06:58:08Z The sight of Ms. Rivera in a bright red dress and matching heels, wearing a mime’s enigmatic smile, is something that must be seen. Chita Rivera Kicks Up Her Heels at Birdland 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Near the end, Ms. Goldmark smiled and whispered the last enigmatic line from the movie classic “Citizen Kane.” Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Writers’ Catalyst, Dies at 63 2012-05-30T04:03:13Z Welles' first on-screen appearance is one of cinema's great reveals and puts the actor's polished nonchalance and enigmatic smile to the best possible use. The superb, thrilling 'Third Man' returns in a brilliant restoration 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z “Put one of these down there instead,” she said, waving at Yiadom-Boakye’s enigmatic portraits of Black subjects. Racist Mural Puts Tate Galleries in a Bind 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Of the three, it’s the most distilled version of this enigmatic and nightmarish story. So You Want to Be a Socially Distanced Orchestra 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z He's always been a natural presenter, but far from becoming more and more of an open book he's becoming more enigmatic as each series progresses. Extreme Fishing Challenge; Food & Drink – TV review 2013-02-26T07:00:05Z Sung with conviction by Ms. Mackenzie, the piece incorporates enigmatic percussive effects, which were performed by the three members of TimeTable Percussion. Music Review: Following a Contemporary Palette as It Ranges From Peru to China 2011-01-25T23:14:56Z But it remains, as it did at that first look, a hauntingly enigmatic emblem of — what? aspiration? defeat? — and a luminous relic of a career cut short. Juan Francisco Elso’s Indelible Art of América 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z Portman is now also indelibly associated with the world’s most famous and enigmatic widow. Natalie Portman: ‘JFK was a great proponent of civil rights. Trump is taking us backwards’ 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z In her new-wave update Ms. Rose replaces tormented male sensitivity and enigmatic cool with her own breezy grace. Music Review: Frankie Rose at the Knitting Factory 2012-02-23T23:17:43Z Jarmusch, who was born in Ohio and is 60, made his name in 1984 with the enigmatic Stranger than Paradise and went on to make Down by Law. Cannes celebrates the movie mavericks 2013-05-25T23:06:17Z As is often the case in Murakami’s fiction, a plot of relative simplicity — an artist’s reinvention — is disrupted by enigmatic, surreal or violent incidents. Review | Haruki Murakami turns his gaze toward middle age 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z And while her creations might call to mind decor fads, they're far too enigmatic and even dangerous-looking to risk sitting down on. Artist of the week 103: Claire Barclay 2010-09-02T10:53:00Z But even after that, articles about him tended to describe him as “hermitlike,” “elusive,” “enigmatic” and “reclusive.” Daniel Brush, Boundary-Defying Artist, Is Dead at 75 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Or another turn of the screw, another stage in the enigmatic ordeal? Jonathan Glazer: 'Nazism took hold like a fever. It's happening again' 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Jon Hamm, who plays suave but enigmatic Don Draper in "Mad Men," also is hoping to clinch his first Emmy this year. "Mad Men" tries to fend off "Boardwalk" at Emmys 2011-09-18T13:06:46Z For centuries, these enigmatic rocks have captivated artists, writers, healers and religious leaders, many of whom believed the crystals contained a certain concentration of the earth’s energy. ‘Healing’ crystals are having a pandemic moment. But science says they’re just pretty stones. 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Like “The Turn of the Screw,” the novel opens irresistibly, when a young woman with a troubled past gets an enigmatic posting in a remote place. Review: In ‘The Wonder,’ the Morality of Letting a Child Fast 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z In her new novel, “The Honeymoon,” Dinitia Smith has taken on the most enigmatic portion of the life of Marian Evans, the woman behind the pseudonym George Eliot. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z As if all this angst were not enough for Parker, there is an enigmatic new guy in town. Marvel rolls the dice after Endgame: enter Jake Gyllenhaal's Mysterio 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z She does, sort of, by means of an English class recitation of “Spring and Fall,” by Gerard Manley Hopkins, a stirring and enigmatic Victorian poem addressed to a young girl of that name. | 'Margaret': ?Margaret,? Directed by Kenneth Lonergan - Review 2011-09-29T23:25:33Z And at the heart of it is an enigmatic girl whose experience has finally been given its due. Sally Horner was “The Real Lolita”: The 1948 crime that inspired Nabokov 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z But it isn't simply this that makes him suitable for a doppelganger fantasy: it's something to do with his sheer cartoonish visibility, his enigmatic, unreadable persona, and those hallucinatory corner-of-the-screen glimpses in the films themselves. Film review: Double Take 2010-04-01T21:25:00Z It’s about a son trying to understand an enigmatic father and the principled way he chose to live his life. What to Read Before or After You See ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The oboist Stuart Breczinski vividly conveys a range of enigmatic moods and textures in “Ave Maris Stella”; the cellist Bryan Hayslett is the energetic soloist in two works for soloist and prerecorded cello tracks. Classical Playlist: Gluck, Jonathan Biss, Morton Feldman and More 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z After that, Mr. Robertson promised his readers would understand the identities of the enigmatic characters in his song “The Weight.” ArtsBeat: Memories From Big Pink: Robbie Robertson to Write His Life Story 2011-04-12T17:53:47Z “Road to Nowhere,” the latest from the 77-year-old Mr. Hellman, isn’t “MASH,” but it is enigmatic, elliptical, defiant of formula and possesses his almost perverse aversion to commerciality. Arts & Leisure Preview: Monte Hellman to Release a New Film, ?Road to Nowhere? 2010-05-15T02:25:00Z As often in Mr. Ghebreyesus’s paintings, there are abstract sections of checks and stripes, and enigmatic details. The Inventive Chef Who Kept His 700 Paintings Hidden 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Or maybe not; it seems silly to cast about for narrative threads in the work of a choreographer like Mr. Jasperse, whose structures tend to build their own enigmatic meanings. Dance Review: John Jasperse?s ?Canyon? at Brooklyn Academy of Music - Review 2011-11-17T22:18:12Z Seen in New York for the first time, the work by the Canadian artist Liz Magor consists of two sculptures: enigmatic, seemingly lost parcels on the floor. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z But it's about time that Hall finally gets his due for his blazingly brilliant depiction of an enigmatic serial killer. Sunday's Emmy Awards may honor several new hit television programs ? or not 2010-08-25T22:55:00Z Not much for holding still, and uninterested in accolades or institutional attention, he cultivated an enigmatic persona predicated as much on conceptual rigor as resistance to public life. When Dawoud Bey Met David Hammons 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Warhol's impassive, enigmatic stare is the same in most of the 349 frames that Makos fired off at the Factory studio over two days in 1981. Lady Warhol 2011-06-30T07:49:24Z More enigmatic was a painting of a smiling, ivory-skinned man in a seated position. Explorer: Myths and Mountains in Nepal 2012-10-28T06:23:48Z It's such an enigmatic show and no one's done anything like it since. Watch television with Rob da Bank 2012-08-17T23:05:00Z It makes them far more aloof and enigmatic because they don't talk, they watch and listen, and you're drawn in because you want to know what they're thinking. Up the junction 2010-04-03T23:05:00Z They look like enigmatic maps, with floating pictographs and tracks — Smith’s response to professors who emphasized abstraction. Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, Shaped by the Land 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The original plan for an unsmiling face evolved into a gentle enigmatic smile – but no teeth. 'Just amazing': Duchess of Cambridge approves first official portrait 2013-01-11T10:35:48Z His enigmatic and minimalist titles make his interest in doubling clear: “Two Maps,” “Two Flags,” “Painting With Two Balls.” Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: Blockbuster exhibition reveals a brilliant but bleak legacy 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z But mostly it’s a series of enigmatic vignettes indoors and out, involving recurring characters, but no dialogue and no clear plot. Cao Fei Captures Modern Malaise in a Series of Inventive Videos 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The best of such cinematic monuments have banished the distraction of mimicry altogether: Witness Cate Blanchett’s sly, androgynous turn as Bob Dylan in the appropriately enigmatic, audaciously experimental biopic “I’m Not There.” Why music biopics so often fall flat 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Finnegan Shanahan, usually a violinist in the ensemble, changed it up by endearingly trying his hand at the song and its enigmatic lyrics, steadying after some early stumbles. Review: Art and Nature Blend in a Concert by Contemporaneous 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z The other nine works in the show are smaller and more enigmatic. Humaira Abid’s ‘Self Portrait’ speaks bluntly about gender inequality 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z The piece faded to an enigmatic whisper at the end. At the Stone, the Flux Quartet Flexes Its Muscles 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Shuttling between reality and flamboyant myth, touching on everything from the legend of Lady Godiva to the history of coffee, Nazli's enigmatic tale sometimes struggles to stay on track. Mare Rider – review 2013-01-28T12:53:00Z Like “Breaking Bad” in its earliest episodes, “Better Call Saul” takes its time, teasing the viewer with enigmatic shots and oblique conversations. ‘Better Call Saul,’ a ‘Breaking Bad’ Spinoff on AMC 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Dressed in a cat mask and clutching a bird head to her midriff, the enigmatic image suggests that the trappings of the occult and the magical still have the power to unnerve. Witches fly high in major summer show 2013-03-22T13:00:59Z Elizabeth is as chilly and enigmatic as Maya, the C.I.A. analyst Ms. Chastain played in “Zero Dark Thirty,” but with an added streak of ferocity. Review: A Chilly ‘Miss Sloane’ Makes a Lecture out of Lobbying 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Such is the response, in swift summary, of most of the art historians who have written about “Olympia,” a fountainhead of modern art and a painting as enigmatic as it is arresting. Review | Two revelatory exhibitions upend our understanding of black models in art 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Though unlike Ms. Mazar, the screen siren was enigmatic in her description of glamour: “The which I would like to know the meaning of.” Debi Mazar’s Talent for Glamour 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z An amusing, rather enigmatic painting by Yasuo Kuniyoshi shows a pudgy young woman in a tight one-piece bathing suit standing on a rock by the sea and smoking a cigarette. Art Review: ?Youth and Beauty? at Brooklyn Museum - Review 2011-11-03T14:00:00Z But another previously unreleased song, the enigmatic “Grey Riders,” breaks free of the genre; it starts as a fiddle-topped cowboy trot but soon lashes out with Mr. Young’s distorted guitar and his wild hound-dog howl. Playlist Jon Pareles: Wistful Country, Politics and a Hint of the Divine 2011-05-25T19:02:17Z The landscape is trippy — ominous and enigmatic — as the dancers, taking their time, slowly round over to pick up jackets placed at their feet. Review: Seven Dancers Step Into the Rhythm of a Moroccan Night 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Pitt's performance as the enigmatic hillbilly and Nazi scalper Lt. Brad Pitt gets gritty again in 'Fury': 5 lessons from his recent work 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z An important subplot involves an enigmatic train conductor, known only as The Rail Man, who is tasked with rounding up further Black recruits. How Accurate Was ‘The Good Lord Bird’? 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z An enigmatic young woman is found in the forest and brought home by an older prince, Golaud, who marries her. Asian inspiration as L.A. Philharmonic tackles 'Pelléas'; Pacific Symphony 'Turandot' 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z The music and its enigmatic secrets are presented in full color. Newly Published, From Che Guevara to Sapiens 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z It is a characteristically toneless, enigmatic claim, placed before his followers on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger ? review 2011-03-17T22:00:01Z The forthright opening movement with its lurching cadenza is followed by a slow, enigmatic waltz, which seems under constant threat of dissolving into fragments. RLPO/Petrenko – review 2013-02-10T18:40:19Z Lyrical wedding drama A Cube Of Sugar and enigmatic road movie Modest Reception lead a six-strong Iranian selection. This week's new film events 2013-02-02T05:59:01Z All were layered on top of an enigmatic, storied narrative brimming with crosses, halos and other religious iconography, as well as art history references. The late Cuban artist Belkis Ayón's mysterious world unfurls at the Fowler Museum 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Hessler spent two years teaching English in a nondescript small town on the Yangtze, and used it as a base from which to explore the country's enigmatic past, inscrutable present and unpredictable future. Hilary Spurling's top 10 unputdownable Chinese books 2010-05-11T10:30:00Z Don't big horizons, peach-coloured hills, Joshua trees, hallucinations and enigmatic Indians properly belong to road movies and embarrassing rockers such as Jim Morrison? Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru ? review 2011-07-27T10:30:00Z In 2009, she played the enigmatic leader of a secretive cult in “Sound of My Voice.” Actress, screenwriter Brit Marling gains notice, respect 2013-06-05T19:33:20Z D'ALESSIO Associated Press Writer A new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago takes a close - sometimes even microscopic - look at one short and enigmatic phase in the 65-year-long artistic career of France's Henri Matisse. Exhibit looks at enigmatic phase in Matisse's art 2010-03-19T10:29:00Z It’s a true oddity, an outlier, as isolated and enigmatic as the gloomy, rain-whipped island on which the action takes place. 2010-02-06T04:17:00Z It will strike fans of the director's disciplined, enigmatic classics "What Time Is It There?" and "Goodbye, Dragon Inn" as both accessible outlier and charged testing ground. 'Rebels of the Neon God' an early glimpse of Tsai Ming-liang's genius 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z It has seen her go from mere pop superstar to fearsome, enigmatic, bona fide diva. 2010-02-16T08:37:00Z The most enigmatic portrait, “Number 15: Betty,” depicts a woman holding two animal claws, one in each hand. Women, divorce and art that turns shame into celebration at Gavlak gallery 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The sherry was appealing in its enigmatic way. Pursuits: Sharing a Sherry Treasured in Spain 2013-01-02T17:44:45Z Surely there is no more magical celebration of mountains than Giambologna's statue that personifies the Appenines as a colossal bearded man, a giant whose face is darkly enigmatic. The magic of mountains in art 2011-02-08T10:54:44Z “He is a very enigmatic person,” Tsukasa Kodera, a curator and professor of art history at Osaka University in Japan, said of Brooke, who has become a focus of his research. The Hunt for Clarity About van Gogh’s Last Days Leads to Maine 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Another Szymborska poem, "Love At First Sight," inspired the lauded, enigmatic movie "Red" by the late Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski. Poland's 1996 Nobel poet Szymborska dies at 88 2012-02-01T20:32:13Z But he recovered quickly and resumed his search for Rockefeller’s “Rosebud,” the elusive transformative object or episode that would decode his enigmatic persona and herculean career. Richard Norton Smith Dissects Nelson Rockefeller 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z France lay behind this moveable frontier and was quite enigmatic because I couldn't go there but it was there. A life in art: Anselm Kiefer 2011-03-21T08:00:00Z The villains stir up some mild narrative tension simply by virtue of their weapons and enigmatic violence. ‘Get Duked!’ Review: The Kids Are All Fight (and Jokes) 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z And yet, his motives and reactions remain enigmatic. Review | Shakespeare’s ‘Timon of Athens’ takes a rare Washington bow 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Seemingly unconcerned with the viewer, he projects a strong presence, at once inviting and enigmatic, joyful and antagonistic. An Artist Who Doesn’t Want to Feed Western Fantasies About Africa 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z In a way, the enigmatic Viktor & Rolf presentation addressed the problem. On the Runway Blog: From Paris Couture Fashion Week, the Shape in Things to Come 2013-07-05T18:58:27Z There is an enigmatic pageant of scenes: people preparing placidly for supper; migrants playing football, impassive figures in hazmat suits silently bringing migrants’ bodies ashore. The 50 best films of 2016 in the US: No 6 Fire at Sea 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Appropriately enough, among Zivkovic’s many literary honors is an award named after Stanislaw Lem , the great Polish science fiction author, whose works are similarly inventive, playful and enigmatic. The narrative seductiveness of Zoran Zivkovic 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z From a puckish processional by Satie, Ms. Cahill brought a gentle intensity to enigmatic aphorisms by Scriabin and subtly ostentatious pieces by Dane Rudhyar. Music Review: Sarah Cahill and Julia Holter at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-03-08T00:17:18Z He offered an elegant performance of this enigmatic piece, in which fragments of melody are interwoven with rumbling figurations in the left hand. Music Review: Taka Kigawa Plays Piano at Le Poisson Rouge - Review 2011-08-24T21:20:26Z A compendium of the Natale’s bold yet buttoned-up projects and the checklists and tips he uses to create them, The Tailored Interior offers an inside look at the designer’s enigmatic design process. 10 Steps to Creating a Tailored Interior, Courtesy of Greg Natale 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The novel plunges us immediately into the shabby, slightly enigmatic reality of a rundown planet without preamble or hand-holding. Review | There’s no shortage of novels about what happens when the Earth stops spinning. ‘The Last Day’ may set a new standard. 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z The Hollywood Reporter does not make clear whether Knightley is to play the prudish Rose or the enigmatic and charismatic Odalie. Keira Knightley to star in The Other Typist 2013-06-27T11:24:46Z At Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 4 August until 9 October Mystics or Rationalists?Is conceptual art a cerebral questioning of language, or something more enigmatic? Vel?zquez, Christian Marclay and the Brighton Pavilion ? the week in art 2011-08-05T11:36:14Z The film works as both insider moviemaking satire and an enigmatic tribute to intergenerational bonds between women. Here Are the Best Movies of 2015 So Far 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z A 7-8-hour drive south lies Phonsavanh, and its enigmatic Plain of Jars, a scattering of monumental vessels whose purpose still puzzles historians and visitors. Laos holiday guide: plan the perfect two-week trip 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z With the last tile in place, the picture of Imogen remains as enigmatic as ever. Remembering a Lover Who Never Revealed Her True Nature 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Pitt, 48, is seen with long hair and dressed casually, looking wistfully into the camera in an enigmatic black-and-white video directed by "Atonement" filmmaker Joe Wright. Brad Pitt mystifies as first male face of Chanel No.5 2012-10-15T21:33:39Z As "Open Meadow" grew more enigmatic and volatile, it shifted from comforting terrain to the tangled, insoluble mysteries of being alive, old, young, female. Risk-taking Seattle theaters offer wild surprises 2011-12-01T00:35:04Z Calling the archive “a spine for all Mr. Barney’s work in all mediums,” Ms. Temkin said, “He is a very enigmatic artist, and this is very autobiographical.” Inside Art: Matthew Barney Series Now Has Two Homes 2010-05-13T21:49:00Z Unsurprisingly, one of them is "Stalker," Andrei Tarkovsky's slow and enigmatic 1979 science fiction allegory, the subject of Mr. Dyer's new book "Zona." ArtsBeat: Telluride Film Festival: Geoff Dyer, Tarkovsky's 'Stalker,' Chaplin and More 2012-09-02T21:04:35Z But the highest praise was reserved for Rylance, as the enigmatic Cromwell - who goes from blacksmith's son to the king's right-hand man. Critics hail Wolf Hall's TV debut 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z “The Westing Game” is an enigmatic sort of bicentennial creation: a tribute, a pastiche, and a critique. “The Westing Game,” a Tribute to Labor That Became a Dark Comedy of American Capitalism 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z “His reputation was for being enigmatic, closemouthed, trustworthy, impenetrable.” A Dylan Insider’s Back Pages 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Except this itself is a myth about cave art: in the caves of southern France you see as many dots, geometric patterns and enigmatic beings as "realistic" paintings. Happisburgh tools: masterpieces with a cutting edge 2010-07-09T15:51:00Z There she meets Lucas Sebastian, the enigmatic owner of the abbey — and her pursuer meets a most unexpected end. 'Crystal Gardens': Action-packed start to new Amanda Quick series 2012-04-18T22:55:09Z This is the essence of Manhattan business-casual, less a style of dress than an enigmatic language of power. Goldman Sachs, Patagonia, and the Mysteries of “Business Casual” 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Benedict Cumberbatch brought his enigmatic charm, along with his sense of humor to “The Tonight Show” on Monday. Benedict Cumberbatch dissolves into a fit of giggles while making up stories with Jimmy Fallon 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z Her writing for the ensemble is more enigmatic, skittish and subtle: uneasy winds, a wispy guitar-violin duo, a crackling electronic background conjuring the growth of flowers. Review: A ‘Phantom Opera’ Dreams Between Life and Death 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Mayor Boris Johnson said the "witty and enigmatic creations underline London's position as one of the most exciting cities for art and are sure to keep people talking." Rocking horse and rooster set for Trafalgar Square 2011-01-14T12:32:08Z What we said: “A superbly elegant, enigmatic drama that compels a shiver of aesthetic pleasure and fear.” The best films of 2020 so far 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Adventure seekers will follow enigmatic instructions, meeting shopkeepers, artisans and other locals along the way. On the Hunt for Paris's Treasure 2010-06-21T10:00:00Z There is this figure of the enigmatic, elusive female who had disappeared. Harlan Coben on why even bestselling authors get those self-loathing writer blues 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z “The thing about Penny is she’s enigmatic, so she has hidden depths,” he added. Meet Four Theater Artists to Watch This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Like much of Bourgeois’s oeuvre, it’s an enigmatic piece that proves sinister on closer inspection. The Psychology of Louise Bourgeois, at Cheim & Read 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z When he looks in the mirror, he contemplates his distant, enigmatic father in his reflection. ‘Ordesa’ Is a Meditation on Yearning, Solitude and Family 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Unbridled and darkly seductive as the enigmatic female lead, she flung herself at Mr. Garcia with a vigorous kick, clawed at the air or slumped over with limp, wiggling arms. Dance Review: City Ballet Dances 3 Works Set to Violin Concertos 2014-02-14T22:37:35Z TO the fans who thought they knew him George Harrison was both omnipresent and enigmatic. Television: ?George Harrison: Living in the Material World,? on HBO 2011-09-23T12:00:00Z A brooding, enigmatic beauty strides across a beach in Margate, England, during the opening moments of “The Invisible Woman.” ‘The Invisible Woman,’ About Charles Dickens’s Mistress 2013-12-24T16:57:59Z Apart from the enigmatic crosses, almost all the pieces are warrior swagger. Staffordshire hoard site yields further 90 fragments 2012-12-18T13:31:06Z With his long beard, spectacles and intense gaze, the reclusive competitor cuts an enigmatic figure hunched over his letter tiles. New French Scrabble champion doesn't speak French 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Wayne Shorter, the enigmatic, intrepid saxophonist who shaped the color and contour of modern jazz as one of its most intensely admired composers, died on Thursday in Los Angeles. Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z We soon learn that this enigmatic young woman is the orphaned Harriet Brandt, age 21 and newly arrived from an Ursuline convent in Jamaica. Review | Sure ‘Dracula’ is great, but don’t overlook Florence Marryat’s ‘The Blood of the Vampire’ 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Her work’s closest analogue might be riddles, in that there’s something enigmatic about it, and also something profound. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z The crumbling hilltop ruin looms above the opening — an emblem of mortality that may well make this enigmatic scene a spiritual narrative of the Christian promise of life after death. Huntington's new gallery rooms show promise 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z These dedicated veterans have built their careers – and grown into full-fledged adults, and raised children – all while working for one enigmatic if intensely loyal entertainer. No. 10: How to Leave ‘Late Show With David Letterman’; No. 9: What’s Next? 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Sometimes Kahane withholds the background, leaving just a few enigmatic clues. Strangers on a Train: Gabriel Kahane’s Wrenching “Book of Travelers” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Max’s cold, single-minded determination is undermined only by Mr. Piccoli’s soft brown eyes, which communicate unspoken and enigmatic hurts. Movie Review: Claude Sautet’s ‘Max et les Ferrailleurs’ 2012-08-10T04:20:08Z To spoil the divisive twist: The book follows a London receptionist named Louise, who becomes romantically entangled with her psychiatrist boss, David, while secretly befriending his enigmatic wife, Adele. Sarah Pinborough, author of ‘Behind Her Eyes,’ talks about that controversial twist 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z The texts, after all, are culled from the enigmatic words websites ask you to read to see if you are human. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Christian Tetzlaff, Richard Egarr and More 2013-12-11T17:00:52Z Scholarly witch Diana Bishop is to be played by Teresa Palmer, while Matthew Goode takes the role of the enigmatic vampire Matthew Clairmont, her romantic interest. Buffy the Vampire Slayer to be remade 21 years after first episode 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Shadow embarks on a strange, scary, hallucinogenic road trip across the United States with the enigmatic Mr Wednesday. Neil Gaiman 2011-08-24T13:56:00Z The enigmatic fish owls, when they appear, are surprisingly un-owl-like, not gliding down from the trees so much as “dropping” like sacks. Through the Russian Wilderness in Search of the World’s Largest Owl 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z It’s a gorgeous, lofty waltz, with synthesizers billowing around acoustic guitars and vocal harmonies, as Wasner sings an enigmatic reverie about “losing the old for the new, like so much desire.” Beyoncé’s Surprise Juneteenth Anthem, and 12 More New Songs 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z He was Rollin Hand in TV’s Mission: Impossible, a charismatic and slightly enigmatic member of the team. A great actor who grew into his gravitas: Martin Landau remembered 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z As a result, Morrissey remains an elusive figure, both highly public and completely enigmatic—an integral part of popular culture and the perpetual outsider. Morrissey gives the most Morrissey interview possible to Larry King: “Obama—is he white inside? It’s a very logical question” 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Despite the intimacy of the photographs, the model is enigmatic, difficult to read. A Photographer’s Intimate Chronicle of Her First Romantic Relationship With a Woman 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z This “dialogue” also features an enigmatic virtual connection. Review: In ‘Platform 2015,’ Will Rawls and Kaitlyn Gilliland Perform a ‘Dance Dialogue’ 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z But fantastic ripples — an enigmatic, utopian island and mythical “ornate sea creatures” — break the narrative surface so that the prose’s lyrical pulse builds to one long, unbroken spell. Dear Match Book: Genre Fiction by Black Writers, About Black Characters 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z On a sensory level, the gamely acted Theater Alliance production underscores the tale’s enigmatic aspects with apt design touches. In ‘Night Falls,’ a woman’s body becomes a temple of the otherworldly 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z As the enigmatic and feisty Witch — whose encounter with the young Edward may be the key to understanding his later escapades — McManus delivers a knockout interpretation of the early number “The Witch.” Review | ‘Big Fish’ looks for the truth in a father-son relationship 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z But unlike her counterparts in the movement, who tend to traffic in hard-edge classicism, Schanelec imbues her movies with an enigmatic logic all their own. 4 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Gene Wilder's performance as the master confectioner is simultaneously enchanting and unsettling: for all Wonka's showmanship, he retains an enigmatic, even volatile quality. Mel Stuart 2012-08-12T16:32:42Z “There’s something enigmatic, yet totally ordinary, about him.” | Tribeca Premieres Documentary About Raf Simons’s Dior Debut 2014-04-15T14:08:38Z Gottlieb, the renowned editor and author, sheds light on this enigmatic actress. 10 books to read in December 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Lech Walesa and actor Robert Wieckiewicz at the London Film Festival Walesa remains enigmatic when asked what he thinks of his portrayal on the big screen. Lech Walesa: 'I only fear God, and my wife' 2013-10-18T07:41:55Z This muted work is mesmerizing and enigmatic: It suggests a muralist paean to working-class life on the sea but lacks the expected energy of celebration. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z I can't get the enigmatic and terribly sad star of "Show Your Face!" out of my head, even through the fellow is a puppet without any face whatsoever. 'Show Your Face' this weekend only at MCA 2011-01-14T22:36:36Z For most of its length, though, “Birds of Maine” is a nicely calibrated blend of the enigmatic and the ridiculous — a blend that DeForge should, by now, be well known for. After a Climate Catastrophe, These Birds Flocked to the Moon 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z There is little surprising about it and it doesn’t try to withhold information about its characters make them mysterious or enigmatic. Spotless: a bloody good crime clean-up tale from Esquire 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z They will be joined by the enigmatic filmmaker David Lynch at the academy’s Governors Awards. Geena Davis Is Among Four to Receive Honorary Oscars 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z The artwork, which juxtaposes a nocturnal lamplit street with a serene daylit sky, is one of the most celebrated and enigmatic images in 20th-century art. Kandinsky Painting Sells for $45 Million at Auction 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Each of the enigmatic scenes ends with a father’s cry for his son. Forced Online, an Opera Festival Searches for Intimacy 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z I’m between projects right now, which is a wondrous, enigmatic space in which I give myself permission to follow my instincts rather than map a territory. Why Maggie Nelson Is Drawn to Certain Autobiographies 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Its generous tonal lyricism develops in layers: hymns and folk songs for the household; a square, petulant simplicity for Brother’s naïve savagery; an enigmatic chromaticism for Doodle and the pathos of time. ‘The Scarlet Ibis’ Blends Opera With Puppetry 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Alexandria, though, is even more enigmatic – nor is it any the less shadowed by death. Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra by Peter Stothard – review 2013-07-05T11:00:01Z I learned more about Mr. Dhoni — his enigmatic character and what marked him as a great captain — by reading about him after watching this movie than I did during three long hours. Review: ‘M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story’ Recalls a Cricketer’s Ascent 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Sylve was equally glorious as the central, enigmatic figure of “Ghosts,” set to an eerie, shivery score for piano and strings by C. F. Kip Winger. Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet Finishes Its London Season 2012-09-25T22:04:19Z The experiments currently being performed in the LHC are enigmatic, mind-boggling and imaginative. Want to imagine what the Higgs boson might look like? Embrace modern art 2011-07-27T15:31:36Z Over the years, myths have emerged around their romance — Zelda drove Scott to drink, Scott pushed Zelda into madness — but their letters portray something else: a singular, enigmatic connection. Review | Revisiting the love story of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald in their own words 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z They are intense and enigmatic, and often loaded with tests of endurance. Okwui Okpokwasili Wants You to Slow Down and Walk With Her 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z It is not easy to say what this enigmatic performance is intended to be – it's difficult to call it drama because nobody speaks. Ea Sola: 'I'm not an intellectual, I come from the forest' 2011-08-25T21:15:02Z Love is a recurrent theme, often between a studious young man and an enigmatic beauty of unknown background who, alas, generally turns out to be a revenant or were-vixen. Review | The perfect book to help celebrate the Chinese New Year 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z A final, enigmatic sequence jumps ahead to show Jesus’s final moments on the cross and his entombment. Review: In ‘Last Days in the Desert,’ Ewan McGregor Is a Conflicted Jesus 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z There’s something both meditative and mesmerizing about the way they play with line and contour as they pull you into their enigmatic depths. 3 don’t-miss gallery shows around Seattle, May edition 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Making her Met debut as the enigmatic Foreign Princess, the soprano Emily Magee sounded potent but a bit distant, like a forest fire viewed from far away. A ‘Rusalka’ Shows Two Sides at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-01-24T10:13:05Z Ms. Trzebuchowska, a student with little previous acting experience, is a natural screen presence and also an enigmatic one. Movie Review: ‘Ida,’ About an Excavation of Truth in Postwar Poland 2014-05-02T12:20:44Z I deeply admired his recordings of 20th-century classics, obsessing in particular over a Debussy album that included “La Mer” and the enigmatic “Jeux,” performed with the utmost delicacy and sense of formal balance. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z "With long hair and a pronounced profile, this energetic and enigmatic portrait is truly a rare representation from a celebrated artist," the auction house said, adding the identity of the sitter remains a mystery. David Bowie painting bought for $4 at Canadian thrift store likely to sell at auction for tens of thousands 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Restrained in his deployment of the recordings, McIntosh conjures an enigmatic, shadowy, quietly colorful world, sometimes bone-dry, sometimes softly shimmering. In a Jam-Packed Weekend at Ojai, a Musical Family Gathers 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z The idyllic facade of a peaceful suburb begins to fray when an enigmatic artist and her daughter move to town. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z “He likes defiant, enigmatic paradoxes and pregnant parables that never quite close, perhaps by design.” Alec McCowen, British Actor Who Played Saint and Fool, Dies at 91 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z The new promo for the Danny Boyle-directed film focuses on Jobs' reputation as an enigmatic and imperious tech innovator, one whose passion and ego did not always endear him to his colleagues. 'Steve Jobs' trailer: Sorkin, Fassbender search for core of Apple founder 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Contemporary reviewers praised Emily’s morally enigmatic novel, but its genius was apparent to few in her time. Review: ‘Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart’ 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z In another, Mahboubeh, of Iran, takes us inside the enigmatic black box she carries with her, containing the sculptures she made to express her feelings about her childhood abuse. The Little Tramp and the Refugees Who Loved, Then Loathed Him 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z At the same time, what you see is always absolutely clear, even if its meanings are sometimes enigmatic. How Abbas Kiarostami Had Me Thinking in Persian 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Lewis covers over parts of Calvin and Hobbes comic strips to create his own enigmatic little narratives. At LAXArt, boundary-blurring drawing as a form of sculpture 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z She likewise was intrigued by the character's enigmatic qualities, and in fact looked to amplify some of those. 'Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter's' path winds through fact, legend, truth 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z As a performer, he doesn’t exude a need to be loved; here, without a character to interpret, he became both more accessible and more enigmatic. David Bowie, Celebrated by His Friends 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, the artist — whose enigmatic, small sculptures, including of seeds and fruit, were seen at this year’s Whitney Biennial — won the Turner Prize, the biggest award in British art. Turner Prize Goes to Veronica Ryan, a Sculptor of Quiet Moments 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z I was disappointed by Serena Williams’s mundane documentary series, “Being Serena,” which hardly opened the curtain on one of the world’s most maddeningly enigmatic superstar athletes. LeBron James’s “The Shop” Reinvigorates the Celebrity Interview 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z Far from being a music-hall villain, he is cool and enigmatic, a self-contained obsessive, focused on revenge. Sweeney Todd 2010-05-26T20:45:00Z David Mazouz looks appropriately withdrawn and enigmatic as the child, Jake, in a role that for now doesn’t require much else. | 'Touch': In ?Touch,? Kiefer Sutherland Plays a Single Dad - Review 2012-01-25T00:38:52Z This Puppet is an enigmatic symbol – but his puppet-presence is lightly and beautifully sketched in. Poem of the week: Puppet by Gillian Allnutt 2012-11-19T10:39:07Z Ferrante leaves many threads dangling; we’re left to wonder at the initial forecast and the novel’s enigmatic, oddly heroic conclusion: What is this progress that seems to contain the seeds of regression? Elena Ferrante’s New Novel Is a Suspenseful Story About the Sins of Parents 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z The opening metal chug of Cockiness is not what you require from an audience with the unknowable, enigmatic Rihanna. Rihanna – review 2012-11-25T00:05:37Z The images he collects offer fleeting glimpses of his enigmatic social life and serendipitous compositions of light, shadow and movement. Movie Review: ‘Tokyo Waka’ Examines the Urban Lives of Crows 2013-08-27T19:59:22Z Still, a reader new to these exquisitely enigmatic stories should probably start with inexpensive, secondhand copies of the Scribner’s collections, “Cold Hand in Mine” and “Painted Devils.” Review | Stories that are strange, fantastical — and utterly engrossing 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z In this adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science-fiction opus, the young scion of a noble family departs for a desert planet home to monstrous sandworms, enigmatic Bedouin-like inhabitants and an addictive, highly valuable resource called spice. At the Oscar Nominees Luncheon: Glamour, Griping and Gluten-Free Meals 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Samedi is first introduced as a calypso entertainer — "chief of the legion of the dead, the man who cannot die" — but proves to be an enigmatic and surprisingly resilient nemesis. Geoffrey Holder: Five of his memorable movie roles 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z They learn that the woman they knew so well had a secret life: The enigmatic Beatriz owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in gambling debts, and her life is in danger. Following a Punjabi Indian Family, a Missing Distinguished Novelist and More 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z At that time, I knew little of Jews, but that enigmatic piece of maternal wisdom lingered in my imagination, draping a veil of mysterious glamour around an entire people and their faith. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z It was very important to me that he was enigmatic and magnetic in a way where he would draw them to him. There Are Worse Roles Than the Seducer. Ask Alexander Skarsgard. 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z A characteristically enigmatic phrase, it’s both striking and open to multiple interpretations. Review | The real-life soap opera behind the publication of Emily Dickinson’s poems 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Joe, like Don, is handsome, suave and moodily enigmatic, a salesman who pitches his product with passionate intensity. On ‘Halt and Catch Fire,’ It’s Imitation vs. Invention 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Violet is so fascinated by Warhol that she tries seducing him — he flees, terrified — and she portrays his enigmatic magnetism, surrounded by his crew of hangers-on, enablers, casualties and stars. True adventures of bold women 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z In “Thankful” the harmonized, enigmatic refrain — “Thankful are my friends with remorse, ah ah ah ah” — becomes a climactic crescendo, with jittery guitars piling up until the voices disappear. New Music: New Music From Caveman, Los Campesinos! and the Fall 2011-11-14T22:59:39Z The music shifts from impulsive bursts to enigmatic passages. Review: ‘The Night Dances,’ With Charlotte Rampling and Sonia Wieder-Atherton 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z But the principal suspect in Kathleen Peterson’s death is ultimately a riddle, wrapped in one of the more enigmatic works of documentary ever made. ‘The Staircase’ Review: A Bingeable Enigma 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Even in his book, Pride remains an enigmatic figure; he never explains how he tamed the murderous, Jim Crow-born rage that he felt as a young man. What Country Music Owes to Charley Pride 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z The enigmatic Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu returns to Cannes with his film La Gomera, or The Whistlers — and the festival has done so much to support the New Romanian Wave of very exciting directors. Cannes film festival 2019: an intriguing lineup, with big-name clout | Peter Bradshaw 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z The androgynous figure in a red, short-sleeve jacket looking on from the middle distance with enigmatic intent seems elfin and mischievous, perhaps an agent of transformation. Perfect Poise, Pulled From Jaws of Distortion 2010-12-30T22:46:46Z By the end, we’ve mainly learned that Allen is the white-bread straight man to Rob’s enigmatic free spirit, which is not all that much by way of insights. ‘Listening Party’ Review: Can Songs Heal a Brotherly Divide? 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z But, as ever, the most important figure is producer Lorne Michaels, the enigmatic visionary who reshaped the entire entertainment industry in his own image, and to whom the book serves as testament and tribute. “‘SNL’ is still the center of his universe”: “Live From New York” author goes deep on Lorne Michaels’ legacy and the future of “Saturday Night Live” 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z But would say little about what he was up to, and less about the whereabouts of the apartment’s enigmatic former inhabitant. The ongoing saga of the mysterious Madame Giselle 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z His wooden circles, curving baskets, poetic ladders and enigmatic containers are quiet and self-contained, and they don’t glare at you with the hyper-polish of machine-made metal minimalism or the narcissistic sheen of latter-day Pop. A sculptor’s work, seen in two and three dimensions 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Howland Reed is obviously supposed to be the most mysterious, enigmatic character in the series. Why Meera Reed Probably Still Has a Significant Part to Play in Game of Thrones 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z It's an enigmatic story that becomes increasingly engrossing as it unfolds. Iran's Kiarostami calls for filmmaker to be freed 2010-05-18T17:27:00Z This is followed by a brief, enigmatic interlude of a charming donkey wandering in a derelict house where the dog tears at a small, dead animal, presumably our hapless hare. ‘I Was at Home, but …’ Review: In Grief, What Dreams May Come 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z She has, from the pilot of “House of Cards,” been Frank’s enigmatic arm candy; he shares his strategies and observations with us, the audience, but she keeps her own inscrutable counsel. “House of Cards” returns: Let the war between Frank and Claire Underwood begin 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z And so the servant classes might well take refuge in an enigmatic mask, or take revenge with little gestures of pique or cheek, and generally store up resentment. The Servant: a 60s masterwork that hides its homosexuality in the shadows 2013-03-27T16:21:00Z Read on to learn more about the life of this profound, if enigmatic, superstar. 10 amazing facts about Bruce Lee 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Beating Fichtner’s character to the safe deposit box he is after, Rourke finds a Polaroid of his own daughter, with an enigmatic message scrawled beneath. ‘Hypnotic’ Review: A Twisty Thriller Sends Ben Affleck on the Run 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z As social animals we are capable of co-operating more deeply than the existing social order envisions, for Montaigne's emblematic, enigmatic cat is lodged in ourselves. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z True to form, the story features a surreal narrative and enigmatic characters, including Aomame, a 30-year-old woman whose name means "Green Bean". Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 due out in English in October 2011-01-31T13:30:54Z Drawings of enigmatic stick figures suddenly proliferate, and a fellow employee claims to have glimpsed Eric in a nearby stretch of forest. Review | Dathan Auerbach got his start as a horror writer on Reddit. Now he’s back with ‘Bad Man.’ 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Eight variations, built around three short phrases with distinctive elements, lead to an enigmatic coda. Music Review: Beethoven Institute at Mannes College the New School for Music 2013-06-02T22:12:04Z That's a shame because the paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, films and videos by the enigmatic expatriate are far better in person than in reproduction. 'Sturtevant: Double Trouble' show at MOCA will dispel misinterpretations 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z The film's enigmatic story concerns a man called M Oscar, played by Denis Lavant, driven through the streets of Paris by a chauffeur. Holy Motors: love it or hate it, Cannes cognoscenti can't stop talking about it 2012-05-23T17:01:28Z Mr. Ocean is pop’s most enigmatic superstar right now, but what scans from a distance as reluctance is really a kind of meticulousness coupled with an increasingly rare spine. Review: Frank Ocean Transmits Intimacy on a Grand Scale 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z A musical chameleon and flamboyant showman who never stopped evolving, Prince was one of the music world’s most enigmatic superstars. Prince, mysterious, inventive chameleon of music, dies at 57 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z At Foehrenwald, a displaced persons camp in Germany, she finds the possibility of a new life — and of romance, with an enigmatic man consumed by a secret. From Missing Persons to Mistaken Identities, Books About Seeing and Being Seen 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z In this enigmatic 2012 novel, the middle-aged Mr. Cui lives in Beijing with his sister and her husband, who want him out. Newly Released Books 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z This young woman can run but, right up to the film's enigmatic final shot, she can't find anywhere to hide. 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' is eerie, effective 2011-10-27T20:12:04Z But here, as always, we have no reason to complain about Kim Cattrall’s enigmatic appearance as a woman still running away from her own youthful mistakes. Hear me out: why Crossroads isn't a bad movie 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z For Season 2, the showrunners wanted an actor whom audiences would find just as compelling, to play the part of an enigmatic woman who wakes up alone in a rowboat and is suffering from amnesia. Janelle Monáe Touches Down in ‘Homecoming’ 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z And that’s just the thing: The quiet beauty of this book lies in its ordinary, enigmatic human feats of interpersonal connection. When a Stroke Felled Her Mother, This Author Ran Away to the Circus 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Drop-dead gorgeous woman visits a seedy detective’s office with an enigmatic job offer? New in crime fiction: tales from Wales, Los Angeles and Cairo 2014-03-10T07:02:36Z And Stephen Gould and Michaela Schuster do well as the Emperor and as the Empress’s enigmatic Nurse, the latter turning up as a schoolmarm in the final scene. Opera Review: Provocations at the Salzburg Festival 2011-08-16T11:30:19Z But the hyperpolyglot, defined here as someone who knows at least six languages and possibly dozens, is a more enigmatic and freakish specimen, rather like a music prodigy or maths whiz. Mezzofanti's Gift: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners by Michael Erard – review 2013-07-28T08:00:00Z To describe her work as quirky and enigmatic would be an understatement. The enigmatic genius of Joanna Newsom 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z It is, most centrally, a realm filled with enigmatic encounters and terrible, unyielding mysteries. ‘Interior Darkness’ for those who love horror — and even those who don’t 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z An enigmatic melody was woven through the transparent first movement. Review: Roman Rabinovich Brings Melody to His Art, at Walter Reade Theater 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z In honor of history’s most famous Scorpios, what better way to celebrate the most enigmatic of the zodiac signs, than by sporting an extraordinary Scorpion cuff? Roberto CoinVoice: Celestial Celebrities: The 16 Most Famous Scorpios In History 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Part of the mystique surrounding Ms. Ferrante stems from her enigmatic persona. ‘Ferrante Fever’ Continues to Spread 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z It’s an emotional 48-minute tell-all, over 12 tracks that pummel listeners through a burnished house of mirrors. It’s enigmatic, heartbreaking, and severe. There's Nothing Light About Passion Pit's Gossamer 2012-07-23T18:09:47Z And so there’d be all this missing data in between the events of the strips that would somehow add up to this kind of enigmatic graphic novel when you put them all together. Dan Clowes’s “Wilson” 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z But her stillness is mystifying rather than enigmatic, and it is hard to feel anything but the most abstract pity for Mary. | 'The Conspirator': History?s Loose Ends, and a Tightening Noose 2011-04-14T22:29:34Z Artist Andy Warhol was an enigmatic figure, so when his diaries were published after his death they caused a sensation. 11 gossipy things Andy Warhol said about the writers of the 1970s 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z And on Saturday, the enigmatic British singer and producer Jai Paul, whose sparse career output makes Ocean seem prolific, performed his first ever concert. Frank Ocean Returns With Coachella Headlining Set and Reworked Songs 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z An enigmatic figure of apparently shifting loyalties, Snape evolved from a sardonic teacher of potions into a key player in Potter’s ongoing battle with Voldemort. Alan Rickman: 10 key performances 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z France as a character is enigmatic at times. "France" director Bruno Dumont on Léa Seydoux, digital media and how the "fake can generate truth" 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z But her cool, enigmatic refinement obsessed Osborne in life exactly as Alison's measured, middle-class way defeats the enraged Jimmy in his will to possess or destroy her in the play. Pamela Lane obituary 2010-11-21T18:54:00Z She stands in relatively naturalistic contrast to Daniel Pinha’s surreal, mostly abstract set, dominated by a crazy forest of twisty, arching wires and enigmatic draped textiles. Synetic’s sweeping, sinister ‘Alice’ 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Their climactic act is simply to strut their enigmatic stuff. Tales of the unexplained: why these Monsters are entirely alien 2010-12-06T11:57:00Z Until that research is done, the oeuvre of Cranach Inc. will remain as enigmatic and provoking as the smiles of the haughty young women. Art: The Gloomy Brilliance of Lucas Cranach 2011-03-04T12:00:05Z Still later, a short film shows Ms. Fitzgerald in a forest, overlaid by enigmatic subtitles. Dance Review: ?The Work The Work? by Fitzgerald & Stapleton 2010-05-24T21:26:00Z That sense of the enigmatic was a common thread among the artists who had earlier appeared. Music Review: Tri-Centric Modeling Event Honors Anthony Braxton 2010-06-21T22:59:00Z Hankins and her four fellow female dancers partook in enigmatic rituals and processionals, punctuated by unexpected absurdities and grotesqueries. NW New Works: dental hygiene, stunning solo work, and more 2013-06-10T18:40:34Z Janacek’s “Diary” is an intimate, enigmatic series of not quite two dozen short songs accompanied by a solo piano, less than 40 minutes in all — as rich, and as transient, as a dream. Review: Ivo van Hove Fills His ‘Diary’ With Muddled Melodrama 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z But in his non-musical performances, the screen captured his enigmatic posturing, his sexual allure. Beyond “The Man Who Fell to Earth”: Coming of age with David Bowie’s films 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z The depressed, enigmatic Aki and the grizzled, avuncular Paul don’t meet until an hour into the movie, when he knocks on her hotel door while investigating a murder. Review: ‘Man From Reno,’ a Mystery of Missing Persons and Priceless Turtles 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z At the same time, Le Bon is an oblique enough lyricist that the idea of commitment emerges in enigmatic ways elsewhere — or is subsumed by moodier, darker brooding. Falling for Duran Duran's "Future Past," which reflects the band's signature ingenuity and sentiment 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z The piece does not end so much as give up, in a final, enigmatic gesture. Christopher Rouse and EarShot Premieres From Philharmonic 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z From that premise, dark ripples of abandonment, betrayal, rage and a sensitive child's fears and disturbing impulses flow through the initially enigmatic one-act. 3 late-October plays: grief, trauma, loneliness 2011-10-13T20:15:08Z Paramount has signed actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley to adapt Green’s Looking for Alaska, but no one has been cast as the blonde, beautiful and enigmatic Alaska yet. 6 Things John Green and Taylor Swift Could Have Discussed On the Phone 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z The director Paul Feig broke the news Wednesday in a slightly enigmatic tweet. Chris Hemsworth Gets the Call for Female 'Ghostbusters' 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z This statement, of course, proves too enigmatic to ignore, so afterwards I do a bit of investigative Googling. Jesse Eisenberg: ‘Do you look at me and think, God! What an indulgent prick?’ 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z However, does ample justice to his giant reputation: it's richly enigmatic, with regular flashes of Coetzee's piercing intelligence. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-02-27T10:00:01Z He was the best, most enigmatic part of “Prisoners,” Mr. Villeneuve’s somber thriller from last fall, and he continues to refine his quiet, watchful presence into a powerful and idiosyncratic acting style. Movie Review: ‘Enemy’ Stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Twice 2014-03-13T23:11:40Z Like those mute, mysterious walls, Jones leaves it up to the viewer to interpret the message of his open-ended works, with titles either missing or enigmatic; “Midsummer” being an exception. Two very different painters show that abstractionism isn’t dead yet 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Exhaustively researched and written with unflagging energy, Hasan and Macintyre's biography of this most enigmatic of recent British political leaders has at times the flavour of a political thriller. Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre - review 2011-07-15T21:55:11Z Morris now shifts narrators, as an officer named Baron recounts certain enigmatic events back in 1915, most notably the disappearance of an important map. Review | A century after the end of World War I, a new look at lost masterpieces of the era 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z But it may be a little too enigmatic for a mainstream audience. Emmy predictions when predicting the future is folly 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z The three central characters in Hiroko Oyamada’s enigmatic novel “The Factory” also watch themselves being slowly and systematically buried alive, but by another great extinguisher of the self: work. In ‘The Factory,’ a Mysterious Company Manufactures Fear 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Their complex biology has long perplexed naturalists, Svensson writes: Aristotle, for one, thought eels arose from mud, “like a slithering, enigmatic miracle.” Birds and Horses and Eels, Oh My! New Books About Animals 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z By turns evocative and verbose, sympathetic and enigmatic, Ms. Knox says she wants to set “the record straight” in this volume. Books of The Times: Amanda Knox’s Memoir, ‘Waiting to Be Heard’ 2013-04-21T21:44:27Z The enigmatic acrylic rods, pucks and cards on view here are not art, strictly speaking. Art Gallery Shows to See in February 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Duchamp presides, as enigmatic as ever he was in life. The Bride and the Bachelors: delighting in Duchamp 2013-02-15T15:32:55Z And he paints in primary colors far too vivid to suggest the enigmatic quality of his idol, David Lynch. Quentin Tarantino's artful pulp: On alchemy, fantasy and "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z A quiet, enigmatic film of Uzbekistan’s Aral Sea, almost entirely drained by Soviet-era infrastructure projects, captures the unlikely beauty of a dry ocean landscape. | An Artistic Armchair Travel Platform That Visits the World’s Most Amazing Places 2014-01-06T22:36:07Z And she herself emerges from this movie an enigmatic figure: calmly getting the interviews, cajoling Michael in his studio recording, managing the situation, but revealing mere glimpses of herself in occasional emails she writes. Stories We Tell – review 2012-08-29T16:12:17Z The return of the pieces, which include terra cotta and bronze sculptures ranging from 100 to 2,000 years old, follows an 18-month investigation by the museum into the enigmatic routes they took to America. Boston museum returns looted African art to Nigeria 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z This is a complex tale involving a young and reluctant biographer, Margaret Lea, an old and enigmatic writer, Vida Winter, and the long departed members of the March family and their home, Angelfield House. Penelope Bush's top 10 teen twin books 2013-03-28T16:29:47Z Rainere — much like Ghislaine Maxwell, another bizarrely enigmatic figure accused of sex trafficking — has the sublime appeal of an internet meme, which is how he has been cast since “The Vow” premiered last month. Nxivm Had a Cult Leader Made for the Internet 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z They certainly add to the enigmatic quality of her character and Colman makes her compelling. Olivia Colman is magnificent in the mysterious "Lost Daughter," which hooks you and doesn't let go 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Her own albums — this is the third and most transparent — reveal grander structures and a singular perspective, as she sings with tuneful equanimity about deep, unresolved, enigmatic struggles. New Music From Kathryn Calder, Buxton, Nadine Shah, East India Youth and Tal National 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Proctor, who has a secret motive for switching careers, is a bit dreamy and enigmatic, when he’s not bossy and clear-cut. Television Review | 'Miami Medical': The Bruckheimer Formula in a Hospital 2010-04-01T22:33:00Z Saint-Gaudens’s gilded Diana still lords over the main staircase, and Marcel Duchamp’s enigmatic “Étant Donnés” still invites peepers to its wooden door. Gehry’s Quiet Interventions Reshape the Philadelphia Museum 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z Her enigmatic portrayal of Patty Hewes is so fluid and mysterious and full of pent-up rage; she's the force that drives the whole show forward. The Emmys: Who should win? 2010-08-28T00:20:00Z It reminds you of an extraordinary feat and acquaints you with an interesting, enigmatic man. Review: ‘First Man’ Takes a Giant Leap for Man, a Smaller Step for Movies 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Rounding out the major players is an enigmatic figure known as The Traveler, whose story periodically disrupts the main narrative. Book World: ‘You,’ by Zoran Drvenkar is a thriller/road novel, stylishly written Carson had a behind-the-scenes reputation, even among people who worked for him, for being enigmatic or elusive. Doc Severinsen Recalls High Notes, Low Notes and Everything in Between 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z It is the impassive Chang who first discovered Billy's victim and for enigmatic reasons of his own, created the situation in which Julian found himself agonisingly incapable of that payback his mother expects. Cannes 2013: Only God Forgives 2013-05-22T09:45:00Z The women they carved in ivory, and even moulded from clay in the Danube Valley, are utterly enigmatic. Ice Age Art at the British Museum: 'Not even Da Vinci surpassed this' 2013-02-05T16:44:01Z Burt Lancaster plays the enigmatic, feline Sicilian Prince of Salina in 1860, threatened by the new wave of republicanism. Film review: The Leopard 2010-08-26T21:30:00Z Shawn Jaeger, in “Letters Made With Gold,” memorably reset the lyrics of three folk songs to spare, enigmatic melodies that leapt and oozed unpredictably. Music Review: A Star Brings Singers and Composers Together 2011-04-18T21:33:29Z In the 2009 drama "Cracks," just released on DVD, Green plays the enigmatic diving instructor at a 1930s girls school. Eva Green plays Arthur's royal rival in `Camelot' 2011-03-30T11:06:08Z James is sent to Berlin on an enigmatic assignment involving an mysterious scientist and, after some tension-ratcheting quiet, things rapidly go south. ‘The Contractor’ Review: The Pine Identity 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z More than 37 years after Ricardo Montalbán finished his run as Mr. Roarke, the debonair concierge of an enigmatic, wish-fulfilling beach resort in the Pacific Ocean, “Fantasy Island” is returning once more to network television. ‘Fantasy Island’ Returns, Now With a Ms. Roarke 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z And there are enigmatic ancient writings and rituals that speak to the nature of God and existence itself. Murder in a Moneyed Fire Island Enclave 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z They range from the mundane to the enigmatic: mud-encrusted traffic cones and swirling seaweed to the carcass of a pigeon lying next to a rose on the sand. London's river and its secrets 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z That seems to be the case in “Exhibition,” a curious collage of enigmatic scenes from a strained marriage. ‘Exhibition’: a couple and their crazy-making home on display 2014-04-10T21:10:39Z Now, finding the enigmatic Mercer and uncovering his beliefs and desires may be the key to preventing another devastating attack. 'The Convert's Song' is a skillfully layered thriller 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Would Michael Haneke stage the whole thing as an enigmatic journey in which the hobbits are plagued by unexplained acts of brutality, and the spiders of Mirkwood triumph in the end? Will Tarantino direct "The Hobbit"? 2010-06-01T21:30:00Z Of those, "After the Gold Rush" is one of Young's most enigmatic, enduring numbers. Preview: Expect goose bumps at Neil Young solo show Tuesday at the Paramount 2010-07-20T03:35:00Z This is a formidable, enigmatic piece of work in many ways; with control and technique deployed with absolute confidence. Aurora – review 2012-11-08T21:30:01Z The beaches were also unlike anything we’d ever seen — huge rocks loomed on many beaches and the mist and fog made the landscape dreamlike and enigmatic. A family finds a magic kingdom in the Pacific Northwest 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z And he is up for the same award this year, for his portrayal of the enigmatic and charismatic dentist Dr Schultz. Tarantino's Django in firing line 2013-01-17T07:34:22Z She does looks stylish in a red dress, and she gets to slink around from time to time, but Gadot never makes Rachel sufficiently engaging or enigmatic. "Heart of Stone" stars Gal Gadot in a lackluster Europudding action flick 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Lowery’s film is enigmatic enough to mean different things to different viewers, and it’s sure to spawn a thousand subreddits devoted to decoding its dreamlike logic. Dev Patel, Starry Knight 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z And one senses it in the paintings too, so intelligent and enigmatic. Manet: the Inventor of Modernity ? review 2011-04-09T23:05:37Z It’s a song about colors, cycles and trying to “find a song to sing that is everything,” enigmatic and arresting. 15 Songs We Almost Missed This Year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Slowly, an intimate but enigmatic portrait of a place and a people coalesces. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Their slow-moving tableaux dwarf any human presence, leaving audiences with enigmatic, elemental images — a shadowy army of frozen figures melting before our eyes, say, or a lonely performer struggling in a vortex of fan-powered winds. A Transgender Director Who Defies Genres (to France’s Confusion) 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z The odd ends jutting out of a work’s central story make for its most fascinating, and in the case of horror, their enigmatic quality renders them all the more frightening. Extended scares: in defense of the two-hour-plus horror movie 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Washington, since he turned to action roles in mid-career, has been the pure or scarred hero, often enigmatic but rarely villainous. Safe House: Can Denzel Washington Ever Be a Bad Guy? 2012-02-09T16:00:14Z Yet the situation is enigmatic, and the mood stays bleak. Dance Review: Into the Pool, Slowly but With Feeling 2011-07-31T22:14:39Z To me, its poignant edge and enigmatic classicism bring to mind the work of Antony Tudor. Electric Counterpoint, Asphodel Meadows, Carmen; Dystopian Wonders; Breakin' Convention 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z In the former, she is a reticent player in a twisted sci-fi romance; in the latter, she is an enigmatic cult leader who claims to be from the future. How female actors are rewriting Hollywood's script 2013-07-11T17:00:01Z And the Film Society of Lincoln Center is exploring 1977 with a wide-ranging group of films made that year, from Robert Altman’s enigmatic “3 Women” to Charles Burnett’s groundbreaking “Killer of Sheep” and beyond. August: The Film Series and the Dog Days of Summer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Rather than fused into a cohesive new whole, the collage ingredients are unruly and enigmatic. Review | In the galleries: Face to face with a world both beautiful and horrific 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z It reminds you of the sublime and enigmatic power of cinematic images without quite supplying the grandeur of mystery. Review: ‘The Assassin’ Finds Delight in a Deadly Vocation 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z We imagine this new "Anonymous" leafing through Primary Colors, or freeze-framing the DVD of the Mike Nichols movie, and thinking: hm, black campaign worker watches the rise of charismatic but enigmatic white politician. The story of O: A Presidential Novel 2011-01-21T12:15:40Z The kaleidoscopic colors of Ms. Chin’s score, with a brilliantly enigmatic libretto by the playwright David Henry Hwang, stood out all the more starkly against these relatively restrained surroundings. Review: ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ by Unsuk Chin, Told With Restraint 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z When pictures of his visit to the hospital for that purpose made their way to the National Enquirer, Jackson seems to have seen an opportunity to make himself appear more enigmatic in the public mind. Michael Jackson: King of hypochondria 2010-04-23T23:14:00Z Montaigne's emblematic, enigmatic cat lay at the heart of this project. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z The artist is known for enigmatic, participatory works that blend sculpture, architecture and performance. Art exhibit offers 'urban therapy' for NYers 2011-06-03T10:40:12Z “Chilly, enigmatic and more than a little spooky, ‘John and the Hole’ patrols the porous border between child and adult with more style than depth,” she wrote. What’s on TV This Week: A Pair of New Docs, and ‘Killing Eve’ 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Benjamin did just that and in the process learned even more about the enigmatic man behind the songs. Rapper Andre Benjamin has a Jimi Hendrix experience 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Fico, who these days shares her time between houses in Umbria and Tuscany, is the most authoritative living witness to one of the 20th century’s most enigmatic auteurs. Enrica Fico on her late husband Michelangelo Antonioni: ‘He was a man you could never quite reach’ 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Herheim takes complex operas and renders them more so; “Pelléas,” the enigmatic tale of a love triangle among members of an obscurely melancholy, aristocratic family, is no exception. Review: An Operatic Locavore Consumes the English Countryside 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The enigmatic vibe continued in a 10:30 set, in which the adventurous string quartet Brooklyn Rider offered a hypnotically beautiful interpretation of the Suite from Philip Glass’s soundtrack for the film “Bent.” Music Review: Nocturnal Voyages Through Many Eras and Textures 2011-06-14T22:22:12Z The class is led by the enigmatic Jee Moon, who is described as “shrouded in something aqueous.” A Cosmic Being Dies in Yoga Class. Then Things Get Really Weird. 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Cage’s “Lecture on Nothing,” for example, features Seattle cult artist ilvs strauss dancing in time to her recording of Cage’s enigmatic text. Coming to Town Hall: The John Cage Musicircus in all its weird glory 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z And there is an enigmatic middle-class woman called S. Tilottama who ferries the abandoned baby to her home. Arundhati Roy’s Return to the Form That Made Her Famous 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z As the narrative hurtles toward a shocking and cinematic climax, Tiller’s funny and naive observations keep the reader rooting for this wonderfully magnetic lost soul and his enigmatic mentor. Review | Chang-rae Lee’s ‘My Year Abroad,’ is a sweeping, twisty tale of love, family and hope 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Temple believes that Bowie's legacy as an actor lies in his more fleeting, enigmatic appearances. David Bowie: loving the thespian 2012-08-27T13:53:51Z There, Joseph Cotten was the charming, enigmatic Uncle Charlie, who drops into a suburban American family to fascinate and frighten the young heroine played by Teresa Wright. Stoker: Gloom with a View 2013-03-01T04:30:31Z Instead I’ll imitate a practice beloved of several characters in the novel: making an enigmatic statement that won’t be understood until it’s too late. ‘Six Four’ avoids every crime-fiction cliche. The reward is a gripping novel. 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z The motives of the characters – from Alec Guinness's archetypal stiff upper lip, Colonel Nicholson, to William Holden's jaded US Commander Shears and Jack Hawkins's enigmatic Major Warden – are not in the least straightforward. Digital technology rebuilds Bridge on the River Kwai 2010-10-15T09:55:00Z In fact, she describes the song as "vocally the rangiest piece we did; the text is so enigmatic and strange." Opera star Fleming sets out on "Dark" adventure 2010-04-16T23:15:00Z The man who brought an opera to Britain's biggest rock festival is using the enigmatic plays of Samuel Beckett to lure tourists back to a town better known for one of Northern Ireland's worst 'Troubles'. Beckett link brings 'Happy Days' back to Northern Irish town 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Unlike those by other stars of her caliber—Taylor Swift, Beyoncé—Grande’s songs don’t contain oblique or enigmatic references to her life, but, rather, lists of recognizable names. Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next,” Reviewed 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Root systems, functioning in different ways, are found in trees, turnips and the pyramidal neuron, which Cajal called “the noble and enigmatic cell of thought.” A Deep Dive Into the Brain, Hand-Drawn by the Father of Neuroscience 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Much of this effect comes from Harding’s lyrics, which are succinct, enigmatic and potent. Aldous Harding’s Gloriously Peculiar World of Songs 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Her extravagantly lacy bonnet and collar and billowing black dress create a formally dynamic, Cubist-like setting for her enigmatic, generically pretty face. Art Review: ?Jubilation/Rumination? at American Folk Art Museum 2012-01-27T00:08:07Z This ambition reaches its fruition in the scenes around the events inside Room 237, the enigmatic core of the whole film. Kubrick's "The Shining" in 6 parts: The obsessively-controlled sequences that unravel Jack's mind 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z He is the titular godchild, literally to Yaa, but also in another sense: an enigmatic figure who seems not quite of this world, and to bear esoteric knowledge from some other realm. Wrestling With Prejudice in Three Debut Novels 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z But if the likes of Sherlock, War Horse and the new Star Trek sequel make Cumberbatch the Beatles of modern British acting, D'Arcy is something altogether pricklier and more enigmatic: he is the Kinks. James D'Arcy: 'I delivered my first line and Anthony Hopkins burst out laughing' 2013-02-01T07:00:09Z “Song for the Unraveling of the World” is Brian Evenson’s latest collection of enigmatic, superbly rendered slices of fear, uncertainty and paranoia. Analysis | Just in time for Halloween, the best horror fiction of the year 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z While his personal tastes are enigmatic and the show’s recruiting process is generally opaque, dozens of performers have successfully navigated this minefield of uncertainty and anxiety. The God of ‘SNL’ Will See You Now 2013-08-22T11:53:25Z This exhibition takes us into its enigmatic world. Sculpture as personal as it gets 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z The tendency of photography to focus on significant subjects is given enigmatic weight by the apparent lack of anything worth our attention. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z Pawn, patsy or puppet master, Miernik is an irresistibly enigmatic onion to peel. A maze of danger and deception in newly reissued spy novels 2013-12-06T22:54:24Z Before the month was ended he had completed the cycle of 55 sonnets; as he wrote later to a friend: "They are perhaps the most mysterious, most enigmatic, dictation I have ever endured and performed." Orpheus: The Song of Life by Ann Wroe ? review 2011-07-29T22:00:40Z They've taken the silent route to success, but that was more them wanting to keep quiet until they felt comfortable talking about Jack's mother than to seem enigmatic and aloof. New band of the day – Black Light Dinner Party (No 1,469) 2013-03-12T16:11:55Z The clever, enigmatic lyrics get at the reclusive Chilton’s mysterious power, describing him, at one point, as an “invisible man who can sing in a visible voice.” Why Rock Criticism Was Essential to the Replacements 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Instead, we're treated to enigmatic audio teasing the show's signature creep factor we all know and love. Exclusive: "Yellowjackets" spills Easter eggs for Season 2 in an ominous Yule log video 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z “Linoleum,” the enigmatic feature from Colin West, is so determinedly coy in its early scenes that it risks losing the audience before the midway point. ‘Linoleum’ Review: Rocket Plan 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z This is largely due to the game’s ambiguous villain, Henry White, who looks like an over-dentated Ron Howard in the “Happy Days” era and whose true motives remain enigmatic up to the end. An adventure for the iPad 2012-07-25T19:27:00Z If published reports are true, five previously unpublished works by the enigmatic author are on their way. Catch This: Five Posthumous Salinger Books Reportedly On the Way 2013-08-26T18:30:26Z Well, given her missing and very enigmatic backstory stuff, that when there are clues, it definitely seems to me like she ran from something. What would Kim Wexler wear? Rhea Seehorn on her iconic ponytail, Marshall’s separates and class 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Yet despite Marrakesh’s new cachet, the true treasures of the enigmatic city still hide down dusty side streets and behind sagging storefronts. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Marrakesh, Morocco 2010-12-23T21:08:40Z With plenty of foaming bottles, a dozen people in togas, two young boys dancing and the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings as backdrops, the video for “Ya Hey” is urban and enigmatic. Vampire Weekend’s Evolution in ‘Modern Vampires of the City’ 2013-05-08T12:00:18Z I’m not hiding my obsessions from you just to be enigmatic, it really is early. New York Film Festival: A 'Genius' Grant Winner and His Unblinking Camera 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z To this genre we can add Hannah Lash’s chamber opera “Desire,” a dreamy and enigmatic allegory about the creative process that premiered Wednesday night at the Miller Theater at Columbia University. Review: A New Opera Pays Poetic Tribute to the Creative Process 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z But Greenberg's play does keep us guessing throughout, and is at its best when it is most fragile and enigmatic. The American Plan – review 2013-07-12T18:18:25Z The songs Mr. Robertson wrote for the Band used enigmatic lyrics to evoke a hard and colorful America of yore. Robbie Robertson, Guitarist and Songwriter With the Band, Dies at 80 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z What Shakespeare withholds, Nesbo delves into deeply, taking one of Shakespeare’s shortest and most enigmatic plays and expanding on what brought his characters to this point in their lives. Jo Nesbo Sculpts ‘Macbeth’ Into Shadowy Crime Noir 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z In a statement Wednesday, Laurie and his fellow producers said they imagined Dr. House as an "enigmatic creature," and that it was best for him to vanish while there was still mystery in the air. Dr. House hangs up his Fox TV stethoscope 2012-02-09T02:23:09Z Frieze’s sister fair, Frieze Masters, whose fifth edition previewed on Wednesday, remains an enigmatic event. At Frieze Art Week, All Eyes on the Pound 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z As Jeffrey ambles around in this Twilight Zone haze, he encounters other enigmatic characters, particularly an orphic monk who serves as a counselor to the dearly befrozen. Don DeLillo’s novel ‘Zero K’ captures the swelling fears of our age 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z If there are baseline characteristics of the rg_bunny account, they are enigmatic juxtaposition and unbridled obsession. Who Is rg_bunny1: An Instagram Whodunit 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z They were just featured on label/blog Neon Gold, bearing instead of a photo of the band an image of some nuns in masks in keeping with the enigmatic religiosity of their name. New band of the day – No 1,295: Churches 2012-06-26T16:48:14Z “And his mind also worked outside the box. So I had this sense that Tom could inhabit this enigmatic and unusual man.” 'I'm an expressionist nihilist at heart': the dark allure of Tom Burke 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z There are meetings with enigmatic strangers like Sir Gawain, and close calls with murderous monks and a giant, doglike beast, and the ever-present lurking danger of the she-dragon Querig. Review: In ‘The Buried Giant,’ Ishiguro Revisits Memory and Denial 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z If you have a taste for his hauntingly enigmatic stories, in which the surreal, the Kafkesque and the undecidable are related in elegant Augustan prose, you will be eager to acquire everything he ever wrote. Summer’s hidden gems, selected by Michael Dirda 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z They consulted with tribe members and pored through the museum’s “enigmatic assortment of anthropological ephemera,” Catherine Brooke Penaloza, a Bard Graduate Center student, wrote in the catalog, from Yale University Press. Antiques: Antiques Dealers on TV (Casting Calls Posted) 2011-03-24T21:17:07Z On Sunday, more than ever before, Ms. Körbes was the most compellingly unknowable, the most inspiringly enigmatic human in the world. Carla Körbes Grandly Bows Out of Pacific Northwest Ballet 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Mistry gets more than she bargained for when she crosses paths both with the bookstore's ghosts and an enigmatic young stranger. Local books: J.A. Jance in Arizona, Xanadu's daughter and a haunted bookstore 2011-02-01T00:43:07Z As Priest, Ron O’Neal had a charisma and enigmatic elegance that stood out in the Harlem back rooms and alleys where he did his business. Review: ‘Superfly’ Adds Bling to an Old Tale 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Godzilla is simpler, but also more enigmatic — a small-brained killer whose scaly face nonetheless registers an almost philosophical weariness as well as instinctive belligerence. ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Review: Let’s You and Him Fight 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Theron’s physical performance may overcome her dodgy English accent, but it’s hard to flesh out a heroine who is so frustratingly enigmatic. Violent femmes: Atomic Blonde and Hollywood’s new wave of killer women 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Hole, who has received a mysterious letter from the eponymous Snowman, is given a new partner, the forceful but enigmatic policewoman Katrine Brett. Crime novels roundup | Book reviews 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z He was a volatile and enigmatic person, in many ways decent and principled, but hot-tempered and quick to jump on any perceived slight. Jon Vickers, Opera Star Known for His Raw Power and Intensity, Dies at 88 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Joseph's writing is a little too enigmatic to give it much emotional charge, but the play is weird and authentically painful enough to keep it enthralling. Terrific actors face off in "Gruesome" play 2011-02-01T03:36:14Z In a few moments, I thought, the enigmatic peacock from the film would land, dreamlike, on the snowy Pigna fountain before me. Footsteps: In Rimini, Looking for Fellini’s World 2013-06-07T18:44:48Z And in her latest screen performance, she plays a salty, enigmatic Tennessee mountain woman. Kathleen Turner wasn't exaggerating about Trump's infamously "awful" handshake 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z Powerful but temperamental, often vengeful but occasionally generous, Morpheus carries the reader through the story but remains enigmatic, a morose yet compelling figure who inhabits a fascinating universe of mysteries, oddities and magic. ‘The Sandman’ Is Coming to TV. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal. 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z “Love,” the nine-minute third partita, is the slenderest work, with a whispered, enigmatic lyricism punctuated by surges of emotion. A lot riding on Hilary Hahn’s bow at Strathmore 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z And his enigmatic gaze, in the midst of much New York Times and A-list actors taking themselves too seriously, reminds us of the power of a great performer, revealing his own decisive moment. N.Y. Times' pretentious, riveting acting videos 2010-12-09T19:52:00Z Nevertheless Stonehenge should be returned to something like its past glory, it is hoped, and then attract even greater numbers of visitors seeking to understand the purpose of this vast, enigmatic edifice. Stonehenge remains a mystery as scientists ask: was it a health spa, or a cemetery? 2013-03-16T13:49:02Z Borgia is the inspiration for Machiavelli's The Prince, Leonardo an immortality-seeker whose most enigmatic masterpiece lies ahead of him. First novels: Catherine Taylor's roundup - reviews 2011-02-26T00:07:44Z The Duke, on orders from the Emperor, is to take charge of the planet, which is home to monstrous sandworms, enigmatic Bedouin-like inhabitants and an addictive, highly valuable resource called spice. ‘Dune’ Review: A Hero in the Making, on Shifting Sands 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z But then so does much else about this singular artist and his tantalizingly enigmatic oeuvre. Albert York Paintings at Matthew Marks 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z No circus animals are depicted, but the sense of three willful human presences in pursuit of some enigmatic goal is powerful. Sarah McRae Morton’s painterly talents serve her vivid dreamscapes well 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z The actress plays an enigmatic ballerina who arrives in the life of an ambitious congressman, played by Matt Damon, with unexpected results. Acting with a tennis ball 2010-12-24T08:50:01Z That, of course, is another way in which Mann’s work is classical: It conjures cartoon skies and enigmatic ducks just the way painters once did gods and monsters. In the galleries: In ‘Gilded,’ artist Takefumi Hori applies Midas touch Mysterious, portentous, mesmerizing: Learn about these enigmatic nocturnal birds through more than 200 color photographs of owls in the wild. Inspiring, transporting and just plain gorgeous coffee table books 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Smog's Bloodflow is typically enigmatic but filled with angst and terror. Readers recommend: songs about blood – results 2013-01-24T14:00:01Z The final impression left by Ms. Harms was of a complicated enigmatic woman of mystery forging her own path. Nancy Harms Celebrates Duke Ellington 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z For me, it is notable and even remarkable, for the enigmatic cameo from Paul Bowles himself, the author of the original novel, reflecting on the nature of humanity. Bernardo Bertolucci: the brilliant last emperor of highbrow cinema 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Out of the blue, Farran is approached in an enigmatic fashion by a famous string quartet. ‘The Tooth Tattoo’: music and murder on Inspector Diamond’s mind 2013-05-02T21:26:57Z By inventing a number of characters who brush against Oppenheimer at various points in his life, Hall offers a panoramic vision of an enigmatic man whom we know mostly through his cataclysmic works. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z It is, in essence, a line of poetry, enigmatic and evocative. Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z Later he incorporated snippets of film dialogue, too — enigmatic bits that asked the viewer to fill in large gaps in meaning. These Days, John Baldessari Cribs From the Masters 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z As his legend spread, fueled by rapturous live shows and an enigmatic persona, other artists with grand visions came calling. Francis and the Lights, Pop Star Interrupted 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z If one could resolve this image, much of what is enigmatic about Kuniyoshi would be made infinitely more transparent. Yasuo Kuniyoshi retrospective a testament to artist’s vision 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z But the detached, enigmatic text keeps our sympathies distant, and implicates our own fascination with disaster as much as it does the patriarchy it shows in action. Review: ‘Written on Skin,’ an Opera of Love, Betrayal and a Little Cannibalism 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z Some years ago, while exploring Bhuj, a small city in Gujarat, India’s westernmost state, I stumbled upon a beautiful and initially enigmatic structure: a column that supported an enclosure adorned with hundreds of holes. Documenting India’s Distinctive Birdhouses 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Yet the longer his enigmatic pauses extend and increasingly erratic his diction becomes, the less menacing the character actually appears. Faith and Cold Reading ? review 2011-02-16T18:20:31Z That’s a typical example of her enigmatic wit, a style rooted in strikingly physical images buzzing with mystery. Dana Levin coming to the Life of a Poet series in Washington 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Sherlock’s enigmatic and brilliant brother, Mycroft, is still deviously working for the British government. Pent-up demand: ‘Sherlock’ returns to PBS on Jan. 19 2014-01-15T21:31:48Z He let her stay, and so began his relationship with the enigmatic Miss Shepherd, a woman with a curious aversion to piano music and a colourful past that included driving ambulances during the war. This week's new theatre 2011-04-08T23:08:36Z Their enigmatic creator, though, was something of a pioneering and diehard wave-rider. Agatha Christie's surfing secret revealed 2011-07-29T17:52:51Z Catherine E. Coulson, a classically trained actress who won fans on television as the enigmatic Log Lady in the cult series “Twin Peaks,” died on Monday at her home in Ashland, Ore. She was 71. Catherine Coulson, Log Lady of ‘Twin Peaks,’ Dies at 71 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z On that was one of the mightiest, grandest, most enigmatic songs ever to reach No 1 in the UK: Cars. Old music: Gary Numan – Cars 2012-07-05T08:00:00Z The production begins where his “Arena,” Mr. Dundervill’s last performance installation, left off: In the skybox of a stadium with a group of enigmatic individuals. Dance Listings for the Fall Season and Beyond 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z They are so diametrically opposed: Cancer is enigmatic, unpredictable, and evokes fear with the mention of its name. After I survived cancer, I celebrated with a birthday cake 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z Leaning with her elbows on a stone building ledge, the tweenager gazes back at us with enigmatic interest. Art Review | 'Masterpieces of European Painting From Dulwich Picture Gallery': At the Frick, Paintings From Dulwich Picture Gallery 2010-04-01T22:51:00Z What other directions might Davis, the volatile and enigmatic trumpeter, have explored? What Would Miles Davis Do? Robert Glasper Has an Idea 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z It is among Pinter's most enigmatic and densely loaded forays — and among his bleakest. 'No Man's Land' at ACT: Pinter without a map 2012-08-23T17:55:05Z Her program drew heavily on settings of quietly enigmatic texts, whether by Symbolist poets like Paul Verlaine or Sanskrit miniatures filtered through the lenses of Western translators. Review: A Rising French Singer Makes a Delicately Brilliant Debut 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z He even has a sidekick, an enigmatic butler called Hafique whom he treats rather badly. An Edinburgh comedy judge's diary: putting the hours in 2010-08-13T16:05:00Z And sooner or later, her enigmatic words give way to oohs and ahs and la-las, inviting singalongs as they head for what she calls “the secret land of sound.” Playlist: From Soft, Feathery Vocals to Locomotive Sax 2011-04-17T00:31:06Z But there's no linear narrative, and the program notes are totally enigmatic. Review: Dance piece, offbeat comedy are horses of a different color 2011-05-18T20:16:05Z Both shows are chillingly enigmatic, but the American one is more timid about it — afraid, perhaps, of the French one’s s shadow. Review: In ‘The Returned,’ the Dead Return as if Nothing Happened 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z The enigmatic WikiLeaks founder turned down Cumberbatch's invitation to meet ahead of shooting for the film, citing his issues with the film's angle of his own story. Assange slams WikiLeaks film in letter to actor Benedict Cumberbatch 2013-10-10T02:47:29Z Published months before Donald Trump's election, it was perfectly timed for the zeitgeist, and Vance's extended personal anecdote suddenly became the authoritative text about enigmatic working-class whites, all presumptive Trump supporters. The chattering classes got the "Hillbilly Elegy" book wrong—and they’re getting the movie wrong, too 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z Dukelsky, “one of the most promising new talents of contemporary Brazilian literature,” was the enigmatic ringleader who brought them all together in the late 1990s to write for his pioneering webzine, Orangutan. Novels From Around the World Examine Kinship and Conflict 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z But the story that perhaps best captures Murray’s enigmatic, comic genius arrives in the book’s introduction. Follow ‘The Tao of Bill Murray’ to a better life 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Each tale, though, is merely a series of enigmatic brush strokes, narrative outlines bristling with loose ends. Review: A Paranormal Sleuth Investigates Three ‘Ghost Stories’ 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z As for Yeshua, the believed Messiah, he’s a smiling cipher given to dematerializing mid-confab, leaving behind enigmatic pronouncements and baffled followers. Review: ‘Risen,’ a Tale of Conversion Starring Joseph Fiennes 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z At Baby’s All Right, Mr. Nathan will be performing cuts from his latest album, “Toon Time Raw!,” a collaborative work with the enigmatic jazz group Easy Feelings Unlimited. Pop & Rock Listings for Aug. 26-Sept. 1 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z But Mr. Evans was also engaged in an enigmatic ritual of physical exertion and formal control. With Peter Evans on Trumpet, Only the Shape Is Familiar 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z It is a haunting, enigmatic work, with a taste for gnomic melodies, as are the other tracks, for piano. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: George Antheil, Haydn, Sibelius and More 2014-03-19T16:00:09Z The finger’s placement seems a pointed, possibly sexual gesture but remains teasingly enigmatic. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z “I’m thinking, ‘They’re going to get some young great tap dancer,’ ’’ Derricks recalls of his reaction after being offered the role of enigmatic Chimney Man, who compels Morton to reflect on his troubled life. Mark G. Meadows’s first theater jam 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Best friend Lila, as in all the Neapolitan novels, remains enigmatic, belligerent and expansive. 'The Story of the Lost Child' is a masterful conclusion to Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z McCall — an enigmatic avenger played by Denzel Washington — likes tea, but he’s fine with the coffee that a beautiful server brings him with a smile. ‘The Equalizer 3’ Review: Brood, Kill, Sip a Cup of Tea, Repeat 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Among his previous works are “The Poe Shadow,” which postulates an answer to the writer’s enigmatic death, and “The Last Dickens,” about a daring search for the author’s final, unfinished manuscript. ‘The Last Bookaneer’: Literary pirates stalk a master 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z "Simple, seminal and loud/quiet, with an enigmatic ending" @gralegav Mogwai are a great band for pedants; there are two versions of this song, Xmas Steps and Christmas Steps. Mogwai: a beginner's guide 2013-02-13T11:46:00Z But the old 1970s pictures and videotapes are themselves enigmatic and tantalising. Tino Sehgal has created a you-had-to-be-there moment at Tate Modern 2012-07-24T12:56:01Z They include adaptations of Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning historical novels "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies," which focus on King Henry VIII's enigmatic powerbroker, Thomas Cromwell. RSC to stage Hilary Mantel adaptations 2013-01-23T12:56:13Z Its finale is enigmatic to the point of inscrutability. Kubrick’s 2001: the film that haunts our dreams of space 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z The two stories converge in ways that are both powerful and enigmatic. From Brooklyn to South Africa, 8 Filmmakers to Watch 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Now, the purported inspiration for Shakespeare's enigmatic magician Prospero in The Tempest and Marlowe's devil-dealing Doctor Faustus has taken someone else captive with his mystical charms. Magical mystery man 2011-06-07T07:09:40Z On Kawara, the acclaimed but enigmatic Japanese artist whose body of conceptual works addressed the passage of time in detached, numerical ways, died in New York in late June. Conceptual artist On Kawara, whose main motif was the passing of time, dies at 81 The lyric is enigmatic enough to invite plenty of speculation — Is it about distorted body image? Taylor Swift, 30-Something, Is Revising Her Own Love Stories 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z One annotation explains for the first time a rather enigmatic woodcut found in Luther's 1534 Bible showing the Two Witnesses in front of a fire-breathing monster of the apocalypse. First edition of St Augustine's complete works to be auctioned 2010-04-06T21:32:00Z There is less emotional engagement than in Unrelated, but this is, in its way, the more subtle film – mysterious, enigmatic, with things left unsaid. Archipelago ? review 2011-03-03T15:01:00Z The last time I was there, in 2012, one production, an enigmatic multimedia rumination on Huey Newton and the Black Panthers, sprawled through a park in a public housing complex. Another Title for Pierre Audi: Director of Aix-en-Provence Festival 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Defying Expectations With Dark Lyrics and a Danceable Sound Miike Snow, a Swedish pop band that fuses enigmatic lyrics with energetic dance beats, performing in a concert at Terminal 5 in Manhattan on Tuesday night. Music Review: Miike Snow Brings Its Sound to Terminal 5 2012-04-27T21:41:42Z Decades of high school lit seminars, let alone the gradual opening of the playgoing class’s eyes to the world’s inequities and terrors, have transformed it from an enigmatic museum piece into an existential tchotchke. Review: ‘Waiting for Godot’ in the Bleakest Zoom Room Ever 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z With a calm demeanor and an enigmatic Mona Lisa smile, he undermines his minder. 'Safe House': Denzel is a fun break from walls of familiarity 2012-02-08T20:22:04Z And the pilot, filmed in faded shades of sepia and gray, is certainly moody and intriguingly enigmatic. | 'Rubicon': James Badge Dale Stars in AMC?s Espionage Series 2010-06-10T23:17:00Z Elling, who can cut an enigmatic figure sometimes, looked moved by the whole event. Kurt Elling/Richard Galliano/SNJO 2011-03-16T18:55:00Z From there it was a short leap to placing the objects themselves in the artworks, especially after seeing an exhibition of Joseph Cornell’s enigmatic boxes in 1967. Betye Saar at MoMA: Prelude to a Revolutionary Breakthrough 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Saatchi, the ultimate arbiter, never appears onscreen, except as a still photograph in the opening credits, as the narrator pronounces him "one of the most influential and enigmatic figures in the world of modern art." 2009-12-03T23:00:00Z Luhrmann's movie promises to reveal a great deal about one of the most captivating and enigmatic figures of our time. Was there anything real about Elvis Presley? 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z As precise as Mr. Roberts was about his work, he was enigmatic in his personal life. Why Michael Roberts Mattered 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z The film tells of a disturbed US seaman who falls under the spell of an enigmatic cult leader in the aftermath of World War II. Skyfall up for UK critics awards 2012-12-18T12:12:19Z We come to know her story, but he is more enigmatic. Naomi Watts survives "Infinite Storm," a harrowing mountain-climbing tale based on a true story 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Spall spent years researching the role of the enigmatic artist, even learning to paint. In pictures: Bafta-nominated films 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Other actors may translate that trait into an enigmatic distance or a quiet simmer. In Showtime's small town drama "American Rust," abandon all hope ye who break down here 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z That was always my favorite figure from stories because she was so enigmatic. The power of Hannah Waddingham's character Mother Witch in "Hocus Pocus 2" 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most enigmatic aspect of Tyson is her age. Cicely Tyson makes a trip that is 'Bountiful' indeed 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Also in the mix is Georg Büchner's enigmatic drama Woyzeck, the tale of a 19th-century German soldier who, brutalised by his experiences, butchers his unfaithful wife in a fit of tormented passion. How Punchdrunk breathed life into The Drowned Man 2013-06-05T17:00:00Z And that’s a natural reaction to this writer who manages to be both expressive and enigmatic, inclusive and solitary — a rider in the world, coasting through the landscape, sometimes participating, always observing. In ‘Life Is a Wheel,’ Bruce Weber Bikes Across America 2014-03-20T12:00:13Z The sign above the door displays only the restaurant's enigmatic logo: the skeleton of a duck superimposed on its soaring silhouette. Madison Park Conservatory: Simple and divine pleasures at new neighborhood treasure 2011-04-07T23:47:05Z Ben Arnold In the world of TV drama, murder is all about enigmatic criminals, maverick policemen and brilliant science. TV highlights 16/05/2013 2013-05-16T06:00:22Z Unlike “Doom” and “Mortal Kombat,” with their quick, bloody gratification, “Pilgrim” was enigmatic and difficult. How Failure Made ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Great 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Albright’s intelligently wrought interpretation deftly conveyed both the melancholy and passionate elements of this enigmatic piece. Music Review: Young Hands Tackling Chopin?s Intimidating ?tudes 2011-03-09T22:47:17Z Where those first pieces were spiky and enigmatic, “Aureole” was fluid, expansive, athletic and lyrical. The Everyday Avant-Gardist: Paul Taylor’s First Principles 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z The conversation between Max Murray’s surprisingly dainty solo tuba and the computerized echoes driving him on, chosen by Joshua Fineberg on live electronics, remained enigmatic. Review: Four Days of Luigi Nono in ‘Utopian Listening’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z The ability to decipher the enigmatic motivations of these young ideologues is just one more thing that old age is taking from them, and it hurts as much as the rest of it does. Characters Protesting the Times, When the Real Problem Is Time Itself 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Interweaving factual reporting and magic realism with meditations on myth, history and the quicksilver nature of truth, Mr. Martínez’s two most famous novels explore the lives of Argentina’s two best-known and most enigmatic figures. 2010-02-06T07:20:00Z Neil Young, easily one of the most influential and enigmatic musicians of his generation, will write a memoir, his publisher said on Monday. ArtsBeat Blog: Neil Young Joins the Rock Star Memoir Parade 2011-09-19T22:00:17Z In the past few years, thanks to the success of books like "Look Me in the Eye," the public understanding about people with Asperger's has increased dramatically, though the condition itself remains deeply enigmatic. James Durbin and Paddy Considine: Asperger idols 2011-04-12T19:46:00Z But it hasn’t been all that long since this enigmatic, reclusive Italian master was discovered in the first place. Review: Argento Chamber Ensemble’s ‘Scelsi Rediscovered’ 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Stevie Wonder is a pretty enigmatic figure, but he comes to Glastonbury highly recommended by a big fan, one Barack Obama. Doctor Who 2010-06-26T05:45:00Z Finally there's the promotional campaign, which involves costumes designed by Hedi Slimane, billboards on Sunset Boulevard and a series of playfully ingenious teasers starting in March with an enigmatic commercial during Saturday Night Live. Daft Punk: the midas touch 2013-05-18T23:05:39Z As anger simmered across the country, an enigmatic publication began to circulate, written by hand. The Egyptian Satirist Who Inspired a Revolution 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Kubrick strategically used two works – the massive orchestral score Atmospheres, and the Kyrie from his Requiem – as the sound of the unfathomable intelligence embodied in those enigmatic monoliths. What I'm thinking about ... conducting Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey 2013-03-06T13:28:05Z The earliest pieces are mostly small, intensely colored and surreal, with faceless characters cast in enigmatic situations. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z His work is an enigmatic and vital part of the American art canon. ‘Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts’ Review: He Made a ‘Pill for the Pain’ 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z This enigmatic piece is sure to cure any case of the Mondays by making even the most cynical among us smile. | Ugo Rondinone’s Miniature, Wearable Art 2013-12-25T20:00:42Z He is joined on the bench by an enigmatic young woman, intense of speech, in love with the gratuitous soul-sickness of the post-millennium age. First fiction 2010-10-01T23:15:00Z The Angulos' father, Oscar Angulo, an enigmatic but domineering sort, forbade his home-schooled sons from leaving the apartment for all but the most basic necessities and took care of essentials, such as food shopping. 'The Wolfpack's' isolated brothers relate to world through movies 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Obviously, Tresch packs quite a lot into his book — there’s even an ingenious deconstruction of the title page of Poe’s nautical novel, the macabre and tantalizingly enigmatic “Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.” Review | Is Poe the most influential American writer? A new book offers evidence. 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z At one point, he walks into a seemingly deserted classroom, initiating an enigmatic journey into the past that keeps bumping into the present. 11 Movies You Need to See at New Directors/New Films 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z They giggled at each other and turned enigmatic smiles toward their watchers, seeming almost like little girls, though both wore wedding bands. Dance Review: ‘Self Made Man Man Made Land,’ by Ursula Eagly 2012-08-13T19:16:12Z "Whose planet is it to save?" he smiles in enigmatic response. Venice festival: where dance comes to debate 2010-06-09T16:04:00Z The poor girl wouldn’t stand a chance, except she bumps into a suicidal homeless man with an enigmatic past who suddenly realises he has something to live for. Every Jason Statham film - ranked! 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Akyol said she loved that song’s directness, but that she preferred her own songs to be more enigmatic. Turkey’s Psychedelic Rock Star Speaks Her Mind, Ambiguously 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Yet both scenes said something about the enigmatic and not entirely likeable man they commemorated. The Last Pre-Raphaelite by Fiona MacCarthy - review 2011-08-25T09:00:01Z Rakoff’s workday mostly consisted of strapping on the headset of an antiquated dictaphone and transcribing letters for her intimidating and enigmatic boss. “I was just amazed”: Joanna Rakoff on reading Salinger’s fan mail 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Yet there remains something enigmatic and clandestine about his work. Perspective | Dawoud Bey, Jasper Johns and ‘Automania’ are among the many compelling reasons to visit museums this summer 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z His mind, as revealed in his notebooks, is a source of endless fascination, just as his few surviving paintings are infinitely enigmatic. The secret of Mona Lisa's smile lies in Leonardo's painting 2012-10-04T13:00:08Z Reviewing the film in The New York Times, Manohla Dargis called it “a hugely appealing documentary about fans, faith and an enigmatic Age of Aquarius musician who burned bright and hopeful before disappearing.” Malik Bendjelloul, 36, Dies; Directed ‘Sugar Man’ Movie 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z “Camp X-Ray” is the first film to prove that Stewart can really act, and it makes excellent use of her sullen, enigmatic screen presence. ‘Camp X-Ray’: Acting shines through darkness of Gitmo tale 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z This pair are extraordinary creations, at once enigmatic and vividly alive on the page. Canada by Richard Ford - review 2012-05-25T09:00:01Z It doesn’t spoon-feed the viewer a lot of exposition, leaving parts of the back story a little enigmatic. Review: ‘The Midwife’ Is Unflappable, Until the Past Blows In 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Cohorts of ensemble dancers form enigmatic, splintering clusters. Royal Ballet triple bill – review 2013-03-03T00:05:19Z Drenched in dread, Wyeth’s story is told mainly by an anonymous narrator via 84 flashback scenes reamed with abrupt, enigmatic silences. Review | A new collection of Joan Didion’s work reminds us that she is her most memorable character 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Her words sketch characters and situations in enigmatic glances and flashes of candor, while her graceful melodies promise more consolation than they words they carry. Music: Listening to Sia Tolno, Wye Oak, Etta James and Givers 2011-12-30T17:00:00Z Instead of words, they rely on an enigmatic sequence of gestures. Dance Review: Doug Varone Dancers and a George Antheil Score at the Joyce 2012-10-10T21:08:34Z It's an enigmatic character study, with frequent nudity and plenty of sex. Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival 2013-05-24T11:19:09Z Tensions Between Companionship and Solitude Willfully withholding and maddeningly enigmatic, “Nothing Personal” may be parsimonious with words, but its sights are almost embarrassingly effusive. | 'Nothing Personal': Tensions Between Companionship and Solitude 2010-11-19T06:13:00Z Vaguely reminiscent of the domestic interiors of artists like Vermeer or Chardin, the painting is far more empty and enigmatic than that of Hammershøi’s less mysterious predecessors. The power of restraint: Denmark’s anti-Impressionist, Vilhelm Hammershøi 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z The Coens opened their last film, “A Serious Man,” about a 1960s Minneapolis professor who endures trials worthy of Job, with an enigmatic short story about a 19th-century tale involving a possible dybbuk. | 'True Grit': Wearing Braids, Seeking Revenge 2010-12-21T23:00:16Z This gives the building an enigmatic, alchemical air, changing its character throughout the day. Shenzhen stock exchange building: inside China's 'miniskirt' 2013-04-16T17:56:13Z Talk to bee people, and they say that the factors affecting bees are indeed complicated, enigmatic and imperfectly understood. In a fight between environmentalists and farmers, the bees lose. And that stings. 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z An enigmatic figure whose mysteries peel away slowly, André scarcely seems interested in Murielle even when she eagerly tries to impress him. Movie Review: In ‘Our Children,’ From Joachim Lafosse, Life Turns Tragic 2013-08-02T00:16:04Z Realist drama gradually gives way to touches of horror and an enigmatic spiritual treatise. 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Burroughs described Gysin as “completely enigmatic because he was completely himself,” and completely himself because he was “unsuccessful as an artist.” Art Review: At New Museum, Brion Gysin?s First Retrospective 2010-07-29T21:21:00Z Perhaps that stark, enigmatic, austere film tapped into a side of Karina that did not interest Godard: a kind of religious mystery. Anna Karina: an actor of easy charm and grace whose presence radiated from the screen | Peter Bradshaw 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z The enigmatic utterances of Ms. Beiser’s characters always seemed to hover between insanity and prophecy. Music Review: Maya Beiser in ‘Elsewhere’ at BAM 2012-10-18T21:51:15Z Other highlights include the psychedelic "Lily of the Valley"; a hint of Gram Parsons in "All Turn to Cloud"; and the gorgeous, enigmatic "Everyone Knows It But You." Buffalo Killers score a bull's eye with '3' 2011-08-01T19:46:05Z “What I love about her is that she’s got this enigmatic master plan, and however much of a tough nut she is to crack, she is such a joyous character.” How Emily Blunt’s Mary Poppins Will Be Different 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z And though his version is not quite as eerie and enigmatic as the French version, it's still pretty dang eerie and enigmatic, particularly for those watching the story unfold for the first time. A&E's eerie 'The Returned' veers far from usual zombie tale 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z No previous Vargas Llosa protagonist – be they monomaniacal millenarian cultist, deluded dictator, gay guerrillero or utopian artist – had such a complex personality, nor could be both enigmatic and loveable. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z Stevens’ indirect, seductive, enigmatic direction creates a noir intensity and gives the ecstatic relationship of Taylor and Clift a tragic sheen. Greatest Oscar winners ever: who is the best director of all time? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Where Freeman was warm but enigmatic, Perry is warm but empty. Alex Cross: Freed from Madea, Tyler Perry Is Still No Morgan Freeman 2012-10-18T15:00:58Z She sustains her enigmatic passivity for days, unnerving her colleagues and disturbing the office flow as she practices the fine, rigorous art of saying no. Art in Review: ‘Maintenance Required’ 2013-06-20T18:15:33Z There are visits with two of Guralnick’s favorite novelists, the Southerner Lee Smith and the enigmatic Englishman Henry Green. The Music Biographer Peter Guralnick’s New Book Covers Many Subjects — Including Himself 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z The piece was not without its pleasures, especially in the enigmatic conclusion of the third movement, growing from a false ending that leads into a mysterious cadenza for the piano. Review | Youthful Busch Trio delights at Phillips Collection 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Formenti chose some of the most enigmatic, radical works by Liszt, including late rarities. Marino Formenti, Fully Engaged, at NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Like Emily Dickinson, Herbert is limpid and enigmatic, deeply spiritual and inexhaustible, a poet one never finishes with. Book review: ‘Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert,’ by John Drury In “Interstellar Ghost Hour,” the temporal and personal relationships are sometimes enigmatic, but the elusiveness is usually interesting. Reality TV, ghosts and an exorcism make for an engaging ‘Interstellar Ghost Hour’ 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Tan played two of Ms. Chen’s works, the sweetly enigmatic “Carousel” and “Cobwebbed Carousel” for toy piano and hand-cranked music box. Music Review: Margaret Leng Tan on Toy Piano at Washington Square Park 2013-07-17T20:27:22Z Yet the urban, diagrammatic or photographic subject matter, together with an oblique and sometimes enigmatic conceptual edge, shifts these images firmly into modern and postmodern times. This week's new exhibitions 2011-02-05T00:05:42Z Deserted by their enigmatic father, three brothers struggle with life in Kehlmann’s sly tragicomedy. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z She was enigmatic, but also damaged and vulnerable. Cheers for tears! How Dawson's Creek helped teen TV get emotional 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z I save the word “art” for works that are enigmatic — irreducibly so. Mark de Silva talks about his novel 'Square Wave,' a paean to process 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z These albums are poignant and enigmatic and weird, their motivating force remaining a mystery. Judging albums by their cover (songs) 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The blurb for Philip Ziegler's workmanlike new biography tells us that Heath was "the most enigmatic of our former prime ministers". Edward Heath: The Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler 2010-06-18T23:15:00Z Yet in many of the dances where his language is simplest, his construction is bewilderingly enigmatic. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-22T21:52:10Z Farmiga is again compelling here: nervous and charged by her dawning power, enigmatic, vulnerable, terrifyingly teenage. TV Tonight: American Horror Story: Coven 2013-10-09T09:45:39Z Ms. Hara’s aura of saintly sacrifice in “Tokyo Story” was also tempered by an enigmatic smile. Setsuko Hara, Japanese movie star of exquisite power, dies at 95 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Portman tries to portray this most enigmatic figure as frosty, inscrutable and vulnerable, but the performance comes off as calculating and mannered. Jackie Places the First Lady Under a Microscope 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Her 2002 retrospective at Tate Modern was a revelation of enigmatic dramas that slipped bewilderingly between apparent reality and plausible apparition. Kutlug Ataman 2010-04-10T23:06:00Z Over the years, the store has grown into a medley of stacked books, scattered toys, vintage records, and cultural debris, all of it floating in an apparent chaos intelligible only to the store’s enigmatic owner. The Final Months of Brooklyn’s Most Cluttered Bookstore 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z These feature not only explanations of some of the more enigmatic terms and expressions, but also brief discussions of scholarly debates about word variations. Shakespeare’s sonnets on an iPad 2012-07-24T16:12:00Z The program includes her enigmatic “Mirage,” which the group debuted in 1990. Classical Music/Opera Listings 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z It was as New Age as she got before letting go of all associations with the movement and venturing down darker, more enigmatic corridors. Pauline Anna Strom’s posthumous album cements her legacy as an electronic music visionary 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Opening the Sunday show is Darto, which shares Wolf Parade’s enigmatic spirit. Wolf Parade is back in the game 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z The £8k commission will see one lucky filmmaker working alongside SBTRKT's label, Young Turks, to become only the third person to record a music video for the enigmatic Londoner. Watch out north eastern England - Space Invasion is imminent 2012-07-18T07:32:32Z Its aesthetic points toward Wayne Shorter, particularly his writing for the Miles Davis Quintet of the 1960s: sleek, enigmatic post-bop, more suggestive than demonstrative. Music Review: Tomas Fujiwara and the Hook Up at Jazz Gallery 2010-04-30T20:54:00Z Some of the most moving images are silent ones, as Jonathan and Claire sit in their separate apartments, asleep or awake, or sleepwalking through the day, suggesting the anonymous, enigmatic figures in Edward Hopper paintings. Review: In ‘Reverberation,’ Singles Adrift in the Big City 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Few stage directors would seem better able to explore and honor its mysteries than Castellucci, who emerged from the world of experimental theater to produce an ongoing series of abstract and enigmatic opera productions. At Salzburg, Don Giovanni Gets No Pleasure From Seducing 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z I wanted to make a portrait of the human being Whitney to try and understand her — because she is so enigmatic — and just understand what it was that drove her. “Whitney” director on Houston’s untold story: “Whitney had been abused, and it took a hug... 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z But symbolism is a two-way street, with artists inserting enigmatic clues into their works and audiences free to interpret said works in their own, sometimes entirely different ways. Taylor Swift is just picking up where the Beatles left off 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Then she is on a deserted street where a young man follows her from a distance, staring with enigmatic, possibly menacing intensity. Art In Review: JESPER JUST: ‘This Nameless Spectacle’ 2012-09-13T21:06:03Z The hero of The Great Gatsby and the enigmatic host of a series of house parties in Long Island in the summer of 1922, at the height of the prohibition era. Suzette Field's top 10 literary party hosts 2012-12-12T16:27:54Z The enigmatic Nemo is a latter day Odysseus, endlessly travelling the world, and Godber's stage version should be a thrilling affair, featuring secret gold bullion and a giant squid the size of a house. Theatre picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z “The way he’s trying to express it could be mysterious or enigmatic or elusive. Or it could be celebrating the beauty of certain scenes or the chaotic nature of things, the strange nature of things.” Opening Paul Allen’s Treasure Chest 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z More often in “MindFluctuations,” the connection between dancers and screen imagery was enigmatic. Dance performance as a high-tech journey into the esoteric 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z In any case, there were only surface wounds inflicted on Bergman’s dazzlingly enigmatic and sophisticated exploration of identity. ArtsBeat Blog: Performa Takes on Bergman 2011-11-14T18:17:54Z The use of the Bhagavad Gita throughout keeps the opera enigmatic and poetic, endowing Gandhi’s evolution from lawyer to activist with epic grandeur. A Jaw-Dropping Philip Glass Opera Is Finally on Video 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Portal and its sequel are made by Valve, the brilliant and enigmatic developers of classics including Half-Life and Team Fortress 2. Video game sidekicks: eight of the best 2013-03-22T13:00:00Z Queens Of The Close Shave: Josh gets a buzz cut from enigmatic new member Boneface. Queens Of The Stone Age: Josh Homme comes back from the brink 2013-06-01T05:00:01Z At 63, Mr. Brooks is still regarded by his peers as a pioneering if slightly enigmatic humorist. Albert Brooks Laughs His Way Through Dystopia 2011-05-03T12:00:00Z But Mr. Moses’s use of the dancers’ bodies, now detailed and large-scale, abounds in rich contrasts of texture; though the title and structure are enigmatic, there’s much to enjoy here. At Alvin Ailey, Antonio Douthit-Boyd in ‘Ostrich’ 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z "Siberia," a romantic thriller set in Russia, is just the latest in the enigmatic actor/producer's overflowing roster. Keanu Reeves on making “Siberia,” a movie set in Russia that’s not about politics 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z But it’s considerably less theatrical than “Into the Void,” and any insights it purports to offer into the mind and spirit of de Saint Phalle are a tad enigmatic. Cabeen’s ‘Fire!’: cool but cryptic 2013-01-18T17:46:29Z Then he went on to create a series of larger-than-life stage characters - astronaut Major Tom, alien rock star Ziggy Stardust, troubled Aladdin Sane, the enigmatic Thin White Duke. Show at London's V&A museum celebrates David Bowie 2013-03-20T15:59:12Z He parses both enigmatic Buddhist koans and the put-downs used in playing the Dozens, the African American game of competitive insults: “You’re so dumb you think the Supreme Court is where Diana Ross plays tennis.” Review | So you think it’s all a big joke? What wit really is — and why we need it. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Even as the show’s mysteries gradually unravel, Autumn remains enigmatic. Imogen Poots Keeps Everyone Guessing in ‘Outer Range’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Though the ending felt abrupt on the evening I attended, Ms. Reid and Ms. Anakwe, in the enigmatic passages leading up to it, seemed like twin spirits summoning departed souls. La MaMa Moves! Remains a Freewheeling Home for Dance 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z His pictures are enigmatic, sensual and a bit spooky. Johannes Vermeer is a pearl – not a diamond 2013-06-20T13:56:50Z “It was a parody of power,” said the enigmatic Ms. Prada, whose own power over the fashion industry will only be strengthened by this performance. Prada brings out the stars for men?s wear in Milan 2012-01-15T19:42:24Z “Sword” is at once transparent and elusive, with barely intelligible lyrics — “Everyone passes through,” Roxanne coos — and a willingness to tweak everything; the last section lowers and slows down every element but remains enigmatic. Dolly Parton Goes Arena Rock, and 9 More New Songs 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z I was attracted to the idea of the holy grail as something far away and enigmatic and a sort of destination where you desperately want to get to, but you know you will never arrive. A life in art: Anselm Kiefer 2011-03-21T08:00:00Z The ground splits and cracks into fissures as enigmatic as oracle bones. Woman Fish by Dorothy Tse, translated by Nicky Harman 2013-03-21T13:24:10Z For Nina Collins, the stories offered a window into her enigmatic mother’s fertile and complicated mind. Kathleen Collins’s Short Stories Were Almost Lost to History 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Days before her death she had almost completed Girl in a Green Gown, a "biography" of Jan van Eyck's enigmatic portrait The Arnolfini Marriage. Carola Hicks obituary 2010-07-27T17:33:00Z The show’s title, like the art itself, is intriguing and enigmatic. In the galleries: The devil is in the details in an exhibition filled with symbolism 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z After a few wisecracks about poker games and old age, investigations editor Walter V. “Robby” Robinson, played by Michael Keaton, notes that the Globe’s enigmatic new top editor is arriving in a few days. Perspective | ‘Spotlight’ made Marty Baron a star. It also made him my friend. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z In the enigmatic, lyrical Piano Sonata No. 2, he conveyed the work’s roiling, unstable moods, with a gently seething Andante and a brilliantly articulated Vivace. Review: Yefim Bronfman Plays Prokofiev at Carnegie, Channeling Rage and Grief 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z There were long periods when he simply disappeared from view, rather like Eric Porter, another great, enigmatic actor, in an earlier time. John Wood obituary 2011-08-10T14:21:55Z Mr. Godard in his 30s favored dark glasses and an impish, enigmatic air, and he plays an intriguing off-camera role in “Faces Places.” Review: Agnès Varda and JR Travel in the Present, Glancing at the Past 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z The delay has only heightened the film's enigmatic allure, and expectations are high. Cannes turns to big stars, edgy auteurs 2011-05-08T23:02:44Z Mr. Day-Lewis, for his part, must convey both the human particularity and the greatness of a man who is among the most familiar and the most enigmatic of American leaders. Movie Review: ‘Lincoln,’ by Steven Spielberg, Stars Daniel Day-Lewis 2012-11-08T13:00:00Z I don’t mean simply that the character Mr. Hawke plays — an initially enigmatic, eventually pathetic, finally endearing musician named Tucker Crowe — is the begetter of a begetter. Review: Ethan Hawke Is Just Right as a ’90s Indie-Rocker in ‘Juliet, Naked’ 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Cash's son also believes part of his father's enduring popularity can be put down to his enigmatic personality. Album of discarded Johnny Cash songs comes out of vault 2014-03-20T14:12:50Z As befits the legacy of Jobs -- an inveterate showman who whipped the Apple faithful into a frenzy by keeping the company's creations secret until just the right moment -- the teaser is enigmatic and intriguing. 'Steve Jobs' trailer: Michael Fassbender takes on a tech iCon 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z That story begins with an enigmatic prologue that takes place 50 years before the primary narrative begins. Review | Twenty years after ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ Stephen Chbosky delivers a thrilling surprise 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Take it from Jadis, the otherworldly leader of an enigmatic tribe of junk people: “Things are changing again. So maybe we change.” ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 10: Carol Sees an Old Friend, Rick Makes a New One 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Though enigmatic and open-ended, Modiano’s remembrances of things past and his probings of personal identity are presented with a surprisingly light touch. ‘Suspended Sentences’: An eloquent taste of the 2014 Nobel Prize winner in literature Instead, Episode 6 details the past triumphs and current tragedies of the show’s most enigmatic character, Serena Joy. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Episode 6: Trade Delegation 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Taylor Swift Taylor Swift and Owl City singer trade love songs Taylor Swift has never been one for enigmatic ballads. Taylor Swift and Owl City singer trade love songs 2011-02-16T12:52:00Z A variation of possibly the most uttered phrase you'll ever hear a singer say on stage, and yet Lewis Bowman, Chapel Club's enigmatic vocalist, says it with such charm. Chapel Club at SXSW 2011 - review 2011-03-18T18:14:53Z Rose, the prickly beauty, and Mary, the enigmatic saint: I wonder, is there a better name to remember all our mothers with? What a mother should be 2013-05-12T10:00:00Z The performance is at once agreeably transparent and enigmatic — perhaps like Winner herself, a young, accomplished translator of Pashto and Dari who teaches yoga and keeps multiple guns, even an automatic rifle, in the house. Review | Reality Winner’s arrest transcript becomes a scintillating Broadway show in ‘Is This a Room’ 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z After intermission members of the ensemble joined Mr. Richter, who performed on piano and laptop, for the American premiere of his enigmatic “Infra.” Music Review: Max Richter’s Update to ‘Four Seasons’ at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-12-23T22:14:54Z Eccentric and enigmatic, she was lauded as a sublime soloist and a future star only to recede into obscurity, or as she called it, “unplanned oblivion.” Celebrating Carmelita Maracci, Who ‘Took the Girdle Off Ballet’ 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Strange hexagonal windows, nearly 60 in all, pattern its walls, making the exterior enigmatic and the interior mesmeric. The Melnikov house and the battle for the Soviet era's artistic soul 2011-01-16T00:05:37Z He managed nearly perfect attendance at the New York City Ballet during the era when George Balanchine presided, which explains why his enigmatic figures tend to strike Balanchinian poses. Review | A peek inside Edward Gorey’s modern Gothic world 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z He is enigmatic and earthy, a singer of filthy songs. ‘The Books of Jacob,’ a Nobel Prize Winner’s Sophisticated and Overwhelming Novel 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z It is one of the most enigmatic stories of all time, with an opening sentence that's unparalleled in all of literature. 12 unsettling facts about "The Metamorphosis" 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z "Terra Nova"producers — and there are a dozen of them — deserve credit for making Taylor an enigmatic heavy. 'Terra Nova' forges no new ground 2011-09-23T17:10:05Z He praised Jesse Winchester, whose honeyed melancholy echoes in Mr. Lovett’s own vocal style, when he played Mr. Winchester’s enigmatic ethics lesson, “Isn’t That So.” Music Review: Lyle Lovett Concert Introduces ?Release Me? Album 2012-02-29T23:31:23Z An enigmatic third, in parchment yellow, rides a perfectly collected horse – a dancer. The Centaur and the Animal ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:20Z Listen to Lost Dreams by Digits An enigmatic New York duo who described their music as "Tumblr glitch pop", who will be playing their second-ever UK show. New Band of the Day: another gig, featuring MS MR and more 2012-05-18T09:11:00Z In the film, “I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like,” the enigmatic title drawn from the Rig-Veda, the opening sequence conveys this sensation. My Bill Viola Video Marathon 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Each illustration is tantalizingly enigmatic, made all the more so by the weirdly off-kilter titles and captions. Harris Burdick fans write new tales for drawings 2011-11-05T04:51:58Z Between enigmatic spells of gazing into the distance, they entangled themselves in restless, breathless, prodding skeins of movement, as if intent on awakening the air around them, the ground beneath them. Review: ‘Shore,’ a Dance and More Over Space and Time 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z That enigmatic persona is partly of her making. Analysis | Toni Morrison has kept the public at arm’s length. Now she’s letting people in on her terms. 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z What is certain is that we experience them as vast enigmatic works of art. David Mach, Ed Ruscha and Leonardo da Vinci ? the week in art 2011-07-29T08:00:00Z And Rupert and Robin are shocked to discover that both he and the enigmatic but humourless Vivian carry flick knives "in case we need to defend ourselves". This Party's Got to Stop by Rupert Thomson | Book review 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z The enigmatic country singer known as Orville Peck is riding high these days. Orville Peck, a Masked Gay Country Star, Rides Into Brooklyn 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z Capturing the enigmatic Mr. Ai, who calls his studio Fake Design, would be a challenge even in normal circumstances. Inside the Documentary ‘Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry’ 2012-07-20T21:04:05Z The title track is a hard-struck, enigmatic melody, prodded at and danced around by Bisio, that becomes a purposeful walk, a lighter contemplation, and then a flood of sound before the bassist's tumbling solo. Matthew Shipp/Michael Bisio: Floating Ice – review 2012-12-13T22:06:01Z Hide in the shade with Smith, instead, and emerge at dusk with a quickened literary metabolism and an enigmatic smile. Review | An irresistible tale of early cinema makes for perfect summer reading 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z This is not, of course, to cast aspersions on the piece itself, as sprawling and enigmatic as any in the canon: The nature of Lear’s madness is a transfixing, sleep-disturbing riddle for the ages. Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ Yet just as Montaigne kept playing with his enigmatic cat, so too a lack of mutual understanding shouldn't keep us from engaging with others; we want to get something done together. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z I find cats standoffish and enigmatic, and don’t get me started on the cat litter. Just Say ‘Cats,’ and Watch the Fur Fly 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Sargent’s enigmatic painting of his four daughters has become as much an emblem of the American Gilded Age as Velázquez’s picture is of the 17th-century Spanish court. Prado Pairs 'Las Meninas' With American Masterpiece 2010-04-07T10:02:00Z With Mr. Driver — who delivers a startlingly raw performance — Mr. Johnson delivers a potent portrait of villainy that suggests evil isn’t hard-wired, an inheritance or even enigmatic. ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Embraces the Magic and Mystery. Read Our Review. 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z A latter-day surrealist, he often preferred dream logic to conventional narrative coherence, and liked to concoct sinister, enigmatic, borderline-silly fantasies. Critic’s Notebook: Film Comment Selects Festival Offers 22 Intriguing Picks 2014-02-13T22:30:25Z The pieces on this rewarding recording range from folk songs suffused with Finnish character to enigmatic works with sometimes dark lyrics. Classical Playlist: Sibelius, Dvorak and Zorn 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Wearing an enigmatic smile, she says to her lawyer, seated next to her, “I’m Josef K. in person.” The Fracturing of Brazil in “The Edge of Democracy” 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z For a good while, Bob Benson — always ready with that extra cup of coffee — was the most enigmatic character on “Mad Men.” ‘Mad Men’ and Its Love Affair With ’60s Pop Culture 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z A work of art, if it is any good, is enigmatic, remote and takes centuries to understand. Why Bob Dylan didn't ring the chimes of freedom over Ai Weiwei 2011-04-11T13:36:22Z The good doctor becomes taken with this enigmatic yet exceedingly proper woman, who claims she remembers nothing of the murders and pleaded guilty only at her lawyers’ insistence. ‘Alias Grace’ is the second Margaret Atwood TV series, with more on the way. Why now? 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Her gentle and tactful treatment of Michael is moving and the same goes, more subtly, for her approach to the enigmatic Diane. Stories We Tell – review 2013-06-27T14:29:01Z She's no Lady Gaga, second-guessing her choices and falling out of her teetering elevator shoes even as she plots ways to appear more enigmatic or mysterious. "Bethenny Getting Married": From bridezilla to brand 2010-07-03T23:02:00Z Dutch curators at the Mauritshuis and the Rijksmuseum joined the chorus of scholars who decided the enigmatic portrait of a man dressed in black was an undiscovered masterwork by Frans Hals. A Dubious Old Master Unnerves the Art World 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z There is much footage of teeming markets and the marble stillness of the palace but no sense of what those sights mean to Barry, who increasingly seems more blank than enigmatic. Stereotypes, preconceptions topple a lavish 'Tyrant' 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z And, most importantly, who on earth was this enigmatic siren? Ethereal girl 2012-08-10T23:05:00Z Straub’s Little Red is an enigmatic figure whose life is bound up in music and the occasional miracle. ‘Interior Darkness’ for those who love horror — and even those who don’t 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z A collection of fanciful, frequently enigmatic scenes, followed by an interactive installation, “LadyM” often works in clown mode. Review | A little earnest absurdism about bodily functions goes a long way in the Welders’ ‘LadyM’ 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Despite being analyzed over and over again since its release, Stanley Kubrick’s final film remains stubbornly enigmatic. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘The Family Farm’ 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z When his enigmatic crush disappears after taking him on an all-night adventure, a dorky high school student follows a trail of clues to track her down. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z A novel by a Seattle writer about a modern-day British merchant ship encountering "pirates, war lords, rebel insurgents, government agents, shadowy oil interests and enigmatic business magnates" off the Horn of Africa. Newly released books with local ties include 'Kiss'em Goodbye' and 'Out of Body' 2010-03-15T21:31:00Z Then he put all the pieces together and became the Dylan we know today, a replicant who is always enigmatic and, as Heylin says, sometimes downright nasty. Review | ‘The Double Life of Bob Dylan’ is the definitive account of a shape-shifting genius’s early years 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z “Gabriel is one of the most talented, enigmatic artists that Great Britain has ever produced,” he goes on, canonizing the composer of “Moribund the Burgermeister” right up there with Shakespeare and Adele . Review: ‘Without Frontiers: The Life and Music of Peter Gabriel’ by Daryl Easlea The novella divides into two parts, the first being Tony's memoir of "book-hungry, sex-hungry" sixth form days, and the painful failure of his first relationship at university, with the spiky, enigmatic Veronica. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes ? review 2011-07-26T16:15:00Z During their drive, on a snowy, foggy road, the officers’ convoy comes under the attack of a dangerous, enigmatic figure. Five Action Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Like the film itself, this musical fugue is bold, enigmatic, and unashamedly overripe. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-06-29T23:05:44Z Who was the enigmatic woman from the 1920s whose name adorns a nearby cocktail bar, lovingly made, speakeasy style, in an actual speakeasy? San Francisco Noir 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z A recent arrival is Looking Glass, which moved into the old Rummer site thanks to the council's Capacity project to reopen vacant buildings as creative spaces; Friday sees enigmatic scenesters TR13E taking over. Clubs picks of the week 2013-04-13T05:00:17Z But no: her smile isn't enigmatic, it's the twisted sister to Robert De Niro's scarily mirthless grin. TV review: The Chinese are Coming, Fame in the Frame, Cougar Town, Chimps of the Lost Gorge, The Big C 2011-02-09T08:00:06Z Behind the burning man, city life proceeds in an enigmatic bustle. Malcolm Browne: man behind iconic burning monk photograph dies aged 81 2012-08-29T06:00:07Z Opening night led off with “Four Corners,” an enigmatic premiere by Ronald K. Brown, and it didn’t disappoint. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey Dancers Return to Lincoln Center 2013-06-13T21:00:28Z He sprayed poetic, enigmatic graffiti on walls in downtown Manhattan before moving to canvas and starred in an independent film, “Downtown 81.” ‘Jean-Michel Basquiat’ at the Brant Shows His Bifurcated Life 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Crimp’s text, as in “Written on Skin,” is enigmatic. Review: A Long-Awaited New Opera Is a Raucous Beauty 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The second set began with a less enigmatic piano melody that was almost jazzy, over hissing, pattering percussion. The Necks 2010-06-29T22:00:00Z Walsh, a celebrated playwright and director whose enigmatic works include “Grief Is the Thing with Feathers,” “Arlington” and “Rooms,” also writes and directs this play, which feels like a psychosexual absurdist fantasy. ‘Medicine’ Review: One Dose Reality, Two Doses Absurdity 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z The more a character is open to different historical interpretations, the more enigmatic the portrayal. 'Wolf Hall' a thrilling high-stakes game in Henry VIII's court 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z There is also a dried-up well in Oyamada’s brief tale, a follow-up to her similarly enigmatic debut, “The Factory,” but it’s only one of the many holes in this surreal and mesmerizing book. She Tumbled Into a Hole, and Her World Broke Open 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z The first full-dress retrospective in North America devoted to the enigmatic giant of French Romanticism is a revelation of nearly 150 paintings, drawings and prints. 27 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Add to that a surreal playfulness whirling around a core of imminent if enigmatic loss — as well as an ever-shifting story that glides along like dream logic — and you have Ruiz’s unpredictable but rewarding farewell. ‘Night Across the Street’: a surreal, rewarding farewell 2013-04-25T20:44:45Z The women made their New York debut last year at the Chocolate Factory with “The Work The Work” — an intense, humorous and enigmatic exploration of the female form. Dance Review: Fitzgerald and Stapleton?s ?Smell of Want? ? Review 2011-10-04T22:36:15Z The company was known for around-the-block Town Cars filled with enigmatic editors who lunched at New York restaurants like the Four Seasons and enjoyed clothing expense accounts and interest-free mortgages provided by their employer. The Chaos at Condé Nast 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Some are easy to interpret – the body of a girl lying in a coffin, swathed in flowers; a pencil dabbing at a sheet of manuscript paper – but the narrative is enigmatic. A ghost in the library 2011-07-04T20:45:01Z There’s a revolution going on; it’s just low-key and naggingly enigmatic — like the faces on the screen, a little too easily wiped away. Fading into the woods with D’Amour’s mysterious ‘Cherokee’ 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z But then he and his co-director, Dylan Reeve, went in pursuit of the enigmatic Jane and were besieged by homophobic rants, private investigators and legal threats. What’s On TV Sunday: ‘When We Rise’ and ‘Tickled’ 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Will artists this century be intensely individualistic and enigmatic visionaries, or managers of the creative activities of crowds? Will the digital age kill off art? 2013-07-02T15:36:28Z In A Fistful of Dollars, the movie that made him a household name, a tall, lanky, enigmatic stranger comes to the aid of poor, downtrodden Mexicans. Hey, cowboy 2010-04-25T23:06:00Z And it epitomizes the artist’s enigmatic relationship with his subject matter. Charles Ray, Walking a Fine Line With a Hungry Lion 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z A former child actor, he retains an eager boyishness—not enigmatic so much as blank-slate. Playing Edward Snowden 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z Trying to perform a simple task puts him at odds with the secret police, ambiguous American officials and a Cuban beauty, Amaryll Cruz, who is as enigmatic as the island nation. 'Havana Requiem' is a legal thriller with spice 2012-05-08T13:50:08Z Set soon after World War I, the show chronicles the upheaval among a well-heeled family and their guests at the lakeside Villa Felicità in Italy when an enigmatic stranger joins them, uninvited, for the weekend. Death Becomes a Soaring Tenor 2011-07-17T01:00:47Z Ghostly fragments permeated Hans Tutschku’s “Under” for nine instruments and electronics, including enigmatic snippets in the high register of the piano. James Baker Leads the Talea Ensemble at Roulette 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z And to judge by the premiere episode of “Terra Nova” Mr. Lang will be providing the darker, more enigmatic side of humanity in that apocalyptic-prehistoric Fox TV series, which begins Sept. Good Fortune Brings Bad-Guy Roles 2011-08-14T02:53:01Z I'd have weeded out some of the shorter pieces to make it tighter and less enigmatic, but there's no doubt Enev is a talented and entertaining writer. Circus Bulgaria by Deyan Enev ? review 2010-10-15T23:15:00Z “It’s a syndrome,” said Amy Fine Collins, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, who chronicled her driving lessons with an enigmatic instructor named Attila Gusso in a memoir, “The God of Driving.” For Nondrivers, a Summer Stuck in the Passenger Seat 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Farah al-Qasimi’s approach is more subtle and enigmatic in her photographs of Arab men in New York and the United Arab Emirates, her native country, in “More Good News,” at Helena Anrather. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z The Bach dance is a male-female duet in which an enigmatic relationship keeps us in suspense. Review: Ballet Arizona Performs ‘Round’ in a Dreamy Desert Ambience 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Photograph: Raf Makda / View Pictures / Rex Perhaps the most satisfying of Serpentine pavilions, the 2002 building had an intricate and enigmatic steel structure. Serpentine's star pavilions 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z His elemental folk-rock tunes are equipped with rough, scrawled lyrics that reach for the primal and the personal at the same time in a language that is both aphoristic and enigmatic. Movie Review: Jonathan Demme’s ‘Neil Young Journeys’ 2012-06-28T23:29:53Z Bainbridge, the 6ft5in focal point of Kindness, does a little caper, evidently forgetting that he is supposedly an enigmatic quantity who is too cool to caper. Kindness – review 2012-11-08T17:26:45Z Gillian Jacobs: I think she presented early on on the show as an enigmatic, mysterious figure that is more successful than the other girls. Gillian Jacobs on 'Girls': 'It's Nice to Play Someone Not Caught Up in a Relationship' 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z And Ms. Goodman’s poetic libretto, though often enigmatic, is powerfully so. John Adams’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Beginning Wednesday, Leonardo’s enigmatic angel will be on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the city’s first-ever presentation of this piece. See Rare, Beautiful Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Yet the figures’ existence is crucial to the compositions, which imply a narrative, however enigmatic. In the galleries: The fleeting beauty of birds, making their final flights 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z All of these qualities – the enigmatic, the playful, the historical and the realist – blend in his latest book, Children of the Days, in which he crafts a historical vignette for each day of the year. Eduardo Galeano: 'My great fear is that we are all suffering from amnesia' 2013-07-23T16:41:00Z The set - huge enigmatic pale discs - went even further back in time, apparently inspired by a Rajasthan king who built an astronomical observatory in the early 18th century. Vuitton VIPs boil, Miyake make attire from bananas 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z The second season storyline resumes six months after Danes' CIA agent seeks electro-shock therapy for her mental disorder after being convinced that her suspicions about the enigmatic POW were ill-founded. "Homeland" TV drama to focus on relationships in 2nd season 2012-07-31T02:05:21Z Ms. Fadeley, opposite him, made the movement of the Siren marvelously lucid without persuading me that she has this character’s snakelike froideur; Ms. DiPiazza, with striking facial beauty, is more coldly enigmatic. Review: Pennsylvania Ballet, at the Merriam Theater, Shows Exuberance and Panache 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Ms. Hahn, an appealingly disheveled blur, does a nice job of setting the enigmatic scene. Review: ‘The Visit’ Is ‘Hansel and Gretel’ With Less Candy and More Camcorders 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z And though DB is obviously far too mysterious and enigmatic to take part, the gems are strung together using archive audio interview so it sounds as if he's narrating his own life story. David Bowie - Five Years; Clare Balding's Secrets of a Suffragette – TV review 2013-05-27T06:00:13Z The explanations for almost everything that happens are intentionally enigmatic and sometimes completely mystifying. Review: In ‘It Follows,’ a Shape-Shifting Horror Stalks a Teenager 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z It is set to a collection of poems by Wilhelm Müller, a contemporary of Schubert’s, about a winter journey undertaken by an enigmatic wanderer. Wintry passions 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z The writer, Noah Hawley, invented new characters immersed in a different array of murders without losing what was so distinctive about that droll, enigmatic film in the first place. Television Review: ‘Fargo,’ a TV Series Riffing on the Film, Begins on FX 2014-04-14T21:28:35Z The lumpy sphere in a trompe-l’oeil frame of “As You Like It” is more enigmatic, as is the watermelon-like form that seems to be holding down an open book in “Much Ado About Nothing.” Man Ray inserts the human factor into the equation 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z By turns charming, shamelessly exuberant, romantic, enigmatic, bright and dark: a spectrum of views emerged during the course of four ballets, all of which were choreographed by George Balanchine between 1954 and 1970. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Opener Features Balanchine 2013-05-01T22:03:21Z Her producer, Phoelix, also shows up as a singer with an enigmatic, equally unresolved chorus. The Playlist: D’Angelo’s Cowboy Soul, and 9 More New Songs 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z One of them, Adelaide native Stephen, shared his theory about the film's famously enigmatic end. Adelaide festival 2013: week two 2013-03-14T08:39:42Z There's the enigmatic mix-up of multiple scraps, the sudden shifts of cultural codes, the serendipitous surprises behind every corner and the artistic thrill of being in a space like no other. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z The secrecy surrounding the big 50th has been extraordinary even by the 'Who's enigmatic standards. Who's in store 2013-04-10T15:22:22Z Unspooling over the course of a few lazy summer days, the film offers an enigmatic examination of youthful alienation, its plot irresolute and unpredictable. ‘Bungalow’ Review: Young, Restless, Drifting 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z The concert allowed Andrey Boreyko to demonstrate why he figures among the more promising young Russian conductors by leading a shrewdly judged performance of Shostakovich’s enigmatic yet strangely inviting Symphony No.15. Review: A Globe-Spanning Musical Feast 2010-08-24T16:30:00Z Instead of an enigmatic god, the Diane before us is closer to a nonentity, and the sexual energy among her and the women, vital to moments of attraction and abandon, is nowhere to be found. Review: The God of Wine Stirs No Sexual Whirlwind in ‘Hurricane Diane’ 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z And while songs are good when they’re enigmatic, interviews are not. Kurt Vile, Indie Rock’s Charming Riddle 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z The similar female figure in "Choke" is more enigmatic still. Martyrdoms, border violence, a tree-eating android are all a part of 'What I See' 2010-07-15T20:59:00Z Jimmy walks off, with an enigmatic look on his face. Boardwalk Empire Watch: Do the Right Thing 2011-11-07T13:07:05Z But when the studio heard Mr. Helms was interested in the project, it was inspired to shape the enigmatic Once-ler — who is not much more than a beckoning hand in the book — around the actor. Ed Helms Is Back in ?Jeff Who Lives at Home? 2012-03-09T15:00:00Z These are Liberty and Clem, “a big white Alsatian with pale eyes,” and their inscrutable gazes — wary? teasing? hostile? bereft? — hint at the novel’s shifting, enigmatic emotional weather. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Adams is rarely enigmatic; this concerto seems an exception. Are Bruckner Symphonies Now the Proving Ground for Conductors? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The baby is not a metaphor, the narrator warns us, yet her wild, untrammeled, inscrutable being is everywhere counterpoised by the internet’s similarly enigmatic existence. Patricia Lockwood’s First Novel Reaches for the Sublime, Online and Off 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z I also spent time with the actor Jim Fletcher, who was ensconced in the corner of a classroom, where he offered enigmatic non sequiturs. Critic?s Notebook: Eleanor Bauer and Boris Charmatz in Performa 11 Biennial 2011-11-09T00:01:03Z Freeman plays a doctor called in to examine the enigmatic Mr Voorman, a prisoner with a peculiar affliction: he believes he is a god. 10 things about the Oscar nominations 2014-01-16T17:19:43Z And general and brief though it is, it’s a boon, because people need guidance with this enigmatic art. Menil’s New Drawing Institute: A Full-Service Home for Fragile Art 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z His procrastination techniques include taking drugs in an abandoned hotel, ogling another fellow known as the Mysterious Woman and sneaking out of the Institute to visit the enigmatic Same Same shop. A First Novel Exposes the Hollow Core of the Global Big Ideas Industry 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z The enigmatic artist suddenly released his latest single, “What If?” Listen to Prince's Surprise New Song 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z A beautifully enigmatic drama is transformed into a crude political allegory. London Theater Journal: The Serious Season 2010-08-02T16:20:00Z The seven performers, often moving very slowly, gesture and move in ways that are sometimes enigmatic, sometimes referential. Montpellier Danse Offers Globe-Trotting Via Choreography 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z And Todd Haynes' "I'm Not There" takes an unconventional approach to dramatizing the life of Bob Dylan by crafting an incisive meta-commentary around the enigmatic superstar. "Rocketman" won't go breakin' your heart — but maybe it should've tried 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Kalka’s own similarly sharp, though sometimes enigmatic observations dot these pages: “Truth thrives in the margins.” ‘Truth thrives in the margins’ and other insights from a master essayist 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z “Monument” — expressively enigmatic, structurally unresolved, stylistically inconsistent — is impressive, strange, a puzzle you want to solve, a social order changing before your eyes. Review: A Rare Dive Into the History of Dance Pioneers 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z It’s an interior, enveloping, enigmatic experience — and the same should be true of this concert, with Mr. Taborn on piano, Mr. Maneri on viola and Mr. Smith on drums, vibraphone and timpani. Jazz Listings for March 25-31 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z These image are certainly enigmatic in their created blandness, but to what end? Do the Deutsche B?rse prize jury really get photography? 2010-12-02T16:06:00Z Rogers remains, however, the enigmatic heart of the story. 'Everyone said: Don't ruin my childhood': director Marielle Heller on how her Mr Rogers film finally got made 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The result is a captivating collage of framed images — some whimsical, some alluringly enigmatic. Mezzaluna, the Little Restaurant That Started a Revolution 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z But they too speak in what is likely to sound like enigmatic gibberish to anyone who isn’t thoroughly familiar with Chekhov’s “Seagull,” the play that inspired this performance piece. Theater Review: ‘Seagull (Thinking of You),’ at New Ohio Theater 2013-01-16T22:35:06Z The "second great quintet" first indicated the bridges it would build between Davis's post Kind of Blue work and his subsequent enigmatic music on 1964's Miles in Berlin, made after Shorter joined. 50 great moments in jazz: How Miles Davis's second quintet changed jazz 2010-10-13T15:49:00Z Much of the abstraction happened in the rhythm section, which emulated the slippery ebb and flow of the current Wayne Shorter Quartet, with enigmatic pockets of space. Music Review | Chris Dingman: Vibraphonist Dazzles, but Without Fanfare 2010-03-19T21:36:00Z The top international award went to the low-key, enigmatic Chinese film "Here, Then", directed by Mao Mao, which deals with loss of direction and alienation among contemporary Chinese youth. Edinburgh film fest lauds riot doc & China's Mao Mao 2012-07-02T15:52:08Z But the final reason for making the list in this poem is a small enigmatic triumph. Poetry workshop: a rectangular frame 2010-05-24T15:22:00Z There are narrative flash points throughout the remainder of the novel—Lang meets the enigmatic king, assists in a dangerous mountain raid, falls in love—but it is primarily about this mirrored dilemma. The Forgotten Novel That Inspired Homesickness for an Imaginary Land 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Schoenberg’s Six Little Piano Pieces, a collection of enigmatic miniatures, is a pathbreaking modernist score. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: John Adams, Prokofiev, Harrison Birtwistle and More 2014-03-12T20:42:17Z It’s a typical Chekhovian tale, melancholy and uncertain; this is, after all, an author who defended his enigmatic works by proclaiming that the role of an artist is “to ask questions, not to answer them.” Theater Review: ?Chekhovek,? With 9 Chekhov Plays, at ArcLight Theater 2012-02-08T22:18:57Z His enigmatic film is more attuned to mood than narrative. Tilda Swinton moves through the dreamy and confounding "Memoria" at her own frequency 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z He's completely enigmatic, completely removed, and not very relational. How "Valley of the Boom," a story of tech world disruption, disrupts TV too 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Now, he said, he feels more like the enigmatic Don Alfonso. Christopher Alden?s ?Cos? Fan Tutte? at New York City Opera 2011-09-18T01:15:08Z On Chartres Street, above a beautifully arched doorway, is a curious and enigmatic inscription: “CHANGE.” Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z The snake, a recurrent element in Mr. Huang’s art, is an enigmatic symbol in both Chinese and Western mythology, endowed with multiple, contradictory qualities. Huang Yong Ping Brings 'Empires' of Globalization to Paris 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Sympathy; urgency; force; but much here is enigmatic. Review: In Donna Uchizono’s ‘Sticky Majesty,’ Two Queens and Their Handmaidens 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z He also finds employment with an equally enigmatic Chinese businessman. From Shanghai, Paris and Mississippi: new mysteries 2013-07-11T17:50:57Z And like Carroll's enigmatic feline, he speaks the truth, even if that translates to providing his allies only enough data to bring his plans to fruition. Why some see this "Alice in Borderland" breakout as a role model for survival 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z The tough, enigmatic instrumental version of Things That Dreams Are Made Of is the superior one. Take two: who has made the best 're-version' of their own record? 2010-08-05T14:00:00Z The evocative smokiness is wonderful on its own but works even better in familiar side dishes to add an enigmatic quality. This one simple trick can help you grill the perfect corn 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z All these fictions exist in the enigmatic borderland between art and life. The art of illusion 2011-04-06T16:36:37Z Right now it is the British edition of Sally Rooney’s brilliant, enigmatic new novel, “Normal People.” ‘Why Have a Large Library and Not Use It?’ Janet Malcolm: By the Book 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Although designed for high-octane enjoyment — marketplace chase scenes, shootouts, enigmatic zealots, mysterious talismans — "Dig" takes its time, weaving its various plots together in a way both tantalizing and occasionally maddening. ABC's 'American Crime,' USA's 'Dig' up the ante on Thursdays 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z The conference format has evolved through the years, as Mr. Ward has aimed for the right blend of actual dullness and enigmatic intrigue. At ‘Boring’ Event: Lamppost History and Puzzle-Assembling 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z In Lethem’s 11th novel a liberal Manhattanite fed up with the current political mood flies to Los Angeles, hiring an enigmatic private eye to help search for a friend’s runaway daughter in the Mojave Desert. New in Paperback: ‘Looking for Lorraine’ and ‘Evolution’ 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z No one is as enigmatic or deeply tragic as Walter White. Downton Abbey Watch: Mastercheese Theater 2012-02-13T14:15:46Z He’s suffering from an enigmatic, agonizing malady that affects different parts of his body though mostly his hands, which at times violently tremble, a problem given that a crop is a tool of his trade. ‘Jockey’ Review: Hit Hard and Still Riding 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Asked whether they also had in mind Jasper Johns’s famous “White Flag” painting from 1955, whose enigmatic message has provoked its own speculation, Mr. Leinkauf answered this way: German Artists Say They Put White Flags on Brooklyn Bridge 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z A New York Times review said Knox, as an author, was by turns evocative and verbose, sympathetic and enigmatic. Amanda Knox reiterates innocence as memoir is published 2013-04-26T12:46:05Z Speaking the way Boyd speaks, his life philosophy, as complicated and nuanced and as enigmatic as it is — it’s going to be a big loss. They Dug Coal Together: Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins Look Back on 'Justified' 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z In telling his story, Douglas cannot avoid shining a spotlight on his illustrious if enigmatic family. The Life of Cameron Douglas, From Privilege to Prison and Back 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Why we like her: For the enigmatic Gruppenspiel, or "group game", which apparently depicts a schoolgirl choir. Artist of the week 197: Ellen Gronemeyer 2012-07-05T14:10:34Z Following his split with Karina, the director’s films became more experimental, more enigmatic, culminating in the jumbled “Navajo English” of Film Socialisme and the 3D jigsaw of Goodbye to Language. Anna Karina on love, cinema and being Jean-Luc Godard's muse: 'I didn’t want to be alive anymore' 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z But the movie that most often comes to mind isn’t “Rebecca” or “Vertigo” but “Mulholland Drive,” David Lynch’s gorgeously enigmatic film of melting identities in a very tarnished Tinseltown. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable’ in London 2013-07-23T21:05:32Z It is quite the enigmatic opener, a variant on those puzzlers that begin with a body sprawled on the parlor floor next to a bloody candelabrum. ‘Bacurau’ Review: Life and Death in a Small Brazilian Town 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z We are naturally curious, too, about this enigmatic central character, a woman insisting she belongs fighting beside men in a time when that was not only outrageous, but also an invitation to charges of heresy. Review | The small-cast ‘Saint Joan’ at Folger Theatre is a mighty big deal. 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z At times, his enigmatic quality, mixed with a heightened lucidity, is reminiscent of Emily Dickinson – although without the whimsy that mars the weakest of her poems. Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts – review 2013-04-22T08:00:04Z An enigmatic threesome is also at the heart of Mr. Tomasson’s “Trio,” to Tchaikovsky’s “Souvenir de Florence” string sextet, on the same program. Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet Finishes Its London Season 2012-09-25T22:04:19Z The enigmatic “Phantoms of a Libertine,” pieced together from the photographs and keepsakes of a dead friend, continues Mr. Rivers’s project of portraiture by other means. Ben Rivers’s ‘Two Years at Sea’ and ‘Slow Action’ 2012-10-07T05:03:01Z It also, however, gestures in more enigmatic directions. Art that forces us to reconsider what we think we know 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Paintings such as Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair and Madame Cézanne in a Red Dress, where Fiquet holds a sad, sour stare, offer clues about their enigmatic relationship. Twenty-four portraits of Paul Cézanne’s wife and muse, Hortense Fiquet, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z His first two, “Nixon in China” and “The Death of Klinghoffer,” broke ground by treating events from recent history with enigmatic new poetry. Review: In ‘Antony and Cleopatra,’ John Adams Goes Conventional 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z This was the ideal place for a man like Moe Berg, an eccentric and enigmatic figure from baseball’s yesteryear. The strange life and death of Moe Berg, the baseball catcher who became a spy 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Next to it is Cézanne’s enigmatic drawing of his wife working on a piece of sewing. Art Review: ‘Mantegna to Matisse,’ at the Frick Collection 2012-10-18T21:43:09Z What these connections add up to is … enigmatic. ‘Los Conductos’ Review: Lost Souls Above Medellín 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z With riveting clarity and enigmatic shadows, and through a range of languages in different registers of speaking and singing, it captures both the promise and darkness of cosmopolitanism itself. A Festival Has a Monumental Premiere (and Some Other Operas, Too) 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Instead it became her “Happy Song,” which ironically tempered her bounce with a moody, enigmatic flow from the rhythm section. At the Hamilton, clarinetist Anat Cohen and her quartet explode with intensity 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Whatever is next for the enigmatic actor, he shows no signs of settling for the commercial mainstream. Paul Dano: a resolutely hexagonal peg in the square hole of showbusiness 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z I'm also enjoying the enigmatic Strand, and I'm sure that Jack on the radio and the yacht sunk by 50 caliber rounds indicate that Operation Cobalt is still underway. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 2: The World Said Enough 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Ferguson’s enigmatic presence in Rogue Nation intelligently subverts the traditional spy movie dynamic by making a female secret agent the movie’s paramount exponent in the art of using sexual charisma as a weapon of espionage. All hail Tom Cruise and the era of the equal opportunity action movie 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Maybe there’s a reason to maintaining an enigmatic veil around a story, or maybe it’s all for nothing. Tardy to the "Russian Doll" party? Welcome, sweet birthday babies! 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Craig Hall and Teresa Reichlen match each other’s sinewy, enigmatic strength, but as the other couples are introduced, the choreography persists in a ceaseless array of lifts and pretzel turns. Dance Review: New York City Ballet in a Tribute to a Fast Train 2014-02-05T21:50:27Z Steely though soft-spoken, enigmatic to the point of appearing to be a cipher, dressed in trademark double-breasted bespoke suits and owlish eyeglasses made from buffalo horn, Mr. Deitch was a kind of art-world Zelig. Jeffrey Deitch Faces Critics at MOCA 2012-10-19T23:10:54Z Just as blockbusters have made the hard turn towards fantasy heroes who solemnly go about their business in high-def-but-low-impact 3D cage matches, is an unapologetically goofy, surprisingly enigmatic, refreshingly self-deprecating deviation from the norm. Battleship: More Fun Than a Board Game Blockbuster Has Any Right to Be 2012-05-17T15:11:50Z Basquiat sprayed poetic, enigmatic graffiti on walls in downtown Manhattan before moving to canvas, dated Madonna before she was famous and made paintings with Andy Warhol. 15 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z “Sound of My Voice,” which Ms. Marling also helped write, features her as the enigmatic leader of a cult. For Women, Sundance Is Sunnier Than Hollywood 2011-01-21T21:30:03Z Although they use the sleek style of advertising and commercial design, the photographs feel enigmatic and meditative. Recalling Sarah Charlesworth’s Photographs 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z There was also the dramatic potential of isolating a group of relative strangers on a boat captained by an enigmatic oligarch. Sea Zombies! How ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Overhauled Itself 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z This is a much more sexual production than many of its more traditionally enigmatic predecessors. The Turn of the Screw ? review 2011-08-12T17:01:45Z In the enigmatic "Chloe," however, Egoyan keeps you wondering where fantasy starts and ends — or if there's a fantasy at all. 'Chloe': a darkly erotic tale about a test of fidelity 2010-03-25T21:37:00Z Concurrently, New York’s Neue Galerie, which now owns the work, will explore the enigmatic relationship between Klimt and his famed subject in an exhibition opening April 2. Helen Mirren Stars In Film About Gustav Klimt's Adele Bloch-Bauer Portrait 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z But the racially mixed Toomer’s confounding efforts to defy being stuck in conventional racial categories and his disaffiliation with black culture made him perhaps the most enigmatic writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Scholars Say Chronicler of Black Life Passed for White 2010-12-26T21:46:48Z The beverage, dubbed White Walker by Johnnie Walker, is “inspired by the most enigmatic and feared characters on the show,” Diageo said in a Monday news release. 'Game of Thrones' scotch inspired by White Walkers now available 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Silchester is one of the most enigmatic Roman sites: after it was abandoned in the 7th century, with houses tumbled and the wells filled in, it was never reoccupied. Relic of Harpocrates, the god of secrecy and silence, found at Silchester 2010-07-16T13:06:00Z The flat’s anonymous benefactor remains as enigmatic as the thief who soon robs Yoav of his clothing and scant belongings. ‘Synonyms’ Review: Brilliant. Relentless. Comic. Tragic. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The restaurant and its owner, the enigmatic and generous Tuli, become the fulcrum of their new lives, and of this ambitious if flawed novel. Seeking Asylum in a London Pizzeria 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z These enigmatic spaces include Mr. Jackson’s “Ordinary Objects of Extraordinary Beauty,” a continuation of his series called “Study Collections.” At Cornell Tech, Art Engineered for the Imagination 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Visitors were spending time with sculpture that, despite — or because of — its enigmatic zaniness, inspired a slow look. Peas, Socks and Sidewalk-Trash Sculptures: Just Keep Looking 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Even he said, “People call me cold and aloof but if I start winning they’ll call me enigmatic.” Hugh Jackman Breaks the Movie Star Rules and Doesn’t Care 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Bob was one of those enigmatic Ambridge residents who never say a word. The Archers: a month in Ambridge 2013-01-09T20:00:02Z An early sketch next to an enigmatic wooden model shows how the grid of nine planetary squares houses the galleries, theatres, museums and auditoriums, with the corner square mysteriously rotated to create an entrance. 'Architecture has become too mundane' 2013-05-15T06:58:36Z Everyone is looking for enigmatic black doors that function like wormholes to escape the collapse. Mohsin Hamid's 'Exit West' imagines a new way out for refugees 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z They made occasional enigmatic gestures, like wizards or slow-motion disc jockeys. Music Review: The Trippy ?60s in a Guggenheim Time Machine 2010-03-06T08:06:00Z Told that there was a nation of hopeless romantics with fingers crossed for the characters, Ms. Ryan replied with a sympathetic, enigmatic, “Aww.” ArtsBeat: After 'Office' Hours, Amy Ryan Plans a Concert Performance 2011-02-03T17:29:38Z The work was enigmatic, with images of long, birdlike legs stepping through the paintings. Artist-Run Galleries Defy the Mega-Dealer Trend in Los Angeles 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z There’s an enigmatic, dreamlike quality to the whole installation, and it’s tinged by an affecting sadness. Art Trek: A Critic’s Guide to the Best of the Lower East Side 2014-04-03T22:41:10Z Sage’s little-known canvases depict imaginary architectural forms and enigmatic draped objects. Review | In the galleries: A surrealist painter inspires a photographer 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z But the officials target neither his play nor his burgeoning affair with the art student — but rather her enigmatic friend, “Linda B.,” who committed suicide with his signed book in her possession. Ismail Kadare Grapples With the Supernatural 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Two new releases from Kino add substantially to our understanding of Keaton’s remote, introverted, often enigmatic art. DVDs: Buster Keaton?s ?Steamboat Bill, Jr.? on DVD 2010-07-04T05:09:00Z This year, France celebrates the bicentennial of Napoléon’s death, while this enigmatic woman, whose life intricately entwined with that of the French warrior’s, remains a quiet aside. Discovering Joséphine Bonaparte in Martinique, Italy and France 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Again, without spoiling the series' enigmatic operating system, these are people so obsessed with the cause and effect, and the possibility that they might be capable of not merely changing the world but programming it. "Devs" is Alex Garland's aesthetically mesmerizing and engrossing modern horror story 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z In this wily and often very funny story of double- and triple-crosses, a young CIA operative in Shanghai gets entangled with an enigmatic lover and an equally enigmatic businessman, either one or both possible spies. Adam Woog’s 10 best mysteries of 2013 2013-12-04T22:02:39Z Mayor of London Boris Johnson said the "two very different sculptures" were "wryly enigmatic in their own way". Latest Fourth Plinth works unveiled 2014-02-07T11:30:53Z When a professor of French literature, Billy Sweetbriar, takes him under his wing, Stub adopts a new identity: Charter Chase, a Fulbright scholar from New South Wales studying the enigmatic Vanderloon. Rikki Ducornet's 'Brightfellow' is a sophisticated embodiment of children's imagination 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Things get complicated when he starts a torrid affair with an enigmatic woman named Mei. From Shanghai, Paris and Mississippi: new mysteries 2013-07-11T17:50:57Z Mr. Chang remained enigmatic when asked about the food. David Chang’s Next Restaurant, Ando, Will Be Delivery Only 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Some paintings burst off the walls and dominate the space; others intimate silence and draw the viewer ever closer to their enigmatic reticence. Review | They’re women, they’re black and they don’t make art about that 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z One of the show’s most enigmatic characters is an assassin of inscrutable allegiance played by Indian actress Shruti Haasan who has very few lines but very quickly establishes herself as a formidable, highly watchable force. USA’s Bourne spinoff “Treadstone” feels retro and exactly what’s needed today 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Tuesday’s program, though, was a better match for his artistic personality: four technically challenging, slightly enigmatic pieces that require firm artistry and interpretation to pull off, each representing a world of its own. Review | Yefim Bronfman, a pianist who lets the music speak for itself 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z That box is the enigmatic engine that runs beneath the surface of this book. Stephen King and Richard Chizmar put the fate of the world in a girl’s hands 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z A humble shepherd who slayed a giant, united a nation, wrote poetry, was an ancestor to Jesus but also committed his share of sins, David is certainly an intriguing and enigmatic figure. 'King David' movie anointed at Warner Bros. 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The strengths of her art over the past 25 years — striking, enigmatic film images; an unflinching perspective on gender in the context of exile and violence — went unused. 10 Days at the Salzburg Festival, Music’s Disneyland 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z The first full-dress retrospective in North America devoted to this complex, enigmatic, foundational figure, titled simply “Delacroix,” opens on Monday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At the Met Museum, the Grand Enigmas of Delacroix 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z "The Good Nurse" does not give him enough solo scenes, which keeps his dark side enigmatic, but Redmayne reveals enough of his madness once his carefully constructed mask slips. In Netflix's uneasy "The Good Nurse," Jessica Chastain suspects Eddie Redmayne of killing patients 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Often the use of untrained performers lends an aura of documentary credibility to fictional stories, as well as an enigmatic element of opacity. ‘A Chiara’ Review: A Mobster’s Daughter Dares to Ask Questions 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z And that creates the sensation of peering into an enigmatic world where those emotions are raw and timeless, controlled not just by Vienne’s sense of time. How Does Time Pass at This Rave? With Hypnotic Precision. 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z And the movie is embellished with spectacularly beautiful, enigmatic bursts of abstract imagery. Movie Review: Braden King?s ?Here? Raises Questions of Philosophy 2012-04-12T21:55:25Z Shown in the 2009 New York Film Festival, “To Die Like a Man” changes back and forth from an unsentimental examination of an insular nightclub world to a surreal phantasmagoria sprinkled with enigmatic symbols. | 'To Die Like a Man': The Anguish of Identity 2011-04-07T20:55:54Z The Papermoon Puppet Theater has become a staple of the global arts festival circuit, with enigmatic modernist puppets that tell stories from myth to the birth of modern Indonesia. On Java, a Creative Explosion in an Ancient City 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Monk concludes that the "sense one has of him being almost disembodied is connected with his enigmatic elusiveness and his inability to make ordinary close contact with the people around him". A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z |
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