He told Bobby that the film had the potential to become a masterpiece: “This will be a postmodernist documentary with feature elements.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier that afternoon, when my father was checking out my masterpieces, I spoke something to him that I would’a never said before all this. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Because the Prince is a fiend. And Rugen is his twin in misery. And this is their masterpiece.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing he was carrying his father's last masterpiece, the stonecutter's son could not help but begin to weep. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her uncle’s terse petitions were hard enough to endure; this prayer, she knew, would be a lengthy masterpiece. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Really they were more like our masterpieces, because I was the one who gave him some of the concepts for where and how to write his tag. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Visual analysis can help us to appreciate the beauty of a masterpiece, but we must be careful not to use a formulaic approach that would trivialize it. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Greek works considered the masterpieces of the day were collected into a set of textbooks for her. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Eitri’s masterpiece would be something that would impress the gods, and if the gods were impressed enough, then he would lose his head. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

His paintings were gorgeous abstract masterpieces, and people were comparing him to the masters. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Then Kat and Kropp seize the masterpiece—the big dish with the brown, roasted sucking pigs. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A real masterpiece, as thick as a brick and packed with noteworthy bird facts. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Back on the ground, we stroll along the quays bordering the Seine, where so many writers walked for centuries before penning their masterpieces. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My bedroom looks out on the bridge,” she said, and pointed to a Victorian masterpiece at the bottom of the mountain, directly in line with the bridge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

With the same patience with which she dyed tablecloths, sewed lace masterpieces, and embroidered needlepoint peacocks, she waited for Pietro Crespi to be unable to bear the urges of his heart and more. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Unlike an original artistic masterpiece, I can do the problem again, and it will be just as beautiful. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The most famous of the microscopical discoveries reported by Hooke in his masterpiece was the ‘cellular’ structure of slices of cork viewed under the microscope. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

We may pause briefly before a famous masterpiece that we have been told we are supposed to admire, then ignore the gallery full of equally beautiful and important works around it. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby wanted to scrutinize the library and view Schmid’s chess art masterpieces. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It is one of the undisputed masterpieces of all music for the violin, comprising an astonishing sixty-four continuous variations on a single theme, creating the impression of an orchestra of sound from one single instrument. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Xavier Glitts had a customer who had wanted for many years to own this particular Vermeer masterpiece. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, your daddy was a real masterpiece at one time. I joked in there that I couldn’t remember him,” she says, pointing back at the house. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The good-night kiss was itself a masterpiece of slow-wittedness on her part and discomfort on his. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I thought, too, that it would be a masterpiece or at least make me a lot of money, since the subject was so big. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tristan und Isolde is an out-and-out masterpiece, with sweeping, yearning themes, deserving of its place in music’s pantheon, whatever it may or may not have innovated. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The question of whether the museum has acquired one of his lesser known masterpieces still awaits a final answer.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Handel was the more adventurous pan-European traveller, learning his craft in Italy and then, in his twenties, settling for good in England, where he was to create the great body of his masterpieces. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Slumped and squinting and halting over words, giving me Morgenstern’s masterpiece as best he could. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You have to admit this is a masterpiece.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She also remembered his words: Aren’t you glad you aren’t responsible for saving one of the world’s masterpieces from a maniac! Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

A school bus is a masterpiece that everyone pretends to understand. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Stylized painting and sculpture existed only to teach religion and adorn cathedrals—the true masterpieces of the Middle Ages. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

But the whole way home all I can do is stare at these masterpieces, study the making of me. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Pollard had delivered a masterpiece of reinsmanship, avoiding the traps and saving ground while minimizing his run along the boggy rail. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The work that eventually emerged from all this anguish, his fifth symphony, premiered in November 1937, is now recognised as one of the classical masterpieces of the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He had sat here holding blank negatives, masterpieces of human ingenuity wasted. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said the play itself was no masterpiece, but that the Lunts, of course, were absolute angels. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

A masterpiece of how to cut your older brother down to size. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I wish Mr. Freeman would put a tree in his masterpiece. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She would have enjoyed taking credit for this masterpiece. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“He smuggled his poems into that bonfire Dad lit for his Greenland paperwork. He told me the fire turned all his poems into masterpieces.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She loves the magical design of it all, the unfathomable architecture of the cosmos right down to the intricate masterpiece of the eye. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Still, complete technical command is a requisite of masterpieces, which are distinguished by their superior execution. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Still it was a good disguise, was it not? My masterpiece. Everyone's idea of what a Jew looks like, eh?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Father opened our trunk and got out some clean, well-ironed shirts—some of White Deer’s masterpieces. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in Pauling’s masterpiece I hoped the real secret would lie. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

With Sally snuggled tightly around his neck, he made his way through the rain to the biggest cake he’d ever seen—a fifty-layer-high masterpiece of sugary wonder. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He stood at the entrance, drinking in the beautiful debris of Room Nineteen—his masterpiece. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I caught him once putting one of his masterpieces inside a girl’s backpack. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Last year not one but two bakers had crafted fifty-layer-high masterpieces of sugary wonder, studded with frosted stars and flowers and figurines. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A masterpiece, then, is a work that contributes to our vision of life and leaves us profoundly moved. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you wanted a masterpiece, a sword for the ages, was it Arabella that your footsteps led you to? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The guests would “oh” and “ah,” for it was a masterpiece: a pagoda molded out of butter, curved roofs rising tier upon tier, but my mother could only think how unsanitary it was. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silver architecture looks kind of ridiculous to me, like a spaceship and spiderweb fused together, but everyone always takes pictures of it like it’s some sort of masterpiece. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

"This painting is a masterpiece!" a voice said in surprise. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, our research serves only to affirm the portrait of Paul Revere as a masterpiece. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story he told was one of Odysseus’ masterpieces. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

His first three models were large, clumsy, heavy instruments, but his final masterpiece was not much larger than a heavy pocket watch. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

When he’d finished, he held out his masterpiece so I could take a look—tight white cylinder, small cardboard filter inserted at one end—then sparked it up. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Her masterpiece soon lay unseen beneath several new coats of ordinary house paint. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

While a few of the center staff and the DJ started to break down their equipment, Rose and me quietly went to work on our masterpieces. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Nyame blew gently on the Story Box, and, like an artist removing shavings from a sculpture, revealed his gleaming masterpiece. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

His dark, shining hair was a masterpiece of overcombing, the top hair laid back and criss-crossed with long side strands that just cleared the ears. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is an absolute masterpiece of the plain style. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Tired out but proud, the animals walked round and round their masterpiece, which appeared even more beautiful in their eyes than when it had been built the first time. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

And there was no way I could take apart every single picture and replicate the masterpiece in another bedroom. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

These long millennia may well have witnessed wars and revolutions, ecstatic religious movements, profound philosophical theories, incomparable artistic masterpieces. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Falstaff’s death is an absolute masterpiece of composition. Barenboim and Elgar: A Musical Love Story Continues 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

And the explosive proliferation of percussion music that came after “Ionisation” owes nearly everything to Varèse’s mysterious masterpiece. Into The Music: The Clout of Edgard Var?se?s ?Ionisation? 2010-07-16T14:55:00Z

“Mascots” is essentially a recycled variation on his 2000 masterpiece, “Best in Show.” Review: ‘Mascots’ Suffers From Mockumentary Fatigue Syndrome 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

But it's still one of the Coen Brothers' very best works in a long career of masterpieces. Like 'The Social Network'? Scarecrow Video suggests other movies based on true stories 2010-09-30T20:39:00Z

Some reviewers compared "Cloud Atlas" to Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," called it revolutionary, an artistic masterpiece. | Halle Berry 2012-10-18T20:21:12Z

But his first film – unpolished, sometimes awkward, often cheesy –remains his masterpiece. Wes Craven's brutal truths about sex, death and childhood 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

We invited The Punk Restorer™ — we thought she needed rebranding — to shuck away her attempts to restore minor works and tackle masterpieces instead. Octogenarian restorer strikes again! 2012-08-24T23:30:00Z

The poor Earl, prevented by family circumstances from pursuing his literary dreams, has spent a lifetime quilling up secret masterpieces about gloomy Danish princes, midsummer night’s dreams and other curious subjects. Movie Review: ?Anonymous,? by Roland Emmerich - Review 2011-10-27T15:47:42Z

Thus, in his opening section, eight essays on cold, he examines the records of various polar expeditions and celebrates Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s travel masterpiece, “The Worst Journey in the World.” An Essayist Searching for Alternate Worlds 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Before he left, he made a masterpiece of aquatint print called “Seated Giant,” in which a hulking humanlike creature peers back over his shoulder as if he’d just heard a sound he couldn’t make out. ‘Goya: Order and Disorder’ at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Considered beside the earlier Lastman-inspired work by Rembrandt that preceded it, the ranking of this picture as his first masterpiece seems plausible enough. ‘Rembrandt’s First Masterpiece,’ a Portrait of a Biblical Betrayal 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Like many Russian masterpieces, this Rimsky-Korsakov piece, which premiered in 1899, is still a relative rarity in the West, and it hasn’t always gotten the respect it deserves. Opera Review: A Modern Media Spin on Ivan the Terrible 2014-03-06T11:43:55Z

Not only is this dedicated to freedom but it is also, like Ai Weiwei's art, a minimalist masterpiece, despite being completed in the 19th century. Obama's art army 2012-11-05T22:00:02Z

She’s been commissioned to help identify masterpieces hidden in the Tuscan hills to protect them from theft and destruction. Review | Sarah Winman’s ‘Still Life’ feels like a Saturday night among old friends 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

But soon there was a flashlight beam, and I was staring at one of the most sought-after stolen masterpieces in the world: Rembrandt’s “Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee.” Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist: 25 Years of Theories 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

You leave with renewed respect for what is surely Puccini's ultimate masterpiece. Madam Butterfly ? review 2011-02-25T19:16:56Z

A scientist resists delivering a weapon of mass destruction into totalitarian hands until he is forced to comply, and then sabotages his supposedly indestructible masterpiece. What “Rogue One” gets right: A “Star Wars” squad like no other can save more than the Rebellion 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

The building was part of a postwar boom in civic structures across Japan, but none of those, even ones designed by Tange himself, has surpassed this masterpiece. The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

Up ahead is a happy hunting ground of deals and discussions, masterpieces and schlock. Cannes 2016 week one report: surreal scenes at the Palais 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

But there is some irreducible ugliness in his masterpiece that really can’t be convincingly redeemed. “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z

This is an audio book for everyone over the age of 8, a splendid achievement of storytelling and a masterpiece of voice acting. Review | ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ may be a dud movie, but it’s a fantastic audiobook 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

“Chicken Soup” was designated an American masterpiece by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2006. Blondell Cummings, Dancer of Life’s Everyday Details, Dies at 70 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare's masterpieces Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 will also be staged, while Lucy Bailey's production of Macbeth will star Elliot Cowan, who recently appeared in the Donmar's award-winning A Streetcar Named Desire. 2010-02-15T17:28:00Z

The movie, which includes a 15-minute sequence showing a live birth, was widely considered a propaganda masterpiece, in the best sense. George C. Stoney, Documentarian, Dies at 96 2012-07-15T05:57:17Z

Writing back to the empire, asserting its independence in "chutnified" Indian English, this masterpiece of magic realism borrows the device of the storytelling scribe from the "Mahabharata," an ancient Indian epic. 5 books and films that tell the story of the trauma of the Partition of India and its aftermath 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z

If that were the whole story, you might consider hoisting a recently passed stool aloft in salute of a masterpiece, but it's not. Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday 2010-11-22T15:27:00Z

Instead of braving lines to view Renaissance masterpieces, visit a museum that focuses on Italian art of a more recent vintage. 36 Hours in Florence, Italy 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Liszt showed that here was an exhilarating Beethoven masterpiece. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z

Other Wilson plays have more complex narrative structures, but "Talley's Folley" was surely his masterpiece of simple human communication with a simple human end in mind. Pulitzer-winning playwright Lanford Wilson dead at 73 2011-03-24T21:36:57Z

The Stephen King novel may be famous, but not as widely beloved as masterpieces like "Carrie" or "The Stand." The case for Tim Curry's Pennywise 2019-09-14T04:00:00Z

Such is the case with Big Spider's Back, whose new album "Memory Man" is a minor masterpiece for the electronic genre chillwave. Thursday-Saturday in Seattle: pizza, rock, rap, chillwave 2011-08-04T18:38:07Z

Whatever the case, Douglas’s travel books about Southern Italy — “Siren Land” and “Old Calabria” are masterpieces, as is his mildly campy, comic novel “South Wind,” which opens, “The bishop was feeling rather sea-sick.” Perspective | An afternoon inside a bookstore was as glorious as ever. Here’s what I bought. 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

If it inspires further exhibitions on African architecture — a Maputo show would be a revelation — it should also, through Mr. Baan’s photography, remind us that these fast-growing cities can’t fully be understood through masterpieces alone. ‘Architecture of Independence’ in Africa’s Fast-Growing Cities 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Audiences saw it only sporadically; almost everyone who wrote about it described an uneven “transitional” work, a troubled experiment on the eve of the composer’s final masterpieces: “Aida,” “Otello” and “Falstaff.” ‘Don Carlo’ or ‘Don Carlos’? Verdi Comes to the Met in French 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

In 1972, when Bertolucci released “The Last Tango in Paris,” it might have been possible to see it, as Pauline Kael did, as a transgressive masterpiece on a par with Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Perspective | More than anyone, Bernardo Bertolucci exemplified the pain and pleasure of the male gaze 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

Spend the afternoon touring some fascinating yet often overlooked churches, the ones without a grand Gothic facade or masterpiece by da Vinci. What to Do in Milan 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

Five decades later and his wobbly masterpiece, built using scavenged materials, is almost complete. 10 of Europe’s oddest attractions and events 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

It was one of a number of tech category wins for the post-apocalyptic action masterpiece, hailed by many critics as the best film of the year. Another feminist victory for “Mad Max”: A woman kept “Fury Road” from being just another action movie 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

Novelist Carolyn See, writing in the Los Angeles Times, called the book “a masterpiece, a jewel, an utterly brilliant piece of work.” Louise Shivers, late-blooming author of ‘Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail,’ dies at 84

Tsangari describes The Trials Of Life as "one of the masterpieces of cinema". Attenberg, Dogtooth and the weird wave of Greek cinema 2011-08-26T23:04:02Z

Inside are several masterpieces by Jacopo Tintoretto, the Venetian painter who is interred in the church’s Chapel of Tintoretto. 36 Hours in Venice 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

He considered his garden at Giverny, outside Paris, as one of his greatest masterpieces. Artists works show how their gardens grow: The seeds of creativity 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

In Toledo, he toiled and created some of his later masterpieces like “View and Plan of Toledo.” Overnighter: In Toledo, Layers of Spanish History 2012-12-21T16:56:55Z

The room is not only a masterpiece, but a remarkable survivor. | If These Walls Could Talk 2014-03-19T17:10:25Z

It did not matter that Müller had published 20 books already, and that The Hunger Angel, her masterpiece, had just been released to universal acclaim in the German press. The gripes of Roth: US incredulity at not winning the Nobel literature prize 2012-10-11T18:07:59Z

Google, then, is populist about art, and tends to point users towards iconic masterpieces. Google's views 2010-04-12T14:12:00Z

For the French painter Claude Monet, no subject proved more evergreen than his own Giverny estate, whose water lilies and weeping willows he rendered in myriad masterpieces. Photographing Monet's Gardens 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Even though experts selected Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece as the greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound magazine’s decennial poll, there is considerable controversy over the best way to see it. 4 Film Series to Catch in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

Paintings vied with politics in London this week as two of the biggest auction houses, Christie's and Sotheby's, competed with each other to cater to the hard-to-predict market for Russian art masterpieces. Art vs politics at London auctions of Russian paintings 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

That masterpiece — pure dance, ceremonious, hierarchical, formal, classicism in excelsis — exemplified the sublimity that Robbins henceforth strove to pursue. Jerome Robbins, Ballet’s Mr. ‘Take It Easy, Baby,’ at 100 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

“The Sleeping Beauty” actually proves to be a masterpiece of storytelling. How ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Tells Its Story Through Ballet 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

A visiting production from Ireland, Samuel Beckett’s absurdist masterpiece, “Waiting for Godot,” is another scheduled war horse, along with a revival of — wait for it — Lerner and Loewe’s 1960 King Arthur musical, “Camelot.” How will the Shakespeare show go on without Kahn? 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

“In his masterpiece ‘Remembrance of Things Past,’ Marcel Proust illustrated this beautifully: the protagonist eats a small cake he enjoys as a child and memories come flooding back.” Books of The Times: Her Life Since Then: Different Views of It 2011-08-18T23:00:12Z

For aspiring artists who had never even seen a copy of the masterpieces of the Old World, the experience of an afternoon at the Louvre was enough to bring them nearly to their knees. David McCullough's 'The Greater Journey': How France nurtured the American experiment 2011-05-18T23:11:59Z

A more fundamental reason for the dwindling numbers of wealthy connoisseurs tempted by subtle masterpieces by Old Masters lies in the radical change of perception. Art: At Maastricht, the Great Art Is Getting Scarce 2011-03-18T13:00:34Z

African sculptural masterpieces by anonymous craftsmen mingle with Manets, and shining pieces of 18th- and 19th-century metalwork are thrown in for good measure. Barnes Foundation’s Director Aims ‘to Unpack the Ideas’ in the Art 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

Ninety percent of my work isn’t a super masterpiece, but if I can reach people who can appreciate it, then it’s successful.” New York Fashion Week: On Tumblr, a Community for Style - NY Fashion Week 2011-09-09T22:15:33Z

He added: "For collectors and institutions, the opportunity to acquire such a singularly-influential masterpiece is unprecedented in recent times." Munch's The Scream to go on sale 2012-02-21T13:59:17Z

Mr. Packer is both, and he’s written something close to a nonfiction masterpiece. Books of The Times: ‘The Unwinding,’ by George Packer 2013-05-28T21:18:55Z

Several other works here are similarly simply masterpieces. At the Met, a Riveting Testament to Those Once Neglected 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

That said, Mr. Tsai has his fervent admirers, some of whom have declared “Stray Dogs” a masterpiece. ‘Stray Dogs,’ by Tsai Ming-liang, a Tale of Alienation 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Kapoor’s approach to an installation within Le Nôtre’s masterpiece, was to add to its confusion. Anish Kapoor Installation Opens at Versailles 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

And if I've missed out on a masterpiece in the process, so be it. Do you still collect physical music? What do you do with it? 2012-11-07T11:31:00Z

Matthew Paton, from Christie's, said Gimcrack was one of Stubbs's masterpieces and "possibly the greatest horse racing picture that exists". Stubbs painting sells for ?22.4m 2011-07-06T13:12:00Z

“I want to tell you that I consider ‘The Lonely Life’ a masterpiece. His correspondence with Bette Davis gave him strength, until it didn’t 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

A massive crowd trekked up to the Park stage to watch Solange perform this melancholy masterpiece. Glastonbury festival 2013: watch the best live video clips 2013-07-01T12:20:28Z

Fitzgerald’s masterpiece dated from the Roaring Twenties, which is to say it predated the crash. Fashion Review: Italian Men?s Fashion Week Shows in Milan Go Conservative 2012-01-18T23:53:35Z

The answer may lie in the band's ponderous, six-minute masterpiece, She Gets Out the Scrapbook. Will Furniture finally enjoy the comfort of success? 2010-07-13T15:27:00Z

The colorful multiple, spiraling "weather fronts" colliding in this masterpiece are something to see. SAM's 'Modern Ancestral': contemporary visions with age-old resonance 2012-05-31T23:42:06Z

Florence's mayor is defending his city's ownership of Michelangelo's marble masterpiece "David" after the Culture Ministry reportedly asserted that the treasure belongs to the central government in Rome. Florence and state spar over 'David' 2010-08-16T15:16:00Z

It’s an expansive, emotional portrait of life buffeted by violent forces, and a masterpiece. ‘Roma’ Review: Alfonso Cuarón’s Masterpiece of Memory 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Some critics called this glut of sonnets unforgivable; others praised it as an extended masterpiece. How much did Robert Lowell's manic-depression affect his poetry? A new biography tries to find the answer 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

Let’s say all of Homes’s work has a similar strain, but this is by far her masterpiece. Elin Hilderbrand: By the Book 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Christie’s expert Alex Rotter said the rarity of Hopper’s paintings, and the resurgent interest in overlooked American artworks from the first half of the 20th century, led the house to give it “a masterpiece estimate.” Art Market, Hoping the Good Times Keep Rolling, Prepares for N.Y. Sales 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

The battle to preserve and restore this Victorian Gothic masterpiece took decades, and many Londoners would agree that it’s now the jewel in the crown of railway terminals that encircle the capital. 36 Hours in King’s Cross, London 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Orwell praised Koestler’s “Dialog With Death” and was influenced in writing “Animal Farm” and “1984” by Koestler’s anticommunist masterpiece, “Darkness at Noon.” Remembering Raymond Chandler and Defending Ruth Rendell 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Are there limits to how the Rijksmuseum’s masterpieces can be adapted? Museums Mull Public Use of Online Art Images 2013-05-28T12:00:01Z

At shorter length, with a less cluttered story, “Ruben Brandt, Collector” might have been a small masterpiece instead of a minor diversion. ‘Ruben Brandt, Collector’ Review: Stealing Inspiration From Great Art 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

I sat and watched for hours that morning, and it dawned on me that I was completely alone before this masterpiece, without even the whisper of another human voice or distraction. Seeking out Alaska’s Denali National Park in a summer of overcrowded outdoor spaces 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Subsequent Rembrandt years — 1956 and 1969 — have concentrated on bringing together masterpieces by Rembrandt and his pupils so as to further delineate their individual oeuvres. It’s the year of Rembrandt again, to the delight of museum audiences 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z

Still, Star Wars’ initial home, 20th Century Fox, was not thrilled with his 1977 masterpiece, according to Lucas. Never Invest In A Movie, Says Billionaire Director George Lucas 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Who talks about David Lynch and Mark Frost’s televised masterpiece these days, one of the first water-cooler shows? How “Twin Peaks” shaped the entire golden age of TV 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

The prolific writer, who started out as a newspaper reporter, was best known for his masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude", which won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Colombia to print Garcia Marquez banknotes in tribute to writer 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Gide, like so many others who actually stick with the book, had realised that it was a masterpiece. Reading group: Bogged down on Swann's Way? 2013-02-07T14:01:15Z

By paying grave attention to both worlds, both the self and everything beyond it, Scibona has built a masterpiece. ‘The Volunteer’ Braids the Lives of Fathers and Sons 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

But the omission of Lynch’s masterpiece is especially surprising. We Picked the Century’s Top Films. You Told Us Where We Could Go. 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

An oasis of art: The expansion of Glenstone – with its modern masterpieces complemented by natural beauty and fresh, energetic architecture – is a blueprint for a new kind of museum experience. The Hudson Valley’s outdoor art parks make for an alluring pandemic destination 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

The production on “Content” isn’t as stark as it was on Gang of Four’s 1979 masterpiece, “Entertainment”; there’s more resonance and more willingness to overdub. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-24T23:19:27Z

Some masterpieces, while not part of the Musée Picasso collection, are there by implication. Picasso fever comes to the Seattle Art Museum with show from the Mus?e National Picasso, Paris 2010-10-03T01:41:00Z

“Ford v Ferrari” is no masterpiece, but it is — to invoke a currently simmering debate — real cinema, the kind of solid, satisfying, nonpandering movie that can seem endangered nowadays. ‘Ford v Ferrari’ Review: It’s a Gas 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

By the 18th century, when more conservative Bourbons succeeded to the Spanish throne, these private rooms became guardhouses for masterpieces they would have been happy to burn. Now Showing: Porn Fit for Spanish Kings 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

It’s a long list, and it gets longer with each year as new masterpieces are made and older work is reassessed, rediscovered and restored. Recycled Films and Bitsy Screens 2011-05-22T00:43:01Z

IT IS not every day that you get a phone call announcing the discovery of a long-lost Baroque masterpiece, even if you are the director of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Getty got it, good 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Yet he’s able to encourage the nation with one of the masterpieces of literature, and one of the definitive explanations of the American experience. 24 Tense Hours in Abraham Lincoln’s Life 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

Smaller institutions, he frets, might squander opportunities to find hidden masterpieces: “A ma–and-pa operation with two helpers? Forget it.” Museums Special Section: Golden Age of Discovery ... Down in the Basements 2014-03-19T20:40:34Z

Pairing this 20th-century masterpiece with a sparking performance of Mendelssohn’s beloved Violin Concerto enhances the CD’s broad appeal. CD reviews: Two lyrical recordings of classic 20th-century scores 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Museums are doing away with the velvet rope that separated mere mortals from the masterpieces. Perspective | People can’t put their phones down, and it’s ruining museums 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

The good news about “The Emerald Light in the Air” is that it contains two masterpieces of the short story form, stories I hope are anthologized until anthologizing ends in fire or ice. ‘The Emerald Light in the Air,’ Stories by Donald Antrim 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

The same kind of ambition and audacity that fuels a masterpiece can fuel a film that is just an abomination. Q&A: Writer Nathan Rabin on Years Watching Hollywood Flops 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

The latter won't be performed on Saturday, alas — but a bona fide Harrison masterpiece takes its place: Double Concerto for Violin and Cello with Javanese Gamelan. A tough choice for Seattle world-music fans: Simon Shaheen or Gamelan Pacifica 2010-12-02T21:17:00Z

One piece that provoked controversy was Asher Durand's masterpiece "Kindred Spirits," a dreamy depiction of two men in the Catskill Mountains that had been displayed for generations at the New York Public Library. Major art museum opens in unlikely place: Arkansas 2011-11-08T10:31:05Z

This is a famous one, of course: from it we get the common English title of Proust’s masterpiece. Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

But the effect is salutary: This is an exhibition about the way art actually works, incrementally moving along, rather than a grand-standing masterpiece display. LACMA's 'Expressionism in Germany and France' an edifying mix 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

Brushing aside the mostly wan intervening attempts to resurrect Carpenter’s minimalist masterpiece, he has made a straight-up sequel, a rematch between heroine and villain. ‘Halloween’ Review: Babysitters (and Jamie Lee Curtis) Beware! 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

It was the same thing as Carry On films and spaghetti westerns being regarded with absolute contempt – whereas they're now seen as masterpieces. Fab furore: Is it time to re-evaluate the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour? 2012-09-25T17:33:00Z

The “masterpiece,” in this case, is by king of kitsch Thomas Kinkade. Trimpin’s high-tech whimsy takes over Seattle’s Winston Wächter 2013-01-24T23:04:28Z

Humanity isn’t exactly humane in the songs on “Hellfire,” the caustic, exhilarating third album — a masterpiece — by the English band black midi. black midi Bristles at a Bleak World With ‘Hellfire’ 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

“We didn’t want to eat the potato because it’d be hard to eat a masterpiece like that,” she explained. UK gardener harvests potato resembling her dog: 'This has cheered us all up massively' 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

He meets adversity with increased determination, and it is a single shard from a beautifully wrought but cruelly broken clay masterpiece that turns his life around. 'A Single Shard': The tale of an orphan who dares to dream big 2012-03-07T20:35:04Z

It’s a great example of the lowbrow burger as culinary masterpiece. Bites: Restaurant Report: Meat Mission in London 2013-08-27T19:16:54Z

But there were no such glitches with her vocalism: a masterpiece of control, agility and alluring sound throughout her range, with its dusky lows and bright high notes. Music Review: Joyce DiDonato Sings Baroque Opera at Carnegie Hall 2012-11-20T22:43:06Z

Slowly edited down through the 1950s into the early ’60s, it now exists in a black-and-white 66-minute version that is an ecstatic cinematic masterpiece. Carrie Brownstein, Carly Rae Jepsen and Others on First-Time Cultural Experiences 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

Haydn travelled to Slough to peer at the universe through Herschel's telescope shortly before writing his choral masterpiece. I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky; Icarus at the Edge of Time; Don Giovanni 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

Porgy and Bess is one of the greatest operatic masterpieces of all time, and is performed all too infrequently. ‘Porgy and Bess’ With a White Cast Stirs Controversy 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Now, with this traveling show, some of those wondrous things — truly world masterpieces — have come home in an exhibition context that carries the Native American story from 100 B.C. into the 21st century. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. Museum & Gallery Listings for May 8-14 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Extensively notated by Mr. Hutchinson, a professor at Cornell University, the book is no one’s idea of a literary masterpiece or a work of trenchant social criticism. A Breezy Chameleon, Blurring Social Borders 2014-02-16T22:07:35Z

Ailey’s single masterpiece, with its “Wade in the Water ” baptism, it is the company’s true Mississippi, and next to it, “The River” is just another stream. Dance Review: Ailey Program Moves to Duke Ellington Works 2013-12-17T21:54:02Z

According to officials of the Van Gogh Museum, the piece was completed in 1888, during the same period Van Gogh painted several masterpieces, including “The Sunflowers,” “The Yellow House” and “The Bedroom.” Museum Identifies Long-Lost Van Gogh Painting 2013-09-09T12:58:37Z

Walk proudly out into the living room, refraining as best you can from making any comments as to the moral turpitude of your host and fellow guests, and present your masterpiece. Be the most popular person at a Super Bowl party: make my 'ceviche method' guacamole 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

Even those insiders who hail "Luck" as a masterpiece concede it takes five episodes to get going. Midseason TV shows may 'Smash' convention 2012-01-12T19:24:50Z

“The Agitators” is a masterpiece, not least, of structure, as each of the title characters dons her mantle, takes the stage and does a turn, usually at arm’s length from the others. An Unlikely Alliance in Upstate N.Y. and the Fight for Black and Women’s Rights 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

The exhibition includes 85 masterpieces, 84 of which passed through his hands. What's On This Week Around The World 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

The massive undertaking brought the glories of ancient Cambodia and India, Thailand and Vietnam to New York, where they took pride of place alongside the Western masterpieces that had long defined the museum. Cambodia Says It’s Found Its Lost Artifacts: in Gallery 249 at the Met 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

But after checking on friends and family, stocking up and canceling everything, I found myself someplace else entirely: in the sweat-seamed stews of Sarah Waters’s gripping Dickensian masterpiece “Fingersmith.” Celeste Ng, Ann Patchett, Min Jin Lee and Others on the Books That Bring Them Comfort 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

You could say that Frears hasn't quite made a masterpiece yet, and he would probably answer that he doesn't do masterpieces – as if to suggest that the concept is vulgar and pretentious. David Thomson on Stephen Frears 2010-09-02T21:05:00Z

A place at some imaginary cultural grown-ups’ table where people speak in hushed tones about exquisite masterpieces? film: Sometimes A Vegetable Is Just a Vegetable 2011-06-17T15:55:10Z

Following its premiere Sunday night, “Jojo Rabbit” was hailed as a masterpiece, an eccentric opus and a worthy heir to Charlie Chaplin’s “The Dictator” by some. Waititi’s ‘Jojo Rabbit’ finds a mixed response in Toronto 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Then, finally, a mature choral masterpiece: The Bells, in which all Rachmaninov's powers of evocation hit their stride. Prom 22: BBC Philharmonic/Gianandrea Noseda ? review 2011-08-01T10:12:14Z

After suggesting last week that Deborah Levy's Swimming Home is "as good as it gets" he's back this week to hail Kyung-Sook Shin's Please Look After Mother as simply "a masterpiece". Reader reviews roundup 2012-11-09T17:58:54Z

Undoubtedly a masterpiece, Arcadia has a huge heart, beating wildly in the encounters between the individual characters and between time and space. This week's new theatre 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

The year after Caractacus, Elgar completed the Enigma Variations, then followed that with his choral masterpiece The Dream of Gerontius, and both works are anticipated here. Caractacus ? review 2011-08-11T12:06:08Z

It is far more prudent for a photographer for glossy magazines to allude modestly to film noir, as Bourdin did, than to Renaissance masterpieces. Photography’s Road From Edgy to Excess 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

The iconic image of a sleeping woman cloaked in a gauzy saffron gown was created in 1895, and is considered the British artist’s masterpiece. Sir Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June Makes Its New York Debut 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

There was a film with Depardieu that was the literal play, and it’s a masterpiece. Snapshot : Clémence Poésy’s Broadway Debut in ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ 2012-10-28T18:18:35Z

But “Rear Window,” Hitchcock’s 1954 masterpiece, never gets old, and its story gets to the heart of what cinema is. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

An aide to Prince Charles came to her door asking if she could tie together a couple of her "masterpieces". Film-maker hooked on fly fishing legend 2013-06-26T00:38:10Z

This sensational and apocalyptic drama, based on the western thriller by Cormac McCarthy, is still the Coens’ masterpiece: a noirish nightmare that takes place under a vast Texan sky, leavened with brilliant wisecracks. The Coen brothers’ films – ranked! 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

“We are not only rediscovering forgotten masterpieces but also giving artists of our own time the opportunity to be seen in a highly focused manner.” Inside Art: Blockbuster Growth in the Met?s Attendance 2011-07-21T22:33:33Z

Starting on Wednesday, Mr. Gilbert conducts a production of Stephen Sondheim’s chilling masterpiece musical “Sweeney Todd,” with a book by Hugh Wheeler. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 28-March 6 2014-02-27T23:00:40Z

Even when he was singing a long-lined melody like “Black Hole Sun,” another of his masterpieces, there was no comforting croon in his voice. Chris Cornell: A Spectacular Voice of Grunge, With a Glint of Tragedy 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

But in a city notorious for its lack of civic sense and where most walls are adorned with tobacco and betel leaf stains, aren't they worried about the fate of their masterpieces? Project to give Mumbai a Bollywood mural makeover 2012-05-16T07:13:55Z

We’re not suggesting director Ang Lee had nothing to do with it, but Thompson was easily his equal in this immensely English masterpiece. Emma Thompson's best films – ranked! 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

It’s another masterpiece, perhaps the best one for demonstrating Balanchine’s structural genius to a newcomer: Truly, you can’t miss it. City Center’s Balanchine Festival Lacked a Balanchine Quality: Boldness 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

The series is widely and justly considered one of the supreme masterpieces of Japanese painting. Art Review: ?Colorful Realm,? Works by Ito Jakuchu at National Gallery 2012-03-29T21:27:01Z

Those vast masterpieces of religious art are gone for ever, but this wonder of nudity was luckier. The ghosts of ancient Afghanistan 2011-02-27T21:30:00Z

The first of two Van Gogh exhibitions this year, "Native Soil," looks at Van Gogh's early artistic career in the Netherlands, culminating in the 1885 masterpiece "The Potato Eaters." Van Gogh dazzles at Netherlands' Kroeller-Mueller 2012-12-11T12:43:11Z

Its craggy, raw, mind-boggling masterpieces remain as daunting and subversive today as they were a century ago. Leonard Lauder's $1bn gift to Met gives new lease of life to cubism 2013-04-10T15:08:08Z

In Italy, the nascent environmental movement was one of many forces breaking the country’s long tradition of classical masterpieces that seemed to block art’s entry into contemporary life. 2 Art Havens in the Hudson Valley Offer Nature Indoors and Out 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

C.P.E.’s “Magnificat” is something else, a masterpiece in its own right, which looks as resolutely to the future as his father’s does at times to the past. Cobbling Together a Christmas Music Marathon 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

The huffing and puffing publicists prescribe our responses to the book: "Be moved, be enraged, be enthralled by this extraordinary masterpiece," they command. The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey ? review 2011-04-10T04:00:00Z

Among them were masterpieces such as Sunflowers, Irises and Bedroom, notorious for its odd perspective. Amsterdam museum re-opens doors 2012-09-24T15:26:23Z

That’s from “Lives of the Poets,” a work-for-hire project that became Johnson’s final masterpiece, one which he hoped would give its readers what he called “useful pleasure.” Review | ‘The Club’ spotlights the stars of 18th-century British culture — and invites some new members 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

His four-part masterpiece, “The Book of the New Sun,” sometimes looks like fantasy, sometimes like science fiction, but there’s no uncertainty about its magnificence — it is a work that repeatedly takes your breath away. Review | Beyond George R.R. Martin: A critic’s pick of science fiction and fantasy 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

Hence my eagerness to join in with the excitement around the admirable Criterion Collection's lavish DVD release of Sweet Smell of Success – Alexander Mackendrick's masterpiece of greed, amorality and one-liners to die for. There's a Sweet Smell of Success about The Social Network 2011-02-18T14:52:38Z

The culture is long overdue for another masterpiece. American theatre: the wonder years? 2010-04-07T13:29:00Z

The animated Transformers movie, by comparison, is a masterpiece. From Trolls to Transformers: toy films – ranked! 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Like many painters of his day, his secular work was preoccupied with stories from Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” which yielded one of the painter’s most distinctive masterpieces, “Liberation of Andromeda,” painted around 1510-1513. Piero di Cosimo, a misunderstood master, at the National Gallery of Art 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Films in competition are greeted with hopes, even expectations, of being a masterpiece. From 'Gatsby' to Gosling, a preview of Cannes 2013-05-13T14:48:13Z

Most importantly, the conductor paid apt attention to the emotional complexity of the Second Symphony, a mature masterpiece too often diminished by blithe assertions of its allegedly “sunny” disposition. Thomas Dausgaard leads Seattle Symphony in a deeply satisfying Brahms program 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

A romantic work for four couples at a club, it used to look like a lazy update of Balanchine’s “Liebeslieder Walzer” for dancers who weren’t worthy of that far more intricate and eloquent masterpiece. Dance Review: First a Toast to the Past, Then the Frolics of a Bubbly Balanchine 2011-06-01T22:30:32Z

Jay-Z has mythologized his life before, of course — many of his most resonant lyrics, particularly those on his autobiographical masterpiece, “The Black Album,” are works of willful self-dramatization. Books of The Times: The Street Poet Jay-Z Shows His Softer Side, in a Memoir 2010-11-22T18:28:00Z

This scrupulously researched and reported book is about not just a cinematic masterpiece but the glorious lost Hollywood in which that movie was born. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Several blocks west, a monumental Miró bronze stood guard by a skyscraper known for its sloping glass facade and masterpieces inside. What Will Become of a Tycoon’s Art Gems? 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z

At the time, “Catch-22” was going to be the major antiwar film, and in its own way, it’s a flawed masterpiece. Forty Years of the 4077th: Elliott Gould on the Anniversary of 'MASH' 2010-09-03T14:00:00Z

I think his masterpiece so far is “Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood.” Q&A with Dana Carvey: Doing Johnny Carson getting pulled over, his ‘Fantastic’ podcast and whether there will be another ‘Wayne’s World’ 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

Art detectives may waste their entire lives searching for absent masterpieces. Now you see them: the eternal allure of lost art 2012-07-01T18:31:01Z

Patient and precise, Güler liked to linger in the city’s Beyoğlu district, near his studio, waiting for daily life to assume the dimensions of a masterpiece. What Ara Güler, “The Eye of Istanbul,” Saw in His Homeland 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

A section on the artists who drew inspiration from Rome includes the ancient masterpiece “Dionysus and Eros” from the Naples Archaeological Museum, as well as Renaissance works like Raphael’s lovely sketch of Rome’s Pantheon. In Transit Blog: A Show in Rome Explores the City's Role in the Renaissance 2011-12-11T11:00:09Z

With the missing pieces, the original dynamism of the masterpiece is stirred back to life. Rembrandt’s Damaged Masterpiece Is Whole Again, With A.I.’s Help 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

His masterpiece, So He Takes the Dog, one of those delightful crime novels that's not really a crime novel at all, was published in 2006. Nostalgia by Jonathan Buckley – review 2013-03-15T18:34:01Z

The bad news for Trump is that Lynch’s last Twin Peaks series was a masterpiece of challenged expectations. 'This one is going to freak him out': what Trump would make of David Lynch's films 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

RAMALLAH, West Bank — A Palestinian art academy on Monday put on display a $7 million Pablo Picasso masterpiece, the first of its kind in the West Bank. Picasso work loaned to West Bank goes on display 2011-06-20T17:17:09Z

The Holy See's pavilion, in the Arsenale or old shipyard site, is a far cry from the Renaissance masterpieces of the Vatican. Venice Biennale seeks to capture the "unruly" world of art 2013-05-29T16:12:38Z

“Afterlives,” which explores the brutality of Germany’s colonial rule in East Africa, came out in Britain in September 2020 and was hailed as a masterpiece. He Won the Nobel. Why Are His Books So Hard to Find? 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

Visitors must don booties to enter the barn because the floor is splattered with paint that Pollock dripped and flung for his masterpieces. 36 Hours: East Hampton 2010-07-29T20:06:00Z

She wrote the libretto for the opera “Margaret Garner,” which traced the life of the woman who inspired her masterpiece, “Beloved.” Toni Morrison Dancing: Photos of the Author at Work and Play 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

I thought “Children of Men” was a masterpiece of camera work and poetry. Q&A: Sam Mendes on making ‘1917’ in one long take 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

Here and elsewhere in this masterpiece we sense the still center of the world. ‘Symphonic Variations’: A Frederick Ashton Classic Returns 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

View the slide show for a full tour of this modern masterpiece. Lee F. Mindel Tours the Remarkable St. Louis Priory Chapel 2014-02-06T05:00:00Z

On the stand of Stephen Ongpin, the masterpiece is one of the most beautiful seaside views ever done by Eugène Boudin. Art: At Maastricht, the Great Art Is Getting Scarce 2011-03-18T13:00:34Z

Maybe “Clueless” was her masterpiece and she had nothing to say after it. ‘Clueless’ Was Amy Heckerling’s Masterpiece. Is She Done With It? As If. 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Their frames had been removed, and the sight elicited the mild shock that comes from seeing a masterpiece revert from its gilded life into a plainly handcrafted object. Van Gogh and the Consolation of Trees 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

The carpet, walls and ceiling were a warm golden-brown that looked, she said, like a “monochromatic masterpiece.” Designers reveal their most challenging paint colors and how to master them 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Cyrus set his mind to acting and soon found himself with a small part in Lynch’s 2001 mind-bending masterpiece, “Mulholland Drive.” Billy Ray Cyrus is back. But he never really went away. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Federal investigators eventually linked the fake, as well as a number of others passed off as previously unseen abstract expressionist masterpieces, to a small-time art dealer and a single forger in Queens. What’s on TV Sunday: The VMAs and ‘Driven to Abstraction’ 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z

She wrote in a program note that she looks forward to staging Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story,” which she described as a 20th-century masterpiece. Cecilia Bartoli to Sing Maria in 'West Side Story' 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

He says that his multimedia remakes of masterpieces are intended to revive visual literacy in art audiences. Art Review: Adding Bells and Whistles to Leonardo 2010-12-05T22:48:00Z

It is far less interested in bringing together established masterpieces than in using unfamiliar artworks to shed light on a machine-infested terrain that is as social and psychological as it is visual. Art Review: ‘Ghosts in the Machines’ at the New Museum 2012-07-19T21:45:40Z

In a Harper’s magazine essay about American fiction, he called “Desperate Characters” an overlooked masterpiece. Paula Fox, writer whose works resurfaced after years of neglect, dies at 93 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

By 1987, he was on the point of producing his greatest masterpieces. Art: Gerhard Richter, Grand Master of Our Time 2011-10-28T12:00:09Z

These are masterpieces of international cabinet-making, and they bear comparison with the greatest pieces by French designers in the Art Deco age but at one-fifth of the price. Showcasing Modern Masters 2010-10-15T13:30:00Z

It took almost six years to build and up to now has been Wunderland’s engineering masterpiece. The World in Miniature: A Model Train (and Plane) Lover’s Paradise in Hamburg 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

Revellers abound too in Manet's 19th-century masterpiece A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, glimpsed this time as blurred reflections in a mirror behind the bar. Oiled on canvas: the art of intoxication 2012-12-31T12:05:44Z

Together with several drawings and prints, the three oil paintings in the exhibit point to Géricault’s more dazzling achievements, including his masterpiece “The Raft of the Medusa,” which hangs in the Louvre. ‘Mutiny: Works by Géricault’ Review: Equine Passions and Anxieties 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

From that body of masterpieces it was a logical move to Schubert, the tragically short-lived Austrian composer who adored Beethoven's music and could not escape its mighty influence. Pianist Lewis launches cycle of Schubert's late keyboard works 2011-02-09T18:28:15Z

Among them is one from a breakout 1963 series, a masterpiece acquired two years ago. An early look in the Broad museum reveals a show that doesn't quite gel 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

I was awed to encounter not just a literary masterpiece, but the direct ancestor of some of my favorite current storytelling: If “Mad Men” was the river, these were the headwaters. “Mad Men’s” great influence: A show’s secrets, hidden in plain sight 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

It’s taken her fans almost as long to absorb all the intricately wound contradictions, political theories and jazzy riffs inside her masterpiece. Pop & Rock Listings for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

In the tragic drama of the arena he found the visual language that enabled him to respond, with deep humanity, to the horrors of war in his masterpiece Guernica. Is the art of bullfighting dead? 2010-07-29T14:12:00Z

In that address, he talks almost cursorily about “Lush Life,” one of jazz’s great masterpieces. Billy Strayhorn Archive Acquired by Library of Congress 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Clarence Thomas declaring that he was figuratively being lynched was a masterpiece of cynicism, and it came in the wake of his own denunciations of laziness and welfare dependence among impoverished black people. What Shielded Bill Cosby? 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

Instead, I found Kerouac’s “masterpiece” rambling and frivolous; it took me two years to get through it. Footsteps: Climbing a Peak That Stirred Kerouac 2012-11-16T16:27:46Z

If you like science-fiction books, then this is a masterpiece worth a try. The Ask and The Answer by Patrick Ness - review 2013-04-11T14:00:00Z

It was the only film directed by actor Roddy McDowall and the movie Sight & Sound magazine coincidentally chose to launch their Lost & Found series of forgotten masterpieces after Harries had announced the screening. Film clubs: fancy a cheap night out at the Picture & Pint? 2011-01-18T16:54:53Z

Using one basic material, plus daring structural engineering, Niemeyer turned poured concrete painted white into an expressionist masterpiece. Oscar Niemeyer obituary 2012-12-06T00:35:38Z

This exhibition makes the case for an Italian neorealist photography movement that may not have produced masterpieces at the same rate, but was more wide-ranging and less stark than its filmic counterpart. 10 Under-the-Radar Art Shows to See Now 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Invigorating drums, driving guitars and wrenching vocals combine to make a masterpiece that is best enjoyed at maximum volume. Shoegaze: a beginner's guide 2013-01-23T15:42:23Z

Built 50 years ago, the structure was heralded as a modernist masterpiece of glass and concrete, but fell into disrepair after being deconsecrated in 1980. Touring the Ruins of St. Peter’s Seminary in Scotland 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

In his original 1956 review of “The Bald Soprano” he recognizes it as a masterpiece, but tellingly does not rave about its formal daring or snarky portrait of bourgeois rituals. Theater Review: Ionesco?s ?Bald Soprano? at City Center - Review 2011-09-27T21:06:39Z

This is how Edna O’Brien characterizes the early days of James Joyce’s efforts to create his masterpiece, “Ulysses.” Sunday Reading: Literary Chronicles 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

Prokofiev regarded it as his masterpiece, but it wasn’t performed until after his death. Review | Forget greatness, enjoy the music: NSO revels in lyrical excess 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

The single most thrilling sight by far is Roy Lichtenstein’s “Black Flowers” from 1961, a somewhat crudely rendered masterpiece that merges painting, drawing and commercial printing. Art in Review: Benny Andrews: The Pop Object ‘The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art’ 2013-05-09T19:47:17Z

The response at the festival, where “The Irishman” was widely greeted as a masterpiece, helped set it on a course to a number of awards, including 10 Oscar nominations. Eugene Hernandez named director of New York Film Festival 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

“Schubert’s Winter Journey” both deepens and contextualizes this emotionally somber masterpiece, the ideal music for darkest February. Ian Bostridge’s ‘Schubert’s Winter Journey’ examines the composer’s melancholy work 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

But is it a masterpiece in spite or because of its poisonous backstory? Reel dilemma: are we condoning the conduct of Hollywood's tyrants by watching their films? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Both these excellent books — Christopher de Hamel’s “Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts” and Jorge Carrión’s “Bookshops” — reinvigorate an old-fashioned form of criticism, sometimes summed up by the phrase “the adventures of a soul among masterpieces.” This librarian loves ancient manuscripts and wants you to love them, too 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

“It is going to be made even more special by performing with my husband, tenor Yusif Eyvazov, in the same Puccini masterpiece that marked our first encounter at the Rome Opera in 2014.” Anna Netrebko, Shunned in Much of the West, to Sing in Monte Carlo 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

The Gardner, built about 20 years earlier by the New York-born socialite for which it is named, is a hodgepodge of Venetian interiors, Chinese art, Roman mosaics and early Renaissance masterpieces. Critic?s Notebook: Eccentricity Gives Way to Uniformity in Museums 2011-03-27T01:30:05Z

Merritt is best known for his work with the Magnetic Fields, who are miraculous and unpredictable; “69 Love Songs” is their masterpiece. Playing word games with Stephin Merritt 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

It’s tempting to call the resulting portraits accidental masterpieces, since they were made with such ordinary tools. Herman Leonard’s intimate portraits of jazz greats draw viewers into smoky clubs 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

The return of “Don Carlos” to the Paris Opéra in its original tongue, for the first time since 1986, brings a masterpiece back to its home. Review: A Starry ‘Don Carlos’ Brings Verdi, in French, to Paris 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

Among these are Louis de Bernieres, whose Birds Without Wings, arguably his masterpiece, was inspired by a visit to the haunting abandoned settlement of Kayaköy on Turkey’s touristy Mediterranean coast. 10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, the first episode of the second season is a masterpiece, and I am not immune to a hot priest. I Love Top Ten Lists 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

This was as dramatically visceral an experience of Berg’s masterpiece, completed in 1922, as you will have in any opera house. Music Review: ‘Wozzeck,’ by Philharmonia Orchestra, at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-11-20T23:07:31Z

The review is a masterpiece of gleeful opprobrium. ‘The chef started crying’: the Toronto critic who can make or break a restaurant 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

“The remoteness of the masterpiece and the peril of mediocrity make it impossible, most days, to put anything down on paper.” The Buildings That Drove Their Creators to Despair 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z

The very best Regency buildings are playful, capricious masterpieces, and George created the most recognisable skyline of any building in Britain with Windsor Castle. George IV: the rehabilitation of Old Naughty 2011-08-28T20:00:05Z

"The facts are overwhelming and clearly prove the authenticity of the masterpiece," said Swiss lawyer Markus Frey, president of the private Mona Lisa Foundation which insists it has no financial stake in the painting. "Original Mona Lisa" given Geneva launch 2012-09-27T19:17:02Z

Poussin's theological masterpiece is on view at the National Gallery in support of the campaign launched by the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge to purchase it for the nation. Turner prize: too respectable? 2012-09-28T12:23:05Z

“They say that miracles never cease, I’ve created a devastating masterpiece,” rapped Big Bank Hank on “Rapper’s Delight,” a boast that codified one of rap’s central themes -- self-aggrandizement. Big Bank Hank: 'Rapper's Delight' and the Sugarhill Gang's revolution 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

Quinones, a Brooklyn-based contemporary artist who pioneered the subway graffiti movement, created his own automotive masterpiece last year, a Ford Flex painted on commission for Automobile Magazine. 2010-02-12T23:50:00Z

The most singsong of these masterpieces, and the perfect Valentine’s Day poem, is “La Belle Dame Sans Merci,” which translates to “the beautiful lady without mercy.” Perspective | The perfect poem for Valentine’s Day 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

And all of these follow on the heels of at least another half-dozen magisterial biographies published in the past two decades, including Martin Brecht’s exhaustive three-volume masterpiece, “Martin Luther,” which Metaxas praises as “unsurpassable.” Slaying the Dragon of the Dark Ages 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

It’s not a family saga like “The Godfather,” or a geopolitical romance like “Casablanca,” or a technical masterpiece like “Citizen Kane” — just a box-office also-ran about two prison friends. The unlikely greatness of ‘The Shawshank Redemption,’ 25 years later 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Unlike with his 1982 masterpiece , Alien's perfectionist director has pretty much left the movie alone, releasing only one mildly tinkered-with Director's Cut. Prometheus: the making of a new myth 2012-05-25T23:01:00Z

Mr Charney catalogues what he calls the “negative space history of art” filled with “more masterpieces than all of the world’s museums combined”. The many ways art goes missing 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

If you thought Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express was dazzling, wait till you read her masterpiece, And Then There Were None . Michael Dirda’s wondrous holiday book recommendations 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

It was a run-through of “The Spoon River Project,” a dead-serious adaptation of Edgar Lee Masters’s 1915 masterpiece, “Spoon River Anthology,” running at the cemetery through June 26. A True-to-Life Setting for Voices From the Dead 2011-06-16T22:30:07Z

Their enriching, symbiotic internationalism led to the creation of artistic masterpieces that stand among Western civilization’s highest achievements. Review | A welcome reminder that there’s value to being a citizen of the world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

Andrew Davis conducts this unwieldy setting of Nietzsche, and if anyone can make it seem the blazing masterpiece that Delians claim it to be, then it's surely him. This week's new live music 2012-08-03T23:05:27Z

The Picasso masterpiece is one of several renderings of his muse Marie-Thérèse Walter and considered by art experts to be one of his most important works. Picasso, Warhol works expected to sell for $35 million each 2012-10-05T19:33:02Z

He also happened to leave these lintels, which are world masterpieces, to the British Museum. Mayan art: waiting for the end of the world 2012-12-20T13:26:00Z

Russian manuscript painting, unknown outside its homeland, produced stunning masterpieces. Review: The Foundations of Russian Culture and Art 2010-03-05T14:00:00Z

Out of this daft bunfight, Strauss and his collaborator Hoffmansthal shaped a masterpiece. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les p?cheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z

“Rabbit” is a contemporary masterpiece, but that by no means makes every Koons a great work of art. How Jeff Koons’s “Rabbit” Became Big Game 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

"Great Scott" will focus on a famous American singer, Arden Scott, who returns to her hometown to star in a forgotten operatic masterpiece. Dallas Opera orders new Heggie-McNally work 2012-01-18T07:01:04Z

Besides making quite a mess of things, leaving splash marks everywhere, Jackson Pollock also created some of the 20th century's greatest masterpieces. Fans recall American artist Jackson Pollock at 100 2012-04-15T16:09:07Z

One Fellini-worthy millinery masterpiece, boasting a “beautiful crepe de asparagus effect,” has all of Paris “wild about it” – and in one cartoon panel, even the men get to outlandish headgear. Pootwaddles and Dunklewimps: Rube Goldberg’s glorious cartoons at MoPOP 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

"The History of Rock 'n' Roll" is loosely organized and somewhat uneven, and even at its best it's not as provocative as previous masterpieces like "Lipstick Traces" or "The Old, Weird America." Into the ether with Greil Marcus' ' History of Rock 'n' Roll' 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Salonen made the orchestra sound precise and transparent in all this, but in Ravel's masterpiece, La Valse, the kaleidoscope turned opaque. Philharmonia/Salonen – review 2013-03-22T17:30:00Z

In a clattery, uptown bistro, not far from the studio where he once watched his father paint bold abstract masterpieces, Earl Davis contemplates the greatest loss of his life. The art world's Bernie Madoff, and his deceptions 2010-10-23T16:16:00Z

It abounds in masterpieces from hundreds of years of European and Middle Eastern history. All masterpieces great and small: get lost in the Wallace Collection 2011-01-17T13:32:07Z

He reads and admires many: “Some were masterpieces of the genre, contenders for the Great American Kite.” Books of The Times: True Tales of a Prison Librarian 2010-10-19T16:13:00Z

Some of the world's wealthiest book collectors have been anticipating this auction for months: it represents a chance to own one of the best preserved editions of Aubudon's masterpiece, with its 435 revered, hand-colored illustrations. Rare Audubon `Birds of America' to be auctioned 2010-12-07T16:06:00Z

I think that’s also very legitimate and valid; I don’t think everything has to be a masterpiece.” Reawakening the Antichrist (and Other Lost Opera Gems) 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

Here in Kyiv the masterpieces have, like many of its citizens earlier, gone underground. The Role of Art in a Time of War 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

The challenge with taking an old-fashioned approach to opera, as the composer and librettist do in “Jane Eyre,” is that the resulting work invites comparisons with classic masterpieces. Review: When Anaïs Met Circe, and Other Operatic Adventures 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

One of the masterpieces of the Old Testament, especially in the King James translation. Paul Bailey's top 10 stories of old age 2011-02-02T11:31:42Z

Despite its relative obscurity, it remains a minor Proustian masterpiece, wherein the child’s lonely world of objects is lovingly chronicled, culminating in a tyke-sized version of the Arcades Project’s urban materialist study. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z

But the lesson of the festival is that you can’t just pop out a masterpiece a decade. At This Summer’s Aix Festival, the Only Laughter Is Bitter 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

But it is impossible to look at some of them now, particularly the ones of Alice Liddell, the namesake of Carroll’s masterpiece, without encountering the question of Dodgson’s motives. Lewis Carroll’s Portraiture 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

“Dances at a Gathering” was widely hailed as a masterpiece from its 1969 premiere on. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Erring on Side of Variety 2014-01-27T22:26:31Z

“Aurora” is much less accessible than Mr. Puiu’s last film, the social realist masterpiece “The Death of Mr. Lazarescu,” which followed a dying man through the Bucharest hospital system. Critic?s Notebook: Film Festival Gains Life From Reality 2010-09-28T23:03:00Z

This week, an Italian company put online high-resolution images of "The Birth of Venus" and five other masterpieces from the Uffizi gallery in Florence, including works by Caravaggio and Leonardo da Vinci. Just a click away: Italian masterpieces go online 2010-10-01T15:36:00Z

The plundered volumes seldom carried the same glamour as the looted paintings, which were often masterpieces worth millions of dollars. The Hunt for the Nazi Loot Still Sitting on Library Shelves 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

It is a masterpiece and it had to be placed in a major public collection." she says, "Despite huge interest in the work internationally, Chris and I wanted it to remain in this country. Victoria Miro 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

This image, which may be a masterpiece, is the first one in the show’s slender but useful catalog, which contains Mr. Smith’s wide-ranging interview with Mr. Gowin. Review: Emmet Gowin’s Poignant Pairings at the Morgan Library 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

In geeks' mythology they resurrected Firefly, the masterpiece dumped by soulless corporate suits, and thus share the creator's subsequent glory. Joss Whedon at Comic-Con: director returns home a god among geeks 2012-07-15T17:11:22Z

No discussion about Joe Cocker is complete unless you mention the overlooked masterpiece "Hitchcock Railway." Joe Cocker, Raspy-Voiced Rock Star With Distinctive Moves, Is Dead at 70 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian This is the third production in the National's history of Büchner's 1835 masterpiece written when he was only 21. Theatre review 2010-07-23T00:13:00Z

For many, “I Don’t Want to Love” is one of Mr. Morris’s masterpieces, so I’m sorry that I find it much more emphatically artful than its music. Review: Mark Morris’s New Pastoral Says Less Than Its Music 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

It was a show that was thrillingly innovative as theatre and yet authentically true to Verdi's masterpiece. Love opera. Don't fall into the trappings trap 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z

Lincoln was being hailed in some quarters as a masterpiece, perhaps Spielberg's best since Schindler's List. Oscars 2013: how Argo beat Lincoln 2013-02-25T08:47:00Z

A few days after the protest, and it was Cannes business as usual as each day critics staked their claims, declaring this a masterpiece, that a fiasco and much of it mezzo mezzo. ArtsBeat: After the Boos: Reviewing the Cannes Film Festival 2012-05-27T23:43:15Z

Wes Anderson’s masterpiece is a dizzyingly complex machine whose workings are a delight to behold. Here Are the 10 Best Movies of 2014 (So Far) 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

“Son of Saul,” which is an absolute masterpiece, is very subjective. Q&A: Sam Mendes on making ‘1917’ in one long take 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

"This is one of the great masterpieces of 20th century art and to see its precursors all in the same space is amazing," said Stephens. How Picasso helped British art turn modern 2012-02-13T19:38:09Z

Each separation is painstakingly created and artisans “corrected the many layers of film for the full color printing process – a masterpiece of printer’s art”, a handout given to visitors reads. Nude images of Marilyn Monroe offer snapshots of taboo Hollywood history 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

The resulting explosion of brilliance led to much of the art of today, from installation to performance, and produced some of the most enduring modern masterpieces. Duchamp and Lichtenstein ride again – the week in art 2013-02-15T13:01:35Z

When he laments that “we wilt under the weight of models,” he expresses the burden that we composers today must endure, living and working in the shadow of past masterpieces and the culture of “greatness.” John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

What makes New York City Ballet unparalleled is its stock of masterpieces by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Dance Review: City Ballet Classics, Including ?Agon? at Koch Theater 2012-02-19T22:21:20Z

Only one of the 8,000 works in the Rijksmuseum’s collection returns to its original display position: Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch,” widely considered his greatest masterpiece. Netherlands’ Rijksmuseum reopens after big renovation 2013-04-13T22:23:00Z

He took as his model Leni Riefenstahl’s “Triumph of the Will,” her film about the 1934 Nazi Party Congress, which is considered both a masterpiece of propaganda and an important documentary. In ‘Under the Sun,’ a Documentary Masked and Unmasked 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

The books are all being republished by the admirable University of Chicago Press – it tickled Westlake that Parker should appear under an academic imprint – and among them are at least half a dozen masterpieces. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z

Find a sunny window to hang your masterpiece. Catch some rays by transforming an old CD 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

Exhibited alongside a boisterous presentation drawing, they confirm that New York wasted its best shot at a Rivera permanent masterpiece. Art Review: ?Diego Rivera? Murals at Museum of Modern Art - Review 2011-11-17T23:10:25Z

And of course, double it up with Psycho , also re-released this Friday, and still the bottomless masterpiece it always was and ever shall be. Hitchcock and Borges revisited 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z

Michelangelo and his gang are expected to paint a box-office masterpiece this weekend with the return of popular franchise "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' may outshell 'Guardians' at box office 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

But it is, Mr. Jacobs asserted recently in a phone interview from Germany, “the masterpiece of all the operas of Mozart.” This Conductor’s Mozart Isn’t for the Faint of Ear 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

The movie is bizarre, fragmented, challenging – not a masterpiece, but glinting with life and ideas. The Cannes film festival in my head 2010-05-11T09:53:00Z

“La Mer,” a masterpiece of swirling colors and vivid seascape evocations seems inseparable from its varied orchestral palette, although Debussy was also a genius at creating pianistic evocations. Music Review: Pascal Rog? and Friends at Symphony Space - Review 2011-09-14T22:44:51Z

As a sidebar to a new exhibition on the making of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the museum is screening movies that had an influence, direct or oblique, on Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece. 4 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Speaking of Miyazaki, the filmmaker’s masterpieces also include “Howl’s Moving Castle,” derived from the first volume of this superb fantasy trilogy, here available on its own or as part of a handsome illustrated set. Review | Books make the best gifts. Here are seven surprising choices for the readers on your list. 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

But even the most refined viewer knows that masterpieces are not always the point. Acorn TV, Urban Movie Channel, Shudder: Exploring Fringe Caves Online 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

However he excelled at collaboration, which musicals, more than any other film genre, are reliant on, and which enabled him to create masterpieces. Stanley Donen obituary 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

This capacity to draw inspiration from different genres was fundamental in the development of his career and unlike the sesquipedalian Lezama Lima, author of the masterpiece Paradiso, Piñera combined Cuban vernacular with more refined language. A hundred years of Virgilio Piñera, l'enfant terrible of Cuban literature 2012-08-03T17:09:31Z

In the Sunday Times, Frances Wilson wrote: "In the present literary climate of dumbed-down, throwaway narratives, to be handed a story as durable and exquisitely crafted as this is a rare pleasure . . . a masterpiece." Edmund de Waal 2011-02-12T11:38:27Z

Uneasy at having cast a pall of uncertainty over a literary masterpiece, I deliver my talk, about Tolstoy as aristocrat. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z

It’s like a cubist masterpiece, except the fish seem to emit light from within. If you’re tired of poke, here’s a raw fish and rice dish for you 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

Weeks later, the Prado in Madrid will begin its own Bosch celebration, including his other masterpieces, not least one of the triumphs of Western art, his captivatingly bizarre “Garden of Earthly Delights.” For Hieronymus Bosch, One Helluva Homecoming 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

So it's a mild beneficial shock to watch two American films of the early 1970s on re-release – not because they're masterpieces, exactly, but because they give the flavour of a different set of assumptions. Film-makers need to trust the audience 2013-05-24T13:00:01Z

The character that emerges is of an impossible, improbable, irresponsible, irresistibly innocent sophisticate who many found to be the hero of the masterpiece that was his life. Dick Bellamy: The Man Hiding at the Center of Everything 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Kelis and the Neptunes have all gone on to make more successful recordings together and apart, but despite its low profile, this remains their masterpiece. The 12 greatest albums of the ’90s 2014-05-10T15:00:00Z

A painting that previously sat in the basement of Yale University's museum has been identified as a masterpiece by Velázquez. Vel?zquez masterpiece found in Yale basement 2010-07-01T11:30:00Z

This weekend from dusk Saturday until Sunday morning, visitors can enter free at the Borghese Gallery, which houses such masterpieces as "David with the head of Goliath" and "Boy with a basket of fruit." Vatican paper: new Caravaggio may have been found 2010-07-17T20:01:00Z

And in his masterpiece “Global Groove,” which can be seen in a screening room as well as in the installation “TV Garden,” he did all of these things. Art Review: ‘Nam June Paik,’ at Smithsonian American Art Museum 2013-01-11T16:33:17Z

Mendelssohn, like Mozart a prodigy composer, wrote two indisputable masterpieces in his adolescence: the String Octet and Overture to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Music Review: Proud Parents With Cameras, Clicking Away 2010-12-26T21:39:04Z

More than four decades after “Einstein on the Beach,” his masterpiece with Philip Glass, he creates a museum installation as theater. From 12th Century B.C. to 2017, Art in Startling Variety 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Officials called the result robust, and provided evidence of "the great results you get for exceptional masterpieces," as Christie's global president Jussi Pylkkänen, who also served as auctioneer, put it. Two works break $50 million barrier at Christie's $448 million contemporary sale 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

And the movie’s finale is a masterful evocation of catastrophe that has a low-key echo of Kurosawa’s 2001 horror masterpiece “Pulse.” ‘Wife of a Spy’ Review: Trust or Fear in Love and War? 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

“Good scholarship,” she said, “reduces the potential for parallel universes to develop where poor-quality works can be touted as potential masterpieces and fake works as the real thing.” Special Report: Asian Art: Ancient Art Lost in Confusion 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z

Then dealers and curators collect them as masterpieces of street art and they do enter the gallery after all, without being any more interesting than they were to begin with. Street art is dying ? and it's our fault 2011-08-25T15:04:58Z

As staged by Sellars, this wondrously mystical masterpiece became a profound and uncanny guide for the dying as they leave this world and prepare for the transcendent next. Worlds meet and worlds beyond at Ojai Music Festival 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

That was the thought that made a masterpiece out of Mr. Banks’s “Continental Drift,” and it is one to which he has frequently been drawn. Books of The Times: Russell Banks?s Novel ?Lost Memory of Skin? - Review 2011-09-25T22:26:09Z

Alfred Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' replaces the Orson Welles masterpiece at the top of critics' list in the last 'Sight & Sound' survey of the all-time great movies Fifty years at the top was long enough. Fraud at the Polls: The Best Film of All Time Is NOT Citizen Kane!? 2012-08-06T12:00:19Z

Opening night at City Center showed both the company’s future and its past: Wayne McGregor’s “Chroma,” a tensely kinetic work created in 2006 for the Royal Ballet, was followed by Ailey’s 1960 masterpiece, “Revelations.” Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, at City Center 2013-12-05T23:34:14Z

A season featuring “Symphony in Three Movements” among numerous masterpieces by Balanchine and Jerome Robbins is without match in the world today. Dance Review: Taking Flight: A Season of Revival 2011-01-28T23:27:03Z

The quartet wrestles its way to the end of Shostakovich's unquiet masterpiece, the reprised Largo with its complex contrition and very adult fears. Strings attached 2010-10-02T23:03:00Z

Our reviewer, the Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown, calls it an “authoritative and ultimately moving” book that brings the pair’s masterpieces to light “with bracing clarity.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

The novel is Household's masterpiece: a bestseller that redefined its genre. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male 2013-03-15T12:03:22Z

And if you page through the reviews quoted in Nicholas Slonimsky’s “Lexicon of Musical Invective,” you will discover that many works now considered deathless masterpieces were dismissed, sometimes violently, at first hearing. Critic?s Notebook: Searching New Music For Keepers 2010-12-28T22:58:20Z

It would be a crime against absurdist-theatrical nature to make the abstractions of Beckett’s masterpiece concrete. ArtsBeat: New York Fringe Festival Report: ‘Waiting for Waiting for Godot’ 2013-08-23T19:25:35Z

His dancers — the company is based here — are among the city’s most accomplished, personable and sensuous; his repertory includes many of the world’s most oddly imaginative masterpieces. Paul Taylor Opens With Humor Intact, but Poetry Missing 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

There’s no denying that every page of “The Dog” is a little masterpiece of comedy, erudition and linguistic acrobatics. In Joseph O’Neill’s ‘The Dog,’ a depressed lawyer in Dubai won’t stop talking

But the libretto is a masterpiece by one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, and one of France's celebrities, best known simply by her surname –Colette. Colette's libretto: a fantasy of childhood for Ravel's opera of enchantment 2012-07-27T21:49:01Z

“It’s the most important passage of his career — more masterpieces in a shorter period of time.” Philip K. Dick?s Masterpiece Years 2010-11-22T22:47:00Z

It’s an exquisite song, but the other slowpoke on Murmur, “Perfect Circle,” is the masterpiece of the two — perhaps because its concerns are local, not global. Annotated For the People: A Track By Track Look at the New R.E.M. Retrospective 2011-11-15T10:00:27Z

Like Alvin Ailey’s 1960 masterpiece “Revelations,” which closed the program, “Minus 16” explores facets of the human condition, some dark and others light. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey Troupe at City Center 2012-11-29T21:59:19Z

Another rain shower saw us sheltering inside the Strasbourg Cathedral, a soaring red-hued masterpiece in Gothic and Romanesque styles. A beacon of Christmas tradition in Strasbourg, France 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan was sued on Friday for the return of a Pablo Picasso masterpiece allegedly sold under duress in 1938 because of Nazi and Fascist persecution in Europe. New York's Met is sued over Picasso sold in Nazi, Fascist era 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

To borrow that transformative pun from George Barker's little masterpiece, "To My Mother" they "move from mourning into morning." Poem of the week: A Mind of Winter by Martha Kapos 2010-09-20T09:21:00Z

“Lazarus” is about resurrection and, for Mr. Harris, that circles back to Ailey: With each dancing generation, with every performance of his 1960 masterpiece “Revelations,” Ailey is reborn. A Dance Homage to Alvin Ailey as His Company Turns 60 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

When he fell ill with his final bout of tuberculosis, his masterpiece, “Walden,” was out of print. Why Does Thoreau Live On? A Few Famous Writers Offer Answers. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

The program explores Baroque masterpieces featured in movies like “The Godfather” and “The Talented Mr. Ripley.” A Russian Pianist Speaks Out Against the War From Home 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

There is a very thin line between masterpiece and fiasco. Q&A: Writer Nathan Rabin on Years Watching Hollywood Flops 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

Only the most fervent enthusiast of the composer would argue for the piece being a neglected masterpiece – but it certainly holds more than mere novelty value. BBCSSO/Titov 2010-04-18T20:45:00Z

With so many standout marshmallow masterpieces competing for just a few winning spots, the judging process was no easy task. 2014 Peeps contest winner donates prize to Oso slide victims 2014-04-16T21:32:31Z

He is a self-proclaimed cultural exorcist, which often translates into massacring cultural masterpieces. Artist of the week special: Tjorg Douglas Beer, Annette Kelm, Jonathan Meese 2011-03-16T18:25:57Z

"The Da Vinci Code" was centered on a masterpiece of painting, the Mona Lisa. New Dan Brown novel coming in May 2013-01-15T13:42:08Z

So while yes, it will keep your turkey meat warm, it will also turn it from a moist, juicy masterpiece into sawdust . . . and thus, all of your hard work will be ruined. Tell us how big your turkey is, we'll tell you how long to cook it 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z

I’ve brought him joy and taught him to communicate, to have gratitude and to look at our life journey like we’re painting a long-term masterpiece. ‘It’s Harder to Fight When You’re Naked’ 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Consider, for example, the successful campaign in New York to create a new Penn Station, inspired by the Beaux-Arts masterpiece demolished over protests in 1963. Nostalgia? Yestalgia! Why reviving old shows is exactly what we need right now 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

It's a masterpiece of hyper‑kinetic blocking and deep, vivid detail. Thrillers – review roundup 2013-02-22T09:01:00Z

The new biography “Henry David Thoreau: A Life” is the masterpiece that the gadfly of youthful America deserves. This new biography of Henry David Thoreau is the masterpiece he deserves 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

The original opera is considered a masterpiece of classical Chinese theater. ?The Peony Pavilion? Gets Modern Touches in China 2010-08-17T22:56:00Z

Though “Matrix” is radically different from Groff’s masterpiece, “Fates and Furies,” it is, once again, the story of a woman redefining both the possibilities of her life and the bounds of her realm. Review | In Lauren Groff’s hands, the tale of a medieval nunnery is must-read fiction 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

Both the vast, vibrant capital, Amman, and the remote, otherworldly desert landscapes are speckled with artistic masterpieces and profoundly moving sites of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths. Exploring Jordan’s cultural fusion 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Measuring it against the yardstick of masterpieces is not useful; I was very glad that it was played, and that I got to hear it. Review | Unexpected Rachmaninoff, majestic Italy in NSO concert 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

After years spent listening in awe to his blues masterpieces, we can now enjoy his work as if hearing it for the first time. Robert Johnson revelation tells us to put the brakes on the blues 2010-05-27T09:56:00Z

The key one, perhaps, was that Pollock created the masterpiece in one nonstop burst of energy that began on New Year's Eve 1943 and lasted 24 to 36 hours. Refurbished Pollock masterpiece goes on display 2014-03-11T13:00:04Z

With my students at Wellesley College, I'm reviving the real stories behind the characters of Dante's masterpiece and making them available to everyone on Wikipedia. The women who appear in Dante’s "Divine Comedy" are finally getting their due, 700 years later 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z

Their pastry skills are tested to the limit with a pithivier and the dreaded fondant fancies, followed by the creation of a masterpiece from chiffon sponge. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 15-19 October 2012-10-15T07:00:00Z

This latest collection of micro-fictions is a treasure trove of tiny wry masterpieces. Nine New Books Worth Reading This Week 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

If “Gods of Egypt” were any worse, it might be a masterpiece. Review: In ‘Gods of Egypt,’ That Doughnut Beast Is Stepping on My Sandal 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Freud always considered "Interpretation of Dreams "his masterpiece, and ensured it would be published in 1900 to mark its significance. Freud, Nietzsche, Paglia, Fanon: our expert guide to the books of "The White Lotus" 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

On Friday, PBS's "Great Performances" series will broadcast this Italian television production of Verdi's masterpiece that first aired last September in Europe. Domingo sings live from streets of Italy, on PBS 2011-07-15T02:03:08Z

Now ‘Agon’ is a classic masterpiece that we have to preserve.” New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z

The Rite of Spring: brutal, edgy and primal, Stravinsky's masterpiece remains a cornerstone of contemporary music. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z

Maybe I’m biased but I genuinely thought that the final season was a masterpiece. After ‘Game of Thrones,’ Nathalie Emmanuel Is Ready to Take the Lead 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Shakers also helped spread another early American folk favorite, the rocking chair, a masterpiece of empathetic design. Design That’s Got Users in Mind 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Mr. Andrews, whose wild and divisive production of Jean Genet’s “The Maids” was in New York two summers ago, has dared to reset Williams’s masterpiece in the 21st century. Review: A Darwinian ‘Streetcar’ With a Feminist Streak 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

Today, as the first details of the chosen films emerged, the culture minister, Frédéric Mitterrand, said that, in immersing themselves in fictional masterpieces, pupils would be getting to grips with reality as well. France's pupils to view cinema classics in the classroom 2010-05-18T16:55:00Z

All of those masterpieces — “Riders to the Sea,” “The Playboy of the Western World,” “The Well of the Saints,” “The Aran Islands” itself — all written in the span of only seven or eight years. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z

Its collection of 12,000 works includes 35 sculptures by Alberto Giacometti, as well as masterpieces by Pierre Bonnard, Marc Chagall, Miró, Léger and Alexander Calder, among others. Sunshine and colour 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

The drawings illustrate Dante’s masterpiece, “The Divine Comedy,” an epic poem in three parts recounting a pilgrim’s travels through hell, purgatory and heaven. Italy’s Uffizi opens Dante anniversary with virtual exhibit 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

“A Brief History of Time,” his runaway hit, is not a masterpiece of science or of exposition; and its production and promotion was a calculated team effort. Revisiting the Unusual Celebrity of Stephen Hawking 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

Within it, my self-assembled masterpiece of mesclun, grilled chicken, marinated mozzarella, sun-dried tomatoes, carrots, broccoli and dried cranberries topped with a thick vinaigrette. Frugal Traveler: Terminally Frugal: How to Save at Kennedy Airport 2010-12-16T18:49:43Z

Tracing the creation of masterpieces like “Parsifal” and the “Ring” cycle, Mr. Fry, who is Jewish, explores Wagner’s virulent anti-Semitism and Hitler’s co-optation of his music during the Third Reich. Movie Review: Stephen Fry Narrates the Documentary ‘Wagner & Me’ 2012-12-07T01:03:22Z

The end result is a masterpiece of a modern cookbook that feels as nostalgic as it does innovative. Julia Turshen unites healthy and comfort in the kitchen: Delicious "does not have to be complicated" 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z

That is the best hope now of getting modern masterpieces for public collections – by charming the rich. Locking our Picasso away 2010-05-06T21:00:00Z

For years, I refused to watch Vittorio De Sica’s neorealist masterpiece about a hard-up pensioner evicted from his room in Rome, because I was convinced that Flike, his jack russell, dies at the end. Dog weepie movies – ranked! 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

“One of Us” is a masterpiece of reportage, design and empathy — it shivers with feeling. ‘Two Sisters,’ About Teenage Girls Who Left Norway to Fight With ISIS 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

His time now became doubly precious, and he began to look around for a new site on which to construct one final masterpiece. Kurt Schwitters: the modernist master in exile 2013-01-06T00:06:24Z

The happy result is a gathering of masterpieces that reveals the private personality of the man: generous, reverential, obsessive. Beyond influence 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

There are forgotten Czech masterpieces, clips from South Park, the Disney classics ... Moving art: the magic of animation 2011-08-23T11:40:04Z

These masterpieces aren’t crafted from canvases or sculpting materials, but from fabric and thread. SAM’s ‘Future Beauty’ presents Japanese couture as art 2013-06-19T23:09:32Z

Neither did another of the most perceptive collectors of Picasso’s work, Florene Schoenborn, whose donations and 1995 bequest brought to the Met several of the most powerful masterpieces by the Paris school painter. Art review: Of Picasso and Provenance 2010-06-11T12:00:00Z

But in an insightful performance the work emerges as an ingenious and subtly complex contemporary masterpiece. Music Review: In Yielding to Temptation, Losing a Chance at True Love 2011-06-27T21:19:10Z

Harrison's masterpiece is the outcome of a decades-long project to fuse the conceptual strength of SF with the human insights of literary fiction. A brave new world: science fiction predictions for 2013 2013-01-03T12:11:44Z

For me, his masterpiece is “Kanal,” made when he was 30. Remembering Andrzej Wajda, Unflinching Observer of Modern Poland 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Composed for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral in 1962, Britten's War Requiem was a unique conception, quickly accepted as a choral masterpiece and one of the most notable of Fischer-Dieskau's many creations. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: a guide in clips 2012-05-18T16:16:00Z

Gatsby enthusiasts – and what person with a brain isn't one? – will enjoy her reconstruction of the various fragments drawn from life, books and news stories that Fitzgerald combined to make his masterpiece. Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell – review 2013-06-29T08:00:35Z

His late-life masterpieces like “Enter,” “CRWDSPCR,” “Ocean,” “Beach Birds” and “Biped,” created with the assistance of the computer, were applauded by critics. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

Despite this, the cathedral is still considered to be Gaudi’s true masterpiece, Celebrity CruisesVoice: The Best Way To Spend 8 Hours In Barcelona 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

Balanchine’s masterpiece “Concerto Barocco” provides a lovely platform for two female principal dancers, but the true stars are the company’s excellent corps members. Dance Listings for Jan. 23-29 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

The Louvre houses the greatest collection of art anywhere in Europe, within a palace that is a masterpiece in its own right. It’s Time to Take Down the Mona Lisa 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Most of the art purchased at the Texas sale, which was first reported by The Art Newspaper, was not wildly expensive, and none secured the millions paid for some of Ms. Rosales’s faux masterpieces. Up for Auction: Real Art, Owned by a Seller of Forgeries 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

In the Beatles' astonishing oeuvre, Love Me Do may seem merely like a rough charcoal sketch prefiguring their later Renaissance masterpieces. How the Beatles' Love Me Do began the transformation of British music 2012-10-04T15:08:33Z

“There is a tremendous appetite for being able to tap into fine art masterpieces and expensive relics.” Cutting a Banksy Into 10,000 (Digital) Pieces 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

He recalled his visit many years ago to the Giotto frescoes in the Arena Chapel, which rank among the masterpieces of Western art. These Days, John Baldessari Cribs From the Masters 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

Almost a century after its creation, Balanchine's masterpiece still ranks as one of the most luminous, exact fusions of dance and music. Royal Ballet Mixed Programme – review 2013-02-24T17:45:01Z

The overall effect recalls Fellini’s 1963 masterpiece “8 ½,” in which the real, the surreal and the imagined converge, as its film director hero thinks back upon the women in his life. Review: ‘The One Inside’ Presents Sam Shepard in a Minor Key 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z

You look at a lump of mud, and you might not know that a masterpiece was found there. ‘Paris 3D,’ a Digital Model of the French Capital 2013-01-09T22:25:41Z

Politics, it was felt, were not fit for the cinema, hence the long banning here of Bolshevik masterpiece Battleship Potemkin, which arrived in 1926, the year of the General Strike. Trailer Trash 2013-07-13T23:05:49Z

This likely will be the fate of a reproduction of Gustav Klimt's 1907 masterpiece, "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I," painted by a scenic artist for the film opening Wednesday called "Woman in Gold." Scenic artist hit a masterwork mother lode with 'Woman in Gold'

Finally, it’s worth saying that when Hollywood mangles a masterpiece of European cinema, it sometimes does so with such gusto that the only thing to do is stand up and applaud. What, no Whistlestop? Why The Girl on the Train should have stayed in bleak backyard Britain 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Instead, he ransacked the contact books of everyone he knew until he found an intermediary to break the news to the startled householders that they had inherited not just a mansion but a masterpiece. Murillo magic 2013-02-05T13:08:17Z

Many of her masterpieces are on their way to the National Gallery in Washington, where an expansive exhibition called “Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971” opens on Sept. 30. Virginia Dwan, a Jet Age Medici, Gets Her Due 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

He was like, “What did you think?” and I said it’s a masterpiece. Greta Gerwig on making ‘Little Women’ ‘at the speed of life’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

The result of intensive, immersive observation over the course of four years in a Mumbai shantytown, this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction reads like a great 19th-century novel, bursting at the seams with memorable characters. 2012′s best — so far! 2012-07-04T14:00:00Z

This piece, and other masterpieces, were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston in 1990. Open thread: which lost works of art would you most like to see? 2012-07-01T18:01:01Z

The most consequential feature of such a program is what it leaves out: the masterpieces by Balanchine and Jerome Robbins that always put Mr. Martins’s art in the shade. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the David H. Koch Theater 2013-05-15T20:46:54Z

Which is not to say that "Sex and the City 2" will be a masterpiece. Why "Sex and the City" won't go away 2010-05-25T00:20:00Z

Photograph: Alamy In the Sainsbury wing of the National Gallery in London, the founding masterpieces of modern art are arrayed in all their splendour. The Medicis: money, myth and mystery 2011-08-10T16:36:28Z

The programme was completed by an elegant and poised performance of the "little" A major Sonata, D664, and by a mixed but compelling interpretation of the sprawling masterpiece in B flat, the Sonata D960. Emanuel Ax ? review 2011-03-23T17:43:10Z

I was not always the masterpiece you see eating in front of you. Alex Brightman Rides a ‘School of Rock’ Wave 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

The most recent is Knausgaard Island, where novelists live quietly, ignoring the bedlam outside as they mine their own interiors for selfie masterpieces. T.C. Boyle roams the American psyche in 'The Harder They Come' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Home to Michelangelo’s “David,” the Uffizi galleries, and Brunelleschi’s dome, the Tuscan capital is dizzyingly dense with masterpieces both artistic and architectural. 6 Places in Europe Offering Shelter From the Crowds 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

That love affair produced paintings such as “The Hay Wain,” his most famous picture, and “The Cornfield,” a late masterpiece — work that Plumly calls a “meditation on the pastoral.” Review | Poet Stanley Plumly takes a lyrical look at John Constable and J.M.W. Turner 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

Visitors can enter for free from dusk Saturday until Sunday morning at the Borghese Gallery, which houses such masterpieces as "David with the head of Goliath" and "Boy with a basket of fruit." Rome to honor Caravaggio with rare night visits 2010-07-17T13:03:00Z

Oftentimes famous artists can't stand their "masterpieces" and prefer what others have written off as "garbage." Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

Miller’s masterpiece fits into the summer blockbuster canon in a less literal capacity as well, striking its ideal balance of dazzling technical spectacle and massively-scaled emotional catharsis. 'A total blast': our writers pick their favorite summer blockbusters ever 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

One day she urged me to get to know Bach’s Mass, which she called the greatest masterpiece of all time. The Case for Greatness in Classical Music 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

In 1896, with his health steadily deteriorating, Anton Bruckner struggled to complete the final movement of his Ninth Symphony, which he hoped would be his masterpiece. Music Review: Simon Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-26T21:18:46Z

The gardens he created have come to be called his “other” masterpiece. Monet’s ‘other’ masterpiece: His gardens at Giverny 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

In 1835 and 1840, Alexis de Tocqueville published the two volumes of what would eventually be recognized as a masterpiece of political analysis. Perspective | Tocqueville’s ‘Democracy in America,’ read anew in 2020, feels prophetic — and in some ways, hopeful 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

But it was especially meaningful to hear the Bach Collegium Japan’s account of this astounding masterpiece on Tuesday night at . In a Mass, a Cradle of Consolation for Japan 2011-03-23T22:27:34Z

The Isle of Dogs trailer is a masterpiece. Review: Wes Anderson’s Bleakly Beautiful ‘Isle of Dogs’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Not every person will like every “masterpiece” ever made. European art comes alive when you learn the story behind it 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

“The Travelers,” from 1961, shows a visually fragmented family in a train station — continuing a theme from “The Migration Series,” which remained, throughout his long prolific life, his masterpiece. Oh, the humanity: Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series,’ reunited 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

In 1979, Sondheim and Prince collaborated on what many believe to be Sondheim’s masterpiece, the bloody yet often darkly funny “Sweeney Todd.” Perfectionist. Genius. Icon. That was Stephen Sondheim 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

For me, it is simply a modern masterpiece, a contemporary classic. Why it's wrong to reject Charles Saatchi's gift to the nation 2012-08-20T13:55:07Z

Some works of art are like symphonies: methodically orchestrated and years in the making, with the potential to be labelled a masterpiece. Christian Marclay’s Sidewalk Animations 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Now considered her masterpiece, the work required Ms. Ono to climb onstage and allow visitors to snip off her clothes with scissors. Yoko Ono’s 1971 MoMA Show Finally Opens 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

An absolute masterpiece, it's less a vision of a musician giving glimpses into his real life than it is a vision of a human being who makes music. 25 great rockumentaries every music (and movie) fan should see 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

It just goes to show that one person's "masterpiece of human creative genius" – Unesco's first criteria for world heritage inclusion – is another bloke's petrol station. It's just a slag heap, isn't it? The world heritage sites that defy belief 2012-07-02T19:00:05Z

It was executed a few weeks before the artist's death at age 34 and is considered to be his masterpiece. Klein blowtorch painting nets $36.4M at NY auction 2012-05-09T02:56:11Z

It's an art-pop masterpiece, in terms of its melody and arrangement up there with Pet Sounds – but recorded by Wilson a year earlier. Readers recommend: songs about fools ? results 2011-08-11T14:33:14Z

Banville tells readers, only partly in jest, to expect an "absolute masterpiece of crime fiction." Writer Banville enjoys new lease on life as Black 2011-07-12T21:04:27Z

Our critic called it “an expansive, emotional portrait of life buffeted by violent forces, and a masterpiece.” The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z

As a piece of film, the clip of Susan Boyle's audition is a small masterpiece. Susan Boyle: What happened to the dream? 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

Hall was more impressed by the 35-year-old masterpiece Music for 18 Musicians, in which "endless harmonic perspectives seem to spin off into an infinite distance." The Proms 2011: week four in review 2011-08-17T17:14:11Z

This hallucinogenic debut novel by the noted director and screenwriter features the madcap effort to reconstruct a masterpiece of outsider cinema. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Titian's late works are his greatest of all and several scintillating masterpieces were left unfinished when he died. Real artists never retire ? or do they? 2011-03-22T11:48:34Z

Miraculously, the record that emerged is still one of the 21st century’s most beloved and securely canonized rock albums: “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,” widely considered the band’s masterpiece. Behind Wilco’s 2001 Masterpiece, a Band Breaking Its Heart 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

Though many now view it as a flawed masterpiece, the movie became emblematic of the perceived danger of uncontrolled auteur filmmaking. Robert Lescher, Literary Agent, Is Dead at 83 2012-12-07T02:40:48Z

Problem is, there are no lowered expectations around Christopher Nolan, whose adherents have proclaimed him as the heir to Kubrick and Hitchcock and declared "Inception" a masterpiece. "Inception": A clunky, overblown disappointment 2010-07-15T01:01:00Z

A Miseroni statuette, Venus and Cupid, from Vienna will be shown alongside something of a lost masterpiece by the artist – Venus and Cupid Sleeping on a Shell. Hapsburg exhibition reveals Holy Roman emperors' taste in bling 2011-08-15T17:55:55Z

All were lent by other museums, suggesting another reason Hartley’s early greatness may not be so familiar: the Modern, guardian of the dominant modernist narrative, owns no example of his masterpieces from the Berlin years. Marsden Hartley Gets His Due in Berlin 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Potential masterpieces by the grandfather of special effects Georges Méliès were lost to decay, neglect and recycling. Saving Cinema, One Frame at a Time 2014-02-28T18:17:52Z

For a masterpiece of this caliber, however, it was a steal. Drawing Outside the Lines of the Times 2010-03-26T13:30:00Z

Every moment is surprising, a series of sight gags sustained over more than an hour in a masterpiece of comic timing. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z

Bach’s 1727 masterpiece St. Matthew Passion is one of the greatest pieces of Western sacred music ever written. The Week Ahead: Miro show, Miley Cyrus, improv fest 2014-02-12T22:16:32Z

Prokofiev clashed badly with Balanchine, yet their “Prodigal Son” is still a masterpiece of dance drama performed worldwide. Art Review: ‘Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes,’ at National Gallery 2013-05-23T20:40:40Z

Once upon a time in America, Toni Morrison wrote in “Beloved,” her masterpiece, the presence of a black face in a newspaper would induce something close to horror in certain readers. Toni Morrison, a Writer of Many Gifts Who Bent Language to Her Will 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Everything that goes wrong in “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” goes right in this quiet little 1965 masterpiece. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z

But he was also calling attention to the ways in which Buck’s novel—a masterpiece of by-the-bootstraps optimism—flattered a rotten value system. The Remarkable Forgotten Life of H. T. Tsiang 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Deliciously irreverent in its narration, silly and spooky throughout, and charmingly illustrated by Punch artist George Morrow, this neglected masterpiece remains as winning today as when it was first published in 1927. Review | Before Tolkien created hobbits, there were Snergs. And oh, how delightful they were! 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

The Scottish partnership is another example of how the High Museum is working with European institutions to bring masterpieces that will attract attention and crowds. Inside Art: Blinky Palermo?s American Tour 2010-02-25T20:58:00Z

Barenboim’s lack of interest in the ur-Austria of lakes, meadows, and mountain peaks didn’t hurt his interpretation of the Seventh Symphony, one of the composer’s supreme masterpieces, which he led on January 27th. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

When B. emerges from what he believes is a masterpiece, his life is forever changed. In Charlie Kaufman’s Novel, a Comic Hero Is Haunted by a Lost Film 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

Johnson, a physician who turned to writing early in his career, required his American publisher to keep his masterpiece always in hardback — never paperback — so that readers would take it seriously. Perspective | ‘Who Moved My Cheese’ became a monster hit. Twenty years later, we’re still wondering why. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

But in “Boyhood,” Mr. Linklater’s masterpiece, he both captures moments in time and relinquishes them as he moves from year to year. Movie Review: Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ Is a Model of Cinematic Realism 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Then it was on to lunch I had booked in the nearby Tudor masterpiece that survived the 1666 Great Fire. My trip to London was canceled, so I took it on YouTube instead 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

Completing a cyclical flow of creativity, the Dutch master of geometrical illusions was inspired to produce his two masterpieces. Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe by Roger Penrose ? review 2010-10-15T23:14:00Z

They started in 2011 with Ulysses Meets Twitter – a project spread over 24 hours with 44 people tweeting favourite bits of Joyce's masterpiece. James Joyce's Leopold gets his own book for Bloomsday 2013-04-17T14:04:43Z

“Fallingwater was designed at this desk,” said Ms. Hamblen, referring to Wright’s residential masterpiece in Pennsylvania, as she laid a palm on a massive wood tabletop. How To Get Behind the Scenes at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin? Take A Baking Class. 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

The ballet is a masterpiece of narrative compression, with the entire tale told in five scenes. Dance Review: In 'Marguerite,' Sparks Between a New Star and a Senior Ballerina 2011-10-17T11:43:13Z

With apologies to Terrence Malick's many defenders, "Poetry" is the  movie released so far that has the pure cinematic craft, human appeal and  emotional depth to be called a masterpiece. 2011's best -- so far! 2011-07-04T15:01:00Z

James was himself a scholar whose masterpiece was a hugely influential translation of the New Testament Apochrypha. The BBC's MR James adaptation could be the ghost at the Christmas feast 2010-12-24T10:52:42Z

Likewise, during Sky Atlantic's other recent medieval masterpiece, Game Of Thrones, some of the most rampant sex was between siblings and not a word of outrage was expressed by British audiences. The Borgias: Grace Dent's TV OD 2011-08-12T23:11:00Z

He felt under pressure to create a masterpiece, he said. He Smeared Feces on a Critic, and Lost a Job. Now, He Wants to be Heard. 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

Much earlier, the 18th-century painter Watteau created a beautiful shop sign for an art shop that still survives and is revered as an artistic masterpiece. James Franco to work in Christmas shop – but is it art? 2012-11-20T11:58:04Z

It sets Oppenheim’s masterpiece among 180 of her objects, paintings and drawings. New Shows That Widen the Beaten Path 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Michael Mann's masterpiece really is "A Los Angeles crime saga". Clip joint: Heists and getaways 2012-05-30T11:52:40Z

And if I think back to some of the great TV adaptations, they are always of books that are very fine without being unassailable masterpieces. Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Ford Madox Ford is where it belongs ? on TV 2010-07-30T14:48:00Z

“These are design and technology masterpieces that did not steal your time. There are no phones younger than the first touchscreen models, definitely no smartphones,” said Mr Polgari. No smartphones! Vintage mobile phone museum opens in Slovakia 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

His masterpiece is a painted shop sign for a picture dealer – a fairytale scene of bewigged and powdered shoppers handling works of art as if they were dresses. Watteau at the Royal Academy: the theatre of life 2011-03-14T17:11:09Z

“Poem of Ecstasy,” a masterpiece of excess and insistence, has no such issues. Can two sensations make revolutionary music? Conductor Dudamel and pianist Trifonov try to find a spark 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

“Belladonna of Sadness” is undoubtedly a landmark of animated film, and arguably a masterpiece. Review: ‘Belladonna of Sadness,’ a Bewitching Masterpiece 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

But the autumnal masterpieces of Schubert, who died at 31, are indeed the efforts of a young man. Music Review: Paul Lewis Shows Schubert?s Depth at 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-10-19T22:26:57Z

This is why Menard, who rewrites Cervantes's masterpiece word for word, is said to have written a "more subtle" book: time has modified the words' associations, making the resulting work richer. A brief survey of the short story part 27: Jorge Luis Borges 2010-07-22T10:59:00Z

The brooding, sprawling masterpiece was a commercial and critical tipping point for the English band, garnering praise and platinum sales alike. Billboard CD reviews: Kylie Minogue, Dierks Bentley 2010-06-25T22:00:00Z

This unequalled masterpiece remains a great influence on my work, and I’m always trying to achieve that sense of reality and suspension of disbelief. Arts & Leisure: What Spooks the Masters of Horror? 2011-08-19T13:45:42Z

Reviewers hailed the 14-track album a “masterpiece” and a “triumphant return.” The Next Day Extra: David Bowie’s New Extended Album Includes 5 Unreleased Songs 2013-11-05T16:14:40Z

No list of Greatest Ballets is complete without this shattering masterpiece of complex modernism. At New York City Ballet, Works That Tell Stories and Don’t 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

Wise Children is a brilliantly funny novel and, in my opinion, Carter's masterpiece. Beginning a new year of reading 2010-12-31T09:00:03Z

It could use a small, taut masterpiece like the Brooklyn Museum’s 1919 “Heat.” A Trans-Atlantic View of Modernism 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

But their initial investigation failed to find the masterpiece. Leonardo da Vinci seized by police 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

It’s also a great work of intellectual synthesis, covering everything from the late 18th century up until the age of the Model T. So it’s a masterpiece of scholarship. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

Some $80 million was turned over by collectors to purchase unknown, albeit fake, “masterpieces” that were brought to market by a Long Island art dealer and her boyfriend. Has the Art Market Become an Unwitting Partner in Crime? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

She was the bedridden matriarch sifting through thorny memories in "Three Tall Women," Edward Albee's 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner and the play I consider to be his masterpiece. The theater world's loss of Myra Carter, Brian Bedford and Alan Rickman resounds 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

“American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent” gives visitors a rare opportunity to view over 175 masterpieces on loan from public and private collections around the country. 'American Watercolor' showcases masterpieces of movement 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

Combine candids of your little painter and her favorite masterpieces in a neat, soft-cover tome. 8 New Uses for Your Favorite Photos 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1565 masterpiece Hunters In The Snow is the inevitable – and quite proper – benchmark, but a half-millennium of other works are also considered. TV highlights 22/01/2013 2013-01-21T20:00:03Z

Whether its subject is a masterpiece or a novelty, “Men at Lunch” was a natural for DOC NYC, now in its third year. ‘Lunch Atop a Skyscraper’ Uncovered 2012-11-08T05:03:58Z

Back in England, the artist produced some of his greatest masterpieces. Review: The Mystery of the British Landscape Master 2010-06-04T14:00:00Z

“Jacob and the Other,” a minor masterpiece, follows an oafish, over-the-hill European wrestler and his scheming manager, as they piece together one final prizefight in the backwaters of Santa María. South American Literature’s Master of Malaise 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

Either way, it's a masterpiece, and could be worth millions. Experience: I inherited a da Vinci 2012-09-28T21:59:16Z

In the ensuing years, Michelangelo carved the masterpieces and then ran afoul of his patrons. Send in the Bugs. The Michelangelos Need Cleaning. 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z

“And it’s not an undiscovered masterpiece — it’s a semi-discovered masterpiece that never got its due because people were afraid of it.” Black Plays Are Knocking on Broadway’s Door. Will It Open? 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

Johnston’s 1988 quartet, illuminatingly played by the Lyris Quartet, is a small masterpiece of altered reality, its every unamplified chord taking on the quality of amplification, of righting a topsy-turvy world. What do microtones have to do with global warming? Two concerts offer an answer 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

But mostly, when he consented to interviews, the focus was squarely on his first book, a masterpiece that exhumed what he called “the death space and the life you found inside it.” Vietnam War reporter Michael Herr, who helped write ‘Apocalypse Now’ and ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ dies at 76 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer Buckingham Palace Through Feb. 14 This exhibition places around 30 17th-century Dutch masterpieces from the palace’s collection on view. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

I can’t say the IRS’s hold music was exactly a masterpiece of the genre. Perspective | I was on hold for an hour with the IRS. I didn’t hate the music. 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

The job, that is, of simply putting onstage this inexplicably overlooked masterpiece, adapted from David Belasco’s play “The Girl of the Golden West” and given its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1910. Review: A Good-Enough ‘La Fanciulla del West’ at New York City Opera 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Any decision now to destroy this building would rob Preston of an iconic architectural masterpiece. Preston bus station faces termination 2012-12-17T07:00:09Z

This album is her masterpiece, and it deserved to be awarded as such. We Witnessed One of The Worst Snubs In Grammy History Last Night 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

An absolute monster and an absolute masterpiece of provocation and bad taste. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Perhaps attempting to compensate for the virtual visual harassment of Leonardo’s masterpiece, Mr. Greenaway actually compounded the fiasco by adding a cannibalized version of his digital meditation on Veronese’s immense painting “The Wedding at Cana.” When the Art Stared Back and Other Trends 2010-12-17T14:43:28Z

"Ulysses," his masterpiece, commemorated one pivotal day: On June 10, 1904, young Jim Joyce met an insouciant redhead strolling along a Dublin sidewalk; their first date was six days later. 'James Joyce': How the writer's life led to the words that survive him 2012-06-27T20:37:04Z

The following museum restaurants would be worth a meal even if not surrounded by masterpieces. Where to Eat and Drink at 14 N.Y.C. Museums Right Now 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

It is the closest version of the 15th century painter’s original masterpiece, which sits in Florence’s Uffizi gallery. Botticelli painting revealed under century of varnish 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

In this 19th-century literary and intellectual masterpiece, Ruskin goes into raptures over the facade of the Doge's Palace. Did the aesthetic rebels get Ruskin wrong? 2011-03-29T16:14:06Z

Hudson’s masterpiece — subtitled “A Romance of the Tropical Forest” — grew immensely popular in the 1920s when it was reprinted in the United States. Review | For Earth Day, a beloved but often overlooked love story 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

The masterpiece is one of three Titians that line the ceiling of the sacristy. Titian masterpiece suffers water damage after fire 2010-08-30T12:15:00Z

When I called this playwriting era a "budding golden age," I wasn't making the claim that these dramas are masterpieces ready to take their place beside "Antigone," "Hamlet" and "The Cherry Orchard." A new, fearless generation makes this a revolutionary moment in American playwriting 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

No question that these are all masterpieces, but these programs could have been planned in 1950. Review | Vienna in Vienna: Chamber music at Wolf Trap 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

As for the film, PaulB45 certainly saw no masterpiece: "Both Guardian critics are being terribly generous … Much the worst film I've seen this year." Readers' reviews 2011-02-10T22:10:00Z

Instead, these comic fugues on masterpieces of English literature turned out to be perfect fare for a mind wrestling with the distortions of jet lag. Stoppard Classics, Reborn for an Age of Uncertainty 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

And in “A Lifetime of Touch,” a sculptor dies while working on his masterpiece but nonetheless begins “la-de-daing through the afterworld.” Review | What does the afterlife look like? ‘The Ghost Variations’ offers 100 possibilities. 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

It was his first encounter with Hieronymus Bosch — who painted like a contemporary of Salvador Dalí even though he began work on his wild masterpiece “The Garden of Earthly Delights” way back in 1490. Beck Is Captivated by American Myths and a $60 Guitar 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Butler parallels this philosophy against a reconfigured retelling of the Greek tragedy, Orpheus and Eurydice, a story modernized by Camus in his 1959 masterpiece, Black Orpheus. Arcade Fire’s Rare Power Shines on Reflektor 2013-10-28T18:41:49Z

Al Kooper, organ: His playing defined countless Bob Dylan songs, including "Like a Rolling Stone," and he served as band leader and arranger on Dylan's double-album masterpiece, "Blonde on Blonde." A sampling of some of rock's greatest foils 2011-06-20T01:07:00Z

She probably doesn't worry about The Delta Sweete not getting its due as a masterpiece. Hidden treasures: Bobbie Gentry – The Delta Sweete 2013-01-15T12:24:59Z

In other words, had the rum industry been more alluring, the world might be devoid of many a reggae masterpiece. On a Caribbean Rum Trail 2014-02-21T19:02:44Z

The British director Carol Reed took plenty of tips from Welles, who wrote his own dialogue for this masterpiece. 8 Cannes Film Festival Prizewinners We Love (and 3 We Don’t) 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z

The opportunity to acquire such a masterpiece of 20th century art is sure to prompt great excitement amongst collectors and institutions around the world. Record estimate for Picasso work 2010-03-17T10:09:00Z

The exhibit ends ironically with Caillebotte's masterpiece, "Paris Street; Rainy Day," whose figures are covered by long coats and umbrellas as they stroll the city's wet streets. Impressionist nod to fashion on display in Paris 2012-11-08T10:23:08Z

In addition to the remixes, "Sgt. Pepper" was released with an assortment of outtakes and sketches on the road to finished masterpieces. The Beatles’ new remixed White Album box set is a marvel 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

“Gigi” is set in the demimonde of the last fin de siècle, a milieu Colette often revisited, most notably in her masterpiece, “Cheri.” Good, Clean, Fun: A Revival of “Gigi” 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

It's one of a handful of masterpieces directed by Frank Capra, an Italian immigrant who loved America because America saved him. "It's a Wonderful Life": The most terrifying movie ever 2010-12-25T00:01:00Z

The 1884 masterpiece titled "The Ox-Cart" was examined at Oregon Health & Science University on Monday as part of an effort to better understand the artist and his technique, The Oregonian reported. Researchers use X-rays to get closer look at van Gogh painting 2010-12-16T05:16:06Z

Orchestral colours are vivid but never overstated: a real late-20th-century masterpiece. Dutilleux: Correspondances – review 2013-02-10T00:04:05Z

An old-fashioned movie palace is surely the ideal place to encounter an ancient masterpiece, even if its current incarnation owes much to the latest digital technology. Critic?s Notebook: Full Vision of ?Metropolis? Includes Lang?s Vivid Wit 2010-10-21T21:48:00Z

Her masterpieces are in Manhattan: a flock of angels at Grace Church, and portraits of Huguenots escaping Louis XIV’s persecutions at the New-York Historical Society. Antiques: Rhode Island Americana, Mary Tillinghast and Byrdcliffe Art 2012-01-05T22:29:20Z

That day the masterpiece, or so you were led to infer from its reproduction on the catalog cover, was a simplified image of a Coca-Cola bottle painted in black on white. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Buyers Wonder, Will It Appreciate Over Time? 2011-02-24T13:00:03Z

Another door-knocker, a period masterpiece of North Italian Mannerism, had a human mask with an ambiguously wistful stare. An Auction Brings to Light a French Collector With an Eye for Ignored Beauty 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z

What do you need to know to return to the nesting masterpiece that is "Russian Doll"? Here's a primer: Before "Russian Doll" returns, here's a refresher – no time loops necessary 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

The paintings on view here that they owned are, I’ve got to say, no great masterpieces, and if you want splendor this show’s eastern Judaica may be more compelling. ‘The Sassoons’: A Family Romance at Global Scale 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

He said that in the 1980s, Mr. Bergantiños saw him doing portraits on a West Village street and offered him $200 to do a replica of a Modernist masterpiece.  The Confidence, and the Art, Looked Real 2013-12-25T21:26:07Z

It’s never what I want or expect, and within weeks of creating a masterpiece, I’m left scrambling to salvage the pieces. Opening a Restaurant Is Hell. So Here I Go Again. 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

What viewers may not realize is just how much labor went into many of  Delacroix’s masterpieces. In Transit Blog: In Alabama, a Wide-Ranging Delacroix Show 2014-05-07T16:00:10Z

“To deprive the art lovers and many others who were moved by this picture — a masterpiece of such rarity — is deeply unfair.” A Leonardo Made a $450 Million Splash. Now There’s No Sign of It. 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

Every sentence is a comic masterpiece in its own right. Sophie Hannah: By the Book 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Some works appear on the recordings as excerpts — such as “The Games” and the large-scale “Vessel” — and others, thankfully, are nearly intact, particularly her operatic masterpiece, “Atlas,” from 1991. At 80, Meredith Monk Is Still Seeking Ways to Communicate 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z

Some of these interpretations have been masterpieces of mimicry; others have been more truly interpretive, suggesting the existence of a soul behind a frequently caricatured mug. Critic’s Notebook: Creating Barbra Streisand in ‘Buyer & Cellar’ 2013-07-29T22:28:23Z

But the words in Basquiat’s paintings often point to what it’s like to be turned into a masterpiece, a financial instrument, and a trophy. ‘Jean-Michel Basquiat’ at the Brant Shows His Bifurcated Life 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

Coward had yet to find the assured signature sparkle that characterizes later comic masterpieces like “Private Lives.” Theater Review: ‘Medea,’ Kathleen Turner and Noël Coward on London Stages 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Walk around the Museum of Modern Art, look at those masterpieces it holds by Picasso and Jackson Pollock, and what you are seeing is a series of personal visions. Sorry MoMA ... 2012-11-30T16:17:16Z

All this is dwarfed by the ultimate masterpiece shown by Bruno de Bayser. Drawing Outside the Lines of the Times 2010-03-26T13:30:00Z

That’s true to the extent that five or six of these essays are obvious masterpieces of the form, their sting utterly intact. In Zora Neale Hurston’s Essays, the Nonfiction of a Nonconformist 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

The Gamble House in Pasadena celebrates 50 years as a museum this year with a variety of activities, including a public celebration held at the Arts and Crafts masterpiece on Sept. 25. Celebrating the historic Gamble House in Pasadena 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

A mere professional, like Shakespeare or his colleague and sometime rival Ben Jonson, could never dream of committing masterpieces like “King Lear” or “Macbeth.” Movie Review: ?Anonymous,? by Roland Emmerich - Review 2011-10-27T15:47:42Z

He is on nodding terms with first editions and original masterpieces, with fading European families who have treasures in their attics and with Russian oligarchs in search of cultural bling. Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature by Rick Gekoski – review 2013-06-29T08:00:54Z

Museums across the globe, from Amsterdam to the Arabian Gulf, are staging exhibitions to commemorate his extraordinary artistic legacy, and a life that was far from a masterpiece. Rembrandt Died 350 Years Ago. Why He Matters Today. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

The conflict raged for years as Rameau produced masterpiece after masterpiece. An Opera Worth Fighting Over 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Now, protesters in London have found a new way to focus attention on their cause: throwing cans of tomato soup at a masterpiece. Climate Protesters Throw Soup Over van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

Bob Dylan: "The Original Mono Recordings": Any reason to revisit Bob Dylan's first eight 1960s albums — at least four of them absolute masterpieces — is a good one. Music gift sets: The best of 2010, from Bob Dylan to Michael Jackson 2010-12-11T00:34:00Z

But on Friday they will appear in part of “The Great Learning,” Cornelius Cardew’s masterpiece of the postwar avant-garde that is in equal parts live music, performance art and social experiment. Make Music New York’s Main Act Is Cardew’s ‘Great Learning’ 2013-06-20T22:28:32Z

As Birmingham points out, obscenity is still, to this day, illegal; we just don’t use the word to apply to masterpieces. 'Ulysses' and the Moral Right to Pleasure 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

Still, the four women’s self-deprecating humor and vivacious performance style is hard to resist, and the bow-to-bow combat of their Vivaldi contest — here offered as an encore — is a masterpiece of classical comedy. Review: Salut Salon Mixes Whimsy and Virtuosity 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

Durrell's centenary has been marked by the republication of his masterpiece The Alexandria Quartet to considerable critical and public interest. Lawrence Durrell and Peggy Glanville-Hicks: a song for Sappho 2012-08-22T18:31:01Z

With the right kitchen tools, otherwise boring eggs can transform into a culinary masterpiece that will leave you wanting more. 5 eggsquisite tools for making better eggs at home 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

His 1958 masterpiece “Vertigo” displaced the longtime champ “Citizen Kane” as the No. 1 film of all time in Britain’s influential Sight & Sound poll. ‘Hitchcock’ and ‘The Girl’ Remember Alma Reville 2012-11-18T04:13:01Z

Like many other of the comedies from Woody Allen's late period, this is not a masterpiece. The critic's choice: Woody Allen's new film 2011-01-03T08:00:14Z

So great were the crowds inside the museum, however, and so overwhelming were Bruegel’s large-scale masterpieces, I completely missed the little “Adoration.” Review | After 450 years, the frighteningly modern visions of Bruegel get the showcase they deserve 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

At the time of our talking, there had been barely a batsqueak of scepticism that it was anything other than a gong-gobbling masterpiece. David Fincher: unfriended by Oscar? 2011-02-02T21:31:01Z

He finally turned his life, art and career around with a religious awakening that inspired his masterpiece, “A Love Supreme.” ‘Walking With ’Trane’: A dance ode to the art of John Coltrane 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

Middle Men isn't a masterpiece, but as everyone in the media ponders the digital future, it's an interesting portrait of the digital past. Why did Middle Men sink in the UK? 2011-07-07T09:43:32Z

The seat: I was not expecting some masterpiece of design — this wasn’t Emirates or Singapore Airlines, after all — and indeed, it was not a thing of beauty. Frugal Traveler Blog: Visiting the Frugal Promised Land: Business Class 2012-05-08T20:23:37Z

Dylan Thomas's dramatic masterpiece was first broadcast in January 1954 and almost nobody involved is left alive. Under Milk Wood recording revisited 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

At Canada’s oldest and Montreal’s largest museum, see both old and modern European masterpieces, as well as Quebecois and Inuit art. At 375, Montreal’s cosmopolitan charm still seduces travelers 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

The audience was as essential to this performance as we are inessential to Mr. Marclay’s masterpiece. Review: Taylor Mac’s 24-Hour Concert Was One of the Great Experiences of My Life 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Like his recent masterpiece, “The Overstory,” which won a Pulitzer Prize, “Bewilderment” deplores humanity’s destruction of the environment and the perverse incentives that make our descent toward universal suicide so difficult to stop. Review | Fresh off a Pulitzer win for ‘The Overstory,’ Richard Powers delivers another environmental ode 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

Not a newly rediscovered Monteverdi masterpiece, sadly, but a familiar one under its alternative title. Monteverdi: Il Nerone 2010-04-22T21:30:00Z

Throughout the 1980s, as rock was getting increasingly glamorous and louche, he remained resolute, culminating in the 1989 masterpiece “Full Moon Fever.” Tom Petty, an Unfussy Rock Star Who Kept His Tenacity Under Cover 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Gaskell's masterpieces, Mary Barton, which was first published anonymously, and North and South, are vivid accounts of poverty in Manchester and reflect her political foresight in the changing industrial age. Elizabeth Gaskell bicentenary marked with exhibition 2010-07-20T14:49:00Z

"The Goldfinch is an emotionally trenchant masterpiece," said Sara Nelson, editorial director of books. Donna Tartt novel tops Amazon list 2013-11-08T12:46:34Z

His primary duty is pawing through the slush pile looking for unlikely masterpieces with titles like “The Igloo Lover,” “I, Barbarian” and “Mary M.” Review | Francine Prose’s ‘The Vixen’ turns Cold War paranoia into smart comedy 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

Horribly, Cornelia Parker was given carte blanche to tie up Rodin's masterpiece in string for the Tate Triennial: an insult to artists and public. Response: These cuts are no blitzkrieg on the arts ? funding has been wasted 2010-10-14T23:05:00Z

Art lovers will be riveted by a dozen or so masterpieces, assuming they manage to see them in the lighting, which is exaggeratedly dim. Exhibition Review: Degas: More Than Just a Ballet Master 2011-09-23T12:00:07Z

Kubrick’s masterpieces include Paths of Glory, one of the most powerful anti-war movies. Stanley Kubrick 'risked stuntman's life' making 2001: A Space Oydssey 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

Book One, about the death of his cold and alcoholic father, and Book Two, about his marriage to his second wife, are something close to masterpieces. Review: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book Four’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

These days, the shiny new halls in America and Europe, beginning with what may still be Toyota’s greatest masterpiece, the vineyard-style Walt Disney Concert Hall, get the attention. The Toyota effect: 30 years later, one man's acoustic designs still rule how we hear music 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

In the new-music world, some hail his masterpiece as “Music in 12 Parts,” the four-plus-hour work he wrote in the early 1970s as a summation of his distinctive musical language. Perspective | If you think you know who Philip Glass is, you probably don’t. 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

It’s all speculation at this point, of course, but authors’ unpublished drafts — though of considerable interest to scholars — are not always masterpieces. 55 years after ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Scout returns in new-old novel 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Possessing what auction house experts call “wall power,” these works for the “masterpiece market” are destined to be bought by the new rich hoping to telegraph their wealth and taste. Pollock, Richter, Cézanne, Among Those on Auction Block 2013-05-02T22:41:58Z

The museum has one of the world’s largest troves of his macabre, surreal masterpieces, which also served as a turning point for Belgian contemporary art. The Royal Museum With a White-Cube Gallery Inside 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

The Third, from 1847, is her masterpiece, with a brisk, light Scherzo and a slow movement that unfolds gloriously. Louise Farrenc, 19th-Century Composer, Surges Back Into Sound 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

Near the end of his life, Whitten produced a series of masterpieces featuring thin, blade-like pieces of smooth white marble protruding from bases of wood, some of it charred black, and poured molten lead. Review | After death, major works by artist Jack Whitten discovered 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

“And Then There Were None” is Christie’s masterpiece, but for a slightly less canonical starting point, try these five: In Praise of Agatha Christie’s Accidental Sleuths 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

The fallout, when it happens, does not invalidate his tales any more than post-1968 history rendered Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” less of an eternal masterpiece. Review | Cory Doctorow’s ‘Attack Surface’ is a riveting techno-thriller 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

They also have a chance to drink where a depressed Karl Marx grabbed a beer while in exile before getting started in his masterpiece in capitalism criticism, “Das Kapital.” ‘London literary pub’ tour brings writers and writing home 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

Enter Delilah, an associate of the great Armstrong, who offers the band a chance to come to Paris, where they can record their masterpiece, a jazz rendition of the "Horst Wessel Song." "Half-Blood Blues:" Jazz musicians in the jaws of the Nazis 2012-03-15T20:52:03Z

There are already three decent unabridged recordings of this novel, but David Shaw-Parker’s rendition is a true masterpiece of narration. Review | The words of Martin Luther King Jr. as you’ve never heard them before 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

“We’re dialoguing with this masterpiece in the new forms of art, video, dance, theater. It’s like saying thank you to a masterpiece like the Sistine Chapel.” Bringing the Sistine Chapel to Life, With the Vatican’s Blessing 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Josef von Sternberg's silent film The Last Command is a masterpiece. Last resort: why you should generally avoid movies with 'last' in the title 2010-08-16T12:41:00Z

He also expressed excitement about seeing beautiful storyboard illustrations of planned extensions to Disney’s musical masterpiece Fantasia: “None of this was made into a film. This was my greatest joy to see.” Unseen treasures from the golden age of Disney revealed for first time 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z

The term “neglected masterpiece” has long hovered around Edward Elgar’s mighty “The Dream of Gerontius,” last heard in Seattle in 1991. ‘Gerontius,’ where have you been? Seattle Symphony brings seldom-heard piece to vibrant life 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Her media-savvy publishers launched the book on the same day as the Frick exhibition of Mauritshuis masterpieces opened and then made sure Ms Tartt was whisked over to the gallery for a signing. The rock super-group of collections 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

“Song of Solomon” is, quite simply, a masterpiece. Laila Lalami's Great American Novel: 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Last weekend was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the release of Spike Lee’s 1989 Brooklyn masterpiece, “Do the Right Thing.” 'Do the Right Thing' at Twenty-five 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

The show’s untitled masterpiece is a life-size vertical image of a young man lying naked on a box settle, hands clasped behind his head, his body highlighted by the raking light of a lamp. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Rodin's masterpiece is sculpture as history painting, and it serves in London as a monument to humble, everyday heroes. Why Rodin's sculpture is Britain's best work of public art | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-23T10:35:00Z

The place hummed with the paranoia and disgust of Burroughs's sick masterpiece, which made me feel better equipped to understand the state of mind that could produce such a book. Beat and dust: Tangier's tang of history 2010-11-23T13:26:00Z

A masterpiece that helped to channel my unsophisticated thinking. What books do you think prisoners should read? 2012-06-26T13:48:08Z

It’s been almost 39 years since I first watched this masterpiece. ‘Live From Lincoln Center’ to Air ‘Curtain Up’ 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Since then, the Met has struggled with one of Mozart's masterpieces. Review: One dull `Don Giovanni' replaces another 2011-10-14T19:06:15Z

The Orsay, she says, is too crammed with masterpieces to allow such treatment. At Norton Simon, a delicate 'Tete-a-Tete' with Whistler, other masters 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Besides, I had always taken “Heaven” as a sacred object — everyone knows this is one of the masterpiece songs. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

It is surely a masterpiece of tantalising obscurity. Let's start the foodie backlash 2012-09-28T21:45:06Z

Collectors of his work, which includes original sculptures, portrait commissions and reproductions of world masterpieces, all rendered in plastic bricks, include former president Bill Clinton and skateboarder Tony Hawk. Lego documentary features artist who built a career, brick by brick 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

“There’s a great demand for masterpieces, and there are a lot of wealthy new buyers who want to park their money.” Two Artworks Top $100 Million Each at Christie's Sale 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

He'll explore the culinary masterpieces found in 156 cities across 32 Mexican states, chronicling his connections with both the places and the people who cook there. 5 of the most exciting cookbooks coming out this spring 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

A major part of that was adopting the painter’s palette and use of light throughout ordinary scenes as well as sequences that show Turner creating some of his masterpieces. How ‘Mr. Turner’ director Mike Leigh, actor Timothy Spall brought a great artist to life 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Just before the Great Depression, the designer Joseph Urban proposed the Reinhardt Theater, an Art Deco masterpiece “wedding beauty and ballyhoo” with a black glass facade offset with intricate golden metalwork. 10 Places That Define New York City, Reimagined 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

Off-Center summer series, in “my version of Goethe’s Faust. His Faust, of course, is a masterpiece. I read the classic comic book, and I concur. Is my Faust the equal of Goethe’s?” Randy Newman's Faust: The Devil Laughs and Cries 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

“The Nutcracker,” however, is a musical masterpiece and, in some stagings, a theatrical masterpiece too. Dance: Depths to Plumb, Sugarplum 2009-12-17T05:51:00Z

If “The Two Popes” had consisted entirely of two old men talking, it might have been a masterpiece. ‘The Two Popes’ Review: Double Act at the Vatican 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Mr. Yantrasast is also redesigning education and exhibition spaces inside, including collection galleries that highlight the museum’s masterpieces. Yahoo Co-Founder Gives $25 Million to San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

It has been touted as Sjon’s masterpiece, but it lacks the compression, celerity and discipline of the previous novels — those scythes, whose language cut and gleamed. An Epic From Iceland, Complete With Unicorns, Angels and a Stamp-Collecting Werewolf 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

There are very few masterpieces on view, but there aren’t any crowds either, not even at the height of summer, and your admission ticket is good for the whole day, not just an appointed hour. In a Quiet Corner of Italy... Trieste 2011-04-29T19:35:37Z

Tom Cairns's production of The Makropulos Case for Opera North, premiering in Edinburgh ahead of its autumn run in Leeds, updates Janacek's 1926 masterpiece to the early 1960s, where it sits comfortably. The Makropulos Case – Edinburgh review 2012-08-13T18:00:01Z

For one listener on this night, at least, the Schubert G major Sonata seemed every bit a rival to Beethoven’s too readily acknowledged masterpiece. Music Review: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Schubert and Beethoven at Carnegie Hall 2014-04-13T21:42:43Z

Architecture fans come to admire Filippo Brunelleschi’s pioneering design, just a few blocks north of his most famous masterpiece — the dome of the Florence Cathedral. This 15th-century orphanage in Florence is now a kid-friendly museum 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

McCormick’s book is no longer unseen, nor is it a masterpiece. A Biography of a Blues Legend, Five Decades in the Making 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

This rare masterpiece that had long lurked in a British private collection could not be allowed to leave the country. Hull will go to heaven for this: gallery acquires Lorenzetti's glowing Christ 2013-07-16T16:24:38Z

Yet as it proceeds, and becomes more layered, it begins to appear a curious masterpiece, a strange, reflective film about film, and the relationship of film itself to remembering. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z

And I didn’t want to hear, ‘Oh yeah, Monte Hellman, a genius, a brilliant guy, one of the great American filmmakers, a poet, a fantastic talent, ‘Two-Lane Blacktop,’ a masterpiece. Arts & Leisure Preview: Monte Hellman to Release a New Film, ?Road to Nowhere? 2010-05-15T02:25:00Z

But in the bel canto works of the early 19th century — of which “Norma,” from 1831, is a lasting masterpiece — vocal quality is more than a want. Two Operas, Two Sopranos, Two Very Different Impacts 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

They are also — oh my fur and whiskers! — imperishable masterpieces. The secret history of Wonderland in ‘The Story of Alice’ 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

We feel Wolgast's pain as he remembers his baby daughter's death and the end of his marriage; a phone call to his newly remarried ex-wife is a masterpiece of repressed anguish. 'The Passage:' Post-apocalyptic vampire thriller imagines a frighteningly believable future 2010-06-24T19:28:00Z

Sure, Orson Welles' film about the life and death of the fictional newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, has long been accepted as a masterpiece for its storytelling and technical artistry. When Paddington conquered Citizen Kane, a cinematic throwdown revealing our obsession with ratings 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

At the time, Mr. Kagan was also finishing up another cloud-shaped sofa that he was calling, with characteristic self-confidence, his masterpiece. Vladimir Kagan, Designer Whose Furniture Evoked Sensuality, Dies at 88 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

One of them has been linked to his David, his marble masterpiece in Florence. Michelangelo at the Met? Sotheby's painting claimed to be by Renaissance genius 2010-04-14T23:49:00Z

While some critics are hailing Christopher Nolan’s new World War II epic “Dunkirk” as a Kubrickian masterpiece, it honestly does not offer the same cinematic thrills as some of Nolan’s more well-known, highly profitable works. “Dunkirk”: A good film, but a far better history lesson 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

Whichever setting he lands here, Drake's exploring pathways far removed from his early empathetic emo-rap masterpieces "Take Care" and "Thank Me Later." Mortality, fame hang heavy on Drake's 'If You're Reading This' 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

Scent of a Museum Chandler Burr, the curator of an exhibit featuring perfumes from the 1800s to this year, says some are sublime masterpieces. Special Section: Museums 2011-03-07T21:28:17Z

Mark Antony's famous "Friends, Romans, countrymen" speech has long been admired as a masterpiece of rhetorical irony, but it's not particularly subtle. A high-style, intermittently substantive 'Caesar' 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Scott wrote that “‘Ford v Ferrari’ is no masterpiece, but it is — to invoke a currently simmering debate — real cinema, the kind of solid, satisfying, nonpandering movie that can seem endangered nowadays.” ‘Ford v Ferrari’ Finishes First at the Box Office 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z

For all its faults, though, “Falling Skies” is a masterpiece compared with the weekend’s other science-fiction premiere, “Outcasts.” Television Review: It?s Might Versus Right Versus Space Monster 2011-06-16T22:15:15Z

Pearson, especially, is a masterpiece of a character, endlessly spouting PR jargon and trying to drag Mannion kicking and screaming into a world of politics that doesn't always have to wear a tie. Why I can't wait for the new series of The Thick of It 2012-07-12T10:16:00Z

But she overcame her initial trepidation and uses her trademark musical intelligence, taste and elegance to potently illuminate the contrapuntal marvels of this elaborate masterpiece. Classical Playlist: Handel's 'Messiah,' Beethoven, Schumann and More 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

The recording is now widely regarded as an early masterpiece of Chicago blues. Phil Chess, Whose Record Label Elevated Unknown Blues Musicians, Dies at 95 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Through the auspices of PS Publishing, which has done so much to keep Campbell’s work before the public, he has now produced a late-career masterpiece called “The Three Births of Daoloth.” Review | Horror novels are having a renaissance. Here’s what to read. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

But this Brahms masterpiece, a staple of the repertory lasting 40 minutes, dominated the program. Music Review: Aspen Music Festival Takes Its Act on the Road 2014-04-17T23:18:43Z

Design You Trust finds the most eye-catching street art masterpieces of 2013. Links We Love: What We're Reading This Week 2013-12-27T05:00:00Z

This is a more constrained story than Sullivan’s 2017 masterpiece, “Saints for All Occasions,” which moved back and forth across one large family’s 50-year history. Review | In ‘Friends and Strangers,’ a new mom insists the babysitter is her buddy. She’s not. 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

But this film is the first to concentrate on Gaudí's masterpiece, still unfinished after more than 125 years of construction. 'Sagrada' visits Gaudí's cathedral, built with faith 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

It may sound paradoxical, but it’s a mark of health that the three works on this program aren’t masterpieces. Review: Trisha Brown Company Is Back, in Witty, Delicate Glory 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

In Franck’s Quintet for Piano and Strings in F minor, Mr. Hochman took control of the breathless opening movement of this fervently charged masterpiece of Romantic chamber music. Music Review: Jaime Laredo Gives Violin Concert at the 92nd Street Y 2013-05-12T20:39:52Z

Now in its 15th year, the Marrakesh Film Festival focuses this year on masterpieces of Canadian cinema. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

He merely sets the young man straight with this minor masterpiece of Realpolitik: 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Thomas More Follows His Principles Straight to the Torture Chamber 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

"This book is a masterpiece spanning three decades," Winfrey said of the 64th selection on her syndicated show, which is in its 25th and final season and is viewed by millions in 145 countries. Oprah picks Franzen's novel "Freedom" for book club 2010-09-17T16:27:00Z

In the 1982 comedy masterpiece Tootsie, Bill Murray co-stars as a playwright who says his ideal fan encounter is with one who says: “I saw your play. What happened?” The ballet, the janitor, the parents: discuss I'm Thinking of Ending Things with spoilers 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

He was exacting and hypercritical about his final masterpiece, in ways that tormented his most ardent and selfless friends. Monet’s last, desperate effort to create the world’s most beautiful paintings 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

But if “Coco” doesn’t quite reach the highest level of Pixar masterpieces, it plays a time-tested tune with captivating originality and flair, and with roving, playful pop-culture erudition. Review: ‘Coco’ Brings the Pixar Touch to Death 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Compared to the rest of the heaving morass of concussed balderdash lobbed out over the years, Making The Band is a masterpiece. From Date My Mom to Plain Jane: the MTV shows we don't need rebooted 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

A new English translation of Döblin’s masterpiece about life in Weimar Berlin captures the decadence and splendor of the period. New & Noteworthy 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

The world instantly recognises these tunes as masterpieces, thus affirming the Beatles’ intrinsic brilliance. When will the white rockumentary conveyor belt end? 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

It is a real treasure: the original model for one of the skeleton warriors in Ray Harryhausen's masterpiece of stop-motion animation, Jason and the Argonauts. Moving art: the magic of animation 2011-08-23T11:40:04Z

There is no question that “The Tale of Genji” is a world-class masterpiece of fiction. ‘The Tale of Genji’: The work of a brilliant widow 1,000 years ago 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

He dreamed about Arnold Böcklin's symbolist masterpiece The Isle of the Dead, and his books are themselves works of modernism that went on to inspire the surrealists. Art on the couch 2010-03-29T10:44:00Z

Episode 8 — in which Titus discovers it’s easier to be a werewolf than a black man — is a masterpiece of self-melodrama. Best Performances of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

The sense of loneliness in a toxic world that one detects again and again in Albee’s plays gets its most compelling manifestation in his other unqualified masterpiece, the chilling “A Delicate Balance” from 1966. Edward Albee, the last of the giants 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

This fondness for empty stunts indicates a profound lack of faith in the detailed choreography of this masterpiece of ballet classicism. Dance Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Returns to Lincoln Center 2013-07-02T21:29:12Z

With a series of clicks, masterpieces became souvenirs to share with her friends back home in Hangzhou, China. L.A. museums sign on to 'China Ready' program in bid to draw tourists 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

“Try to understand the last word of what the great artists, the serious masters, say in their masterpieces; there will be God in it,” he wrote. Touring Europe in the Footsteps of van Gogh 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

Notwithstanding these curatorial interventions, some critics argue that the very idea of storing masterpieces of colonized societies in an anthropological museum is outdated. Museum of Natural History’s Renewed Hall Holds Treasures and Pain 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

“Everything Sad” is a modern masterpiece — as epic as the “Iliad” and “Shahnameh,” and as heartwarming as “Charlotte’s Web.” From Iran to America, One Epic Tale at a Time 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z

The greatest film of all time, according to hundreds of critics, festival programmers and others around the world was not Orson Welles’ 1941 drama, but Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece of unease and obsession, Vertigo. The Best Movie of All Time Turns 70: Here’s Looking at You, Casablanca 2012-11-23T10:40:25Z

They seem to have been chosen with an eye to the quirks and history of this museum, as opposed to pure wall power or “masterpiece” status. Masterpieces From Scotland Visit the Frick 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

“I’m not going to claim that it is a lost masterpiece of the American stage,” Rattray told me. A Lost Edith Wharton Play Emerges from Scholarly Sleuthing 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

But, although Wright's play is an intriguing curiosity, the question it raises is more richly and satisfyingly answered by the accompanying revival of Rattigan's 1952 masterpiece, The Deep Blue Sea. Rattigan's Nijinsky ? review 2011-07-26T17:33:42Z

It will be a unique chance to see masterpieces by the likes of Monet and Renoir, Manet, Pissarro, Seurat and Degas, as well as exhibitions by young contemporary artists working in photography, video and sculpture. What to see at Impressionist Normandy: 10 best festival events 2010-04-23T09:44:00Z

The common denominator of these masterpieces is the architect Eero Saarinen, one of the most prolific designers of futuristic style in the 20th century. Eero Saarinen’s Michigan 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

But as good as Weeks and all the supporting players are, there’s an easy answer to why “Foyle’s War” is one of television’s masterpieces: Michael Kitchen. Lamenting the end of 'Foyle's War,' a TV masterpiece 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Or to the end of the first act of “Sunday in the Park,” when a great artist triumphantly finishes his masterpiece. It’s Not the Music. It’s Not the Lyrics. It’s the Drama. 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

“Do the Right Thing” Spike Lee’s incisive, incendiary masterpiece, set in Bedford-Stuyvesant on the hottest day of the year, remains a landmark film for its cogent depiction of race relations. The 10 best movies that take place in one day 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

He told a New York Times interviewer that he signed on because of the natural beauty of the site and the “masterpieces” in the Clark’s collection. Director of the Clark Art Institute to Retire 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

“In recent months we’ve seen record demand from across the globe and a real hunger for great masterpieces, with demand far outstripping supply,” Oliver Barker, Sotheby’s principal auctioneer, said at the news conference. A Blue-Chip Art Bonanza: Macklowe Collection Goes to Sotheby’s 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

A major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art presents more than 1,000 years of Japanese responses to Lady Murasaki’s masterpiece. Review | ‘The Tale of Genji’ is Japan’s most revered book, and likely the first novel ever. This exhibition takes us into its enigmatic world. 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

Among his works written in Terezín, a string trio is considered the masterpiece. Terezín: the Nazi camp where music played amid the horror 2013-04-05T16:41:48Z

If “Boyhood” isn’t a masterpiece, it is a very good film and well worth watching. ‘Boyhood’ a coming-of-age movie like no other 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Wickenden’s book about the alliance that formed between Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward and Martha Coffin Wright, she added, is a “masterpiece” of structure, demonstrating “prodigious narrative control.” New in Paperback: ‘How Beautiful We Were’ and ‘No One Is Talking About This’ 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

Twenty years after Monterey Pop, Pennebaker made his masterpiece about musicians and the people who love them. From the Band to Beyoncé: concert films to fill the live music black hole 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z

Although Mr. Quasthoff has conducted only in school, in choir rehearsals and the like, he does not come to this masterpiece cold. Celebrated Bass-Baritone Plans a Surprise Debut at Conducting 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

Given the dismal performances of the first two, their duet came off as a masterpiece for the judges and apparently the majority of the American public. "American Idol" recap: Down to the final four 2010-05-12T12:13:00Z

“Hard Love,” the new record from Strand of Oaks, is a rock ’n’ roll masterpiece, and a genuine work of art, as entertaining and stimulating as it is enlivening and inspiring. “Play it loud on the radio”: From Strand of Oaks, an ode to joy for grown-ups 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

In the world of opera, there is no greater challenge for a performer than the heroine of Bellini's 1831 masterpiece, "Norma." Soprano Angela Meade conquers 'Norma' 2010-07-11T19:01:00Z

“Michael was my best friend, and because this is his masterpiece, I want to deliver a production that he’d be proud of.” How ‘A Chorus Line’ Veterans Pass It on to a New Generation 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

But unlike Mr. McEwan’s masterpiece “C” neither addresses larger questions about love and innocence and evil, nor unfolds into a searching examination of the consequences of art. Books of The Times: War Intrudes on a Man?s Bucolic Idyll 2010-09-05T21:34:00Z

For several years a number of companies have been offering tours during which you can gaze at masterpieces by Leonardo, Caravaggio and Raphael without being jostled by buzzing throngs of fellow tourists. The Getaway: Midnight at the Museum, Breakfast at the Vatican 2014-02-11T19:40:15Z

Norman Mailer and Truman Capote wrote nonfiction masterpieces about them. Arts & Leisure Preview: Violence That Art Didn?t See Coming 2010-02-24T19:11:00Z

Ask about: His friendship with novelist Anne Rice or his interior design masterpiece: The restoration of The Prentiss Club, a 1903 former gentlemen’s club located downtown. The Personalities of Natchez 2010-04-07T20:54:00Z

A security camera caught a man hurling a rock at the Baroque masterpiece - though missing its target. Fountain in Rome's Piazza Navona vandalized 2011-09-04T15:31:05Z

There was an emotional distance in Shostakovich’s desolate masterpiece of the Eighth Quartet. The Minetti Quartet is enjoyable but not striking at Austrian Embassy 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

He has described “Everybody Wants Some!!,” which takes place in 1980, as a “spiritual sequel” to “Dazed and Confused,” his ’70s high school masterpiece. Review: In ‘Everybody Wants Some!!,’ Casual Sex and Casual Philosophizing 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

The re-attributed painting, billed by Sotheby’s as the “defining masterpiece of Botticelli’s late career,” was given a global marketing tour with viewings in Los Angeles, London, Dubai and New York. Botticelli Sold for $45.4 Million at Sotheby’s Auction 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

She attended auctions of “degenerate” art, and gobbled up masterpieces the Germans didn’t want. The Amazing Life of a Robber Baron’s Daughter-in-Law, With Caveats 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Daringly experimental, with vivid vignettes of Turkish life delivered in a fractured movie style, Nazim’s masterpiece flits from a train travelling between Istanbul and Ankara to a steppe prison, a hospital, battlefields, bedrooms and elsewhere. 10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

This lavishly illustrated tome highlights what Soviet culture lost, including historic Russian icons and masterpieces by Rembrandt and Van Gogh. Top 5 coffee-table art books: Chihuly, skyscrapers and more 2013-12-13T20:59:39Z

“Each one feels like it’s the last one you would want to get rid of. The Warhol is particularly painful. It’s just a masterpiece,” Eisenstein said. State asked to halt sale of three Baltimore Museum of Art paintings 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

But West Yorkshire Playhouse has the plum, in Rattigan's great masterpiece inspired by his own unrequited passion for a young man. This week's new theatre 2011-02-19T00:05:55Z

I hope the Met never abdicates that goal, and that its ticket-takers do not prevent a new generation from seeing these masterpieces. African Masterpieces With the Grace of Kings 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

Chaplin’s film is a masterpiece, or something close to it — prescient, daring and almost unbearably tragic, an optimistic and sentimental plea for reason in a world teetering on the edge of the abyss. ?Battleship?: Dumbest military spectacle ever? 2012-05-17T00:00:00Z

It is a book that sits at the very top of the pantheon, widely considered to be an American masterpiece. Denis Johnson had ruthless honesty and transcendent power 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Beckett's theatrical masterpiece is all the more powerful because of Godot's nonsensical absence. Endless fascination: in praise of novels without neat conclusions 2012-11-23T11:25:25Z

So don't get overwhelmed thinking you need to create a masterpiece that will win awards. Game On: 'WarioWare D.I.Y.' a gem; 'Red Steel 2' hits target 2010-04-15T19:46:00Z

Again, this is not the longed-for comeback masterpiece. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger ? review 2011-03-17T22:00:01Z

Even Paul McCreesh, who conducted this account with massive forces, recreating those of the Birmingham launch, confesses to once hating Elijah; he now regards it as "a tremendous masterpiece". Prom 58: Mendelssohn's Elijah ? review 2011-08-29T10:24:31Z

Bruno said the routine belonged in an art gallery and called it a “modern masterpiece” and Carrie Ann said she “didn’t want to blink” so she wouldn’t miss a moment. Dancing With the Stars Watch: The Semifinals Unplugged 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

As curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, he acquired South Indian Buddhist bronzes, Korean works in gold and bronze, courtly objects from the ancient kingdoms of mainland Southeast Asia and Javanese masterpieces. Jan Fontein, Scholar of Asian Art, Is Dead at 89 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

See More » This week, “The Leftovers” delivered a brain-shredding masterpiece set in the middle space between Earth and the permanent afterlife. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 2, Episode 8: Stop Thinking in Straight Lines 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

“Most of them are masterpieces, and it’s just quite overwhelming,” he said. Musicians Grapple With Beethoven 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Two and a half years later, still down on his luck and now clinging to the outermost fringes of the literary world, Jake learns that Evan Parker overdosed before completing his masterpiece. Excuse Me While I Steal Your Book Idea and Get Famous 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z

The masterpiece status is clear from the title. Art Review: ?Drawings From the Louvre? at the Morgan Library - Review 2011-09-29T21:30:26Z

From Gallery 1, the masterpieces come fast and furious. A 7-Hour, 6-Mile, Round-the-Museum Tour of the Prado 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

Since its publication in 1862, Victor Hugo’s masterpiece has been pirated, doctored, distorted, bowdlerized and flat-out betrayed by publishers, translators, filmmakers and musical impresarios from around the globe. 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

By contrast, the written text merely aims to surprise and delight as a tour de force, its brazen imaginative daring rivaled only by the author’s 1926 masterpiece of misdirection, “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.” Why ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ still thrills — even if you know whodunit 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

In the Romantic era, Shelley rewrote one of Aeschylus' plays to draw attention to the Greek war of independence; The Odyssey gave Joyce the template for a masterpiece of 20th-century modernism. 'Clash of the Titans': Ancient Greece and Us 2010-03-19T20:01:00Z

Together these cover the great writer’s maturity and cast light on the development of such masterpieces as “The Judgment,” “The Metamorphosis” and “A Hunger Artist.” ‘Is That Kafka?’: a new book reveals a pool-playing moviegoer afraid of mice 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

In celebration of the novel’s golden anniversary, the Folio Society has issued an edition of Herbert’s masterpiece that every sci-fi fan will crave like melange. ‘Dune’ receives the royal treatment on its 50th anniversary 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

He gives a clear sense of why it is that people think it is such a masterpiece, both the story and meaning but also on the level of language itself. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z

Voted "one of the 10 funniest movies ever made" by the American Film Institute, Airplane! is a masterpiece of off the wall comedy. FFree Airplane! DVD with the Guardian 2010-09-27T14:16:00Z

One full-orchestra concert focuses on his American period and features a late masterpiece, the “Requiem Canticles”; the closing performance juxtaposes two stage works from the 1920s and ’30s on classical themes: “Perséphone” and “Oedipus Rex.” Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Celebrates ‘Stravinsky and His World’ 2013-08-12T21:49:21Z

Here, a first look at some of these commissioned masterpieces, along with commentary from the artists about working with Williams. | A Sneak Peek at a New Exhibition Co-Curated by Pharrell 2014-04-30T19:44:38Z

For all its musical splendors, “Alcina,” a stunning masterpiece, is not staged by major companies as often as it merits. Joyce DiDonato Sings ‘Alcina’ at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Repeatedly, they play up a sense of chance encounters and fleeting pleasures, and one of the many masterpieces here, The Railway, simply depicts a woman waiting on a wall. Manet, Rosa Barba, Guggi: the week's art shows in pictures 2013-01-24T12:30:00Z

It's not a great film, but it has its laughs and it puts a feel-good full stop on a modern comedy masterpiece. The Inbetweeners maps male sexuality 2011-08-19T13:30:02Z

The only Broadway musical in the last 25 years that remotely compares to it in terms of cultural impact is “Rent,” but Miranda’s masterpiece has a wider reach. Even without Lin-Manuel, 'Hamilton' opens in San Francisco as vital as ever 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z

It could be a masterpiece – especially if he spends another 20 years on it. Song to Song: should Terrence Malick take a break? 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

“Therefore, it is with great excitement that I begin the journey of sharing this masterpiece — particularly with young people who will carry us forward into the future.” Basquiat Skull Painting Is Coming to the Brooklyn Museum 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Once that subsided, people appreciated "Lemonade" as a visual and musical masterpiece, drawing influence from directors, poets, authors, musicians and artists of every stripe in its construction and execution. Is Netflix's "Bo Burnham: Inside" our lockdown "Lemonade"? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

Plus lots of illustrated manuscripts and artwork, Albrecht Dürer’s masterpiece, “Apocalypsis,” among them. Conceptual, Sensual, Degenerate: Your Summer Art Choices 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

The beauty of the work, a true if tired masterpiece, saved it. Old Masters Rush In to Save the Day 2010-12-10T12:42:00Z

The walls above the table and around the windows, for example, are reserved primarily for images of high art — postcards of masterpieces by van Eyck, Vermeer, Holbein, Degas, Seurat and Donatello. Art Review: Rediscovered at the Altar of Art 2011-08-11T21:34:13Z

By old material, I don’t mean “Revelations,” the 1960 Ailey masterpiece that closed Wednesday’s program and still closes a majority of the company’s programs. Review: Alvin Ailey, at City Center, Maintains Polished Approach to Familiar Footwork 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Each opera, almost without exception, was better, bolder, more masterly and more personal than the one before, right until the end, when, in his 70s, he wrote his final masterpieces, “Otello” and “Falstaff.” ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Hailing Opera's Shakespeare, and Its Proust 2011-01-17T12:00:40Z

"You mean that theoretically," Truffaut prompted, "a masterpiece is something that has already found its perfection of form, its definitive form." Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z

The present exhibition brings together a host of masterpieces, most of which are fairly small and are arranged side by side, in series, in no particular chronological order. Twilight of the Pharaohs (Le Crépuscule des Pharaons) - review 2012-06-19T13:01:51Z

It was 40 years ago this month that Robert Altman's masterpiece "Nashville" hit screens, but the arrival hadn't come unannounced. Why Robert Altman's brilliant 'Nashville' never had a sequel 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

In a city with so many ancient architectural masterpieces, a quest to find a modern structure of equal grandeur seems like folly. Revelations in High-End Rome 2012-09-28T18:24:21Z

In a concert that roared, pounded and groaned emphatically, this piece seemed genteel and tidy, slight even, when measured against Haydn’s own mature masterpieces. Music Review: Three Master Composers and a Lingering Mystery 2011-03-25T22:44:44Z

The track’s lyrical agony is worthy of Anne Sexton, and the sultry thrum of the chorus — “She loves me and I love her/I’m not sure how to please her” — recalls Portishead’s 1994 masterpiece “Dummy.” Savages’ Jehnny Beth Is Going Solo. Don’t Tell Her It’s a Mistake. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Leon Botstein, the conductor and tireless champion of overlooked works, considers “Julietta” an operatic masterpiece that at least deserves a place in the repertory. Review: Leon Botstein Dusts Off a Surreal 1930s Opera 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

I consider it to be a masterpiece—certainly of children’s literature, but maybe of all literature—and I find it very hard to read. William Steig’s Books Explored the Reality That Adults Don’t Want Children to Know About 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

Yet, his masterpiece, “Astral Weeks,” remained known to the select few who really cared to spend time unraveling it. The rage of Van Morrison and the battle behind his masterpiece, ‘Astral Weeks’ 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

But any little shortcoming is nothing in comparison with the joy of hearing this Loesser masterpiece in an intimate, acoustically natural setting. Music Review: Frank Loesser?s ?Most Happy Fella,? at Dicapo Opera 2012-03-10T00:57:23Z

I read Ford’s little masterpiece before meeting Dano and Kazan and found that the book’s tension builds like the smoke it describes coming ever nearer the town. Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan on their new creations - an acclaimed film and a baby daughter 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

The three stone circles of Avebury are a masterpiece of land art. The story of British art: my 5,000 year hunt for treasure 2012-07-10T17:31:39Z

O’Brien earned my undying admiration with his turn on “Halt and Catch Fire,” a bonafide Peak TV masterpiece. ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap: Mason for the Defense 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

Forty years after its debut, “Nine Sinatra Songs” struck me as something rare: an American masterpiece. Beyond Ballroom: Twyla Tharp’s American Classicism 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

He even served as inspiration for Wallace Shawn’s masterpiece “The Designated Mourner,” playing the lead role both at the London’s Royal National Theatre and in the film adaptation. A Last Lunch with Mike Nichols 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

No chisel wounds blemish the masterpiece that made Michelangelo's name. Leonardo or Michelangelo: who is the greatest? 2010-03-30T07:00:00Z

The winking references, the quirky combinations of acknowledged masterpieces and minor oddities, the mix of personal and public missions — these served to narrow the gap between art and viewer. Critic?s Notebook: Eccentricity Gives Way to Uniformity in Museums 2011-03-27T01:30:05Z

“At first, it was just college kids and young people,” Kraft says, finally locating the light-bulb laden masterpiece of a garment she was looking for. Ugly Christmas sweater season, when grandma’s trash is a nation’s treasure 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

In search of that elusive "second act", he moved to Hollywood, published Tender Is the Night, a novel that baffled the critics, and began his final unfinished masterpiece, The Last Tycoon. Gatsby may be great, but F Scott Fitzgerald is greater 2013-04-29T20:00:00Z

This is a display on the classic “masterpiece exhibition” model — it’ll go to the Met in February — and a knockout. A Head-Spinning, Hope-Inspiring Showcase of Art 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

The new box rightfully incorporates “Strawberry Fields” and “Penny Lane,” the masterpieces recorded alongside “Sgt. Pepper” but released before the album. The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ at 50: Still Full of Joy and Whimsy 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

To call “The Edge of Seventeen” one of the best films about high school kids in 25 years isn’t to say it’s a masterpiece. Review: ‘The Edge of Seventeen’ Takes Teenage Movies to a Higher Place 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Wright attended high school and college there and eventually designed a masterpiece for the city. Cultured Traveler: Touring Wright Buildings in Wisconsin 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z

In a recent interview with The New York Times, Mr. Jacobs, one of the most significant early-music conductors, described “Idomeneo” as “the masterpiece of all the Mozart operas.” Who Needs Sets or Fancy Costumes for These Mozart Operas? 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Every new high school basketball documentary must contend with the long shadow of the 1994 masterpiece “Hoop Dreams.” Review: ‘Killer Bees’ Tracks Working-Class Athletes in the Hamptons 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

While not strictly speaking a masterpiece show, its like won’t be attempted again on this scale and in this depth for some time. Art Review: ‘Caribbean: Crossroads of the World’ Spans 3 Museums 2012-06-14T20:33:20Z

Montreal's La Presse even called it "a masterpiece multiplied by two". Just add tunes 2010-04-15T13:07:00Z

“Rosita” may not be a masterpiece, but it is a gorgeous valentine, if not to the star then to the industry she personified. Ernst Lubitsch’s ‘Rosita’ Is Back, Reconstructed and Looking Great 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

He completed his masterpiece, the decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, in about 1305; this depiction of the lives of Mary and Jesus is regarded as the jewel of the early Renaissance. British art restorer uncovers a lost Giotto masterpiece 2010-10-23T23:07:00Z

“If you went to that townhouse, wherever you looked there was a masterpiece.” S.I. Newhouse Jr., Remembered: ‘Eager, Never Jaded’ 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

When I learn that a film I’m about to see will run its course in 90 minutes or thereabouts, I assume it to be a masterpiece unless proved otherwise. ‘A Quiet Place’ Review: Something to Shout About 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

Inspired by Eugène Delacroix’s 1834 Orientalist masterpiece, “Women of Algiers,” this was one of a number of works Picasso produced in the 1950s and 1960s in response to earlier artists he admired. A Picasso Is the Center of Attention at Christie’s Auction 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

You may not have the energy or desire to create that pandemic masterpiece each of us was supposed to bang out by now, but honestly: who cares? The seasonal joy of "The Great British Baking Show" 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

It’s one of nature’s masterpieces, dangling tantalizingly in the jungle. Pursuits: A Love Letter to a Smelly Fruit 2013-12-03T18:33:25Z

Edward Steichen’s dramatically moody photographs of Rodin’s masterpiece, his strangely leaning monument to the novelist Honoré de Balzac, emphasize the sculptor’s influential vision of Balzac as a self-creating demiurge. Rodin From Every Angle: A Cornucopia of Shows for the Holidays 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

"I would say that this is a masterpiece," declared Riley. Collaborators say new MJ album honors legacy 2010-12-10T12:58:00Z

I wrote that even a masterpiece needed a majestic interpretation to offer a more spiritual experience than a lesser work. Critic?s Notebook: Two ?Passions,? With Two Very Different Effects 2011-04-17T22:14:02Z

Watch it with one eye, and it’s a masterpiece; with another, it’s a joke. ‘To the Wonder’: Twirling together the best, worst of Terrence Malick 2013-04-11T20:41:41Z

Widely studied and taught, Beard’s masterpiece swerves from the banal to the sublime with profound humility and unvarnished detail: Review | Jo Ann Beard, best known for her New Yorker essay about a shooting, returns with a beautiful new collection 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

Japanese artist On Kawara’s “date paintings” are among the most instantly recognizable masterpieces of conceptual art. Next Big Show to See: On Kawara at the Guggenheim 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Turning to Hitchcock’s first American masterpiece, “Rebecca,” Truffaut picks up on a subtle innovation crucial to the director’s later films, his discovery that setting a two-shot out of balance could create narrative tension: The Book That Gets Inside Alfred Hitchcock’s Mind 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

In his silkscreen paintings, Warhol took photographs and turned them into stark images of loss and death – as in his Tate masterpiece that shows the fading face of Marilyn Monroe. Andy Warhol lost then found: tender portrait of artist in 1981 2013-04-24T18:10:11Z

But it would still be a musical masterpiece. Written on Skin – review 2013-03-10T18:24:00Z

I had never read Melville’s masterpiece; somehow reading about a madman pursuing a great white whale never registered in my consciousness as anywhere near purposeful prose. Ahab’s White Whale and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

His first six features — including his masterpiece, “Local Hero,” and its close second, “Comfort and Joy” — were released within a decade. Film: Bill Forsyth to Discuss ?Housekeeping? at Film Forum 2010-04-14T21:46:00Z

But what if you knew a masterpiece had been written that year? Andrew Sean Greer on Writing and Winning 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

“Fidelio” is one of a number of operatic masterpieces that hover between two genres. Perspective | Strong woman confronts unjust ruler — opera tells, and retells, the story 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Its title is a riff on Flaubert’s masterpiece about the social education of a young bourgeois man. Translating a Novel of Sadism 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

The novel that revolutionized modern literature with the masterpiece of an ordinary day was published in 1922, three years before “Mrs. Dalloway”; its author was James Joyce and its title is “Ulysses.” Lengthy Biographies, James Joyce and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

But my favourite film of 2016, Babak Anvari’s electrifying Under the Shadow, was the UK entry in this category, and it’s a terrible shame this masterpiece didn’t make it through to the nominations. And the real winner is… welcome to the Observer’s alternative Oscars 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

The fact that Impressionism is not exactly popular right now did not prevent some of its less distinguished works from being greeted like long-lost masterpieces. Auctions: Money Pours Into Impressionist and Modern Art 2011-05-06T11:30:08Z

The result is a clever but annoying novel that lacks both the deeply felt emotion of this author’s dazzling 2001 masterpiece, “Atonement,” and the chilling exactitude of his 1998 Booker Prize-winning thriller, “Amsterdam.” Books of The Times: ‘Sweet Tooth’ by Ian McEwan 2012-11-05T19:17:19Z

The novelist Francine Prose, in The New York Times Book Review, declared both works masterpieces and their author a genius. Hans Keilson, Novelist of Life in Nazi-Run Europe, Dies at 101 2011-06-02T21:23:44Z

In retrospect, this first line of Andrew Norman’s notes to the Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s recording of his breathtaking masterpiece looks peculiar. Andrew Norman’s ‘Play,’ a Symphony That Levels Up 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

“For this ‘masterpiece’ it’s enough to have two seconds,” he says. Trimpin’s high-tech whimsy takes over Seattle’s Winston Wächter 2013-01-24T23:04:28Z

And in his memoirs, Kazan wrote an extended mea culpa about his involvement in a masterpiece he felt he had mistreated. | 'The Really Big Once': ?Camino Real,? Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan 2010-04-19T21:52:00Z

A study for his monumental masterpiece "Composition VII," the turbulent, colliding forms were painted in Munich in 1913. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

The course largely consisted extracts from “Progress and Poverty,” George’s masterpiece of socialist thought. Perspective | Clutter, says who? College essays, letters from Stephen King and Tucker Carlson: I’m keeping (almost) all of it. 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

A triumph of archival research, it’s also a masterpiece of insight, a rare documentary with the heft and sprawl of great literature. The Best Movies of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

This short solo is a masterpiece of strangeness. Mary Wigman: a dance pioneer with an awkward past 2013-05-22T14:22:00Z

These terrifying lines hold one of Milton's masterpiece's most important insights for migration crises today. What classic literature says about refugees fleeing war 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

For decades, “Third” was considered a lost masterpiece, an album that was never really finished or promoted. Big Star's lost masterpiece finally gets its due 2013-06-27T21:39:00Z

Adopting a burlesque expressionism, he trafficked in stereotypes and caricature of both Blacks and whites, often reformulating Western masterpieces with nonwhite subjects. Robert Colescott Throws Down the Gauntlet 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

Spike Jonze’s science-fiction masterpiece, Her, is set a decade into the future, but there’s so much about the film that feels tangible for society today. The Music from Her Aims Big and Scores 2014-02-28T22:34:06Z

The Cleveland show brings a number of such masterpieces out of seclusion, some for the first time. The Week Ahead: Jan. 2 ? 8 2010-12-31T15:49:43Z

That made for a long day — the event spanned nearly nine hours — but one of giddy delight for devotees of Coppola’s masterpieces. An offer they couldn't refuse: The Godfather cast reunite, 45 years on 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

And like Waugh’s exactly contemporary masterpiece, Greenwood’s novel — its surface cynicism notwithstanding — subtly champions fidelity and religious faith. ‘The Deadly Dowager’: A new look at one of the great villains of modern literature 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

This slick, sinister, psycho-sexual thriller is a critically acclaimed masterpiece from the mind of David Lynch, creator of "Twin Peaks" and "Inland Empire". Free Mulholland Drive DVD with the Observer 2010-09-28T13:47:00Z

The former is considered his masterpiece, a large and exuberantly colorful image of Bazille’s family gathered on a terrace, while the latter shows a group of men swimming and relaxing in a lush landscape. Review | Young, gifted, and cut down by a stupid war 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

The very low profile of an 18th century Mexican masterpiece. Essential Arts & Culture: Vampire weekend, a Mexican masterpiece reemerges (sort of), the rising Academy museum 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

“If a work of art tells an entire story with one image, one shoe or one frame, and it’s able to resonate with just one person,” he wrote, “then it’s simply a masterpiece.” Kobe Bryant’s Next Step, New Shoes and Moves With Los Angeles Artists 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

James Baldwin's blistering masterpiece "The Fire Next Time" helps unravel it. Noah Purifoy's smoldering work of art, 'Watts Riot,' is a powerful reminder on the 50th anniversary 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

The program featured two Taylor masterpieces: “Company B,” a warm, nostalgic view of American perseverance, with songs recorded by the Andrews Sisters, and “Esplanade,” Taylor’s deeply personal musings on family and community, accompanied by Bach. Perspective | Best of dance 2021: Paul Taylor live at the Kennedy Center, Ashwini Ramaswamy and Jacob Jonas’s short films 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

Which artists are able to turn a mistake into a masterpiece? Readers recommend: songs about mistakes 2010-12-03T00:01:00Z

There have been famous concerts and a legendary television appearance and recordings that included a late-career masterpiece. Elvis Costello’s New York Soul 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

The museum, which sits at the foot of the Acropolis hill in Athens, houses masterpiece sculptures of Greek antiquity, including works from the Parthenon, one of the most influential buildings in Western civilization. Acropolis Museum opens ancient Athens neighborhood site below its base 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

There is also evidence that his stay and a performance of Messiah in the abbey – with Rauzzini on keyboard – influenced him in composing his masterpiece, The Creation. Bath celebrates the life of the bedhopping singing star of the 1700s 2010-04-12T06:00:00Z

His earlier, Poe-drenched work is good fun, but his masterpiece, “The Makioka Sisters,” serves — Austen-like — as a sort of Lonely Planet guide to the matrix of social obligations which people in Japan still navigate. David Mitchell: By the Book 2012-10-20T09:00:06Z

But what stays with you most is Mr. Weiss’s pearly sound and polished, unhurried phrasing in these graceful miniature masterpieces of keyboard music. Classical Playlist: Dvorak, Haydn, Monteverdi and More 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

A new trail guide links 70 sites in the county where JMW Turner sat down with his easel between producing masterpieces such as Rain, Steam and Speed, and The Fighting Temeraire. Turner in Yorks 2010-06-28T07:28:00Z

But an offhand remark that Nabokov was interested in quirks of punctuation such as the titular comma after "Go" licenses a final frame boasting that Eggers called the novel "a Nabokovian comic masterpiece". The week in books 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

“Pop songs and comic strips were considered trash, but they could also be masterpieces — like Peanuts,” Mr. Eco said in 2002. Umberto Eco, best-selling author of ‘The Name of the Rose,’ dies at 84 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z

As Mr. Bart wrote of the supposed meddling in the foreword to Mr. Evans’s 1994 memoir, “I watched as a superbly shot but ineptly put together film was transformed into a masterpiece.” Robert Evans, a Maverick Producer of Hollywood Classics, Dies at 89 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Another early fan, better read than me, said that one section was "a masterpiece possibly on a level with Kafka's In the Penal Colony". Want to help books survive? Promote authors yourself 2012-07-20T14:01:02Z

She’s embodied Alban Berg’s Lulu and powerfully channeled the leads in contemporary masterpieces like George Benjamin’s “Written on Skin” and Hans Abrahamsen’s “let me tell you.” Alice, all grown up: Barbara Hannigan on singing in a new Wonderland 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

One of Pu’s masterpieces, “Lotus Fragrance,” begins as French farce when Sang Xiao finds himself alternately the lover of both a ghost and a fox-spirit, each insanely jealous of the other. Review | The perfect book to help celebrate the Chinese New Year 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

It was my masterpiece, but it bombed, too. What I’m really thinking: the failed novelist 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

He carries off five wildly different parts – the most striking of these being the dishy homosexual composer Robert Frobisher, hoping to compose a 20th-century masterpiece. Ben Whishaw: 'I feel I'm always in the dark' – interview 2013-03-17T00:15:00Z

"We look forward to their continuing to bring thrilling exploits and cinematic masterpieces to audiences worldwide, and we are delighted to honour them with this year's David O Selznick Achievement Award." Bond producers to receive PGA Award 2013-10-31T09:42:19Z

More than 600 years ago poet Geoffrey Chaucer died without completing his greatest masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales. Original Chaucer manuscript online 2014-04-25T12:38:48Z

For many in the science fiction community, his 2002 novel Light is his masterpiece – Iain Banks hailed it as "a novel of full-spectrum literary dominance … a work of – and about – the highest order". M John Harrison: a life in writing 2012-07-20T21:55:12Z

He was born fully formed as a film-maker, on the evidence available here, which I unhesitatingly put alongside The Last Detail as his other indisputable masterpiece. Hal Ashby's The Landlord: the classic film evicted from cinema history 2012-10-04T16:20:03Z

The Corcoran's emphasis is on American art, but it also displays an excellent array of European masterpieces. A must-see museum in the other Washington 2012-08-27T19:55:12Z

His novel “The Plains,” first published thirty-five years ago and reissued next month, is a bizarre masterpiece that can feel less like something you’ve read than something you’ve dreamed. A Strange Australian Masterpiece About Our Relationship to the Land 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

It is the most accessible introduction to the work of Russian film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky, whose sprawling 70s masterpieces Mirror and Stalker it prefigures in its audacious imagery and elliptical narrative technique. Andrei Tarkovsky: it's time to immerse yourself in the work of a true auteur 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Keen to capitalize on the interest, Belgrade authorities are now considering opening parts of another masterpiece of Yugoslav brutalism - the Palata Srbija government building, which is currently only open once a year. Yugoslavia's brutalist relics fascinate the Instagram generation 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

It acknowledged masterpieces, but not reflexively or out of obligation. Arts & Leisure Preview: Ultimate Box of Jazz? Not Exactly 2011-03-17T17:46:52Z

Phil kicked off its regular season by unveiling a new American masterpiece. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

And Milan claims one of the Renaissance’s top masterpieces, Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” Historic hits in Italy’s most mod city 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

His masterpiece, The Lock, is also being sold at Christie's on 3 July and is estimated to fetch as much as £25 million. Forgotten Constables up for sale 2012-06-18T10:31:04Z

After wartime exploits in behind-the-lines reconnaissance, he apprenticed in the late 1940s under British director Carol Reed on masterpieces such as “The Fallen Idol” and “The Third Man.” Guy Hamilton, resourceful James Bond director, dies at 93 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

This gangly picture isn’t a lost masterpiece, to be clear. ‘The Unknown Man of Shandigor’ Review: A Sci-Fi Fable of the Nuclear Anxiety Age 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

The Louvre owns most of the artist’s explosive early masterpieces, paintings on a grand, immersive scale that are too big, too precious and too essential to the Louvre’s identity to move. Review | In Paris, a major Delacroix exhibition that continues to explore his genius 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

The summer and fall of 1888 brought forth the masterpieces for which van Gogh is famous today. Review | Vincent Van Gogh’s image is cemented in our cultural memory. His letters complicate the view. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

It is incredible to think that Tolkien considered neither “The Hobbit” nor “The Lord of the Rings” his masterpiece. Tolkien’s World: An Exhibition Transports Us to Middle-earth 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Wilson, who found Agatha Christie’s masterpiece — as well as almost all other mystery novels — to be the literary equivalents of crossword puzzles, would find ample support for his contempt in “Snow.” Review | John Banville’s new novel begins, like a game of Clue, with a body in the library 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

White’s masterpiece, culminates at the Blue Hill Fair, which you can still visit over Labor Day weekend every year. Read Your Way Through Maine 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z

A suicidal French novelist whose posthumous masterpiece is called “The Anomaly.” ‘The Anomaly,’ Part Airplane Thriller and Part Exploration of Reality, Fate and Free Will 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

Compare this with any of Michael Bay’s films, and Welles’s Transformers looks like a flat-out masterpiece. One for the money: the great actors who slummed it in daft movies 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Forty years later, Network is half a masterpiece. Network at 40: the flawed satire that predicted Trump and cable 'news porn' 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

A huge hit, “The Clock” also is an indisputable masterpiece. Review | Who wants to join the cult of video artist Matthew Barney? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

The museum provides a valuable introduction to the masterpieces contained in neighboring churches, baptisteries and tombs. Special Report: Decorative Arts: An Ancient Craft Gets a Bigger World Stage 2011-10-27T11:30:10Z

It includes all the movies Mifune and Kurosawa made together — certified masterpieces like “Seven Samurai” and “Rashomon,” as well as less well-known but excellent pictures like “High and Low” and “Red Beard.” Mifune’s Transcendent Films, With and Without Kurosawa 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

The program is book ended by two masterpieces, one new, one already classic, and each made by a senior figure in American independent cinema. BAMcinemaFest Showcases Indie Films 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

The festival needs celebrities as much as it does Mensa masterpieces, and most of the stars from the DreamWorks production will be treading the red carpet tonight. Madagascar 3: A Three-Dream Circus 2012-05-18T15:27:07Z

I still have trouble believing that the deeply felt C-sharp Minor Etude was written by a 14-year-old, but there it is, and Bax treats it as the miniature masterpiece it is. CD reviews: Exhuming an operatic ‘Herculanum.’ 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

But how, exactly, is a masterpiece created, especially one that relies on collaboration? Review | Kubrick wanted 90 tons of sand dyed gray for ‘2001’ — and that was just the start 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

The building is worth a look, but it would be shame not also to explore the sculpture garden, where priceless works are framed by views of Bunshaft’s masterpiece. Lee F. Mindel explores the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in D.C. 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

In Get Out he produced an even better masterpiece. Outlook not so good: why we really don't need a Magic 8 ball movie 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

With this skill in your creative toolbox, you can craft masterpieces with a wink to the past while fully embracing modern times. A brief history of royal icing string work 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

As with the characters in his and Lully’s masterpiece, “Atys,” Armide’s tragedy is to be undone by love’s insidious power even as she considers herself above such a humble emotion. Tellings of Armida?s Story, Including Gluck?s at Juilliard 2012-02-03T15:51:38Z

German's reputation is based on only four films, all of them masterpieces. Aleksei German obituary 2013-02-26T18:17:01Z

Beginning Wednesday, New York Theater Ballet brings Antony Tudor’s somber 1937 masterpiece “Dark Elegies” and an original work by young choreographers set to Philip Glass and steel drums. Dance Listings for July 29-Aug. 4 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

This masterpiece of the Italian renaissance depicts the architects with compasses, pen and a page of music manuscript. Rijksmuseum to reopen after dazzling refurbishment and rethink 2013-04-05T15:55:13Z

Bruckner himself called his fifth "my contrapuntal masterpiece," and its counterpoint plays at times like sacred mathematics, an intricate fugue with ethereal melodies. Bruckner's Second Act 2011-07-16T14:05:00Z

This rewarding new recording offers a captivating performance of a Harrison masterpiece for this instrument, the Suite for Violin with American Gamelan, with the fine violinist Gabriela Diaz as soloist. Classical Playlist: Carl Nielsen, Lou Harrison, Bach and More 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

But presenting them, not as art “masterpieces” but as spiritual power tools, intimately transactional devices, the show brought them to life in a way museums rarely do. Best Art of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

The kitchen was covered in flour, batter, egg shells, and caramel drips, and I studied my creation like a masterpiece. Failing at croquembouche helped me overcome bullying 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

Instead he relies heavily on “An American Melodrama,” a masterpiece of eyewitness history written in 1969 by three British reporters, and a handful of other accounts. The Presidential Election That America Lost 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean's masterpiece, both a film and a book, is a story of deep brotherly love, as is Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish and Jim Harrison's Legends of the Fall. Get over it guys. Brotherhood is the greatest relationship you can share 2012-08-18T16:20:42Z

Perhaps I will see Sons And Lovers for the masterpiece that so many say it is. Reading group: Sons and Lovers is getting me down 2013-06-13T08:58:55Z

Calling attention to commonplace accessories, humdrum crafts, misplaced masterpieces and blithe inequities is a focus of much contemporary design scholarship. 4 Books That Reflect on Faces, Fragments and Torments 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

I am always hesitant to 'touch' classic masterpieces to infuse them with modernity. Review: All’s Not Well in This ‘Cherry Orchard’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

It was everything … the music, the shirt on the hanger, a love so intense it cannot be assuaged … the whole movie is a masterpiece. 'Absolutely kills me': you pick your saddest movie scenes 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z

“Aida” may well be the grandest of the grand operas, but it needs inspired staging and exceptional voices in order to make Verdi’s masterpiece shine. Seattle Opera presents a spectacular “Aida” 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

So, even if the 1879 piece is socially fascinating rather than a downright masterpiece, one is grateful to InSite Performance for giving it its British premiere in a sprightly new version by Samuel Adamson. Larisa and the Merchants – review 2013-05-08T16:57:37Z

The Reader's Digest survey of 1,516 people also found that most were unable to link composers to their masterpieces. Britons clueless about classical musical, survey reveals 2010-08-23T04:30:00Z

While its history can be plotted from day one, the picture hardly qualifies as the masterpiece sung by commentators with their sight obscured by the mist of snobbery that pervades class-obsessed English society. Special Report: The New Art Season: Art Anchored in History Will Soar This Season 2011-09-07T10:30:06Z

Though their relationship is financially tenuous, it is artistically fecund, producing what we are told is a masterpiece of hand-drawn animation, a fictionalized account of Mel’s childhood called “Nashville Combat.” Review | Can a friendship between two cartoonists survive their own success? 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

In his preface to “The Passenger,” Shostakovich called the opera a “perfect masterpiece” whose “spiritual format and humanism impress the listener without fail.” Recognition for a Composer Who Captured a Century’s Horrors 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Until July 17, the Museum Prinsenhof in Delft hosts the exhibition, “Vermeer Is Coming Home / The Little Street Returns to Delft,” with the original masterpiece as its centerpiece, on loan from the Rijksmuseum. In Vermeer’s Hometown, Seeking Clues to His Interior Life 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Detroit’s emergency manager released a report from Christie’s auction house on Thursday detailing market estimates for some of the greatest masterpieces in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Art. Report Sets Values on Detroit Institute Artworks 2013-12-19T16:16:15Z

When interviewed by the Tribune in 1998, Wilson dismissed those who would call "Smile" a lost masterpiece: "They're not missing much." Brian Wilson's lost 'Smile' album finally unearthed, with all the trimmings 2011-11-02T14:39:00Z

But I think Threads is the dark masterpiece for both. Threads: the film that frightened me most 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

One such endeavor is an exhibition organized with the Singapore Art Museum that will run concurrently with the fair and will show contemporary Asian masterpieces from private collections. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Singapore Art Fair to Display Asia's Best 2010-12-01T16:00:00Z

“Turner and the Masters” includes 40 of Turner’s paintings, as well as masterpieces by artists who influenced him, including Rubens, Rembrandt, Claude Lorraine, Watteau, Titian, Canaletto and Constable. J.M.W. Turner (and Friends) at the Prado 2010-06-15T10:00:00Z

Or there’s the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, best known for housing masterpieces such as Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus.” From pacifiers to Picassos: Museums cater to a younger clientele 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

It would all be deliciously kitschy if you didn’t sense that all involved thought they were making a profound masterpiece. Inside the “Stonewall” catastrophe: A dull, miscast, misguided, bloated, schmaltzy and shlocky disaster of a movie 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z

The show fizzles in the home stretch, but it is easy to imagine a showrunner’s cut of “Heathers” that fills it out as a pop-surrealist masterpiece. “Heathers,” Reviewed: The TV Remake of the Classic Teen Comedy Is a Feat of Hostile Farce 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

The last time was for his masterpiece “Mad Max: Fury Road,” which set the festival afire in 2015. George Miller Is at the Cannes Film Festival Making ‘Furiosa’ (That’s Right) 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Pei, who moved to the United States to attend college and died Thursday at the age of 102, created several masterpieces of modern architecture that are known around the world. Six of I.M. Pei’s Most Important Works 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

Still, he’s turned up little that’s substantially new about Custer, and readable as his book is, it lacks the lasting visceral resonance of Mr. Connell’s masterpiece. Books of The Times: Recalling Custer in Nathaniel Philbrick?s ?Last Stand? 2010-06-03T21:17:00Z

But there is still money there for Russian masterpieces.” At Auctions, Russian Oligarchs Start to Hedge Their Bets 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

There's an irresistible cultural historical connection between the two, as churches and concert halls around the world will resound with Bach's Passions and choral masterpieces this weekend. Bach at Easter 2013-03-29T16:48:30Z

More: Is jazz a musical language or a philosophy of action, or is it merely a genre, the art that descends from a body of recorded masterpieces? Arts & Leisure Preview: Ultimate Box of Jazz? Not Exactly 2011-03-17T17:46:52Z

“Ready Player One” is far from a masterpiece, but as the fanboys say, it’s canon. Review: In ‘Ready Player One,’ Spielberg Plays the Nostalgia Game 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

He wrote his masterpiece, “A Single Man,” a devastating novel about a depressed gay Englishman who teaches at a college in Southern California. Books of The Times: Isherwood?s Singular Second Wind 2010-12-01T16:58:00Z

“God Only Knows” is an absolute masterpiece and one of the defining love songs of the 1960s. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

It also helps, somewhat, to camouflage the absence of masterpieces such as The Railway and Woman With Parrot, which are presumably now too priceless to travel. Manet: the Inventor of Modernity ? review 2011-04-09T23:05:37Z

It is a wayward masterpiece whose absurdly protracted genesis only enhances the experience. Heaven can wait: what will happen to the films delayed by coronavirus? 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

“Generally speaking, collectors of authentic masterpieces want to avoid publicity like the plague. Even with enormous guarantees, which significantly reduce risk, auction on some level is always a gamble.” London Sales Will Gauge Art Market’s Health in Trump Era 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

He said; "Yes, there are little jewels of language and comedy, but it's the generosity of spirit throughout the whole project which makes it such a comic masterpiece," he said. PG Wodehouse prize awarded to Terry Pratchett 2012-05-29T23:06:01Z

“We are very happy to extend the loan of about 50 masterpieces for as long as necessary”, he added. Rome's coronavirus-hit Raphael exhibition to reopen in June 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

Chekhov's plays can feel desultory, but there's not a moment in any of his masterpieces in which his thematic vision isn't deepening. Ghost of Anton Chekhov inhabits 'The Country House' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Then there is "The Scream," one of two Edvard Munch masterpieces stolen from an Oslo museum in 2004 and recovered in 2006. Stolen art can be burden without connections 2012-10-18T15:42:08Z

Toss in a soundtrack rich with Hank Williams and Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, stir in Robert Surtees’s breathtaking black-and-white cinematography, and you have a masterpiece of high-lonesome poignancy and 1970s disillusionment. ‘The Last Picture Show’ at MoMA 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

And some people think it was his masterpiece. Terrence McNally ready for a break after long year 2010-04-02T13:35:00Z

Indeed, as far as the ever-excitable Charles Spencer is concerned, what the audience at the Chichester Festival Theatre have witnessed may be some kind of knockabout masterpiece. What to say about ... Yes, Prime Minister 2010-05-25T10:21:00Z

It ended with “The Four Temperaments,” a Balanchine masterpiece from 1946. Justin Peck, Along With Balanchine, From City Ballet 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

He turns the entire company’s gastrointestinal disaster in Mexico City into a masterpiece of escalating farce. For this globe-trotting Hamlet, all the world’s a stage 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

While calling the film "a staggering masterpiece," critic Glenn Kenny, writing at RogerEbert.com, called the film "both very simple and head-spinningly confounding, a thing of endless visual beauty… a true work of art." Isao Takahata of Studio Ghibli surfaces with 'Tale of Princess Kaguya' 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

This masterpiece of organised sound is derived from a spectral analysis of the tenor bell at Winchester Cathedral. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z

His painting, The Supper at Emmaus, was hailed as a previously unknown masterpiece by Vermeer and was one of the most visited paintings in the Netherlands until it was revealed to be a fake. Can you love a fake piece of art? 2012-06-03T23:24:04Z

All the rules dictate that, in 8½, Fellini ought not to be able to construct a counterintuitive masterpiece out of his own pampered indecisiveness. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z

Despite this he never worked again in anything comparable to Visconti's masterpiece. Farley Granger obituary 2011-03-29T11:59:19Z

These films are masterpieces, the work of a grandmaster who made them when he was young. Michael Ondaatje: By the Book 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

His swirling masterpieces have a flamboyance and freedom that is largely absent in the mannered nature of modern art. Art in 2015: A look ahead 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Robertson says he identifies Bach’s masterpiece, first performed in 1724, as fundamentally about social justice, identifying parallels with contemporary society that grew more glaring over the past year. Perspective | A Black Jesus is at the center of a ‘Passion’ that transfigures the listener 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

The purpose of the exhibition, however, is not so much to showcase individual masterpieces but to explain what role such works played in representing peace, often as part of specific cultural movements, exhibitions or museums. As Culture Capital, San Sebastián Weighs the Theme of Peace 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby and Friedkin’s The Exorcist are masterpieces – and there is a real case to be made, incidentally, for the first Saw, by James Wan, now enjoying its 10th anniversary. Threads: the film that frightened me most 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

The clincher, of course, is Ailey’s 1960 masterpiece, “Revelations,” performed in its entirety. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

Spike Lee’s masterpiece uses a sweltering summer day to zero in on the boiling racial tensions between the residents of the Brooklyn neighborhood Bedford-Stuyvesant. 10 Movies That Capture the Essence of New York 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

The museum's "Christ on the Straw" was taken back to the gothic Cathedral of our Lady, where it originally hung, and joins four other Rubens masterpieces there. Antwerp puts big, bold Rubens works into hiding 2013-04-05T10:26:09Z

Visit the home where impressionist painter Claude Monet spent half of his life and the gardens that inspired some of his masterpieces. Monet’s ‘other’ masterpiece: His gardens at Giverny 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 version of her first book, "Strangers on a Train," is one of his cinematic masterpieces. Highsmith's 'Two Faces' caught director's eye 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z

Conducting Mahler’s valedictory masterpiece, whose ending is the repertory’s great evocation of letting go, he took his time on Sunday but refused to wallow in the obvious, unbearable emotions. A Mighty Generation of Musicians. A Moving Final Chapter. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

The 1992 album Daily Operation is a minimalist masterpiece and shows the duo pushing New York rap to new creative heights. Guru obituary 2010-04-21T16:33:00Z

She swept the dust off old masterpieces, explained their cultural contexts and infused them with life for a new public. Carola Hicks obituary 2010-07-27T17:33:00Z

Now that this epochal masterpiece is on Netflix, you can finally watch it on an endless loop without the VH1 logo taking up half the screen. The 7 best movies new to Netflix in February 2019 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

It was also trying to improve visitors’ experiences by, among other things, introducing yoga sessions near Jacques-Louis David and Rubens masterpieces. Looking for Elbow Room, Louvre Limits Daily Visitors to 30,000 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

The framed art reinterprets European masterpieces with stuffed animals. Chicago has 3 new spaces for adults to release their inner children 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Alexandre O. Philippe’s documentary meticulously studies these and other elements of that horror masterpiece, capturing the film’s enduring impact on cinema. What’s on TV Saturday: White House Correspondents’ Dinner and ‘78/52’ 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z

How long did people spend playing with images to create these diverting travesties of artistic masterpieces? Van Gogh paints DiCaprio: has Photoshop gone too far? 2013-05-20T15:21:46Z

The Borromeo provides an example of how technology is shaping the production and creation of classical music, a bastion of traditional acoustic sound and repository of centuries-old masterpieces. Bytes and Beethoven 2011-01-16T03:00:04Z

Those numbers may pick up as the rave reviews — and news of Ruiz's death on Friday at 70 — prod discerning cinephiles into taking a chance on a masterpiece on Portuguese. Box Office: The Help Is the Boss of Conan and Spy Kids 4D 2011-08-21T05:20:00Z

But the celebrations, led by the country’s president, Moon Jae-in, concealed an uncomfortable truth about Bong’s masterpiece. Parasite: how Oscar triumph has exposed South Korea’s social divide 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z

Barnes thought an appreciation of African masterpieces would also advance the cause he fervently promoted alongside modern art: the advancement of African Americans in society. Questioning the Place of Black Art in a White Man’s Collection 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

Its offspring — “How I Met Your Mother,” “The Big Bang Theory” “The Mindy Project,” “New Girl,” the short-lived masterpiece of repartee “Happy Endings” — did their best. ‘Friends’ Is Turning 25. Here’s Why We Can’t Stop Watching it. 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

The only exception was the Vatican Museum in particular Michaelangelos's masterpiece Sistine Chapel and Raphael masterpiece The School of Athens. Bringing the Sistine Chapel to Life, With the Vatican’s Blessing 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Pot racks—whether bespoke designs or vintage masterpieces—add an irresistible sophistication to any kitchen. AD’s Most Stylishly Sleek Kitchens 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Federico Fellini’s 1960 masterpiece La Dolce Vita premiered in his native Italy 60 years ago today, eventually trickling into American theaters just as they were getting hospitable to foreign films. La Dolce Vita at 60: the fame, the fortune, the fountain 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

The writer in question is one William Shakespeare, composer of numerous masterpieces, and also “Titus Andronicus.” Theater review: With Faction of Fools’ ‘Titus,’ an audience sees red

If it’s a masterpiece of its form — literally homemade, recorded on zero budget, featuring four unnamed songs — it’s an accidental masterpiece. “Roman Candle” turns 20: Secrets of Elliott Smith’s accidental masterpiece 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

I didn???t buy Armageddon or The Life Aquatic, but I can???t wait to get my hands on Paris, Texas, Vivre sa vie, and the modern masterpiece Summer Hours. 2009-12-31T20:21:00Z

The writer Hampton Fancher, one of the seers behind the 1982 masterpiece “Blade Runner,” has led the kind of fantastically eventful life that seems the stuff of fiction. Review: ‘Escapes’ Recounts a Hollywood Storyteller’s Inventive Life 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

“These masterpieces of creative genius,” Unesco said on its website, “also attest to the internationalization of architectural practice across the planet.” Le Corbusier’s Work Added to Heritage List 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

Decades will pass before people know whether this pandemic produced a masterpiece on par with William Shakespeare's finest. "Only Murders in the Building" bridges Boomer and Millennial sensibilities for a comedy that slays 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t as if the last week’s think-pieces, roughly summed up as “Is Gone Girl a feminist masterpiece or supremely damaging to all women, everywhere?” The Gone Girl backlash: what women don’t want 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

But before he can complete this sunny masterpiece, a sequence of terrible events unfolds. Love or Hate Emmanuel Carrère’s Forceful Tangents, They’re Back in ‘Yoga’ 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

Each is a little masterpiece of suffering and redemption, made with a wrenching, openhearted economy. Frida Kahlo’s Home Is Still Unlocking Secrets, 50 Years Later 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

By the end, the show is operating both as a masterpiece of silliness and a hymn to camaraderie and carefree youth. Pappy's: Last Show Ever – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-22T14:26:35Z

This is a timeless masterpiece by a great artist unconcerned about which school he might be seen to belong to. Art Review: A Masterly World Apart 2011-01-14T12:00:04Z

Hurston’s recovered masterpiece is based on interviews with one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

A labor of some two years, “The Clock” was hailed as a masterpiece when it made its debut at the White Cube gallery in London last fall. Art Review: As in Life, Timing Is Everything in the Movies 2011-02-03T21:43:44Z

It’s no coincidence that one character mentions Italo Calvino’s masterpiece “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler,” with its intoxicating tag-team narration. ‘The Anomaly,’ Part Airplane Thriller and Part Exploration of Reality, Fate and Free Will 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

But it quickly became clear that it was a masterpiece of culture in a changing climate: a dismayingly rare subject for art, given its urgency. Review: In ‘Sun & Sea,’ We Laze Away the End of the World 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

“When was the last time a popular cinematic masterpiece had something important and topical to say about the world?” ‘I’d Never Seen My Fears as an African-American Man Onscreen’ 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

There Is a Season is a lyrical masterpiece to be treasured by all recovering alcoholics, avid gardeners and lovers of Annie Dillard and Thoreau. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z

She recorded “My Guy” – along with the Ronettes’s “Be My Baby,” one of a handful of pop masterpieces that cannot be improved. | Mary Wells 2010-11-23T17:57:00Z

And that country, at that time, is the theme of a strangely manic masterpiece show at the Morgan Library & Museum called “David, Delacroix, and Revolutionary France: Drawings From the Louvre.” Art Review: ?Drawings From the Louvre? at the Morgan Library - Review 2011-09-29T21:30:26Z

Any admirer of “The Dying Earth,” “Star King” or “Lyonesse” — and that means everyone who reads these masterpieces of urbane and wistful prose — will want this memoir. Review | Books make the best gifts. Here are seven surprising choices for the readers on your list. 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

“I mean, there are some great masterpieces. But there’s just a dearth of ones about women. I love women. Women are just really fascinating and different to men.” Rachel Weisz Has a Big Surprise 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

The results were nothing short of world-changing — a flood of soul masterpieces, most released on Atlantic Records, that put FAME’s output on a level with that of Motown and Stax Records. The Muscle Shoals Sound Finally Gets Its Due 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

In 1822 he painted his insidiously pessimistic masterpiece, a grand state portrait of George IV that portrays this unpopular king as a mottled, flabby, impotent nonentity. National Portrait Gallery shines light on forgotten artist Thomas Lawrence 2010-08-04T18:38:00Z

I did find a truly harmonious greasy-locavore masterpiece, however, in Iowa City, just what you would expect from a college town in a farm state. Frugal Traveler: Eating in Iowa: Farm-Fresh, Fried and Frugal 2013-08-14T22:43:34Z

Scott pointed out in his New York Times review, “bedtime stories as well as a pair of Sergio Leone masterpieces.” A Pop-Culture Glossary for ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

It was called a game of “artistry”; a “lavish and cerebral” experience that “dignifies the medium” and “advances the art form”; the game that “video games were made for”; a “masterpiece” in every respect. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: BioShock Infinite and Video Game Reviews 2013-12-26T13:01:36Z

A Pop-art masterpiece in a perfect shade of blue: a Monopoly hotel at giant scale. I told my mother-in-law I'd plan an L.A. architecture tour for her 80th birthday. But what buildings to choose? 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

All of which confirms this as a much-labored masterpiece, a painting Renoir struggled with for months and over which he exerted maximum control. Review | Another Renoir show? But this one is worth it. 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

“So as I’m jumping over the bench, it clipped my shin and I went sprawling. Everyone turned to look and I looked up at him and I said, ‘It was a masterpiece!’ Greta Gerwig: 'I'm at peak shock and happiness' 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z

This retro-futurist funk masterpiece is now the biggest hit of Daft Punk's career, No 1 for most of the spring. Daft Punk: Random Access Memories – review 2013-05-18T23:05:24Z

And then of course, he's given us so many masterpieces in boxing. Ken Burns on his latest, "Muhammad Ali": "What's so interesting is what an avatar of love he was" 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z

But this is one of the real masterpieces in terms of ballet scores — Prokofiev’s innate sense of drama is so strong. Perfectly in tune, onstage and in the pit 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

I invite your readers to visit it, and to work with us to save this masterpiece from the ravages of time and the elements. Letters to the Editor 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Both Chaucer and Shakespeare, for instance, borrowed from earlier tales to create their own masterpieces. Borrowing, appropriating and stealing as old as art itself 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

David Moore-Gwyn, senior specialist in early British paintings at Sotheby's, described the painting as one of the last Turner masterpieces in private hands. Former PM's Turner masterpiece to be auctioned at Sotheby's 2010-03-26T18:00:00Z

That didn’t bother the Sundance crowd: anything about slave rebellion was automatically a masterpiece. Did #OscarsSoWhite work? Looking beyond Hollywood's diversity drought 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

Later he rechoreographed these ballets in America, setting them alongside his modernist masterpieces with no fuss. City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z

We follow Bonnefoy on restless peregrinations in search of masterpieces, from the architecture of India to the Quattrocento paintings of Italy. The American Side of France’s Greatest Postwar Poet 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

The paintings were initially found by a group of Allied Forces experts known as the Monuments Men, who sought to retrieve artistic masterpieces from Nazi possession near the end of World War II. Appeals court revives case for art seized in WWII 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

Set partly in Vietnam and partly in California, "Dog Soldiers" is "a ruthless diagnosis of the Vietnamization of the homeland," Jonathan Lethem wrote, calling it "a great American masterpiece." Author Robert Stone has died at 77 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z

Child was once quoted as saying, "You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces — just good food from fresh ingredients." What Julia Child's favorite soup recipe teaches us about the art of cooking 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

If the plot appears to owe more than just a little to Alfred Hitchcock's cinematic masterpiece, The Birds, then the directing and special effects do not. Horror film Birdemic earns cult status for bad acting and worse special effects 2010-04-07T15:14:00Z

The film, a mock anthology of fragmentary episodes from preposterous telenovelas, is a minor addition to the Ruiz corpus, which runs to more than 100 titles, among them a handful of masterpieces. ‘The Wandering Soap Opera’ Review: An Excursion Into Raúl Ruiz’s Fertile Mind 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

When he was in "Grease," Porter managed to get to the adjacent theater to see "Angels in America," Tony Kushner's riotous, almost operatic masterpiece. 'It's his time' _ 'Kinky Boots' star Billy Porter 2013-06-05T12:30:10Z

A fantasy that tantalizes many music theater aficionados is the dream of unearthing a lost masterpiece from the trove of shows that flopped on Broadway or were never produced. Music Review: ‘Unsung Carolyn Leigh’ Reveals Charm of a Gatsby Musical 2014-04-08T20:57:35Z

The Dark Knight Rises: beautifully crafted cinema masterpiece. Open thread: What's your favourite British film? 2012-07-27T16:18:12Z

Several masterpieces are displayed for the first time. Art Review: A Masterly World Apart 2011-01-14T12:00:04Z

An avid 19th century collector, she scoured the auction rooms of Europe picking up masterpieces with the help of her personal shopper, esteemed art historian Bernard Berenson. In the frame 2010-03-18T09:05:00Z

Also, an enormous inheritance is held in escrow until Moondog finishes his next masterpiece. Review: Matthew McConaughey Waxes Poetic in ‘The Beach Bum’ 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

The mastermind behind the masterpiece of "The Rahmfather" portrait hanging in my office came forward the other day. John Kass: Rahmfather Mystery solved 2012-03-08T06:00:00Z

After 20 or so albums like that, anything described as a lost masterpiece got put into the giant Sports Direct bags. Do you still collect physical music? What do you do with it? 2012-11-07T11:31:00Z

The novel may have been hailed a masterpiece, but Franzen's ambition, he says, was simply to create characters that would engage the reader's sympathy; all the language had to be was "adequate" to that task. Jonathan Franzen: 'I must be near the end of my career ? people are starting to approve' 2010-09-24T23:03:00Z

Ah, but what masterpiece will figure in this book and will there still be bookstores to sell it in May? ArtsBeat: New Dan Brown Novel Coming in May 2013-01-15T14:26:33Z

A masterpiece painting, missing for a century, is hiding somewhere in L.A. 'Gem of the Ocean' at South Coast Rep: August Wilson provides ritual healing in a devastating revival 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

Even Rudolf Serkin, my pianist hero at the time and a magnificent Beethoven player, approached these masterpieces with humility and awe. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

So what meanings do some people believe its director Stanley Kubrick secreted in the frames of his chilling masterpiece? Fans breaking The Shining 'codes' 2012-10-24T08:06:46Z

"We are delighted to be hosting one of the great masterpieces of British art here at National Museum Cardiff," he said. Constable masterpiece goes on show 2014-03-07T07:36:44Z

Bits and Pieces is their masterpiece: an even more hysterical blast of noise, the Glad All Over formula wound up tight and pushed over the edge – "cause night is day and day is night". Pop at the pictures: the Dave Clark Five 2012-12-17T16:25:00Z

"It's a little comic masterpiece," he said "It's a very small story about a few people in impossible situations and a dog running riot through it all." Hay festival 2010: Goodnight Mister Tom voted favourite Puffin of all time 2010-06-04T11:20:00Z

Last week Oprah had the grace to adopt Freedom as one of her book club titles, calling it "a masterpiece". Jonathan Franzen: 'I must be near the end of my career ? people are starting to approve' 2010-09-24T23:03:00Z

How can an opera with as spotty a score as Gounod’s “Faust” be a repertory mainstay, while a masterpiece like “Armide” remains a rarity? Music Review: Gluck?s ?Armide? Opera in Met-Juilliard Production 2012-02-12T15:16:28Z

Thomas Hoving, a Metropolitan Museum of Art curator who later became its director, took particular pride in his ability to outsmart rivals in the global pursuit of masterpieces. For U.S. Museums With Looted Art, the Indiana Jones Era Is Over 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

The result is a masterpiece that, in speaking of its time, offers disquieting relevance to our own. Eisler's 'Hollywood Songbook' comes home, bad mood and all 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

While confidence is high for the so-called "masterpiece market" that includes rare works by established masters like Giacometti, Raphael and Picasso, the contemporary sector may take longer to recover its pre-crisis swagger. 2010-02-04T16:46:00Z

Something odder than a masterpiece, Orson Welles’s “Othello” is at once a credible abridgment of Shakespeare and a jigsaw puzzle that nearly defies comprehension. ‘Othello’: Shakespeare’s Tragedy Was Orson Welles’s Triumph 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

So many little masterpieces were casting sinister shadows. Perspective | Hearing a Michael Jackson song still feels good. Listening has become too painful. 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

But many fear that an accident, or an escalation in the protesters’ tactics, could result in a masterpiece being destroyed. How Do You Tell a Vandal From a Visitor? Art Museums Are Struggling. 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

There is The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, the Oscar-winning masterpiece of frustration and deferral in which a group of friends fails repeatedly to sit down to a meal together. Jean-Claude Carrière: 'If you want fame, don't be a screenwriter' 2012-06-28T20:00:02Z

“With the expansion, now there is space,” he said to The Seattle Times — and added that with so few modernist masterpieces left on the market, his collection was more valuable than ever. Multimillion-dollar art collection, once promised to SAM, now up for auction at Christie’s 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

The program ended with the Balanchine-Stravinsky masterpiece “Symphony in Three Movements,” a powerhouse of a ballet set to music composed during . Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Stravinsky-Balanchine Program 2012-09-29T01:50:08Z

If he hoped to bring a fresh take on a rom-com masterpiece written at the end of the 16th century, he and the audience have to be disappointed. Much Ado About Nothing: Joss Whedon’s House Party 2013-06-07T17:44:37Z

As it will on Friday night, this Chicago-based improv group creates an impromptu Shakespearean masterpiece from the ground up at every performance. 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

And now, for the first time, we’re able to hear “Femenine,” a longing, tender, grandly unruffled 70-minute masterpiece that takes its place at the pinnacle of the Eastman works that have survived. Minimalist Composer Julius Eastman, Dead for 26 Years, Crashes the Canon 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

Whatever new impressions we got about Russian politics and history, though, were dwarfed by the impact of the masterpieces on display in the museums and palaces. Into the Baltic Sea, but out of the Cold: Revisiting Berlin and St. Petersburg 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

But a collection that its accusers claim is entirely inauthentic is in its way a masterpiece of museology. Scandal in China over the museum with 40,000 fake artefacts 2013-07-17T15:49:36Z

“The Long Winter,” in Fraser’s judgment, was “Wilder’s hard-won, mature masterpiece, in which expertise accumulated over a long apprenticeship was paying off.” ‘Little House on the Prairie’ and the Truth About the American West 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

The General is now considered to be Buster Keaton's masterpiece and one of the greatest films of all time. Which film was the best box-office flop? 2013-01-16T15:00:01Z

Scorcese crafted a timeless masterpiece that highlighted how mobsters speak, the way hierarchies  in mob families are formed, and why deception leads to sad goodbyes. 10 Films We See in the Grand Theft Auto Games 2013-09-24T22:17:56Z

If it also saddled Mr. Snow with the weight of an unrepeatable masterpiece, it was a burden he bore lightly. Michael Snow, Prolific and Playful Artistic Polymath, Is Dead at 94 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

Even so, “Jardin” really is a masterpiece by the standards of any art. Dance Review: An Accomplished Premiere, Served Along With Other Flourishes 2011-05-15T22:27:01Z

"They were among the masterpieces of the time," Weintraub said of Whistler's prints. U-M art museum exhibits Whistler prints collection 2010-08-25T18:16:00Z

Still, it conveys information about such subjects as the corrupt Venetian doge for whose tomb the work was commissioned, the accident that befell the masterpiece at the Met and, yes, fig leaves. A Shattered Adam Statue Comes to Life at the Met 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

The Wicker Man was a masterpiece but it struggled to find a home in the landscape of 70s cinema, with which it was bizarrely out of step. Christopher Lee 1922-2015: an appreciation by Mark Kermode 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

Customers sat in awe, just inches away from the masterpiece by Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh steals spotlight in cafe 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

The name of Stanley Kubrick was duly invoked, and the word “masterpiece” sounded like a trumpet through the blogosphere. Film: ?Inception? Criticism Raises Questions for Critics 2010-07-23T22:17:00Z

This work is eclipsed by the two masterpieces that followed, and I’d encountered it previously only on recordings. Familiar with their music and with each other 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

It takes gumption for a composer to write a one-act opera intending it to be paired with “Bluebeard’s Castle,” Bartok’s chilling one-act masterpiece. Review: A Peter Eotvos Premiere and Schubert at the New York Philharmonic 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

On one thing all parties agree: The statue is a masterpiece. Sotheby?s Caught in Dispute Over Prized Cambodian Statue 2012-02-28T20:30:53Z

It is one of the defining works of what is now known as the First School of Fontainebleau, and a recognized masterpiece of the Renaissance in northern Europe. Fontainebleau: A Forgotten Treasure 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

Even the best comedies had a certain weight, but that's only to be expected from plays inspired by Chekhov's genre-blurring masterpieces. The year in theater: Drama reigns in 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

But a fine performance of a masterpiece needs no special pleading, and the veteran pianist Rudolf Buchbinder played the solo part with a sure sense of structure and considerable flair. Music Review: Zubin Mehta, Israel Philharmonic, Collegiate Chorale at Salzburg 2012-07-27T21:23:47Z

It was Gockley and DeMain at Houston Grand Opera in 1982 who were originally responsible for re-creating Kern's original score — long forgotten about in earlier Broadway and Hollywood revivals — and revealing a forgotten groundbreaking masterpiece. 'Show Boat' keeps rollin' along fine style in San Francisco 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Green Light for Experimentalism: Tweaking Conventions and Bending Rules When contemporary artists tamper with time-honored masterpieces, those who object usually cite what they consider a reliably horrifying image: drawing a mustache on the Mona Lisa. Music Review: Green Light for Experimentalism: Tweaking Conventions and Bending Rules 2010-09-21T21:26:00Z

All his hopes turned to what he thought would be his masterpiece: stories about the very rich called “Answered Prayers.” We’re still talking about Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball 50 years later. Here’s why. 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

Mathew Bees was still in high school when he saw Monticello for the first time, but he couldn't help correcting the docent when she misidentified several furnishings on her tour of Thomas Jefferson's masterpiece. Soulful Historic Home 2013-09-05T20:20:33.823Z

Over the years, I have aimed to recreate Rubin's masterpiece in my home kitchen, a mission that becomes harder and harder the more time passes since tasting the original. A 3-ingredient hot chocolate with a buttery secret 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z

Their destinies are entwined with a single work of purloined art that may, or may not, be a masterpiece. Olaf Olafsson, ?Restoration? Author and Time Warner Manager 2012-03-05T16:16:53Z

But the play’s artful, redemptive take on big feelings and small failures, grand ideas and botched gestures, make this a fitting tribute to Chekhov’s masterpiece. A 21st-century “Seagull” 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

The masterpiece is called A Universe Made Of Strings, and while allusions to string theory and parallel dimensions are in order, no-one can deny the sprawling ambition that the group have laboured to achieve. July's best new music from across the MAP 2011-07-18T08:26:00Z

A family photo at last – “what a masterpiece”. Liveright to Publish Nelson Mandela’s Letters From Prison 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

My go-to classic would have to be Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises,” his first novel and I think his best, a masterpiece of understatement and genuinely earned irony and deep vulnerability. Andre Dubus III: By the Book 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Brown's painting Work is a masterpiece of social portrayal, the visual equivalent of a 19th-century novel. Why I've rediscovered Victorian art 2011-08-12T15:42:11Z

But he was most impressive finding the drama in less familiar masterpieces. A Tribute to Bach on His Own Turf: 33 Cantatas in 48 Hours 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

But its real inspirations are Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy, Martin Scorsese’s conjoined masterpieces, each spotlighting the tawdry underside of American celebrity. Joker review – Joaquin Phoenix’s villain has last laugh in twisted tale 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

That Verdi was swept up in building the home while composing “Falstaff” struck the Italian director Damiano Michieletto when he was envisioning a new production of this comic masterpiece for the 2013 Salzburg Festival. Critic’s Notebook: Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-06T21:00:31Z

For next week’s auctions of big-ticket 20th- and 21st-century art in New York, expectations are certainly lower, lots fewer, and masterpieces further between than they were at the last big sales in May. Christie’s and Sotheby’s Face Uncertainty at Fall Auctions 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

“I will continue to work hard not to disgrace this masterpiece,” she told the Japanese press. Nejiko Suwa and Joseph Goebbels’s Gift 2012-09-21T17:36:28Z

Even if the work itself isn't a lost masterpiece, it more than justifies restoration. The Poor Soldier 2010-07-01T20:45:00Z

Even so, compared to The Paperboy, this looks like a masterpiece. Cannes 2012 diary: day nine 2012-05-24T11:33:27Z

Around that time he also saw “Revelations,” the Ailey masterpiece, a moment he often cites as life-changing. Can Dance Make a More Just America? Donald Byrd Is Working on It 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

Michael Haneke's "Amour," described as a masterpiece by critics and pitched to a demographic that fits the Academy well, also found a sweet spot among voters. The Carpetbagger: Director Snubs Point to a Threeway Race: 'Lincoln' vs. 'Playbook' and 'Pi' 2013-01-10T15:00:25Z

These four musicians play, with enormous focus, a masterpiece well worth the time. Classical Playlist: Haydn, Grieg and Morton Feldman 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

This is not to say, the text continues, that I “still can’t enjoy using this instructional book to create masterpieces with other tools and paints.” Review | What is the strange allure of Bob Ross? I painted my way to an answer, sort of. 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

But let’s talk about those after you’ve seen the play, which is one of the biggest hits of the Broadway season, and strikes me as pretty close to a masterpiece of modern popular theater. Aaron Sorkin read Breitbart for inspiration as he wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird" script 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

At the cross-fade of the millennium, it sounded perfect – a radical masterpiece, on the side of the dispossessed and immigrants, that united, irresistibly, a European and South American perspective. Clandestino: the story of Manu Chao's classic album 2013-05-09T17:33:05Z

While the work was inspired by those Italian Baroque masterpieces, Mr. Grashow’s creation was not carved from marble; instead, it was built entirely of cardboard. | Ridgefield: ?James Grashow: Corrugated Fountain,? in Ridgefield 2012-03-31T04:30:54Z

View more Latin American masterpieces highlighted in the exhibition. The Best of Latin American Architecture 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Perhaps this is a useful way of concealing the patchiness of Tate Britain's historic holdings; Mr and Mrs Andrews, The Shrimp Girl, Whistlejacket, Rain, Steam and Speed: so many masterpieces are at the National Gallery. Walk Through British Art – review 2013-05-18T14:59:01Z

Maybe I can start by saying that this the masterpiece Todd Haynes has been working toward, after a series of admirably crafted films that have all felt a touch too mannered or detached. “Carol” isn’t just a “lesbian movie”: Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara’s ’50s love story is a classic American screen romance 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

The film’s eponymous star, Kirk Douglas, had teamed with Kubrick a few years earlier, in 1957, on one of the most powerful anti-war movies ever made — the lean masterpiece, Paths of Glory. Spartacus: Behind the Scenes Photos From a Stanley Kubrick Classic 2012-03-07T16:15:17Z

Only one of the 8,000 works in the Rijksmuseum's collection returns to its original display position: Rembrandt's "The Night Watch," widely considered his greatest masterpiece. Netherlands' Rijksmuseum opens to the public 2013-04-13T11:17:09Z

It was the 1990s, in the Chilean city of Concepción, and prevailing Catholic propriety prevented certain art-house masterpieces from showing at “proper” theaters due to their racy sex scenes. The last (porn) picture shows: Once dotted with dozens of adults cinemas, L.A. now only has two 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

"The Casual Vacancy is no masterpiece, but it's not bad at all: intelligent, workmanlike, and often funny," said Theo Tait in the Guardian newspaper. Rowling's adult novel lacks magic, some critics say 2012-09-27T10:54:26Z

There, as her mother brazenly compares and contrasts the painting to Rococo masterpieces on the walls, Annie meets an adorable guide and struggling artist, Jesse. Review: In ‘The Improbability of Love’ by Hannah Rothschild, an Art-World Caper 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

Short link for this page: http://gu.com/p/39hja This is a masterpiece of war art. The art of war: the Bayeux Tapestry records the most important battle on British soil 2012-08-07T11:42:30Z

She also was familiar with Museum of Modern Art's Picasso holdings, including masterpieces that, she says, offer many Americans "their first crystallized image of Picasso." SAM snagged a show that is big for art lovers, could be big boost for museum 2010-10-03T02:07:00Z

The episode is a masterpiece, at turns haunting and laugh-out-loud funny, with incisive commentary on internalized racism, fame and the scars of childhood. The 10 best TV episodes of 2018, from ‘Atlanta’ to ‘This Is Us’ 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

In the first two cases, these are at least masterpieces. Royal Academy's Mexican revolution misses the bigger picture 2013-07-09T16:43:38Z

More than that, these are two intricate, tragic masterpieces. Dance Review: Mark Morris Presents Purcell and Britten at Tanglewood 2013-08-01T21:50:31Z

Yet opera lovers routinely avoid new works for just this reason: They’re not going to be on a par with the masterpieces that still make up the bulk of the operatic canon. Opera as lively art — or not-so-lively 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

She views this basic stitch similarly to strokes on a painting — simple brush patterns that ultimately comprise a masterpiece. Fiber artist brings her sense of 'Funk' to Seattle 2011-12-27T19:17:32Z

He kicks off the satisfying second track on the 1991 masterpiece “The Low End Theory” with the immortal “Yo! Microphone check, one two what is this? / The five-foot assassin with the roughneck business.” Phife Dawg: Farewell to the Five-Foot Assassin With the Roughneck Business 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Eighteen years later, I still wonder whether what I saw that night was a masterpiece or a masterly effort to con an eager reporter. Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist: 25 Years of Theories 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

As a solo artist, Saadiq has long been a master without a masterpiece for consensus to point to. Raphael Saadiq Finally Put His Past on the Record 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

“I felt sincere about selling this masterpiece,” O’Donnell said in a recent interview. Is this a real Jackson Pollock? L.A. power lawyer sues over potential $100-million mystery 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Once people started recognizing “Tusk” as the enduring masterpiece that it is, it began to serve as a gateway for evaluating Fleetwood Mac from another perspective. The genius of “Tusk”: Fleetwood Mac could have followed “Rumours” with more of the same — but they made this visionary masterpiece instead 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

That's what A Place in the Sun started, and it is still her authentic masterpiece, the most iconographic thing she ever did. Elizabeth Taylor: let the story melt away and just gaze 2011-03-24T13:00:00Z

Over the past year, the National Gallery’s curators searched worldwide for paintings and sculptures to replace the 15 masterpieces that had been expected from Russia. A Blockbuster Exhibition, Ripped in Two by Russia’s War 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

While tourists moon over masterpieces, local churchgoers and visiting pilgrims worship her. An Art of Faith, Facts and Miracles 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

The book’s thesis maintains that the world’s masterpieces are the upscale equivalent of the posters and photographs with which children decorate their bedrooms. Masterpiece Theater: A Tale of Dueling Art Books for Kids 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

Umbrella was an unadulterated masterpiece in every way; everything since has been so terrible it's almost fascinating. Rob Delaney's new releases review 2013-04-22T05:00:00Z

Written at a critical point in the careers of both men, it refers to dreams of founding a utopian community of brother artists, of a new artistic renaissance, and of paintings now recognised as masterpieces. Van Gogh and Gauguin letter tells of artistic hopes that turned sour 2012-11-23T18:12:13Z

Some compared making noise during concerts to splattering paint on a masterpiece canvas. Cheers and Claps at Classical Performances 2012-06-08T21:33:37Z

At one point, Dr. Bruckner, the hypnotist-psychiatrist has this to say: “What a masterpiece of perversity a woman is. … Oh, God! Why did you not make women first, when you were fresh?” I Love Performing Those Songs. But What About the Gender Politics? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

One hundred years old this year, Stravinsky’s masterpiece, in any form, still is an invigorating challenge. Seattle Chamber Music Society summer fest ends on high note 2013-07-27T21:19:21Z

That album nonetheless reached No. 18 on the British charts, and is now widely regarded as a post-punk masterpiece. Keith Levene, Public Image Ltd.’s Buzz-Saw Guitarist, Dies at 65 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

But how authentic are those "masterpieces" that sell for millions? Spilling the soup on Andy Warhol's legacy 2013-07-24T15:28:48Z

While the museum had previously deaccessioned works, in this case, “Baltimore was selling masterpieces,” Arnold Lehman, a former director of both the Baltimore museum and the Brooklyn Museum, said at the time. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Names New Director 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

The Wallace Collection happens to own his masterpiece. All masterpieces great and small: get lost in the Wallace Collection 2011-01-17T13:32:07Z

But his painted oeuvre is now only familiar to scholars of Italian art, partly because his masterpieces are tucked away in rarely visited locations. Auctions: Bring on the Old Masters 2011-02-04T12:00:05Z

“The Conduct of Life,” one of Fornés’ compact masterpieces, was selected. In 'The Conduct of Life,' witness an American classic that's more often taught than staged 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

This is not an unusual project for a museum whose permanent collection includes, as well as El Greco's View of Toledo, such modern American masterpieces as White Flag by Jasper Johns. Modern masters: can contemporary art mix with ancient treasures? 2012-10-01T15:03:01Z

A collector’s desire to create a proper setting not only for his masterpieces but also for the artists who would be guests in his home. Preserving a Finnish Design Masterpiece in France 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

The first films by the Lumière brothers in 1890s were novelties, not cinematic masterpieces; it amazed people to see images moving at all. Give this AI a few words of description and it produces a stunning image – but is it art? 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

“There is no tyranny,” Robert Hughes wrote in 1990, “like the tyranny of the unseen masterpiece.” A Biography of a Blues Legend, Five Decades in the Making 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

For the final touch, we sprinkled our masterpiece with ultrafine edible glitter. And Nobody Noticed It Was a Fake Cake 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

"I hope it establishes itself as a masterpiece like The Lamb has done and The Protecting Veil and all his other great achievements," he says. Proms unveils new Tavener works 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

The music is by Matt Conner, whose nose for macabre 19th-century masterpieces has already led him to tackle Edgar Allan Poe and Washington Irving in Signature’s “Nevermore” and “The Hollow.” Adapting to the times: Mexican lovers, Irish terrorists and James’s ghosts 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

Re-evaluated in later years, the film is now considered by many critics to be a masterpiece of the horror genre. Karlheinz Böhm, Actor Who Led Ethiopian Charity, Dies at 86 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Controversial and frequently banned, Ken Russell's masterpiece is very difficult to find in its unedited form. Clip joint: nuns 2012-11-14T15:27:04Z

But in this brilliantly coloured Victorian masterpiece, true work is sweatily physical. Chapman brothers, Von Ribbentrop and Damien Hirst ? the week in art 2011-07-15T08:39:21Z

His Portrait of a Man is a masterpiece, a symphony of blacks and greys. The Magnificent Collections of the Prince of Liechtenstein - review 2011-08-02T13:01:56Z

Critics declare it a masterpiece while sharing strangely similar stories of first encountering it in youth with confused irritation. A Modern Classic Addresses Elemental Questions About Love and Power 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

He also felt squeamish about taking credit for his role in the creation of some of the 20th century’s enduring literary masterpieces. Robert Gottlieb: Avid Reader, Reluctant Writer 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

The Virgin annunciate, usually overshadowed by the altarpiece’s more colorful panels, appears here as a stand-alone masterpiece. Jan Van Eyck’s Diamond-Hard Brilliance, as You’ll Never See It Again 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Harry Bicket and the English Concert are annual visitors to Carnegie Hall, and their series of Handel masterpieces is a continuing revelation. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

The interviews are performance art masterpieces, so filled with colorful language and astute reporting that he trended on Twitter and was the subject of Internet memes and an Auto-tuned song. Charles Ramsey's turbulent 15 minutes of fame 2013-05-08T20:21:10Z

After completing “Reflections,” Mann returned to his “Death in Venice” companion novella, which grew into his gargantuan masterpiece, “The Magic Mountain.” Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

He filled the palace with ancient sculptures excavated from various archaeological sites in Rome, especially the Baths of Caracalla, and his heirs continued to embellish it with ancient and contemporary masterpieces. In Transit: With New Show, Rare View of Rome's Palazzo Farnese 2010-12-29T11:00:54Z

In “Plunder: Napoleon’s Theft of Veronese’s Feast,” Cynthia Saltzman, the author of two previous books about art, exposes the rich contradictions of the 1796 Italian campaign through the story of a prized Venetian masterpiece. How Napoleon Became One of History’s Most Rapacious Art Looters 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

"This is indisputably Chagall's early masterpiece," said curator Michael Taylor. Philly exhibit looks at Chagall's life in Paris 2011-02-26T19:01:04Z

Reissued on CD, it has found a permanent home on the Chandos label, along with nearly 60 other English-language recordings of operatic masterpieces. Peter Moores and His Campaign for Opera in English 2010-08-22T01:53:00Z

Here is a gifted actor unspoiled by proximity to fame who kept plugging away and stamped his authority in Kenneth Lonergan’s brooding masterpiece. Sexual harassment claims could have sunk Casey Affleck. Instead, he soared 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

With the release on Netflix of Welles’s long-unfinished “The Other Side of the Wind” next week, now is a great time to revisit Welles’s best-known masterpiece. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Heathers’ and ‘Citizen Kane’ 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

He continues: “Actually, your paper is a masterpiece compared to the New York Times.” Mel Gibson proves a tad touchy on his ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ comeback tour 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Blank, who died in 2011, despaired that his jangly ode to the strange and the soulful, the funky and the faithful, was his unseen masterpiece. Les Blank's 1974 'A Poem' documentary focuses on soulful, eccentric Leon Russell 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Because the score is truly timeless, a masterpiece of musical cohesion — it’s virtually all in ¾ time — and lyrical invention . Review | Signature opens season with ‘A Little Night Music,’ one of Sondheim’s precious gems 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

He also stopped by the area in 2014 as part of his elongated arena tour in tribute to “Songs in the Key of Life,” his 1976 album that stands as one of his many masterpieces. Review | Even a sad Stevie Wonder concert is one of the happiest ways to spend an evening 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

“We have a great masterpiece by Artemisia’s father, Orazio Gentileschi, but none by her, so this was a real gap. And that it was a self-portrait also added to the importance of the story.” Inside Art: Works From Scotland Set to Tour America 2014-03-27T20:46:02Z

It is now widely regarded as a masterpiece of 20th-century American theater. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

“Imperial Twilight” is a masterpiece of the “If Only” school of history, which holds out the tantalizing prospect of a world that, with the right choices, could be made perfect. The Opium War and the Humiliation of China 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

“Careless People,” though, is at its best when addressing “The Great Gatsby,” that wistful masterpiece whose faint music irresistibly wafts through these pages. ‘Careless People’: the true story that inspired ‘Gatsby’ 2014-02-05T21:18:30Z

Where is the possessed, wild-eyed, crackpot female answer to Beethoven, who battled on throught deafness, loneliness, financial worry and disease to create timeless masterpieces? Notes from the musical margins 2011-03-13T00:04:00Z

“How can that be any less than this masterpiece by Michelangelo?” he says. Can Jeff Koons Teach Me to Paint? 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z

It happened last year with Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life – hailed as a masterpiece by some, derided as pretentious rubbish by others. Holy Motors: love it or hate it, Cannes cognoscenti can't stop talking about it 2012-05-23T17:01:28Z

Director of music, Stephen Cleobury, recognises that no centre of excellence can afford to be complacent and is excited at the prospect of recording more adventurous repertoire while taking a fresh look at established masterpieces. Choir of King's College; Exaudi; Tallis Scholars – review 2012-10-27T23:17:28Z

Bigelow, who is wearing a black top and jeans, is almost 6ft tall, gracefully angular, still the only woman to win an Oscar as best director, for her Iraq war masterpiece The Hurt Locker. Kathryn Bigelow on Detroit: ‘There’s a radical desire not to face the reality of race’ 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

Still, concert presenters worship but one "Messiah," leaving too many of the remaining two dozen oratorios neglected masterpieces. L.A. Master Chorale's 'Alexander's Feast' is a treat for the ears and eyes 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

That said, Booster's masterpiece also ran on a streaming service that doesn't release its ratings, leaving us without a financial metric by which we can measure its audience's popularity. The promotion for "Bros" was botched. But its ordinary rom-com trappings may also be to blame 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

Kubrick’s masterpieces include his first world war classic, Paths of Glory, one of cinema’s most powerful anti-war movies, and his Roman epic, Spartacus, both of which starred Kirk Douglas. Newly found Stanley Kubrick script ideas focus on marital strife 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

Both presentations of Kubrick’s masterpiece include a major bonus: appearances by Douglas Trumbull, the special-effects genius, technical innovator and occasional director. Otherworldly film fun at Cinerama sci-fi fest 2014-04-25T23:42:29Z

There’s a serenity inside the National Gallery of Art, where sun-dappled marble halls connect formal galleries and visitors enjoy masterpieces by Rembrandt, Cézanne, Picasso and Pollock under the watchful gaze of uniformed guards. Guards at National Gallery of Art complain of hostile environment 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

While clearly the work of the director of Days of Heaven, the pastoral tragedy that remains his masterpiece, is a rambling disappointment with wonderful moments, mostly visual. To the Wonder – review 2013-02-24T00:05:30Z

“Suicide Squad,” 2016, 25 percent rotten This movie is no masterpiece, but it deserves much better than the critical trouncing it got. 26 films Rotten Tomatoes got 100% wrong 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

She was born in New York in 1922 and would say that Charlie Chaplin’s silent masterpiece “The Gold Rush” was her first and most vivid film memory. Film Critic Judith Crist Dies at 90 2012-08-07T22:17:28Z

These films’ studious reverence for Scorsese’s mid-period masterpiece and the cinematic lineage from which it sprang has stunted this micro-genre’s growth. Gotti, Escobar, Manson: Hollywood's problem with real-life criminals 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Long in the news, the five-panel painting is the final, most complex, severely damaged masterpiece in the flood to be restored. After the Florence Flood: Saving Vasari’s ‘Last Supper’ 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Francis Ford Coppola is a lion of the American new wave and his 1974 masterpiece, The Godfather Part II, has some claim to be his greatest work. Greatest Oscar winners ever: who is the best director of all time? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

But it is based on author Amos Kenan’s miniature masterpiece of the same name, a surrealist, nightmarish odyssey set in a near-future Israel that ends with a grand science fictional twist. Review | Let’s talk about ‘Starship Troopers’ and other science fiction and fantasy novels that wowed us on screen 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

The fashion world also was on hand for an exclusive tour of an exhibit of masterpieces from the Picasso Museum in Paris on display at the Palazzo Reale. Milan runway not all black and white 2012-09-21T20:26:11Z

It was the first album I ever bought, but forever remains my favourite; a timeless masterpiece. Now listening: reader playlist 2012-06-13T12:09:00Z

For the next 1,800 years, “The Aeneid” was generally viewed as the preeminent masterpiece of the Western literary tradition. Virgil’s ‘The Aeneid’ still looks strikingly contemporary 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

Perfect replicas of masterpieces would become universally accessible; every Van Gogh and Velázquez might soon be worthless. Jacqueline Humphries’s Digital Paintings, Aglow in the Dark 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Not every project created here is a masterpiece. Review: The D.I.Y. Joys of ‘Making It’ 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

Stoppenbach & Delestre brought over from London some small masterpieces that would cause a sensation if more famous names were attached to them. A Gathering of Treasures 2010-09-17T18:00:00Z

The playing was often thrilling – Sanchez's first drum solo was a technical and dramatic masterpiece – but the ensemble sound was often remorselessly dense, and some of the themes lacked staying power. Pat Metheny Unity Band – review 2012-07-10T17:00:01Z

The building opened in 1958 and was immediately hailed as a minimalist architectural masterpiece. Elaine Lustig Cohen, Designer Who Left Her Mark Everywhere, Dies at 89 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

This innovative website, sponsored by Tate, is a virtual research centre, where you negotiate what looks like a warehouse laid out with clues and evidence of vanished masterpieces of modern art. Now you see them: the eternal allure of lost art 2012-07-01T18:31:01Z

First and foremost, “The Green Fog” is a marvel of film scholarship that looks backward and forward from the Hitchcock masterpiece. Review: ‘The Green Fog,’ a Salute to Hitchcock’s San Francisco 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Frustrations aside, the book contains a number of contemporary masterpieces. From Nudes to the Nervous System, Studies of the Human Body 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

What mattered to Paik was not the creation of stand-alone masterpieces, but the establishment of better, fresher, more democratic modes of communication. Standing Up for Humanity in a World of Screens 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

A window that always looks out on a single idyllic moment brings to mind Bob Shaw’s heartbreaking masterpiece “Light of Other Days.” Book review: Kelly Link’s fantastic, fantastical ‘Get in Trouble’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

An exhibition of drawings by Michelangelo, ranging from early sketches to drafts masterpieces such as The Last Judgment fresco in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, opens this week in Vienna. Michelangelo drawings on display in Vienna 2010-10-06T14:24:00Z

I tell him some insist it’s a masterpiece. The man behind the Razzies: 'Brian de Palma had no talent' 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

A track from the band’s deflated funk masterpiece “There’s a Riot Goin’ On,” from 1971, it was a reminder of a previous generation’s moment of crisis, one that resounds into our present. “The Brave and Strong Survive, Child” 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

In 2001, after Unesco declared Kunqu opera a masterpiece of the world’s intangible heritage, the Chinese government offered more financial support, and audiences slowly came back. ?The Peony Pavilion? Gets Modern Touches in China 2010-08-17T22:56:00Z

In Britain, activists have attached themselves to about half-a-dozen masterpieces including John Constable’s “The Hay Wain.” Climate Protesters Throw Soup Over van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

During his tenure, Penny oversaw the acquisition of two Titian masterpieces, which were saved for the nation, and enjoyed record visitor numbers. National Gallery director to retire 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

JR: His masterpiece 8½ had already been filmed. Jonathan Ross meets Jim Steranko, his comic-book hero 2010-07-20T23:10:00Z

He would approach every film, whether a masterpiece of world cinema or the latest Hollywood abomination, with the same acuity. Roger Ebert obituary 2013-04-04T21:17:32Z

"It's everyone's dream to spot a hidden masterpiece. To discover a genuine Van Dyck is incredibly exciting," she said. British TV show uncovers lost Van Dyck masterpiece 2013-12-29T16:26:20Z

His masterpiece was probably the Bell System’s Model 500 telephone. Design That’s Got Users in Mind 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

“Oz the Great and Powerful” isn’t a masterpiece for the ages, but an agreeable family film that pleasantly reminds us of something greater — of a land that we heard of, once in a lullaby. ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ returns over the rainbow 2013-03-07T14:04:36Z

With the click of a mouse, you can hop back and forth between the virtual Sistine Chapel ceiling and the Raphael Stanze and decide for yourself which is the greater masterpiece. In the Virtual (and Actual) Footsteps of Raphael 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

Perhaps Mr. Taylor was talking about “Orbs,” his 1966 masterpiece set to late Beethoven quartets that was revived during the Paul Taylor Dance Company’s City Center season that concluded Sunday. Critic?s Notebook: In the Mysteries of Everyday Movement, Multilevel Stories 2011-03-06T22:56:33Z

Orwell’s own account of the action is in chapter 7 of Homage to Catalonia and is a masterpiece. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z

“Five or six of these essays are obvious masterpieces of the form, their sting utterly intact,” our critic Dwight Garner writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

Her beautiful, highly wrought golden crown from the tomb is, said Kottaridi, "one of the masterpieces of the exhibition". Alexander the Great exhibition to give insight into man who conquered world 2011-02-02T20:10:53Z

All I know for certain is that ‘Go Set a Watchman’ is kind of a mess that will forever change the way we read a masterpiece.” What the critics are saying about Harper Lee's 'Go Set A Watchman' 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Stepping inside St. Joseph’s Church, I’m astounded by the echoing enormity of this modern masterpiece, with its structural skeleton proudly visible — as Perret insisted it be. ‘Once visitors arrive, it’s easy to seduce them’: Le Havre celebrates its 500th year 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

"What could have been a tricky photograph really becomes a masterpiece of 20s photography," says Robert Dance. In pictures 2011-07-07T10:06:15Z

Rattle’s view of these elusive, often-dour masterpieces is quite similar between the two sets; if you like it, you’ll be happy with either. CD review: Rattle’s second Sibelius is opulent package of dour masterpieces 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Not because any one work proves to be a masterpiece but because a real sense of collective creative energy and innovation permeated the enterprise. Dance Review: ‘Metamorphosis Titian 2012’ at the Royal Ballet 2012-07-16T21:26:23Z

Caught in the rushing currents of this drama, you know you’re reading a little masterpiece. Sleeping giant Colum McCann awakens with new collection 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

Calling the movie a “late-blooming masterpiece,” the critic Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote that it proved Mr. Hopper to be an “heir to the cinema of Nicholas Ray.” 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

First published in English in 1957, this story of a slave surviving the violence of the Haitian revolution is considered a masterpiece of Caribbean literature and a stunning early example of magical realism. New & Noteworthy 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

His fellow League party member Lucia Borgonzoni — then, and still now, Italy’s deputy culture minister — fought sending Leonardo da Vinci masterpieces to France for a major Louvre retrospective. A Trick of the Eye Turns a Luxurious Embassy Inside Out 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

The event was a culmination of support for what some consider an unfairly treated masterpiece. A moment to celebrate for Lonergan and 'Margaret' 2012-07-10T18:24:15Z

On his own, then, Wright’s output ranged from “gruesome/lugubrious/coercive,” in the words of one eminent critic, to a handful of jaw-dropping masterpieces. Frank Lloyd Wright: Separating the Life From the Work 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

"I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic strip novel masterpiece," he told his audience. Why graphic novels are more than picture perfect 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z

“And it’s fitting for him to lead our homecoming to the hall he helped build, reopening just as it opened 40 years ago: with his own orchestration of a Bach masterpiece.” ArtsBeat: Minnesota Orchestra Announces First Concert After Lockout 2014-01-17T21:07:02Z

If an actor accidentally forgets to call Shakespeare's malevolent masterpiece "the Scottish play," an elaborate ritual is required to prevent all hell from breaking loose. 'Macbeth' succeeds in avoiding its onstage curse when it's on-screen 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

But instead of selling his counterfeits, he assumed the role of a philanthropist, sometimes disguising himself as a priest, and donated his fake masterpieces to unsuspecting museums. The Art Forger Who Wasn't in It for Money 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

That has led to fears that masterpieces will disappear from public view to adorn the living room walls of a Saudi prince or hedge-fund billionaire. Seeing a Cash Cow in Museums’ Precious Art 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

These museums now provide high-definition pictures not only of their prized masterpieces, but of the strange and revealing outliers that were once shut up in storage. Now Virtual and in Video, Museum Websites Shake Off the Dust 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

For him to have ventured forth late in life from his literary safe haven to write “The Leopard” is a story as improbable — and at times fascinating — as the historical paradoxes of his masterpiece. How a Dying Man Wrote a Timeless Novel 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Also the Dr. Seuss books which I consider masterpieces. Isaac Mizrahi: By the Book 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

James’s masterpiece of slowly mounting terror, here performed by Robert Lloyd Parry. Review | Stories that are strange, fantastical — and utterly engrossing 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

The interplay of history and fiction has been a rich source of literary masterpieces, but here fable and history are often at sixes and sevens. The House of the Mosque by Kader Abdolah | Book review 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z

Recalling the works – Mozart's opera The Magic Flute and Stravinsky's choral-orchestral masterpiece, Canticum Sacrum – transports him back to his childhood, a place of energy and enthusiasm. John Tavener: 'The days of seven-hour pieces are gone' 2013-07-01T18:00:01Z

“Electric Ladyland” is the masterpiece in my opinion, while the first two were more oriented to get Jimi on the radio in the U.K. with singles. An introduction to Jimi Hendrix, Seattle’s own international music icon, through books, movies and music 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

“Many of these masterpieces were not particularly valued at the time they were made,” he explained. Inside Art: The Morgan Creates a Drawing Institute 2011-06-23T20:17:02Z

A comic masterpiece that's also deeply serious and perceptive about the mad military mindset of those times, Dr Strangelove's genius endures even as we bury the weapons we once feared so much. Dr Strangelove: No 6 2010-10-18T10:48:00Z

At any rate, On the Waterfront is an operatic masterpiece. What is the best Oscar-winning film of all time? 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

If it can't compete with these dramatic masterpieces, well, nothing written in the last 100 years can. Ghost of Anton Chekhov inhabits 'The Country House' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

“That is like throwing away 85 years of the art, when masterpiece after masterpiece were being made.” Raging Bull, Cape Fear, Goodfellas… the woman behind Scorsese’s classics 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

Social inequality may be returning, but that doesn’t mean that the masterpieces will follow. A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

“If we don’t stop the harm caused by burning fossil fuels there will be no one to look at the masterpieces,” she said. Climate Protester Glues His Head to ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’ Painting 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

But, beyond question, Fitzgerald would have been delighted at the adulation his masterpiece has long inspired. What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z

I am happy to announce that I just won this masterpiece. Seattle Art Museum will show Basquiat painting that recently sold for $110.5 million 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

We are dealing with masterpieces here, old-fashioned classics, filled with passion and pathos. Elena Ferrante May Be the Finest Author You've Never Heard Of 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Crystal Castles' live show is a masterpiece of dark beauty. Crystal Castles sparkle with or without The Brain 2010-05-21T23:09:00Z

The nightmare vision he came up with is of a “masterpiece” covered by a mirror. Trimpin’s high-tech whimsy takes over Seattle’s Winston Wächter 2013-01-24T23:04:28Z

They come shuffling up the marble stairwells in search of a masterpiece to keep them going. Venice film festival: thunder clouds and silver linings 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

She returned to art in her eighties, and now she is making one masterpiece after another. Two Iranian Artists and the Revolution 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

Well, as far as being "bigger than 'The Sopranos'" — plenty of television shows had higher ratings than David Chase's masterpiece. 'Game of Thrones' writers on season finale and why 'All Men Must Die' 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

This is a masterpiece of direction, nothing too flashy but everything true, right — for these characters, under these circumstances. ‘Vengeance Is Mine’ Review: A Tangled Web of Human Impulse 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

The Guardian newspaper's reviewer, Theo Tait, said it was "no masterpiece, but it's not bad at all: intelligent, workmanlike, and often funny." Rowling's first novel for adults goes on sale 2012-09-27T14:38:08Z

“We met this masterpiece and fell in love with it,” says Perrault. A French Modernist Masterpiece, Lost and Found 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

Standing in front of it, I wondered whether knowing — or at the very least, believing — that this was the place where Vermeer painted one of his greatest masterpieces made me feel closer to him. In Vermeer’s Hometown, Seeking Clues to His Interior Life 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Closing every show is Alvin Ailey's masterpiece “Revelations,” which, coincidentally, premiered 47 years ago too. What makes Alvin Ailey's 'Revelations' an American dance classic? 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

I could have chosen any number of cinema vérité masterpieces but for some reason this moves me. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

In a glowing review in The Financial Times, the novelist and critic Charlotte Mendelson called it something close to a masterpiece. ‘The Paying Guests,’ by Sarah Waters, Looks at 1920s Britain 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Walking Wounded, a masterpiece of dance-savvy melancholia, became their biggest-selling album, leading to Watt's current career as a DJ, promoter and label boss. Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt: Everything but the grief 2010-05-26T20:45:00Z

A Baroque masterpiece , missing for more than a century, is hiding in L.A. After Guggenheim removes animal-related pieces from 'Art and China,' what's left? More questions 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

The title story, a near masterpiece, is told from the perspective of a woman who cleans houses, including those of her friends, to survive after her husband has died. Review: ‘A Manual for Cleaning Women,’ Lucia Berlin’s Soul-Baring Stories 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Even so, the masterpiece climbed to $872,500, two and a half times the high estimate. Auctions: Roman History Leaves a Trail, and Fascination Follows 2011-06-17T11:30:06Z

“Twentieth-century masterpieces are in demand, and the Christie’s auction was lacking this kind of material,” said Patrick Legant, an art adviser based in London. Two Views of Cubism 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

And had "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" ended there, Kaufman's film might have been a masterpiece. Charlie Kaufman's exasperating "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" could've been a masterpiece 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Maybe the same stuff with which the bartenders are spiking the rotgut in George C. Wolfe’s current Broadway revival of “The Iceman Cometh,” another lugubrious O’Neill masterpiece. Review: Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville Lead a Hard-Run ‘Long Day’s Journey’ 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z

Full of insecurities about her career and life, Arden Scott stars in Bazzetti’s silly lost “masterpiece” about a slave girl who saves Pompeii. 'Great Scott,' an opera about opera, shows what makes Jake Heggie so popular 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

For years, unsightly scaffolding obscured the Milan Cathedral; now that most of it has been dismantled, the newly scrubbed Gothic masterpiece, also known as the Duomo, is worth a fresh look. The 41 Places to Go in 2011 2011-01-07T21:03:56Z

Not a modern masterpiece, sadly for Ellory, but certainly an enjoyable summer read. The Devil and the River by RJ Ellory – review 2013-06-02T08:00:02Z

His essay “Shiny Balls of Mud,” a brief, evocative masterpiece that originally ran in Tate Magazine in 2002, and is collected in “Distrust that Particular Flavor,” from 2012, hints at a possibility. William Gibson’s Man-Made Future 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

He’s composing a new tune, and time spent with a trifling drinking buddy threatens to distract him from this potential masterpiece. ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ Review: Giving Your Friend the Finger 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

Culled from hundreds of hours of locally shot footage, Feras Fayyad’s masterpiece tells the story of the four-year Aleppo siege through the volunteers who, raid after raid, pulled bodies from the wreckage. Shooting Syria: documentaries from the most dangerous place on earth 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

Although it is too early to do so, one is tempted to acclaim it a masterpiece. Canada by Richard Ford - review 2012-05-25T09:00:01Z

Rolling Stone Australia hailed McKee's debut solo album, Burning Boy, as "a near masterpiece". New band of the day (Joe McKee No 1,535) 2013-06-18T15:41:50Z

It's modelled on Ayn Rand and is sure to be heralded as a masterpiece by his huge, devoted fanbase and decried by just about everyone else. What's happened to political fiction? 2010-05-06T09:57:00Z

The tenacious troupe that bears her name celebrates its 90th anniversary with three programs mixing its founder’s masterpieces with new works by contemporary choreographers. Dance Listings for April 8-14 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Read together, they form a particular kind of masterpiece, one that helps fill a particular kind of void. Beyond the Cruel Facts of Her Life Are Truths That Cut Deep 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

The Metropolitan Opera’s production of “La Bohème,” Puccini’s masterpiece of emotional manipulation, is like any institution: it transcends the people, good or bad, who move through it. Zeffirelli’s ‘La Bohème’ Resumes at the Met 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

The enjoyment and understanding of music a dominated in a most curious way by the prestige of the masterpiece. Virgil Thomson’s Enduring Critique of Classical Music in America 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Particularly stunning to us: a Dutch collection with 21 Rembrandt masterpieces, and Italian statuary rivaling anything we’d seen at the Vatican museum. Into the Baltic Sea, but out of the Cold: Revisiting Berlin and St. Petersburg 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

It's getting an entire wall to itself in Pasadena as part of a 19th century masterpiece swap with the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. At Norton Simon, a delicate 'Tete-a-Tete' with Whistler, other masters 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Some canceled performances of Russian masterpieces, including by Tchaikovsky. A Year Into War, Russian Artists Still Must Navigate a Tricky Path 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

The male nude is one of only 24 sheets relating to The Battle of Cascina, an uncompleted work described by the auction house as "one of the greatest Western masterpieces that never was". Rare Michelangelo to go on sale 2011-06-01T11:35:27Z

Like all this pianist’s recording projects, “Fantasia” is daringly yet elegantly programmed: Eight works from across some 200 years, with four meaty masterpieces each set alongside a smaller companion. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z

Not every notorious filmmaking folly turns out to be a misunderstood masterpiece, but the possibility of such an outcome haunts the discourse of box office tea-leaf reading and cinematic schadenfreude. Cross-Cuts: Reconsidering Box Office Bombs Years After the Fact 2013-08-23T12:44:45Z

It proves again that publishing can be surprising, and that masterpieces can still sell to the many. The publishing year 2012 2012-12-21T22:55:02Z

It was described by one critic as "a sensitive and beautifully crafted masterpiece". Louis Marks obituary 2010-10-07T17:24:00Z

Schumann’s score is one of the masterpieces of Romantic music; Cameron Grant plays it onstage with complete authority. City Ballet Revives ‘Davidsbündlertänze’ and ‘Union Jack’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

But of course one person’s insipid junk — whether books, movies, TV shows or games — is another’s masterpiece. Critic?s Notebook: The Court Has Ruled; Now Games Have a Duty 2011-06-28T22:04:38Z

And there’s no undiscovered masterpiece; “Western Road,” a previously unreleased song, is just a blues pastiche. How Pop and Jazz Revisited the Past in 13 Boxed Sets 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

The Library of America recently published “The Street” in one volume along with Petry’s 1953 masterpiece, “The Narrows,” and a sampling of her critical writing. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

One astounding result is "Huck and Jim," a monumental new work based on Mark Twain's literary masterpiece. Charles Ray's sculptures cast a forceful modern eye on antiquity 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Roger Wright does not claim the Gothic is a masterpiece, but he is eager for the present generation of music-lovers to experience it. The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z

His masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, is a modest book. Natural selection: give me Darwin over Dawkins any day 2010-09-07T11:43:00Z

We’re sometimes led to think that musical masterpieces of the past fit partly into molds: sonata form, symphony, concerto. Wachner, Washington Chorus give powerful performance of ungainly ‘Missa Solemnis’

In New York, buyers of some of the dozens of multimillion-dollar fakes sold through the Knoedler & Company gallery, now shuttered, have filed lawsuits, complaining that their vaunted Modern masterpieces are now “worthless.” So Valuable, It Could Almost Be Real 2013-12-31T23:14:12Z

Click here to tour one of America’s residential masterpieces. An Insider’s Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

The central temple towers above, a double-roofed masterpiece of unrestrained creativity. My Return to Nepal, in Memoriam 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Based on Schiller's play and here performed in the Italian version, Verdi's much revised masterpiece demands world-class singers at the peak of their powers. Don Carlo; Gods and Heroes – review 2013-05-11T23:07:35Z

The show also allows the masterpieces to be seen by more people. Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel masterpieces beamed to Rome theater 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

In “Public Housing,” the focus on poverty recalls Wiseman’s masterpiece “Welfare.” Need an Essential Chronicler of America? Try This Nonfiction Master 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

But “Slav Epic” is widely seen as Mucha’s masterpiece, and its insurance value is at least 10.8 million euros, or roughly $11 million at current exchange rates, the Czech news media reported in September. Czech Artist’s Grandson Sues to Block Loan of Works to Tokyo 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

She is so focused on her subject, so strong in gesture, that she looks entirely capable of painting a masterpiece. This House; Scenes from an Execution; Damned by Despair – review 2012-10-13T23:06:27Z

"All that is put online helps promoting the knowledge of great masterpieces like those in the Uffizi," Resca, the Culture Ministry official, said Friday in an interview. Just a click away: Italian masterpieces go online 2010-10-01T15:36:00Z

He was well aware of the story of Verdi, whose masterpiece "Falstaff" premiered when the composer was 80. Final Sendak book a tribute to his brother 2013-02-04T12:39:13Z

Set in “Darkplace Hospital,” this is a masterpiece of the absurd and pokes loving fun at horror writers and bad TV both. Perspective | Beyond ‘The Shining’: Let’s talk about our favorite scary stories that take us inside unusual hauntings 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

The minister, Roselyne Bachelot, said it was difficult but necessary for France to part with Klimt’s “Rosebushes Under the Trees,” which she called a “masterpiece.” France to Return Klimt Painting to Rightful Heirs After Nazi-Era Sale 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

Strangely enough, Greer began this comic masterpiece as a very serious novel about being gay and aging. Perspective | Finally, a comic novel gets a Pulitzer Prize. It’s about time. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

During this era, he finally figured out how all of those pieces fit together, especially on “Hellboy,” a pop masterpiece that pop just wasn’t ready for yet. How Pop and Jazz Wrapped Up the Past in 16 Boxed Sets 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

The second is that the public unfairly dismisses such masterpieces, because its expectations of the creative process were set during the rock ’n’ roll era, when singer-songwriters were the norm. Bopping brilliant 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

The "Montero" video is a masterpiece of provocation praised by historians for its shrewd incorporation of Renaissance-style religious iconography to condemn homophobia, immediately triggering Christian conservatives and grandstanding right-wing con artists like Candace Owens. The liberating pink power of Lil Nas X's trolling continues in new music video "Industry Baby" 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z

Fox Searchlight paid a record $17.5 million to buy this violent drama about a slave rebellion, which was insta-heralded as a masterpiece by film insiders desperate to end the #OscarsSoWhite firestorm. Having a Sundance Hit May Not Make You Rich Anymore 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

And Kruger’s 1982 combination of an image from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel with the words “You invest in the divinity of the masterpiece” is as vital and true today as when she made it. Review | Artist Barbara Kruger is still right about everything. Let’s listen up. 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

This masterpiece, the oldest that Balanchine kept in repertory, returns to open New York City Ballet’s winter season on Jan. 22, with new Apollos. Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

Her books stay peaceably indifferent to any imperatives of story — “The Passion According to G.H.,” regarded by some as her masterpiece, features a housewife staring into a closet for 200 pages. ‘The Chandelier’ Offers an Early Glimpse of Clarice Lispector’s Power 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

"It's no cinematic masterpiece, but that wasn't the point, really." Beatles romp at latest Woodstock Film Festival 2012-10-10T11:41:17Z

It was Altmann’s family that commissioned several of Klimt’s masterpieces, which were stolen by the Nazis, then fought a landmark restitution case to have them returned. Helen Mirren Visits “Adele Bloch-Bauer I” 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Hume, a native of Paddington, Australia, directed a well-received “Barber” last year at Opera Queensland for the 200th anniversary of Rossini’s comic masterpiece. Seattle Opera’s ‘Barber of Seville’ promises madcap, colorful fun 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z

Still before him were several literary masterpieces, but the Square won. The Square 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

In the work of someone so exhaustively appreciated as Hitchcock, you wouldn't expect to find forgotten masterpieces but I Confess is one. My Favourite Hitchcock: I Confess 2012-08-08T10:38:03Z

Only four lots further, a masterpiece carved in Alexandria in the early second century came up without any glorifying documentation and made $98,500. Special Report: The New Art Season: Art Anchored in History Will Soar This Season 2011-09-07T10:30:06Z

The Vladimir Nabokov novel is widely considered a masterpiece, and when I was assigned to read it during a writing class, I looked forward to finally understanding what all the fuss was about. Stunning, bloody “Hannibal” challenges our senses of beauty and revulsion 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

As Rousset admits in his booklet essay, this cantata is far from a masterpiece, but the performance makes a strong argument for hearing it. CD reviews: Two rediscoveries of Brahms and Couperin 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Whatever the merits of that insufficiently compelling thriller, it seems like a masterpiece compared with this meandering Gallic version of The Big Chill. Toronto Film Festival: 10 Films to Talk About 2010-09-19T13:55:00Z

After its first two-minute trailer debuted, Slate breathlessly declared that the film "looks like a comic masterpiece." Fickle social media can boost, or trip up, Oscar hopefuls in an instant 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Even better, he knows his carnival lore, dropping in references to Daisy and Violet Hilton and Tod Browning’s masterpiece, “Freaks.” Theater Review: ‘Coney,’ by David Johnston, at New Ohio Theater 2012-11-14T00:07:23Z

The investigation remained open, but hopes of recovering da Vinci’s masterpiece faded. Happy Birthday to the Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa and Took It to Italy 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

The foundation says it's no copy but an earlier version of the Louvre masterpiece. Isleworth Mona Lisa conjures new art world mystery 2012-09-27T16:45:15Z

Only Mary persisted, and over the next 18 months she produced a masterpiece, “Frankenstein.” Review: ‘The Poet and the Vampyre: The Curse of Byron,’ by Andrew McConnell Stott

He cites as an inspiration the Gamble House, an arts and crafts masterpiece in Los Angeles, which has porches on the south side for sunbathing and on the north side for outdoor sleeping. Charles Correa: India's greatest architect 2013-05-11T23:04:04Z

Several masterpieces of art and architecture are scattered around the British coastline, offering extra reasons to head for the beach and alternative entertainment when sandcastle building is rained off. Art and culture at the British seaside 2011-08-03T11:25:26Z

With so many beloved masterpieces, it’s easy to just ricochet from painting to painting. A 7-Hour, 6-Mile, Round-the-Museum Tour of the Prado 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

"It wants masterpieces, it wants things that are not replaceable." Andy Warhol 'ghost' painting up for auction at Sotheby's 2010-04-16T16:24:00Z

“Amleto” is not a forgotten masterpiece, but it is a fascinating view of a kind of missing link in Italian opera’s evolution from set pieces, such as fixed arias, to a more through-composed approach. A lost ‘Hamlet’ opera’s revival offers two happy endings 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

But for a number of reasons it isn’t quite the masterpiece it wants to be. The 10 greatest second world war films you haven't seen 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

But that seems a trivial status next to the dark masterpiece that haunted the early 20th century and reminded people of the Ninth. ‘Rite of Spring’ Cools Into a Rite of Passage 2012-09-16T03:27:28Z

The institute’s holdings range from ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman artifacts to contemporary American masterpieces. Detroit Institute of Arts County Millage Tax Approved 2012-08-08T22:30:02Z

This essay would become his unfinished masterpiece, the Passagen-Werk or Arcades Project, which he later described as “the theater of all my struggles and all my ideas.” Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z

The collection includes works originating from around the globe — China, Spain, India, Tunisia — many of them masterpieces. In Transit: In Amsterdam, a Rich Survey of Islamic Art 2010-12-12T11:00:00Z

His new novel, “Ka,” is a beautiful, often dreamlike late masterpiece. John Crowley's new epic 'Ka' is a late masterpiece in a stellar fantasy career 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

A year later, he succeeded in making “Shop” with the stars he wanted, giving us two masterpieces instead of one. Book review: ‘The New Biographical Dictionary of Film’ and ‘Not to be Missed’

It isn’t just that Rembrandt’s “Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver” is recognized as the artist’s first masterpiece. How a Rembrandt Masterpiece Evolved 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Instead of regarding the film as simply a work with actors, directors, producers, budgets, and shooting schedules, readers should appreciate Hooper’s masterpiece as a wider visceral experience: a tale engorged with newsworthy analogies. "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre": A metaphor for Nixon-era mayhem 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z

The last time the orchestra took on Britten’s choral masterpiece was in 1964. SSO offers rare chance to hear Britten’s War Requiem 2013-06-06T20:38:17Z

For many classical musicians who perform it, that aspect is why it is such an enduring masterpiece. An Adagio for Strings, and for the Ages 2010-03-05T19:18:00Z

A Fine Balance is Mistry's masterpiece, though Family Matters is almost as good. Profile: Rohinton Mistry 2011-03-30T11:48:31Z

Described by our very own young critics as "magical," "action-packed" and "a masterpiece of perfection," your reviews were tremendously enthusiastic about this popular read. Reviews roundup: your top reads this month! 2013-06-08T08:01:00Z

That, after all, is the signature work, the fail-safe masterpiece that closes nearly every performance. Review: Alvin Ailey Troupe Dances ‘Exodus’ at Koch Theater 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Star professors were either master thinkers introducing new rigor and glamour into a tweedy profession gone stale, or theory-addled tenured radicals taking a hatchet to the masterpieces of Western culture. What Is Literary Criticism For? 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

Both the vibrant capital, Amman, and the remote, otherworldly desert landscapes are speckled with artistic masterpieces and profoundly moving sites important to multiple faiths. Exploring Jordan’s cultural fusion 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

The Medici palace in Florence housed a bounty of of ancient jewelry, precious stones, Oriental rarities, classical fragments, ancient manuscripts and masterpieces of Renaissance and post-Renaissance painting. Treasures of the Medicis on Display in Paris 2010-09-21T10:00:00Z

When iron industrialist Alfred A. Pope began buying French Impressionist masterpieces, the movement was still stirring outrage across Europe for its radical departure from tradition. The 16 Best Small-Town Museums in the U.S. 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

“I soon realized why it’s considered such a masterpiece,” he says. In a New ‘Macbeth,’ Crime Novelist Jo Nesbo Sets the Tragedy in 1970s U.K. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

For more than five decades he has bought avant-garde 20th- and 21st-century art, comprising both iconic masterpieces and recondite curiosities. A Collector Follows His Nose Through the Maze of Modern Art 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

They enhance its profile in the eyes of connoisseurs, for whom a masterpiece is a masterpiece, regardless of price. Fairs: Resplendent Diversity at the Maastricht Fair 2011-03-25T12:30:04Z

But it would be the feminist masterpiece “Legally Blonde” that would cement her status as a Hollywood star. ‘Legally Blonde’ Oral History: From Raunchy Script to Feminist Classic 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Even the staircase on Madison Avenue is a masterpiece of architectural craft and character, an attraction all by itself. Review: A New Whitney Lets New York City Pour In 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

What on earth was Picasso’s antiwar masterpiece doing midway between Bullock’s Wilshire and Lafayette Park, its paint only two years dry? Where do art and the humanities belong? David Kipen on the new American Writers Museum 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

After graduating from Erasmus Hall High School and earning an art degree from Pratt Institute, he studied in Florence on a Fulbright grant, surrounded by masterpieces in marble. ‘The Cardboard Bernini,’ a Film About James Grashow 2013-05-13T18:45:22Z

One way, the wrong way, would be to try to come up with American “masterpieces” to rival, say, Matisse’s “Blue Nude,” a losing game. Two Exhibitions Re-examine the 1913 Armory Show 2012-10-28T04:27:18Z

The late modernist’s enthusiasm for vertiginous, improbable structures resulted in a slew of masterpieces, including the opera “Le Grand Macabre” and works such as “Lux Aeterna” and “Atmospheres.” Review: Ligeti Sounded Thrilling, When Alarm Will Sound Was Let Loose 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z

Still, if Mr. Grandage had anything new to say about this Mozart masterpiece, it did not come through in his essentially traditional production. ‘Don Giovanni’ at the Met Opera and in Two Other Stagings 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

All the same, jingoism may have played a part in our academy’s choice of a single-shot gimmick piece of hokum over an Asian masterpiece. A female director Oscar? Three ways to fix film awards season 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

The term “masterpiece” in the title is misleading, however. Art Review: What the Peripatetic Picasso Kept in His Closets 2011-03-10T23:11:06Z

Compared with the masterpieces of 1922, these books — all slated for reissue in new editions this year — entered our culture in relatively unspectacular fashion. Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z

Rubens and His Legacy will bring together a selection of Rubens's greatest masterpieces alongside artists as diverse as Manet, Klimt and Turner. Royal Academy to stage Rubens show 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

“Los Angeles deserves a modern masterpiece that brings people together in the heart of the city’s most diverse neighborhood.” Rem Koolhaas Firm Reveals Design for Los Angeles Temple Expansion 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

George Balanchine’s pure dance masterpiece “Jewels” explores three facets of ballet: “Emeralds” evokes France; “Rubies” captures an angular, energetic midcentury American modernism; and “Diamonds” conjures the courtly grandeur of imperial Russian classicism. Celebrating Balanchine’s ‘Jewels’ With an International Flair 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Nowhere in his work is this strategy clearer than in “By Night in Chile,” a short masterpiece published just three years before his death. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z

Seeing Mr. Taylor’s masterpieces next to his mediocre work makes the idea of seeing his masterpieces next to masterpieces by others sound tempting. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Evening Includes ‘Sunset’ and ‘Gossamer Gallants’ 2014-03-19T20:08:21Z

Or the transposition of Bizet's masterpiece from Seville, a noble city in the Spanish south, to Seville, Ohio, a hick town in the American midwest. Carmen; Juan Diego Fl?rez ? review 2011-01-23T00:06:31Z

It’s nice to imagine the Loki-lovers streaming this masterpiece of English upper-middle-class excruciation. 'I completely lost it': the movie scenes that made our writers weep 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

A more expansive riff on the classic “It’s Okay to Not Like Things,” Stephen Fry promptly declared it “a masterpiece.” Isabel Hay: Hating the haters 2012-06-11T15:30:00Z

When Marco and Carla eventually move in together, they paint the walls in an enlarged copy of that van Gogh masterpiece. Review: ‘Touched With Fire,’ a Love Story Between Two Bipolar Poets 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Or will it still be, as I always thought of it, a masterpiece of production design with an incoherent core, the Blade Runner of the silent age? Re-release of Metropolis proves that silents are still golden 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

It tends to be used when pictures are billed with some exaggeration as masterpieces of stellar importance. Auctions: Eagerness to Buy Old Masters at Odds With Their Availability in Auctions 2011-07-08T12:00:05Z

But the showstopper, and the exhibition’s foremost candidate for masterpiece status, is a large, flat disc-shaped hat from 18th-century England lent by the Victoria and Albert. Art Review: Hats, by Stephen Jones, at Bard Graduate Center - Review 2011-09-22T22:03:10Z

It is not just a masterpiece, it is a unique one, allowing no sequel or remake. Fraud at the Polls: The Best Film of All Time Is NOT Citizen Kane!? 2012-08-06T12:00:19Z

Rohmer was no maker of masterpieces; those require a larger canvas. 2010-01-12T04:00:00Z

“The Thief and the Cobbler” is to animated movies what “The Magnificent Ambersons” is to live-action ones: a staggering masterpiece that can never be seen in its ideal form. Review: A Rough Cut of ‘The Thief and the Cobbler’ Makes It to MoMA 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

But they were pushed aside for me in the moment when hearing Gershwin’s masterpiece on Monday, especially in a performance so authoritative and gripping. Review: A Splendid ‘Porgy and Bess’ Opens the Met Opera Season 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

They were among two dozen masterpieces from the 20th century Christie’s offered in a curated sale titled “Looking Forward to the Past.” Picasso Painting Smashes Auction Record at Christie’s 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Now I will state the obvious: this movie is a knockout masterpiece. A Bob Fosse Film-Festival Diary 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

First, the title, after one of Pollock’s masterpieces, indicates a greater attention to abstraction. A ‘Nasty Woman’ of Contemporary Art Fearlessly Renders the Body 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Similarly, Nicholas Christopher builds a surrealist fable, touched with a trace of Latin American magic realism, out of “Rooms by the Sea,” a haunting late masterpiece. What can fiction writers bring to Edward Hopper’s paintings? 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

“Parasite” won the Palme d’Or at Cannes this year — which usually means the kiss of death at the American box office — and has already been proclaimed Bong’s masterpiece. "Parasite": A prickly, disturbing class-war thriller — and a signature film of 2019 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

He reveres Errol Morris and cites The Thin Blue Line as his masterpiece, even if the film's use of dramatic reconstructions made it ineligible for the best documentary Oscar. Can 'fake' documentaries still tell the truth? 2010-09-30T22:00:00Z

Of course, there are masterpieces to be seen. At Armory’s Winter Antiques Show, Volumes of Variety 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

It remains one of television’s great masterpieces – which is why I’m reticent to celebrate its upcoming continuation, set to debut in May. Do we need a Twin Peaks revival when TV is so much weirder now? 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

“Do the Right Thing” Spike Lee’s potent masterpiece chronicles how tempers flare and eventually explode during the hottest day of the year. The 10 hottest, sweatiest, most humid summer movies ever made 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

Reviewing the production in The Times, Brooks Atkinson wrote, “Brenda Lewis’s pathetically tippling Birdie is a masterpiece of acting and singing.” Brenda Lewis, Versatile American Soprano, Is Dead at 96 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

The quality naturally varies, but look carefully and you’ll find some masterpieces. Davidson Galleries’ ‘Wood Engraving Invitational’ 2014-01-16T21:48:16Z

Among the scant 20 or so recordings of this American masterpiece available, not many can hold a candle to this one in terms of audacity, breadth, clarity or vision. CD review: ‘Concord’ Sonata by pianist Alexei Lubimov 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Just don’t read the jacket copy: That did a pretty bang-up job of making me stay away from it for years — a shame because it’s one of the few true masterpieces of this young century. Marlon James: By the Book 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

A small turquoise faience baboon, 8.8 centimeters high, is a masterpiece of understated irony, so discreetly wielded that one cannot be absolutely sure that mockery was intended. Exhibition Review: Finding Ancient Egypt's Sense of Humor 2011-05-20T18:30:05Z

I’d pretty much skipped “The Dreaming,” for instance, the album that came out in 1982, and is regarded, dimly, as a dry run for her masterpiece, “Hounds of Love.” The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

He spent the next decade gathering pictures of the artists and their now painted-over masterpieces from photographers like Martha Cooper, who famously documented the emerging art form. | The Pioneers of Graffiti Art, Through the Eyes of KAWS 2014-01-30T21:18:28Z

Only after productions of his masterpieces were mounted again in the mid-1950s did a publisher recruit the Gelbs for a biography. Barbara Gelb, Author, Playwright and Journalist, Dies at 91 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Widely regarded as a masterpiece, it’s also an enduringly strong draw, with about 500 productions licensed each year. In This ‘Oklahoma!,’ She Loves Her and He Loves Him 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

No pesky architectural masterpieces or elegantly dressed passersby to distract me. Stuck stateside needn’t mean you can’t chat with foreign locals — and improve your language skills 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Q: In the '70s you became involved with releasing foreign masterpieces in the U.S. working with Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini and Akira Kurosawa. A Minute With: Roger Corman, "Hollywood Rebel" 2011-12-14T10:08:18Z

On the second floor, they can admire masterpieces by Monet, Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh and Degas. A Nazi Legacy Haunts a Museum’s New Galleries 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

“Memento is a masterpiece that leaves audiences guessing not just throughout the film, but long after as well, which is a testament to its daring approach.” Christopher Nolan's 'Memento' Is Getting a Remake 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Paul Taylor’s “Arden Court” is a real masterpiece, and by selecting it Mr. Battle makes good on Mr. Ailey’s too rarely realized vision of the company as a home for great works of modern dance. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at City Center - Review 2011-12-01T22:40:24Z

“I do not agree with Chris Bedford’s vision of rewriting the cannon of art history by rectifying the wrongs of the past. I certainly do not believe that one sells masterpieces to fund diversity.” Donors rescind $50 million in gifts over Baltimore museum’s planned sale of Warhol painting 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

The museum said the collection is unsurpassed in the number of masterpieces critical to the development of Cubism, which is considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century. Cubist works worth $1bn donated to Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-04-10T00:00:36Z

Brabbins and his hordes did a truly magnificent job, and those who were there are unlikely to forget the experience, but the Gothic Symphony is no spurned masterpiece. Prom 4: Gothic Symphony ? review 2011-07-18T09:55:53Z

Fewer people saw the less glamorous side, the process that led to all those hits, peaking with 1976’s masterpiece, “Hotel California.” Don Henley says the Eagles are done. It was always Glenn Frey’s band. 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

In a 2010 interview with Vanity Fair, he expressed hope that “Heaven’s Gate” would eventually be regarded as a masterpiece. Michael Cimino, Director of ‘The Deer Hunter’ and ‘Heaven’s Gate,’ Dies at 77 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z

One, “The Fugue,” her 1970 masterpiece performed by three dancers on an amplified stage, takes inspiration from Bach’s “The Musical Offering.” Twyla Tharp’s Back Pages, With Chapters to Come 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

She said she had long loved the intricate ornamental cast iron on the recently restored Sullivan Center, one of Louis Sullivan’s masterpieces and now, with merciful subtlety, a Target. A $100 Weekend in Chicago 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

Emperor and GalileanThis is the big one: the British stage premiere of Ibsen's massive two-part masterpiece. The best theatre for spring 2011 2011-04-05T19:00:02Z

The real masterpiece here is the terraced garden and splendid loggia, where the land fits the architecture and landscaping in a particularly lovely way. Nature and romance permeate in Italy’s lakes district 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

One of these masterpieces was young Campbell’s 1938 novella, “Who Goes There?,” which Nevala-Lees calls “the greatest science fiction suspense story of all time.” Review | Let us praise the giants of science fiction: Campbell, Asimov and, yes, L. Ron Hubbard 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

But this is an aspect of the lore attached to "The Sandman," Neil Gaiman's lyrical masterpiece: it spent years trapped in the agonizing plane know as Development Hell. Enter "Sandman," right on time 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z

In this show, the museum has brought together masterpieces by artists of the day, including Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Édouard Manet, Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso. ‘Splendor and Misery: Images of Prostitution,’ Captures a Profession in Paris Through Artists’ Eyes 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Zulawski’s masterpiece, the almost indescribable “On the Silver Globe,” was begun in Poland in the 1970s, and shot on locations ranging from the Gobi Desert to the Crimea to the Baltic coast. ?Hysterical Excess,? Andrzej Zulawski Films at BAMcin?matek 2012-03-04T04:13:02Z

It is possible that there will never be a 12-story collection that surpasses Pancake's dozen short-form masterpieces, but Once You Break a Knuckle definitely stands in that company, and that is a massive achievement. Once You Break a Knuckle by DW Wilson ? review 2012-05-18T21:55:03Z

The New Yorker called it “a masterpiece of sorrow.” National Book Foundation Names Poetry Finalists 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

"The Monuments Men": George Clooney directs and stars in the World War II story of art experts sent into Germany to recover masterpieces stolen by the Nazis. Highlights of Hollywood's 2013 film lineup 2013-01-09T22:46:05Z

Being unhappy with these lukewarm feelings, I decided that some extra research might give me a deeper appreciation of this widely acknowledged masterpiece. Review | The action-packed saga ‘Monkey King: Journey to the West’ gets a modern take 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

Battle Grip Sci-fi and fantasy toys, plus geek cakes, including a fabulous Carnage On Hoth masterpiece. Internet picks of the week 2010-07-02T23:06:00Z

Not only is the track a rightful tribute to Satchidananda, it sets a proper tone for one of the greatest albums ever — a meditative masterpiece centered on Coltrane’s ascendance from despair. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Alice Coltrane 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

He was a gifted poet — his late book-length poem “The River in the Sky” is a dark masterpiece — who also wrote with vigor and sensitivity about poetry. Clive James, a Tireless Polymath Who Led With His Wit 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Still, she got to the core of the character, especially in the confession scene, one of the most inspired in this Bellini masterpiece. Compelling Singers Lift a Muddled ‘Norma’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

His first was for his 1931 masterpiece, “City Lights,” which, as usual, he also wrote, directed and starred in. Review: ‘City Lights’ and ‘ Fantasia’ at the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

At a time when auction houses have struggled to find good Impressionist and Modern material to fill their sales, both Sotheby’s and Christie’s managed to unearth a few masterpieces this season. What Soft Market? Resiliency Rules 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

For a big finish, Ms. Macdonald would collaborate with Anjl on their “masterpiece”: a word that they would color in and then ornament with shadows and highlights. Danielle Macdonald of ‘Bird Box’ Tries Her Hand at Graffiti 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

Authorities say the Gardner campaign would reintroduce the public to the 13 stolen works, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas and Manet. FBI to discuss developments in '90 Mass. art heist 2013-03-18T16:54:12Z

“These are design and technology masterpieces that did not steal your time. There are no phones younger than the first touchscreen models, definitely no smartphones,” said Mr Polgari. No smartphones! Vintage mobile phone museum opens in Slovakia 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

While the more upbeat second take was issued by the label as a single, it’s the slower, more contemplative first take that’s the masterpiece. Greg Kot: Music behind myths of Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson 2011-05-03T18:47:25Z

Its final scene, so innocuous at first glance, is a painstaking masterpiece of writing and directing inspired by everything from The Godfather to the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey. But did he die? TV's best and worst endings since The Sopranos 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

From taking reality apart, they were starting to put it back together, incorporating pages from newspapers in complex, playful masterpieces such as Picasso's Guitar. Celebrating 1913, a glory year for modern art 2012-11-19T17:00:03Z

You are not Pope Julius II, pushing the artist to complete her masterpiece. Perspective | Ask Amy: Nude portrait won’t go on tour 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z

But despite the fame the play has enjoyed in the 93 years since, Kosky called it a “problematic masterpiece” whose meaning is far from clear. ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

So many of Kahn’s masterpieces were built toward the end of his life. The Dramas and Intrigues of Louis Kahn, Monumental Architect 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

In an ABC News interview in 2013 from Shanghai, Mr. Qian said that he never knew his works were being sold as fake masterpieces. Knoedler Gallery Heads to Trial in Sale of a Fake Rothko 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

But it’s sad that New York lacks any definitive staging of these masterpieces. Classic Tales Of Temptation In the Woods 2011-05-14T07:11:21Z

His experience yields perhaps two of the greatest literary responses to prison, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and his neglected masterpiece, De Profundis. Will a spell in prison free Chris Huhne's inner novelist? 2013-03-18T15:00:27Z

This spring, however, brings us “Cruise of Shadows,” which contains nothing but masterpieces, notably “The Gloomy Alley” and “The Mainz Psalter.” Review | Escapist reading in the fantasy novels and weird tales from another time 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

It was salon theories about the rumoured posthumous reanimation work of Erasmus Darwin that inspired Mary Shelley to write her masterpiece, Frankenstein. Stage chemistry: the marriage of science and theatre is going strong 2011-03-09T14:13:20Z

Italian born and trained, he settled Paris in 1788, where he made his name with a series of severely classical operas written in the aftermath of the French revolution and deemed masterpieces in their day. Cherubini: Overtures and Arias from Florence to Paris ? review 2012-02-08T15:30:02Z

Adele’s “25” album was a masterpiece that sold 10 million albums in a year when most artists have trouble selling one million. Outtakes: Linda Perry on Neil Portnow, Adele and ‘Beautiful’ 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

Magnolia was the century’s last-gasp American masterpiece, a culmination and collapse, the celebration and the hangover rolled into one. Pulp Fiction to Magnolia: the best films of the 90s – as chosen by critics 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

An eerie masterpiece of the monsters around and within us. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Now the picture has arrived at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which scored an impressive coup in acquiring the missing masterpiece. LACMA purchases long-lost masterpiece, once kept under a couch 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

The “Vollard Suite” of Pablo Picasso — consisting mostly of etchings — is more scattershot in style and quality, but includes some masterpieces. Lines of distinction: Seattle Art Museum exhibit shows range, diversity of Graphic Masters 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

The Städel’s permanent collection reflects 700 years of mostly European masterpieces, from the Middle Ages through Modernism by way of the Baroque and German expressionism. ‘Citizens’ Museum’ of Frankfurt Celebrates 200 Years 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

I hope we can establish its latent reputation as a 20th-century masterpiece. The Pilgrim's Progress: Vaughan Williams's masterpiece returns at ENO 2012-11-05T17:39:26Z

During his three years in France, da Vinci focused on perfecting unfinished masterpieces, drawing and scientific writing, but also took part in organizing lavish parties for the King of France. At Amboise, Leonardo's last years paint a picture of Franco-Italian... 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

This show, in other words, is not one more twisty masterpiece of suspicion, but a celebration of belief. How I Lost My Head for Sleepy Hollow 2013-11-18T15:57:06Z

Amid all the sound and fury that young British artists generated in the 90s – often signifying nothing – House was the real thing: a modern masterpiece. Rachel Whiteread is Britain's greatest living artist 2012-12-14T13:09:13Z

Art collectors from Moscow and St. Petersburg snag masterpieces at auction, and Russian cultural ambitions are on the rise. Books Of Style: ‘Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy’ and ‘The Summer Palaces of the Romanovs: Treasures From Tsarskoye Selo’ 2012-11-05T18:41:09Z

Next, “Long Day’s Journey into Night,” considered his masterpiece. Discovering Eugene O’Neill’s San Francisco 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

But “Drum Circle” looks awfully thin, especially when sandwiched between two Taylor works — like the all-thrusters-firing “Mercuric Tidings” and the running-in-circles masterpiece “Esplanade.” At Paul Taylor, a Drum Circle and a Fierce Sisterhood 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z

Bosch was a Netherlandish painter who created haunting, chaotic masterpieces filled with religious imagery. The Complete Guide to All Westworld's Many References 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

And the cheeseburger at the Laurel Tavern on the west side was a $5 masterpiece. Frugal Traveler Blog: My Trip to Madison: Bikes, Brews, Burgers and a B&B 2011-10-25T22:00:57Z

They culminate in “Pinkville,” which Mr. Frumkin considered Mr. Saul’s masterpiece, and identify the artist as an equal opportunity abuser prone to distorting and maligning figures both real and imagined, admired and vilified. Review: ‘Peter Saul: From Pop to Punk,’ a Firebrand Willing to Offend 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

In his masterpiece "East of Eden," the story of a profoundly unhappy family reaches its terrible climax at a Thanksgiving gathering. 7 fictional Thanksgivings to fill your holiday craving 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

His annual travels across Europe also led to acquisition of more than 150 masterpieces. Art for the nation 2011-08-04T10:26:27Z

Perhaps a judicious selection from the late Don Van Vliet's "difficult" 1969 masterpiece has a place on your playlist after all. The perfect New Year's Eve playlist 2010-12-31T08:00:03Z

Nor is it written with the energetic vibe of “Pinball, 1973” or in the multidimensional vein of his masterpiece, “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.” Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

They now revisit these peerless masterpieces with young voices and a very varied approach to scoring. Bach: Motets ? review 2011-08-13T23:05:44Z

Early Monday evening, Louis Langrée, the orchestra’s music director, led 13 players in a Mozart masterpiece, the “Gran Partita” Serenade for Winds in B flat. Review: Mostly Mozart Returns to Lincoln Center, Quietly 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the masterpiece of their Motown years was Ain't No Mountain High Enough, a No 1 hit for Ross in 1970. Nickolas Ashford obituary 2011-08-23T14:25:23Z

“The Shining” might not be a very good adaptation of the book, but you can’t argue that it isn’t a masterpiece of cinema and that it’s defined how an entire generation views horror. How to Solve the Stephen King Adaptation Puzzle 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

“AIM” starts with its masterpiece: “Borders,” which works best as a synergy of song and video clip. Review: M.I.A.’s Album ‘AIM’ Juggles Social Consciousness and Self-Assurance 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

Her long story “Envy; or, Yiddish in America,” for example, which appeared in her 1971 collection “The Pagan Rabbi,” is a masterpiece of pique. Emotions Haunt a Man for Life in Cynthia Ozick’s Tragicomic ‘Antiquities’ 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

This enabled him to get good paintings by great artists, they said, while missing out on masterpieces that begin with sticker shock and ultimately reap the biggest rewards. The Debt King 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Pot racks—whether bespoke designs or vintage masterpieces—add an irresistible sophistication to any kitchen. AD’s Most Stylishly Sleek Kitchens 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

But rather than belabor plot similarities or inconsistencies, it is worth viewing this as an opportunity to see two late masterpieces of a great composer, like back-to-back performances of Verdi’s “Otello” and “Falstaff.” Review: Iphigenia Travels From Aulis to Tauris (and Back Again) on Brussels Stage 2009-12-16T07:25:00Z

Freud painted three versions of this fine-boned young woman on a cream cover, seen from above, each one a masterpiece. Lucian Freud obituary 2011-07-21T21:08:42Z

The show’s great ensemble piece, the vaudevillian “Yellow Shoes,” is a little masterpiece of sardonic efficiency in its use of color in motion. Review: Chita Rivera Stars in Kander and Ebb’s ‘The Visit’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

She even throws a sensational double murder into the mix to cast new light on Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z

“Lincoln Center at the Movies” ventures behind the scenes with members of this dance company and then onstage in performances, including of “Revelations,” a masterpiece by Alvin Ailey. What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Crown’ and President Obama on ‘Real Time With Bill Maher’ 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Performed in 1954 by the young Leontyne Price at a contemporary music conference in Rome, the piece won a 20th-century masterpiece award, conferred by Stravinsky. America’s Quintessential Maverick Composer, at 100 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

While our top film edges it out by just a hair, The Lion King is the sort of generation-defining masterpiece that Disney does with the best when it’s at its best. Ranking: The Disney Renaissance From Worst to Best 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

I can’t really think of another example of an artist creating an instant masterpiece at such a young age and then running so hard from it. Dean Wareham: My Jonathan Richman romance 2012-06-15T00:00:00Z

The master of slowness fashions another slow masterpiece – apparently his last. This week's new films 2012-06-01T23:05:45Z

If many an English-majored ear perks up at the sound of “1922,” it’s mostly because of the two somewhat ornery men who published their masterpieces that year: Joyce and T. S. Eliot. Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z

Ancient architects are represented by grand villas and Palaces, but also by Cathedrals, masterpieces of the people. Olmsted Bets the Farm on Winning Over the Neighbors 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Hundreds of masterpieces by the likes of Chagall and Picasso were secretly stored by Gurlitt at the Munich apartment and a house in nearby Salzburg, Austria. Jewish leader warns Swiss museum against accepting German art hoard 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

More extraordinary, the two towering masterpieces which were to become the springboard of European opera were written in the very last years of his life. Monteverdi's Flying Circus 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

Ghost is the closest living relative of Whiteread's destroyed artistic masterpiece House. Rachel Whiteread is Britain's greatest living artist 2012-12-14T13:09:13Z

Bob Dylan checked in with “Love and Theft,” perhaps his last masterpiece. Was 1971 really the year that rock exploded? 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

Holl's paintings and engravings of the poor, including hungry children and weeping widows in spartan cottage interiors, look sentimental to modern eyes, but were at the time regarded as masterpieces of social realism. Paint it black: Frank Holl, master of Victorian darkness 2013-06-18T16:36:56Z

I tested the latter, and enjoyed the audio tours of each floor: many of the gallery's masterpieces, such as Van Gogh's Starry Night and Edvard Munch's The Scream, are presented with a curator's audio guide. From Tate to the Louvre, the world's best museum and galleries online 2013-04-09T06:00:09Z

He would paint his famous “Night Watch” here, among many other masterpieces. House calls: Inside the homes of Europe’s top artists 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

One solution is to write an imperishable masterpiece; even better if it becomes a set text on the school or university syllabus. How to write a bestselling play 2012-08-22T12:27:28Z

"It's a masterpiece – if it's meant to be a dead whale." How easy is it to copy a famous painting? 2013-07-22T07:00:09Z

Reviews started strong: it opened the Venice film festival to a raft of raves and “masterpiece” claims, though the opposition formed early. High-concept satire Downsizing is dwarfed by its white saviour narrative 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

Cat On a Hot Tin Roof is Tennessee Williams' scorching southern masterpiece about self-denial and greed in a rotten 1950s American family. White Lies star writes theatre score 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z

It was news to me, a genuine awful backstage secret, that he had conceived of one of those Brussels masterpieces, “Dido and Aeneas,” as his last dance. Mark Morris: Loves Dance, Hates Brussels 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

“I know every square inch of it and think it’s one of the great art monuments out there. It’s a masterpiece of modern architecture.” Whitney Museum Sells Breuer Building to Sotheby’s for About $100 Million 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

His masterpiece, “Naples ’44,” describes with mordant humor the chaos in that city in the aftermath of the Allied invasion of Italy. By the Book: Ben Macintyre 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

The concert ended with an undisputed masterpiece, “Symphony of Psalms,” in a well-made reduction for two pianos by Karen Keating. Music Review: The Trinity Choir’s Stravinsky Festival 2013-04-30T20:03:18Z

Just a tiny moment in a four-act masterpiece, but one that demonstrates the dichotomy of his characters. Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf on Acting in O’Neill 2012-06-14T16:57:18Z

Lozano-Hemmer said he’s excited to see how the unique biometric data from thousands of visitors will collectively turn into a masterpiece. The human heart becomes a work of art in new exhibit 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

Still, I remember being relieved when a college film teacher I admired casually referred to his “pretaste” period, cheerfully referring to some awful movie that he had once thought a masterpiece. A Ship Sinks, and a Boy Is Enthralled 2013-08-21T16:31:12Z

In 2005, the United Nations’ cultural body, UNESCO, proclaimed the dervishes’ ritual a masterpiece of “the oral and intangible heritage of humanity.” AP PHOTOS: Whirling dervish ritual honors Sufi mystic poet 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

You may quibble with Emre’s “The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway,” as I have, but it’s an invaluable adjunct to Woolf’s haunting masterpiece. Review | Virginia Woolf’s novels once left me cold. A new book about ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ changed my mind. 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

My favourite short of the night – excepting my friend's brilliant masterpiece, obviously – which unfortunately doesn't appear to be online, was Ashenden, directed by George Belfield, about a man who thinks he's seen his doppelganger. Witty or gritty? What ingredients make the best short films? 2011-01-14T16:29:46Z

Dr. Seuss wrote his masterpiece "Green Eggs and Ham" using just 50 different words, after his publisher, Bennett Cerf, bet him $50 that he couldn't compose a book with such a limited vocabulary. Motherlode Blog: How 'Shrek' Persuaded Me to Let the Words Fly 2012-09-24T20:16:51Z

Mr. Simons, who called “Jaws” a “masterpiece” in post-show interviews after being swarmed by his celebrity guests as if they were sea gulls going after a crust of bread, didn’t have an answer. Calvin Klein’s Style Sharknado 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Or just tap the stones of this masterpiece – they come from Caen, France. Europe has been building a secret community of culture 2010-11-23T20:00:00Z

It helps that the award-winning Icelandic original was in itself no masterpiece, meaning there's little sense that anyone here is desecrating a work of art. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-07-14T23:05:55Z

Chekhov's play is assuredly a masterpiece; his title role, however, is defined more by what he is not than what he is. In praise of … Ken Stott 2013-01-20T21:03:58Z

Brady's scene with Laura, terrified as she struggles to make amends, is a comedy masterpiece. Mary Tyler Moore featured in 'Van Dyke Show' set 2014-04-01T13:08:13Z

Although the holy sites of all three religions are represented, Schick’s masterpiece dwarfs the other two models, and this was interpreted by some Jewish bloggers and critics as giving an impression of Muslim dominance. Jerusalem Criticizes Berlin’s Jewish Museum for ‘Anti-Israel Activity’ 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

At the present time the sport of golf is losing appeal to many for various reasons, but just like the Mona Lisa, there are golfing masterpieces that will never grow old. A Prairie Prologue in Nebraska 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

I don’t want to say “a masterpiece”, in case the series finale reveals that everyone has been dead all along again. Watchmen: such a masterpiece it's almost too much to bear 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z

For any other writer, Killing Eve would have been an all-time career highlight, but Fleabag remains her masterpiece. Partridge, politics and period pomp: the must-see TV shows of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

This isn’t the first time Erdrich has written herself into her own fiction; her 2010 masterpiece “Shadow Tag” was inspired by the dissolution of her marriage to the writer Michael Dorris. Review | ‘The Sentence’ is among Louise Erdrich’s most magical novels 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

On that first reading of Tolstoy’s masterpiece, my twenty-five-year-old self thought, in summary: Loved peace, hated war. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, Breaking Bad ended with a masterpiece of ribbon-tying. But did he die? TV's best and worst endings since The Sopranos 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

"I know some people might think, why not buy 10 lesser things, but I think the National Gallery was founded primarily as a collection of great masterpieces." British galleries buy Renaissance masterpiece 2012-03-01T12:38:09Z

She recalled visiting Rome in the 1960s and posing in front of the Trevi Fountain, a masterpiece of Baroque art. Contemporary art museum to open in Rome 2010-05-27T14:53:00Z

But what matters above all is these masterpieces, each gripping and singular. Dance Review: Stripped Down to Black and White, Revealing Balanchine at His Core 2011-05-04T22:08:37Z

The film, which opened in limited release this weekend, is being hailed by critics as a masterpiece, a perfect fusion of form and content. Inarritu leaps off the ledge with 'Birdman' 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

His son Cornelius inherited the collection, which includes works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse as well as older masterpieces, and kept it in his Munich apartment for decades. Nazi-era art hoard makes German exhibition debut in Bonn 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

This despite the fact that, while drunk, he left a chapter of his manuscript in progress — his masterpiece, “The Radetzky March” — in a taxi in Paris. A Timely Biography Traces Joseph Roth’s Accounts of Fascism 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z

The museum cares for an exquisite collection of masterpieces by figures such as Gainsborough and Hogarth. Row over sacking of Foundling Museum trustees 2013-06-23T17:18:26Z

RELATED: Art attack: Why do people try to destroy museum masterpieces? The Mona Lisa was attacked again ... this time with a slice of cake 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z

Wells masterpiece to highlight rather than the structurally disjointed and tonally unstable “The Invisible Man”? Surely Penelope Fitzgerald ought to be represented by “The Blue Flower” rather than “Offshore” and W.G. Review | The ultimate literary bucket list: ‘1,000 Books to Read Before You Die’ 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

But if the definition of a masterpiece is that it can withstand and inspire many interpretations, then the Vespers qualifies. John Eliot Gardiner: Monteverdi and me 2010-09-02T22:01:00Z

With her winning combination of humor and intellect, Ms. Brown went on to choreograph many large-scale dances, including “Set and Reset,” her 1983 masterpiece with music by Laurie Anderson. The Persistence of Vision (Trisha Brown’s, That Is) 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

His award-winning book “Far From The Tree” was a masterpiece of this, especially a chapter which introduced us to the loving parents of Dylan Klebold, one of the Columbine shooters. Andrew Solomon on Peter Lanza: “He isn’t exceptional, really, in any way” 2014-03-11T22:59:00Z

No wonder the first stanza is often memorised: not only a visual masterpiece, it has an impressive array of sound-effects. Poem of the week: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 2011-01-17T10:17:14Z

The story will be set in Europe as Langdon probes the "harrowing" world of a "mysterious" literary masterpiece. New Dan Brown novel coming in May 2013-01-15T13:42:08Z

Regardless of its origins, listeners through the decades have been riveted by the album’s pain and longing; it’s one of Dylan’s masterpieces. On ‘More Blood, More Tracks,’ Familiar Bob Dylan Songs Cut Closer to the Bone 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

It may lack a certifiable masterpiece, but it offers a fair number of B-plus or better adult features, and no real duds. Film: Yvan Attal at Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2010-03-11T05:31:00Z

The finest among these rank among the great masterpieces of 20th-century Western painting. Picasso Reigns, Barely, Over Disappointing Auction at Christie's 2010-06-24T11:30:00Z

And, they are a nice change from the more solemn LGBTQ+ cinematic masterpieces we've seen fairly recently, like "Moonlight," "Call Me By Your Name," "Portrait of a Lady on Fire," "Ammonite" and "Carol." From “Bottoms” to “Booksmart” and “Fire Island,” Queer cinema deserves to be silly and fun again 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z

If only two people were watching Getting On, it would still be the valuable masterpiece that it is. Getting On is not just funny – it's radical, profound, a masterpiece 2012-11-23T19:00:01Z

He likens it to the way people talk about artists: they will say they know a painter because they’ve seen his masterpieces, even though they might not know the entire oeuvre. Theory?s Designer Shapes a New Future 2011-08-05T23:46:28Z

There's one genuine masterpiece here: River of Pain blends psychedelic folk into a faintly north African atmosphere, and throws in an astonishing orchestral breakdown, a sunrise cutting through the fog. Primal Scream: More Light – review 2013-05-09T19:59:02Z

But only the very, very best would be selected; only the most masterful of its masterpieces. The rock super-group of collections 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

A semi-remake of the late Alan Clarke's borstal masterpiece Scum, it's a movie that refrains from glorying in the violence of its milieu without ever making any bones about quite how violent that milieu is. Scum holds the key to Dog Pound's prison power 2010-08-13T14:01:00Z

Meaningfully, it ends in 1991, the year that Ms. Dash’s masterpiece, “Daughters of the Dust,” opened. A Film Series Honors Black Women Directors 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

At breakfast he'd be writing this puerile, foul-mouthed stuff to his cousin; by evening, he'd be completing a masterpiece while chatting to his wife. How we made: Peter Shaffer and Felicity Kendal on Amadeus 2013-01-14T18:59:01Z

In the enormously unlikely event that they were responsible, it was suggested, these tracks were clearly intended as a joke to put people off the scent of their forthcoming masterpiece. Daft Punk: Tron: Legacy ? review 2010-12-02T16:09:00Z

This was the genius of the latest trailer for "Avengers: Endgame," an adroitly bombastic masterpiece of emotionally manipulative marketing. This is why the "Avengers" and "Star Wars" trailers made you cry 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z

The play was written after the indisputable masterpieces “Fences” and “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” but it occupies the first slot in Wilson’s decade-by-decade exploration of 20th century African American life. 'Gem of the Ocean' at South Coast Rep: August Wilson provides ritual healing in a devastating revival 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

His 1974 Polaroid of a book reproduction of the Renaissance masterpiece is not included in Mr. Neutres’s exhibition, but it appears in the catalog. Mapplethorpe: A Sculptural Perspective 2014-04-15T13:18:50Z

A Swiss museum published a list on Thursday of all the art found in the possession of Cornelius Gurlitt, a German recluse whose secret collection included masterpieces looted from their Jewish owners by the Nazis. Swiss museum publishes list of Nazi loot art trove 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Recently, the feverish growth of Shanghai has sparked the rediscovery of Hangzhou as a peaceful retreat and a cultural masterpiece. The 41 Places to Go in 2011 2011-01-07T21:03:56Z

Ferman watched the film himself and pronounced that it was a masterpiece of comedy horror which he would pass uncut. Putting the F-word in BBFC 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z

The Mendelssohn might have fared better if it hadn't been preceded in a double bill by a genuine masterpiece: Benjamin Britten's church parable, The Prodigal Son. The Homecoming/The Prodigal Son 2010-07-20T20:45:00Z

"I rather think the one and nines of thousands of pounds your masterpiece of a play has earned soothed his bourgeois sensibilities, my Hero," Ann Veronica said, while tidying away the glasses. Digested classic: Ann Veronica by HG Wells 2010-03-26T14:06:00Z

When she and her husband moved into the neglected early-18th-century masterpiece, it was encumbered by staggering death duties, reportedly close to $20 million. AD Remembers: Deborah Duchess of Devonshire 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Thirteen years ago, The Magnetic Fields released their 69 Love Songs, a colossal three-disc collection exploring the vast complexities of love that was largely hailed as a synth-pop masterpiece. Can The Magnetic Fields' New Album Recapture that 69 Love Songs Magic? 2012-02-29T16:08:20Z

Muti knows this late Verdi masterpiece inside and out, and he brought out the splendor of the orchestral writing with a sweep, clarity and precision one seldom hears on a typical night at the opera. Muti and the CSO at Carnegie Hall: Feel the love 2011-04-17T20:27:00Z

Later in the film, J. Edgar discloses its intended affinity to another movie masterpiece: Psycho. Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar: Yanking the FBI Chief Out of the Closet 2011-11-08T16:35:25Z

In the end, however, this shocker — contemporaneous with Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw ” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper ” — remains a chillingly ambiguous masterpiece. You’ve probably never heard of F. Anstey, but you know his work 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

If it does not seem “great,” perhaps this is because he was not striving to compose masterpieces in the manner of a Beethoven. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z

Deft Surgery for a Painting Under the Scalpel If art conservation is like surgery, then early handlers of ’s masterpiece, “The Gross Clinic,” violated the Hippocratic oath: “First, do no harm.” Art Review: A Restored ?Gross Clinic? at Philadelphia Museum 2010-07-29T21:51:00Z

Several of these, particularly, I thought, Use of Weapons, with its double-helix narrative structure and extraordinarily convincing alternative world, are nothing short of masterpieces. The Quarry by Iain Banks – review 2013-06-16T07:00:00Z

In announcing the return to Benin of more than two dozen masterpieces in Quai Branly, Mr. Macron said “legislative measures, if necessary” would be taken. Artwork Taken From Africa, Returning to a Home Transformed 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

And yet, in "M Train," she doubles back on that, declaring "that there is only one kind of masterpiece: a masterpiece." Patti Smith's 'M Train' reckons with life, while 'Collected Lyrics' shows her living energy as words 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

In his searing, satirical masterpiece "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" on the album Small Talk at 125th and Lennox. What's poetry's role in protest politics? 2010-12-15T17:02:20Z

Was Lizzie’s and cousin Ruth’s London, of nice restaurants and tea shops and well-lighted Renaissance masterpieces, actually more my style than those student-led finds of cheap beer in rowdy pubs? Frugal Traveler: London, This Time Following in More Mature Footsteps 2011-04-05T20:00:38Z

To my mind, the play is about meta theater, and role-playing; it borrows quite a bit from Jean Genet’s 1957 masterpiece, “The Balcony,” especially when it zeroes in on organized religion, another form of theatre. Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

How could Shakespeare, the half-educated son of an unlettered provincial glove maker, have written all those masterpieces? Movie Review: ?Anonymous,? by Roland Emmerich - Review 2011-10-27T15:47:42Z

With high-style individual roles for five women and three men, this Mozart masterpiece is just the vehicle City Ballet needs now. New York City Ballet’s Fall Season Bursts With Talent 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

The upstate city is where Twain wrote most of his best-known works, from his "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" masterpiece to "Life on the Mississippi," a memoir of his days as a steamboat pilot. Holbrook performs in Mark Twain's beloved NY town 2010-04-22T01:08:00Z

If I weren't so scared of sounding like the pretentious Moon, I'd say Stoppard's play is a minor comic masterpiece about the theatrical process. The Real Inspector Hound/The Critic 2010-07-11T20:30:00Z

“Teddy Perkins” is a masterpiece in psychological terror, presenting the title character as the warped diamond that results from decades of pressure by external forces and internalized hatred. The 10 best TV episodes of 2018: A highly subjective list 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

And famous paintings of the period are alluded to both in the dialogue and in shots that evoke the imagery of Manet’s masterpiece, “Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe.” Review: In ‘Cézanne et Moi,’ Zola and the Artist Are Pals. However ... 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

I'm also thrilled with Bob Dylan's new album, which is I think, a real masterpiece, and probably up there with his very best work. And she was: Talking Heads' Chris Frantz on their "Twilight Zone" sound & his romantic rock memoir 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

Chiswick House is not so much a home as a white pavilion, floating coolly between park and sky, built in imitation of one of Palladio's masterpieces. Britain's garden state 2010-06-08T20:29:00Z

I had consumed and loved Rushdie's two early masterpieces, Midnight's Children and Shame. Clash of the Booker titans 2013-05-23T13:57:00Z

But Fowler's closing story, "King Rat," is a masterpiece. Karen Joy Fowler's fine new story collection, 'What I Didn't See,' moves from ordinary to fantastical and back 2010-09-29T21:40:00Z

Calling the structure Shukhov's masterpiece, Foster says it is the "first major landmark of the Soviet period". Lord Foster fires up campaign to save rusting Russian radio tower 2010-04-15T17:40:00Z

This awe-inspiring void is the start of the building site for the 1910 architectural masterpiece Pennsylvania Station – a palatial building which in its day would rival Grand Central Station. George Bellows: an exhilarating encounter with American history 2011-03-15T16:01:16Z

With “The Juniper Tree,” he passed on a literary masterpiece of gory fantasy, level and cool and laconic, structured with musical repetition and told with a masterly deadpan command of the horrible. Evil Stepmother, Reimagined 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

And some central incidents, themes and personae in "The Wood Demon" were put to more successful use years later in another Chekhov drama — a masterpiece titled "Uncle Vanya." On stage: myths by the pool, and Chekhov's 'The Wood Demon' 2011-06-09T20:16:19Z

In tone, “Restoration” falls somewhere between the two, offering gentle if predictable insights into its fallible characters’ relationships with an almost perfect masterpiece. | 'Restoration': Claudia Shear at New York Theater Workshop 2010-05-20T02:25:00Z

In the ensuing centuries, plasters used to incessantly copy the masterpieces he sculpted atop the tombs left discoloring residues. Send in the Bugs. The Michelangelos Need Cleaning. 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z

They recognized a modern masterpiece when they saw it.  The best classical music performances of 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

As he noted, his own mafia masterpiece, “Goodfellas,” directed by Martin Scorsese, would celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of its première on September 19th. “The Godfather” at the Philharmonic 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

But Raphael sneaked in and, seeing the work-in-progress, immediately changed his own style and repainted his most recent masterpiece. In praise of ? Giorgio Vasari 2011-07-28T20:17:36Z

It’s a palpable gear shift, a form of singing that’s as confident in attitude as in acuity, and it enlivens this song to something like a masterpiece. Review: Adele Holds Firm on ‘25,’ Even as Pop Shifts 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

On the one hand, Ms. Savoy and Mr. Sarr are talking about African art as the heritage of world civilization — these are masterpieces that speak to everyone. Artwork Taken From Africa, Returning to a Home Transformed 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

Ms. Franklin’s debt to gospel was paid in full on her double-album masterpiece, recorded live with the Southern California Community Choir. Aretha Franklin’s 20 Essential Songs 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z