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Oscars Liveblog 2011: Lots of Speeches, Not Just the 'King's'!

By Daniel D'Addario | February 27, 2011 | 6:58 pm

11:41pm. Melissa Leo closes the night by toting her Oscar to the sky. And then she floated over the rainbow, and was never heard from again. 11:39pm. Also, this school-choir music is what I hear when my sleepytime nightmare begins, a la Edith Piaf in Inception.... MORE»

Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn), at the ADAA Fair

The Great Spring Art Fair Marathon

By Sharon Elizabeth Samuel | February 25, 2011 | 5:48 pm

A dizzying 11 art fairs will fight for the attention of New York City collectors and art-lovers starting Tuesday, March 1. Bringing in the big guns, by and large, are the dealers who’ll be showing at the Park Avenue Armory.... MORE»

The colorful Mr. Nederlander.

Broadway Man Robert Nederlander Prefers Park Avenue

By Matt Chaban | February 25, 2011 | 12:35 pm

Broadway producer, theater operator and former Yankees owner Robert Nederlander never staged Young Frankenstein in his numerous venues, but he has nonetheless decided it's time to put on the ritz at home. He has just purchased a colorful two-bedroom co-op in the Ritz Tower for $2.25 million, city records show. This is a month after he sold his three-bedroom home four blocks north at 510 Park Avenue, where he had lived for decades with his wife Gladys, who passed away almost three years... MORE»

Foursquare: The dashboard for your stalkers.

Foursquare is the New Arbiter of Celebrity

By Adrianne Jeffries | February 25, 2011 | 12:21 pm

Foursquare, the digital equivalent of carving "I wuz here" on the walls of New York's healthiest restaurants and most excellent nightlife venues, is cultivating a userbase of mega-narcissists.... MORE»

30 Rock Redesigns Jezebel—As Snarky Plot Device

By Daniel D'Addario | February 25, 2011 | 11:45 am

30 Rock last night satirized both Jezebel--recast as "JoanOfSnark"--and the blog chatter about Tina Fey's failures as a feminist. The episode dealt with protagonist Liz Lemon's struggles with a new, disconcertingly flirtatious female writer--and ended up at the conclusion that there are many different ways to be feminist, and that Liz hasn't mastered it yet.... MORE»

Three-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening defies your humble statistics!

Nate Silver's Heart Isn't in Oscar Predictions

By Daniel D'Addario | February 25, 2011 | 11:02 am

With the seeming success of the "Carpetbagger" blog, everyone at the New York Times seems to be getting into the Oscar-coverage game: Manohla Dargis and A. O.... MORE»

Lambert Wilson and Jean-Marie Frin in <i>Of Gods and Men</i>

Movie review: Of Gods and Men Is a Moving Meditation on Faith

By Una LaMarche | February 24, 2011 | 6:36 pm

Xavier Beauvois' beautiful, spare, powerful film Of Gods and Men, which premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix, is based on the true story of a group of French Trappist monks living in Algeria who were killed by Islamic terrorists in 1996. But knowing the grisly ending (the monks were, in fact, beheaded, although the film doesn't mention--or, thankfully, show--that awful detail) doesn't take away from the story's power; if anything, it makes the viewing experience all the more... MORE»

You Must Remember This: Who Gets Gore's Vote?

By Daniel D'Addario | February 24, 2011 | 5:23 pm

Plenty happens daily in this town. But the devil's in the details. Let's see what you remember! How did "nerds" figure out how to handle Valentine's Day? What will be the least dreadful airport hotel ever? Who does Gore Vidal want as President in... MORE»

James Franco to Visit a College Campus—For Once, Not as a Student

By Daniel D'Addario | February 24, 2011 | 4:02 pm

James Franco, perpetual student, loves college campuses. Do college campuses love James Franco? In an effort to forcibly make the film a cult hit, Universal Pictures has announced that a college will host the world premiere of Your Highness, the punnily historical/stoner comedy starring Franco and Natalie Portman.... MORE»

Jones.

James Earl Jones Signs On For Gore Vidal Drama [Update]

By Daniel D'Addario | February 24, 2011 | 3:28 pm

From the front seat to the White House: James Earl Jones, currently starring in Driving Miss Daisy, has signed on to star in The Best Man, Gore Vidal's 1960 political drama, reports Playbill. The lead role--that of an embattled former president choosing which candidate to endorse--was, incidentally, portrayed by a white actor, Charles Durning, in the show's last production in 2000.... MORE»

Ms. Genovese. Could this be Winona Ryder's comeback role?

Kitty Genovese Movie in the Works

By Daniel D'Addario | February 24, 2011 | 2:08 pm

Kitty Genovese's story is one of the city's most notorious: the woman was killed while dozens of her neighbors stood by--leading to the development of the notion of the "bystander effect" and a little glimpse into man's inhumanity.... MORE»

Tara Donovan's pin-sticking.

Big Pins in Bloom: Tara Donovan at Pace; 'Parallax' at Lehmann Maupin

By Will Heinrich | February 23, 2011 | 3:28 pm

Tara Donovan is famous for her uncanny ability to reanimate the dead effigies of mass production. She can make several thousand plastic cups, or a dozen huge rolls of adding-machine tape, look delicate and necessary because her acts of mechanical repetition are always inflected with organic variation. (She's breathing new life into Minimalism, too.) Recently she's been looking at nickel-plated steel pins--the kind you'd find on an architect's bulletin board--and her discoveries, in the form of 12 large drawings, are on display at Pace on 25th... MORE»

Skinny bitch.

Bob Mnuchin's Limestone Masterpiece

By Matt Chaban | February 23, 2011 | 2:42 pm

After three decades as a rainmaker at Goldman Sachs, Robert Mnuchin had enough money to focus on his true passion, art. With his L&M Gallery, Mr. Mnuchin has become one of the city's foremost collectors and dealers—his latest show was reviewed in this week's Observer, in fact—though it appears he and wife Adriana also have a ken for collecting and trading real... MORE»

Pole Dance, a 2010 MoMA/PS 1 installation by SO-IL

Rock n' Roil at MoMA/PS 1

By Alexandra Peers | February 23, 2011 | 12:51 pm

Longtime PS 1 veteran Tony Guerrero is out at the Museum of Modern Art satellite, and insiders said more departures are expected. In an email sent to friends and colleagues yesterday and today, Guerrero said he was leaving March 1 after 17 years and "My commitment to this incredible art center was the essence of my life in New York. I will miss... MORE»

Internal Memo: Lady Gaga

By Christian Lorentzen | February 22, 2011 | 8:42 pm

Postmodernity has culminated in my torn underwear. The fragmentation of my fishnets signals the teetering of a mode of authority that was in the end so much bad romance. In the depthlessness of my stare heralds equality in superficiality, and digitality allows my hair to be everywhere. The utopian gesture has in my heels undergone a fundamental mutation. We are a convergence of meat freaks. What has capitalism done for us... MORE»