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Pacific Northwest Ballet in 'Concerto Barocco' THEATRE & DANCE Feb 14, 2013

Pacific Northwest Ballet, City Center, New York

This Balanchine programme illustrated the strengths – and minor weaknesses – of the American company

Sara Poyzer and Richard Standing in 'Rutherford & Son' ©Nobby Clark THEATRE & DANCE Feb 14, 2013

Rutherford & Son, Viaduct Theatre, Halifax

Githa Sowerby’s 1912 play is given a somewhat melodramatic treatment by Jonathan Miller

Tamara Rojo and Sergei Polunin on stage at the Royal Opera House ©Tristram Kenton THEATRE & DANCE Feb 13, 2013

Ashton Ballets, Royal Opera House, London

This programme’s light-minded view of a great choreographer diminished his significance

Kraftwerk at Tate Modern ©PA MUSIC Feb 13, 2013

Kraftwerk: Techno Pop, Tate Modern, London

The German quartet’s performance of an album that flopped in the 1980s was a triumph here

Film

Helen Mirren and Anthony Hopkins in 'Hitchock'

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The Art Market

Detail from Magritte’s ‘Le plagiat’

Chinese sales take a fall while Christie’s closes Haunch of Venison, writes Georgina Adam

Robert Lepage's 'Playing Cards 1: Spades' ©David Levene THEATRE & DANCE Feb 13, 2013

Playing Cards 1: Spades, Roundhouse, London

Despite its mesmerising staging and its big themes, Robert Lepage’s latest drama is disappointingly sketchy

'Black Maria' at King's Cross, London DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE Feb 13, 2013

Black Maria, Central Saint Martins, London

Richard Wentworth’s installation asks questions about public space amid the ceaseless human flux of King’s Cross

'La Favorite' ©Vincent Pontet MUSIC Feb 13, 2013

La Favorite, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris

This may not be Donizetti’s best opera but Valérie Nègre’s misfortune-dogged production does it no favours

Arshile Gorky, 'Nighttime Enigma and Nostalgia' (1931) ©2012 Estate of Arshile Gorky/ARS VISUAL ARTS Feb 12, 2013

Drawing Surrealism, Morgan Library, New York

How the Surrealist quest to channel the unconscious led Dalí, Ernst and others to devise radical new drawing techniques

Sam Troughton and Adrian Lukis in ‘Bull’ ©Robert Day THEATRE & DANCE Feb 12, 2013

Bull, Crucible Studio, Sheffield

This drama about the sacking of a white-collar employee uses the bullfight as a powerful metaphor

MUSIC Feb 12, 2013

New World Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas, New World Center, Miami Beach

A tribute to John Cage provided musical charm and eclectic sounds – but will his work stand the test of time?

THEATRE & DANCE Feb 11, 2013

Money – The Gameshow, Bush Theatre, London

This drama engagingly explores the build-up to, and the aftermath of, the 2008 financial catastrophe

THEATRE & DANCE Feb 11, 2013

Notre-Dame de Paris, Teatro alla Scala, Milan

Natalia Osipova is the ideal enfant terrible to take the role of Esmeralda in Roland Petit’s masterly ballet

MUSIC Feb 11, 2013

Lulu, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

Two singers rise above the mess of David Pountney’s ultra-contrived staging

MUSIC Feb 11, 2013

Ahmad Jamal, Barbican, London

The pianist and his flawless band took stock ingredients and used them as a starting point for a magical mystery tour of modern music

MUSIC Feb 11, 2013

London Sinfonietta/Hannigan, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

This event, part of the Southbank’s ‘The Rest Is Noise’ festival, recalled Paris’s status as an artistic hub in the 1910s and ’20s

VISUAL ARTS Feb 10, 2013

Man Ray Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London

Many of the portraits in this show display craftsmanship rather than great artistry – but perhaps that’s the point

MUSIC Feb 10, 2013

Turnage’s Speranza, Barbican, London

The tunes in Turnage’s latest and biggest orchestral work help to lighten the load of its overweight philosophical tone

VISUAL ARTS Feb 10, 2013

Through American Eyes: Frederic Church and the Landscape Oil Sketch, National Gallery, London

This exhibition is an intriguing record of the mindset of mid-19th-century America

THEATRE & DANCE Feb 10, 2013

Great Expectations, Vaudeville Theatre, London

With its cartoonish style and gorgeous sets, this production is superficially admirable but lacks heart

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