The Best Half-day Ticket Of The Season

from The New York Times A 12-Hour Play, and Endless Bragging Rights By PATRICK HEALY Every theater season has its must-must-must-see show, the snob hit that separates the true sophisticates (at least in their own minds) from the cultural chaff. New York will have a...

Alice in Dali-land

from Uncommon Nonsense Dali’s Adventures In Wonderland    Posted by: Kenneth Rougeau    Surrealist Salvador Dali was certainly one of the most influential & well known painters of the 20th century, but it’s not so widely known that he was also a gifted filmmaker,...

Cutesy Caravaggio v. Manly Michelangelo

from The New York Times An Italian Antihero’s Time to Shine By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN ROME — By at least one amusing new metric, Michelangelo’s unofficial 500-year run at the top of the Italian art charts has ended. Caravaggio, who somehow found time to paint when he...