ArtsBeat: James Spader Gets a Full-Time Job at ‘The Office’
Mr. Spader will reprise his role as Robert California, the “uber-salesman that has a power to convince and manipulate, like a high-class weirdo Jedi warrior.”
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ArtsBeat: High Above London, Seeing for Miles and Miles
Anish Kapoor’s tower, Orbit, under construction at the site of the Olympic park in London, will be the tallest sculpture in Britain.
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ArtsBeat: Don’t Kill the Rabbit: Scene Cut From Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘As You Like It’
The comedy, which is to begin performances on Wednesday during the company’s Lincoln Center Festival residency, will not show a dead rabbit being skinned and decapitated, as the British production depicted.
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ArtsBeat: Indian Fiction Rising
Amitav Ghosh’s latest historical novel, “River of Smoke” the second in a proposed trilogy about the 19th century opium trade in Asia, was reason enough for Delhi’s intellectuals to celebrate the increasing popularity and success of Indian fiction.
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Cy Twombly, 1928-2011: American Artist Who Scribbled a Unique Path
Cy Twombly went contrary to all the fashions of his era, which spanned the postwar years.
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