Music Review

Amid All That Experience, Innocence

By JON PARELES 6:15 PM ET

Josh Haner/The New York Times

We Are Plastic Ono Band featured, from left, Sean Ono Lennon, Eric Clapton and Yoko Ono, along with other guests on Tuesday evening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

The Plastic Ono Band, an informal group John Lennon assembled in 1969, reunited in Brooklyn.

Slide Show

From left, David Michôd, Spencer Susser, Nash Edgerton, Luke Doolan and Joel Edgerton are all associated
with Blue-Tongue Films, a loose collective of filmmakers working in Australia and California.

Filmmakers With Shared Grit

By MICHAEL CIEPLY

Blue-Tongue Films is one of the unlikelier phenomena in the unpredictable world of independent film.

Invisible Hand in MoMA Shows

By RANDY KENNEDY

Jerome Neuner, the director of the Museum of Modern Art’s department of exhibition design, has been behind nearly all of the museum’s shows over the last 30 years.

Fritz Lang's 1927 “Metropolis” is being shown at the Berlin film festival with 30 minutes of footage that was thought to be lost.

Berlin Takes Film Fest, and Fringe, in Stride

By DENNIS LIM

This year’s Berlinale has been as much about absent celebrities as present ones.

An Illuminating Swan, Then a Pure-Dance End

By ALASTAIR MACAULAY

After months of concentrating on full-length narrative ballets, New York City Ballet is closing its winter season with three programs of the pure-dance works that are central to its legend.

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Sade, appearing on “The View,” is No. 1 on the Billboard chart.

Sade’s Comeback Succeeds With Quiet Application of Old-School Approach

By BEN SISARIO

Last week the Nigerian-born singer released her first album in 10 years and it zoomed past all competition, reaching No. 1 with a remarkable 502,000 sales.

For Sade, a Reluctant Return to the Spotlight

Music Review

Joseph Kaiser, left, with Kate Lindsey and the pianist Michael Barrett on Tuesday evening.

Stirring the Late Romantics’ Libido

By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER

The New York Festival of Song’s “Voluptuous Muse” featured late romantic works at the Merkin Concert Hall.

Theater Review | 'Black Angels Over Tuskegee'

“Black Angels Over Tuskegee”: From left, Rich Skidmore, Lamman Rucker, Thom Scott II, David Wendell Boykins, Demetrus Grosse, Derek Shaun
and Layon Gray in Mr. Gray’s drama about the Tuskegee Airmen, fighter pilots in World War II, at St. Luke’s Theater. Mr. Gray also directs.

An Elite Squadron, Before It Was Airborne

By JASON ZINOMAN

Layon Gray’s sturdy drama about trailblazing African-American fighter pilots gets by on the charm of the cast and a commitment to the rules of the uplifting melodrama.

Inside Arts

Review

Musings on Gay Identity, Then and Now

Podcast: Music

This week: we talk about CD’s from the Brooklyn band Yeasayer, and the R&B; star Jaheim. Plus, VV Brown, a British retro soul singer, performs live in the studio. Sia Michel is the host.

Opinion

The Score

American composers discuss the challenges of creating “classical” music in the 21st century.

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What's Going On?

Read UrbanEye each weekday to find out about New York’s newest restaurants, cultural events, weekend activities, latest styles and more.

The Awards Season

Video

Carpetbagger: Oscar Nominations

The Bagger rises early to report from the 2010 Academy Award nominations ceremony.

Complete Coverage: Awards Season

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The Oscars

A critics’-eye view of memorable scenes, Mo’Nique’s Oscar noncampaign, the charm of George Clooney, videos, interactive features and more.

Series

Abroad

Michael Kimmelman on culture and society in Europe and beyond.

The Listings

Longer editions of selected event listings in the New York area this week are now available online.

The Week in Arts

Arts & Leisure

Swagger and Sideburns: Bad Boys in Galleries

The Week Ahead

A Dash of Color at Vitra's Eclectic Site

By ALICE RAWSTHORN

A new color laboratory adds to the design company's allure as a destination. A variety of architects at Vitra help it attract about 100,000 visitors to the Weil am Rhein site every year.

Auctions of contemporary art at Sotheby’s and Christie’s last week, particularly of works of the post-World War II Zero movement, provoked intense bidding, and a surprising number of records were set.

A Great Night for Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Auction

By SOUREN MELIKIAN

The Lenz collection of avant-garde art from the Zero movement sold with a rare 96 percent success rate at Sotheby’s in London on Wednesday night.

Review

Natalie Dessay Reprises 'La Sonnambula' at the Opéra Bastille

By GEORGE LOOMIS

Ms. Dessay sings the melodies ravishingly, with beguiling tone, supple phrasing and lovely vocal colors.

On the London Stage

Judy Parfitt, left, and Marcia Warren in “Really Old, Like Forty Five.”

First the Doldrums, Then Death

By MATT WOLF

Two plays — “Really Old, Like Forty Five” and a revival of Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” — have mixed success in relaying prickly problems of everyday life.