Fall for Dance Opens With Pomp and Pageantry - NY Sun
The annual modern dance festival opened with a bang last Tuesday.

Paramount has no teary send-off for DreamWorks - LA Times
Brad Grey, CEO of Paramount Pictures, bid an unceremonious farewell to Dreamworks Pictures on Friday.

Fear of fairy tales - The Boston Globe
The glossy, sanitized new versions of some fairy tales leave out what matters: the scary parts

Products Placed: How Companies Pay Artists to Include Brands in Lyrics - Wired
Some artists have approached companies with offers to include brand and product names in their song lyrics.

How could the economic crisis affect art? - The Gaurdian
If we enter another 1930s-type Depression, art may more likely swing to the Right than the Left…

Lehman Art Collecting Unit to Be Sold - Art Info
Lehman Brothers is taking bids for the Neuberger Berman unit, which includes an impressive collection of art.

Lost Mozart score found in France - BBC World News
A previously unknown piece of music by Mozart has been discovered at a library in western France.

A Leader Begins His Final Lap - NY Times
Lorin Maazel began his seventh and final season as music director of the New York Philharmonic on Wednesday night at Avery Fisher Hall.

Fired UK bankers offered free theater tickets - Reuters
Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber has offered tickets to musicals to over 5,000 London staffers of bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers.

The Chinese Art Explosion - ARTNews
As works by Chinese artists fetch multimillion-dollar prices, the international art world is waking to the power of the Asian market.

Freeing the Elephants - New Yorker
The Morgan Library & Museum presents an exhibit of the early drafts and watercolor drawings for the first Barbar books.

Laramie Killing Given Epilogue a Decade Later - NY Times
The Tectonic Theater Project returns to Laramie, WY ten years after the murder of Matthew Shepard.

Vaclav Havel: life after revolution - The Times
The former Czech President's departure from office is uncannily like the plot of Leaving, his first play for 20 years.

Lincoln Center Plans 50th-Anniversary Celebration - NY Sun
Today Lincoln Center will announce plans to celebrate its 50th anniversary, which will include new commissions, concerts, and performances from its 12 resident organizations.

ATG teams up with Blanchett's Sydney and Seymour Hoffman's LAByrinth theatre companies - Stage News
Ambassador Theatre Group has launched a three-way producing association with the Sydney Theatre Company and New York-based LAByrinth Theatre Company.

Barack Obama raises millions in Beverly Hills - LA Times
Barack Obama mingled with some of Hollywood's biggest stars at an industry fund raiser on Tuesday night.

Step-by-step guide to dance: Merce Cunningham - The Gaurdian
At 89, choreographer Merce Cunningham has established a legacy for himself as the Zen master of dance.

Harmonic Convergence: When Julian Met Placido - NY Times
The Metropolitan Opera commissioned artist Julian Schnabel to paint tenor Placido Domingo's portrait.

Too big for La Boheme: svelte singers are the new shape of opera - The Independent
As opera houses attempt to reach a younger audience, more and more productions feature slender singers in leading roles.

For Angels Playwright, Another Plum Prize - The New York Times
Tony Kushner will be the first playwright to receive the newly minted Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, which carries a $200,000 cash prize.

The Man in the Bushes - New York Magazine
Ron Galella established the role of the paparazzo in the sixties and seventies, paving the way for our current celebrity crazed culture.

Hair Transplant: Public's Central Park Staging to Arrive On Broadway in 2009 - Playbill
The Public’s much-extended production of Hair, directed by Diane Paulus (SoA ’97), has been added to the 2009 Broadway line-up.

Prefab: From Utilitarian Home To Design Icon - NPR
A current exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art explores the history of prefabricated houses, and the architects whom have tried their hand at mass production techniques.

Damien Hirst's Art Sale Gamble Could Leave Him in a Pickle - Financial Times
Artist Damien Hirst's Beautiful Inside My Head Forever is expected to be the most expensive lot at a Sotheby's sale tonight.

Fey-as-Palin Wins the Early Vote in SNL - Washington Post
Tina Fey guest starred in the season opener of SNL as Vice Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin.

A Chinese Spotlight for the 2009 New York Film Festival - The New York Observer
Two weeks before the 2008 festival begins, the New York Film Festival looks to 2009, with an eye to China.

Authors Grieve Over Wallace's Apparent Suicide - The Associated Press
The literary world mourns after the death of David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest and Remember the Lobster.

Onstage, Stripped of That Wizardry - New York Times
Daniel Radcliffe, the start of the Harry Potter franchise, transitions to adulthood with Equus.