The Inside Story on Outsiderness

By CAROL VOGEL

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Artist Glenn Ligon

Coming to the Whitney Museum: Glenn Ligon’s art made from a word suspended in air, or a phrase repeated over and over.

• Interactive Feature: Glenn Ligon: Art Out of Words

Best Movie Query? You Win

By A. O. SCOTT and MANOHLA DARGIS

A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis answer readers’ questions about the Oscars and the motion picture industry’s awards season in general.

All Over London, Love Hurts

By BEN BRANTLEY

Keira Knightley, Elisabeth Moss and Rebecca Hall have taken to the London stage and audiences are lining up.

Where the Deer and the Chameleon Play

Gore Verbinski, who directed three “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies, directs his first animated film, “Rango,” whose hero is voiced by Johnny Depp.

Heaven, Hell, Brothers and an Impala

By GINIA BELLAFANTE

The CW series “Supernatural” has survived for six seasons thanks to its combination of religious imagery, fantasy, humor and clever pop-culture-savvy writing.