arte

Art

Culture, Rolling Into Towns on Big Rigs

By RANDY KENNEDY

For Eric Fischl's project "America: Now and Here," truck museums will rove the country and set up like state fairs, swapping Tilt-a-Whirls for paintings, photos, music, short plays and documentaries.

DANCE REVIEW

Poetry of Stillness, in a Moment Stretched to Infinity

By ROSLYN SULCAS

To watch the duo of Eiko and Koma is to marvel at the immense control with which each is almost always moving yet can appear entirely still.

THEATER REVIEW | 'COOL BLUES'

A Jazzman Encounters His Life and Death

By DANIEL M. GOLD

"Cool Blues" is based on the last days of the jazz great Charlie Parker at the Fifth Avenue home of a faithful supporter and friend.

Possible Safety Risks Put Met Opera Tour to Japan 'in Jeopardy'

By ROBIN POGREBIN

The Metropolitan Opera is debating whether to proceed with its scheduled Japanese tour in June because of safety concerns relating to that country's nuclear disaster.

THEATER REVIEW | 'WITTENBERG'

Dueling Mentors Bedevil a Dithering Young Dane

By ERIC GRODE

In "Wittenberg," Dr. Faustus and Martin Luther have fun batting about Hamlet, their student.