The Week in Culture Pictures, Dec. 31

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The Week in Culture Pictures, Dec. 17

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The Week in Culture Pictures, Dec. 10

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The Week in Culture Pictures, Nov. 26

The White Light Festival

The New York Times classical music critics and a reporter are discussing Lincoln Center's White Light Festival, music and spirituality.

White Light Festival: An Act of Testimony

By STEVE SMITH

The message is not that classical music is lofty, beautiful, cultured or superior. It is that some classical music - and some Indian devotional music, and some speculative early-music theater, and some kung fu-related dance - can provide the same contemplative conduit that yoga, meditation or, perhaps, psychoanalysis do.

White Light Festival: A Tribute to Belief

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

Virgil Thomson, who grew up in a Baptist family and was a church organist in his youth, was never susceptible to religion, even as a child. Yet like his student Mr. Rorem, Thomson wrote many deeply felt sacred works.

White Light Festival: The Proof Is in the Reviews

By ALLAN KOZINN

And speaking of the personal side of spirituality, I have to say that for all the cross-cultural variety that has been cited on the festival's behalf, I found that my own spiritual interests were entirely unrepresented.

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Those Undulating Swan Arms? Not So Easy to Do

By JULIE BLOOM

Natalie Portman trained hard for the role of lead ballerina in Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan,” a psychological thriller centered on a performance of “Swan Lake.”

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The Week in Culture Pictures, Nov. 19

The White Light Festival

The New York Times classical music critics and a reporter are discussing Lincoln Center's White Light Festival, music and spirituality.

White Light Festival: An Act of Testimony

By STEVE SMITH

The message is not that classical music is lofty, beautiful, cultured or superior. It is that some classical music - and some Indian devotional music, and some speculative early-music theater, and some kung fu-related dance - can provide the same contemplative conduit that yoga, meditation or, perhaps, psychoanalysis do.

White Light Festival: A Tribute to Belief

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

Virgil Thomson, who grew up in a Baptist family and was a church organist in his youth, was never susceptible to religion, even as a child. Yet like his student Mr. Rorem, Thomson wrote many deeply felt sacred works.

White Light Festival: The Proof Is in the Reviews

By ALLAN KOZINN

And speaking of the personal side of spirituality, I have to say that for all the cross-cultural variety that has been cited on the festival's behalf, I found that my own spiritual interests were entirely unrepresented.

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Gotham Chronicle: Sharp Eye, and Pencil

By CAROL KINO

The artist Denys Wortman, who from 1924 to 1954 contributed six drawings a week to The New York World and its successors, has been rediscovered.

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The Week in Culture Pictures, Nov. 19

The White Light Festival

The New York Times classical music critics and a reporter are discussing Lincoln Center's White Light Festival, music and spirituality.

White Light Festival: An Act of Testimony

By STEVE SMITH

The message is not that classical music is lofty, beautiful, cultured or superior. It is that some classical music - and some Indian devotional music, and some speculative early-music theater, and some kung fu-related dance - can provide the same contemplative conduit that yoga, meditation or, perhaps, psychoanalysis do.

White Light Festival: A Tribute to Belief

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

Virgil Thomson, who grew up in a Baptist family and was a church organist in his youth, was never susceptible to religion, even as a child. Yet like his student Mr. Rorem, Thomson wrote many deeply felt sacred works.

White Light Festival: The Proof Is in the Reviews

By ALLAN KOZINN

And speaking of the personal side of spirituality, I have to say that for all the cross-cultural variety that has been cited on the festival's behalf, I found that my own spiritual interests were entirely unrepresented.

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