To comply with a class-action suit by copyright holders affected by Google’s plan to offer all of literature online, old-fashioned legal notices in 70 languages are being placed in newspapers worldwide.
A Google Search of a Distinctly Retro Kind
Google is spending $7 million on a global print campaign to alert writers that it intends to digitize every book.
ArtsBeat Blog
Horton Foote, Playwright, Dies at 92
Horton Foote, who chronicled America's wistful odyssey through the 20th century in plays and films mostly set in a small town in Texas, died in Hartford, Connecticut on Wednesday. He was 92.
Audio Slide Show (2005)
Publisher’s Big Gamble on Divisive French Novel
Harper paid about $1 million for Jonathan Littell’s “Kindly Ones,” a 983-page French novel narrated by a remorseless former Nazi SS officer, a book that has already aroused fierce passions, for and against.
Music Review
Lovelorn Sleepwalker, Caught Between Rehearsal and Reality
Mary Zimmerman’s new production of Bellini’s “Sonnambula” for the Metropolitan Opera, which goes behind the scenes, is exasperating and clichéd.
Bigger Woes for Library, as a Buyer Backs Out
A decision by Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. to back out of its plans to buy the former Donnell Library building in Midtown Manhattan is likely to deprive the New York Public Library of millions it was counting on.
Theater Review | 'The Savannah Disputation'
Dodging Hellfire, Armed With Quips and the Obliging Father Murphy
Evan Smith’s insubstantial but funny play sometimes feels like a Very Special Theological Episode of “The Golden Girls.”
The Met Offers Chagalls as Collateral
The Metropolitan Opera said it had decided to put up its celebrated Chagall murals as part of the collateral for an existing loan.
Wein Seeks to Regain Control of Newport Festivals
Amid rumors of an uncertain future for the Newport jazz and folk festivals, the veteran jazz concert producer George Wein gained permission to negotiate to regain them.
A Conductor Revels in His Element
Zubin Mehta was thoroughly in his element conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in Strauss’s “Heldenleben” at Carnegie Hall on Sunday.
Podcast: Music
This week, a focus on Latin music. Ben Ratliff reviews “Juntos Para Siempre” by Bebo and Chucho Valdés and the Portuguese Fado singer Mariza performs in our studio.
Arts, Briefly
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Melena Ryzik reports on the memorial for Odetta, the singer whose voice was the soundtrack of the Civil Rights era.
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