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Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82

Mr. Rauschenberg, who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, defied the traditional idea that an artist stick to one medium or style.

Dance: Rauschenberg and Dance, Partners for Life

Something inherently theatrical about him prompted Mr. Rauschenberg to his boldest, freshest conceptions on stage.

This Year?s Tony List Is Filled With Unusual Suspects

The Tony nominations are in, and it would be difficult to come up with a season that presented a clearer portrait of where Broadway is headed and where it has been.

ArtsBeat: N.E.A. to Honor Opera

The National Endowment for the Arts said on Tuesday that it was establishing yearly Opera Honors awards.

Books of The Times: A World of Stories From a Son of Vietnam

Whether it?s the prospect of dying at sea or being shot by a drug kingpin or losing family members in a war, Nam Le?s people are individuals trapped in the cross hairs of fate.

Music: Trailblazers, but Selling a Romantic Kind of Love

As fiercely as the rock counterculture rejected its parents? tastes in music, all three women in Sheila Weller's ?Girls Like Us" are revealed as heavily indebted to traditional pop and its quasi-religious faith in romantic love.

Theater Review | 'Curse of the Starving Class': Shepard?s Debtors of 1978, Sounding Like Today?s Poor

The 30th-anniversary revival of Sam Shepard?s ?Curse of the Starving Class,? at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, is respectable but timid.

Critic?s Choice: New DVDs: Mitchell Leisen and ?The Big Trail?

This week?s DVDs include two films from the director Mitchell Leisen and Raoul Walsh?s 1930 epic western, ?The Big Trail.?

An NBC Goodbye for Leno After ?Tonight??

Ben Silverman, the co-chairman of NBC Entertainment, acknowledged that the changing late-night landscape at the network would probably mean that Jay Leno would leave it.

Music Review: American Operas, Sifted and Sampled

Since 1999 New York City Opera?s lively Vox series has offered concert performances of excerpts from new operas by American composers.