The Arts File : Slideshows

"A Dangerous Method" directed by David Cronenberg
©Neue Road Movies GmbH/Donata Wenders
"Pina" directed by Wim Wenders
"The Loneliest Planet" directed by Julia Loktev
"Policeman" directed by Nadav Lapid
"The Descendants" directed by Alexander Payne

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New York Film Festival Features Polanski, Cronenberg, Wenders

In this week's Arts File, Kerry Nolan speaks with Salon.com senior writer Andrew O'Hehir about this year's New York Film Festival, which kicks off Friday night.

Recent Slideshows

Ring Cycle: Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera

Tribeca Film Festival Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Stephen Sondheim's "Company" at the NY Philharmonic

"Kinshasa Symphony" At NY African Film Festival

Master Guitar-Maker John Monteleone

(From left) 2009 Musical America award winners Marin Alsop, Conductor of the Year, Christopher Rouse, Composer of the Year, Yo-Yo Ma, Musician of the Year, and Stephanie Blythe, Vocalist of the Year.

Awarding Classical Music

Art Case Pianos

Robert White at age 9, singing on WNYC.

Kids as Soloists?

An Alternative Look at Wagner's Ring Cycle

How Abstract Expressionism Took Off in New York

violin player

Women's Fashion on the Classical Stage

One of Benzel's favorite spots in NYC: the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights, Manhattan

From Regular New Yorker to NYC Tourist

Dancers fight to save Dance New Amsterdam's downtown studio space by dancing on the steps of City Hall.

Dance New Amsterdam on the Brink of Eviction

Cast Members in

The NY International Fringe Festival

Suzanne Bilyeu on the viola at the 2010 BSO Summer Academy.

Summer Music Camp for Adults

The Changing Role of the NEA

Italian Architect Renzo Piano, speaking in Bologna, Italy in 2009.

The Whitney Heads Downtown

Avenue Q was On Broadway before it cut its costs by two thirds by moving Off Broadway.

A Look at Off Broadway

The Jersusalem Project incorporates an army of shofar players, an instrument most closely associated with Jewish festivals and religious texts.

Jordi Savall's Jerusalem Project

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