— Awards season is in full swing. Graham Fuller looks at the Golden Globe Awards, which aired on January 13, and examines the Oscar nominations, which were announced this week.
— We talk to Angus Jackson, the director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s production of “King Lear,” starring Frank Langella, which runs through February 9.
— The Sundance Film Festival opened this week, so for the second year in a row we looked at the 10 most “Sundance-y” films at Sundance.
— Larry Blumenfeld reports from Winter Jazzfest.
— Patrick Pacheco sits down with actor Ciran Hinds, currently starring on stage in Conor McPherson’s “The Night Alive.”
— We preview the Takács Quartet, who are performing at Carnegie Hall
— Graham Fuller reviews“Generation War,” which is currently playing at Film Forum in New York City.
— Larry Blumenfeld remembers the resonant voices of Roy Campbell and Amiri Baraka, who both passed away last week.
— Our Performing Arts Pick of the week is the reissue of Calvin Tomkins’s “Living Well Is the Best Revenge,” published by the Museum of Modern Art. The book focuses on the lives of Gerald and Sara Murphy, who were the inspiration for the main characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Tender is the Night.”
— On the blog: new songs from Warpaint, Real Estate, and Dum Dum Girls, and a look at “Further Rituals of Rented Island.”
