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“The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” an exhibition of the museum's complete Dutch collection of 228 paintings, stretches through 12 galleries. It's a lot to take in. Here are some highlights. Holland Cotter, art critic of The New York Times, narrates. A Guide to ‘ The Age of Rembrandt’

PARIS, Sept. 17 — On Monday President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, who is increasingly faulted, even by his own government, for usurping the responsibilities of his top ministers, stepped into the role of culture minister. At a low-key ceremony he inaugurated La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, (the City of Architecture and Heritage) in Paris, which reopened after an $114 million , decade-long makeover. “I commit myself fully to this mission, to give back the possibility of boldness to architecture,” he said in his speech. Mr. Sarkozy turned the occasion into a promotion of French architecture throughout the ages, inviting some of the world’s top architects to the museum (and to lunch at the Élysée Palace) and winning their endorsements along the way. President François Mitterrand built the glass pyramid at the Louvre, the Grande Arche de la Défense, the Bastille Opera and the François Mitterrand French National Library; Jacques Chirac created a museum devoted to African, Asian,

Kai Ryssdal: Five of the top 25 compact discs on Amazon.com today feature Luciano Pavarotti. He died early this morning in Italy, as you probably heard by now. Pavarotti was an opera star for 40 years. And later in his life, he helped changed the business of classical music. Fred Child hosts public radio's classical music program, "Performance Today." Hi, Fred. Child: Hello, Kai. Ryssdal: Clearly, Pavarotti was a great talent. But he was also greatly criticized, especially I guess later in life, for having kind of commercialized opera to a great extent. Do you think that's a fair charge? Does it stick? Child: You know, there was a real tough balance there. And you're right: in his prime, there was nobody better. That silky-smooth, rich sounding, incredible emotion that came through in his voice. But after about 1990, he became a mainstream superstar. And the fact is, he revelled in being a celebrity, and almost became a caricature of himself. And he sang with q

ROME - Luciano Pavarotti, whose vibrant high C's and ebullient showmanship made him the most beloved and celebrated tenor since Caruso and one of the few opera singers to win crossover fame as a popular superstar, died Thursday. He was 71. His manager, Terri Robson, told the AP in an e-mailed statement that Pavarotti died at his home in Modena, Italy, at 5 a.m. local time. Pavarotti had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year and underwent further treatment in August. "The Maestro fought a long, tough battle against the pancreatic cancer which eventually took his life. In fitting with the approach that characterised his life and work, he remained positive until finally succumbing to the last stages of his illness," the statement said. Speaking from inside Pavarotti's home, which was guarded by police, Pavarotti's assistant Edwin Tinoco told Sky TG 24 television that Pavarotti's final days had been calm and spent at home. For serious fans, the unforced

A list of winners of 2007 Tony Awards (denoted with a *), with links to the original New York Times reviews. BEST MUSICAL Curtains Grey Gardens Mary Poppins * Spring Awakening BEST PLAY Frost/Nixon * The Coast of Utopia The Little Dog Laughed Radio Golf BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY Inherit the Wind * Journey's End Talk Radio Translations BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL 110 in the Shade A Chorus Line * Company The Apple Tree BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A PLAY Boyd Gaines, Journey's End * Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon Brian F. O'Byrne, The Coast of Utopia Christopher Plummer, Inherit the Wind Liev Schreiber, Talk Radio BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN A PLAY Eve Best, A Moon for the Misbegotten Swoosie Kurtz, Heartbreak House Angela Lansbury, Deuce Vanessa Redgrave, The Year of Magical Thinking * Julie White, The Little Dog Laughed BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL Michael Cerveris, LoveMusik Raúl Esparza, Company Jonathan Groff, Spring Awakening Gavin Lee

The 61st annual Tony Awards last night showed a particular fondness for the 19th century with “Spring Awakening,” about sexually frustrated German teenagers from that era, winning the bulk of the early musical awards while “The Coast of Utopia,” Tom Stoppard’s epic period trilogy about Russian intellectuals, set a record for the most awards won by a play in Tony history. “Coast,” an eight-and-a-half-hour epic, produced by Lincoln Center Theater, won best play, best director, best featured actor and actress, and several design awards. “Spring Awakening” won best book, score, direction and choreography and best featured actor in a musical. And in the night’s highest-profile nail-biter, Julie White of “The Little Dog Laughed” won best leading actress in a play, beating out acting legends like Vanessa Redgrave (“The Year of Magical Thinking”) and Angela Lansbury (“Deuce”), as well as the actresses Swoosie Kurtz (“Heartbreak House”) and Eve Best (“A Moon for the Misbegotten”) whose performa

Garçon à la pipe - Wikipedia Owned by the estate of John Hay Whitney, on May 5, 2004 it sold for $US104.1 million at an auction in Sotheby's in New York City, after having been given a pre-sale estimate of $70 million by the auction house. From 2004 until June 2006 it was the most expensive piece of artwork ever sold at auction.

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An animated comedy from summer 2005 was the top-selling DVD of 2006, according to year-end charts that will be published in this week's Billboard magazine. Madagascar, a zippy saga of sheltered Central Park Zoo animals who wind up in the wild, features the voices of Ben Stiller as a showboating lion, Chris Rock as the fun-loving zebra, David Schwimmer as a hypochondriac giraffe and Jada Pinkett Smith as a no-nonsense hippo. The video charts were compiled by computer from Billboard's weekly and biweekly charts during the eligibility period, which was Dec. 3, 2005, through Nov. 25, 2006. While family films dominated sales, movies for adults topped the rentals. The top rental for the period was Mr. & Mrs. Smith, the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie action romance. Top DVD Sales for 2006 1. Madagascar 2. The Chronicles of Narnia 3. Chicken Little 4. The Little Mermaid 5. The Chronicles of Narnia (Full Screen) 6. Madagascar (Full Screen) 7. Lady and the Tramp: 50th Anniversary Editi