Arts and Culture

Slurping Fish Soup, Shaking Umbrellas Make `Rain' Soggy Slog: John Simon The program for “When the Rain Stops Falling” at New York’s Lincoln Center Theater, supplies a complicated family tree for the Law and York families, whose history the play follows back and forth in time between 1959 and 2039. It takes place in London and Australian settings so varied that we often can’t be certain where and when we are, whom exactly we are dealing with, and, above all, what it’s all for.

Blades Flash, Tongues Lash, Kitties Squeal in `Girls in Trouble': Review Two smart, unlikable women spend much of the second act of “Girls in Trouble” screaming at each other and commanding our attention. Their conflict is just one of several provocations in Jonathan Reynolds’s unsettling satire at New York’s Flea Theater.

Sex Slaves, Political Scandals Drive Fairstein's 'Hell Gate': Interview When the rusty Ukrainian freighter ran aground on a sandbar near New York City’s Rockaway Beach, the bodies started washing ashore. The boat was crammed with human cargo, poor men and women desperate for a new life, exploited by traffickers known as “snakeheads.”

Pink Floyd Suing Record Label EMI Group Over Online Royalties for Tracks Pink Floyd, the band that recorded the best-selling album ‘The Dark Side of the Moon,’ is suing record label EMI Group Ltd. in London over online royalty payments and the sale of single tracks.

Colony to Take Over Leibovitz Debt, Help Market Photographs Under Accord Colony Capital LLC agreed to take over the debt of Annie Leibovitz after the celebrity photographer bought back control of her works and real estate from Art Capital Group.

Ben Kingsley Joins Poker Fraudsters in Bollywood Casino Thriller: Review The casino thriller “Teen Patti,” produced by Ambika A. Hinduja, is proof that having a good hand of cards doesn’t guarantee a win. And we aren’t just talking about the movie plot.

Abramovich's Partner Dasha Zhukova Puts Utopia on Show in Moscow: Art Buzz Dasha Zhukova, one of the world’s most prominent art collectors, is bringing visions of paradise to her Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow.

Medvedev, Sarkozy Celebrate `Holy Russia' at Louvre Show: Jorg von Uthmann Some 20 years ago, the new exhibition at the Louvre in Paris would have been unthinkable.

Gorillaz Make 2010's First Rock Classic; Jimi Hendrix Returns: Mark Beech “Plastic Beach” by Gorillaz, out today, is a musical mishmash. It’s also ambitious and brilliant: 2010’s best CD so far.

BAT Sells $18.5 Million of Artworks in Record Sale by Sotheby's Amsterdam British American Tobacco Plc, Europe’s second-largest cigarette maker, made 13.6 million euros ($18.5 million) last night in what Sotheby’s said was the highest total for an art auction in the Netherlands.