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Mantegna and the rise of realism - The exhibition "Mantegna 1436-1501" at the Louvre should not be missed by anyone interested in Renaissance Italy....

The love that dare not bare its fangs - It's love at first look instead of first bite in "Twilight," a deeply sincere, outright goofy vampire romance for the hot-not-to-trot abstinence set....

'Twilight': The vampire of the mall - Robert Pattinson, the heartthrob star of the coming film adaptation of the vampire romance novel "Twilight," meets his squealing fans....

A teenage vampire tale and its careful retelling - As the legions of teenagers who have read the novel on which the forthcoming film "Twilight" is based know, the awkward passage from youth to maturity isn't the very worst problem an adolescent can have....

Book review: 'The World Is What It Is' - The author Patrick French, who had complete access to the V.S. Naipaul archives and many hours of interviews with Naipaul himself, has written an exhaustive and insightful biography....

Book review: 'Stalin's Children' - The writer Owen Matthews probes the mystery of his grandfather, Boris Bibikov, who died during Stalin's purges....

Simone Veil, 50 cent, Britney Spears - A roundup of the day's celebrity news....

Famous food critic loses job in sour economy - One of New York City's most famous food critics is out of a job....

'Chinese Democracy' album: a 17-year evolution - When the last new Guns N' Roses album came out, there were no iPods or digital downloads. There was no "American Idol." No music blogs. No MySpace....

Canine TV action star discovers that life is the best reality show - "Bolt" is at once a knowing, satirical sendup of the Hollywood fame-and-fantasy machinery and a sleek product of the Disney-Pixar industrial complex....

Piers Brendon's 'The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire 1781-1997' - The Houses of Parliament are not yet in ruins, but the idea of writing "The Decline and Fall of the British Empire," as Piers Brendon has now done, is tempting enough....

António Lobo Antunes's 'What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?' - There are novels out there steep with degrees of difficulty that put readers into the same position as mountaineers staring at a terrifying traverse. "What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire?," narrated by the son of a Lisbon drag queen, is such a novel....

On Broadway, financial squeeze sets off wave of angst - Money to develop and nurture new work on Broadway is drying up. Will this shrink the flow of innovative shows, or could a forced financial diet actually improve quality?...

Angelina Jolie's carefully orchestrated image - In exchange for pictures of hers and Brad Pitt's new twins, the actress Angelina Jolie got the magazine People to agree to offer positive coverage of her and her family....

Book prizes awarded with nod to history - Annette Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award for nonfiction for "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family," while Peter Matthiessen won the fiction award for "Shadow Country."...

Peter Matthiessen's trilogy has become a single novel: Does it matter? - Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," is a one-volume compilation of three novels that Matthiessen published from 1990 to 1999: "Killing Mister Watson," "Lost Man's River" and "Bone by Bone." He is among the nominees for the National Book Award. Can his novel be considered new?...

'Twilight' raises small studio's profile in Hollywood - Tiny Summit Entertainment finds itself sitting atop one of the biggest pop-culture phenomena of recent years....

Another kind of vampire romance - Heinrich Marschner's "Der Vampyr" is being revived at Bologna's Teatro Communale in a fine production by the veteran director Pier Luigi Pizzi....

'Twilight': The vampire of the mall - Robert Pattinson, the heartthrob star of the coming film adaptation of the vampire romance novel "Twilight," meets his squealing fans....

Book review: "Autophobia" and "Just After Sunset" - In his work Brian Ladd looks at what has been said, by whom and for what reason, and why none of the voluminous critiques of the car have mattered much. Stephen King's new collection of short stories mines the rest-stop idea to the max....

Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce - After the wedding in a Scottish castle, the mansion on a green English estate and the drinks in their own pub, Madonna and Guy Ritchie's eight-year marriage ended Friday in a dreary London courtroom....

Bruce Willis wants cash back from Malaysia company - A Malaysian technology conglomerate pledged Friday to repay $900,000 to Hollywood star Bruce Willis, but denied any wrongdoing after he took legal action to demand a refund of his investment....

Peter Matthiessen, Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Paris Hilton - A roundup of the day's celebrity news....

Peter Matthiessen's trilogy has become a single novel: Does it matter? - Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," is a one-volume compilation of three novels that Matthiessen published from 1990 to 1999: "Killing Mister Watson," "Lost Man's River" and "Bone by Bone." He is among the nominees for the National Book Award. Can his novel be considered new?...

Taco Bell lawyers get tough with rapper 50 Cent - Rapper 50 Cent is facing a challenge to his street credibility ? from Taco Bell....

Wallace Shawn on 'Gossip Girl': The image that perplexes - The actor and playwright Wallace Shawn appears on the television series 'Gossip Girl' as a squinty-eyed mystery suitor of Blair Waldorf's mother. He is sure to disappoint the kids....

Putting the story back into onscreen storytelling - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory has opened a new Center for Future Storytelling that will examine whether the old way of telling stories on screen is in serious trouble....

Yo-Yo Ma, John Travolta, Miley Cyrus - A roundup of the day's celebrity news....

John Sergeant quits 'Strictly Come Dancing' - Retired BBC political correspondent John Sergeant has waltzed off the British TV talent show "Strictly Come Dancing," saying he is afraid he might win....

Hollywood ponders global warming - Hollywood insiders and climate change experts agree that they can't shove messages about global warming down audiences' throats....

Reviews: 'Outliers' and 'Gone Tomorrow' - Malcolm Gladwell's latest book uses the same recipe as his previous best sellers but does so in a manner that highlights its weaknesses; while P.F.Kluge's sharply observed novel about academic life describes the dangers that a writer-teacher faces....

For books, is Obama the new Oprah? - So just which book "about FDR's first 100 days" was President-elect Barack Obama talking about when he appeared on "60 Minutes" on Sunday?...

At meeting, Smithsonian practices new openness - The Smithsonian Institution held the first public board meeting in its 162-year history on Monday. The first question: "Why did you not all resign?"...

David Chan: A concertmaster whose other passion is wine - David Chan, concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, says "talking about wine is like talking about music."...

'Gethsemane': Putting white heat on politics - The new David Hare play, 'Gethsemane,' treats the political and social issues of the day, but sometimes seems dated. 'Piaf' boasts an outsized performance by Elena Roger....

Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Springsteen - A round-up of the day's celebrity news....

Book review: The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath - The author Robert J. Samuelson sees the "Great Inflation" of the U.S. economy in the late 1970s as a watershed in American history....

Another kind of vampire romance - Heinrich Marschner's "Der Vampyr" is being revived at Bologna's Teatro Communale in a fine production by the veteran director Pier Luigi Pizzi....

'Twilight': The vampire of the mall - Robert Pattinson, the heartthrob star of the coming film adaptation of the vampire romance novel "Twilight," meets his squealing fans....

A teenage vampire tale and its careful retelling - As the legions of teenagers who have read the novel on which the forthcoming film "Twilight" is based know, the awkward passage from youth to maturity isn't the very worst problem an adolescent can have....

A hip-hop writer's wish to reconcile 2 sides of New York - Hoch's show, "Taking Over," about gentrification in New York, is now in previews at the Public Theater and opens next Sunday....

When getting into preschool becomes an obsession - When the filmmaker behind "Nursery University," a documentary about the cutthroat admission process at elite preschools in New York, set out to make his film, he found that he couldn't get in, either....

Book review: 'American Lion' - Andrew Jackson's domestic life in the White House is a tale of revenge....

For Buffalo, New York, an architectural crossroads - Local preservationists are completing restorations on some of the most important landmarks in Buffalo, New York, while the federal government is considering a plan that could wipe out part of a historic neighborhood....

Kanye West, Lindsay Lohan, Ann Curry - A roundup of the day's celebrity news....

Recessionary design: A boom time for creative energy - Design has always coped well with austerity, and is especially well-equipped to do so now....

Bond film is tops at U.S. box office - The new James Bond film sold an estimated $70.4 million in tickets at North American theaters, setting an opening-weekend record for the franchise....

Beyoncé: Ready to shed her good-girl image? - In her new movie "Cadillac Records," Beyoncé Knowles swaggers and swears through her performance as Etta James....

Mantegna and the rise of realism - The exhibition "Mantegna 1436-1501" at the Louvre should not be missed by anyone interested in Renaissance Italy....

The love that dare not bare its fangs - It's love at first look instead of first bite in "Twilight," a deeply sincere, outright goofy vampire romance for the hot-not-to-trot abstinence set....

'Twilight': The vampire of the mall - Robert Pattinson, the heartthrob star of the coming film adaptation of the vampire romance novel "Twilight," meets his squealing fans....

A teenage vampire tale and its careful retelling - As the legions of teenagers who have read the novel on which the forthcoming film "Twilight" is based know, the awkward passage from youth to maturity isn't the very worst problem an adolescent can have....

Book review: 'The World Is What It Is' - The author Patrick French, who had complete access to the V.S. Naipaul archives and many hours of interviews with Naipaul himself, has written an exhaustive and insightful biography....

Book review: 'Stalin's Children' - The writer Owen Matthews probes the mystery of his grandfather, Boris Bibikov, who died during Stalin's purges....

Simone Veil, 50 cent, Britney Spears - A roundup of the day's celebrity news....

Famous food critic loses job in sour economy - One of New York City's most famous food critics is out of a job....

'Chinese Democracy' album: a 17-year evolution - When the last new Guns N' Roses album came out, there were no iPods or digital downloads. There was no "American Idol." No music blogs. No MySpace....

Canine TV action star discovers that life is the best reality show - "Bolt" is at once a knowing, satirical sendup of the Hollywood fame-and-fantasy machinery and a sleek product of the Disney-Pixar industrial complex....

Piers Brendon's 'The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire 1781-1997' - The Houses of Parliament are not yet in ruins, but the idea of writing "The Decline and Fall of the British Empire," as Piers Brendon has now done, is tempting enough....

António Lobo Antunes's 'What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?' - There are novels out there steep with degrees of difficulty that put readers into the same position as mountaineers staring at a terrifying traverse. "What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire?," narrated by the son of a Lisbon drag queen, is such a novel....

On Broadway, financial squeeze sets off wave of angst - Money to develop and nurture new work on Broadway is drying up. Will this shrink the flow of innovative shows, or could a forced financial diet actually improve quality?...

Angelina Jolie's carefully orchestrated image - In exchange for pictures of hers and Brad Pitt's new twins, the actress Angelina Jolie got the magazine People to agree to offer positive coverage of her and her family....

Book prizes awarded with nod to history - Annette Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award for nonfiction for "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family," while Peter Matthiessen won the fiction award for "Shadow Country."...

Peter Matthiessen's trilogy has become a single novel: Does it matter? - Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," is a one-volume compilation of three novels that Matthiessen published from 1990 to 1999: "Killing Mister Watson," "Lost Man's River" and "Bone by Bone." He is among the nominees for the National Book Award. Can his novel be considered new?...

'Twilight' raises small studio's profile in Hollywood - Tiny Summit Entertainment finds itself sitting atop one of the biggest pop-culture phenomena of recent years....

Another kind of vampire romance - Heinrich Marschner's "Der Vampyr" is being revived at Bologna's Teatro Communale in a fine production by the veteran director Pier Luigi Pizzi....

'Twilight': The vampire of the mall - Robert Pattinson, the heartthrob star of the coming film adaptation of the vampire romance novel "Twilight," meets his squealing fans....

Book review: "Autophobia" and "Just After Sunset" - In his work Brian Ladd looks at what has been said, by whom and for what reason, and why none of the voluminous critiques of the car have mattered much. Stephen King's new collection of short stories mines the rest-stop idea to the max....

Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce - After the wedding in a Scottish castle, the mansion on a green English estate and the drinks in their own pub, Madonna and Guy Ritchie's eight-year marriage ended Friday in a dreary London courtroom....

Bruce Willis wants cash back from Malaysia company - A Malaysian technology conglomerate pledged Friday to repay $900,000 to Hollywood star Bruce Willis, but denied any wrongdoing after he took legal action to demand a refund of his investment....

Peter Matthiessen, Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Paris Hilton - A roundup of the day's celebrity news....

Peter Matthiessen's trilogy has become a single novel: Does it matter? - Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," is a one-volume compilation of three novels that Matthiessen published from 1990 to 1999: "Killing Mister Watson," "Lost Man's River" and "Bone by Bone." He is among the nominees for the National Book Award. Can his novel be considered new?...

Taco Bell lawyers get tough with rapper 50 Cent - Rapper 50 Cent is facing a challenge to his street credibility ? from Taco Bell....

Wallace Shawn on 'Gossip Girl': The image that perplexes - The actor and playwright Wallace Shawn appears on the television series 'Gossip Girl' as a squinty-eyed mystery suitor of Blair Waldorf's mother. He is sure to disappoint the kids....

Putting the story back into onscreen storytelling - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory has opened a new Center for Future Storytelling that will examine whether the old way of telling stories on screen is in serious trouble....

Yo-Yo Ma, John Travolta, Miley Cyrus - A roundup of the day's celebrity news....

John Sergeant quits 'Strictly Come Dancing' - Retired BBC political correspondent John Sergeant has waltzed off the British TV talent show "Strictly Come Dancing," saying he is afraid he might win....

Hollywood ponders global warming - Hollywood insiders and climate change experts agree that they can't shove messages about global warming down audiences' throats....

Reviews: 'Outliers' and 'Gone Tomorrow' - Malcolm Gladwell's latest book uses the same recipe as his previous best sellers but does so in a manner that highlights its weaknesses; while P.F.Kluge's sharply observed novel about academic life describes the dangers that a writer-teacher faces....

For books, is Obama the new Oprah? - So just which book "about FDR's first 100 days" was President-elect Barack Obama talking about when he appeared on "60 Minutes" on Sunday?...

At meeting, Smithsonian practices new openness - The Smithsonian Institution held the first public board meeting in its 162-year history on Monday. The first question: "Why did you not all resign?"...

David Chan: A concertmaster whose other passion is wine - David Chan, concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, says "talking about wine is like talking about music."...

'Gethsemane': Putting white heat on politics - The new David Hare play, 'Gethsemane,' treats the political and social issues of the day, but sometimes seems dated. 'Piaf' boasts an outsized performance by Elena Roger....

Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Springsteen - A round-up of the day's celebrity news....

Book review: The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath - The author Robert J. Samuelson sees the "Great Inflation" of the U.S. economy in the late 1970s as a watershed in American history....

Another kind of vampire romance - Heinrich Marschner's "Der Vampyr" is being revived at Bologna's Teatro Communale in a fine production by the veteran director Pier Luigi Pizzi....

'Twilight': The vampire of the mall - Robert Pattinson, the heartthrob star of the coming film adaptation of the vampire romance novel "Twilight," meets his squealing fans....

A teenage vampire tale and its careful retelling - As the legions of teenagers who have read the novel on which the forthcoming film "Twilight" is based know, the awkward passage from youth to maturity isn't the very worst problem an adolescent can have....

A hip-hop writer's wish to reconcile 2 sides of New York - Hoch's show, "Taking Over," about gentrification in New York, is now in previews at the Public Theater and opens next Sunday....

When getting into preschool becomes an obsession - When the filmmaker behind "Nursery University," a documentary about the cutthroat admission process at elite preschools in New York, set out to make his film, he found that he couldn't get in, either....

Book review: 'American Lion' - Andrew Jackson's domestic life in the White House is a tale of revenge....

For Buffalo, New York, an architectural crossroads - Local preservationists are completing restorations on some of the most important landmarks in Buffalo, New York, while the federal government is considering a plan that could wipe out part of a historic neighborhood....

Kanye West, Lindsay Lohan, Ann Curry - A roundup of the day's celebrity news....

Recessionary design: A boom time for creative energy - Design has always coped well with austerity, and is especially well-equipped to do so now....

Bond film is tops at U.S. box office - The new James Bond film sold an estimated $70.4 million in tickets at North American theaters, setting an opening-weekend record for the franchise....

Beyoncé: Ready to shed her good-girl image? - In her new movie "Cadillac Records," Beyoncé Knowles swaggers and swears through her performance as Etta James....

Events at the Old Operating Theatre Museum - The latest events held by the Museum...

Grants received by the Old Operating Theatre Museum - Details of grants and projects undertaken by the Museum ...

Development Plan for the Old Operating Theatre Museum - Opportunity to look at the plans to improve the Museum - could we purchase the Church below the herb Garret?...

News from the Old Operating Theatre Museum - News from our Home Page...

History of Medicine Pages - Major rewrite of the History of Medicine Page ...

Latest Press Releases from the Museum - The latest press releases from the Old Operating Theatre Museum ...