Arts and Culture

EFG Bank's Bespoke Art Parties Cultivate New Collectors: A. Craig Copetas Let other bankers chase rich folks seeking a piece of the $2.7 billion worth of loot at this week’s 23rd European Fine Art Fair in the Dutch city of Maastricht.

Morgan Stanley Woman Becomes `Iron Chef' After Meeting Ramsay: Interview It’s a fast-paced environment where orders are shouted, politeness is a luxury and a split- second decision can mean the difference between success and failure.

Dubai's Debt Blues Drowned Out by Chopin, Marsalis in Abu Dhabi: Preview Pianist Yundi Li and saxophonist Wynton Marsalis are names not often associated with Abu Dhabi, home to more than 7 percent of the world’s oil supply.

Tom Ford Sells Huge Self-Portrait by Andy Warhol Wearing Purple Fright Wig Fashion designer Tom Ford is selling a 9-foot-square, purple-hued “Self Portrait” by Andy Warhol at Sotheby’s New York in May.

Hammy Feinstein, Droll Dame Edna Join Egos in `All About Me': John Simon “All About Me” on Broadway is a folie a deux starring Barry Humphries (aka Dame Edna) and Michael Feinstein, which may strike you as likely as a joint recital by Renee Fleming and Beyonce: What could these two possibly have in common?

Aniston Snatched by Bounty Hunter; Jude Law Hunts for Organs: Rick Warner My favorite bounty-hunter movie is “Midnight Run,” featuring Robert De Niro as a divorced cop hired to capture an unlikely criminal for a big paycheck.

Nazi Purge Sent Big Name Brains to America, Driving Research: Lewis Lapham Adolf Hitler came to power in January, 1933, and by spring, he had enacted a law called “The Restoration of the Professional Civil Service” to purge Jews from university jobs. By the end of October, Albert Einstein arrived in the United States, a refugee from Nazi Germany.

Hamlet in Raincoat, Bloody Ophelia, Where's Denmark? Manuela Hoelterhoff To flee or not to flee? That was the question when the Metropolitan Opera staged Ambroise Thomas’s “Hamlet” Tuesday night after dropping the piece for more than a century.

Art Dealer Salander Pleads Guilty in Fraud That Took In De Niro, McEnroe Art dealer Lawrence B. Salander, accused of conducting the largest art fraud in New York history, pleaded guilty today.

Jaguar Ends Years of Boring Sedans With Cool $115,000 XJ: Jason H. Harper Parked on a pebbly shoulder, nose pointed down a skinny country lane, the new Jaguar XJ hums quietly in the sunshine.