Art Review | ‘Re-Orientations’ : By HOLLAND COTTER
Sometimes in the history of art everything seems to be happening everywhere, all at once. The 16th century was like that. It was a grand global burst of lights. The Ming dynasty in China; the Renaissance in Europe; Islamic empires in India, Iran and Turkey were all burning […]
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By BENEDICT CAREY
A new study has found that rare and previously undetectable genetic variations may significantly increase the risk that a person will develop schizophrenia.
Experts said the study, while not identifying the cause of the disorder, provided a striking demonstration of how new gene-scanning technology can open a new frontier in the quest to understand […]
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Abroad : By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
BERLIN — Onstage and in various exhibitions Berlin this year has been celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Heinrich Zille.
If you’re not German, the name probably rings no bells. But here, where thousands turned out for his funeral in 1929, the famous and the luckless, and where a small […]
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Architecture
By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
The bitter battles over reconstruction plans for ground zero. The unraveling of the Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn. And now this.
Given current economic realities, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s selection on Wednesday of a team led by Tishman Speyer to develop the West Side railyards seems like a wishful fantasy. Yet even if the […]
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In the Garden
By ANNE RAVER
MAYBE it is just sibling rivalry, but I have an uncontrollable urge to grow blueberries this year.
My sister, Martha, who lives in New Hampshire, likes to torture me with stories of canoeing on crystal-clear lakes, where the wild high-bush blueberries hang down over the water and you scoop them into your […]
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By JOHN MARKOFF
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft’s hostile-takeover attempt against Yahoo may encounter an unexpected hurdle in August after a Chinese antimonopoly law takes effect that will extend the nation’s economic influence far beyond its borders.
The law, which goes into effect on Aug. 1, is intended to strengthen an existing set of antitrust regulations the Chinese […]
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