Arts and Culture

Spitzer Tell-All Reveals Desperate Plan to Beat Hookergate: Book Review At 10:37 p.m. on March 9, 2008, Lloyd Constantine was contacted by a weepy New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who told him, “I have been involved with prostitutes -- I can’t continue as governor and must resign.”

Salander Art to Be Sold as Top Creditor First Republic Makes Concessions European sculpture and paintings entangled in what prosecutors called the biggest art fraud in New York history are headed to auction.

Glutton Fights Global Warming, Womanizes in McEwan Farce `Solar': Books To take global warming seriously would mean thinking about it all the time, says a character in Ian McEwan’s new novel. And that’s impossible, she adds: “Daily life would not allow it.”

Mystery Faces Intrigue in London Show of African Sculpture: Martin Gayford The wonderful show at the British Museum, “Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures From West Africa,” is a tribute to the expressive qualities of the human face.

Valerie Harper's Boozy Tallulah; Tragic Love in `Next Fall': John Simon Valerie Harper does a bravura turn on Broadway as Tallulah Bankhead in Matthew Lombardo’s “Looped.

Steaks, Giant Burgers Beckon From Hidden, Retro-Chic Clubs: Sydney Dining In the middle of Martin Place, in the heart of Sydney’s banking district, stands a strange mushroom-shaped building that the city’s bankers, lawyers and secretaries walk past daily. Few know what lies inside.

Diageo Sell-Off Brings Deep Bordeaux Discounts as 2007s Arrive: Elin McCoy “What’s terrifying,” said John Kolasa, managing director of Bordeaux chateau Rauzan-Segla, “is what will happen to Bordeaux wines in America now that Diageo has bowed out.”

Performance Art Empress Engages MoMA Visitors in Staring Contest: Review Marina Abramovic, the empress of international performance art, sits silently at a small table in the soaring atrium at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

Disney's `Alice' Is Top Film for Second Weekend, Followed by `Green Zone' “Alice in Wonderland,” the Lewis Carroll tale re-imagined in 3-D by director Tim Burton, was the top film in the U.S. and Canada for a second straight weekend, bringing in $62 million in ticket sales for Walt Disney Co.

Michael Lewis Faults `Short-Term Greedy,' Cites Goldman in Book: Interview Michael Lewis made a name for himself on Wall Street by writing about it. His 1989 book, “Liar’s Poker,” exposed the inner workings of Salomon Brothers, a firm then at the peak of its power, and described his improbable run as a bond salesman there.