Arts & Entertainment

A thriller that bears the stamp of Hitchcock
By Scott Harrah
Prolific playwright Theresa Rebeck — author of recent off-Broadway hits like last winter¹s ³The Scene² with Patricia Heaton and Tony Shaloub — makes her Broadway debut with her most intriguing work yet, ³Mauritius.²

Koch on Film

Nearing 80, and no loss for words
By JERRY TALLMER
 In the beginning was the word Š
³When you pick up a script of Edward¹s,² said Bill Irwin, who had been so self-effacingly brilliant in ³Who¹s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?² and ³The Goat,² both by Edward Albee, ³you look at a page of dialogue and feel the electricity of it.

The mystery of the precocious painter
By Steven Snyder
Given the unsolved mysteries and the still-surging intellectual debates brought to life by Amir Bar-Lev¹s rattling documentary ³My Kid Could Paint That,² its title seems a little too sure of itself

Wes Anderson, king of tongue-in-cheek, gets spiritual
By Steven Snyder
As the years have dragged on, the quirky worlds of Wes Anderson have been imitated and replicated more times than one can count.

Pool Art Fair makes a splash at Hotel Chelsea
By Debra Jenks
The fourth annual Pool Art Fair was a refreshingly populist addition to the staggering swell of international art fairs.

Joseph Solman: Still life at 98
BY ABBY LUBY
Veteran artist Joseph Solman sat in a worn recliner in his living room, its walls bedecked with richly colored portraits and street scenes that he¹s painted over the last 80 years, many in the same sixth-floor apartment on 10th St. and Second Ave. where he¹s lived and worked for the past five decades. Oddly out of place in his living room was a large, flat-screen TV.

Linda Troeller makes room for herself at fair
BY ABBY LUBY
It was advertised as ³Art Attack: Pool New York,² and many of the Chelsea Hotel¹s resident artists were invited to exhibit their work in 15 pre-selected rooms. But by the time resident photographer Linda Troeller got the invite from curator Giorgio Handman, all the rooms were taken.