Signs of status (The News Journal)

Treasures of bygone era about more than utility on a hot day

'Retrospective': Been There, Sold That (The New York Sun)

'Retrospective," a group show at Gagosian's 21st Street gallery, is like a summer concert festival with some very promising, big-name acts. Its organizing principle, the ways a major artist looks back and reassesses his — unfortunately, in this case, only his — career, also strikes a promising note. Too bad, then, that so many of these guys showed up out of shape, like Vegas has-beens listlessly ...

A Charred Landscape (Washington Post)

CHASING DARKNESS By Robert Crais Simon & Schuster. 273 pp. $25.95 At the start of Robert Crais's 11th Elvis Cole novel, a fire has broken out in the Hollywood Hills and is sweeping through Laurel Canyon. A young cop and an old cop on the scene "could smell the fire -- it was still a mile away...

Exhibition of Photographs by Abelardo Morell Surveys Artist's Career (Art Daily)

Abelardo Morell, The Metropolitan Opera: Romeo and Juliet Set, 2005. Gelatin silver print, 17 13/16 x 22 5/16 in. (45.3 x 56.7 cm). Courtesy Abelardo Morell and Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York.

Priceless playbill briefly on display after 200 years (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)

This earliest surviving document printed in Australia will be on show at the National Library in Canberra this afternoon.