Arts and Culture

Chuck Prince Dances, Banks Play Chicken: Game Theory for Financial Crisis When John Q. Public views the credit crisis, he sees pinstriped bankers getting bailouts and the worst global stock-market slump in more than three decades.

Tate Modern Co-Creator Blazwick Puts London's Whitechapel Back on Art Map It was the place where Picasso's ``Guernica'' had its only U.K. show, and where David Hockney and Gilbert & George made their debut. Now London's Whitechapel Gallery is revving up to reopen after a 13.5 million pound ($20 million) expansion that aims to put it back on the art map.

Infiniti FX Gets Groceries With Sports-Car Style, Speed: Jason H. Harper Funny how quickly the language of design changes. When the Infiniti FX first hit the roads in 2003 as a so-called ``crossover,'' many thought it was a strange beast. It was as big as an SUV, yet its lines and proportions were like a sports sedan's.

U.K. Heritage Fund Gives $15 Million To Help Buy $75 Million Titian Work The U.K.'s National Heritage Memorial Fund said it is giving 10 million pounds ($15 million) to help the nation buy a 50 million pound painting by Titian, ``Diana and Actaeon,'' making the biggest contribution to the campaign.

Bill Clinton, `Rock Stars' of Fine Coffee Help Transform Rwanda's Economy As Christy Thorns, the coffee buyer for Allegro Coffee Co., which supplies Whole Foods Market Inc., sniffed, slurped and spit her way through 24 Rwandan coffees on her evaluating table, she discovered a taste she wasn't used to from that country.

U.K. Amateur Digger Hits Gold, Reveals $540,000 Iron-Age Necklace in Field A gold-and-silver Iron Age necklace discovered by an amateur digger was one of 749 found treasures reported today by the British Museum as part of the annual Portable Antiquities Scheme.

Prison-Trained Dogs Help Maimed American War Veterans Find Freedom, Hope In a bomb blast in Iraq last year, U.S. Army Sergeant Mary Dague lost both her arms. She has found new ones.

`Holocaust Musical' Team Defends London Project Inspired by Warsaw Ghetto From time to time, some music-theater friends come up with unlikely subjects for musicals. Like, ``Telephone Directory Spectacular'' or ``Crochet on Ice!'' Now the press has dubbed a new London show ``The Holocaust Musical.''

Vampires Turn Lovable; Weinstein Buys `Osage' Film Rights: Hollywood Buzz Vampires are getting a makeover in Hollywood.

Gehry Adds Ears, Python Stairs to Art Gallery of Ontario: James S. Russell Along Toronto's Dundas Street, a bulging, frozen wave of reflective glass looks poised to break over the fussy Victorian brick houses across the street. At each end, the taut membrane of glass abruptly curls up. Frank Gehry has put ears on the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Skip Lunch: Kill Stress With a `Manly-Cure,' Power Pod Nap, Ice-Cold Bath There's more Russian than English spoken at the Wall Street Bath and Spa in Manhattan's financial district.

Con Men Mizners Scam, Sing in Sondheim's Traveling `Road Show': John Simon ``Road Show,'' the Stephen Sondheim- John Weidman musical now at New York's Public Theater, has had more titles than British royalty.