Arts and Culture

How Much Does Cancer Cost? $2 Million, One Husband Finds Out: Book Review It would be a feat to cram more misery into a novel than Lionel Shriver gets into “So Much for That.”

Huston Brought Joyce's `Dead' to Life, Guided Brando's Gay Soldier: DVDs John Huston’s final film, “The Dead” (1987), is also one of his best. His first film, released 46 years earlier, was “The Maltese Falcon.” Not a bad pair of bookends.

Medical Glitches, Investor Cocaine Brain Aided With Checklist: Interview As the global rates of surgery grew, so did the damage: A million patients a year died during medical procedures and more than 7 million were left disabled. The World Health Organization turned to Dr. Atul Gawande to come up with a low-cost solution.

J.P. Morgan's Favored Madeira Wines Make Seductive Comeback: Elin McCoy John Pierpont Morgan liked to sip old vintages of Madeira with his fellow industrialists while cruising New York harbor on his steam yacht Corsair.

`Freakonomics' Documentary to Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival in April “Freakonomics,” a documentary based on the best-selling book about the relationship between economics and human behavior, will have its world premiere April 30 at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival.

Picasso's Impoverished Friend May Now Be Worth $60 Million: Martin Gayford It is ironic that Pablo Picasso’s 1903 “Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto” is predicted to fetch as much as 40 million pounds ($60 million) at a Christie’s International auction in London on June 23.

Hatch the Dog Returns to Henry VIII's Mary Rose 465 Years After Sinking A dog that once roamed Henry VIII’s warship the Mary Rose -- which sank 465 years ago -- has been given a royal homecoming on the English coast, as her skeleton enters the museum dedicated to the sunken vessel.

Princess Diana's Family Sells Rubens Portrait in $29 Million Home Clearout A painting by Peter Paul Rubens that hung in the childhood home of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, is among 20 million pounds ($29 million) worth of Spencer family possessions being sold in London this summer.

Jeff Koons Curating Debut Features Tycoon's Candy Giants, Jesus: Review A Bunyonesque muscleman with stuffed squirrels crawling up his tree-trunk-like legs and an 8- foot-tall fashionista are just two of the outsized works in “Skin Fruit: Selections From the Dakis Joannou Collection” at New York’s New Museum.

Japanese Duo Gets $100,000 Pritzker Prize for Brainy, Boxy Designs: Review Big square windows appear to have landed at random on the walls of the Zollverein School of Management and Design in Essen, Germany, as if dropped there by a passing breeze. It’s the work of Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, who yesterday won their profession’s most prestigious award.