Almost forgot: We ran some stuff besides our Filmfest DC coverage this week. Jeffry Cudlin takes the Smithsonian American Art Museum to task for placing painter George Ault in context he doesn't belong. Tricia Olszewski reviews In a Better World, which won this year's best foreign film Oscar. Bob Mondello reviews a world-premiere musical that seems [...]

Twenty-five-year-old Chinese-Australian bassist Linda Oh knows more about tension and release on her instrument than do many bassists twice her age. It helps, of course, that on Entry (her leadership debut), Oh works with two of the most disciplined and creative young musicians in New York: drummer Obed Calvaire, whose flexibility belies his tautness, and [...]