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The Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City is one of the art world's most significant events, featuring often politically charged works by more than 100 emerging and established talents.

The new novel by Camilla Gibb tells the story of what happens to a young Irish girl abandoned in Morocco when her parents are murdered. Alone in the world, her search for home and family takes her down some surprising paths.

Perhaps only Hans Zimmer could compose a sweepingly atmospheric score befitting the much anticipated Da Vinci Code movie. The Academy Award-winner has composed some of Hollywood's best-known films including Gladiator and The Thin Red Line.

Our film critic reviews Mission: Impossible III, starring Tom Cruise and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan summarizes what film critics are saying about this weekend's major movie releases: Just My Luck, Poseidon and Keeping Up with the Steins.

British actress Helen Mirren, perhaps best known for her long-running role as Det. Supt. Jane Tennison on TV's Prime Suspect, has had two quite closely related roles recently. She plays Elizabeth I in a new HBO four-part miniseries premiering April 22; then she appears as Elizabeth II in The Queen, a film from Stephen Frears.

The East Village Opera Company is a New York City musical group that mixes opera with rock. The group is made up of a five-piece band, a string quartet and two vocalists. Barrett Golding reports on how the group finds inspiration in music from another era.

Donald Bogle, a renowned expert on black cinema, recently teamed up with Turner Classic Movies to present a series on the evolution of African-Americans in film. Bogle talks about some of his movie choices.

Hear a summary of what the critics are saying about this week's new movies, from from online magazine Slate: Reign Over Me, Shooter and The Last Mimzy.

Mike Binder has directed nine feature films. In Reign Over Me, he gives a serious — an extremely serious — part to the comic Adam Sandler, who plays a man whose life is destroyed by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.