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Until Nov. 21 Museo di Roma in Trastevere % 32-2519-8677 Until Nov. 2, 2009 www.corpus-delicti.be % 39-06-5816-563 www.museodiromaintrastevere.it Cologne art Stockholm “Gerhard Richter” exhibits 40 paint- photography ings by the German artist (born 1932) “Nuevas Historias—A New View of with a focus on abstract works pro- Spanish Contemporary Photography” duced between 1986 and 2006. shows work by Spanish artists Jordi Museum Ludwig Bernadó, Isidro Blasco, Bleda y Rosa, Until Feb. 1 Alicia Martin, Mireya Masó and others. % 49-221-2212-6165 Kulturhuset Stockholm www.museenkoeln.de Until Jan. 25 % 46-8-5083-1508 Düsseldorf www.kulturhuset.stockholm.se art “As Far as the Eye Can See— Tours Lawrence Weiner” is a retrospective art of conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner “The Pleasure of Taste—French Paint- (born 1942). ing at the Time of Madame de Pompa- K21 Kunstsammlung im Hamburger Kunsthalle by 25 contemporary conceptual artists Palazzo Reale dour” exhibits 60 paintings by the Ständehaus Until Jan. 18 from Russia. 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Confessions from Teitur Golf’s lessons in humility W16 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL v Top Picks 8-11 | Cover story Film 12 | Books DISTINCTIVE PROPERTIES &ESTATES Contents Updike on aging friends t A rich culture, fed by oil 3 | Fashion Ensemble power Cat lady Berlin n history How movie stars make magic Acentury ago,half oftheworld’soil came Men’s style goes ‘extreme banker’ Doris Lessing from one place: Baku, the capital of Azer- when working as a team baijan, located on a stretch of Caspian coastline so rich with petroleum and nat- Collecting: Avant-garde fashion 13 | Sports ural gas deposits that the ground could actually catch on fire. Baku, a traditional meeting point of the Ottoman, Persian 4 | Music Golf’s lesson in humility and Russian Empires, was transformed by the oil boom. European and local oil Confessions of Teitur barons reinvented the city, importing Eu- Literary trio’s fish story ropean-style luxuries while pioneering the use of the oil tanker. Baku is currently 5 | Games undergoing a second oil boom, with off- 14 | Taste shore deposits providing profits. Both oil booms are evident in a lavish LittleBigPlanet’s dreamworld exhibition at Berlin’s Ethnological Mu- Jan who? seum, called “Azerbaijan: Land of Fire,” which chronicles 5,000 years of history 6-7 | Food & Drink and culture in the Caucasus, with high- 15 | Top Picks lights from Baku’s major museums. It’s all here: Bronze Age relics; medieval Islamic Wine: Australia’s ceramics; 19-century handicrafts; early Plus: Indie films on the Web, and Events in Berlin, Paris and Linz 20th-century political caricatures; late bright spot 20th-century political propaganda; and Morgenstern reviews ‘W.’ contemporary Azerbaijani art. Ensemble performances and star turns: Top row (from left to right): Russell Crowe of “American 16 | Time Off The variety of objects is dazzling, but Making a bad Gangster” and “L.A. Confidential,” Tom Cruise in “Magnolia” and Cameron Diaz in “Being John Malkovich.” the carpets are a standout. The most im- Middle row (from left to right): Jeff Bridges in “The Big Lebowski,” Julia Roberts and George Clooney of “Ocean’s Eleven” and Cate Blanchett in “I’m Not There.” Front row (from left to right): Meryl Streep in “A pressive are the Karabakh carpets, cocktail better t Prairie Home Companion,” Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will Be Blood” and Jack Nicholson in “Chinatown.” Our arts and culture calendar marked by dramatic colors and geomet- Cover illustration: Drew Friedman ric forms, produced in the 19th century, WSJ.com when Azerbaijan’s carpet industry reached a highpoint. Around the corner from the carpets, a slideshow docu- ments life in Baku during the first boom with a parade of images featuring medi- World’s horse race Raw power New Chandigarh? FLORENCE-TUSCANY Elizabeth Blackshire Editor eval-looking barbershops, Dickensian oil Panoramic position on the hills This weekend’s Breeders’ Cup Top sushi chefs are autocrats Population growth is Craig Winneker Deputy editor derricks and elegant boulevards. is inaugurating a new track in their domain, and fans pressuring Le Corbusier’s Fahire Kurt Art director —J.S. Marcus PRESTIGIOUS Kathleen Van Den Broeck Assistant art director Until Nov. 16 surface. How will it play? love it. Indian city. Matthew Kaminski Taste page editor % 49-30-8301-438 ANTIQUE HAMLET WSJ.com/Sports WSJ.com/Food WSJ.com/Asia Questions or comments? 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