NYT > Arts Always in Its Element, No Matter the Weather Maya Lin’s “Storm King Wavefield” can be observed through the changing seasons. Books of The Times: How Colombia Meets America, but Not Quite In “Vida” Patricia Engel’s world is caught between Colombia and the United States, and truly at home in neither. Television: Postracial Vigilantes in a World in Peril “Sons of Anarchy,” which has presciently captured the nativist strain running on the edges of American life, begins its third season on FX on Tuesday. Tate Modern Expansion Is the Cost of Success Despite the rocky economy and the recent announcement of government cutbacks for arts financing, the Tate Modern in London is growing. Film: Movies, Mountains and High Hopes At the Telluride Film Festival, some of the fall’s most anticipated movies get a test run. Beach Reads Finished, It’s Time for the Big Books Publishing’s fall schedule includes books by Bob Woodward, Keith Richards, George W. Bush and Jon Stewart. Provocateur Returns to P.S. 1, but Not to Provoke The performance artist Ann Liv Young returned on Sunday to MoMA P.S. 1 to discuss her appearance in February, which ended in the museum turning the lights off on her. Music Review: Hard-Driving Star D.J.’s Serve Up the Thumps The stars of the Electric Zoo festival at Randalls Island were the trance-inducing D.J.s Television Review | 'My Trip to Al-Qaeda': Variations on a Theme of International Terrorism Lawrence Wright expands on his one-man theatrical look at Al Qaeda, which was based on his book “The Looming Tower.” After Tough Year, New York’s Haitians Gather In Brooklyn, a musical festival called J’ouvert helped to usher in the West Indian American Carnival. Music: In Japan, a Frail Osawa Conducts Only One Tchaikovsky Movement The Japanese conductor Seiji Osawa has been in ill health, which limited his participation at the Saito Kinen Festival in Matsumoto. Music Review: A Musical Question: Does a Quartet Sound Different in the Dark? Georg Friedrich Haas’s String Quartet No. 3 was performed in an entirely dark hall, with members of the JACK Quartet seated in four corners of the space. The Week Ahead: Sept. 5 — Sept. 11 A listing of cultural events this week. Dark Mysteries, Written From a Bright Beach The British novelist Colin Cotterill, who lives on a Thai beach, stands apart from his books’ setting, the Communist Laos of the 1970s. Die-Hard Fans Follow Iron Maiden Into the Digital Age The success of Iron Maiden's latest album and the continued loyalty of its fans offer the troubled music industry some tips on survival in the digital age. Looking at Digital Downsides A multipurpose digital printer — one that can scan, fax, make copies and print photos — is an inexpensive technical marvel. Yet it has some glaring flaws: It’s unattractive and unsustainable. Review: In Venice, Feting Architecture (or Is It Art?) Under the curatorship of Kazuyo Sejima, the 12th Architecture Biennale is above all marked by its diversity, unified under the usefully unspecific overarching title of “People meet in architecture.”' Review: Venice Festival Opens With Glimpses Into the Pitfalls of Passion Darren Aronofsky’s in-competition movie “Black Swan” and Tran Anh Hung’s “Norwegian Wood” tell of the agonies of professional dancing and of triangles within triangles. Crescendo, in Double Time Russians entered the French festival scene this summer with an open throttle and an open checkbook.