Dominique Nabokov is a French photographer who lives in New York.
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Slide Show: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Genius at Work
April 28, 2010
In this audio slide show, photographer Dominique Nabokov talks about the MoMA’s ambitious new exhibition and the ways in which Cartier-Bresson’s daily works reveal his genius.
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Slide Show: Dominique Nabokov on Robert Frank's Americans
December 24, 2009
Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Frank’s The Americans, the exhibition “Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans” is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City through January 3, 2010. Dominique Nabokov—whose own photographs appear regularly in The New York Review—saw the exhibition both in New York and in Washington, where it originated at the National Gallery of Art. Recently, she stopped by the office to talk about why Frank’s photographs are not only still relevant but also a “miraculous” body of work.
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In The First Place...
April 5, 2013 – April 6, 2013
In the First Place... is a multi-layered dance installation developed from the book Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (The Strife of Love in a Dream), an Italian pastoral romance published in 1499.
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'The Orphan of Zhao'
October 30, 2012 – March 28, 2013
The Royal Shakespeare Company, under the direction of RSC Chief Associate Director Gregory Doran, presents James Fenton's new adaptation of this classic play--sometimes called the Chinese Hamlet.
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A Harlem Family 1967
November 11, 2012 – March 10, 2013
A gripping work on poverty by the famous African-American photographer, writer, director, and composer Gordon Parks (1912-2008).
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Louvre-Lens: A New Branch of the Louvre
Ongoing
The Louvre has opened its first satellite branch in Lens, a former mining town in the Nord-pas-de-Calais region of France.
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The Photography of Leon Levinstein
November 8, 2012 – December 22, 2012
A last minute call to see (a must), Leon Levinstein's (1910-1988) exhibition of 50 vintage black and white photographs.
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The Annie O. Music Series
December 16, 2012 – December 17, 2012
The Annie O. Music series features a pair of performances by Ben Taylor with Grace Weber, and Chris Stills.
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A Celebration of Harold Pinter
October 10, 2012 – November 30, 2012
In this homage to Harold Pinter, the English actor Julian Sands, who worked with the playwright, honors him with a grace, a warmth, a moving kindness, a sense of humor and also a precision that is surely an act of love.
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Comme des Garçons: White Drama
April 13, 2012 – October 7, 2012
This exhibition of Comme des Garçons’ spring/summer 2012 collection—“White Drama”—is one of the first ever to display a designer’s current line.
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Misia, reine de Paris
June 12, 2012 – September 9, 2012
An exhibition on Misia Sert, the great patroness of the arts, muse for composers and painters, and arbiter of style in the Paris of the 1920s and 1930s.
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Daisy Chain
July 16, 2012 – September 8, 2012
A solo exhibition of the work of Bianca Casady, an experimental folk musician known to many as a singer and lyricist in the “freak folk” musical duo, CocoRosie, that explores “ideas of gender and race, especially as they are played out in prison.”
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Christer Strömholm: Les Amies De Place Blanche
May 18, 2012 – September 2, 2012
The Swedish photographer Christer Strömholm is particularly famous for his depictions of the transsexuals he befriended in Paris' Place Blanche in the 1950s, the subject of this moving exhibition.
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Martine Franck: Peregrinations
June 22, 2012 – August 3, 2012
Though Franck is best known for her portraits of artists and writers, the work on display here tends more toward the aesthetic: large gelatin silver prints of abstract landscapes, from Norway, Djibouti, the desert of Wadi Rum, Agadir, Provence.
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Robert Delpire: A Retrospective
May 10, 2012 – July 19, 2012
Robert Delpire—a French publisher, curator, and editor who published the work of some of the greatest photographers of the 20th century—is the subject of an ongoing retrospective at no fewer than six galleries throughout New York.
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The Life and Death of Marina Abramović
June 28, 2012 – June 30, 2012
A delightful “opera” based on the life of the performance artist Marina Abramović.
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The Life and Death of Marina Abramović
June 22, 2012 – June 24, 2012
A delightful “opera” based on the life of the performance artist Marina Abramović.
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The Life and Death of Marina Abramović
June 13, 2012 – June 15, 2012
A delightful “opera” based on the life of the performance artist Marina Abramović.
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Writers' Festival
June 13, 2012 – June 15, 2012
The Writers' Festival—or Festival degli Scrittori—presents each year in Florence a series of conversations, readings, lectures, and more, all designed to call attention to the most original talents in international literature today.