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June 22, 2013 – June 23, 2013
Philosophy as a Humanist Discipline
Wadham College, Oxford
A conference to mark the 50th anniversary of The New York Review of Books and to honor the lives, work, and legacy of Isaiah Berlin, Stuart Hampshire and Bernard Williams.
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Last Chance
Selected by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
June 14, 2013 – June 23, 2013
Schubertiade
Angelika Kauffmann Hall, Schwarzenberg
This is the place for those whose aural palates are jaded by commercialized opera, and who find the human voice at its most beautiful in art song.
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Selected by Martin Filler
March 10, 2013 – June 24, 2013
Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Go see MoMA’s “Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light” for the ravishing Beaux-Arts watercolors and some of the most marvelous building models you’ll ever encounter.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
June 18, 2013
‘Marketa Lazarová’ on DVD
Criterion Collection, New York
Unexpectedly appearing on DVD, Frantisek Vlacil’s medieval epic is justly considered a national masterpiece by the Czechs.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
June 19, 2013, 7:30 pm
The Cinema of Scientology
The Cinefamily, Los Angeles
An unpredictable event scheduled in the midst of an ongoing, thoroughly outré series of movies screening under the rubric “Sects, Cults and Mind Control,” this evening promises all manner of celluloid material on the Church of Scientology.
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Selected by NYR Staff
June 27, 2013 – June 29, 2013
A Dancer’s Dream: Two Works by Stravinsky
Avery Fisher Hall, New York
This adaptation of two of Stravinsky's ballets—Petrushka and Le Baiser de la Fée—emphasizes the disorderly, dream-like quality of both works.
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Reviewed in the NYR
May 28, 2013 – June 30, 2013
Sontag: Reborn
New York Theatre Workshop, New York
In the July 11 issue, Elaine Blair writes, "Reborn is an affectionate portrait of Sontag, but it is one that plays her for laughs. Though this is a one-woman show, we in the audience are always watching two different Susans."
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Selected by J. Hoberman
June 5, 2013 – July 8, 2013
Allan Dwan and the Rise and Decline of the Hollywood Studios
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Dwan directed Mary Pickford and Shirley Temple at their heights, and Ronald Reagan in the twilight of his career, but he’s most fondly remembered by film historians as a prolific problem-solver who adroitly handled whatever came his way.
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July 8, 2013, 7 pm
A Tribute to Russell Hoban
McNally Jackson Books, New York
To celebrate the publication of Turtle Diary, NYRB Classics and McNally Jackson are organizing a tribute to Russell Hoban, author of many books for children and adults, who died in December 2011.
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Selected by Andrew Butterfield
June 1, 2013 – July 15, 2013
The Boxer at Rest
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
One of the great masterpieces of Hellenistic sculpture is making a brief visit to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Selected by Francine Prose
February 8, 2013 – August 4, 2013
Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
The bottle cap has never looked more transcendently beautiful than it does in the art of El Anatsui.
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