Selected by Martin Filler
May 10, 2012 – May 12, 2012
‘Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting’ at the Frick
The Frick Collection, New York
Visit Manhattan’s Frick before May 13th to see “Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting.”
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May 15, 2012, 6 pm
‘Pakistan on the Brink’ with Ahmed Rashid
The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, Louisville
Ahmed Rashid speaks of the possibilities and perils of the future in Pakistan.
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Selected by Darryl Pinckney
May 17, 2012, 7 pm
James Fenton interviewed by Robyn Creswell
The New York Public Library, New York
Robyn Creswell, the poetry editor of The Paris Review, and a fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, will interview the poet James Fenton on stage at the New York Pubic Library.
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Selected by Cathleen Schine
May 22, 2012, 8 pm
Due Bassi: Virtuosic Baroque Duets for Violoncello and Viola da Gamba
St. Peter's Church, New York
The program features works by Boismortier, Corelli, Geminiani, Mondoville and the sublime Rameau.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
May 27, 2012, 5:30 pm
Werner Schroeter Retrospective
Museum of Modern Art, New York
The most over stimulating day of MoMA’s Werner Schroeter retrospective features consecutive screenings of two echt underground features by the German equivalent of Jack Smith.
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Selected by Cathleen Schine
January 21, 2012 – May 27, 2012
Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945–1982
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs
Hockney photos, beefcake, Marylin, Liberace arm wrestling Rock Hudson, glorious mid-century architecture: this is a mesmerizing exhibit.
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Reviewed in the NYR
February 28, 2012 – June 3, 2012
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
In the April 26 issue, Michael Kimmelman writes: "This exhibition lavishes attention on Gertrude’s remarkable brothers, Leo and Michael, and her equally remarkable sister-in-law, Sarah."
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Reviewed in the NYR
May 1, 2012 – June 9, 2012
Lucian Freud Drawings
Acquavella Galleries, New York
In the June 21 issue, Sanford Schwartz writes, "'Lucian Freud Drawings' is an inviting and somewhat informal overview of Freud's entire working life.
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