Selected by J. Hoberman
June 3, 2012, 5:20 pm
Tepepa…Long Live the Revolution
Film Forum, New York
Franco Solinas, who wrote Battle of Algiers, provided a script for Guilio Petroni’s Tepepa…Long Live the Revolution (1969) as though adapting The Wretched of the Earth.
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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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Selected by Colin Thubron
June 3, 2012, 2 pm – 6 pm
Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant
Tower Bridge, London
Royal euphoria peaks on June 3rd, when a flotilla of 1,000 flag-decked steamers, galleys and pleasure craft float down the Thames, headed by the Queen at the age of 85.
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Selected by Mark Ford
June 4, 2012, 10 am
Helen Simpson Reads at the Hay Festival
Hay-on-Wye, Hay-on-Wye
Collections of short stories have been a tough sell in recent decades, so to make a career out of them you have to be very, very good—which Helen Simpson is.
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June 7, 2012, 7 pm
A conversation with Mark Ford and Jamie McKendrick.
London Review Bookshop, London
Mark Ford in conversation with the poet Jamie McKendrick on the poetry of London.
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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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Selected by Garry Wills
April 24, 2012 – June 10, 2012
‘Timon of Athens’
Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago
Starring the brilliant Ian McDiarmid as Timon
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Selected by Colin Thubron
June 8, 2012 – June 10, 2012
Immrama Literary Festival
Lismore, Ireland, Lismore
The small Immrama Literary Festival, dedicated to travel writing, will celebrate the work of Patrick Leigh Fermor, who died last year.
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