Selected by James Gleick
July 13, 2012 – August 1, 2012
Christian Marclay’s ‘The Clock’
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, New York
Christian Marclay’s day- and night-long masterpiece, composed of thousands of clips spanning the history of cinema, forms a kaleidoscopic lens into the culture’s experience of time.
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Selected by Dominique Nabokov
June 22, 2012 – August 3, 2012
Martine Franck: Peregrinations
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
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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Selected by J. Hoberman
August 6, 2012, 6:45 pm
‘Lonesome’
Film Forum, New York
A wonderful celebration of 1920s New York, Paul Fejos’s charming partial-talkie is also a poignant evocation of anonymity amid the metropolitan crowd.
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August 7, 2012, 7 pm
Katherine Powers and David Gordon read from ‘Ride a Cockhorse’
Porter Square Books, Cambridge
Katherine Powers and David Gordon read from Ride a Cockhorse and reflect upon their friendship with novelist, Raymond Kennedy.
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Selected by Larry McMurtry
August 10, 2012 – August 11, 2012, 10 am – 7 pm
BOOKS: LOTS OF BOOKS: TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION 10-11 AUGUST
Booked Up, Archer City
Booked Up, the Antiquarian Bookshop owned by the Novelist Larry McMurtry, is disposing of the stock from three of its four buildings. Booked Up will sell hundreds of thousands of books by the shelf lot.
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Selected by Martin Filler
May 17, 2012 – August 12, 2012
‘Bauhaus: Art as Life’ at the Barbican
Barbican Art Gallery, London
Design aficionados who missed the epic 2009 Bauhaus surveys held in New York and Berlin to mark the ninetieth anniversary of the renowned modern art-and-architecture school can make up for this loss by viewing the 400 works in “Bauhaus: Art as Life.”
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Reviewed in the NYR
April 1, 2012 – August 12, 2012
Renoir. Between Bohemia and the Bourgeoisie: The Early Years
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
In the August 16 issue, Willibald Sauerländer writes: "This exhibition shows us Renoir’s work before his 'Arcadian turn,' that is, from the years before his social and commercial success."
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Selected by J. Hoberman
August 11, 2012 – August 12, 2012
‘The Leopard’
Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria
Mutilated on its initial American release, this sumptuous historical drama—more pageant than action film, less reconstruction than reverie—has an artistry that’s only comprehensible in the uncut Italian version, projected on the big screen.
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