Events: NYR and NYRB
November 7, 2012 – December 3, 2012
Do the Math Road Tour
Town Hall Seattle, Seattle
Based on Bill McKibben’s widely read Rolling Stone article, “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math,” “Do The Math” aims to raise awareness of the climate crisis and challenge the power of the fossil-fuel industry head-on.
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December 6, 2012, 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Daniel Mendelsohn at the Free Library of Philadelphia
Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
Daniel Mendelsohn will talk about his new collection of essays on the classics and popular culture, Waiting for the Barbarians.
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December 10, 2012, 7 pm
Daniel Mendelsohn with John Freeman at The Morgan Library and Museum
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York
To mark the publication of his latest collection of review-essays, Waiting for the Barbarians, Daniel Mendelsohn discusses the ethics and pleasures of reviewing with John Freeman, editor of the prestigious literary magazine Granta.
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December 11, 2012, 7 pm
Building Stories: Chris Ware in conversation with Zadie Smith
The New York Public Library, New York
After the release of Chris Ware's Building Stories and Zadie Smith’s newest novel, NW—an exploration of a set of characters in a London neighborhood—the two will discuss the role of space and place in their own works.
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Reviewed in the NYR
September 29, 2012 – January 6, 2013
Camille Corot: Nature and Dream
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
In the December 6 issue, Willibald Sauerländer writes, “For the first time in Germany we have a comprehensive show of the work of Camille Corot in all its facets.”
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August 12, 2012 – January 7, 2013
Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist’s Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets
Museum of Modern Art, New York
In the November 22 issue, Sanford Schwartz writes, "Something like a romance with European life and culture seems to be at the center of the art of Timothy and Stephen Quay, currently the subject of an overdue retrospective at MoMA."
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Reviewed in the NYR
September 14, 2012 – January 13, 2013
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde
Tate Britain, London
In the November 22 issue, Julian Bell writes, "This exhibition is not only compendious, bringing together almost every major innovative painting of mid-nineteenth-century Britain along with work in a host of other media. It is provocative."
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October 8, 2012 – January 14, 2013
Late Raphael
The Louvre, Paris
In the January 10 issue, Ingrid Rowland writes, “‘Late Raphael’ focuses special attention on two of Raphael’s closest associates, Giulio Romano and Gianfrancesco Penni.”
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