Events: Exhibition
Selected by Dominique Nabokov
Ongoing
Louvre-Lens: A New Branch of the Louvre
Louvre-Lens, Lens
The Louvre has opened its first satellite branch in Lens, a former mining town in the Nord-pas-de-Calais region of France.
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Selected by Gabriel Winslow-Yost
February 15, 2013 – February 17, 2013
IndieCade East
Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria
A festival of independent games with a quirky array of workshops, lectures, contests, and parties.
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February 17, 2013, 4 pm – 6 pm
1913 Armory Show Centennial Event
The Abrons Art Center, New York
The show's opening reception will be preceded by two panel discussions, one on the legacy of the 1913 Armory Show, and the other on perception and art in the digital age.
Category: Exhibition, NYR and NYRB and Readings and Talks
Reviewed in the NYR
November 14, 2012 – February 18, 2013
George Bellows: A Retrospective
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
In the December 6 issue, Sanford Schwartz writes, “In Bellows's art one finds, especially in his early pictures, which are among the most beautiful made by an American, that his subject is elusive. It seems to be simply an exuberance in being alive.”
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Reviewed in the NYR
November 18, 2012 – February 25, 2013
Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde
Museum of Modern Art, New York
In the January 10 issue, Ian Buruma writes, “It is a common belief that Japanese are almost congenitally incapable of facing the horrors of the war they unleashed. Some of the art in MoMA’s new show should help to dispel that caricature.”
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Selected by Dominique Nabokov
November 11, 2012 – March 10, 2013
A Harlem Family 1967
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
A gripping work on poverty by the famous African-American photographer, writer, director, and composer Gordon Parks (1912-2008).
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Selected by Francine Prose
February 22, 2013 – March 23, 2013
Thomas Nozkowski: Recent Work
Pace Gallery, New York
The luminous pentimento of Thomas Nozkowski’s work can make one imagine that a Renaissance master—say, Pisanello—has been reincarnated as a contemporary abstract painter.
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Selected by Cathleen Schine
January 15, 2013 – April 6, 2013
Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg
Grey Art Gallery, New York
To go along with your "Howl" twitter feed, an exhibition of Allen Ginsberg's photographs called "Beat Memories."
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