Events: NYR and NYRB
February 2, 2013, 1:30 pm
Richard Greeman on Victor Serge’s Russian Heritage
Brecht Forum, New York
This inaugural lecture is designed as an introduction to the reading of Serge’s Memoirs of a Revolutionary, the complete English translation of which has just been published by NYRB.
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February 5, 2013, 7:30 pm
Celebrating 50 Years of ‘The New York Review’
The Town Hall, New York
Spend an evening with contributors John Banville, Mary Beard, Michael Chabon, Mark Danner, Joan Didion, Daniel Mendelsohn, Darryl Pinckney, along with editor Robert B. Silvers.
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February 9, 2013, 1:30 pm
Richard Greeman on Victor Serge and the Novel of the Revolution
Brecht Forum, New York
This second lecture is designed as a general introduction to the reading of Serge’s seven surviving novels.
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February 11, 2013, 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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February 12, 2013, 7 pm
A Short Performance and Discussion of Raymond Kennedy’s ‘Ride a Cockhorse’
The Irish Repertory Theatre, New York
Stephen Ruddy, director of Upright Citizens Brigade’s “Gravid Water,” directs a performance of select scenes from Raymond Kennedy’s darkly comic 1991 novel, recently reprinted by NYRB Classics.
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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.
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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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