Events: June 3, 2012
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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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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Reviewed in the NYR
February 26, 2012 – June 11, 2012
Cindy Sherman
Museum of Modern Art, New York
In the June 7 issue, Sanford Schwartz writes, "Sherman—who is now, at fifty-eight, the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art—has shown herself to be a witty and shrewd social observer."
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Reviewed in the NYR
February 18, 2012 – June 16, 2012
The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde 1860–1900
The Legion of Honor, San Francisco
In the February 23 issue, Richard Dorment writes: "The Cult of Beauty is a groundbreaking exhibition about Aestheticism in all its forms."
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Reviewed in the NYR
March 14, 2012 – July 8, 2012
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition (7th-9th Century)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
In the May 10 issue, Peter Brown writes: "The foundation of the Arab empire has been called ‘one of the most remarkable achievements in human history.’ Byzantium and Islam takes us to the heart of this great detonation."
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