Events: June 7, 2012
June 7, 2012, 7 pm
A conversation with Mark Ford and Jamie McKendrick.
London Review Bookshop, London
Mark Ford in conversation with the poet Jamie McKendrick on the poetry of London.
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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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Selected by Dominique Nabokov
May 10, 2012 – July 19, 2012
Robert Delpire: A Retrospective
The Aperture Foundation, New York
Robert Delpire—a French publisher, curator, and editor who published the work of some of the greatest photographers of the 20th century—is the subject of an ongoing retrospective at no fewer than six galleries throughout New York.
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Selected by Andrew Butterfield
May 1, 2012 – July 29, 2012
Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes
The Frick Collection, New York
This small and exquisite show at the Frick Collection brings out the subtlety of Antico's sculptures, revealing them to be more than just de luxe items for delectation, but also extremely finely calibrated studies of poetic sensibility.
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