Events: June 21, 2012
June 21, 2012, 6 pm
Los Angeles NYRB Meet Up
Library Bar, Los Angeles
Meet and mingle with New York Review Books staff and fellow NYRB enthusiasts.
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June 21, 2012, 6:30 pm – 8 pm
How Stable is China?
Asia Society, New York
Can China enjoy a second change of leadership without crisis? Will one-party rule become an impediment to the country's future modernization and prosperity? What are the obstacles standing in the way of political and further economic reform?
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Selected by Joyce Carol Oates
June 21, 2012 – June 30, 2012, 8 pm
‘As You Like It’ in Central Park
The Delecorte Theater in Central Park, New York
Wildly inventive and imaginative, with an outstanding performance by Lily Rabe as Rosalind, and original bluegrass music by Steve Martin, the Public Theater's production of As You Like It would be at the top of anyone's summer theater list.
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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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Selected by Mark Ford
Ongoing
Queen Elizabeth Hall Roof Garden
The Southbank Centre, London
This has just reopened and is one of the nicest spots in the whole of London.
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Selected by Martin Filler
May 17, 2012 – August 12, 2012
‘Bauhaus: Art as Life’ at the Barbican
Barbican Art Gallery, London
Design aficionados who missed the epic 2009 Bauhaus surveys held in New York and Berlin to mark the ninetieth anniversary of the renowned modern art-and-architecture school can make up for this loss by viewing the 400 works in “Bauhaus: Art as Life.”
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