Events: July 8, 2012
Selected by Cathleen Schine
June 29, 2012 – July 8, 2012
Le Conversazioni
Hotel Punta Tragara, Capri
The most romantic literary gathering the world has ever known. On a piazzeta with views of the Bay of Naples, readings of new, original works in English and Italian.
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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 J. Hoberman
July 6, 2012 – July 12, 2012
‘Daisies’
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn
The most drolly anarchic cine-provocation to bloom during the Prague Spring, Vera Chytilova’s new wave farce looks better every year.
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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 Dominique Nabokov
June 22, 2012 – August 3, 2012
Martine Franck: Peregrinations
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
Though Franck is best known for her portraits of artists and writers, the work on display here tends more toward the aesthetic: large gelatin silver prints of abstract landscapes, from Norway, Djibouti, the desert of Wadi Rum, Agadir, Provence.
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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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