Events: July 10, 2012
Selected by Mark Ford
April 4, 2012 – August 19, 2012
Titian at the National Gallery
The National Gallery, London
There are two small exhibitions of works by Titian at the National Gallery, and both will take your breath away.
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Selected by Joyce Carol Oates
Ongoing
‘A Streetcar Named Desire’
Broadhurst Theatre, New York
A powerful production of a multi-racial Streetcar Named Desire directed by Emily Mann, on Broadway.
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Selected by Martin Filler
May 12, 2012 – August 27, 2012
‘Heinrich Kuehn and His American Circle’ at Neue Galerie
The Neue Galerie, New York
The forgotten Austrian pioneer is rediscovered in “Heinrich Kuehn and His American Circle: Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen,” at New York’s Neue Galerie.
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Selected by Dominique Nabokov
May 18, 2012 – September 2, 2012
Christer Strömholm: Les Amies De Place Blanche
The International Center of Photography, New York
The Swedish photographer Christer Strömholm is particularly famous for his depictions of the transsexuals he befriended in Paris' Place Blanche in the 1950s, the subject of this moving exhibition.
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Reviewed in the NYR
May 24, 2012 – September 2, 2012
The Early Dürer
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
In the August 16 issue, Willibald Sauerländer writes: "The crown jewel of the Nuremberg show is the panel with the Adoration of the Magi that may have been in Wittenberg. This picture must put to rest any reservations about Dürer as a painter."
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Reviewed in the NYR
May 23, 2012 – September 3, 2012
Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
In the June 21 issue, Martin Filler writes: "Though well selected, this retrospective does not substantially alter what we already knew about this astonishingly prolific, technically adept, but only sporadically engaging virtuoso."
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Reviewed in the NYR
May 15, 2012 – September 3, 2012
Bellini, Titian, and Lotto: North Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
In the August 16, 2012 issue, Sanford Schwartz writes: "Moroni’s portrait of an intent young man, and the artist’s hardly less phenomenal portrait of a little girl, make this show momentous."
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Reviewed in the NYR
April 4, 2012 – September 9, 2012
Damien Hirst, an exhibition at Tate Modern
Tate Modern, London
In the May 24 issue, Julian Bell writes: "One reason to visit the Damien Hirst retrospective at London’s Tate Modern is to meet the drunken butterflies."
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