Events: July 16, 2012
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 J. Hoberman
July 13, 2012 – July 19, 2012
‘Bonsái’
San Francisco Film Society Cinema, San Francisco
With its shabby locations, deadpan exchanges, and a lively indie-rock score, Bonsái is a small, grounded cumulatively poignant tragicomedy of student-boho life.
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Selected by Colin Thubron
July 14, 2012 – July 20, 2012, 7:30 pm
The Royal Ballet performs ‘Metamorphosis: Titian 2012’
The Royal Opera House, London
The Royal Ballet reimagines paintings—the three great Titian canvases of the goddess Diana—in dance.
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Selected by Marie d’Origny
July 13, 2012 – July 26, 2012
Gene Kelly @ 100
Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York
On the occasion of Gene Kelly’s 100th birthday, The Film Society of Lincoln Center is showing twenty-three films starring the brilliant dancer, actor, director, and choreographer.
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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 James Gleick
July 13, 2012 – August 1, 2012
Christian Marclay’s ‘The Clock’
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, New York
Christian Marclay’s day- and night-long masterpiece, composed of thousands of clips spanning the history of cinema, forms a kaleidoscopic lens into the culture’s experience of time.
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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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