Events: August 12, 2012
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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Reviewed in the NYR
April 1, 2012 – August 12, 2012
Renoir. Between Bohemia and the Bourgeoisie: The Early Years
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
In the August 16 issue, Willibald Sauerländer writes: "This exhibition shows us Renoir’s work before his 'Arcadian turn,' that is, from the years before his social and commercial success."
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Selected by J. Hoberman
August 11, 2012 – August 12, 2012
‘The Leopard’
Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria
Mutilated on its initial American release, this sumptuous historical drama—more pageant than action film, less reconstruction than reverie—has an artistry that’s only comprehensible in the uncut Italian version, projected on the big screen.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
Ongoing
‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’
Sunshine Cinema, New York
No recent American independent film has generated more festival excitement than this exuberant faux folktale.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
August 10, 2012 – August 16, 2012
‘Almayer’s Folly’
Anthology Film Archives, New York
A new feature by Chantal Akerman is an event and New York is fortunate to have Anthology Film Archives to give her latest movie a run.
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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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