Events: August 14, 2012
August 14, 2012, 7 pm
Small Press Book Club: Stefan Zweig’s “Post Office Girl”
The Community Bookstore, Brooklyn
Discuss, explore, or nod along in sympathetic agreement with Michele Filgate, at the Community Bookstore, as she heads the Small Press Book Club meeting on Stefan Zweig's Post Office Girl.
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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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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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