Events: August 19, 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 Geoffrey Wheatcroft
August 17, 2012 – August 24, 2012
Le nozze di Figaro
Glyndebourne, Lewes
No opera means more to Glyndebourne than Le nozze di Figaro, conducted this summer by Robin Ticciati.
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Selected by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
August 19, 2012 – August 26, 2012
Ravel Double Bill
Glyndebourne, Lewes
Maurice Ravel wrote only two operas, entirely different but both perfect one-act miniatures, now on display in a new double-bill at Glyndebourne.
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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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