Events: August 25, 2012
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 Nathaniel Rich
August 23, 2012 – August 26, 2012
The Gueydan Duck Festival
Duck Festival Park, Gueydan
Of the more than 400 festivals held in Louisana this year, the crowning glory is the Duck Festival, held in Gueydan, the self-proclaimed “Duck Capital of America.”
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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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Selected by Dominique Nabokov
July 16, 2012 – September 8, 2012
Daisy Chain
Cheim & Read, New York
A solo exhibition of the work of Bianca Casady, an experimental folk musician known to many as a singer and lyricist in the “freak folk” musical duo, CocoRosie, that explores “ideas of gender and race, especially as they are played out in prison.”
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