Events: August 31, 2012
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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Selected by J. Hoberman
August 31, 2012 – September 2, 2012, 8:45 pm
‘The Death of Mr. Lazarescu’
Walter Reade Theater, New York
This ode to mortality--the key work of the new Romanian cinema--is not without a certain grim humor one might call deadpan.
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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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Reviewed in the NYR
April 4, 2012 – September 9, 2012
Damien Hirst, an exhibition at Tate Modern
Tate Modern, London
In the May 24 issue, Julian Bell writes: "One reason to visit the Damien Hirst retrospective at London’s Tate Modern is to meet the drunken butterflies."
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Selected by Dominique Nabokov
June 12, 2012 – September 9, 2012
Misia, reine de Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
An exhibition on Misia Sert, the great patroness of the arts, muse for composers and painters, and arbiter of style in the Paris of the 1920s and 1930s.
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