Events: September 7, 2012
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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Selected by J. Hoberman
September 7, 2012 – September 12, 2012
Capturing the Marvelous: Ukrainian Poetic Cinema
Walter Reade Theater, New York
The strong strain of folk surrealism that Alexander Dovzhenko introduced to Ukrainian cinema is sampled and celebrated with two of his silent classics, as well as Sergei Parajanov's robust, near delirious Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors and others.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
Ongoing
‘Cosmopolis’
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, New York
Having failed to set La Croisette aflame last May at Cannes, Cronenberg’s utterly faithful and superbly alienated adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel opens wide.
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Selected by Martin Filler
Ongoing
Merriman’s Restaurant
Merriman's Restaurant, Kamuela
Perhaps the best food on the big island of Hawaii can be found at Merriman’s Waimea, near the Kohala Coast’s resorts.
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Selected by Dominique Nabokov
April 13, 2012 – October 7, 2012
Comme des Garçons: White Drama
Les Docks, Paris
This exhibition of Comme des Garçons’ spring/summer 2012 collection—“White Drama”—is one of the first ever to display a designer’s current line.
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Selected by Mark Ford
March 27, 2012 – October 14, 2012
‘The Robinson Institute,’ Patrick Keiller
Tate Britain, London
A must for fans of Keiller’s brilliant condition-of-England films which all chart the eccentric journeys made by his wandering outlaw-scholar, Robinson.
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