Events: October 11, 2012, NYR and NYRB
October 11, 2012, 12:30 pm
A talk by Peter Bush, translator of Tyrant Banderas, Baruch College (NYC)
Baruch cam Baruch Vertical Campus, New York
The translator will discuss his experience of reading the novel and the challenges of writing a new translation – the first into English since 1929 – of Valle’s Cubist, cartoon and camp representation of dictatorship in Latin America.
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October 11, 2012, 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Raise a Glass to Kingsley: A Celebration of Kingsley Amis with NYRB Classics and Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Housingworks Bookstore Cafe, New York
To celebrate the re-release of two books by iconic British author Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim and The Old Devils, New York Review of Books Classics and Vol. 1 Brooklyn present an evening dedicated to his life and work.
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Reviewed in the NYR
September 29, 2012 – January 6, 2013
Camille Corot: Nature and Dream
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
In the December 6 issue, Willibald Sauerländer writes, “For the first time in Germany we have a comprehensive show of the work of Camille Corot in all its facets.”
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Reviewed in the NYR
August 12, 2012 – January 7, 2013
Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist’s Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets
Museum of Modern Art, New York
In the November 22 issue, Sanford Schwartz writes, "Something like a romance with European life and culture seems to be at the center of the art of Timothy and Stephen Quay, currently the subject of an overdue retrospective at MoMA."
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Reviewed in the NYR
September 14, 2012 – January 13, 2013
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde
Tate Britain, London
In the November 22 issue, Julian Bell writes, "This exhibition is not only compendious, bringing together almost every major innovative painting of mid-nineteenth-century Britain along with work in a host of other media. It is provocative."
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October 8, 2012 – January 14, 2013
Late Raphael
The Louvre, Paris
In the January 10 issue, Ingrid Rowland writes, “‘Late Raphael’ focuses special attention on two of Raphael’s closest associates, Giulio Romano and Gianfrancesco Penni.”
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