Events: October 13, 2012
Selected by Dominique Nabokov
October 10, 2012 – November 30, 2012
A Celebration of Harold Pinter
The Irish Repertory Theatre, New York
In this homage to Harold Pinter, the English actor Julian Sands, who worked with the playwright, honors him with a grace, a warmth, a moving kindness, a sense of humor and also a precision that is surely an act of love.
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Selected by Cathleen Schine
July 27, 2012 – December 2, 2012
London and New York Street Photography (1860–2010)
Museum of the City of New York, New York
A photography exhibit with 160 images of London street scenes and another 30 of New York by photographers like Jacob Riis, Berenice Abbot, Helen Levitt, William Klein, Nan Goldin, Joel Meyerowitz, John Thompson, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and more.
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Selected by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
September 15, 2012 – December 9, 2012
Bronze
Royal Academy, London
When we admire the beauty and intricacy of bronze sculptures in great museums we may not think much about the medium itself, but we can think harder at the astonishing exhibition called simply “Bronze.”
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Selected by Nathaniel Rich
Ongoing
Room 220 Live Prose Reading Series
Press Street, New Orleans
Room 220 is the only place to find serious (and also irreverent) discussion of literature in New Orleans. Its fall reading series begins September 27.
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Selected by Nathaniel Rich
September 1, 2012 – December 31, 2012
Walter Inglis Anderson and Christopher Stelby: Two Exhibitions
Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs
Anderson’s work is a sublime tribute to the wonders of the natural world. His ecstatic use of color, particularly in his watercolors and murals, gives his art a mesmerizing, psychedelic quality.
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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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