Events: October 22, 2012
Selected by J. Hoberman
Ongoing
‘Wuthering Heights’
Film Forum, New York
Andrea Arnold’s boldly miserablist, verité-style adaptation evokes the violence of Emily Brontë’s imagination.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
October 17, 2012 – October 30, 2012
‘Holy Motors’
Film Forum, New York
Leos Carax’s first movie in thirteen years is another singular, impressively crazy piece of work.
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Selected by Nathaniel Rich
Ongoing
Bug Appétit
The Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium, New Orleans
Three times a day, chefs from such New Orleans restaurants like Brennan’s and Dooky Chase hold cooking exhibitions in the Bug Appétit room of the Tiny Termite Cafe, serving insect dishes with a Cajun twist.
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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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