Events: October 24, 2012, NYR and NYRB
October 24, 2012, 7 pm – 9 pm
Daniel Mendelsohn at the powerHouse Arena
The powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn
The New York Review of Books cultural critic comes to powerHouse for an evening to discuss his collection of essays on classical and popular culture.
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Reviewed in the NYR
October 23, 2012 – November 17, 2012
The Tempest
The Metropolitan Opera, New York
In the December 6 issue, Geoffrey O'Brien writes, “Thomas Adès’s opera The Tempest is certainly a rare occasion—when was the last time the Met presented a contemporary opera with the composer conducting?”
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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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Reviewed in the NYR
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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