Events: November 10, 2012
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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Reviewed in the NYRblog
October 11, 2012 – January 27, 2013
Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Is photography a way of documenting the world that has an inherent “truth-claim” on the real? Or is it, as the photographer Edward Steichen suggested, essentially graphic, a technique for creating a certain kind of image?
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Selected by Dominique Nabokov
October 30, 2012 – March 28, 2013
‘The Orphan of Zhao’
Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
The Royal Shakespeare Company, under the direction of RSC Chief Associate Director Gregory Doran, presents James Fenton's new adaptation of this classic play--sometimes called the Chinese Hamlet.
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Selected by Francine Prose
October 24, 2012 – April 14, 2013
The Postcard Age: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection
Museuem of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston
How tepid and colorless the text message and the tweet seem compared to these mini-masterpieces of snail mail.
Category: Exhibition