Events: November 18, 2012
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 J. Hoberman
Ongoing
‘Lincoln’
Regal Union Square 14, New York
High-minded yet somber, the much awaited Steven Spielberg-Tony Kushner adaptation promises to be the Popular Front sensation of 2012
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Selected by Dominique Nabokov
November 8, 2012 – December 22, 2012
The Photography of Leon Levinstein
Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
A last minute call to see (a must), Leon Levinstein's (1910-1988) exhibition of 50 vintage black and white photographs.
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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
October 14, 2012 – January 13, 2013
Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
The National Gallery of Art, Washington
Though well selected, this retrospective does not substantially alter what we already knew about this astonishingly prolific, technically adept, but only sporadically engaging virtuoso.
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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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