Events: December 1, 2012
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 J. Hoberman
November 15, 2012 – December 2, 2012
The Rolling Stones: 50 Years on Film
Museum of Modern Art, New York
There’s more depth than might appear in this ferociously crowd-pleasing retrospective.
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November 7, 2012 – December 3, 2012
Do the Math Road Tour
Town Hall Seattle, Seattle
Based on Bill McKibben’s widely read Rolling Stone article, “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math,” “Do The Math” aims to raise awareness of the climate crisis and challenge the power of the fossil-fuel industry head-on.
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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 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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