Events: December 6, 2012
Selected by Cathleen Schine
December 6, 2012, 6 pm – 8 pm
A Lecture on P. T. Barnum and Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bard Graduate Center, New York
Why these two together? I can't imagine, but I feel either one could come up with a compelling reason.
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December 6, 2012, 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Daniel Mendelsohn at the Free Library of Philadelphia
Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
Daniel Mendelsohn will talk about his new collection of essays on the classics and popular culture, Waiting for the Barbarians.
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December 6, 2012, 6 pm – 10 pm
Mark Lilla speaks at Evoke 2012
The US Consulate, Mumbai
Mark Lilla will speak on the topic of Faith at EVOKE 2012: Beauty-Money-Sexuality-Love-Violence-Faith-Substance.
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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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