Events: December 9, 2012
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 Cathleen Schine
December 9, 2012, 3 pm
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
First United Methodist Church, Santa Monica
Musica Angelica, the wonderful Baroque ensemble for which traffic-averse early music lovers on the west side of Los Angeles are eternally grateful because they are so good and because they are not downtown, is performing Bach's Christmas Oratorio.
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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
December 7, 2012 – December 13, 2012
‘Ornette: Made in America’
The New Beverly Cinema, Los Angeles
A portrait of “free jazz” genius Ornette Coleman, Shirley Clarke’s last and least-known feature is the movie she was born to make.
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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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