Events: January 5, 2013
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?
More InformationCategory: Exhibition
Selected by J. Hoberman
Ongoing
‘Zero Dark Thirty’
Regal Stadium 13, New York
Kathryn Bigelow, whose last film, The Hurt Locker, was the best Hollywood action flick of the twenty-first century, uses the killing of Osama Bin Laden as the basis for an epic procedural.
More InformationCategory: Film
Selected by Dominique Nabokov
Ongoing
Louvre-Lens: A New Branch of the Louvre
Louvre-Lens, Lens
The Louvre has opened its first satellite branch in Lens, a former mining town in the Nord-pas-de-Calais region of France.
More InformationCategory: Exhibition and Other
Selected by J. Hoberman
December 6, 2012 – February 10, 2013
Art Theater Guild and Japanese Underground Cinema, 1960-1986
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Every year or so there’s a retrospective so comprehensive and rich with little-seen work as to jeopardize one’s day job.
More InformationCategory: Film
Reviewed in the NYR
November 14, 2012 – February 18, 2013
George Bellows: A Retrospective
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
In the December 6 issue, Sanford Schwartz writes, “In Bellows's art one finds, especially in his early pictures, which are among the most beautiful made by an American, that his subject is elusive. It seems to be simply an exuberance in being alive.”
More InformationCategory: Exhibition and NYR and NYRB
Reviewed in the NYR
November 18, 2012 – February 25, 2013
Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde
Museum of Modern Art, New York
In the January 10 issue, Ian Buruma writes, “It is a common belief that Japanese are almost congenitally incapable of facing the horrors of the war they unleashed. Some of the art in MoMA’s new show should help to dispel that caricature.”
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Selected by Dominique Nabokov
November 11, 2012 – March 10, 2013
A Harlem Family 1967
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
A gripping work on poverty by the famous African-American photographer, writer, director, and composer Gordon Parks (1912-2008).
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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.
More InformationCategory: Theater