Events: January 13, 2013
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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Selected by J. Hoberman
January 4, 2013 – January 13, 2013
First Look 2013
Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria
The second edition of the Museum of the Moving Image’s “First Look” opens with the local premiere of Bressonian brutalist Bruno Dumont’s Outside Satan.
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Reviewed in the NYR
October 8, 2012 – January 14, 2013
Late Raphael
The Louvre, Paris
In the January 10 issue, Ingrid Rowland writes, “‘Late Raphael’ focuses special attention on two of Raphael’s closest associates, Giulio Romano and Gianfrancesco Penni.”
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December 21, 2012 – January 20, 2013
An Iliad
The Studio Theater, Washington
An Iliad, co-written by the actor Denis O’Hare and the theater director Lisa Peterson, bravely attempts to encompass Homer's 15,693-line epic in a 90 minute monologue.
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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?
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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.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
January 11, 2013 – January 31, 2013
New Yawk New Wave
Film Forum, New York
New York supported a scrappy, streetwise off-Hollywood well before the coinage “American independent.” “New Yawk New Wave” surveys the movement from Kubrick’s Killer’s Kiss through Scorsese’s Mean Streets.
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