Events: January 17, 2013
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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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.
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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.
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Selected by Yasmine El Rashidi
Ongoing
‘Argo’
Angelika Film Center, New York
Not quite flattering to the Iranian regime, Argo has received much attention in the Middle East.
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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.”
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