Events: February 6, 2013
February 6, 2013, 6:30 pm
Yasmine El Rashidi and Michael Walzer discuss the Arab Spring at CUNY
The Graduate Center, New York
Join two eminent writers and experts on the Middle East, Yasmine el Rashidi and Michael Walzer, as they seek to illuminate these vexed political circumstances with an eye toward what the future portends.
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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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January 18, 2013 – February 17, 2013
‘La Rendición’
Teatro María Guerrero, Madrid
A one-woman stage adapation of Toni Bentley's memoir, The Surrender, described by Zoe Heller as "a manifesto for anal sex."
More InformationCategory: Theater
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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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.
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