Events: February 11, 2013, NYR and NYRB
February 11, 2013, 7 pm
Daniel Mendelsohn with John Freeman at The Morgan Library and Museum
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York
To mark the publication of his latest collection of review-essays, Waiting for the Barbarians, Daniel Mendelsohn discusses the ethics and pleasures of reviewing with John Freeman, editor of the prestigious literary magazine Granta.
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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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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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