Events: February 11, 2013
Selected by J. Hoberman
January 19, 2013 – April 7, 2013
Werner Schroeter: Magnificent Obsessions
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
Schroeter's most visionary movies—the willfully crude, aggressively campy low-budget opera-travesties he made in the late 1960s and early 1970s—were a significant influence on both Fassbinder and Syberberg.
More InformationCategory: Film
Selected by Ingrid D. Rowland
Ongoing
Teatro Valle Occupato
Teatro Valle, Rome
When the City of Rome decided to sell off the eighteenth-century horseshoe theatre a group of outraged (and talented) citizens took it over as squatters. Thanks to them, the Teatro Valle Occupato presents a full program of theatre and music.
More InformationCategory: Exhibition, Festival and Dance
Selected by Francine Prose
October 24, 2012 – April 14, 2013
The Postcard Age: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection
Museuem of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston
How tepid and colorless the text message and the tweet seem compared to these mini-masterpieces of snail mail.
Category: Exhibition
Selected by Ingrid D. Rowland
February 2, 2013 – May 19, 2013
Pietro Bembo and the Invention of the Renaissance
Palazzo del Monte di Pietà, Padova
Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) romanced Lucrezia Borgia, climbed Mount Etna and invented the semicolon. Titian painted his portrait. An exhibition in Padua focuses on the man and his collection, both extraordinary.
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Reviewed in the NYR
January 24, 2013 – May 26, 2013
Artist and Visionary: William Matthew Prior Revealed
The American Folk Art Museum, New York
In the May 9 issue, Sanford Schwartz writes, “This exhibition of the mid-nineteenth-century portraitist William Matthew Prior refutes the idea that antebellum American artists usually showed African-Americans in a trivializing manner.”
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Selected by Francine Prose
February 8, 2013 – August 4, 2013
Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
The bottle cap has never looked more transcendently beautiful than it does in the art of El Anatsui.
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Selected by Cathleen Schine
January 23, 2013 – September 15, 2013
Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers
Museum of the City of New York, New York
A micro room of our own: the Museum of the City of New York has a new exhibit called "Making Room" that presents a welcome antidote to the swollen McMansion: minute spaces beautifully designed.
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