Events: February 12, 2013
February 12, 2013, 7 pm
A Short Performance and Discussion of Raymond Kennedy’s ‘Ride a Cockhorse’
The Irish Repertory Theatre, New York
Stephen Ruddy, director of Upright Citizens Brigade’s “Gravid Water,” directs a performance of select scenes from Raymond Kennedy’s darkly comic 1991 novel, recently reprinted by NYRB Classics.
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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."
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Selected by J. Hoberman
February 8, 2013 – February 17, 2013
A Close-Up of Abbas Kiarostami
Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York
A comprehensive, but not complete, selection of Kiarostami’s narratives, movies for children, documentaries, and digital experiments.
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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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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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Selected by Cathleen Schine
January 15, 2013 – April 6, 2013
Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg
Grey Art Gallery, New York
To go along with your "Howl" twitter feed, an exhibition of Allen Ginsberg's photographs called "Beat Memories."
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