Events: February 12, 2013, NYR and NYRB
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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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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