Events: February 17, 2013
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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Selected by J. Hoberman
February 14, 2013 – February 17, 2013
‘Modern Romance’ & ‘We Won’t Grow Old Together’
Anthology Film Archives, New York
Calling this show the “Valentine’s Day Massacre,” Anthology’s gutsy programmers have double-billed the two great anti-romances of the 1970s.
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Selected by Gabriel Winslow-Yost
February 15, 2013 – February 17, 2013
IndieCade East
Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria
A festival of independent games with a quirky array of workshops, lectures, contests, and parties.
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February 17, 2013, 4 pm – 6 pm
1913 Armory Show Centennial Event
The Abrons Art Center, New York
The show's opening reception will be preceded by two panel discussions, one on the legacy of the 1913 Armory Show, and the other on perception and art in the digital age.
Category: Exhibition, NYR and NYRB and Readings and Talks
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 J. Hoberman
Ongoing
‘No’
Angelika Film Center, New York
Chilean director Pablo Larrain caps a trilogy of movies concerning the Pinochet dictatorship—it’s a parable with an edge.
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