Events: February 25, 2013, Exhibition
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 Francine Prose
February 22, 2013 – March 23, 2013
Thomas Nozkowski: Recent Work
Pace Gallery, New York
The luminous pentimento of Thomas Nozkowski’s work can make one imagine that a Renaissance master—say, Pisanello—has been reincarnated as a contemporary abstract painter.
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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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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.
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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.
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Reviewed in the NYRblog
February 15, 2013 – April 28, 2013
Marcel Proust and Swann’s Way: 100th Anniversary
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York
In the NYRBlog, Colm Tóibín writes, “Visitors lining up to see the word “madeleine” as it appeared in Proust’s handwriting for the first time are in for a shock.”
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Selected by Philip Gossett
February 20, 2013 – May 12, 2013
Picasso and Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
This exhibition is drawn largely from the city's own private collectors and from the Art Institute itself, so it does not simply show off what is well known or has been often reproduced.
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