Events: March 7, 2013
March 7, 2013, 7 pm
Celebrate the launch of a new poetry series—NYRB Poets
Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Cambridge
Come celebrate the beginning of NYRB Poets, a series which will continue the eclectic, adventurous spirit of NYRB Classics with a focus on the most vital, various, and universal form of literature: poetry.
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March 7, 2013, 7 pm
Greil Marcus: Jay DeFeo and All That Jazz
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
In conjunction with Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective, author and critic Greil Marcus will discuss the influence of jazz on DeFeo’s stylistic inventions, physical processes, and improvisational approach to materials.
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March 7, 2013, 7 pm – 9:30 pm
L’enfance nue and Renata Adler
92Y Tribeca, New York
A panel of writers will discuss Renata Adler's importance as a novelist and journalist and also her brief but brilliant stint as a film critic.
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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 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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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.
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