Events: March 17, 2013
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.
More InformationCategory: Exhibition, Festival and Dance
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.
Category: Exhibition
Selected by Philip Gossett
March 7, 2013 – April 14, 2013
Proof
Court Theatre, Chicago
Seeing Charles Newell’s production of Proof is one of the most remarkable evenings in the theater you will ever have.
More InformationCategory: Theater
Selected by Philip Gossett
March 9, 2013 – April 14, 2013
Measure for Measure
The Goodman Theatre, Chicago
The director Robert Falls is always capable of illuminating a text, and in this case he treats Shakespeare's "black comedy" as "black as pitch," especially by imposing a shocking ending.
More InformationCategory: Theater
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.”
More InformationCategory: Exhibition
Selected by Hugh Eakin
March 9, 2013 – April 28, 2013
The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New Beginning
The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington
What do Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Thomas Jefferson, and David Ben-Gurion have in common? More than we might think, according to a remarkable new exhibition about the Cyrus Cylinder, a 6th-century BC Babylonian text praising Cyrus the Great.
More InformationCategory: Exhibition
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.
More InformationCategory: Exhibition
Selected by Ingrid D. Rowland
February 2, 2013 – May 19, 2013
Pietro Bembo and the Invention of the Renaissance
Palazzo del Monte di Pietà, Padova
Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) romanced Lucrezia Borgia, climbed Mount Etna and invented the semicolon. Titian painted his portrait. An exhibition in Padua focuses on the man and his collection, both extraordinary.
More InformationCategory: Exhibition