Events: March 26, 2013
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.
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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 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.
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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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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.
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Reviewed in the NYR
February 12, 2013 – May 19, 2013
Piero della Francesca in America
The Frick Collection, New York
In the March 21 issue, Walter Kaiser writes, “What, in the end, is most idiosyncratic about the quattrocentro artist Piero della Francesca is the essential nature of his mind, which was molded both by artistic and by mathematical perceptions.”
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Reviewed in the NYR
January 24, 2013 – May 26, 2013
Artist and Visionary: William Matthew Prior Revealed
The American Folk Art Museum, New York
In the May 9 issue, Sanford Schwartz writes, “This exhibition of the mid-nineteenth-century portraitist William Matthew Prior refutes the idea that antebellum American artists usually showed African-Americans in a trivializing manner.”
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Reviewed in the NYRblog
March 5, 2013 – May 27, 2013
‘Street’
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
On the NYRblog, J. Hoberman writes: "An engrossing and celebratory hour-long video projection of life in New York City."
More InformationCategory: Film and Exhibition