Events: March 30, 2013
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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Selected by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
March 8, 2013 – April 7, 2013
Tiepolo in Udine
Udine Castle, Udine
Two shows of the paintings of Giambattista Tiepolo have been staged at Udine. Together they encourage a visitor to explore all the other work by the painter strewn around Udine, which may well be the least frequented Italian city with such riches.
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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.
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.
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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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Selected by J. Hoberman
Ongoing
‘Room 237’
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, New York
Thanks to DVD and the internet, The Shining has become the subject of elaborate exegeses which are themselves the subject of Rodney Ascher’s documentary feature.
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