Featured Event
Selected by Francine Prose
February 8, 2013 – August 4, 2013
Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
The bottle cap has never looked more transcendently beautiful than it does in the art of El Anatsui.
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Last Chance
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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Last Chance
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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Last Chance
Selected by J. Hoberman
May 10, 2013 – May 24, 2013
Revelations of a Fallen World: The Cinema of Arturo Ripstein
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Heir to Luis Buñuel, and godfather of the Mexico’s new cinema, Ripstein has over the past four decades developed a distinctive hallucinatory, darkly comic cantina naturalism.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
May 24, 2013 – May 26, 2013
Ken Jacobs at Anthology
Anthology Film Archives, New York
The dean of avant-garde film artists is being recognized by two New York institutions, The Museum of Modern Art and Anthology Film Archives. The Anthology program (titled “Insistent Clamor Forever”) offers an idiosyncratic career retrospective.
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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."
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Reviewed in the NYR
February 26, 2013 – May 27, 2013
Paris: The Thrill of the Modern
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
In the May 9 issue, Anka Muhlstein writes, “What makes this exhibition so interesting is the concept of the modernity of art as it was understood by the artists of the last half of the nineteenth century.”
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Selected by J. Hoberman
Ongoing
‘Leviathan’
Laemmle's Music Hall 3, Los Angeles
This documentary made aboard a commercial fishing boat out of New Bedford abstracts the harvesting and processing of seafood into a vision of terrible beauty.
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Selected by Yasmine El Rashidi
June 9, 2013, 7 pm
A Tale From Baghdad
Durham Cathedral, Durham
Chirine Al-Ansary's performance at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Durham Cathedral will borrow from the tales of the Thousand and One Nights, with new anecdotes and insight from the present.
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June 7, 2013 – June 9, 2013
NYRB at Left Forum 2013
Pace University, New York
New York Review Books is pleased to take part in this year's Left Forum, June 7–9, at Pace University.
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Selected by Ingrid D. Rowland
March 5, 2013 – June 16, 2013
‘Titian’ in Rome
Scuderie del Quirinale , Rome
Titian visited Rome twice in his life, and now he is back with forty paintings for an exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome.
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