The Torlonia Marbles: Collecting Masterpieces
an exhibition at the Capitoline Museums, Rome, October 14, 2020–June 29, 2021 (currently closed due to Covid-19 restrictions)
The Exterminating Angel
an opera by Thomas Adès, with a libretto by Tom Cairns in collaboration with the composer; performed by Amanda Echalaz, Audrey Luna, Alice Coote, Joseph Kaiser, Rod Gilfry, Christine Rice, Iestyn Davies, and others; the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Thomas Adès
Adès Conducts Adès: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra and Totentanz
performed by Kirill Gerstein, Mark Stone, Christianne Stotijn, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy
by Leslie Brody
Vincent van Gogh: A Life in Letters
edited by Nienke Bakker, Leo Jansen, and Hans Luijten
Vincent’s Books: Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him
by Mariella Guzzoni
Divorcing
by Susan Taubes, with an introduction by David Rieff
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Michelangelo’s Sculpture: Selected Essays
by Leo Steinberg, edited by Sheila Schwartz
Michelangelo’s Painting: Selected Essays
by Leo Steinberg, edited by Sheila Schwartz
Renaissance and Baroque Art: Selected Essays
by Leo Steinberg, edited by Sheila Schwartz
After Michelangelo, Past Picasso: Leo Steinberg’s Library of Prints
an exhibition at the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, February 7–May 9, 2021
MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang
by Steven Dudley
Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas
by Roberto Lovato
The Hollywood Kid: The Violent Life and Violent Death of an MS-13 Hitman
by Óscar Martínez and Juan José Martínez, translated from the Spanish by John B. Washington and Daniela Ugaz
State of War: MS-13 and El Salvador’s World of Violence
by William Wheeler
The Sleeve Should Be Illegal and Other Reflections on Art at the Frick
edited by Michaelyn Mitchell, with a foreword by Adam Gopnik
Holbein’s Sir Thomas More
by Hilary Mantel and Xavier F. Salomon
Constable’s White Horse
by William Kentridge and Aimee Ng
Rembrandt’s Polish Rider
by Maira Kalman and Xavier F. Salomon
Vermeer’s Mistress and Maid
by James Ivory and Margaret Iacono
Gouthière’s Candelabras
by Edmund de Waal and Charlotte Vignon
A Ghost in the Throat
by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway
by Despina Stratigakos
Legacies of the Nazi Camps in Norway: Falstad 1941–49
by Trond Risto Nilssen and Jon Reitan
Kathe—Always Been in Norway
by Espen Søbye, translated from the Norwegian by Kerri Pierce, with an introduction by Sarah Wildman
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Committed
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
by Alice L. Baumgartner
Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker
by David Mikics
A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology
by Toby Wilkinson
Barra and Zaman: Reading Egyptian Modernity in Shadi Abdel Salam’s The Mummy
by Youssef Rakha
Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb
a documentary film directed by James Tovell