Books
- Eleanor Antin, Historical Takes
Exhibits
- “William Blake’s World: ‘A New Heaven Is Begun’,” Morgan Library
- “A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy,” Morgan Library
- “Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity,” MoMA
Monthly Archives: January 2010
eleanor antin, “historical takes”
Eleanor Antin
Historical Takes
(Prestel, 2008)
I first ran into Eleanor Antin’s work in the Pompidou a few years ago; they were showing an edition of her 100 Boots, which immediately clicked with me: conceptual art that was immediately funny but not stupid, a tricky area to work. She’s someone who pops up in New York with some regularity: Carving was part of the “Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution” show at PS1; her video of herself as The King was at MoMA. I found this book on winter sale in the gift shop at MoMA as well, where I was hoping to find postcards from the Bauhaus show; it’s a catalogue of a show at San Diego Museum of Art a few years back of her stagings (not quite restagings) of classical scenes in the foothills of Southern California. (I don’t know if Francesco Vezzoli’s Caligula is likely to hold up as well as Antin’s The Death of Petronius (2007) as a representation of the last decade’s excesses.) There’s a good interview with her by Max Kozloff and a pair of contextualizing essays by Betti-Sue Hertz and Amelia G. Jones.
But mostly this book is about the photographs. They’re not quite as immediate as 100 Boots, as one can’t look at these photographs without knowing there’s a subtext that needs to be unpacked. Antin’s playing with representations of women, obviously; scenes of Roman decadence set in what’s obviously southern California carry a weight now that might not have been foreseen when the book was published, presumably the middle of 2008 when the exhibition started. Antin’s also engaging with digital manipulation: the frontispiece, Constructing Helen (from Helen’s Odyssey), 2007, shows men sculpting a body several times their size, the body of a woman made to look like she’s made of marble. Not all are as blatant in their manipulation of photographs, but how the conventions of art is clearly a major subject: models posed as they would be in an Alma-Tadema or Poussin look astonishingly fake. Animals prove endearingly unwilling to be posed.
The strongest sequence (and the most remarked upon in the book’s text) is Helen’s Odyssey, a recasting of her story. The centerpiece is two versions of Judgment of Paris (after Rubens): Paris chooses between a bandoliered Athena with an automatic rifle, a vamping Aphrodite, and a 1950s housewife Hera, all posed before a painted backdrop that wouldn’t be out of place in an Italian restaurant. Helen, at the margins of the painting, looks directly at the viewer; going back to Rubens, we find that she’s not there at all.
The King of Solana Beach makes a welcome but short appearance at the end of the book, as do photographs from Angel of Mercy and part of Recollections of My Life with Diaghilev 1919–1929 by Eleanora Antinova, an alter ego. They’re fantastic short narratives; one wishes for a collected edition of Antin’s work. I can’t find fault with this book, though; it’s beautifully produced, and being too short isn’t the worst crime. I’d love to see the actual photographs.
a list
Martha. A list.
Maryas. A list.
Marius. A list.
Martha
Maryas. A list.
Martha
Maryas. A list lost.
Martha. A list lost reminds her of a fire lost. Smoke is not black nor if you turn your back is a fire burned if you are near woods which abundantly supply wood.
Maryas. A list lost does not account for the list which has been lost nor for the inequality of cushions shawls and awls. Nowadays we rarely mention awls and shawls and yet an awl is still used commercially and a shawl is still used is still used and also used commercially. Shawls it may be mentioned depend upon their variety. There is a great variety in calculation and in earning.
Marius. A list.
Mabel. A list.
Martha. A list.
Martha. There is great variety in the settlement of claims. We claim and you claim and I claim the same.
Martha. A list.
Maryas. And a list.
Mabel. I have also had great pleasure from a capital letter.
Martha. And forget her.
Maryas. And respect him.
Marius. And neglect them.
Mabel. And they collect them as lilies of the valley in this country.
Martha. A list.
(Gertrude Stein, from “A List,” p. 401 in Ulla Dydo’s A Stein Reader. Cited in William Gass’s “I’ve Got a Little List”.)
samuel r. delany, “the orchid”
A 1971 film by Samuel R. Delany, on Youtube in four parts:
my year in books, 2009
(alphabetized by author)
Fiction
- Jessica Abel, La Perdida
- Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre, Fantômas (trans. unknown)
- Chloe Aridjis, Book of Clouds
- Paul Auster, City of Glass (adaptation by Paul Karasik & David Mazzucchelli)
- Donald Barthelme & Seymour Chwast, Sam’s Bar: An American Landscape
- Roberto Bolaño, Amulet (trans. Chris Andrews)
- Jane Bowles, Two Serious Ladies
- Jane Bowles, My Sister’s Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
- Dino Buzzati, The Siren: A Selection from Dino Buzzati (trans. Lawrence Venuti)
- Dino Buzzati, Poem Strip, Including an Explanation of the Afterlife
- Julio Cortázar, 62: A Model Kit (trans. Gregory Rabassa)
- Julio Cortázar, We Love Glenda So Much, and Other Tales (trans. Gregory Rabassa)
- Julio Cortázar, All Fires the Fire (trans. Suzanne Jill Levine)
- Stanley Crawford, Gascoyne
- Stanley Crawford, Travel Notes (from here—to there)
- Stanley Crawford, Log of the S. S. The Mrs. Unguentine
- Stanley Crawford, Some Instructions to My Wife Concerning the Upkeep of the House and Marriage and to my Son and Daughter Concerning the Conduct of their Childhood
- John Crowley, Love & Sleep
- John Crowley, Dæmonomania
- John Crowley, Endless Things
- John Crowley, Novelties & Souvenirs
- R. Crumb, The Book of Genesis Illustrated
- Robertson Davies, Fifth Business
- Robertson Davies, The Manticore
- Robertson Davies, World of Wonders
- Gideon Defoe, The Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists
- Samuel R. Delany, The Fall of the Towers
- Samuel R. Delany, Equinox
- Samuel R. Delany, Hogg
- Thomas M. Disch, 334
- Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz (trans. Eugene Jolas)
- Geoff Dyer, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
- Dave Eggers, How the Water Feels to the Fishes
- Stanley Elkin, Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers
- Stanley Elkin, The Dick Gibson Show
- Stanley Elkin, A Bad Man
- Stanley Elkin, The Franchiser
- Stanley Elkin, The Magic Kingdom
- Brian Evenson, The Open Curtain
- Brian Evenson, Last Days
- Brian Evenson, Fugue State: Stories
- Ronald Firbank, The New Rythum and Other Pieces
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tales of the Jazz Age
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
- Max Frisch, I’m Not Stiller (trans. Michael Bullock)
- Carlos Fuentes, Where the Air Is Clear (trans. Sam Hileman)
- Kenneth Gangemi, Corroboree
- Kenneth Gangemi, The Interceptor Pilot
- Henry Green, Blindness
- Henry Green, Living
- Henry Green, Loving
- Henry Green, Party Going
- Garth Risk Hallberg, A Field Guide to the North American Family
- Tove Jansson, Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Book 4
- Gabriel Josipovici, Everything Passes
- Franz Kafka, Amerika: The Missing Person (trans. Mark Harman)
- Robert Kelly, Cities
- Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O— (trans. Richard Stokes)
- Eric Kraft, Flying Home
- D. H. Lawrence, The Plumed Serpent
- Stephen Leacock, Nonsense Novels
- Ursula Le Guin, The Word for World Is Forest
- John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In (trans. Ebba Segerberg)
- Gary Lutz, Partial List of People to Bleach
- Genevieve Manceron, The Deadlier Sex (trans. Jonas Berry & Lawrence G. Blochman)
- Giorgio Manganelli, Centuria: 100 Ouroboric Novels (trans. Henry Martin)
- Sarah Manguso, Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape
- Micheline Aharonian Marcom, The Mirror in the Well
- David Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp
- James McCourt, Now Voyagers: The Night Sea Journey
- Joseph McElroy, Ancient History: A Paraphase
- Herman Melville, ; or The Whale (ed. Damion Searls)
- Joe Meno, The Boy Detective Fails
- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
- Alberto Moravia, Journey to Rome (trans. Tim Parks)
- Vítězslav Nezval, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (trans. David Short)
- Amélie Nothomb, Tokyo Fiancée (trans. Alison Anderson)
- Toby Olson, The Blond Box
- Georges Perec, Life a User’s Manual
- Georges Perec, 53 Days (ed. Harry Mathews & Jacques Roubaud, trans. David Bellows)
- Georges Perec (et al.), Winter Journeys
- Georges Perec with Harry Mathews, Cantatrix Sopranica L.: Scientific Papers
- Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
- Thomas Love Peacock, Crotchet Castle
- Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
- Aaron Petrovich, The Session
- Charles Portis, The Dog of the South
- Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: A Question of Upbringing
- Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: A Buyer’s Market
- Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: The Acceptance World
- Marcel Proust, The Lemoine Affair (trans. Charlotte Mandell)
- Ann Quin, Berg
- Jean Ricardou, Place Names: A Brief Guide to Travels in the Book (trans. Jordan Stump)
- Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo (trans. Margaret Sayers Peden)
- Damion Searls, What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going
- Richard Sennett, The Craftsman
- Leanne Shapton, Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry
- Dash Shaw, Bottomless Bellybutton
- Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (trans. Robert Fitzgerald & Dudley Fitts)
- Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (trans. Robert Fitzgerald)
- Sophocles, Antigone (trans. Robert Fitzgerald & Dudley Fitts)
- Adalbert Stifter, Rock Crystal (trans. Elizabeth Mayer & Marianne Moore)
- Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Camera (trans. Matthew B. Smith)
- Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
- Deb Olin Unferth, Minor Robberies
- Eloy Urroz, The Obstacles (trans. Ezra Fitz)
- Noël Vexin, Murder in Montmartre (trans. Jonas Berry & Lawrence G. Blochman)
- Robert Walser, The Tanners (trans. Susan Bernofsky)
- Edmund White, The Beautiful Room Is Empty
- Edmund White, The Farewell Symphony
- Edmund White, Fanny: A Fiction
- Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
- Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator
- Gene Wolfe, The Sword of the Lictor
- Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
- Stephen Wright, M31: A Family Romance
- Unica Zürn, Dark Spring (trans. Caroline Rupprecht)
- Job (NRSV)
Poetry
- John Ashbery, Rivers and Mountains
- John Ashbery, Some Trees
- John Ashbery, The Tennis Court Oath
- John Ashbery, The Double Dream of Spring
- John Ashbery, Houseboat Days
- John Ashbery, Shadow Train
- John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
- John Ashbery, A Wave
- John Ashbery, And the Stars Were Shining
- John Ashbery, Three Poems
- bpNichol, The Alphabet Game: a bpNichol reader (ed. Darren Wershler-Henry & Lori Emerson)
- Clark Coolidge, Odes of Roba
- Robert Creeley, Words
- Paul Fattaruso, Bicycle
- Heather Green, No Omen
- Ernest Hilbert, Aim Your Arrows at the Sun
- Dick Higgins, Legends & Fishnets
- Susan Howe, Poems Found in a Pioneer Museum
- Jennifer Kronovet, Awayward
- Tan Lin, Ambience is a Novel with a Logo
- Tan Lin, plagiarism/outsource / , Notes Towards the Definition of Culture / ,Untilted Heath Ledger Project / , a history of the search engine / ,disco OS
- Harry Mathews, Out of Bounds
- Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 1
- Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 2
- Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 3
- Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 4/5
- Paul Metcalf, The Assassination
- Paul Metcalf, U.S. Dept. of the Interior
- Paul Metcalf, Mountaineers Are Always Free
- Paul Metcalf, Araminta and the Coyotes
- Paul Metcalf, Merrill Cove
- Chrisopher Middleton, Torse 3: poems 1949–1961
- Paul Muldoon, Madoc: A Mystery
- Fernando Pessoa, The Surprise of Being: Twenty-Five Poems (trans. James Greene & Clara de Azevado Mafra)
- Fernando Pessoa, The Keeper of Sheep (trans. Edwin Honig & Susan M. Brown)
- Ezra Pound, The Pisan Cantos (ed. Richard Sieburth)
- Samuel Putnam, Paris Was Our Mistress
- Pierre Reverdy, Selected Poems (trans. Mary Ann Caws, Patricia Terry & John Ashbery)
- Jacques Roubaud, Some Thing Black (trans. Rosmarie Waldrop)
- Jacques Roubaud, The Form of the City Changes Faster, Alas, than the Human Heart (trans. Keith Waldrop & Rosmarie Waldrop)
- Aram Saroyan, Complete Minimal Poems
- Bruno Schulz, Letters and Drawings of Bruno Schulz (trans. Walter Arndt & Victoria Nelson)
- James Schuyler, ed., Locus Solus, issue I
- Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein on Picasso (ed. Edward Burns)
- Mark Strand, Selected Poems
- Stacy Szymaszek, Emptied of All Ships
- James Tate, Selected Poems
- Dara Wier, Remnants of Hanna
- Charles Wright, Chickamauga
Non-fiction
- Donald Antrim, The Afterlife: a memoir
- Helen Moore Barthelme, Donald Barthelme: The Genesis of a Cool Sound
- Gianfranco Baruchello & Henry Martin, How to Imagine: A Narrative on Art and Agriculture
- Sybille Bedford, A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller’s Tale from Mexico
- Sven Birkerts, An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on Twentieth-Century Literature
- Grégoire Bouillier, Report on Myself (trans. Bruce Benderson)
- Aldo Buzzi, The Perfect Egg, and Other Secrets (trans. Guido Waldman)
- Nick Caistor, Mexico City: A Cultural and Literary Companion
- Tony Cohan, Mexican Days: Journeys into the Heart of Mexico
- Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds (trans. Thomas Christensen)
- Julio Cortázar & Carol Dunham, Autonauts of the Cosmoroute (trans. Anne McLean)
- Malcolm Cowley, Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
- Stanley Crawford, A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Garlic Farm
- Simon Critchley, The Book of Dead Philosophers
- Tracy Daugherty, Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
- Thomas M. Disch, The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters
- Thomas M. Disch, The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
- Thomas M. Disch, On SF
- Apostolos Doxiadis & Christos H. Papadimitriou, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
- Martin Duberman, Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community
- Marcel Duchamp, Manual of Instructions: Étant donnés: 1° la chute d’eau, 2° le gaz d’éclairage . . . (ed. Anne d’Harnoncourt & Michael R. Taylor)
- Max Frisch, Sketchbook 1966–1971, trans. Geoffrey Skelton
- Kenneth Gangemi, The Volcanoes from Puebla
- William H. Gass, Finding a Form
- Josh Glenn, ed., Hermenaut 15: Fake Authenticity
- Henry Green, Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait
- Hannah B. Higgins, The Grid Book
- Eva Huttenlauch, Nicolaus Schafhausen & Monika Szewczyk, eds., Sung Hwan Kim: Source Book 6
- Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
- Dorothy Kosinski, Dialogues: Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg
- John Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: a Story of Violent Faith
- Damon Krukowski & Naomi Yang, Album Exact Change: 20 Years of Publishing
- D. H. Lawrence, Mornings in Mexico
- D. H. Lawrence, Etruscan Places
- David Lida, First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century
- Paul Maliszewski, Fakers: hoaxers, con artists, counterfeiters, and other great pretenders
- André Malraux, Museum Without Walls (trans. Stuart Gilbert & Francis Price)
- Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay
- Robert McAlmon & Kay Boyle, Being Geniuses Together
- Tom McArthur, Worlds of Reference: lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer
- Christien Meindertsma, Pig 05049
- W. J. T. Mitchell, What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images
- Howard Moss, The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust
- Ted Nelson, Geeks Bearing Gifts: How the Computer World Got This Way
- Francis M. Naumann, Bradley Bailey & Jennifer Shahade, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess
- Margarita de Orellana, ed., Five Keys to the Secret World of Remedios Varo
- Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude, trans. Lysander Kemp
- Georges Perec, Thoughts of Sorts (trans. David Bellos)
- Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus), Natural History: a selection (ed. & trans. John F. Healy)
- Procopius, The Secret History, trans. G. A. Williamson
- Herbert Read, The Green Child
- Erik Anderson Reece, A Balance of Quinces: The Paintings and Drawings of Guy Davenport
- João Ribas, ed., Unica Zürn: Dark Spring
- Jacques Roubaud, The Great Fire of London (trans. Dominic Di Bernardi)
- John Ruskin, Præterita (and Dilecta)
- Damion Searls, Everything You Say Is True
- David Shields, Enough About You: Notes Toward the New Autobiography
- Francis Steegmuller, trans. & ed., Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
- Yoshihiro Tatsumi, A Drifting Life (trans. Taro Nettleton)
- Fanny Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans
- Paul West, My Father’s War: A Memoir
- Edmund White, City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and ’70s
- Slavoj Žižek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity
- Paper Monument, eds., I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette
my year in film, 2009
Roughly alphabetically by title:
- 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), directed by Cristian Mungiu
- 35 rhums (35 Shots of Rum), dir. Claire Denis
- 36 vues du Pic Saint Loup (Around a Small Mountain), dir. Jacques Rivette
- 42nd Street, dir. Lloyd Bacon
- 7915 km, dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Los abrazos rotos (Broken Embraces), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
- Adam’s Rib, dir. George Cukor
- Age of Consent, dir. Michael Powell
- Al di là delle nuvole (Beyond the Clouds), dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
- Les amants (The Lovers), dir. Louis Malle
- Amor pedestre (Love Afoot), dir. Marcel Fabre
- An Education, dir. Lone Scherfig
- Anvil! The Story of Anvil, dir. Sacha Gervasi
- ¡Átame! (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
- Avatar, dir. James Cameron
- Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (The Baader Meinhof Complex), dir. Uli Edel
- Baby Face, dir. Alfred E. Green
- Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, dir. Werner Herzog
- The Bad Seed, dir. Mervyn LeRoy
- Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten (Ballad of the Little Soldier), dir. Werner Herzog
- Berlin Alexanderplatz, dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Berlin Alexanderplatz, dir. Phil Jutzi
- Boom, dir. Joseph Losey
- The Breakfast Club, dir. John Hughes
- Brüno, dir. Larry Charles
- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, dir. John Krasinski
- By Candlelight, dir. James Whale
- Cerný Petr (Black Peter), dir Miloš Forman
- The Charge of the Light Brigade, dir. Tony Richardson
- La cifra impar (Odd Number), dir. Manuel Antin
- Cold Souls, dir. Sophie Barthes
- Cortázar (Celestial Clockwork), dir. Tristán Bauer
- Dames, dir. Ray Enright
- Des pieds et des mains (Feet and Hands), dir. Jacques Feyder & Gaston Ravel
- Desk Set, dir. Walter Lang
- Detour, dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
- Les diaboliques, dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
- District 9, dir. Neill Blomkamp
- Il divo, dir. Paolo Sorrentino
- The Divorcée, dir. Robert Z. Leonard
- Donald Judd’s Marfa, Texas, dir. Christopher Felver
- Dracula, dir. Tod Browning
- L’École des facteurs, dir. Jacques Tati
- ゆきゆきて、神軍 (The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On), dir. Kazuo Hara
- Entre les murs (The Class), dir. Laurent Cantet
- Excelsior, dir. Luca Comerio
- Fados, dir. Carlos Saura
- Fait-divers (A Collection of Facts), dir. Claude Autant-Lara
- Fantômas – À l’ombre de la guillotine, dir. Louis Feuillade
- Fast, Cheap & out of Control, dir. Errol Morris
- La flor de mi secreto (The Flower of My Secret), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
- Food, Inc., dir. Robert Kenner
- Footlight Parade, dir. Lloyd Bacon
- Frauennot – Frauenglück (Misery and Fortune of Women), dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein & Grigori Aleksandrov
- A Free Soul, dir. Clarence Brown
- The Gang’s All Here, dir. Busby Berkeley
- Gasherbrum – Der leuchtende Berg (The Dark Glow of the Mountains), dir. Werner Herzog
- Gods and Monsters, dir. Bill Condon
- Gold Diggers in Paris, dir. Busby Berkeley
- Gold Diggers of 1933, dir. Mervyn LeRoy
- Gold Diggers of 1935, dir. Busby Berkeley
- Gold Diggers of 1937, dir. Lloyd Bacon
- Gomorra, dir. Matteo Garrone
- Hallelujah, I’m a Bum!, dir. Lewis Milestone
- The Hangover, dir. Todd Phillips
- Hapax Legomenon I: (nostalgia), dir. Hollis Frampton
- Hapax Legomenon II: Poetic Justice, dir. Hollis Frampton
- Hapax Legomenon III: Critical Mass, dir. Hollis Frampton
- Hapax Legomenon IV: Traveling Matte, dir. Hollis Frampton
- Hapax Legomenon V: Ordinary Matter, dir. Hollis Frampton
- Hapax Legomenon VI: Remote Control, dir. Hollis Frampton
- Hapax Legomenon VII: Special Effects, dir. Hollis Frampton
- Happy-Go-Lucky, dir. Mike Leigh
- Hollywood Hotel, dir. Busby Berkeley
- The Impatient Maiden, dir. James Whale
- In a Lonely Place, dir. Nicholas Ray
- In the Loop, dir. Armando Iannucci
- The Informant!, dir. Steven Soderbergh
- The Invisible Man, dir. James Whale
- It Happened One Night, dir. Frank Captra
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, dir. Chantal Akerman
- Jerichow, dir. Christian Petzold
- Jungfrukällan (The Virgin Spring), dir. Ingmar Bergman
- Kika, dir. Pedro Almodóvar
- Kiss of the Spider Woman, dir. Hector Babenco
- Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in), dir. Tomas Alfredson
- La ley del deseo (Law of Desire), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
- Libeled Lady, dir. Jack Conway
- Love Story 2050, dir. Harry Baweja
- Die Macht der Bilder: Leni Riefenstahl (The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl), dir. Ray Müller
- Made in U.S.A., dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Massnahmen gegen Fanatiker (Precautions against Fanatics), dir. Werner Herzog
- Medicine for Melancholy, dir. Barry Jenkins
- Mentiras piadosas (Made Up Memories), dir. Diego Sabanés
- Model Shop, dir. Jacques Demy
- Mon oncle, dir. Jacques Tati
- La mujer sin cabeza (The Headless Woman), dir. Lucrecia Martel
- Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
- My Dinner with Andre, dir. Louis Malle
- My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?, dir. Werner Herzog
- Night Nurse, dir. William A. Wellman
- The Nightmare before Christmas, dir. Henry Selick
- Nosotros, los pobres, dir. Ismael Rodríguez
- Now, Voyager, dir. Irving Rapper
- Of Time and the City, dir. Terrence Davies
- The Old Dark House, dir. James Whale
- Olympia, dir. Leni Riefenstahl
- Out of the Past, dir. Jacques Tourneur
- La passion de Jeanne d’Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, dir. Tim Burton
- Le plaisir, dir. Max Ophuls
- Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea, dir. Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer
- Plastic Bag, dir. Ramin Bahrani
- The Postman Always Rings Twice, dir. Tay Garnett
- Pretty in Pink, dir. Howard Deutch
- The Public Enemy, dir. William A. Wellman
- Pull My Daisy, dir. Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie
- ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!! (What Have I Done to Deserve This?), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
- ¡Que viva México!, dir. Grigori Aleksandrov & Sergei M. Eisenstein
- Rebel without a Cause, dir. Nicholas Ray
- Red-Headed Woman, dir. Jack Conway
- Return to Oz, dir. Walter Murch
- Revolutionary Road, dir. Sam Mendes
- Ricky, dir. François Ozon
- Romance sentimentale, dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein
- Salesman, dir. Albert Maysles, David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin
- Sarabande & Winter, dir. Nathaniel Dorsky
- A Serious Man, dir. Joel & Ethan Coen
- Singin’ in the Rain, dir. Stanley Donen
- Sinners in Paradise, dir. James Whale
- Sixteen Candles, dir. John Hughes
- Standard Operating Procedure, dir. Errol Morris
- Stramilano, dir. Corrado D’Errico
- Taking Off, dir Miloš Forman
- Thaïs, dir. Anton Giulio Bragaglia
- The Third Generation (Die dritte Generation), dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- The Times of Harvey Milk, dir. Rob Epstein
- The Toe Tactic, dir. Emily Hubley
- The Wrestler, dir. Darren Aronofsky
- Theater of War, dir. John Walter
- Tokyo!, dir. Michel Gondry, Leos Carax & Bong Joon-Ho
- Tony Manero, dir. Pablo Larrain
- Tout la mémoire du monde, dir. Alain Resnais
- Two-Lane Blacktop, dir. Monte Hellman
- Uncle Buck, dir. John Hughes
- Up in the Air, dir. Jason Reitman
- Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Mr. Hulot’s Holiday), dir. Jacques Tati
- Valerie a týden divů (Valerie and Her Week of Wonders), dir. Jaromil Jireš
- Vampyr, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Varsity Show, dir. William Keighley
- Velocità, dir. Tina Cordero, Guido Martina & Pippo Oriani
- Vivre sa vie, dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Waterloo Bridge, dir. James Whale
- Wendy and Lucy, dir. Kelly Reichardt
- Where the Boys Are, dir. Henry Levin
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, dir. Mike Nichols
- Wife Versus Secretary, dir. Clarence Brown
- Wonder Bar, dir. Lloyd Bacon
- Wristcutters: A Love Story, dir. Goran Dukić
- Y tu mamá también, dir. Alfonso Cuarón
- Year One, dir. Harold Ramis
- You Can’t Take It with You, dir. Frank Capra
- Zazie dans le métro, dir. Louis Malle
- Ziegfeld Follies, dir. Lemuel Ayers et al.
my year in exhibits, 2009
Listed chronologically:
- “Beyond the Canon: Small Scale American Abstraction 1945–1965,” Robert Miller Gallery
- “Andy Warhol: Still-Life Polaroids,” Paul Kasmin Gallery
- “Al Held,” Paul Kasmin Gallery
- “Frankenthaler at Eighty: Six Decades,” Knoedler & Co.
- “Sam Glankoff: Paintings on Paper,” Knoedler & Co.
- “Gilbert & George,” Brooklyn Museum
- “Alexander Calder: The Paris Years 1926–1933”, Whitney Museum
- “Artists Making Photographs: Chamberlain, Rauschenberg, Ruscha, Samaras, Warhol”, Whitney Museum
- “Art and Love in Renaissance Italy,” Metropolitan Museum
- “Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna,” Metropolitan Museum
- “The Printed Picture,” MoMA
- “Focus: Jasper Johns,” MoMA
- “Stanley William Hayter in America: Paintings, Drawings and Prints 1940–1950”, Francis M. Nauman Fine Arts
- “Michaela Melián,” 38 Ludlow
- “Masterpieces of European Painting from the Norton Simon Museum,” Frick Collection
- “Pierre Bonnard: The Late Interiors,” Metropolitan Museum
- “Choirs of Angels: Painting in Italian Choir Books, 1300–1500,” Metropolitan Museum
- “Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard,” Metropolitan Museum
- “Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism in Dresden and Berlin, 1905-1913,” Neue Galerie
- “Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens”, Onassis Cultural Center
- “The Artist As Troublemaker”, Austrian Cultural Forum
- “Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective”, MoMA
- “Performance 1: Tehching Hsieh”, MoMA
- “Franz West: Works from the 1990s”, Zwirner & Wirth
- “Andy Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection”, Gagosian Gallery
- “Louise Nevelson: Dawns and Dusks”, PaceWildenstein
- “Paul Sharits”, Greene Naftali
- “Carolee Schneeman: Painting, What It Becomes”, P.P.O.W
- “Carolee Schneeman: Performance Photographs from the 1970s”, Carolina Nitsch
- “With Hidden Noise”, David Krut Projects
- “Ellsworth Kelly: Diagonal”, “Ellsworth Kelly: Drawings 1954–1962”, Matthew Marks
- “1992009”, D’Amelio Terras
- Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
- Judd Foundation, Marfa, Texas
- “James Castle Drawings: Vision and Touch”, Knoedler & Company
- “James Castle”, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art
- “Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Thousand”, David Zwirner
- “Lisa Yuskavage”, David Zwirner
- “Julianne Swartz: Terrain”, Josée Bienvenu Gallery
- “Robert Mangold: Drawings and Works on Paper, 1965–2008”, PaceWildenstein
- “Playing This Litho Instrument: The Prints of Barnett Newman, Part II”, Craig F. Starr Gallery
- “Donald Judd Colored Plexiglas”, L & M Arts
- “Pablo Picasso: Mosqueteros”, Gagosian Gallery
- “Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West”, MoMA
- “Paper: Pressed, Stained, Slashed, Folded”, MoMA
- “Words in Freedom: Futurism at 100”, MoMA
- “John Waters: Rear Projection”, Marianne Boesky Gallery
- “Richard Tuttle: Walking On Air”, PaceWildenstein
- “Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel”, MoMA
- “Kenneth Anger”, P.S.1
- “Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool”, P.S.1
- “Cézanne & Beyond”, Philadelphia Museum of Art
- “Henri Matisse and Modern Art on the French Riviera”, Philadelphia Museum of Art
- “Daidō Moriyama: Tokyo Photographs”, Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
- “Unica Zürn: Dark Spring”, The Drawing Center
- “Hans Bellmer: Octopus Time”, Ubu Gallery
- “Tacita Dean”, Marian Goodman Gallery
- “E. O. Hoppé: Early London Photographs (1910–1939)”; “CLOUD 9: Imogen Cunningham, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston”; “André Kertész: In the Depths of Winter”, Bruce Silverstein
- “Alfredo Jaar: The Sound of Silence”, Galerie Lelong
- “Espèces d’espaces”, Yvon Lambert
- “Ellen Driscoll: FastForwardFossil, Part I”, Frederiecke Taylor Gallery
- “Sophie Calle: Take Care of Yourself”, Paula Cooper
- “Nam June Paik: Live Feed: 1972–1994”, James Cohan Gallery
- “Alex Katz”, PaceWildenstein
- “\'flō\: art, text, new media,”, Center for Book Arts
- “Yayoi Kusama”, Gagosian
- “Nicolas Carone, Abstraction/Figuration: works on paper”, Lohin Geduld Gallery
- “D.I.Y.”, Maya Stendhal Gallery
- “Black & White”, Stellan Holm Gallery
- “Alice Neel: Selected Works”, David Zwirner
- “Charles Ray: Ink Line, Moving Wire, Spinning Spot”, Matthew Marks
- “Momus with Aki Sasamoto: Love is the End of Art”, Zack Feuer Gallery
- “Franz West: To Build a House You Start with the Roof: Work, 1972–2008,” LACMA
- Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
- “Ernesto Neto: Anthropodino,” Park Avenue Armory
- “Ray Johnson: . . . Main Ray, Ducham, Openheim, Pikabia . . .,” Richard L. Feigen & Co.
- “Leon Kelly: An American Surrealist,” Francis M. Naumann Fine Art
- “Alice Neel: Nudes of the 1930s,” Zwirner & Wirth
- “European & Russian Photomontage, 1920–1940,” Ubu Gallery
- “John Chamberlin: Early Years,” L & M Arts
- “Sigmar Polke: Lens Paintings,” Michael Werner
- “Go Figure,” Gagosian
- “Marble,” Gagosian
- “Chuck Close: Selected Paintings & Tapestries 2005–2009,” Pace Wildenstein
- “The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography,” Aperture Gallery
- “Chris Marker: ‘Quelle heure est-elle?’,” Peter Blum
- “Alberto Giacometti: Drawings,” Peter Freeman
- “Raster Noton: The Shop,” e-flux
- “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus,” The New Museum
- “Mimmo Rotella: American Icons and Early Work,” Knoedler & Company
- “Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1720–1778,” David Tunick, Inc.
- Museo Nacional de Antropología, México D.F.
- Museo Rufino Tamayo, México D.F.
- Museo del Carmen, México D.F.
- Museo León Trotsky, México D.F.
- Museo Frida Kahlo, México D.F.
- Museo Teotihuacán, Teotihuacán
- Colleción Jumex, Ecatepec
- Ex Teresa Arte Actual, México D.F.
- Palacio de Cultura Banamex, México D.F.
- Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño, México D.F.
- “Paula Hayes: Excerpts from the Story of Planet Thear,” Marianne Boesky Gallery
- “Your Gold Teeth II,” Marianne Boesky Gallery
- “Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection,” MoMA
- “James Ensor,” MoMA
- “Projects 90: Song Dong,” MoMA
- “In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989,” MoMA
- “Larry Rivers: 1950s/1960s,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery
- “Tim Hawkinson,” Pace Wildenstein
- “Lynda Benglis/Robert Morris: 1973–1974,” Susan Inglett
- “Anthony McCall/Finnbogi Pétursson,” Sean Kelly Gallery
- “The Fantastic Tavern: The Tbilisi Avant-Garde,” Casey Kaplan Gallery
- “The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women,” Cheim & Read
- “Naked!” Paul Kasmin Gallery
- “Ed Sanders: Glyphs,” The Arm
- “The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984,” Metropolitan Museum
- “Chris Bertholf: The Mysterious Landscape,” John Davis Gallery, Hudson, New York
- “Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages,” Met
- “Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective,” Met
- “Michelangelo’s First Painting,” Met
- “Dorothy Iannone,” Anton Kern Gallery
- “Works on View,” Jack Shainman Gallery
- “Dormitorium: An Exhibition of Film Decors by the Quay Brothers,” The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons
- “Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection,” Philadelphia Museum of Art
- “Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés,” Philadelphia Museum of Art
- “Carol Bove with Janine Lariviere, ‘Plants & Mammals’,” The Horticultural Society of America
- “Milton Glaser’s SVA: A Legacy of Graphic Design,” Visual Arts Gallery, SVA
- “Ken Friedman: 99 Events,” Maya Stendhal Gallery
- “David Novros,” Paula Cooper Gallery
- “Carl Andre,” Paula Cooper Gallery
- “Zig Zag,” Sperone Westwater
- “Heinz Mack: Paintings, 1957–1964,” Sperone Westwater
- “James Turrell: Large Holograms,” PaceWildenstein
- “Bernadette Corportation,” Greene Naftali
- “Peter Hujar: Photographs 1956–1958,” Matthew Marks Gallery
- “Dennis Hopper: Signs of the Times,” Tony Shafrazi Gallery
- “A Matter of Light,” Elga Wimmer
- “In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976,” MoMA
- “Jack Tworkov: Against Extremes – Five Decades of Painting,” The UBS Art Gallery
- “Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess,” Francis M. Naumann Gallery
- “Elaine Lustig Cohen. My Heroes: Portraits of the Avant-Garde,” Adler & Conkright Fine Art
- “David Mann,” McKenzie Fine Art
- “Sister Corita Kent,” Zach Feuer Gallery
- “Lynn Koble: Capacity,” Venetia Kapernekas Gallery
- “Robert Frank,” Robert Mann Gallery
- “David Colosi: Imaginary Numbers and Other Calculated Fictions,” Cueto Project
- “On Top of the Whale,” Mitchell Algus Gallery
- “Sean Scully: Recent Paintings,” Galerie Lelong
- “Damián Ortega: CAPITAL Less,” Gladstone Gallery
- “Stripes/Solids,” Paula Cooper Gallery
- “Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868,” Met
- “Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans,” Met
- “Dense-local y Del Exilio al Insilio ¿somos todos extranjeros?,” Labratorio Arte Alameda, México, D.F.
- “Pedro Friedeberg: arquitecto de confusiones impecables,” Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, México, D.F.
- “Los desmembrados,” Museo Nacional de Arte, México, D.F.
- “Remedios Varo y la literatura: para leer a Remedios Varo”/”Hecho en casa,” Museo de Arte Moderno, México, D.F.
- “De la tierra a la luna”/”Yo uso perfume para occupar más espacio”/”Yoshua Okón: Ventanilla única,” Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, México, D.F.
- “Tauromaquia: mano a mano”/”Colección Alejandro Alvarado,” Museo Nacional de la Estampa, México, D.F.
- “Robert Waters: Taparrabo,” Ex Teresa Arte Actual, México, D.F.
- “Salón de Estampa, seis décadas de producción,” Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, México, D.F.
- Museo Mural Diego Rivera, México, D.F.
- Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, México, D.F.
- Museo de Arte Popular, México, D.F.
- Museo Franz Mayer, México, D.F.
- Museo Templo Mayor, México, D.F.
- Casa Luis Barragán, México, D.F.
- “Luis Urrutia: Límites de luz,” Casa Lamm, México, D.F.
- “Sandra Gamarra: Selección natural”/”Jorge Méndez Blake: 3 bibliotecas,” Galeria OMR, México, D.F.
- “Jay Chung & Q. Takeki Maeda: Outtakes and Excerpts,” Gaga Arte Contemporáneo, México, D.F.
- “Robert Morris: Films,” Hunter College Times Square Gallery
- “Marcel Broodthaers: Ne dites pas que je ne l’ai pas dit – Le Perroquet,” Peter Freeman Gallery
- “Ree Morton: At the Still Point of the Turning World,” The Drawing Center
- “Pedro Friedeberg,” Reyna Henaine
- “The Origins of El Greco: Icon Painting in Venetian Crete,” Onassis Cultural Center
- “The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000–3500 B.C.,” Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU
- “Walton Ford: New Work,” Paul Kasmin Gallery
- “Kaz Oshiro: Setting Sun,” Yvon Lambert
- “Robert Ryman,” Yvon Lambert
- “Drawn Together: Chiharu Shiota/GEGO,” Goff + Rosenthal
- “Perlstein/Held: Five Decades,” Betty Cunningham Gallery
- “Dan Fischer: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space,” Derek Eller Gallery
- “Paul Chan: Sade for Sade’s Sake,” Greene Naftali
- “Wallace Berman: 1927–1976,” Nicole Klagsbrun
- “Lynda Benglis: New Work,” Chiem & Read
- “Jiří Kolář: The Poetics of Silence,” Pavel Zoubok
- “Richard Serra: Blind Spot/Open Ended,” Gagosian
- “Alighiero e Boetti: Mappa,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery
- “George Maciunas: 7 Paintings from the 1950s and Graphic Works,” Maya Stendhal Gallery
- “Spazialismo,” Bitforms
- “Dan Flavin: Series and Progressions,” David Zwirner
- “Gabriel Orozco,” MoMA
- “Francis Picabia: Funny Guy,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery
- “Fairfield Porter: Paintings,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery
- “Kazuo Shiraga: Six Decades,” McCaffrey Fine Art
- “Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings 2009,” Marian Goodman Gallery
- “Paul McCarthy: White Snow,” Hauser & Wirth
- “Cy Twombly: Eight Sculptures,” Gagosian
- “Jörg Immendorff: Maoist Paintings – The Early Seventies,” Michael Werner Gallery