august 1–august 15, 2017

Books

  • Paul Fussell, Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
  • Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
  • Morten Strøksnes, Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean, translated by Tiina Nunnally
  • Anthony Burgess, Devil of a State
  • Randall Jarrell, Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy
  • Paul La Farge, The Night Ocean

Exhibits

  • “Anna Maria Maiolino,” MOCA, Los Angeles
  • “Home—So Different, So Appealing,” LACMA
  • “Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971,” LACMA
  • “Form in Fragments: Abstraction in German Art, 1906–1925,” LACMA
  • “Creatures of the Earth, Sea, and Sky: Painting the Panamanian Cosmos,” LACMA
  • “Unexpected Light: Works by Young Il Ahn,” LACMA
  • “Ed Fella: Free Work in Due Time,” LACMA
  • “Ancient Bodies: Archaeological Perspectives on Mesoamerican Figurines,” LACMA
  • Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Singapore
  • The Live Turtle and Tortoise Museum, Singapore

july 16–31, 2017

Books

  • Martin Herbert, Tell Them I Said No
  • Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood Around 1900, translated by Howard Eiland
  • Antonio Tabucchi, The Edge of the Horizon, trans. Tim Parks
  • Antonio Tabucchi, The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro, trans. J. C. Patrick
  • Antonio Tabucchi, Letter from Casablanca, trans. Janice M. Thresher
  • Chester Himes, Cotton Comes to Harlem
  • Joanna Walsh, Vertigo
  • Eugene Lim, Dear Cyborgs
  • Eve Babitz, L.A. Woman
  • Antonio Tabucchi, Indian Nocturne, trans. Tim Parks
  • Antonio Tabucchi, The Woman of Porto Pim, trans. Tim Parks
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters
  • Philip Graham, The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon

Exhibits

  • Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin
  • “Mary Bauermeister: Memento Mary,” Grisebach, Berlin
  • Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum, Berlin
  • “Karel Appel: L’Art est une fête !,” Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
  • “Derain, Balthus, Giacometti: Une amitié artistique,” Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
  • “Paul Armand Gette: Un Parcours Alicien,” Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
  • “Picasso Primitif,” Musée du Quai Branly
  • Musée d’Orsay, Paris
  • Palácio da Pena, Sintra, Portugal
  • Castelo dos Mouros, Sintra, Portugal
  • Palácio Nacional de Sintra, Sintra, Portugal
  • “Escultura em Filme. The Very Impress of the Object,” Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
  • “Helmut Federle. Matéria Abstrata (Pinturas e Cerâmicas),” Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
  • “Emily Wardill. Matt Black and Rat,” Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
  • “Portugal em Flagrante – Operação 1, 2 e 3,” Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
  • “Ragnar Kjartansson: Guð, hvað mér líður illa,” Hafnarhús, Reykjavík, Iceland