march 1–15, 2024

Books

  • Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
  • Ryan H. Walsh, Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968
  • Iris Murdoch, Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues
  • Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus

Films

  • Mars Attacks, directed by Tim Burton
  • Holy Motors, dir. Leos Carax
  • Showing Up, dir. Kelly Reichhardt
  • La primavera della mia vita, dir. Zavvo Nicolosi
  • The Man Who Wasn’t There, dir. Joel Coen

Exhibits

  • Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze

february 1–14, 2024

Books

  • E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
  • Chester Himes, Run Man Run
  • Magdalen Nabb, Death of a Dutchman
  • Paul Auster, Leviathan

Films

  • Buster Keaton Rides Again, directed by John Spotton
  • Barton Fink, dir. Joel Coen
  • A Room with a View, dir. James Ivory
  • Deadline at Dawn, dir. Harold Clurman
  • Perfect Days, dir. Wim Wenders
  • Double Blind, dir. Sophie Calle & Greg Shephard
  • Il sol dell’avvenire (A Brighter Tomorrow), dir. Nanni Moretti
  • Yannick, dir. Quentin Dupieux
  • Le Procès Goldman (The Goldman Case), dir Cédric Kahn
  • À bout de souffle (Breathless), dir. Jean-Luc Godard

january 16–31, 2024

Books

  • Magdalen Nabb, The Monster of Florence
  • E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
  • David Leavitt, Florence, A Delicate Case
  • Dev Collans & Stewart Sterling, I Was a House Detective
  • William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida
  • Magdalen Nabb, Death of an Englishman

Films

  • Midnight Run, directed by Martin Brest
  • ამბავი სურამის ციხისა (The Legend of Suram Fortress), dir. Sergi Parajanov
  • One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich, dir. Chris Marker
  • Tre piani, dir. Nanni Moretti
  • Quattro strade, dir. Alice Rohrwacher
  • Corpo celeste, dir. Alice Rohwacher
  • The Railrodder, dir. Gerald Potterton
  • Grand Slam Opera, dir. Charles Lamont

Exhibits

  • “Heman Chong: Meditations on Shadow Libraries,” STPI Gallery, Singapore
  • Art SG, Singapore
  • “Apichatpong Weerasethakul: A Conversation with the Sun,” SEA Focus, Singapore

january 1–15, 2023

Books

  • Henry James, The Ambassadors
  • Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green
  • Lorenza Mazzetti, The Sky Is Falling, translated by Livia Franchini
  • Adam Goodheart, The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth
  • Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
  • William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
  • William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost

Films

  • The General, directed by Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman
  • College, dir. James W. Horne & Buster Keaton
  • The Mission, dir. Jesse Moss & Amanda McBaine
  • Steamboat Bill, Jr., dir. Charles Reisner & Buster Keaton
  • The Cameraman, dir. Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton
  • Spite Marriage, dir. Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton
  • The Saphead, dir. Herbert Blaché & Winchell Smith
  • I Am Sergei Parajanov, dir. Alla Barabadze, Nana Gongadze, Kora Tsereteli, Gia Bazadze & Yuri Mechitoff
  • Հակոբ Հովնաթանյան (Hakob Hovnatanyan), dir. Sergei Parajanov
  • Киевские фрески (Kyiv Frescoes), dir. Sergei Parajanov
  • არაბესკები ფიროსმანის თემაზე (Arabesques on the Pirosmani Theme), dir. Sergei Parajanov
  • Նռան գույնը (The Color of Pomegranates), dir. Sergei Parajanov
  • Андрей Тарковский и Сергей Параджанов. Острова (Andrey Tarkovsky & Sergey Paradzhanov: Islands), dir. Levon Grigoryan

december 16–31, 2023

Books

  • William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
  • Joanne McNeil, Wrong Way
  • John Crowley, Two Talks on Writing
  • Alfred Hayes, My Face for the World to See
  • William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
  • John Crowley, Two Chapters in a Family Chronicle
  • John Crowley, The Sixties: A Forged Diary
  • John Crowley, Seventy-Nine Dreams
  • Gillian Rose, Love’s Work
  • Jonathan Lethem, The Feral Detective
  • Peter Popham, Tokyo: The City at the End of the World
  • Bob Shacochis, Easy in the Islands
  • Karin Roffman, The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life

Films

  • 君たちはどう生きるか (The Boy and the Heron), directed by Hayao Miyazaki
  • Tokyo-Ga, dir. Wim Wenders
  • The Navigator, dir. Buster Keaton & Donald Crisp
  • Seven Chances, dir. Buster Keaton
  • Battling Butler, dir. Buster Keaton

Exhibits

  • “Olafur Eliasson: A Harmonious Cycle of Interconnected Nows,” Azabudai Hills Gallery, Tokyo

december 1–15, 2023

Books

  • Ed Park, Same Bed Different Dreams
  • Jean-Patrick Manchette, Skeletons in the Closet, translated by Alyson Waters
  • William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well
  • William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
  • William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
  • Mary McCarthy, The Stones of Florence
  • Dan Beachy-Quick, The Thinking Root: The Poetry of Earliest Greek Philosophy
  • Peter Medd & Frank Simms, The Long Walk Home: An Escape in Wartime Italy
  • Lisa Tuttle, My Death

Films

  • La chimera, directed by Alice Rohrwacher
  • Werckmeister harmóniák (Werckmeister Harmonies), dir. Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky
  • Poor Things, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
  • The Navigator, dir. Buster Keaton & Donald Crisp
  • Le Retour à la raison, dir. Man Ray
  • Emak Bakia, dir. Man Ray
  • L’Étoile de mer, dir. Man Ray
  • Les Mystères du Château de Dé, dir. Man Ray
  • The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, dir. Joanna Arnow
  • Las cosas indefinidas (Undefined Things), dir. María Aparicio
  • Film annonce du film qui n’existera jamais: “Drôles de guerres” (Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: “Phony Wars”), dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, dir. David Lynch
  • Go West, dir. Buster Keaton

november 16–30, 2023

Books

  • Elizabeth McKenzie, The Dog of the North
  • William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • Will Hermes, Lou Reed: The King of New York
  • Annie Ernaux, Getting Lost, translated by Alison L. Strayer
  • Dino Buzzati, A Love Affair, trans. Joseph Green

Films

  • La Passion de Dodin Bouffant (The Taste of Things), directed by Trần Anh Hùng
  • One Week, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • Convict 13, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • The Scarecrow, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • Neighbors, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • The Haunted House, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • The Blacksmith, dir. Buster Keaton & Malcolm St. Clair
  • The Paleface, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • Cops, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • The Balloonatic, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • The High Sign, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • Hard Luck, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • The Boat, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • The Goat, dir. Buster Keaton & Malcolm St. Clair
  • The Playhouse, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • Jane B. par Agnès V. (Jane B. by Agnès V.), dir. Agnès Varda
  • My Wife’s Relations, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • Day Dreams, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • The Frozen North, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • The Electric House, dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  • Le Livre des solutions (The Book of Solutions), dir. Michel Gondry
  • Sherlock Jr., dir. Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline

Exhibits

“Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America,” National Gallery, Singapore

november 1–15, 2023

Books

  • Charles Portis, Norwood
  • Charles Portis, Gringos
  • Nicolas Bouvier, The Scorpion-Fish, translated by Robyn Marsack
  • William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
  • Hugh Trevor-Roper, Hermit of Peking: The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund Backhouse
  • Fritz Leiber, The Wanderer

Films

  • মেঘে ঢাকা তারা (The Cloud-Capped Star), directed by Ritwik Ghatak
  • Killers of the Flower Moon, dir. Martin Scorsese

Exhibits

  • “Ariana Chaivaranon: All Under Heaven,” Cartel Artspace, Bangkok
  • “Mit Jai Inn: Underground,” Gallery Ver, Bangkok
  • “Blowing Up The Tale of Ageing Society,” Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
  • James Nachtwey: Memoria,” BACC
  • “Womanifesto: Flowing Connections,” BACC

october 16–31, 2023

Books

  • Werner Herzog, Every Man for Himself and God Against All, translated by Michael Hofmann
  • Iris Origo, A Study in Solitude: The Life of Leopardi: Poet, Romantic and Radical
  • Dante, Vita Nuova, trans. Virginia Jewiss
  • Dana Stevens, Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
  • William Shakespeare, As You Like It
  • Volker Weidermann, Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark, trans. Carol Brown Janeway
  • Patricia Highsmith, The Tremor of Forgery

Films

  • Back Stage, directed by Roscoe Arbuckle
  • Good Night, Nurse!, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle
  • Coney Island, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle
  • The Rough House, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle & Buster Keaton
  • The Garage, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle
  • Night of the Living Dead, dir. George Romano
  • The Bell Boy, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle
  • The Butcher Boy, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle
  • Alien, dir. Ridley Scott
  • Dancing Pina, dir. Florian Heinzen-Ziob
  • Out West, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle
  • Moonshine, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle
  • The Hayseed, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle
  • His Wedding Night, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle
  • Oh, Doctor!, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle
  • The Cook, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle
  • Santiago, Italia, dir. Nanni Moretti

Exhibits

  • Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai
  • “Irresistible Relations: An exhibition of recent works by Asit Kumar Patnaik,” Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
  • “The Majestic Symphony: H. R. Das,” Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
  • “Karlette Joseph,” Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
  • “Mini Suboth: Aetheria / Dharmaraj Rampure: Shringar,” Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
  • Elephanta Caves, Mumbai