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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
credo
“And so, in order to return sensation to our limbs, in order to make us feel objects, to make a stone feel stony, man has been given the tool of art. The purpose of art, then, is to lead us to a knowledge of a thing through the organ of sight instead of recognition. By ‘enstranging’ objects and complicating form, the device of art makes perception long and ‘laborious.’ The perceptual process in art has a purpose all its own and ought to be extended to the fullest. Art is a means of experiencing the process of creativity. The artifact itself is quite unimportant.”
(Viktor Shklovsky, Theory of Prose, trans. Benjamin Sher, p. 6.)
december 26–december 31
Books
- Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: The Acceptance World
- Henry Green, Blindness
- Stanley Crawford, Gascoyne
- Stanley Crawford, Travel Notes (from here—to there)
Films
- Avatar, directed by James Cameron
- Age of Consent, dir. Michael Powell
- The Old Dark House, dir. James Whale
- Wristcutters: A Love Story, dir. Goran Dukić
noted
- An audio interview of Dick Higgins at Cal Arts in 1971 at the Internet Archive (via Ron Silliman).
- The introduction of Steven Moore’s The Novel: An Alternative History, Beginnings to 1600 is online at Continuum’s website in fantastically unwieldy format.
- Paul Collins on the history of Omni & futures that didn’t arrive.
man as industrial palace
december 21–december 25
Books
- Stanley Elkin, Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers
- 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
Films
- La ley del deseo (Law of Desire), directed by Pedro Almodóvar
- Adam’s Rib, dir. George Cukor
noted
- A good piece at Design Observer (most interesting there in a long time, I think) by Martha Scotford about the publication and design of Ulysses. Most interesting slide: an advertisement in the Saturday Review of Literature where Random House explained “How to Enjoy James Joyce’s Great Novel Ulysses“.
- Three stories by Robert Walser, translated by Damion Searls, as part of Vice‘s fiction issue (there’s a lot of other worthwhile content there too). And it’s been noted elsewhere, but the Christine Burgin Gallery has information about the forthcoming English edition of Walser’s microscripts.
- Scott Bryan Wilson is publishing chapbooks under a familiar name.
- A new story by Gabriel Josipovici at Litro.