august 16–31, 2013

Books

  • Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries, trans. Ann Wright

Films

  • The King and I, directed by Walter Lang
  • Upstream Color, dir. Shane Carruth
  • Gigi, dir. Vincente Minnelli
  • Anna and the King of Siam, dir. John Cromwell

Exhbits

  • “Summer Exhibition: Paintings and Photographs by Gallery Artists,” H Gallery, Bangkok
  • Thavibu, Bangkok
  • “Inevitably Imperfect,” Artery Post-Modern Gallery, Bangkok
  • “Krissadank Intasorn: The Mysterious Flower,” Number 1 Gallery, Bangkok
  • “History and Current Results of GRANSHAN 2008 to 2012,” Goethe Institut, Bangkok

july 16–31, 2013

Books

  • Tommaso Landolfi, Cancerqueen, translated by Raymond Rosenthal
  • Jules Verne, An Antarctic Mystery: The Sphinx of the Ice Fields, trans. Cashel Fields
  • H. G. Wells, The Sleeper Awakes
  • Lucy Ives, Nineties
  • William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

Films

  • Damsels in Distress, directed by Whit Stillman
  • The Haunting, dir. Robert Wise

Exhibits

  • Donald Judd, 101 Spring Street

july 1–15, 2013

Books

  • Rebecca Lee, The City Is a Rising Tide
  • Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
  • Samuel R. Delany, Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand
  • Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

Films

  • Upstream Color, directed by Shane Carruth
  • Midnight, dir. Mitchell Leisen
  • Side Effects, dir. Steven Soderbergh

june 16–30, 2013

Books

  • Rivka Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances
  • Norman Rush, Whites
  • Giorgio Vasta, Time on My Hands, translated by Jonathan Hunt
  • Joseph McElroy, Cannonball
  • Dana Ward, The Squeaquel
  • Pamela Moore, Chocolates for Breakfast

Films

  • Avalon, directed by Mamoru Oshii
  • Half-Baked, dir. Tamra Davis
  • Despair, dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Zodiac, dir. David Fincher
  • Broadcast News, dir. James L. Brooks
  • Le mystère Picasso, dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot

Exhibits

  • “Cambodian Rattan: The Sculptures of Sopheap Pich,” Met
  • “The Boxer: An Ancient Masterpiece,” Met
  • “The Civil War and American Art,” Met
  • “Velázquez’s Portrait of Duke Francesco I d’Este: A Masterpiece from the Galleria Estense, Modena,” Met
  • “At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston,” Met
  • “Land Marks,” Met
  • “Objects from the Kharga Oasis,” Met
  • “Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronze Sculpture from the Robert Lehman Collection,” Met
  • “Paul Thek and his Circle in the 1950s,” Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay And Lesbian Art

june 1–15, 2013

Books

  • John Crowley, Four Freedoms
  • John Crowley, The Deep
  • John Crowley, Beasts
  • John Crowley, Engine Summer
  • Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
  • Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
  • Stanley Crawford, Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico
  • Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
  • Iris Murdoch, Under the Net

Films

  • Manhattan, directed by Woodie Allen
  • Sleeping Beauty, dir. Julia Leigh

Exhibits

  • “Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective,” Whitney
  • “Paul Delvaux,” Blain/Di Donna
  • “Paul Klee: Early and Late Years, 1894–1940,” Moeller Fine Art
  • “Susan Weil: Time’s Pace,” Sundaram Tagore Gallery
  • “Carolee Schneemann: Flange 6rpm,” PPOW
  • “Richard Serra: Early Work,” David Zwirner
  • “Ana Mendieta: Late Works: 1981-85,” Galerie Lelong

may 1–15, 2013

Books

  • Charles Portis, Masters of Atlantis
  • Jean Cocteau, Thomas the Impostor, trans. Lewis Galentiere
  • Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners
  • Kelly Link, Stranger Things Happen
  • Samuel R. Delany, The Mad Man
  • Samuel R. Delany, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders

Exhibits

  • “Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship,” Americas Society
  • “Maya Lin: Here and There,” Pace Gallery
  • “Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967–1978,” Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College
  • “Body Double: Jasper Johns / Bruce Nauman,” Craig F. Starr Gallery

Films

  • Captain Blood, directed by Michael Curtiz

april 16–30, 2013

Books

  • Aldous Huxley, Island
  • Nanni Ballestrini, The Unseen, trans. Liz Heron
  • Edward Lucie-Smith, ed., Holding Your Eight Hands: An Anthology of Science Fiction Verse
  • Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba
  • Caroline Bergvall, Meddle English
  • Florent Ruppert & Jérôme Mulot, Barrel of Monkeys, trans. Peter Birkemoe
  • Cyrus Highsmith, Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals

Films

  • Убийцы (The Killers), directed by Andrey Tarkovsky

Exhibits

  • “The Brother In Elysium: Artwork and Publications by Jon Beacham, 2008–2013,” Boo-Hooray
  • “B. Wurtz and Triple Canopy: History Works,” Bureau

april 1–15, 2013

Books

  • Dennis Cooper, The Marbled Swarm
  • Thomas Pletzinger, Funeral for a Dog, trans. Ross Benjamin
  • B. S. Johnson, See the Old Lady Decently
  • Dion Fortune, Psychic Self-Defense
  • Charles Portis, Gringos
  • Honoré de Balzac, The Unknown Masterpiece & Gambara, trans. Richard Howard
  • Jack London, Martin Eden
  • Avram Davidson, The Investigations of Avram Davidson

Films

  • Spellbound, directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Exhibits

  • “Photography and the American Civil War,” Met

march 16–31, 2013

Books

  • Franklin Bruno, The Accordian Repertoire
  • Stanley Elkin, Early Elkin
  • H. G. Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau
  • Charles Portis, True Grit
  • Charles Newman, New Axis
  • Charles Newman, White Jazz
  • Tom Whalen, Winter Coat
  • Tom Whalen, Elongated Figures
  • Calvin Tomkins, Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews
  • Georges Perec, La Boutique obscure: 124 Dreams, trans. Daniel Levin Becker
  • Georges Perec, The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise, trans. David Bellos
  • Cordwainer Smith, You Will Never Be the Same
  • J. G. Ballard, The Day of Forever
  • Adolfo Bioy Casares & Silvina Ocampo, Where There’s Love, There’s Hate, trans. Suzanne Jill Levine & Jessica Ernst Powell
  • Karen Green, Bough Down

Films

  • Spring Breakers, directed by Harmony Korine
  • Games, dir. Curtis Harrington

Exhibits

  • “The Impressionist Line from Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec: Drawings and Prints from the Clark,” Frick
  • “Piero della Francesca in America,” Frick
  • National Museum of the American Indian
  • “Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase: An Homage,” Francis M. Naumann Fine Art