Category Archives: media consumption

august 26–august 31

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Books

  • Procopius, The Secret History, trans. G. A. Williamson
  • Micheline Aharonian Marcom, The Mirror in the Well
  • Georges Perec, Thoughts of Sorts, trans. David Bellos
  • Donald Antrim, The Afterlife: a memoir
  • Giorgio Manganelli, Centuria: 100 Ouroboric Novels, trans. Henry Martin

Films

  • Baby Face, directed by Alfred E. Green
  • Valerie a týden divů (Valerie and Her Week of Wonders), dir. Jaromil Jireš

Exhibits

  • “Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection,” Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • “Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés,” Philadelphia Museum of Art

august 20–august 25

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Books

  • Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay
  • Ronald Firbank, The New Rythum and Other Pieces
  • Edmund White, Fanny: A Fiction

Films

  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Mike Nichols
  • Where the Boys Are, dir. Henry Levin
  • The Bad Seed, dir. Mervyn LeRoy

Exhibits

  • “Dormitorium: An Exhibition of Film Decors by the Quay Brothers,” The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons

august 3–august 9

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Books

  • Paul Auster, City of Glass (adaptation by Paul Karasik & David Mazzucchelli
  • Paper Monument, eds., I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette
  • William H. Gass, Finding a Form
  • Garth Risk Hallberg, A Field Guide to the North American Family
  • Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 3
  • Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 4/5

Exhibits

  • “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

Films

  • Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea, directed by Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer
  • Cold Souls, dir. Sophie Barthes
  • The Breakfast Club, dir. John Hughes
  • Sixteen Candles, dir. John Hughes
  • Pretty in Pink, dir. Howard Deutch

july 30–august 2

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Films

  • The Public Enemy, directed by William A. Wellman
  • Rebel without a Cause, dir. Nicholas Ray
  • Vivre sa vie, dir. Jean-Luc Godard

Exhibits

  • “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

july 26–july 29

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Books

  • Paul Metcalf, The Assassination
  • Paul Metcalf, U.S. Dept. of the Interior
  • Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 1
  • Kenneth Gangemi, Corroboree

Films

  • ¡Que viva México!, directed by Grigori Aleksandrov & Sergei M. Eisenstein
  • Romance sentimentale, dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein
  • Frauennot – Frauenglück (Misery and Fortune of Women), dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein & Grigori Aleksandrov
  • Jungfrukällan (The Virgin Spring), dir. Ingmar Bergman
  • In the Loop, dir. Armando Iannucci

july 16–july 20

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Books

  • Joe Meno, The Boy Detective Fails
  • Edmund White, The Farewell Symphony
  • John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In (trans. Ebba Segerberg)
  • Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 2

Exhibits

  • “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

july 13–july 15

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Books

  • Gabriel Josipovici, Everything Passes
  • Roberto Bolaño, Amulet (trans. Chris Andrews)
  • Kenneth Gangemi, The Interceptor Pilot
  • Jessica Abel, La Perdida
  • David Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp

Films

  • Brüno, directed by Larry Charles
  • Tony Manero, dir. Pablo Larrain