december 16–31, 2016

Books

  • G. V. Desani, All About H. Hatterr
  • Leonard Cohen, The Favourite Game
  • George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
  • Iris Murdoch, The Bell
  • Iris Murdoch, The Sandcastle
  • Jace Clayton, Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture
  • Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
  • Don DeLillo, Zero K
  • Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
  • Iris Murdoch, An Unofficial Rose
  • Muriel Spark, Memento Mori

Films

  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, directed by Gareth Edwards

november 16–30, 2016

Books

  • Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
  • Stanisław Lem, Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, translated by Michael Kandel & Christine Rose
  • Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars
  • Irish Murdoch, Bruno’s Dream
  • Stanisław Lem, His Master’s Voice, trans. Michael Kandel

Films

  • The Parallax View, dir. Alan J. Pakula
  • Rad der Zeit (Wheel of Time), dir. Werner Herzog
  • Glaube und Währung – Dr. Gene Scott, Fernsehprediger (God’s Angry Man), dir. Werner Herzog
  • Clouds of Sils Maria, dir. Olivier Assayas
  • The Witness, dir. James D. Solomon

november 1–15, 2016

Books

  • Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
  • Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
  • Georges Simenon, Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett, translated by Daphne Woodward
  • Iris Murdoch, The Flight from the Enchanter
  • Grace Chia, The Cuckoo Conundrum
  • George Szirtes, Singapore Notebook & Blessed Isle
  • Yong Shu Hoong, Right of the Soil
  • Jean Tay, Saint
  • Timothy O’Grady & Anthony Lott, Belfast
  • Ben Watt, Patient: The True Story of a Rare Illness

Exhibits

  • Singapore Biennale, Singapore Art Museum
  • “Port Cities: Multicultural Emporiums of Asia, 1500–1900,” Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore

Films

  • Into the Inferno, directed by Werner Herzog

october 16–31, 2016

Books

  • Norbert Davis, The Mouse in the Mountain
  • Norbert Davis, Sally’s in the Alley
  • Norbert Davis, Oh, Murderer Mine
  • Jan Morris, Conundrum
  • Italo Calvino, The Non-existent Knight, translated by Archibald Colquhoun
  • Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees, trans. Archibald Colquhoun
  • Leonardo Sciascia, The Day of the Owl, trans. Archibald Colquhoun
  • Satyajit Ray, Indigo: Selected Stories, trans. Satyajit Ray & Gopa Majumdar
  • Karan Mahajan, Family Planning
  • Julio Cortázar, From the Observatory, trans. Anne McLean
  • Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs
  • Abraham Merritt, The Face in the Abyss
  • Khushwant Singh, Delhi: A Novel
  • Amit Chaudhuri, A New World

Exhibits

  • Jantar Mantar, Delhi
  • Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing, Amer
  • City Palace, Jaipur
  • Jantar Mantar, Jaipur
  • Mehrangarh Museum, Jodhpur
  • City Palace, Udaipur
  • Bagore ki Haveli Museum, Udaipur

Films

  • Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, directed by Werner Herzog
  • Caro diario, dir. Nanni Moretti

october 1–15, 2016

Books

  • Italo Calvino, Collection of Sand: Essays, translated by Martin McLaughlin
  • Jonathan Lethem, Gun, with Occasional Music
  • Cesare Pavese, The Moon and the Bonfires, trans. R. W. Flint
  • John Burgess, Temple in the Clouds: Faith and Conflict at Preah Vihear
  • Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things
  • Nell Zink, Nicotine
  • Pierre Mac Orlan, A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer, trans. Napoleon Jeffries

Films

  • Capricorn One, directed by Peter Hyams
  • L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq (The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq), dir. Guillaume Nicloux
  • My Scientology Movie, dir. John Dower

Exhibits

  • Angkor National Museum, Siem Reap, Cambodia
  • “Praiwan Chairat: Opposite Horizon, One Sky,” Jamjuree Art Gallery

september 16–30, 2016

Books

  • Philip K. Dick, The Zap Gun
  • Philip K. Dick, The Simulacrum
  • Philip K. Dick, The Unteleported Man
  • Philip K. Dick, Lies, Inc.
  • Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World
  • Christine Chia & Joshua Ip, eds., A Luxury We Cannot Afford: An Anthology of Singapore Poetry
  • Philip K. Dick & Ray Nelson, The Ganymede Takeover
  • Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer
  • Philip K. Dick, Nick and the Glimmung
  • Russell Hoban, Turtle Diary
  • Italo Calvino, Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings, translated by Martin McLaughlin
  • Vladimir Nabokov, The Enchanter, trans. Dmitri Nabokov

Films

  • Antonia, directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino
  • Ladies They Talk About, dir. Howard Bretherton & William Keighley,
  • Paisà (Paisan), dir. Roberto Rossellini
  • Anomalisa, dir. Charlie Kaufmann & Duke Johnson
  • Císařův slavík (The Emperor’s Nightingale), dir. Jiří Trnka
  • Kybernetická babička (The Cybernetic Grandma), dir. Jiří Trnka
  • Ruka (The Hand), dir. Jiří Trnka
  • Tsukiji Wonderland, dir. Shôtarô Endô

Exhibits

  • “Northern Land, Southern Seas,” Tang Gallery
  • Angkor Panorama Museum, Siem Reap, Cambodia

september 1–15, 2016

Books

  • Philip K. Dick, Eye in the Sky
  • Philip K. Dick, The Game-Players of Titan
  • Philip K. Dick, Dr. Bloodmoney Or How We Got Along after the Bomb
  • Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
  • Halldór Laxness, Under the Glacier, translated by Magnus Magnusson
  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Primitive
  • Nicholson Baker, The Fermata
  • Terre Thaemlitz, Nuisance: Writings on Identity Jamming & Digital Audio Production

Films

  • Chandu the Magician, dir. William Cameron Menzies & Marcel Varnel
  • Daisy Kenyon, dir. Otto Preminger
  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, dir. Robert Aldrich
  • Into the Abyss, dir. Werner Herzog
  • Unga Sophie Bell (Young Sophie Bell), dir. Amanda Adolfsson
  • They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, dir. Sydney Pollack
  • Film Socialisme, dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • Ljubavni slučaj ili tragedija službenice P.T.T. (Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator), dir. Dušan Makavejev
  • Kailash – Pilgerfahrt zum Thron der Götter (Kailash: Pilgrimage to the Throne of the Gods), dir. Frank Fiedler & Florian Fricke
  • Storia di un riparatore (The Repairman), dir. Paolo Mitton
  • Mia madre, dir. Nanni Moretti

Exhibitions

  • Lanna Folklife Museum, Chiang Mai
  • Chiang Mai Historical Centre, Chiang Mai
  • Chiang Mai National Museum, Chiang Mai
  • “720th Year Chiang Mai Then ’Till Now,” Ching Mai House of Photography and Photographic Art
  • “The Serenity of Madness: A Selected Survey of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Works,” MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai
  • “Feeling the 1990s: Contemporary Art from Thailand and Its Neighbours from the Pipitmaya Collection,” MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai
  • “Chalongdej Kuphanumat: Spirit – Universe,” Chiang Mai University Art Center
  • “Aeta Dhammasil: Buddhist Art Exhibition 4th,” Chiang Mai University Art Center
  • “Unseen Siam: Early Photography 1860–1910,” BACC
  • “Pratuang Emjaroen: Traces and Trails,” BACC
  • “Trirat Sriburin: Building,” People’s Gallery, BACC
  • “Korakrit Arunanondchai: 2012–2555, 2556, 2557,” Jim Thompson Art Center

august 16–31, 2016

Books

  • Kenneth Goldsmith, ed., I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews
  • Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain, translated by Janet Burke and Ted Humphrey
  • Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
  • Angela Carter, Fireworks
  • Maeve Butler, ed., For Tomorrow For Tonight: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Yuri Herrera, The Transmigration of Bodies, trans. Lisa Dillman
  • Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
  • Cyril Wong, The Lover’s Inventory
  • Pooja Nansi, Love Is an Empty Barstool
  • Geoff Dyer, The Search
  • Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
  • Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
  • Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd, trans. Christina MacSweeney 
  • Geoff Dyer, The Colour of Memory
  • Philip K. Dick, Dr. Futurity
  • Philip K. Dick, The Crack in Space

Films

  • Queen of the Desert, directed by Werner Herzog
  • The Mummy’s Hand, dir. Christy Cabanne
  • Weiner, dir. Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg 

Exhibits

  • “Douglas Diaz: Surrender,” Serindia Gallery, Bangkok
  • “Manit Sriwanichpoom: Fear,” Kathmandu Photo Gallery
  • “Manit Sriwanichpoom: Fear,” Tang Contemporary Art
  • “Manit Sriwanichpoom: Fear,” H Gallery
  • “Gary Carsley: Scenes from the Life of Paris,” H Gallery Project Space
  • “Pam Virada: Three-Cornered World,” Tentacles
  • “Sutthirat Supaparinya: Ten Places in Tokyo,” Gallery Ver
  • “Nukoon Panyadee: My Journey,” Sathorn 11 Art Space

august 1–15, 2016

Books

  • Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic, translated by Olena Bormashenko
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
  • Henry James, The Wings of the Dove
  • Geoff Dyer, White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World

Films

  • La Chienne, directed by Jean Renoir
  • The Chase, dir. Arthur Ripley

Exhibits

  • “Pablo O’Higgins. Oficio gráfico,” Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City
  • Museo Nacional de Antropología
  • “B. Traven,” Museo de Arte Moderno
  • “La colleción Paul Westheim. El sentido de la forma,” Museo de Arte Moderno
  • “Boris Viskin. La belleza llegará después . . . ,” Museo de Arte Moderno
  • “Eduardo Sarabia. Serpiente emplumada y otros festejos,” Museo Rufino Tamayo
  • “Rufino Tamayo. Primeras décadas 1920–1959,” Museo Rufino Tamayo
  • “Los parques de Noguchi,” Museo Rufino Tamayo
  • “Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better,” Museo Jumex
  • Museo Soumaya
  • Templo Mayor
  • “Sensualidad y belleza: Antonio Canova & Mimmo Jodice,” Museo Nacional De San Carlos
  • “Charles Michel: posimpresionista belga in México,” Museo Nacional De San Carlos
  • “Arte europeo del siglo XIV a principios del siglo XX,” Museo Nacional De San Carlos
  • “Siphonophora. Thomas Glassford,” Museum Universitario del Chopo
  • “Modernidad pirateada,” Museum Universitario del Chopo
  • “Desde el fondo del tiempo. Mauro Giaconi,” Museum Universitario del Chopo
  • “Soup, Cosmos & Tears. Un proyecto de Daniel Guzmán,” Museum Universitario del Chopo
  • Museo de Geología
  • Zona arqueológica de Tlatelolco
  • Museo de sitio Tlatelolco, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco
  • “El viaje de los objetos: Fondo Exposición Internacional de Artesanías Populares de 1968,” Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco
  • Colección Stavenhagen, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco
  • Museo del Tecpan
  • “Martin Zet. Amor,” Ex Teresa Arte Actual
  • “Las Bestias Danzan, o El sigiloso conjuro de lo salvaje,” Ex Teresa Arte Actual
  • “​Imágenes para ver-te. Una exhibición sobre el racismo en México,” Museo de la Ciudad de México
  • “Cholombianos,” Museo de la Ciudad de México
  • “Luis Argudín. Diluvios,” Museo de la Ciudad de México
  • “José Luis Bustamante. El espiritú de la abstracción 1995–2016,” Museo José Luis Cuevas
  • “Rastros y vestigios,” Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso
  • “Loreto Villareal. Rasgos Comunes,” Museo Archivo de la Fotografía
  • “Luz Portátil,” Museo Archivo de la Fotografía
  • “Identidad Latinoamericana,” Museo Archivo de la Fotografía
  • “Antropofagia y modernidad. Arte brasileño en la Colección Fadel. 1908–1979,” Museo Nacional de Arte
  • “Territorio Ideal. José María Velasco. Perspectivas de una época,” Museo Nacional de Arte
  • “Donación de la familia Maples Arce Vermeersch,” Museo Nacional de Arte
  • “El saber gráfico,” Museo Nacional de la Estampa
  • “Con licencia eclesiástica: El impreso mexicano religioso de los siglos XIX y XX,” Museo Nacional de la Estampa
  • “Resonancias desde El jardín de las delicias. Una experiencia aural y de entropía,” Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil
  • “Ejercicios exploratorios II. Creadoras contemporáneas En la colección MACG,” Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil
  • “Carla Rippey. Resguardo y resistencia.Exposición retrospectiva 1976–2016,” Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil
  • “Omar Guerra. Fragmentaciones temporales,” Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil
  • Espacio Escultórico, UNAM
  • “Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life,” Broad, Los Angeles
  • “The Art of Our Time,” MOCA, Los Angeles
  • “Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun,” MOCA, Los Angeles
  • “Agnes Martin,” LACMA
  • “Apostles of Nature: Jugendstil and Art Nouveau,” LACMA
  • “Picasso and His Printers,” LACMA
  • “Catherine Opie: O,” LACMA
  • “Senses of Time: Video and Film-Based Works of Africa,” LACMA
  • “Revealing Creation: The Science and Art of Ancient Maya Ceramics,” LACMA