october 1–15 2013

Books

  • Don DeLillo, Falling Man
  • Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest
  • Colette, The Cat, trans. Antonia White

Films

  • The Lady in the Lake, directed by Robert Montgomery
  • The Act of Killing, dir. Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn et al.
  • Murder, My Sweet, dir. Edward Dmytryk
  • Robinson Crusoe on Mars, dir. Byron Haskin
  • Kind Hearts and Coronets, dir. Robert Hamer

Exhibits

  • “Prateep Kochabua: Destiny to Imagination,” Bangkok MOCA

september 15–30, 2013

Books

  • Colette, Gigi, trans. Roger Senhouse
  • Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
  • Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely
  • Raymond Chandler, The High Window
  • Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake
  • Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister
  • Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
  • Raymond Chandler, Playback

Exhibits

  • “Life in Nature,” DOB Hualalamphong Gallery
  • “Thai Ink/Japanese Paper,” Serindia Gallery
  • Marsi Gallery, Suan Pakkad Palace
  • “The 59th National Exhibition of Art,” National Gallery

Films

  • The Thief and the Cobbler, directed by Richard Williams
  • Ёжик в тумане (Hedgehog in the Fog), dir. Yuri Norstein
  • Сказка сказок (Tale of Tales), dir. Yuri Norstein
  • Le Roi et l’oiseau, dir. Paul Grimault
  • The Illusionist, dir. Sylvain Chomet
  • La vielle dame et les pigeons, dir. Sylvain Chomet
  • I Remember: A Film about Joe Brainard, dir. Matt Wolf

september 1–15, 2013

Books

  • Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
  • E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
  • Alex Garland, The Beach
  • Maryvelma O’Neil, Bangkok: A Cultural and Literary History
  • Alec Waugh, Bangkok: The Story of a City

Exhibits

  • “35th Bua Luang Paintings Exhibition,” The Queen’s Gallery
  • “Chumpol Kamwanna & Nitis Wanichaboon: Meet Me Half Way,” Artery Post-Modern Gallery
  • “Paisal Theerapongvisanuporn: The Nightmare Remains,” Kathmandu Photo Gallery
  • Bangkok Seashell Museum
  • Bangkokian Museum
  • “Cross_Stitch,” Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
  • “Dennis Balk: Defaced Fruit with American Indians,” 338 Oida
  • “Theekawut Boonvijit: Grey Beauty,” Galerie N
  • “Kornkrit Jianpinidnan: ‘Elsewhere’ Begins Here and Vice Versa,” H Gallery
  • “Máirín Grant & Kenji Nagai: Views from the Cliffs,” H Gallery
  • Ayutthaya Historical Study Centre, Ayutthaya
  • Chao Sam Phraya National Museum, Ayutthaya

Films

  • Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen (Where the Green Ants Dream), directed by Werner Herzog
  • Sita Sings the Blues, dir. Nina Paley
  • The Secret of Kells, dir. Tomm Moore
  • The Beach, dir. Danny Boyle
  • Around the World in Eighty Days, dir. Michael Anderson

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