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

march 1–15, 2013

Books

  • Jack London, The Iron Heel
  • James Tiptree, Jr., Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
  • Charles Fourier, The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy, trans. Geoffrey Longnecker
  • René Daumal, Pataphysical Essays, trans. Thomas Vosteen
  • Ursule Molinaro, Positions with White Roses
  • Joanna Ruocco, The Mothering Coven
  • Jenny Davidson, The Magic Circle
  • Shawn Vestal, Godforsaken Idaho

Films

  • 56 Up, directed by Michael Apted

february 15–28, 2013

Books

  • Gertrude Stein, from The Making of Americans, edited by D. Sorensen
  • William Gerhardie, The Polyglots
  • Avram Davidson & Ward Moore, Joyleg
  • William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
  • Charles Portis, Norwood
  • Ellery Queen (Avram Davidson), And on the Eighth Day
  • Ellery Queen (Avram Davidson), The Fourth Side of the Triangle
  • Peter Hook, Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division
  • Carl Van Vechten, The Tattooed Countess

Films

  • White Zombie, directed by Victor Halperin
  • Ring of Bright Water, dir. Jack Couffer

Exhibits

  • “Dieter Roth. Björn Roth,” Hauser & Wirth
  • “Suzanne Treister: Hexen 2.0,” PPOW
  • “Giorgio Griffa: Fragments 1968–2012,” Casey Kaplan
  • “Alighiero Boetti: La forza del centro,”, Gladstone Gallery
  • “Nancy Spero: From Victimage to Liberation: Works from the 1980s & 1990s,” Galerie Lelong
  • “Tam Van Tran: Leaves of Ore,” Ameringer McEnery Yohe

february 1–14, 2013

Books

  • Pamela Zoline, The Heat Death of the Universe
  • Tom Whalen, The President in Her Towers
  • Nicholson Baker, Vox
  • Julie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
  • Richard Stark, The Jugger

Films

  • Contagion, directed by Steven Soderbergh
  • Miller’s Crossing, dir. Joel Coen
  • Ocean’s Twelve, dir. Steven Soderbergh
  • Quai des Orfèvres, dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
  • Twentieth Century, dir. Howard Hawks
  • Brick, dir. Rian Johnson

Exhibits

  • “Anything Can Substitute Art: Maciunas in Soho,” Cooper Gallery
  • “Diaries: An Anthology of Photography from Italy,” Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art
  • “Rooms of Wonder: From Wunderkammer to Museum, 1599–1899,” Grolier Club
  • “Sleeping Eros,” Met
  • “The Path of Nature: French Paintings from the Wheelock Whitney Collection, 1785–1850,” Met
  • “Birds in the Art of Japan,” Met

january 16–31, 2013

Books

  • Millicent Dillon, A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles
  • Weldon Kees, The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees
  • Balthus & Alain Vircondelet, Vanished Splendors, trans. Benjamin Ivry
  • William Goyen, Arcadio
  • Eleanor Clark, Rome and a Villa
  • G. Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen
  • Nicholson Baker, Room Temperature
  • Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine
  • Ursule Molinaro, Green Lights Are Blue
  • Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects
  • James Broughton, High Kukus
  • Benjamin Anastas, The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor’s Disappearance

Films

  • Martha Marcy May Marlene, directed by Sean Durkin
  • A Countess from Hong Kong, dir. Charles Chaplin
  • The Stone Tape, dir. Peter Sasdy

january 1–15, 2013

Books

  • Thornton Wilder, Theophilus North
  • Thornton Wilder, The Cabala
  • Thornton Wilder, Heaven’s My Destination
  • Thornton Wilder, The Woman of Andros
  • Jules Verne, Paris in the Twentieth Century, translated by Richard Howard

Films

  • They Live By Night, directed by Nicholas Ray
  • Mr. North, dir. Danny Huston
  • Easy Living, dir. Mitchell Leisen
  • 80 Blocks to Tiffany’s, dir. Gary Weis
  • Flirting with Disaster, dir. David O. Russell

Exhibits

  • “Peter Sacks: New Paintings,” Paul Rodgers
  • “Daniel Buren: Electricity Fabric Paint Paper Vinyl,” Bortolami
  • “Henry Darger: Landscapes,” Ricco/Maresca Gallery

december 16–31

Books

  • Thornton Wilder, The Ides of March
  • Cathy Park Hong, Engine Empire
  • Djuna Barnes, The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings
  • Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
  • Alex Savage, The Flesh Is Like a Kind of Muppet Caper
  • Ted Berrigan & Joe Brainard, The Drunken Boat
  • Max Frisch, A Wilderness of Mirrors, trans. Michael Bullock

Films

  • Trading Places, directed by John Landis
  • Счастье (Happiness), dir. Aleksandr Medvedkin
  • Le Bonheur (Happiness), dir. Agnès Varda
  • Haywire, dir. Steven Soderbergh
  • Wise Blood, dir. John Huston
  • Camille, dir. George Cukor
  • Silver Linings Playbook, dir. David O. Russell
  • Intolerance, dir. D. W. Griffith

Exhibits

  • “Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925,” MoMA
  • “Trevor Winkfield: New Paintings,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery

december 1–december 15

Books

  • Amélie Nothomb, Hygiene and the Assassin, trans. Alison Anderson
  • Michael Allen Zell, Errata

Films

  • Ruthless, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
  • Tillsammans (Together), dir. Lukas Moodysson
  • Nostalgia de la luz (Nostalgia for the Light), dir. Patricio Guzmán

Exhibits

  • “Jesús Rafael Soto: Soto Unearthed: A 1968 Film and Selected Early Work,” Bosi Contemporary
  • “Pieter Schoolweth: After Troy,” Miguel Abreu Gallery
  • “The Art of Scent 1889–2012,” The Museum of Arts and Design
  • “Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde,” MoMA

november 16–november 30

Books

  • Suzanne Scanlon, Promising Young Women
  • Arnold Klein, Rangefinder & Powderhorn: Two Poems
  • Paul Scheerbart, Lesabéndio: An Asteroid Novel, trans. Christina Svendsen

Films

  • The Stranger, directed by Orson Welles
  • Planes, Trains and Automobiles, dir. John Hughes
  • Remember the Night, dir. Mitchell Leisen

Exhibits

  • “African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde,” Met
  • “Matisse: In Search of True Painting,” Met