november 1–november 15

Books

  • Alex Shakar, The Savage Girl
  • Ingeborg Bachmann, The Thirtieth Year, trans. Michael Bullock
  • René Daumal, You’ve Always Been Wrong, trans. Thomas Vosteen
  • Marcel Schwob, The Book of Monelle, trans. Kit Schluter
  • Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Fra Keeler

Films

  • The Lady Vanishes, directed by Alfred Hitchcock
  • Dial M for Murder, dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • The Last Picture Show, dir. Peter Bogdanovich
  • No Man of Her Own, dir. Mitchell Leisen

october 16–october 31

Books

  • Carmen Laforet, Nada, translated by Edith Grossman
  • René Daumal, Mount Analogue, trans. Roger Shattuck
  • Clancy Martin, How to Sell
  • Chris Ware, Building Stories
  • Benjamin Anastas, An Underachiever’s Diary

Films

  • Closed Vision, directed by Marc’O
  • The Master, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Party Girl, dir. Daisy von Scherler Mayer
  • I Walked with a Zombie, dir. Jacques Tourneur
  • Sedmikrásky (Daisies), dir. Věra Chytilová
  • Irma la Douce, dir. Billy Wilder

october 1–october 15

Films

  • Faces, directed by John Cassavetes
  • Made in U.S.A., dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • La decima vittima (The Tenth Victim), dir. Elio Petri
  • Serial Mom, dir. John Waters
  • Mars Attacks, dir. Tim Burton
  • Beetlejuice, dir. Tim Burton
  • Head, dir. Bob Rafelson
  • Harriet Craig, dir. Vincent Sherman

Exhibits

  • “Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan,” Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
  • “Robert Adams: On Any Given Day in Spring and Light Balances,” Matthew Marks
  • “Jackson Pollock & Tony Smith: Sculpture An Exhibition on the Centennial of their Births,” Matthew Marks
  • “Richard Tuttle: Systems, VIII–XII,” Pace
  • “Robert Irwin: Dotting the i’s & Crossing the t’s: Part II,” Pace
  • “Dorothea Rockburne Works 1967–1972,” Craig F. Starr
  • “A Visual Essay on Gutai,” Hauser & Wirth
  • “Gego: Origin and Encounter, Mastering the Space,” Americas Society
  • “Chris Ware: Building Stories,” Adam Baumgold
  • “Duchamp Brothers & Sister,” Francis M. Naumann
  • Gerhard Richter, Marian Goodman
  • “We the People,” Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
  • “Mark Flood: Art Star,” Zack Feuer
  • “Zoe Leonard,” Murray Guy
  • “Ai Weiwei: Fairytale Chairs/New York Photographs,” Carolina Nitsch Project Room
  • “Þórdís Aðalsteinsdóttir: Call on Me with Your Softness,” Stefan Stux Gallery
  • “Leonardo Drew,” Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
  • “Bernini: Sculpting in Clay,” Met

september 16–september 30

Books

  • Jean-Cristophe Valtat, 03, translated by Mitzi Angel
  • Max Frisch, Montauk, trans. Geoffrey Skelton
  • Italo Calvino, The Watcher and Other Stories, trans. William Weaver & Archibald Colquhoun
  • Elizabeth Smart, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals
  • Sophie Calle, The Address Book, trans. Pauline Baggio
  • Benjamin Anastas, Too Good to Be True

Films

  • Le tombeau d’Alexandre (The Last Bolshevik), directed by Chris Marker
  • Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera, dir. Mark Obenhaus
  • Magritte, dir. Adrian Maben
  • Cosmopolis, dir. David Cronenberg
  • Boxing Helena, dir. Jennifer Chambers Lynch

Exhibits

  • “Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper,” Morgan Library
  • “Robert Wilson/Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach,” Morgan Library
  • “Materializing ‘Six Years’: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art,” Brooklyn Museum

september 1–september 15

Books

  • Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline, translated by Tim Parks
  • Michal Ajvaz, The Other City, trans. Gerald Turner
  • Gore Vidal, Julian
  • China Miéville, The City & The City
  • Félix Fénéon, Novels in Three Lines, trans. Luc Sante
  • Jean-Phillipe Toussaint, Running Away, trans. Matthew B. Smith
  • Jean-Phillipe Toussaint, Making Love, trans. Linda Coverdale
  • Sergio Chejfec, My Two Worlds, trans. Margaret B. Carson

Films

  • Le petit soldat, directed by Jean-Luc Godard
  • Les Carabiniers, dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • La Chinoise, dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • Plague Summer, dir. Chester Kessler
  • La mort du cerf: une chasse à courre à Villiers-Cotterets, dir. Dimitri Kirsanoff
  • Image in the Snow, dir. Willard Maas
  • Celery Stalks at Midnight, dir. John Whitney
  • The Voices, dir. John E. Schmitz
  • Episodes in the Life of a Gin Bottle, dir. Bela von Block
  • Schichlegruber doing the Lambeth Walk, dir. Charles A. Ridley
  • Falling Pink, dir. Robert H. Spring
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild, dir. Benh Zeitlin

Exhibits

  • “Luis Camnitzer,” Alexander Gray Associates
  • “The Feverish Library,” Friedrich Petzel Gallery
  • “Penny Slinger: An Exorcism Revisited,” Broadway 1602
  • “Yayoi Kusama: Drawings from the mid-50s,” D’Amelio Gallery

august 1–august 15

Books

  • Luis Vaz de Camões, The Lusíads, translated by Landeg White
  • Rose Macaulay, They Went to Portugal Too
  • Carlotta Monti & Cy Rice, W. C. Fields & Me
  • René Belletto, Coda, trans. Alyson Waters

Films

  • Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, directed by Frank Tashlin

Exhibits

  • Museu Monográfico de Conimbriga, Condeixa-a-Nova, Portugal
  • Núcleo Museológico, Castelo de São Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal

july 16–july 31

Books

  • Victor Pelevin, The Yellow Arrow, translated by Andrew Bromfield
  • Alberto Moravia, Two Friends, trans. Marina Harss
  • Alberto Moravia, Conjugal Love, trans. Marina Harss
  • Charlotte A. E. Moberly & Eleanor F. Jourdain, An Adventure
  • César Aira, The Literary Conference, trans. Katherine Silver
  • César Aira, Ghosts, trans. Chris Andrews
  • Michael Allen Zell, Errata
  • Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles, trans. Jerzy Ficowski
  • Erih Koš, The Strange Story of the Great Whale, Also Known as Big Mac, trans. Lovett F. Edwards
  • Joshua Beckman & Jon Beacham, Porch Light (lamp and chair)
  • Sacheverell Sitwell, Portugal and Madeira
  • Norman Douglas, Some Limericks
  • Datus C. Proper, The Last Old Place: A Search Through Portugal

Films

  • You Can Count on Me, directed by Kenneth Lonergan
  • Laws of Gravity, dir. Nick Gomez
  • Boccaccio ’70, dir. Mario Monicelli, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti & Vittorio De Sica

Exhibits

  • “Last Things & Other Forms: Herbert Pfostl & Jon Beacham,” 222 Roebling Street
  • “The Dawn of Egyptian Art,” Met
  • “Ellsworth Kelly: Plant Drawings,” Met
  • “Paintings on Parchment: Italian Renaissance Illuminations from the Robert Lehman Collection,” Met

july 1–july 15

Books

  • John Ashbery, April Galleons
  • Julio Cortázar, The Winners, trans. Elaine Kerrigan
  • Erica Baum, Dog Ear
  • Amaranth Borsuk, Handcraft
  • Cees Nootebaum, The Following Story, trans. Ina Rilke

Films

  • Naked Lunch, directed by David Cronenberg
  • Charade, dir. Stanley Donen
  • Magic Mike, dir. Steven Soderbergh
  • Der amerikanische Soldat (The American Soldier), dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Das blaue Licht (The Blue Light), dir. Leni Riefenstahl
  • Lisbon Story, dir. Wim Wenders

june 16–june 30

Books

  • Ben Gocker, The Pisces
  • Anthony Madrid, I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say
  • Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star, trans. Benjamin Moser
  • Mary Gaitskill, Veronica
  • St. Augustine, Confessions, trans. R. S. Pine-Coffin

Films

  • Les Vampires, directed by Louis Feuillade
  • M. Butterfly, dir. David Cronenberg

Exhibits

  • “Carl Andre/John Wesley: Serial Forms,” Mitchell-Innes & Nash
  • “Hélio Oiticica: Penetrables,” Galerie Lelong
  • “Rachel Harrison: The Help,” Greene Naftali
  • “Heinrich Kuehn and his American Circle: Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen,” Neue Galerie
  • “Gustav Klimt: 150th Anniversary Celebration,” Neue Galerie
  • “Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol,” LACMA
  • “Children of the Plumed Serpent: The Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico,” LACMA
  • “Chris Burden: Metropolis II,” LACMA
  • “Michael Heizer: Levitated Mass,” LACMA

june 1–june 15

Books

  • William Carlos Williams, Paterson
  • Leonard Koren, Making Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing
  • W. G. Sebald, Vertigo, trans. Michael Hulse
  • Stan Mir, Song & Glass
  • W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants, trans. Michael Hulse

Films

  • The Bat Whispers, directed by Roland West
  • The Mission, dir. Roland Joffé
  • Dark Victory, dir. Edmund Goulding
  • The Gay Divorcee, dir. Mark Sandrich
  • Prometheus, dir. Ridley Scott
  • Quatermass and the Pit, dir. Roy Ward Baker

Exhibits

  • “An Accumulation of Information Taken from Here to There,” Sperone Westwater
  • “William Wegman: Artists Including Me,” Sperone Westwater
  • “Hannah Whitaker: The Use of Noise,” Thierry Goldberg Gallery
  • “Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language,” MOMA