september 1–september 20

Books

  • Dean Inkster & Sébastien Pluot, eds., Anarchism without Adjectives: On the Work of Christopher D’Arcangelo (1975–1979)
  • Hayden Howard, The Eskimo Invasion
  • Vergil, The Aeneid, trans. Sarah Ruden
  • Robert Kelly, The Book from the Sky
  • Nancy Mackenroth, The Trees of Zharka

Films

  • In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden (In a Year with 13 Moons), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Exhibits

  • “Projects 95: Runa Islam,” MoMA
  • “I Am Still Alive: Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Drawing,” MoMA
  • “Carlito Carvalhosa: Sum of Days,” MoMA
  • “Harun Farocki: Images of War (at a Distance),” MoMA

august 11–august 31

Books

  • Robert Kelly, The Scorpions
  • Massimo Bontempelli, The Faithful Lover, trans. Estelle Gilson
  • Hannah Weiner, Hannah Weiner’s Open House, ed. Patrick F. Durgin
  • Janet Hobhouse, Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein
  • Don Delillo, Love-Lies-Bleeding
  • Julio Cortázar, Save Twilight, trans. Stephen Kessler

Films

  • Rise of the Planet of the Apes, directed by Rupert Wyatt
  • Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, dir. Sophie Fiennes
  • Tabloid, dir. Errol Morris
  • My Little Chickadee, dir. Edward F. Cline
  • Swimming to Cambodia, dir. Jonathan Demme
  • Monster in a Box, dir. Nick Broomfield
  • The Thing from Another World, dir. Christian Nyby
  • The Thing, dir. John Carpenter
  • I Love You Phillip Morris, dir. Glenn Ficarra & John Requa
  • The Inspector General, dir. Henry Koster
  • The Killing, dir. Stanley Kubrick
  • The Asphalt Jungle, dir. John Huston
  • Hot Tub Time Machine, dir. Steve Pink
  • Something Wild, dir. Jonathan Demme
  • The Kennel Murder Case, dir. Michael Curtiz
  • I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, dir. Mervyn LeRoy
  • 20,000 Cheers for the Chain Gang, dir. Roy Mack
  • Diner, dir. Barry Levinson

august 1–august 10

Books

  • Cozette De Charmoy, The True Life of Sweeney Todd: A Collage Novel

Films

  • The Sign of the Cross, directed by Cecil B. DeMille
  • The Art of the Steal, dir. Don Argott
  • Trouble in Paradise, dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  • The Merry Widow, dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  • The Dentist, dir. Leslie Pearce
  • The Fatal Glass of Beer, dir. Clyde Bruckman
  • The Pharmacist, dir. Arthur Ripley
  • The Barber Shop, dir. Arthur Ripley

july 21–july 31

Books

  • Augusto Monterroso, The Black Sheep and Other Fables, trans. R. D. V. Glasgow & Philip Jenkins
  • Vladimir Nabokov, The Eye, trans. Vladimir Nabokov & Dmitri Nabokov
  • Richard Burgin, Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges
  • Marie Neurath & Robin Kinross, The Transformer: Principles of Making Isotype Charts
  • Tan Lin, Insomnia and the Aunt
  • Julio Cortázar, From the Observatory, trans. Anne McLean
  • Dino Buzzati, A Love Affair, trans. Joseph Green

Films

  • The Bank Dick, directed by Edward F. Kline
  • She, dir. Lansing C. Holden & Irving Pichel
  • It, dir. Clarence G. Badger
  • It’s a Gift, dir. Norman McLeod
  • Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, dir. Edward F. Kline
  • Pool Sharks, dir. Edwin Middleton
  • The Golf Specialist, dir. Monte Brice
  • Tillie and Gus, dir. Francis Martin

Exhibits

  • “Franz Hals,” Met
  • “Paper Trails: Selected Works from the Collection, 1934–2001,” Met

july 11–july 20

Books

  • Matthew Derby, The Snipe
  • Stan Mir, Test Patterns
  • Marguerite Young, Moderate Fable
  • Lisa Robertson, Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip
  • John R. Stilgoe, Shallow Water Dictionary: A Grounding in Estuary English
  • Massimo Bontempelli, The Chess Set in the Mirror, trans. Estelle Gilson
  • Eve Babitz, Eve’s Hollywood

Films

  • The Bank Dick, directed by Edward F. Cline

july 1–july 10

Books

  • Robert Kelly, Under Words
  • Robert Kelly, A Transparent Tree: Fictions
  • Damon Krukowski, The Memory Theater Burned

Exhibits

  • “The Making of Americans,” James Gallery, CUNY

Films

  • My Fair Lady, directed by George Cukor
  • A Flirt’s Mistake, dir. George Nichols
  • The Knockout, dir. Charles Avery
  • The Rounders, dir. Charles Chaplin
  • Leading Lizzie Astray, dir. Roscoe Arbuckle
  • Hot Saturday, dir. William A. Seiter
  • Torch Singer, dir. Alexander Hall & George Somnes
  • Saturday Night Fever, dir. John Badham
  • Angst vor der Angst (Fear of Fear), dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

june 16–june 30

Books

  • Marcel Allain, Juve in the Dock, trans. A. R. Allinson
  • Marcel Allain, Fantômas Captured, trans. A. R. Allinson
  • Marcel Allain, The Revenge of Fantômas, trans. Afred Allison
  • Mario Bellatin, Beauty Salon, trans. Kurt Hollander
  • Mario Bellatin, Chinese Checkers: Three Fictions, trans. Cooper Renner
  • Victor Papanek, Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
  • Marcel Allain, The Yellow Document, or Fantômas of Berlin, trans. unknown
  • Anna Maria Ortese, The Iguana, trans. Henry Martin
  • Dino Buzzati, Larger Than Life, trans. Henry Reed
  • Carlo Levi, The Linden Trees, trans. Joseph M. Bernstein
  • Dino Buzzati, Restless Nights, trans. Lawrence Venuti

june 1–june 15

Books

  • Giuseppi Gioachino Belli, The Roman Sonnets of Giuseppi Gioachino Belli, trans. Harold Norse
  • Raymond Roussel, Locus Solus, trans. Rupert Copeland Cuningham
  • Harry Mathews, Trial Impressions
  • Harry Mathews, Armenian Papers: Poems 1954–1984
  • Harry Mathews, The New Tourism
  • Robert Seydal, Book of Ruth
  • Mark Ford, Soft Sift

Films

  • The Hangover Part II, directed by Todd Phillips
  • L’Illusionniste (The Illusionist), dir. Syvain Chomet
  • Hold Me While I’m Naked, dir. George Kuchar
  • Pink Flamingos, dir. John Waters
  • Fughe e approdi (Return to the Aeolian Islands), dir. Giovanni Taviani
  • One Lucky Elephant, dir. Lisa Leeman
  • The Trip, dir. Michael Winterbottom

Exhibits

  • “Temporary Antumbra Zone,” Janet Kurnatowski Gallery
  • “Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore,” Jewish Museum
  • “Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World),” Jewish Museum
  • “Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective,” Met
  • “Eugene Von Bruenchenhein: ‘Freelance Artist—Poet and Sculptor—Inovator—Arrow maker and Plant man—Bone artifacts constructor—Photographer and Architect—Philosopher’,” American Folk Art Museum
  • “Ryoji Ikeda: The Transfinite,” Park Avenue Armory

may 21–may 31

Books

  • William Burroughs, Queer
  • Florence Delay, Patrick Deville, Jean Echenoz, Harry Mathews, Mark Polizzotti, Sonja Greenlee & Olivier Rolin, S. (trans. Mark Polizzotti & Matthew Escobar
  • Jonathan Williams, Uncle Gus Flaubert Rates the Jargon Society: In One Hundred One Laconic Présalé Sage Sentences
  • J. G. Ballard, The Wind from Nowhere
  • Christopher Priest, The Inverted World

Films

  • Caught, directed by Max Ophüls
  • The Reckless Moment, dir. Max Ophüls
  • Night of the Demon, dir. Jacques Tourneur
  • Curse of the Demon, dir. Jacques Tourneur
  • Heaven Can Wait, dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  • The Tree of Life, dir. Terrence Mallick
  • Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, dir. Charles Barton
  • Mystery Team, dir. Dan Eckman
  • Nénette, dir. Nicolas Philibert
  • The Gold Ghost, dir. Charles Lamont
  • Allez Oop, dir. Charles Lamont
  • Palooka from Paducah, dir. Charles Lamont
  • One Run Elmer, dir. Buster Keaton
  • Hayseed Romance, dir. Charles Lamont
  • Tars and Stripes, dir. Charles Lamont
  • The E-Flat Man, dir. Charles Lamont
  • The Timid Young Man, dir. Mack Sennett
  • Three on a Limb, dir. Charles Lamont
  • Grand Slam Opera, dir. Charles Lamont
  • Blue Blazes, dir. Raymond Kane
  • The Chemist, dir. Al Christie
  • Mixed Magic, dir. Raymond Kane
  • Jail Bait, dir. Charles Lamont
  • Ditto, dir. Charles Lamont
  • Love Nest on Wheels, dir. Charles Lamont

may 11–may 20

Books

  • Harry Stephen Keeler, The Marceau Case
  • Harry Stephen Keeler, The Wonderful Scheme of Christopher Thorne
  • Harry Stephen Keeler, Y. Cheung, Business Detective
  • J. G. Ballard, The Drowned World

Films

  • Bridesmaids, directed by Paul Feig
  • Walking Tall, dir. Phil Karlson
  • Charley Varrick, dir. Don Siegel
  • Blind Husbands, dir. Erich von Stroheim
  • The Great Gabbo, dir. James Cruze & Erich von Stroheim
  • Hellboy, dir. Guillermo del Toro
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, dir. Edgar Wright
  • Die Austernprinzessin (The Oyster Princess), dir. Ernst Lubitsch

Exhibits

  • “Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Primitive,” New Museum
  • “The Incongruous Image: Marcel Broodthaers and Liliana Porter,” New Museum
  • “Lynda Benglis,” New Museum