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

may 1–may 10

Books

  • Harry Stephen Keeler, X. Jones— of Scotland Yard
  • Zachary Mason, The Lost Books of the Odyssey
  • Thomas McGonigle, Going to Patchogue
  • Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
  • Guy Maddin, My Winnipeg
  • Philip K. Dick, Ubik

Films

  • The Cave of Forgotten Dreams, directed by Werner Herzog
  • 細雪 (The Makioka Sisters), dir. Kon Ichikawa
  • Meet John Doe, dir. Frank Capra

Exhibits

  • “Jean Crotti: Inhabiting Abstraction,” Francis M. Naumann Fine Arts
  • “Romare Bearden: Collage, A Centennial Celebration,” Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
  • “Decadence & Decay: Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz,” Galerie St. Etienne
  • “Willem de Kooning: The Figure: Movement and Gesture,” Pace Gallery
  • “Subodh Gupta: A Glass of Water,” Hauser & Wirth
  • “Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt,” Craig F. Starr
  • “Robert Morris: 1934 and Before,” Leo Castelli
  • “Arshile Gorky: 1947,” Gagosian
  • “Sol LeWitt: Structures and Drawings,” Barbara Mathes Gallery
  • “Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception,” MoMA

april 21–april 30

Books

Films

  • Never Let Me Go, directed by Mark Romanek
  • Grand Hotel, dir. Edmund Goulding
  • Easy A, dir. Will Gluck

Exhibits

  • “On Becoming an Artist: Isamu Noguchi and His Contemporaries, 1922–1960,” Noguchi Museum
  • “German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse,” MoMA
  • “Joseph Kosuth: ‘Texts (Waiting for-) for Nothing’ Samuel Beckett, in play,” Sean Kelly Gallery
  • “Chris Marker: Passengers,” Peter Blum Chelsea

april 11–april 20

Books

Films

  • Tales from the Gimli Hospital, directed by Guy Maddin
  • The Dead Father, dir. Guy Maddin
  • Even – As You and I, dir. Roger Barlow, Harry Hay & LeRoy Robbins
  • Canyon Passage, dir. Jacques Tourneur
  • Fashions of 1934, dir. William Dieterle
  • Roman Scandals, dir. Frank Tuttle
  • The Kid from Spain, dir. Leo McCarey

Exhibits

  • “Martin Kippenberger: Eggman II,” Skarstedt Gallery
  • “Günther Uecker: The Early Years,” L & M Arts
  • “Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern: From Barefoot Profit to Avant-Garde Artist,” Michael Werner Gallery
  • “Malevich and the American Legacy,” Gagosian
  • “Touched: A Space of Relations,” Bitforms Gallery
  • “Chris Marker: Passengers,” Peter Blum Soho
  • “Cosima von Bonin: The Juxtaposition of Nothings,” Friedrich Petzel
  • “Hermann Nitsch: Die Apotheke/The Pharmacy,” Leo Koenig
  • “Rirkrit Tiravanija: Fear Eats the Soul,” Gavin Brown’s Enterprise

april 1–april 10

Books

Films

  • Anatomy of a Murder, directed by Otto Preminger
  • Safety Last!, dir. Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor
  • Hospital Fragment, dir. Guy Maddin
  • Sweetgrass, dir. Lucien Castaing-Taylor
  • Trick Baby, dir. Larry Yust
  • Homebodies, dir. Larry Yust
  • Месть кинематографического оператора (The Cameraman’s Revenge), dir. Ladislas Starevich 
  • Владислàв Алексàндрович Старèвич (The Insect’s Christmas), dir. Ladislas Starevich 
  • La Voix du rossignol (Voice of the Nightingale), dir. Ladislas Starevich 
  • Les Grenouilles qui demandent un roi (Frogland), dir. Ladislas Starevich 
  • Fétiche Mascotte (The Mascot), dir. Ladislas Starevich 
  • Carrousel Boréal (Winter Carousel), dir. Ladislas Starevich 

Exhibits

  • “Sergej Jensen,” MoMA PS1
  • “Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from the Frick and Lugt Collections,” Frick
  • “Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century,” Met

march 16–march 23

Books

Films

  • Alice in Wonderland, directed by Cecil Hepworth & Percy Stow
  • On connaît la chanson (Same Old Song), dir. Alain Resnais
  • Providence, dir. Alain Resnais
  • Stavisky . . . , dir. Alain Resnais
  • Faustrecht der Freiheit (Fox and His Friends), dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • La chute de la maison Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher), dir. Jean Epstein

Exhibits

  • “Spirituality: Works by David Wojnarowicz from 1979–1990,” PPOW
  • “Hermann Nitsch: 60. Painting Action // 60. Malaktion,” Mike Weiss Gallery
  • “Proofs and Refutations,” David Zwirner
  • “Donald Judd: Works in Granite, Cor-ten, Plywood, and Enamel on Aluminum,” Pace Gallery
  • “Tara Donovan: Drawings (Pins),” Pace Gallery
  • “Gerhard Richter: Sinbad,” Flag Art Foundation
  • “The Parallax View,” Lehmann Maupin“Duke Riley: Two Riparian Tales of Undoing,” Magnan Metz
  • “Michael Waugh: Decline and Fall,” Schroeder Romero & Shredder
  • “Joseph Cornell, Witold Gordon, Estate of Leon Kelly, Louis Marcoussis, Man Ray: Les Devins,” Schroeder Romero & Shredder

march 1–march 15

Books

Films

  • The Jazz Singer, dir. Alan Crosland
  • Loin du Vietnam (Far from Vietnam), dir. Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker & Alain Resnais
  • I Want to Go Home, dir. Alain Resnais
  • Je t’aime, je t’aime, dir. Alain Resnais
  • Le chant du Styrène, dir. Alain Resnais
  • The Naked City, dir. Jules Dassin
  • Night and the City, dir. Jules Dassin
  • Mon oncle d’Amérique, dir. Alain Resnais
  • Mélo, dir. Alain Resnais
  • La Glace à trois faces, dir. Jean Epstein
  • The Kids Are All Right, dir. Lisa Cholodenko
  • Brainscan, dir. John Flynn
  • Little Odessa, dir. James Gray
  • Querelle, dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Liebe – kälter als der Tod (Love Is Colder Than Death), dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Exhibits

  • “Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand,” Met
  • “Our Future Is In The Air: Photographs from the 1910s,” Met
  • “Pierre Huyghe: The Host and the Cloud,” Marian Goodman
  • “Tibor de Nagy Gallery Painters & Poets: Celebrating 60 Years,” Tibor de Nagy
  • “David Hammons,” L & M Arts
  • “Stanley Casselman: Evolution-Water,” Chashama Donnell Windows
  • “Hong Seon Jang: Zip City,” Chashama Donnell Windows
  • “Liliana Dirks-Goodman: Color Series #3,” Chashama Donnell Windows
  • “Jose Landoni: The Great Wave,” Chashama Donnell Windows