december 16–december 31

Books

  • Jan Morris, Hav
  • Denis Wood, Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas

Films

  • Trolljegeren (Troll Hunter), directed by André Øvredal
  • I Know Where I’m Going!, dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
  • Beat the Devil, dir. John Huston
  • SLC Punk!, dir. James Merendino
  • I Was a Male War Bride, dir. Howard Hawks
  • Le Peuple migrateur (Winged Migration), dir. Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud & Michel Debats
  • Chinesisches Roulette (Chinese Roulette), dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • She Done Him Wrong, dir. Lowell Sherman
  • Scarface, dir. Howard Hawks
  • The Man on the Flying Trapeze, dir. Clyde Bruckman & W. C. Fields

Exhibits

  • “Lee Bontecou: Recent Work: Sculpture and Drawing,” FreedmanArt
  • “Francis Picabia: Late Paintings,” Michael Werner

december 1–december 15

Books

  • Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
  • L. S. Asekoff, Dreams of a Work
  • Lauren Beukes, Zoo City
  • Cecily Mackworth, The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt: A Biography

Films

  • A Time to Love and a Time to Die, dir. Douglas Sirk
  • The Tarnished Angels, dir. Douglas Sirk
  • Pootie Tang, dir. Louis C.K.
  • Gray’s Anatomy, dir. Steven Soderbergh
  • And Everything Is Going Fine, dir. Steven Soderbergh
  • The Accidental Tourist, dir. Lawrence Kasdan
  • To Be or Not To Be, dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  • Rare Exports, dir. Jalmari Helander

Exhibits

  • “Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life,” Grey Art Gallery
  • “Transition to Christianity: Art of Late Antiquity, 3rd–7th Century A.D.,” Onassis Cultural Center
  • “Elizabeth Bishop: Objects & Apparitions,” Tibor de Nagy
  • “Jess: Paintings,” Tibor de Nagy
  • “Material Witness,” Pavel Zoubok
  • “Yoko Ono: Uncursed,” Galerie Lelong
  • “Hiroshi Sugimoto: Surface of the Third Order,” Pace Gallery
  • “Matta: A Centennial Celebration,” Pace Gallery
  • “Peter Hujar: Three Lives: Peter Hujar, Paul Thek, & David Wojnarowicz,” Matthew Marks
  • “Karen Knorr: India Song,” Danziger Gallery
  • “Ben Vautier: Solo Show,” Vicky David Gallery

november 16–november 30

Books

  • Steven Levy, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
  • Samuel R. Delany, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
  • L. S. Asekoff, The Gate of Horn
  • L. S. Asekoff, Freedom Hill
  • Renee Gladman, The Ravickians
  • Anka Muhlenstein, Balzac’s Omelette, trans. Adriana Hunter

Films

  • Roma, directed by Federico Fellini
  • You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man, dir. George Marshall & Edward F. Cline
  • Little Shop of Horrors, dir. Roger Corman
  • The Creature from the Haunted Sea, dir. Roger Corman
  • King of the Hill, dir. Steven Soderbergh
  • Inside Job, dir. Charles Ferguson

Exhibits

  • “Art in Renaissance Venice, 1400–1515: Paintings and Drawings from the Museum’s Collection,” Met
  • “Perino del Vaga in New York Collections,” Met
  • “Picasso’s Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition,” Frick
  • “Georges Braque: Pioneer of Modernism,” Acquavella Galleries
  • “Influential Friends by Peter Hujar,” John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller

november 1–november 15

Books

  • Parker Tyler, Florine Stettheimer: A Life in Art
  • John Crowley, Conversation Hearts
  • Roberto Arlt, Mad Toy, trans. Michele McKay Aynesworth
  • Percival Everett, Glyph
  • Robert Kelly, Queen of Terrors

Films

  • Rome Against Rome, directed by Giuseppe Vari
  • Nothing Sacred, dir. William Wellman
  • A Bucket of Blood, dir. Roger Corman
  • Absolute Wilson, dir. Katharina Otto-Bernstein
  • Nóż w wodzie (Knife in the Water), dir. Roman Polanski

Exhibits

  • “Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O’Keeffe,” Met
  • “Photographic Treasures from the Collection of Alfred Stieglitz,” Met
  • “Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son,” Met
  • “John Ashbery: Recent Collages,” Tibor de Nagy

october 1–october 15

Books

  • Bilge Karasu, The Garden of Departed Cats, trans. Aron Aji
  • Jerome Rothenberg, ed., Revolution of the Word: A New Gathering of American Avant-Garde Poetry 1914–1945

Films

  • Ossessione, directed by Luchino Visconti
  • Hannah and Her Sisters, dir. Woody Allen
  • Bill Cunningham New York, dir. Richard Press
  • Possessed, dir. Clarence Brown

Exhibits

  • “Beatrice Wood (1893–1998),” Francis M. Naumann Fine Arts
  • “John Beerman: Recent Paintings,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery
  • “Donald Evans: Selected Works,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery
  • “Niki de Saint Phalle: Retrospective 1960–2002,” Nohra Haime Gallery
  • “Gabriel Orozco: Corplegados and Particles,” Marian Goodman Gallery
  • “Richard Serra: Junction/Cycle,” Gagosian
  • “Sterling Ruby/Lucio Fontana,” Andrea Rosen Gallery
  • “Carsten Nicolai: Pionier,” Pace
  • “Matthew Barney: Djed,” Gladstone
  • “Meredyth Sparks: Stripped Bare, Even and Again,” Elizabeth Dee Gallery
  • “Manfred Mohr: 1964–2011, Réflexions sur une esthétique programmée,” Bitforms

september 21-september 30

Books

  • Christopher Logue, All Day Permanent Red
  • Manuela Draeger, In the Time of the Blue Ball, trans. Brian Evenson
  • Henry McBride, Florine Stettheimer
  • Ilya Ilf & Evgeny Petrov, Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip, ed. Erika Wolf, trans. Anne O. Fisher
  • Elizabeth Sussman & Barbara J. Bloemink, Florine Stettheimer: Manhattan Fantastica
  • Julien Gracq, The Peninsula, trans. Elizabeth Deshays

Films

  • Carnival of Souls, directed by Herk Harvey

Exhibits

  • “De Kooning: A Retrospective,” MoMA
  • “Thing/Thought: Fluxus Editions 1962–1978,” MoMA
  • “Edge of Empires: Pagans, Jews, and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos,” Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

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