january 26–january 31

Books

Films

  • Primate, directed by Frederick Wiseman
  • Titicut Follies, dir. Frederick Wiseman
  • Drei Wege zum See (Three Paths to the Lake), dir. Michael Haneke
  • A History of Violence, dir. David Cronenberg
  • Entre tinieblas (Dark Habits), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón, dir. Pedro Almodóvar

january 21–january 25

Books

Films

  • In the Loop, dir. Armando Iannucci
  • High School, dir. Frederick Wiseman
  • Entretien sur Pascal, dir. Éric Rohmer

Exhibits

  • “Brian Alfred: It’s Already the End of the World,” Haunch of Venison
  • “Egon Schiele As Printmaker,” Gallerie St. Etienne

january 16–january 20

Films

  • The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, directed by Billy Wilder
  • La carrière de Suzanne (Suzanne’s Career), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Nadja à Paris (Nadja in Paris), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Ma nuit chez Maud (My Night at Maud’s), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Une étudiante d’aujourd’hui (A Modern Coed), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • La collectionneuse, dir. Éric Rohmer
  • The Young Victoria, dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
  • L’ère industrielle: Métamorphoses du paysage, dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Moon, dir. Duncan Jones

Exhibits

  • “The Drawings of Bronzino,” Met
  • “Metamorphosis Victorianus: Modern Collage, Victorian Engravings & Nostalgia,” Ubu Gallery
  • “Seeing Intimacy: Richard Tuttle on Paper,” Craig F. Starr Gallery

january 11–january 15

Books

Films

  • Tacones Lejanos, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
  • Salomé, dir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • Plaisir d’amour en Iran, dir. Agnès Varda
  • Il giorno della prima di Close Up, dir. Nanni Moretti
  • La boulangère de Monceau (The Bakery Girl of Monceau), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Présentation ou Charlotte et son steak (Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak), dir. Éric Rohmer

Exhibits

  • “Kandinsky,” Guggenheim
  • “Anish Kapoor: Memory,” Guggenheim

my year in books, 2009

(alphabetized by author)

Fiction

  • Jessica Abel, La Perdida
  • Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre, Fantômas (trans. unknown)
  • Chloe Aridjis, Book of Clouds
  • Paul Auster, City of Glass (adaptation by Paul Karasik & David Mazzucchelli)
  • Donald Barthelme & Seymour Chwast, Sam’s Bar: An American Landscape
  • Roberto Bolaño, Amulet (trans. Chris Andrews)
  • Jane Bowles, Two Serious Ladies
  • Jane Bowles, My Sister’s Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
  • Dino Buzzati, The Siren: A Selection from Dino Buzzati (trans. Lawrence Venuti)
  • Dino Buzzati, Poem Strip, Including an Explanation of the Afterlife
  • Julio Cortázar, 62: A Model Kit (trans. Gregory Rabassa)
  • Julio Cortázar, We Love Glenda So Much, and Other Tales (trans. Gregory Rabassa)
  • Julio Cortázar, All Fires the Fire (trans. Suzanne Jill Levine)
  • Stanley Crawford, Gascoyne
  • Stanley Crawford, Travel Notes (from here—to there)
  • Stanley Crawford, Log of the S. S. The Mrs. Unguentine
  • Stanley Crawford, Some Instructions to My Wife Concerning the Upkeep of the House and Marriage and to my Son and Daughter Concerning the Conduct of their Childhood
  • John Crowley, Love & Sleep
  • John Crowley, Dæmonomania
  • John Crowley, Endless Things
  • John Crowley, Novelties & Souvenirs
  • R. Crumb, The Book of Genesis Illustrated
  • Robertson Davies, Fifth Business
  • Robertson Davies, The Manticore
  • Robertson Davies, World of Wonders
  • Gideon Defoe, The Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists
  • Samuel R. Delany, The Fall of the Towers
  • Samuel R. Delany, Equinox
  • Samuel R. Delany, Hogg
  • Thomas M. Disch, 334
  • Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz (trans. Eugene Jolas)
  • Geoff Dyer, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
  • Dave Eggers, How the Water Feels to the Fishes
  • Stanley Elkin, Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers
  • Stanley Elkin, The Dick Gibson Show
  • Stanley Elkin, A Bad Man
  • Stanley Elkin, The Franchiser
  • Stanley Elkin, The Magic Kingdom
  • Brian Evenson, The Open Curtain
  • Brian Evenson, Last Days
  • Brian Evenson, Fugue State: Stories
  • Ronald Firbank, The New Rythum and Other Pieces
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tales of the Jazz Age
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
  • Max Frisch, I’m Not Stiller (trans. Michael Bullock)
  • Carlos Fuentes, Where the Air Is Clear (trans. Sam Hileman)
  • Kenneth Gangemi, Corroboree
  • Kenneth Gangemi, The Interceptor Pilot
  • Henry Green, Blindness
  • Henry Green, Living
  • Henry Green, Loving
  • Henry Green, Party Going
  • Garth Risk Hallberg, A Field Guide to the North American Family
  • Tove Jansson, Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Book 4
  • Gabriel Josipovici, Everything Passes
  • Franz Kafka, Amerika: The Missing Person (trans. Mark Harman)
  • Robert Kelly, Cities
  • Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O— (trans. Richard Stokes)
  • Eric Kraft, Flying Home
  • D. H. Lawrence, The Plumed Serpent
  • Stephen Leacock, Nonsense Novels
  • Ursula Le Guin, The Word for World Is Forest
  • John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In (trans. Ebba Segerberg)
  • Gary Lutz, Partial List of People to Bleach
  • Genevieve Manceron, The Deadlier Sex (trans. Jonas Berry & Lawrence G. Blochman)
  • Giorgio Manganelli, Centuria: 100 Ouroboric Novels (trans. Henry Martin)
  • Sarah Manguso, Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape
  • Micheline Aharonian Marcom, The Mirror in the Well
  • David Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp
  • James McCourt, Now Voyagers: The Night Sea Journey
  • Joseph McElroy, Ancient History: A Paraphase
  • Herman Melville, ; or The Whale (ed. Damion Searls)
  • Joe Meno, The Boy Detective Fails
  • Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
  • Alberto Moravia, Journey to Rome (trans. Tim Parks)
  • Vítězslav Nezval, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (trans. David Short)
  • Amélie Nothomb, Tokyo Fiancée (trans. Alison Anderson)
  • Toby Olson, The Blond Box
  • Georges Perec, Life a User’s Manual
  • Georges Perec, 53 Days (ed. Harry Mathews & Jacques Roubaud, trans. David Bellows)
  • Georges Perec (et al.), Winter Journeys
  • Georges Perec with Harry Mathews, Cantatrix Sopranica L.: Scientific Papers
  • Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
  • Thomas Love Peacock, Crotchet Castle
  • Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
  • Aaron Petrovich, The Session
  • Charles Portis, The Dog of the South
  • Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: A Question of Upbringing
  • Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: A Buyer’s Market
  • Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: The Acceptance World
  • Marcel Proust, The Lemoine Affair (trans. Charlotte Mandell)
  • Ann Quin, Berg
  • Jean Ricardou, Place Names: A Brief Guide to Travels in the Book (trans. Jordan Stump)
  • Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo (trans. Margaret Sayers Peden)
  • Damion Searls, What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going
  • Richard Sennett, The Craftsman
  • Leanne Shapton, Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry
  • Dash Shaw, Bottomless Bellybutton
  • Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (trans. Robert Fitzgerald & Dudley Fitts)
  • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (trans. Robert Fitzgerald)
  • Sophocles, Antigone (trans. Robert Fitzgerald & Dudley Fitts)
  • Adalbert Stifter, Rock Crystal (trans. Elizabeth Mayer & Marianne Moore)
  • Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Camera (trans. Matthew B. Smith)
  • Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
  • Deb Olin Unferth, Minor Robberies
  • Eloy Urroz, The Obstacles (trans. Ezra Fitz)
  • Noël Vexin, Murder in Montmartre (trans. Jonas Berry & Lawrence G. Blochman)
  • Robert Walser, The Tanners (trans. Susan Bernofsky)
  • Edmund White, The Beautiful Room Is Empty
  • Edmund White, The Farewell Symphony
  • Edmund White, Fanny: A Fiction
  • Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
  • Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator
  • Gene Wolfe, The Sword of the Lictor
  • Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
  • Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
  • Stephen Wright, M31: A Family Romance
  • Unica Zürn, Dark Spring (trans. Caroline Rupprecht)
  • Job (NRSV)

Poetry

  • John Ashbery, Rivers and Mountains
  • John Ashbery, Some Trees
  • John Ashbery, The Tennis Court Oath
  • John Ashbery, The Double Dream of Spring
  • John Ashbery, Houseboat Days
  • John Ashbery, Shadow Train
  • John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
  • John Ashbery, A Wave
  • John Ashbery, And the Stars Were Shining
  • John Ashbery, Three Poems
  • bpNichol, The Alphabet Game: a bpNichol reader (ed. Darren Wershler-Henry & Lori Emerson)
  • Clark Coolidge, Odes of Roba
  • Robert Creeley, Words
  • Paul Fattaruso, Bicycle
  • Heather Green, No Omen
  • Ernest Hilbert, Aim Your Arrows at the Sun
  • Dick Higgins, Legends & Fishnets
  • Susan Howe, Poems Found in a Pioneer Museum
  • Jennifer Kronovet, Awayward
  • Tan Lin, Ambience is a Novel with a Logo
  • Tan Lin, plagiarism/outsource / , Notes Towards the Definition of Culture / ,Untilted Heath Ledger Project / , a history of the search engine / ,disco OS
  • Harry Mathews, Out of Bounds
  • Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 1
  • Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 2
  • Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 3
  • Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 4/5
  • Paul Metcalf, The Assassination
  • Paul Metcalf, U.S. Dept. of the Interior
  • Paul Metcalf, Mountaineers Are Always Free
  • Paul Metcalf, Araminta and the Coyotes
  • Paul Metcalf, Merrill Cove
  • Chrisopher Middleton, Torse 3: poems 1949–1961
  • Paul Muldoon, Madoc: A Mystery
  • Fernando Pessoa, The Surprise of Being: Twenty-Five Poems (trans. James Greene & Clara de Azevado Mafra)
  • Fernando Pessoa, The Keeper of Sheep (trans. Edwin Honig & Susan M. Brown)
  • Ezra Pound, The Pisan Cantos (ed. Richard Sieburth)
  • Samuel Putnam, Paris Was Our Mistress
  • Pierre Reverdy, Selected Poems (trans. Mary Ann Caws, Patricia Terry & John Ashbery)
  • Jacques Roubaud, Some Thing Black (trans. Rosmarie Waldrop)
  • Jacques Roubaud, The Form of the City Changes Faster, Alas, than the Human Heart (trans. Keith Waldrop & Rosmarie Waldrop)
  • Aram Saroyan, Complete Minimal Poems
  • Bruno Schulz, Letters and Drawings of Bruno Schulz (trans. Walter Arndt & Victoria Nelson)
  • James Schuyler, ed., Locus Solus, issue I 
  • Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein on Picasso (ed. Edward Burns)
  • Mark Strand, Selected Poems
  • Stacy Szymaszek, Emptied of All Ships
  • James Tate, Selected Poems
  • Dara Wier, Remnants of Hanna
  • Charles Wright, Chickamauga

Non-fiction

  • Donald Antrim, The Afterlife: a memoir
  • Helen Moore Barthelme, Donald Barthelme: The Genesis of a Cool Sound
  • Gianfranco Baruchello & Henry Martin, How to Imagine: A Narrative on Art and Agriculture
  • Sybille Bedford, A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller’s Tale from Mexico
  • Sven Birkerts, An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on Twentieth-Century Literature
  • Grégoire Bouillier, Report on Myself (trans. Bruce Benderson)
  • Aldo Buzzi, The Perfect Egg, and Other Secrets (trans. Guido Waldman)
  • Nick Caistor, Mexico City: A Cultural and Literary Companion
  • Tony Cohan, Mexican Days: Journeys into the Heart of Mexico
  • Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds (trans. Thomas Christensen)
  • Julio Cortázar & Carol Dunham, Autonauts of the Cosmoroute (trans. Anne McLean)
  • Malcolm Cowley, Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
  • Stanley Crawford, A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Garlic Farm
  • Simon Critchley, The Book of Dead Philosophers
  • Tracy Daugherty, Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
  • Thomas M. Disch, The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters
  • Thomas M. Disch, The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
  • Thomas M. Disch, On SF
  • Apostolos Doxiadis & Christos H. Papadimitriou, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
  • Martin Duberman, Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community
  • Marcel Duchamp, Manual of Instructions: Étant donnés: 1° la chute d’eau, 2° le gaz d’éclairage . . . (ed. Anne d’Harnoncourt & Michael R. Taylor)
  • Max Frisch, Sketchbook 1966–1971, trans. Geoffrey Skelton
  • Kenneth Gangemi, The Volcanoes from Puebla
  • William H. Gass, Finding a Form
  • Josh Glenn, ed., Hermenaut 15: Fake Authenticity
  • Henry Green, Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait
  • Hannah B. Higgins, The Grid Book
  • Eva Huttenlauch, Nicolaus Schafhausen & Monika Szewczyk, eds., Sung Hwan Kim: Source Book 6
  • Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
  • Dorothy Kosinski, Dialogues: Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg
  • John Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: a Story of Violent Faith
  • Damon Krukowski & Naomi Yang, Album Exact Change: 20 Years of Publishing
  • D. H. Lawrence, Mornings in Mexico
  • D. H. Lawrence, Etruscan Places
  • David Lida, First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century
  • Paul Maliszewski, Fakers: hoaxers, con artists, counterfeiters, and other great pretenders 
  • André Malraux, Museum Without Walls (trans. Stuart Gilbert & Francis Price) 
  • Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay
  • Robert McAlmon & Kay Boyle, Being Geniuses Together
  • Tom McArthur, Worlds of Reference: lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer
  • Christien Meindertsma, Pig 05049
  • W. J. T. Mitchell, What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images
  • Howard Moss, The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust
  • Ted Nelson, Geeks Bearing Gifts: How the Computer World Got This Way
  • Francis M. Naumann, Bradley Bailey & Jennifer Shahade, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess
  • Margarita de Orellana, ed., Five Keys to the Secret World of Remedios Varo
  • Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude, trans. Lysander Kemp
  • Georges Perec, Thoughts of Sorts (trans. David Bellos)
  • Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus), Natural History: a selection (ed. & trans. John F. Healy)
  • Procopius, The Secret History, trans. G. A. Williamson
  • Herbert Read, The Green Child
  • Erik Anderson Reece, A Balance of Quinces: The Paintings and Drawings of Guy Davenport
  • João Ribas, ed., Unica Zürn: Dark Spring
  • Jacques Roubaud, The Great Fire of London (trans. Dominic Di Bernardi)
  • John Ruskin, Præterita (and Dilecta)
  • Damion Searls, Everything You Say Is True
  • David Shields, Enough About You: Notes Toward the New Autobiography
  • Francis Steegmuller, trans. & ed., Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
  • Yoshihiro Tatsumi, A Drifting Life (trans. Taro Nettleton)
  • Fanny Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans
  • Paul West, My Father’s War: A Memoir
  • Edmund White, City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and ’70s
  • Slavoj Žižek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity
  • Paper Monument, eds., I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette

my year in film, 2009

Roughly alphabetically by title:

  • 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), directed by Cristian Mungiu
  • 35 rhums (35 Shots of Rum), dir. Claire Denis
  • 36 vues du Pic Saint Loup (Around a Small Mountain), dir. Jacques Rivette
  • 42nd Street, dir. Lloyd Bacon
  • 7915 km, dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter
  • Los abrazos rotos (Broken Embraces), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • Adam’s Rib, dir. George Cukor
  • Age of Consent, dir. Michael Powell
  • Al di là delle nuvole (Beyond the Clouds), dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Les amants (The Lovers), dir. Louis Malle
  • Amor pedestre (Love Afoot), dir. Marcel Fabre
  • An Education, dir. Lone Scherfig
  • Anvil! The Story of Anvil, dir. Sacha Gervasi
  • ¡Átame! (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • Avatar, dir. James Cameron
  • Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (The Baader Meinhof Complex), dir. Uli Edel
  • Baby Face, dir. Alfred E. Green
  • Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, dir. Werner Herzog
  • The Bad Seed, dir. Mervyn LeRoy
  • Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten (Ballad of the Little Soldier), dir. Werner Herzog
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz, dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz, dir. Phil Jutzi
  • Boom, dir. Joseph Losey
  • The Breakfast Club, dir. John Hughes
  • Brüno, dir. Larry Charles
  • Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, dir. John Krasinski
  • By Candlelight, dir. James Whale
  • Cerný Petr (Black Peter), dir Miloš Forman 
  • The Charge of the Light Brigade, dir. Tony Richardson
  • La cifra impar (Odd Number), dir. Manuel Antin
  • Cold Souls, dir. Sophie Barthes
  • Cortázar (Celestial Clockwork), dir. Tristán Bauer
  • Dames, dir. Ray Enright
  • Des pieds et des mains (Feet and Hands), dir. Jacques Feyder & Gaston Ravel
  • Desk Set, dir. Walter Lang
  • Detour, dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
  • Les diaboliques, dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
  • District 9, dir. Neill Blomkamp
  • Il divo, dir. Paolo Sorrentino
  • The Divorcée, dir. Robert Z. Leonard
  • Donald Judd’s Marfa, Texas, dir. Christopher Felver
  • Dracula, dir. Tod Browning
  • L’École des facteurs, dir. Jacques Tati
  • ゆきゆきて、神軍 (The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On), dir. Kazuo Hara
  • Entre les murs (The Class), dir. Laurent Cantet
  • Excelsior, dir. Luca Comerio
  • Fados, dir. Carlos Saura
  • Fait-divers (A Collection of Facts), dir. Claude Autant-Lara
  • Fantômas – À l’ombre de la guillotine, dir. Louis Feuillade
  • Fast, Cheap & out of Control, dir. Errol Morris
  • La flor de mi secreto (The Flower of My Secret), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • Food, Inc., dir. Robert Kenner
  • Footlight Parade, dir. Lloyd Bacon
  • Frauennot – Frauenglück (Misery and Fortune of Women), dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein & Grigori Aleksandrov
  • A Free Soul, dir. Clarence Brown
  • The Gang’s All Here, dir. Busby Berkeley
  • Gasherbrum – Der leuchtende Berg (The Dark Glow of the Mountains), dir. Werner Herzog
  • Gods and Monsters, dir. Bill Condon
  • Gold Diggers in Paris, dir. Busby Berkeley
  • Gold Diggers of 1933, dir. Mervyn LeRoy
  • Gold Diggers of 1935, dir. Busby Berkeley
  • Gold Diggers of 1937, dir. Lloyd Bacon
  • Gomorra, dir. Matteo Garrone
  • Hallelujah, I’m a Bum!, dir. Lewis Milestone
  • The Hangover, dir. Todd Phillips
  • Hapax Legomenon I: (nostalgia), dir. Hollis Frampton
  • Hapax Legomenon II: Poetic Justice, dir. Hollis Frampton
  • Hapax Legomenon III: Critical Mass, dir. Hollis Frampton
  • Hapax Legomenon IV: Traveling Matte, dir. Hollis Frampton
  • Hapax Legomenon V: Ordinary Matter, dir. Hollis Frampton
  • Hapax Legomenon VI: Remote Control, dir. Hollis Frampton
  • Hapax Legomenon VII: Special Effects, dir. Hollis Frampton
  • Happy-Go-Lucky, dir. Mike Leigh
  • Hollywood Hotel, dir. Busby Berkeley
  • The Impatient Maiden, dir. James Whale
  • In a Lonely Place, dir. Nicholas Ray
  • In the Loop, dir. Armando Iannucci
  • The Informant!, dir. Steven Soderbergh
  • The Invisible Man, dir. James Whale
  • It Happened One Night, dir. Frank Captra
  • Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, dir. Chantal Akerman
  • Jerichow, dir. Christian Petzold
  • Jungfrukällan (The Virgin Spring), dir. Ingmar Bergman
  • Kika, dir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman, dir. Hector Babenco
  • Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in), dir. Tomas Alfredson
  • La ley del deseo (Law of Desire), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • Libeled Lady, dir. Jack Conway
  • Love Story 2050, dir. Harry Baweja 
  • Die Macht der Bilder: Leni Riefenstahl (The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl), dir. Ray Müller
  • Made in U.S.A., dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • Massnahmen gegen Fanatiker (Precautions against Fanatics), dir. Werner Herzog
  • Medicine for Melancholy, dir. Barry Jenkins
  • Mentiras piadosas (Made Up Memories), dir. Diego Sabanés
  • Model Shop, dir. Jacques Demy
  • Mon oncle, dir. Jacques Tati
  • La mujer sin cabeza (The Headless Woman), dir. Lucrecia Martel
  • Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • My Dinner with Andre, dir. Louis Malle
  • My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?, dir. Werner Herzog
  • Night Nurse, dir. William A. Wellman
  • The Nightmare before Christmas, dir. Henry Selick
  • Nosotros, los pobres, dir. Ismael Rodríguez
  • Now, Voyager, dir. Irving Rapper
  • Of Time and the City, dir. Terrence Davies
  • The Old Dark House, dir. James Whale
  • Olympia, dir. Leni Riefenstahl
  • Out of the Past, dir. Jacques Tourneur
  • La passion de Jeanne d’Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, dir. Tim Burton
  • Le plaisir, dir. Max Ophuls
  • Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea, dir. Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer
  • Plastic Bag, dir. Ramin Bahrani 
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice, dir. Tay Garnett
  • Pretty in Pink, dir. Howard Deutch
  • The Public Enemy, dir. William A. Wellman
  • Pull My Daisy, dir. Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie
  • ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!! (What Have I Done to Deserve This?), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • ¡Que viva México!, dir. Grigori Aleksandrov & Sergei M. Eisenstein
  • Rebel without a Cause, dir. Nicholas Ray
  • Red-Headed Woman, dir. Jack Conway
  • Return to Oz, dir. Walter Murch
  • Revolutionary Road, dir. Sam Mendes
  • Ricky, dir. François Ozon
  • Romance sentimentale, dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein
  • Salesman, dir. Albert Maysles, David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin
  • Sarabande & Winter, dir. Nathaniel Dorsky
  • A Serious Man, dir. Joel & Ethan Coen
  • Singin’ in the Rain, dir. Stanley Donen
  • Sinners in Paradise, dir. James Whale
  • Sixteen Candles, dir. John Hughes
  • Standard Operating Procedure, dir. Errol Morris
  • Stramilano, dir. Corrado D’Errico
  • Taking Off, dir Miloš Forman
  • Thaïs, dir. Anton Giulio Bragaglia
  • The Third Generation (Die dritte Generation), dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • The Times of Harvey Milk, dir. Rob Epstein
  • The Toe Tactic, dir. Emily Hubley
  • The Wrestler, dir. Darren Aronofsky
  • Theater of War, dir. John Walter
  • Tokyo!, dir. Michel Gondry, Leos Carax & Bong Joon-Ho
  • Tony Manero, dir. Pablo Larrain
  • Tout la mémoire du monde, dir. Alain Resnais
  • Two-Lane Blacktop, dir. Monte Hellman
  • Uncle Buck, dir. John Hughes
  • Up in the Air, dir. Jason Reitman
  • Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Mr. Hulot’s Holiday), dir. Jacques Tati
  • Valerie a týden divů (Valerie and Her Week of Wonders), dir. Jaromil Jireš 
  • Vampyr, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • Varsity Show, dir. William Keighley
  • Velocità, dir. Tina Cordero, Guido Martina & Pippo Oriani
  • Vivre sa vie, dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • Waterloo Bridge, dir. James Whale
  • Wendy and Lucy, dir. Kelly Reichardt
  • Where the Boys Are, dir. Henry Levin
  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, dir. Mike Nichols
  • Wife Versus Secretary, dir. Clarence Brown
  • Wonder Bar, dir. Lloyd Bacon
  • Wristcutters: A Love Story, dir. Goran Dukić
  • Y tu mamá también, dir. Alfonso Cuarón
  • Year One, dir. Harold Ramis
  • You Can’t Take It with You, dir. Frank Capra
  • Zazie dans le métro, dir. Louis Malle
  • Ziegfeld Follies, dir. Lemuel Ayers et al.

my year in exhibits, 2009

Listed chronologically:

  • “Beyond the Canon: Small Scale American Abstraction 1945–1965,” Robert Miller Gallery
  • “Andy Warhol: Still-Life Polaroids,” Paul Kasmin Gallery
  • “Al Held,” Paul Kasmin Gallery
  • “Frankenthaler at Eighty: Six Decades,” Knoedler & Co.
  • “Sam Glankoff: Paintings on Paper,” Knoedler & Co.
  • “Gilbert & George,” Brooklyn Museum 
  • “Alexander Calder: The Paris Years 1926–1933”, Whitney Museum
  • “Artists Making Photographs: Chamberlain, Rauschenberg, Ruscha, Samaras, Warhol”, Whitney Museum
  • “Art and Love in Renaissance Italy,” Metropolitan Museum
  • “Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna,” Metropolitan Museum
  • “The Printed Picture,” MoMA
  • “Focus: Jasper Johns,” MoMA
  • “Stanley William Hayter in America: Paintings, Drawings and Prints 1940–1950”, Francis M. Nauman Fine Arts
  • “Michaela Melián,” 38 Ludlow
  • “Masterpieces of European Painting from the Norton Simon Museum,” Frick Collection
  • “Pierre Bonnard: The Late Interiors,” Metropolitan Museum
  • “Choirs of Angels: Painting in Italian Choir Books, 1300–1500,” Metropolitan Museum
  • “Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard,” Metropolitan Museum
  • “Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism in Dresden and Berlin, 1905-1913,” Neue Galerie
  • “Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens”, Onassis Cultural Center
  • “The Artist As Troublemaker”, Austrian Cultural Forum
  • “Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective”, MoMA
  • “Performance 1: Tehching Hsieh”, MoMA
  • “Franz West: Works from the 1990s”, Zwirner & Wirth
  • “Andy Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection”, Gagosian Gallery
  • “Louise Nevelson: Dawns and Dusks”, PaceWildenstein
  • “Paul Sharits”, Greene Naftali
  • “Carolee Schneeman: Painting, What It Becomes”, P.P.O.W
  • “Carolee Schneeman: Performance Photographs from the 1970s”, Carolina Nitsch
  • “With Hidden Noise”, David Krut Projects
  • “Ellsworth Kelly: Diagonal”, “Ellsworth Kelly: Drawings 1954–1962”, Matthew Marks
  • “1992009”, D’Amelio Terras
  • Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
  • Judd Foundation, Marfa, Texas
  • “James Castle Drawings: Vision and Touch”, Knoedler & Company
  • “James Castle”, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art
  • “Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Thousand”, David Zwirner
  • “Lisa Yuskavage”, David Zwirner
  • “Julianne Swartz: Terrain”, Josée Bienvenu Gallery
  • “Robert Mangold: Drawings and Works on Paper, 1965–2008”, PaceWildenstein
  • “Playing This Litho Instrument: The Prints of Barnett Newman, Part II”, Craig F. Starr Gallery
  • “Donald Judd Colored Plexiglas”, L & M Arts
  • “Pablo Picasso: Mosqueteros”, Gagosian Gallery
  • “Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West”, MoMA
  • “Paper: Pressed, Stained, Slashed, Folded”, MoMA
  • “Words in Freedom: Futurism at 100”, MoMA
  • “John Waters: Rear Projection”, Marianne Boesky Gallery
  • “Richard Tuttle: Walking On Air”, PaceWildenstein
  • “Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel”, MoMA
  • “Kenneth Anger”, P.S.1
  • “Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool”, P.S.1
  • “Cézanne & Beyond”, Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • “Henri Matisse and Modern Art on the French Riviera”, Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • “Daidō Moriyama: Tokyo Photographs”, Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
  • “Unica Zürn: Dark Spring”, The Drawing Center
  • “Hans Bellmer: Octopus Time”, Ubu Gallery
  • “Tacita Dean”, Marian Goodman Gallery
  • “E. O. Hoppé: Early London Photographs (1910–1939)”; “CLOUD 9: Imogen Cunningham, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston”; “André Kertész: In the Depths of Winter”, Bruce Silverstein
  • “Alfredo Jaar: The Sound of Silence”, Galerie Lelong
  • “Espèces d’espaces”, Yvon Lambert
  • “Ellen Driscoll: FastForwardFossil, Part I”, Frederiecke Taylor Gallery
  • “Sophie Calle: Take Care of Yourself”, Paula Cooper
  • “Nam June Paik: Live Feed: 1972–1994”, James Cohan Gallery
  • “Alex Katz”, PaceWildenstein
  • “\'flō\: art, text, new media,”, Center for Book Arts
  • “Yayoi Kusama”, Gagosian
  • “Nicolas Carone, Abstraction/Figuration: works on paper”, Lohin Geduld Gallery
  • “D.I.Y.”, Maya Stendhal Gallery
  • “Black & White”, Stellan Holm Gallery
  • “Alice Neel: Selected Works”, David Zwirner
  • “Charles Ray: Ink Line, Moving Wire, Spinning Spot”, Matthew Marks
  • “Momus with Aki Sasamoto: Love is the End of Art”, Zack Feuer Gallery
  • “Franz West: To Build a House You Start with the Roof: Work, 1972–2008,” LACMA
  • Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
  • “Ernesto Neto: Anthropodino,” Park Avenue Armory
  • “Ray Johnson: . . . Main Ray, Ducham, Openheim, Pikabia . . .,” Richard L. Feigen & Co.
  • “Leon Kelly: An American Surrealist,” Francis M. Naumann Fine Art
  • “Alice Neel: Nudes of the 1930s,” Zwirner & Wirth
  • “European & Russian Photomontage, 1920–1940,” Ubu Gallery
  • “John Chamberlin: Early Years,” L & M Arts
  • “Sigmar Polke: Lens Paintings,” Michael Werner
  • “Go Figure,” Gagosian
  • “Marble,” Gagosian
  • “Chuck Close: Selected Paintings & Tapestries 2005–2009,” Pace Wildenstein
  • “The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography,” Aperture Gallery
  • “Chris Marker: ‘Quelle heure est-elle?’,” Peter Blum
  • “Alberto Giacometti: Drawings,” Peter Freeman
  • “Raster Noton: The Shop,” e-flux
  • “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus,” The New Museum
  • “Mimmo Rotella: American Icons and Early Work,” Knoedler & Company
  • “Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1720–1778,” David Tunick, Inc.
  • Museo Nacional de Antropología, México D.F.
  • Museo Rufino Tamayo, México D.F.
  • Museo del Carmen, México D.F.
  • Museo León Trotsky, México D.F.
  • Museo Frida Kahlo, México D.F.
  • Museo Teotihuacán, Teotihuacán
  • Colleción Jumex, Ecatepec
  • Ex Teresa Arte Actual, México D.F.
  • Palacio de Cultura Banamex, México D.F.
  • Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño, México D.F.
  • “Paula Hayes: Excerpts from the Story of Planet Thear,” Marianne Boesky Gallery
  • “Your Gold Teeth II,” Marianne Boesky Gallery
  • “Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection,” MoMA
  • “James Ensor,” MoMA
  • “Projects 90: Song Dong,” MoMA
  • “In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989,” MoMA
  • “Larry Rivers: 1950s/1960s,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery
  • “Tim Hawkinson,” Pace Wildenstein
  • “Lynda Benglis/Robert Morris: 1973–1974,” Susan Inglett
  • “Anthony McCall/Finnbogi Pétursson,” Sean Kelly Gallery
  • “The Fantastic Tavern: The Tbilisi Avant-Garde,” Casey Kaplan Gallery
  • “The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women,” Cheim & Read
  • “Naked!” Paul Kasmin Gallery
  • “Ed Sanders: Glyphs,” The Arm
  • “The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984,” Metropolitan Museum
  • “Chris Bertholf: The Mysterious Landscape,” John Davis Gallery, Hudson, New York
  • “Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages,” Met
  • “Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective,” Met
  • “Michelangelo’s First Painting,” Met
  • “Dorothy Iannone,” Anton Kern Gallery
  • “Works on View,” Jack Shainman Gallery
  • “Dormitorium: An Exhibition of Film Decors by the Quay Brothers,” The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons
  • “Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection,” Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • “Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés,” Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • “Carol Bove with Janine Lariviere, ‘Plants & Mammals’,” The Horticultural Society of America
  • “Milton Glaser’s SVA: A Legacy of Graphic Design,” Visual Arts Gallery, SVA
  • “Ken Friedman: 99 Events,” Maya Stendhal Gallery
  • “David Novros,” Paula Cooper Gallery
  • “Carl Andre,” Paula Cooper Gallery
  • “Zig Zag,” Sperone Westwater
  • “Heinz Mack: Paintings, 1957–1964,” Sperone Westwater
  • “James Turrell: Large Holograms,” PaceWildenstein
  • “Bernadette Corportation,” Greene Naftali
  • “Peter Hujar: Photographs 1956–1958,” Matthew Marks Gallery
  • “Dennis Hopper: Signs of the Times,” Tony Shafrazi Gallery
  • “A Matter of Light,” Elga Wimmer
  • “In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976,” MoMA
  • “Jack Tworkov: Against Extremes – Five Decades of Painting,” The UBS Art Gallery
  • “Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess,” Francis M. Naumann Gallery
  • “Elaine Lustig Cohen. My Heroes: Portraits of the Avant-Garde,” Adler & Conkright Fine Art
  • “David Mann,” McKenzie Fine Art
  • “Sister Corita Kent,” Zach Feuer Gallery
  • “Lynn Koble: Capacity,” Venetia Kapernekas Gallery
  • “Robert Frank,” Robert Mann Gallery
  • “David Colosi: Imaginary Numbers and Other Calculated Fictions,” Cueto Project
  • “On Top of the Whale,” Mitchell Algus Gallery
  • “Sean Scully: Recent Paintings,” Galerie Lelong
  • “Damián Ortega: CAPITAL Less,” Gladstone Gallery
  • “Stripes/Solids,” Paula Cooper Gallery
  • “Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868,” Met
  • “Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans,” Met
  • “Dense-local y Del Exilio al Insilio ¿somos todos extranjeros?,” Labratorio Arte Alameda, México, D.F.
  • “Pedro Friedeberg: arquitecto de confusiones impecables,” Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, México, D.F.
  • “Los desmembrados,” Museo Nacional de Arte, México, D.F.
  • “Remedios Varo y la literatura: para leer a Remedios Varo”/”Hecho en casa,” Museo de Arte Moderno, México, D.F.
  • “De la tierra a la luna”/”Yo uso perfume para occupar más espacio”/”Yoshua Okón: Ventanilla única,” Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, México, D.F.
  • “Tauromaquia: mano a mano”/”Colección Alejandro Alvarado,” Museo Nacional de la Estampa, México, D.F.
  • “Robert Waters: Taparrabo,” Ex Teresa Arte Actual, México, D.F.
  • “Salón de Estampa, seis décadas de producción,” Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, México, D.F.
  • Museo Mural Diego Rivera, México, D.F.
  • Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, México, D.F.
  • Museo de Arte Popular, México, D.F.
  • Museo Franz Mayer, México, D.F.
  • Museo Templo Mayor, México, D.F.
  • Casa Luis Barragán, México, D.F.
  • “Luis Urrutia: Límites de luz,” Casa Lamm, México, D.F.
  • “Sandra Gamarra: Selección natural”/”Jorge Méndez Blake: 3 bibliotecas,” Galeria OMR, México, D.F.
  • “Jay Chung & Q. Takeki Maeda: Outtakes and Excerpts,” Gaga Arte Contemporáneo, México, D.F.
  • “Robert Morris: Films,” Hunter College Times Square Gallery
  • “Marcel Broodthaers: Ne dites pas que je ne l’ai pas dit – Le Perroquet,” Peter Freeman Gallery
  • “Ree Morton: At the Still Point of the Turning World,” The Drawing Center
  • “Pedro Friedeberg,” Reyna Henaine
  • “The Origins of El Greco: Icon Painting in Venetian Crete,” Onassis Cultural Center
  • “The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000–3500 B.C.,” Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU
  • “Walton Ford: New Work,” Paul Kasmin Gallery
  • “Kaz Oshiro: Setting Sun,” Yvon Lambert
  • “Robert Ryman,” Yvon Lambert
  • “Drawn Together: Chiharu Shiota/GEGO,” Goff + Rosenthal
  • “Perlstein/Held: Five Decades,” Betty Cunningham Gallery
  • “Dan Fischer: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space,” Derek Eller Gallery
  • “Paul Chan: Sade for Sade’’s Sake,” Greene Naftali
  • “Wallace Berman: 1927–1976,” Nicole Klagsbrun
  • “Lynda Benglis: New Work,” Chiem & Read
  • “Jiří Kolář: The Poetics of Silence,” Pavel Zoubok
  • “Richard Serra: Blind Spot/Open Ended,” Gagosian
  • “Alighiero e Boetti: Mappa,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery
  • “George Maciunas: 7 Paintings from the 1950s and Graphic Works,” Maya Stendhal Gallery
  • “Spazialismo,” Bitforms
  • “Dan Flavin: Series and Progressions,” David Zwirner
  • “Gabriel Orozco,” MoMA
  • “Francis Picabia: Funny Guy,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery
  • “Fairfield Porter: Paintings,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery
  • “Kazuo Shiraga: Six Decades,” McCaffrey Fine Art
  • “Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings 2009,” Marian Goodman Gallery
  • “Paul McCarthy: White Snow,” Hauser & Wirth
  • “Cy Twombly: Eight Sculptures,” Gagosian
  • “Jörg Immendorff: Maoist Paintings – The Early Seventies,” Michael Werner Gallery