august 3–august 9

Books

  • Paul Auster, City of Glass (adaptation by Paul Karasik & David Mazzucchelli
  • Paper Monument, eds., I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette
  • William H. Gass, Finding a Form
  • Garth Risk Hallberg, A Field Guide to the North American Family
  • Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 3
  • Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 4/5

Exhibits

  • “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

Films

  • Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea, directed by Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer
  • Cold Souls, dir. Sophie Barthes
  • The Breakfast Club, dir. John Hughes
  • Sixteen Candles, dir. John Hughes
  • Pretty in Pink, dir. Howard Deutch

july 30–august 2

Films

  • The Public Enemy, directed by William A. Wellman
  • Rebel without a Cause, dir. Nicholas Ray
  • Vivre sa vie, dir. Jean-Luc Godard

Exhibits

  • “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

july 26–july 29

Books

  • Paul Metcalf, The Assassination
  • Paul Metcalf, U.S. Dept. of the Interior
  • Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 1
  • Kenneth Gangemi, Corroboree

Films

  • ¡Que viva México!, directed by Grigori Aleksandrov & Sergei M. Eisenstein
  • Romance sentimentale, dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein
  • Frauennot – Frauenglück (Misery and Fortune of Women), dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein & Grigori Aleksandrov
  • Jungfrukällan (The Virgin Spring), dir. Ingmar Bergman
  • In the Loop, dir. Armando Iannucci

july 16–july 20

Books

  • Joe Meno, The Boy Detective Fails
  • Edmund White, The Farewell Symphony
  • John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In (trans. Ebba Segerberg)
  • Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 2

Exhibits

  • “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

july 13–july 15

Books

  • Gabriel Josipovici, Everything Passes
  • Roberto Bolaño, Amulet (trans. Chris Andrews)
  • Kenneth Gangemi, The Interceptor Pilot
  • Jessica Abel, La Perdida
  • David Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp

Films

  • Brüno, directed by Larry Charles
  • Tony Manero, dir. Pablo Larrain

july 8–july 12

Books

  • Francis M. Naumann, Bradley Bailey & Jennifer Shahade, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
  • Chloe Aridjis, Book of Clouds
  • Noël Vexin, Murder in Montmartre (trans. Jonas Berry & Lawrence G. Blochman)

Exhibits

  • “Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection,” MoMA
  • “James Ensor,” MoMA

june 28–july 7

Books

  • Georges Perec with Harry Mathews, Cantatrix Sopranica L.: Scientific Papers
  • Vítězslav Nezval, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, trans. David Short
  • Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude, trans. Lysander Kemp
  • Geoff Dyer, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
  • Nick Caistor, Mexico City: A Cultural and Literary Companion
  • D. H. Lawrence, The Plumed Serpent

Films

  • Varsity Show, directed by William Keighley

Exhibits

  • “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