april 26–april 30

Books

  • Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus), Natural History: a selection, ed. & trans. John F. Healy
  • Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
  • Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator

Films

  • Anvil! The Story of Anvil, directed by Sacha Gervasi
  • Dames, dir. Ray Enright

april 21–april 25

Books

  • Charles Wright, Chickamauga
  • João Ribas, ed., Unica Zürn: Dark Spring

Exhibits

  • “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

Films

  • 42nd Street, directed by Lloyd Bacon
  • The Gang’s All Here, dir. Busby Berkeley

april 16–april 20

Books

  • John Ashbery, Houseboat Days
  • John Ashbery, Shadow Train
  • John Ashbery, A Wave

Films

  • Footlight Parade, directed by Lloyd Bacon
  • 7915 km, dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter
  • 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), dir. Cristian Mungiu
  • Two-Lane Blacktop, dir. Monte Hellman
  • La passion de Jeanne d’Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

april 6–april 11

Books

  • Paul Fattaruso, Bicycle
  • Samuel R. Delany, The Fall of the Towers
  • Dorothy Kosinski, Dialogues: Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg

Exhibits

  • “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

april 4–april 5

Books

  • Jacques Roubaud, The Form of the City Changes Faster, Alas, than the Human Heart, trans. Keith Waldrop & Rosmarie Waldrop
  • John Ashbery, Some Trees
  • John Ashbery, The Tennis Court Oath
  • John Ashbery, The Double Dream of Spring

Films

  • Return to Oz, directed by Walter Murch
  • My Dinner with Andre, dir. Louis Malle

Exhibits

  • “Kenneth Anger”, P.S.1
  • “Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool”, P.S.1

march 30–april 3

Books

  • Genevieve Manceron, The Deadlier Sex (trans. Jonas Berry & Lawrence G. Blochman)
  • Harry Mathews, Out of Bounds

Films

  • Hapax Legomenon I: (nostalgia), directed by Hollis Frampton
  • Hapax Legomenon II: Poetic Justice, directed by Hollis Frampton
  • Hapax Legomenon III: Critical Mass, directed by Hollis Frampton
  • Hapax Legomenon IV: Traveling Matte, directed by Hollis Frampton
  • Hapax Legomenon V: Ordinary Matter, directed by Hollis Frampton
  • Hapax Legomenon VI: Remote Control, directed by Hollis Frampton
  • Hapax Legomenon VII: Special Effects, directed by Hollis Frampton
  • Taking Off, dir Miloš Forman
  • Love Story 2050, dir. Harry Baweja

Exhibits

  • “John Waters: Rear Projection”, Marianne Boesky Gallery
  • “Richard Tuttle: Walking On Air”, PaceWildenstein
  • “Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel”, MoMA

march 26–march 29

Books

  • Jacques Roubaud, Some Thing Black (trans. Rosmarie Waldrop)
  • Grégoire Bouillier, Report on Myself (trans. Bruce Benderson)
  • André Malraux, Museum Without Walls (trans. Stuart Gilbert & Francis Price)

Films

  • Donald Judd’s Marfa, Texas, directed by Christopher Felver
  • Dracula, dir. Tod Browning
  • Cerný Petr (Black Peter), dir Miloš Forman

Exhibits

  • “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

march 15–march 22

Books

  • Helen Moore Barthelme, Donald Barthelme: The Genesis of a Cool Sound
  • Donald Barthelme & Seymour Chwast, Sam’s Bar: An American Landscape
  • Charles Portis, The Dog of the South
  • Jane Bowles, My Sister’s Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles

Films

  • Berlin Alexanderplatz, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, parts XII, XIII & epilogue

Exhibits

  • Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
  • Judd Foundation, Marfa, Texas