may 19–may 21

Books

  • Paul Metcalf, Merrill Cove
  • Max Frisch, I’m Not Stiller (trans. Michael Bullock)
  • Jean Ricardou, Place Names: A Brief Guide to Travels in the Book (trans. Jordan Stump)

Exhibits

  • “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

may 14–may 18

Books

  • Chloe Aridjis, Book of Clouds
  • Walker Percy, The Moviegoes
  • W. J. T. Mitchell, What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images

Exhibits

  • “Franz West: To Build a House You Start with the Roof: Work, 1972–2008,” LACMA
  • Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

may 11–may 13

Books

  • Paul Metcalf, Mountaineers Are Always Free
  • John Ruskin, Præterita (and Dilecta)
  • Erik Anderson Reece, A Balance of Quinces: The Paintings and Drawings of Guy Davenport
  • Edmund White, The Beautiful Room Is Empty

Films

  • Gold Diggers of 1935, directed by Busby Berkeley
  • Gasherbrum – Der leuchtende Berg (The Dark Glow of the Mountains), dir. Werner Herzog
  • Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten (Ballad of the Little Soldier), dir. Werner Herzog
  • Massnahmen gegen Fanatiker (Precautions against Fanatics), dir. Werner Herzog

Exhibits

  • “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

may 1–may 6

Books

  • Josh Glenn, ed., Hermenaut 15: Fake Authenticity
  • Yoshihiro Tatsumi, A Drifting Life, trans. Taro Nettleton
  • Robert Creeley, Words
  • Dick Higgins, Legends & Fishnets
  • Damion Searls, What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going
  • Gene Wolfe, The Sword of the Lictor
  • Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch

Exhibits

  • “Nicolas Carone, Abstraction/Figuration: works on paper”, Lohin Geduld Gallery

Films

  • Al di là delle nuvole (Beyond the Clouds), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

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