january 12–january 18

Exhibits

  • “Alexander Calder: The Paris Years 1926–1933”, Whitney Museum
  • “Artists Making Photographs: Chamberlain, Rauschenberg, Ruscha, Samaras, Warhol”, Whitney Museum

Books

  • Paul Maliszewski, Fakers: hoaxers, con artists, counterfeiters, and other great pretenders 
  • Samuel R. Delany, Equinox
  • Samuel R. Delany, Hogg

january 10–11

Exhibitions

  • “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

Books

  • Amélie Nothomb, Tokyo Fiancée, trans. Alison Anderson

january 4–january 9

Movies

  • Made in U.S.A., directed by Jean-Luc Godard
  • Happy-Go-Lucky, dir. Mike Leigh
  • The Times of Harvey Milk, dir. Rob Epstein
  • Out of the Past, dir. Jacques Tourneur

Books

  • John Crowley, Love & Sleep
  • John Crowley, Dæmonomania
  • John Crowley, Endless Things
  • Howard Moss, The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust
  • Ted Nelson, Geeks Bearing Gifts: How the Computer World Got This Way

january 1–january 3

Movies

  • Singin’ in the Rain, directed by Stanley Donen
  • Fast, Cheap & out of Control, dir. Errol Morris
  • Revolutionary Road, dir. Sam Mendes
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz, parts I & II, dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Wendy and Lucy, dir. Kelly Reichardt
  • Theater of War, dir. John Walter

Exhibitions

  • “Beyond the Canon: Small Scale American Abstraction 1945–1965,” Robert Miller Gallery

Books

  • Aaron Petrovich, The Session
  • Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Camera, trans. Matthew B. Smith