Category Archives: projects

june 11–june 15

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Books

  • D. H. Lawrence, Mornings in Mexico
  • D. H. Lawrence, Etruscan Places
  • Jennifer Kronovet, Awayward
  • Malcolm Cowley, Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

Films

  • Wife Versus Secretary, directed by Clarence Brown
  • Detour, dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice, dir. Tay Garnett
  • Of Time and the City, dir. Terrence Davies
  • The Nightmare before Christmas, dir. Henry Selick
  • You Can’t Take It with You, dir. Frank Capra
  • Fantômas – À l’ombre de la guillotine, dir. Louis Feuillade

june 6–june 10

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Books

  • Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre, Fantômas (trans. unknown)
  • David Lida, First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century

Films

  • Berlin Alexanderplatz, directed by Phil Jutzi
  • The Hangover, dir. Todd Phillips

Exhibits

  • “John Chamberlin: Early Years,” L & M Arts
  • “Sigmar Polke: Lens Paintings,” Michael Werner
  • “Go Figure,” Gagosian
  • “Marble,” Gagosian

june 1–june 5

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Books

  • Samuel Putnam, Paris Was Our Mistress
  • John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
  • Stanley Elkin, A Bad Man

Films

  • It Happened One Night, directed by Frank Captra
  • Pull My Daisy, dir. Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie
  • Food, Inc., dir. Robert Kenner
  • Salesman, dir. Albert Maysles, David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin

may 22–may 25

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Books

  • Thomas M. Disch, The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters
  • Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
  • 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

Films

  • Gold Diggers of 1937, directed by Lloyd Bacon
  • Ziegfeld Follies, dir. Lemuel Ayers et al.

may 19–may 21

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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

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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

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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