april 16–30, 2024

Books

  • Avram Davidson, The Investigations of Avram Davidson
  • The Avram Davidson Treasury, edited by Grania Davis & Robert Silverberg
  • Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros, translated by Erik Butler
  • Iris Murdoch, A Year of Birds

Films

  • Mon chat et moi, la grande aventure de Rroû (Vita da gatto), dir. Guillaume Maidatchevsky
  • My Morning with Magic Mike, dir. John Wilson

Exhibits

  • “South West Bank: Landworks, Collective Action and Sound”, Magazzino Gallery, Venezia
  • “Nigeria Imaginary,” Palazzo Canal, Venezia
  • “Lydia Ourahmane & Daniel Blumberg: Sync,” Biennale Library, Venezia
  • Museo delle Cappelle Medicee, Firenze
  • Il Tesoro dei Granduchi, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze
  • Museo dell’Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Firenze
  • Museo della Moda e del Costume, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze
  • Museo delle Icone Russe, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze
  • “Uzbekistan: l’avanguardia nel deserto. La luce e il colore.” Palazzo Pitti, Firenze

april 1–15, 2024

Books

  • David Leavitt & Mark Mitchell, In Maremma: Life and a House in Southern Tuscany
  • Percival Everett, James
  • Percival Everett, The Water Cure
  • Gilbert Adair, Love and Death on Long Island
  • Dante, Inferno, translated by C. H. Sisson

Films

  • Le meraviglie (The Wonders), directed by Alice Rohrwacher

Exhibits

  • Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze
  • “Ambienti 1956-2010: Environments by Women Artists II”, MAXXI, Roma
  • Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze
  • Chiesa e Museo di Orsanmichele, Firenze

march 16–31, 2024

Books

  • Mat Johnson, Pym
  • Mark Haber, Saint Sebastian’s Abyss
  • Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller, Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
  • Herman Melville, Redburn: His First Voyage
  • Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants, translated by Charlotte Mandell

Films

  • Waiting for Guffman, directed by Christopher Guest
  • Repo Man, dir. Alex Cox
  • Drive-Away Dolls, dir. Ethan Coen
  • You Hurt My Feelings, dir. Nicole Holofcener
  • รักที่ขอนแก่น (Cemetery of Splendor), dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Le pupille, dir. Alice Rohrwacher
  • Le quattro volte, dir. Michelangelo Frammartino

Exhibits

  • Museo archeologico nazionale di Firenze, Florence
  • “Namsal Siedlecki: Endo,” Museo Novecento, Florence
  • “Alessandra Ferrini: Unsettling Genealogies,” Museo Novecento, Florence
  • “André Butzer: Liebe, Glaube und Hoffnung,” Museo Novecento, Florence
  • “Jannis Kounellis: La stanza vede. Disegni 1973–1990,” Museo Novecento, Florence
  • “Ritorni. Da Modigliani a Morandi,” Museo Novecento, Florence

march 1–15, 2024

Books

  • Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
  • Ryan H. Walsh, Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968
  • Iris Murdoch, Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues
  • Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus

Films

  • Mars Attacks, directed by Tim Burton
  • Holy Motors, dir. Leos Carax
  • Showing Up, dir. Kelly Reichhardt
  • La primavera della mia vita, dir. Zavvo Nicolosi
  • The Man Who Wasn’t There, dir. Joel Coen

Exhibits

  • Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze

february 1–14, 2024

Books

  • E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
  • Chester Himes, Run Man Run
  • Magdalen Nabb, Death of a Dutchman
  • Paul Auster, Leviathan

Films

  • Buster Keaton Rides Again, directed by John Spotton
  • Barton Fink, dir. Joel Coen
  • A Room with a View, dir. James Ivory
  • Deadline at Dawn, dir. Harold Clurman
  • Perfect Days, dir. Wim Wenders
  • Double Blind, dir. Sophie Calle & Greg Shephard
  • Il sol dell’avvenire (A Brighter Tomorrow), dir. Nanni Moretti
  • Yannick, dir. Quentin Dupieux
  • Le Procès Goldman (The Goldman Case), dir Cédric Kahn
  • À bout de souffle (Breathless), dir. Jean-Luc Godard

january 16–31, 2024

Books

  • Magdalen Nabb, The Monster of Florence
  • E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
  • David Leavitt, Florence, A Delicate Case
  • Dev Collans & Stewart Sterling, I Was a House Detective
  • William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida
  • Magdalen Nabb, Death of an Englishman

Films

  • Midnight Run, directed by Martin Brest
  • ამბავი სურამის ციხისა (The Legend of Suram Fortress), dir. Sergi Parajanov
  • One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich, dir. Chris Marker
  • Tre piani, dir. Nanni Moretti
  • Quattro strade, dir. Alice Rohrwacher
  • Corpo celeste, dir. Alice Rohwacher
  • The Railrodder, dir. Gerald Potterton
  • Grand Slam Opera, dir. Charles Lamont

Exhibits

  • “Heman Chong: Meditations on Shadow Libraries,” STPI Gallery, Singapore
  • Art SG, Singapore
  • “Apichatpong Weerasethakul: A Conversation with the Sun,” SEA Focus, Singapore

january 1–15, 2023

Books

  • Henry James, The Ambassadors
  • Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green
  • Lorenza Mazzetti, The Sky Is Falling, translated by Livia Franchini
  • Adam Goodheart, The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth
  • Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
  • William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
  • William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost

Films

  • The General, directed by Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman
  • College, dir. James W. Horne & Buster Keaton
  • The Mission, dir. Jesse Moss & Amanda McBaine
  • Steamboat Bill, Jr., dir. Charles Reisner & Buster Keaton
  • The Cameraman, dir. Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton
  • Spite Marriage, dir. Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton
  • The Saphead, dir. Herbert Blaché & Winchell Smith
  • I Am Sergei Parajanov, dir. Alla Barabadze, Nana Gongadze, Kora Tsereteli, Gia Bazadze & Yuri Mechitoff
  • Հակոբ Հովնաթանյան (Hakob Hovnatanyan), dir. Sergei Parajanov
  • Киевские фрески (Kyiv Frescoes), dir. Sergei Parajanov
  • არაბესკები ფიროსმანის თემაზე (Arabesques on the Pirosmani Theme), dir. Sergei Parajanov
  • Նռան գույնը (The Color of Pomegranates), dir. Sergei Parajanov
  • Андрей Тарковский и Сергей Параджанов. Острова (Andrey Tarkovsky & Sergey Paradzhanov: Islands), dir. Levon Grigoryan

december 16–31, 2023

Books

  • William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
  • Joanne McNeil, Wrong Way
  • John Crowley, Two Talks on Writing
  • Alfred Hayes, My Face for the World to See
  • William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
  • John Crowley, Two Chapters in a Family Chronicle
  • John Crowley, The Sixties: A Forged Diary
  • John Crowley, Seventy-Nine Dreams
  • Gillian Rose, Love’s Work
  • Jonathan Lethem, The Feral Detective
  • Peter Popham, Tokyo: The City at the End of the World
  • Bob Shacochis, Easy in the Islands
  • Karin Roffman, The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life

Films

  • 君たちはどう生きるか (The Boy and the Heron), directed by Hayao Miyazaki
  • Tokyo-Ga, dir. Wim Wenders
  • The Navigator, dir. Buster Keaton & Donald Crisp
  • Seven Chances, dir. Buster Keaton
  • Battling Butler, dir. Buster Keaton

Exhibits

  • “Olafur Eliasson: A Harmonious Cycle of Interconnected Nows,” Azabudai Hills Gallery, Tokyo

december 1–15, 2023

Books

  • Ed Park, Same Bed Different Dreams
  • Jean-Patrick Manchette, Skeletons in the Closet, translated by Alyson Waters
  • William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well
  • William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
  • William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
  • Mary McCarthy, The Stones of Florence
  • Dan Beachy-Quick, The Thinking Root: The Poetry of Earliest Greek Philosophy
  • Peter Medd & Frank Simms, The Long Walk Home: An Escape in Wartime Italy
  • Lisa Tuttle, My Death

Films

  • La chimera, directed by Alice Rohrwacher
  • Werckmeister harmóniák (Werckmeister Harmonies), dir. Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky
  • Poor Things, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
  • The Navigator, dir. Buster Keaton & Donald Crisp
  • Le Retour à la raison, dir. Man Ray
  • Emak Bakia, dir. Man Ray
  • L’Étoile de mer, dir. Man Ray
  • Les Mystères du Château de Dé, dir. Man Ray
  • The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, dir. Joanna Arnow
  • Las cosas indefinidas (Undefined Things), dir. María Aparicio
  • Film annonce du film qui n’existera jamais: “Drôles de guerres” (Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: “Phony Wars”), dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, dir. David Lynch
  • Go West, dir. Buster Keaton