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

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Belatedly, a shirt for wearing to immigration protests:

a shirt with a slogan on it

Also, one can’t help but note that the Spanish slogan for the marches is much better than the English one (squint to see it in the picture): in English, one is asked to love the abstract “Immigrant NY” while in Spanish we love the more concrete immigrants of New York:

a bad photograph