april 1–april 15

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Books

  • Alan Singer, The Inquisitor’s Tongue
  • Massimo Bontempelli, Separations: Two Novels of Mothers and Children, trans. Estelle Gilson
  • João Fernandes, François Piron, Patrick Besnier & Annie Le Brun, eds., Locus Solus. Impressions of Raymond Roussel

Films

  • L’amour à mort (Love unto Death), directed by Alain Resnais
  • Melancholia, dir. Lars von Trier
  • Another Earth, dir. Mike Cahill
  • A Dangerous Method, dir. David Cronenberg
  • Giulietta degli spiriti (Juliet of the Spirits), dir. Federico Fellini

Exhibits

  • “Beryl Korot: Selected Video Works: 1977 to Present,” Bitforms
  • “Michelangelo Pistoletto: Lavoro,” Luhring Augustine
  • “Speakers’ Corners,” Eyebeam
  • “Mamiko Otsubo: Idea/Equivalent,” Horton Gallery
  • “John Evans: 1984,” Pavel Zoubok
  • “Guðjón Ketilsson: Extensions of the Head: sculptures & works on paper,” Luise Ross
  • “Iran do Espírito Santo,” Sean Kelly Gallery

reductive arguments

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“Coming away from a violent discussion at Magny’s, my heart pounding in my breast, my throat and tongue parched, I feel convinced that every political argument boils down to this: ‘I am better than you are’, every literary argument to this: ‘I have more taste than you’, every argument about art to this: ‘I have better eyes than you’, every argument about music to this: ‘I have a finer eat than you’. It is alarming to see how, in every discussion, we are always alone and never make converts. Perhaps that is why God made us two.”

(Edmond & Jules de Goncourt, journal entry for 8 June 1863, trans. Robert Baldick.)

march 16–march 31

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Books

  • Tommaso Landolfi, Gogol’s Wife & Other Stories, trans. Raymond Rosenthal, John Longrigg & Wayland Young
  • Tommaso Landolfi, Words in Commotion, and Other Stories, trans. Kathrine Jason
  • Tommaso Landolfi, An Autumn Story, trans. Joachim Neugroschel
  • Rachel Levitsky, Under the Sun
  • Harry Thurston, A Ship Portrait
  • Anne Carson, Glass, Irony & God
  • Edmund White, Jack Holmes & His Friend
  • Siddhartha Deb, The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
  • Julio Cortázar, A Change of Light, and other stories
  • Alison Knowles, Spoken Text
  • Alison Knowles, Footnotes: collage journal 30 years

Films

  • Meek’s Cutoff, directed by Kelly Reichardt
  • Only Angels Have Wings, dir. Howard Hawks
  • Götter der Pest (Gods of the Plague), dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • La vie est un roman (Life Is a Bed of Roses), dir. Alain Resnais
  • On Approval, dir. Clive Brook
  • La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In), dir. Pedro Almodóvar

Exhibits

  • “Eugène Atget: Documents pour artistes,” MoMA
  • “Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration,” MoMA
  • “Print/Out,” MoMA
  • “Millennium Magazines,” MoMA
  • “Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan,” Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
  • “Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” Met
  • “Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video,” Met
  • “Natalie Czech: ‘I have nothing to say. Only to show.’ ” Ludlow 38

(from canto li)

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12th of March to 2nd of April
Hen pheasant’s feather does for a fly,
green tail, the wings flat on the body
Dark fur from a hare’s ear for a body
a green shaded partridge feather
 grizzled yellow cock’s hackle
green wax; harl from a peacock’s tail
bright lower body; about the size of pin
the head should be. can be fished from seven a.m.
till eleven; at which time the brown marsh fly comes on.
As long as the brown continues, no fish will take Granham

(Ezra Pound, from Canto LI.)

a picture of savage life

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“70. Beneventum was built by Diomede, the nephew of Meleager (Cluver, tom. ii. p. 1195, 1196). The Calydonian hunt is a picture of savage life (Ovid. Metamorph. l. viii.). Thirty or forty heroes were leagues against a hog: the brutes (not the hog) quarreled with a lady for the head.”

(Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. IV, chapter XLI; p. 646 in volume 2 of the Penguin edition.)

march 1–march 15

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Books

  • Deborah Eisenberg, All Around Atlantis
  • Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes
  • Pierre Clastres, Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians, trans. Paul Auster
  • Charles Olson, The Distances
  • Graham Greene, Travels with My Aunt
  • Joe Brainard, The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard, ed. Ron Padgett

Films

  • Play Time, directed by Jacques Tati
  • Minnie and Moskowitz, dir. John Cassavetes
  • Tomatos Another Day, dir. James Sibley Watson
  • Please Vote for Me, dir. Weijun Chen

Exhibits

  • “Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition,” Met

not as good as st. martin

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“73. I know not how to select or specify the miracles contained in the Vitæ Patrum of Rosweyde, as the number very much exceeds the thousand pages of that voluminous work. An elegant specimen may be found in the Dialogues of Sulpicius Severus, and his life of St. Martin. He reveres the monks of Egypt; yet he insults them with the remark, that they never raised the dead; whereas the bishop of Tours had restored three dead men to life.”

(Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. III, chapter XXXVII; p. 428 in volume 2 of the Penguin edition.)

february 16–february 29

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Books

  • William Burroughs, Naked Lunch
  • Janet Hobhouse, Dancing in the Dark
  • Deborah Eisenberg, Transactions in a Foreign Currency
  • Deborah Eisenberg, Under the 82nd Airborne

Films

  • A Woman under the Influence, directed by John Cassavetes
  • Wings, dir. William Wellman

Exhibits

  • “Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art,” MoMA
  • “The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde,” Met
  • “Jean Debuffet: The Last Two Years,” Pace Gallery
  • “From Iceland,” Luise Ross Gallery
  • “Tom Friedman: New Work,” Luhring Augustine
  • “Charles Burchfield: Landscapes 1916–1962,” D. C. Moore Gallery