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Peter Schjeldahl: Frieze New York on Randall’s Island.

Monday, April 30th, 2012

This year, the Armory Show art fair, which was held in March in two cavernous, steel-raftered halls on the Hudson River piers in the West Fifties, came with an official artist: Theaster Gates. A charismatic thirty-nine-year-old Chicago “urban pla…

Adam Gopnik: Hollande, Sarkozy, and democracy in France.

Monday, April 30th, 2012

The Presidency of France’s Fifth Republic is a monarchical role, shaped to the elongated scale and the grand manners first of Charles de Gaulle and then of François Mitterrand. Although Jacques Chirac more recently gave the role a distinctly…

Peter Robinson: “Another Twilight.”

Monday, April 30th, 2012

Allow the point of the Coccodrillo
its hazy cypress trees in profile
like a rough sketch for the Isle
of the Dead, as seen from yellow

stucco, his Villa Igea where Lawrence
finished “Sons and Lovers,” wild thyme
scenting olive-grov…

Goings on About Town: Art

Monday, April 30th, 2012

PageBreak –>MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde.” Through June 3. | “Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition.&…

Patricia Marx: Biblical retractions.

Monday, April 30th, 2012

Yes, there were slipups. I changed “Pharisee” to “Philistine” and “the corner of Locust Valley and Donkey Drive” to “Road to Damascus.” When I said it rained for forty days and forty nights, I neglected t…

David Owen: The stars of “Oddities” on Science Channel.

Monday, April 30th, 2012

Among the many items on display at Obscura Antiques & Oddities, on Avenue A between Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets, is a leathery, somnolent-looking human head. “It’s an old medical preparation,” Evan Michelson, who is one of the …

Mark Singer: Ghetto Film School screens “Prank” at HBO.

Monday, April 30th, 2012

Say you’re a reasonably precocious high-school student in New York City and you believe a college admissions committee would take proper note if you were to make a short film in China featuring actors who, because they happen to be Chinese, speak…

Books: William Boyd’s “Waiting for Sunrise” review.

Monday, April 30th, 2012

In 1913, when this novel opens, the improbably named protagonist, Lysander Rief, has one main concern: his psychosexual blockage. The dilettante actor has moved to Vienna to begin—with the help of an analyst there—a wholesale excavation of …