2 and a quarter: November 2010

Playing Not So Softly In The Background

Thievery Corporation, Roseanne Cash
Curtis Mayfield, Fela Kuti
Duke Ellington, Dave Alvin, The Mermen
The Clash, Neats, Velvet Underground
Gregory Isaacs, Gil Scott Heron, UB-40, Etta James
Willy DeVille, Wild Magnolias, Bill Evans
Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk
Hayes Carll, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Ryan Adams, James Brown
David Johansen and the Harry Smiths
Ry Cooder, King Curtis, John Hiatt
Fleshtones, Replacements, Joe Strummer, John Coltrane, Graham Parker, Charlie Haden, James McMurtry, Howlin' Wolf, Big Joe Turner
Feelies, Bobby Bland, Television

Reading

1 Dead in Attic by Chris Rose
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Giacometti Portrait, by James Lord
A Time it Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties, by Bill Eppridge
About Looking, by John Berger
Accounting for Days, Lynne Tillman on Stephen Shore's Road Trip Journal, Art Forum, Spring, 2007
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
American Photography by Miles Orvell
Analogue, by Zoe Leonard
Art Photography Now, by Susan Bright
Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 by Ryan H. Walsh
At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing edited by George Kimball and John Schulian
Avedon at Work: In The American West by Laura Wilson
Basic Critical Theory for Photographers, by Ashley la Grange
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus by Charles Mingus
Body and Soul by Frank Conroy
Brothers by David Talbot
Camera Lucida, by Roland Barthes
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast
Chroma by Derek Jarman
Conversations with Artists, by Selden Rodman
Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography by Tod Papageorge
Damon Runyon: A Life by Jimmy Breslin
Day Out of Days by Sam Shepard
Diana and Nikon by Janet Malcolm
Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell by Charles Simic
Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant
Dorchester Days by Eugene Richards
Double Life by Nan Goldin and David Armstrong
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
Faithful Place by Tana French
Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous by Christopher Bonanos
Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm
Generation Kill, by Evan Wright
Generation of Swine by Hunter S Thompson
George Grosz: An Autobiography
Great Plains by Ian Frazier
Hold Still by Sally Mann
How Basketball Can Save the World by David Hollander
How Music Works by David Byrne
In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahari
In the South Bronx of America by Mel Rosenthal
Index Cards by Moyra Davey
Inside the Painter's Studio by Joe Fig
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario
Jarhead by Anthony Swofford
July, July by Tim O'Brien
Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love and Rivalry in 1920's Paris by Mark Braude
Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock
Known and Strange Things: Essays by Teju Cole
Life by Keith Richards
Long Life Cool White: Photographs & Essays by Moyra Davey
Lou Reed: A Life by Anthony DeCurtis
Low Life by Luc Sante
Max Beckmann: Self Portrait in Words, edited by Barbara Copeland Buenger
Mission to Paris by Alan Furst
Modern Art 1851-1929 by Richard R. Brettell
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
New Orleans Noir, edited by Julie Smith
Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum
Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel
On Photography, by Susan Sontag
One Bullet Away by Nathaniel Fick
Outside Lies Magic by John Stilgoe
Photographs Not Taken, Edited by Will Steacy
Photography: The Definitive Visual History by Tom Ang
Place, A Short Introduction by Tim Cresswell
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
Portraits, by Michael Kimmelman
Portraiture, by Richard Brilliant
Portraiture, by Shearer West
Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music by Glenn Kurtz
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs
Raised by Wolves by Jim Goldberg
Rauschenberg: Art and Life by Mary Lynn Kotz
Redeployment by Phil Klay
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
Roots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World by Billy Bragg
Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love by David Talbot
Seeing Out Loud by Jerry Saltz
Shoot What You Love by Henry Horenstein
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present by Mark Costello and David Foster Wallace
Solito by Javier Zamora
Space and Place by Yi-Fu Tuan
Spiral Jetta by Erin Hogan
Splendor and Misery in the Weimar Republic: From Otto Dix to Jeanne Mammen by Ingrid Pfeiffer
Sticks and Stones Architectural America by Lee Friedlander
Studs Lonigan by James T. Farrell
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Talking to Strangers by Paul Auster
The Accidental Masterpiece, On the Art of Life and Vice Versa by Michael Kimmelman
The Art of Rivalry by Sebastian Smee
The Bang Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War by Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva
The Chitlin' Circuit and the Road to Rock and Roll by Preston Lauterbach
The Contest of Meaning, edited by Richard Bolton
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film by Michael Ondaatje
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
The Forgotten Ones by Milton Rogovin
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith by Sam Stephenson
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron by Howard Bryant
The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011 by Edith Schloss
The Lure of the Local, by Lucy Lippard
The Making of Kind of Blue by Eric Nisenson
The Midnight Choir, by Gene Kerrigan
The Mission Song, by John le Carré
The Nature of Photographs, by Stephen Shore
The Ongoing Moment, by Geoff Dyer
The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison
The Photograph as Contemporary Art, by Charlotte Cotton
The Photograph by Graham Clarke
The Photographer's Eye, by John Szarkowski
The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History by Jim Walsh
The River Swimmer by Jim Harrison
The South Bronx is Part of America by Martha Rosler
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 by David Sedaris
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin D. G. Kelley
This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann
Trouble Boys: The True Story of The Replacements by Bob Mehr
W. Eugene Smith: The Life and Work of an American Photographer by Jim Hughes
Walker Evans by James R. Mellow
What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon by Philip Gefter
White Sands by Geoff Dyer
Why Architecture Matters by Paul Goldberger
Why Bob Dylan Matters by Richard F Thomas
Why People Photograph, by Robert Adams
Why the Ramones Matter by Donna Gaines
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Stuff Seen, Museums, Galleries

'Anselm' directed by Wim Wenders
'Dead or Alive'-Museum of Art and Design
'Ed Ruscha: Standard' @ Rose Art Museum
'For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights' , 'Secrets, Loss, Memory, and Courage: Works by Gay Male Artists', 'Richard Avedon, The Family' @ Addison Gallery of American Art
'Harlan County, USA' directed by Barbara Kopple
'Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century', 'Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present' @ MoMA
'Image in the Box: from Cornell to Contemporary', Hollis Taggart Galleries, NYC
'Instrument', directed by Jem Cohen
'Man On Wire', directed by James Marsh
'Matisse-Radical Invention 1913-1917', 'Jacob Lawrence-The Migration Series', 'Abstract Expressionist New York'@ MoMa
'Painters Painting' directed by Emile de Antonio @ MIT List Center
'Plays on Tap', Boston Center for the Arts
'Recollection-Thirty Years of Photography at the New York Public Library'
'Secundaria', directed by Mary Jane Doherty
'Stephen Dupont: Papua New Guinea Portraits & Diaries' @ Peabody Museum of Archeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
'The Many Lives of William Klein' BBC One
'The Random Caruso', Boston Center for the Arts
'The Shape of Abstraction' @ Boston University Art Gallery
'The Times of Harvey Milk', directed by Robert Epstein
'Toshio Shibata, Constructed Landscapes', 'FreePort [No. 006]: Nick Cave' @ Peabody Essex Museum
'You See Me Laughin': The Last of the Hill Country Bluesman' directed by Mandy Stein
100 Years (version #4) @ Boston University
101 Photos for Press Freedom @ Art Institute of Boston
A New Vision: Modernist Photography @ Currier Museum of Art
Academy Fight Song, by Andrew Clarke @ Boston Center for the Arts
Addison Gallery of American Art, 'Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke'
Addison Gallery of American Art, 'Birth of the Cool'
Alessandra Sanguinetti 'On the Sixth Day' @ Art Institute of Boston
Alex Webb @ Northeastern University
Alice Neel directed by Andrew Neel
Alice Neel: An Engaged Eye @ Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Amalia Pica, Oliver Laric: Versions @ MIT List Visual Arts Center
American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood, MegaCity: India and the Culture of the Streets @ Peabody Essex Museum
American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White
Amy Arbus, After Images @ Griffin Museum of Photography
Amy directed by Asif Kapadia
Anselm Keifer @ Gagosian Gallery
Anthony Apesos, Italian Meditations: Fragments of History @ Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy
Antony Gormley talk @MassArt
Art School Confidential directed by Terry Zwigoff
Atlantic Works Gallery, 'Safe'
Backstage Pass: Rock & Roll Photography @ Currier Museum of Art
Barry McGee @ ICA Boston
Basquiat directed by Julian Schnabel
Behind the Image, Suffolk University Art Gallery
Bernadette, a Film by Duncan Campbell, MIT List Visual Arts Center
Bill Cunningham New York directed by Richard Press
Black Acid Co-Op, Deitch Projects
Black Chronicles II @ Cooper Gallery, Harvard University
Blues Story directed by Jay Levey
Boston Combat Zone 1969-1978 @ Howard Yezerski
Boston Museum of Fine Art
Boston Museum of Fine Art, 'El Greco to Velazquez'
Boston Museum of Fine Art, 'Photographic Figures'
Boston Museum of Fine Art, 'Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice
Boston Museum of Fine Art, Harry Callahan: American Photographer
Botero Museum, Bogota, Colombia
Bruce Connor: It's All True, Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Tony Oursler: Imponderable @ MoMA
Bruce Davidson @ Boston University
Bukowski: Born Into This directed by John Dullaghan
Burning, Bright: A Short History of the Light Bulb @ The Pace Gallery, NYC
California Typewriter directed by Doug Nichol
Cameraperson directed by Kirsten Johnson
Catherine Opie- American Photographer, Guggenheim Museum
Charlene von Heyl, Josiah McElheny @ ICA Boston
Charles Atlas: Instantaneous! and Everywhere? @ MIT
Charles LeDray: workworkworkwork, Dr Lakra @ ICA
Chasing Trane directed by John Scheinfeld
Chris Marker: Guillaume-en-Égypte @ MIT List Visual Arts Center
Christian Marclay: 'The Clock' @ MFA Boston
Cindy Sherman, Eugene Atget @ MoMA
Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Pastoral to Pop: 20th-Century Britain on Paper, Unfinished Stories: Snapshots from the Peter J. Cohen Collection, Hiro: Photographs @ Boston MFA
Clifford Ross: Landscape Seen & Unseen, Jim Shaw: Entertaining Doubts, Mark Dion: The Octagon Room, Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective, Stephen Vitiello: All Those Vanished Engines, Anselm Keifer, Artists' Choice: An Expanded Field of Photography, Liz Deschenes: Gallery 4.1.1 @ MASS MoCA
Come Feel Me Tremble directed by Otto Zithromax
Country: Portraits of an American Sound directed by Steven Kochones
Coup 53 directed by Taghi Amirani
Cure For Pain: The Mark Sandman Story directed by Robert Bralver and David Ferino
Damian Ortega: Do It Yourself, ICA
Danny Lyon: Message to the Future, Stuart Davis: In Full Swing @ Whitney Museum
Dawn DeDeaux and Lonnie Holley: Thumbs Up for the Mothership, James Turrell: Into the Light, Laurie Anderson: Aloft and Chalkroom, Allison Janae Hamilton: Pitch, Anselm Kiefer @ MassMoCA
Dawson City: Frozen in Time directed by Bill Morrison
de Kooning: A Retrospective, New Photography 2011 @ MoMA
Don't Blink - Robert Frank directed by Laura Israel
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning directed by Dyanna Taylor
Dracula directed by Tod Browning, Karl Freund
Duffy: The Man Who Shot the Sixties directed by Linda Brusasco
Edgar Arcenaux: Written in Smoke and Fire @ MIT List Center
Edward Burtynsky: Dryland Farming @ Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, NYC
Edward Burtynsky: Manufactured Landscapes directed by Jennifer Baichwal
Elliot Erwitt: 'Personal Best' @ ICP, NYC
End of the Century directed by Michael Gramaglia and Jim Fields
End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones directed by Michael Gramaglia and Jim Fields
Everybody Street directed by Cheryl Dunn
Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia @ Harvard Art Museum
Family Portrait Settings directed by Alfred Guzzetti
Finding Vivian Maier directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
Focus: Joseph Beuys, MoMA
Fogg Museum, Harvard University 'Long Life Cool White: Photographs by Moyra Davey'
Garry Winogrand : All Things are Photographable directed by Sasha Waters Freyer
Garry Winogrand @ National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964, Rudy Burckhardt 'New York, N. Why?', Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good) @ ICA Boston
Godzilla directed by Ishiro Honda
Goodbye to Language directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Gordon Parks - Return to Fort Scott, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Idea of Beauty, Over There! - Posters from World War 1 @ Boston MFA
Gregg Bordowitz talk @ Art Institute of Boston
Gregory Crewdson talk @ MassArt
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters directed by Ben Shapiro
Griffin Museum of Photography-'Stephen Wilkes, Ellis Island: Ghosts of Freedom'
Guest of Cindy Sherman directed by Paul H-O & Tom Donahue
Hannah Barrett talk @ Gibson House Museum
Hans Haacke: 1967, Otto Piene: Lichtballett @ MIT List Visual Arts Center
Harold Feinstein: A Retrospective @ Panopticon Gallery
Harvard Film Archive, 'An Evening with Robert Todd' (films)
Harvard Film Archive, 'Bruce Conner: The Last Magician of the 20th Century'
Helvetica directed by Gary Hustwit
Henri Cartier-Bresson with Martin Parr: Reconciliation @ Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France
Henry Horenstein- 'Show' @ Walker Contemporary
Hondros directed by Greg Campbell
Hot Pepper directed by Les Blank
ICA, 'The World as a Stage', 'Street Level'
ICA, Acting Out: Social Experiments in Video
In No Great Hurry: 13 Lesson in Life with Saul Leiter directed by Tomas Leach
Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective @ MIT List Center
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty @ LUCAD
Isabel and Other Intimate Strangers: Portraits by Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon, Richard Serra: Solids, Gagosian Gallery, NYC
Jean-Michel Basquiat - The Radiant Child directed by Tamra Davis
Joan Jonas, Performative City-MIT Visual Arts Program Lecture
Joel Meyerowitz 'Legacy: Preservation of Wildness in New York City Parks' @ AIB Gallery
John Akomfrah: Purple @ ICA Watershed
July Rain directed by Marlen Khutsiev
Krzysztof Wodiczko-...Out of Here: The Veterans Project, ICA
Larry Fink talk @ PRC
Larry Sultan talk @Mass Art
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 @ ICA
Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank directed by Gerald Fox
Lee Friedlander 'The American Monuments', American Cool @ American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Let Us March On: Lee Friedlander and the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom @ Boston University
Light/Dark, White/Black, On the Scene: 20th Century Street Photography, Searching for the Real @ Addison Gallery of American Art
Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists' Enumerations from the Smithsonian's Archive of American Art @ Morgan Library, NYC
Looking In: Robert Frank's 'The Americans', Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles directed by Rick Prelinger
Magical Universe directed by Jeremy Workman
Making Modern @ Boston MFA
Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery @ Frick Collection
Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st Century Naturalist, Hito Steyerl: Liquidity Inc., Nicholas Nixon: Persistence of Vision @ ICA Boston
Mark Rothko : The Power of Art directed by Carl Hindmarch
Mary Ellen Mark 'Prom' @ Janet Borden
Mary Ellen Mark talk @ PRC
Matisse in the Studio @ Boston MFA
McCullin directed by Jacqui Morris and David Morris
Michael Almereyda talk @ Harvard University
Michael Wolf-'iseeyou' @ Bruce Silverstein
Mikhael Subotzky, MoMA
Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight directed by Wendy Keys
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Miranda July talk @ Boston University
MIT List Visual Arts Center-'Fake Fruit', directed by Chick Strand
MIT List Visual Arts Center-Davis, Cherubini: In Contention, Melanie Smith: Spiral City & Other Vicarious Pleasures
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Chantal Akerman: Moving through Time and Space
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Films by Chris Marker
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Films by Ken Jacobs
MoMA, James Ensor, In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, Projects 90: Song Dong, Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Monet - Mitchell @ Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Museum of Arts and Design, Klaus Moje
Nalini Malani: In Search of Vanished Blood @ ICA Boston
Nan Goldin: Scopophilia @ Mathew Marks, NYC
Nathan Harger @ Hasted Kraeutler
Nature Theater of Oklahoma, 'Poetics: A Ballet Brut'
Near Equal Moriyama Daido directed by Kenjiro Fujii
New Museum, Intersections Intersected: The Photography of David Goldblatt
No Direction Home directed by Martin Scorsese
No Home Movie directed by Chantal Ackerman
Nostalgia for the Light directed by Patricio Guzman
Not a Photograph: The Mission of Burma Story directed by Jeffrey Iwanicki, David Kleiler Jr.
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
One Country, One Game: A Celebration of Baseball @ North Adams, MA.
Pardon Us for Living but the Graveyard is Full directed by Jim Hutter
Patti Smith 'Dream of Life' directed by Steven Sebring
Perez Art Museum Miami
Peter Guralnick talk @ MIT
Photo Revolution: Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman @ Worcester Art Museum
Photographic Resource Center, 'Ad/Agency'
Photographic Resource Center, 'Exposure: The 13th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition'
Pina Bausch-'Vollmond' @ BAM
Pina: A Film for Pina Bausch by Wim Wenders
Questions Without Answers, Tufts University Art Gallery
Rachel Whiteread, 'Karsh 100: Biography in Images', 'Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum', Boston Museum of Fine Art
Rafa Esparza: Staring at the Sun, ERRE: Them and US/Ellos y Nosotros @ Mass MoCA
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, Fiber: Sculpture 1960-Present @ ICA Boston
Restrepo directed by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington
Richard Renaldi @PRC
Richard Serra: Junction/Cycle @ Gagosian Gallery, NYC
Robert Frank: Books and Films, 1947-2017 @ Tufts University
Robert Rauschenberg @ Gagosian Gallery
Rosa Barba: The Color of Space @ MIT List Visual Arts Center
Rothko's Rooms: The Life and Works of an American Artist
Sean Scully: Art Comes From Need directed by Hans A. Guttner
Self Reflections: The Expressionist Origins of Lisette Model @ Bruce Silverstein, NYC
Shadow of the House directed by Allie Humenuk
She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World and John Singer Sargent Watercolors @ Boston MFA
Shellburne Thurber: '9 Wellington Street' @ Barbara Krakow Gallery
Shepard Fairey 'Supply and Demand', ICA
Shot! The Pyscho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock directed by Barnaby Clay
Stella Johnson talk @ AIB
Storm King Art Center
Susan Meiselas: In History, ICP
Tara Donovan, ICA
Tavares Strachan, Orthostatic Tolerance: It Might Not Be Such a Bad Idea if I Never Went Home @ MIT List Visual Arts Center
Tchoupitoulas directed by Bill Ross and Turner Ross
Team Gallery, Cory Arcangel, Guillaume Pinard, Jon Routson
The Allen Toussaint Touch by BBC 4
The Image in Question. War-Media-Art talk @ Carpenter Center
The International Experimental Cinema Exposition @ The ICA - Boston: 2013 Edition
The Keeper @ New Museum
The Koumiko Mystery & If I Had Four Dromedaries directed by Chris Marker @ Harvard
The Miles Davis Story directed by Mike Dibb
The Nine directed by Katy Grannan
The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League 1936-1951 @ Jewish Museum, NYC
The Record: Contemporary Art & Vinyl, Catherine Opie: Empty & Full @ ICA Boston
The Woodmans directed by C. Scott Willis
The World According to Martin Parr- BBC One
This Not That: The Artist John Baldessari directed by Jan Schmidt-Gavre
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980's, Ragnar Kjartansson: Song @ ICA Boston
Through a Lens Darkly directed by Thomas Allen Harris
Time Is Now: Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin's America @ Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Tina Barney talk @ PRC
To Build the Sky: To and from Utopia in the New Cuban Art, I am you, you are too @ Walker Art Center
Todd Hido: Excerpts from Silver Meadows @ Boston University
Tristan & Yseult @ ArtsEmerson
Tufts University Art Gallery, 'Branded and On Display'
Un Flic directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
Under Pressure: Art from the 1980's, The Robbers: German Art in a Time of Crisis @ Portland Museum of Art
Urs Fischer: Marguerite d Ponty, New Museum, NYC
Van Gogh and Nature @ The Clark Museum
Vanishing Ice, Prince From Minneapolis @ Weisman Art Museum
Velvet Underground: Under Review directed by Tom Barbor-Might
Viva Joe Strummer directed by Mike Parkinson
W. Eugene Smith-'The Jazz Loft Project' @ New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Walid Raad, Geoffrey Farmer @ ICA Boston
We Jam Econo directed by Tim Irwin
We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85, Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, The Message is Death, Kevin Beasley @ ICA Boston
Weegee: Murder is My Business @ ICP
Welcome to the Club:The Women of Rockabilly directed by Beth Harrington
Westway to the World directed by Don Letts
William Christenberry Photographs 1961-2005, talk @ MassArt
William Eggleston-Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008, Whitney Museum
Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation at Boston MFA
X: The Unheard Music directed by W.T. Morgan
You See Me Laughing': The Last of the Hill Country Bluesmen directed by Mandy Stein
Zoe Leonard: Analogue, Hispanic Society of America, NYC

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