FALL ARTS september 17, 2012 film by daniel d’addario | theater by harry haun art by dan duray | books by michael H. miller top 10 galleries, museums, books, films, theater and music $ O MAJESTIC THEATRE Fall prices begin at 27 PhantomBroadway.com Visit BroadwayOffers.com and use code PHNYOFS806 zFA_Cover.indd 1 9/7/12 10:06:21 AM The Tony® and Academy Award® winning masterpiece returns 18 weeks only 13&7*&84#&(*/OCTOBER 7 WALTER KERR THEATRE, 219 WEST 48TH STREET 5)&)&*3&440/#30"%8":$0.t5&-&$)"3(&$0.t PHOTOS BY DANIEL KING/CONTOUR BY GETTY IMAGES, NICK BRIGGS, STEPHEN LOVEKIN/GETTY IMAGES Untitled-46 1 8/31/12 12:05:57 PM STRICTLY LIMITED ENGAGEMENT BEGINS NOVEMBER 3 Norbert Leo Butz Katie Holmes A NEW COMEDY ABOUT FAMILIES AND FELONIES A NEW COMEDY ABOUT FAMILIES AND FELONIES BY also starring Theresa Rebeck DIRECTEDPhil BY Upshaw Barbara Desimini Jenny Houlberg also starring Jack O’Brien Phil Upshaw Barbara Desimini Jenny Houlberg Judy Greer Josh Hamilton Jayne Houdyshell OMusic Box Theatre, 239 W. 45th St. Telecharge.com 212-239-6200 DeadAccountsOnBroadway.com Images by Tom Singer, Tom Munro, Russell Baer, Sylvain Gaboury/Getty Images, Chia Messina Untitled-45 1 8/31/12 11:30:02 AM FALL ARTS PREVIEW | Table of Contents ART Dan Duray on celebrating a century of arms and armor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 6 October 18–November 18, 2012 BOOKS 15 “Sublime...a colorful expeditionary force strikes Michael H. Miller on Marco Roth and his into the interior vastness of the soul.”—New York upcoming memoir, The Scientists FILM Daniel D’Addario on the fall’s presidential fi lms, Lincoln and Hyde Park on Hudson 20 THEATER Harry Haun on Grace, at the Cort Theater 26 Akram Khan Company, Vertical Road TOP TEN Museums by Dan Duray 8 Galleries by Andrew Russeth 10 Kiran Ahluwalia Fabulous Beast Dance Books by Michael H. Miller 18 Theatre Films by Daniel D’Addario 22 Les Arts Florissants Theater by Daniel D’Addario 29 Late-Night Elegies: Poet of the Piano Classical Music & Opera by Carl Gaines 31 Alexei Lubimov Akram Khan Company 10 Liam Ó Maonlaí Higher Vibrations I went to the house Mary Chapin but did not enter Carpenter Earthly and Heavenly Life Ensemble Basiani Latvian Radio Choir september 17, 2012 Immortal Bach Philharmonia Orchestra Esa-Pekka Salonen CULTURE EDITOR EDITOR Cosmic Pulses SARAH DOUGLAS AARON GELL Malavika Sarukkai White Light Conversations ART DIRECTOR PRODUCTION White Light Lounges LAUREN DRAPER AND CREATIVE Song of the Earth DIRECTOR Informal post-performance MANAGING EDITOR ED JOHNSON gatherings MICHAEL WOODSMALL PHOTO EDITOR CONTRIBUTORS PETER LETTRE Photos: background image: Ian Cuttler © 2012; DANIEL D’ADDARIO Vertical Road: Laurent Ziegler DAN DURAY ADVERTISING Sponsored by Official sponsors CARL GAINES PRODUCTION HARRY HAUN LISA MEDCHILL National Sponsor of Lincoln Center MICHAEL H. 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BARRY LEWIS 212.721.6500 WWW.OBSERVER.C OM Executive Assistant ALEXANDRA ENDERLE Alice Tully Hall or Avery Fisher Hall Box Office, Broadway at 65th Street 2 SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 zFA_TOC/Mast copy.indd 2 9/7/12 10:24:16 AM ION THAT THE ACCLAIMED STEPPENWOLF PRODUCT MAKES YOU CATCH YOUR BREATH! – Charles Isherwood, CHILLING AND TRANSFIXING. The New York Times OBOOTH THEATRE, 222 W. 45th St. Telecharge.com t 212-239-6200 t VirginiaWoolfBroadway.com Untitled-13 1 9/4/12 4:28:57 PM GALLERISTny A CHRONICLE OF THE ART WORLD IN NEW YORK AND BEYOND Warhol comes to the Met. FALL FOR ART As this introductory column went to print last season, much in the New York art world felt uncertain. There were ru- mors of both gallery expansions and gallery closures, and of artists switching teams, while two New York fairs—the vet- eran Armory Show and the new Frieze New York, a British import—were revving to compete for dealers and dollars. Six months down the road, we may not yet know which fair will win our fair city—Frieze was good, but the Armory held its ground—but we do know that, all around town, top deal- ers are waging a space race, doubling down on their fast-gen- trifying neighborhoods. In Chelsea, Friedrich Petzel, Andrea Rosen, Lisa Spellman of 303, Sean Kelly, David Zwirner and Marc Glimcher of Pace have grabbed chunks of real estate, or are about to; most are at various points on construction proj- ects. On the Lower East Side, Lisa Cooley, Laurel Gitlen, Can- ada and Marlborough are among those on the move, trading their cubbyholes for, if not palaces, at least more spacious showrooms. For the public, this means more and larger exhi- bitions—in short, more art. For the trade, it means that on the supply side the stakes are higher than ever. As for the city’s museums, they are stronger than ever, offering up some mid-career stars playing for entries in the history books (Wade Guyton at the Whitney, Matt Connors at MoMA PS1) some established artists looking to cement their legacies (Martha Rosler at MoMA, Rosemarie Trockel at the ORK New Museum) and, in what is sure to be blockbuster for the Y EW Met, some sixty of Andy’s heirs in “Regarding Warhol: Sixty N Artists, Fifty Years.” Our guide to the fall’s must-see gallery ), and museum shows in this special preview issue will help you ARS sort it all out. ( OCIETY S OUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL THE VISUAL FOR OUNDATION As the season unfolds, make sure you return regularly to F IGHTS IGHTS The New York Observer and its visual art blog, GalleristNY R ARHOL (www.GalleristNY.com), for our ongoing, on-the-ground cov- W RTISTS RTISTS NDY NDY A erage of the international art scene from a distinctly New A HE T NC. / York perspective. I RTS, RTS, © 2012 © 2012 —Sarah Douglas and Andrew Russeth A 4 SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 zFA_IntroGalleristNY.indd 4 9/7/12 10:08:43 AM DAVE HILL SALMAN RUSHDIE NADJA SALERNO-SONNENBERG ALEC BALDWIN WALLACE SHAWN ZADIE SMITH MICHAEL SHOWALTER ELIZABETH MITCHELL EISA DAVIS ETGAR KERET WYCLIFFE GORDON & MORE Untitled-33 1 9/5/12 2:03:47 PM FALL ARTS PREVIEW | Art Dean, ca. 1900, wearing a full suit of Japanese armor. Below right, German Gothic armor, ca. COURTESY METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART METROPOLITAN COURTESY 1475-1500. a call to arms The Met’s arms and armor collection turns 100 By Dan Duray n 1912, Bashford Dean became the oyster culture, and was the was the first- the martially inclined. first curator of arms and armor at ever curator of fishes at the American Mu- “In terms of sheer numbers, it probably the Metropolitan Museum of New seum of Natural History). is one of the biggest,” Donald La Rocca, de- York. He had a reputation as a trail- This year, the Met will honor Dean, who partment curator, said on a recent tour of blazer: he explored Japan when died in 1928, and celebrate the depart- the space, comparing the Met’s collection the country was still otherworldly ment with an exhibit, “Bashford Dean and with other world-class ones. “In terms of to foreigners, and designed armor the Creation of the Arms and Armor De- quality, the things that rank highest are for American troops in World War I. He partment,” that takes a look at the curi- probably the ancestral collections” such as Ischmoozed the Morgans to get them to do- ous circumstances that led to a New York Vienna’s, (which evolved with the holdings nate their armor, and wrote Helmets and museum ending up with one of the world’s of the Hapsburgs and the Holy Roman Em- Body Armor in Modern Warfare, still a most respected armories, boasting a total perors), Dresden’s (the dukes of Saxony) standard for modern military strategists. of 14,000 guns, swords, knives, pieces of and Paris’s (accumulated by numerous (He was also accomplished in the field of armor and all manner of devices to delight monarchs). But when it comes to quality, 6 SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 zFA_Duray.indd 6 9/6/12 5:45:25 PM Art | FALL ARTS PREVIEW taking into account bloodthirsty breadth, Dean’s time. Lighting, for example, is a the Met’s collection really has no right to ‘Tibetans have said more and more important element of ex- be as profound as it is, being on this side of hibition. An upcoming reorganization, Mr. the Atlantic. this to me: “Thank La Rocca said, will increase the luster one The Met owes that profundity to col- notices on the items, though it won’t quite lectors with a passion for the tools of war. God, you’re actually be at “jewelry case” levels. Dean exhib- Most of these early armor collectors tend- ited the armor surrounded by tapestries ed to fall into two categories: well-man- and stained glass, like a Gothic Revival nered gentlemen in the European mold, showing people that home, but the ideal lighting for metal is and William Randolph Hearst.