{"id":27806,"date":"2012-03-09T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=27806"},"modified":"2012-03-12T07:57:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T11:57:19","slug":"staff-picks-cecil-beaton-in-the-city-%e2%80%98threats%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/09\/staff-picks-cecil-beaton-in-the-city-%e2%80%98threats%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks: Cecil Beaton in the City, \u2018Threats\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27807\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27807\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27807\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/portrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/portrait.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/portrait-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrea del Castagno, <em>Portrait of a Man<\/em>, ca. 1450\u201357, tempera on panel. Courtesy the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you get the chance, check out \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcny.org\/exhibitions\/current\/Cecil-Beaton-The-New-York-Years.html\">Cecil Beaton: The New York Years<\/a>,\u201d which has extended its run at the Museum of the City of New York. It\u2019s a record of the artist, designer, photographer, and general man-about-town\u2019s relationship with the city in pictures and words, and both the duration of Beaton\u2019s career and the scope of his creativity are something to behold. \u2014<strong>Sadie Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the recommendation of our art editor, Charlotte Strick, I\u2019ve started reading Amelia Gray\u2019s debut novel, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Threats-A-Novel-Amelia-Gray\/dp\/0374533075\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1331229605&amp;sr=8-1\">Threats<\/a>\u2014<\/em>the nifty cover of which Charlotte designed, so perhaps she\u2019s biased. But so far, it\u2019s with good cause: the narrative is subversive and impressionistic, evidentiary and eccentric. It reminds me occasionally of\u00a0Grace Krilanovich\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Orange-Eats-Creeps-Grace-Krilanovich\/dp\/0982015186\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1331229659&amp;sr=1-1\"><em>The Orange Eats Creeps<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0another deeply imaginative book and one that, in the spirit of this post, I&#8217;d wholly recommend. \u2014<strong>Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is, as Andrew Butterfield says in <em>The New York Review of Books<\/em>, a show \u201cof staggering beauty and revelatory importance\u201d and \u201ca landmark exhibition,\u201d and it is also your last chance to see it this week. I spent last Sunday strolling through the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/listings\/2011\/the-renaissance-portrait-from-donatello-to-bellini\">The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini<\/a>\u201d at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and I can\u2019t imagine a more colorful or vibrant way to spend the weekend. \u2014<strong>Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I recently discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literature-map.com\/\">Literature Map<\/a>, an addicting bit of artificial intelligence that plots writers by similarity. Watch your favorite authors drift about in a blue void like awkward, disembodied party-goers! A <a href=\"http:\/\/harrypotter.wikia.com\/wiki\/Marauder%27s_Map\">Marauder&#8217;s Map<\/a> for the literary. (Also good for finding new reads.) \u2014<strong>Allison Bulger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I visited the Whitney Biennial last week and caught Sarah Michelson\u2019s disciplined performance of\u00a0<em><\/em>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/07\/arts\/dance\/sarah-michelsons-devotion-study-1-at-whitney-museum.html\">Devotion Study #1\u2014The American Dancer<\/a>,\u201d a piece about movement, repetition, and the relationships formed in dance. Michelson&#8217;s residency ends March 11 and it\u2019s a spectacle not to be missed. \u2014<strong>Elizabeth Nelson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A screener of Lena Dunham\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/girls\/index.html\"><em>Girls<\/em><\/a> made its way around the office a few weeks ago. 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