The Hot List: A Single Pleasure Ere Summer Fades By THE NEW YORK TIMES Julia Yellow

July 14, 2011, 7:11 pm

The Hot List: A Single Pleasure Ere Summer Fades By THE NEW YORK TIMES Julia Yellow

Just one thing, you tell yourself, as the summer slips by like so many summers before it. If you manage to do nothing else for your own pleasure in this season of unclaimed hours, you will read that book, see that movie, watch that show, gaze at that painting, listen to that guitarist. Even people who do these things for a living – the New York Times arts critics – can’t always organize their cultural calendars to include what they most want to do. We asked them to share the single item in, or closely related to, their critical discipline at the very top of their summer bucket list. Here are their selections.
Art‘Night Vision’ – Past Meets Present After Dark, by Holland Cotter
ArtAt the Met, a Canvas Ahead of Its Time, by Roberta Smith
BooksDon DeLillo’s Prescient ‘Underworld’, by Michiko Kakutani
BooksPauline Kael’s ‘Hooked’ a Worthy Beach Read, by Dwight Garner
DanceAlways Moving, Always Frozen, by Alastair Macaulay
Movies‘The Tree of Life’ – Authority From God to Dad, by Stephen Holden
MoviesA Few Hours of ‘Zazie Dans le Métro’, by A.O. Scott
MoviesA House Tour for Cinephiles, by Manohla Dargis
Music Ivan Fischer’s Double Duty in ‘Don Giovanni’, by Anthony Tommasini
MusicVisiting the Original Birdland, by Ben Ratliff
MusicTom Zé, a Brazilian Force of One, by Jon Pareles
MusicRiding in Cars With Music, by Jon Caramanica
MusicFestival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood, by Allan Kozinn
Television ‘The Killing,’ Perfect for Dark Skies, by Ginia Bellafante
Television‘Prime Suspect’: Returning to the Source, by Alessandra Stanley
TheaterTheatrical Beauty in ‘Alexander McQueen – Savage Beauty’, by Charles Isherwood
Theater‘Bluebird’ – Taxi Fare for the Uncommon Man, by Ben Brantley
What did you make special time to do, or what are you looking forward to? Share your summer must-do activity here.