One has to marvel at the impressive marketing savvy of the four galleries who pooled their resources and p.r., invited four artists from their respective stables to choose favorite works from the galleries' collective inventories, then asked each artist to curate a group show for the gallery that represents them. Artistic talent does not necessarily translate to curatorial aptitude, but the results are interesting enough to warrant a look-see at the brainchild entitled They Knew What They Wanted, a collaborative production of the Fraenkel, Altman Siegel, John Berggruen and Ratio 3 galleries. It's a clever way to generate buzz during the summer, a season that can be a lethargic one for galleries. (read more)

In Sally Potter's ambitious 1992 film adaptation of Virginia Woolf's comic novel Orlando now enjoying a limited re-release, Tilda Swinton inhabits a title character whose androgynous beauty as a fawnlike boy so charms an aging Queen Elizabeth I – a real casting coup as the late, incomparable Quentin Crisp truly nails the gender divide embodied by the great queen – that the monarch grants him immortality. "Do not fade, Orlando, do not grow old!" (read more)