These are, of course, the "intellectual with a capital I" films that audiences might expect at a religious-theme retrospective organized by a major museum.
The traveling retrospective "William Kentridge: Five Themes," which opened at the Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday, illustrates the process repeatedly, as well as Mr. Kentridge's abiding interest in acoustic impressions of all kinds.
The show, in which she is accompanied by Billy Stritch on piano, Tom Hubbard on bass and Jim Eklof on drums, is a career retrospective with a spring theme.
Straying a bit from the mnemonic theme, a retrospective of the dystopian works of H. R. Giger, creator of the title creature of Ridley Scott's "Alien," will explore the uncertain relationship between man and machine.
Whereas traditional retrospectives explore an artist's oeuvre linearly, each floor of Pettibon's retrospective represents a different theme.
In CBS's Sunday Morning retrospective on Woodstock, the theme came through that the 'spirit' of that memorable event lives on in our children at outdoor rock concerts across the land.
(Its development from geometric to organic, which Ms. Chicago began in the mid-1960's, will be one of the themes of the retrospective of her career, which opens next month at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington).
The photographer Carrie Mae Weems makes this the propelling theme of an extraordinary retrospective, encompassing three decades of African-American life, that arrives at the Guggenheim on Jan . 24
Invincible female self-possession is a central theme of the joint retrospective that opens in May at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada: Impossible Conversations".
The rise of comorbidity with increasing age is a theme common to most retrospective studies of comorbidity.
