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Jean Dubuffet
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Friday Oct 10 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein
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Before he was a sculptor, Jean Dubuffet sickened Parisians by making impasto oil paintings in a rough style he called "art brut" (which involved mixing... View details »
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Lola Montes
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Friday Oct 10 (1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 & 10pm) @ Film Forum
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With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montes, netted a touch-up. In... View details »
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The Genretron
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Friday Oct 10 (6–8pm) @ Winkleman Gallery
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In 17th-century Holland, art enthusiasts from the taverns of Delft to the aristocratic households of the Hague spoke highly of the Chadwicks. The British family... View details »
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Next Level
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Friday Oct 10 (7:30pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
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Once upon a time, computer games were the domain of children and uber-nerds, but the proliferation of technology in the last decade has blurred the... View details »
- Film
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Happy-Go-Lucky
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Friday Oct 10 @ Landmark Sunshine
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British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but he truly excels when... View details »
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Nerd Nite
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Friday Oct 10 (8pm) @ Galapagos Art Space
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Long-running lecture series Nerd Nite upgrades its digs from a cramped East Village bar to new DUMBO hot spot Galapagos, complete with a 1,200-square-foot moat... View details »
- Music: DJ
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MSTRKRFT
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Friday Oct 10 (11pm) @ Webster Hall
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As MSTRKRFT, producer ALP and former Death from Above 1979 bassist Jesse F. Keeler have become one of indie dance music's go-to remix teams. Retooling... View details »
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Gowanus Harvest Festival
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Saturday Oct 11 (11am–9pm) @ The Yard
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The Gowanus Harvest Festival brings the farm to Brooklyn's famously industrial canal. Besides locally produced apples, pickles, cheeses (from Saxelby!), breads, and brews (Sixpoint), you... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Olaf Breuning
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Saturday Oct 11 (6–8pm) @ Metro Pictures
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Swiss artist Olaf Breuning's work is wonderfully funny, co-opting the bright neon colors of contemporary art and the artificial conceit of pop culture. His newest... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Against Me!
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Saturday Oct 11 (6pm) @ Webster Hall
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The punk-rock landscape encompasses everything from radical politics and DIY culture to abrasive antics and self-mutilation, and Against Me!'s current tour is a microcosm of... View details »
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Stas Orlovski
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Saturday Oct 11 (6–8pm) @ Mixed Greens
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One of LA's most unrepentant romantics, Stas Orlovski borrows liberally from art, poetry, and literature; from observation and fantasy; and from painting, drawing, and collage... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Killing Joke
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Saturday Oct 11 (9pm) @ Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza
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One of post-punk's thorniest acts, Killing Joke, return after a long silence for two abrasive nights in New York. Show number one includes back-to-back performances... View details »
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DJ Z-Trip
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Saturday Oct 11 (10pm) @ Santos Party House
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Mashups are soooo 2001. Now that every Serato-toting DJ has figured out how to drop T-Pain a cappellas on top of Steve Miller riffs, these... View details »
- Reading
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Dmitry Bykov
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Sunday Oct 12 (1:30pm) @ Brooklyn Public Library
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For Dmitry Bykov, writing and offending people go hand in hand. Since the early '90s, the Russian poet, novelist, journalist, and cultural savant has practically... View details »
- Film: Shorts
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Bike Shorts 7
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Sunday Oct 12 (7pm) @ Solar One
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Tonight, Manhattan alt-energy axis Solar One hosts the seventh go-around of Bike Shorts. Planted alongside the whirligig that is FDR Drive, the environmental venue is... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Baby BOO
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Sunday Oct 12 (8pm) @ Studio B
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Dust off your UFOs, visors, and pacifiers: just in time for Halloween, old-school rave-promotion team Stuck on Earth returns from the blissed-out, all-nighter dead for... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Les Savy Fav
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Sunday Oct 12 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
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Is that a bonfire in your solar plexus or just the burning desire for a good post-hardcore pummeling? Whatever it is, best grab your vitals... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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The Notwist
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Monday Oct 13 (8pm) @ Webster Hall
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After nearly five years of silence, everyone's favorite German-bred electro-acoustic outfit makes its way back to America. On this year's The Devil, You + Me,... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Love Is All
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Monday Oct 13 (8:30pm) @ Maxwell's
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Swedish quartet Love Is All's sassed-up, echo-drenched indie anthems backdrop a seedy nighttime landscape where hearts are broached and broken like so many whispered secrets.... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Yelle
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Tuesday Oct 14 (7pm) @ Webster Hall
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Taking cues from Cindy Lauper, Julie Budet (aka Yelle) has been kicking up her heels in a series of delicious, '80s-inspired dance anthems. A firebrand... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Jonathan Richman
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Tuesday Oct 14 (8pm) @ Society for Ethical Culture Concert Hall
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Massachusetts-bred Jonathan Richman has been dropping controversial vinyl bombs since the early '70s. Co-founder of the legendary Modern Lovers (1970-74), the one-man Vienna Boys' Choir... View details »
- Music: Experimental
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Journey West
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Tuesday Oct 14 (8:30pm) @ Monkey Town
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Verdun — the only electronic act we know of named after a WWI battle — travels the Silk Road tonight, hand-in-hand with ambient Brooklyn foursome... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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Jamie Lidell
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Tuesday Oct 14 (9pm) @ Highline Ballroom
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Warp Records' bionic crooner Jamie Lidell first broke on the electro scene with 2005's Multiply. Touted as a brilliant, oddball homage to Motown, Lidell only... View details »
- Reading
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A Celebration of Weird Tales
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Wednesday Oct 15 (7pm) @ KGB Bar
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Weird Tales, which describes itself as "the original magazine of the unique, fantastic, and bizarre," published science-fiction giants such as H.P. Lovecraft and Ray Bradbury.... View details »
- Reading
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A Night at the Office
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Wednesday Oct 15 (7pm) @ Symphony Space
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Cubicle-loads of run-of-the-mill office situations have been repackaged into laugh-out-loud entertainment recently — from monkey-as-moneymaker commercials to the caricatures of Dilbert, from The Office to... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Woyzeck
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Wednesday Oct 15 (7:30pm) @ BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
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Iceland's art is nothing if not distinctive. Our Nordic (sort of) neighbors are represented at BAM's Next Wave Festival with a wildly staged, radically designed... View details »
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Drink-N-Draw
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Wednesday Oct 15 (8–10:30pm) @ 3rd Ward
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Thanks to the ever-playful folks at 3rd Ward, nudity and inebriation combine to deliver an uncommon cure for the midweek blues. Every other Wednesday, the... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
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Sunn O)))
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Wednesday Oct 15 (8pm) @ Knitting Factory
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Named after a rare amplifier favored by the Melvins, Sunn O))) play impossibly loud drone metal. The duo dons black robes, cranks up its equipment,... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Ra Ra Riot
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Thursday Oct 16 (8pm) @ Bowery Ballroom
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Following the untimely death of drummer John Pike last summer, fans of Syracuse's Ra Ra Riot feared that the band might not survive the tragedy.... View details »
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free103point9 Festival
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Thursday Oct 16 (8pm) @ Ontological Theater at St. Mark's Church
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Nonprofit arts organization free103point9 preps an audio feast with its radio-themed smorgasbord of avant-garde rock music, theatre, poetry, and artist presentations. Highlights include appearances from... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Diplo
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Thursday Oct 16 (8pm) @ Webster Hall
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Known to most as the beatsmith behind M.I.A.'s mixtape heard 'round the world, Piracy Funds Terrorism, Diplo has proven to be one of the most... View details »
- Film
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Evita Sing-Along
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Friday Oct 17 (midnight) @ Landmark Sunshine
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Like the swallows of Capistrano, critics always return to Evita as Madonna's one Hollywood highlight. As the Material Girl's directorial debut Filth and Wisdom (starring... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Nick Lowe
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Friday Oct 17 (8:30pm) @ Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
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Nick Lowe is one of power pop's original architects, long known for his association with Elvis Costello — he produced the spectacled singer's debut album,... View details »
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Home Movie Day
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Saturday Oct 18 (midnight–6am) @ Anthology Film Archives
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In honor of Home Movie Day, Anthology offers up its projectors to the Great Unwatched Masses. From hermetic auteurs to film-school stylists, everyone can take... View details »
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New York Cares
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Saturday Oct 18 (9:30am–3:30pm) @ Various locations
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Get down and dirty today with an all-day volunteer extravaganza for the kids: paint playgrounds and classrooms, plant flowers, and organize libraries at more than... View details »
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Zombiecon
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Saturday Oct 18 @ Various locations
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During the fourth-annual flash-mob of horror known as Zombiecon, an undead army roams Manhattan in search of gray matter, Bloody Marys, and the latest fashion... View details »
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Vendy Awards
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Saturday Oct 18 (3–7pm) @ Tobacco Warehouse
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New York has such mind-blowingly good (not to mention exotic) food available right on the street, it's a wonder that any of us ever sets... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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The Juan Maclean
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Saturday Oct 18 (9pm) @ Bowery Ballroom
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Shining, euphoric, and playful, the Juan Maclean's 2005 debut album, Less than Human, was one part Buddha-like spiritual bliss and one part Euro-inspired disco —... View details »
- Reading
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Joseph O'Neill: Netherland
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Sunday Oct 19 (7pm) @ KGB Bar
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Irish-born, Netherlands-bred novelist Joseph O'Neill recently garnered stellar reviews for his third novel Netherland; it's been touted as The Great Gatsby of our time by... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Shearwater
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Monday Oct 20 (7:30pm) @ (le) poisson rouge
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After opening for Coldplay on a few gargantuan dates this summer, Austin's Shearwater now settle in for a decidedly more intimate set at Poisson Rouge.... View details »
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Perverted by Theater
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Wednesday Oct 22 (6–8pm) @ Apex Art
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In the '60s, art critic Michael Fried claimed theatre was profoundly hostile to visual art. Curators Franklin Evans and Paul David Young mock his thesis,... View details »
- Film
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Rosemary's Baby (1968)
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Friday Oct 31 (1:30, 4:10, 7 & 9:35pm) @ Film Forum
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In a bit of inspired programming, Film Forum screens Roman Polanski's dad-might-be-the-devil classic on All Saint's Day. Mia Farrow stars as Rosemary, the wide-eyed half... View details »
- Halloween
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E.V.E. Project
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Friday Oct 31 (7pm) @ Silent Barn
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Artist Nate Hill doesn't mince words — but materials are a different matter. Tonight, the self-anointed G.O.A.T and God (of his own universe) unleashes his... View details »
- Halloween
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Todd P Halloween Bash
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Friday Oct 31 (8pm) @ Danbro Studios Warehouse
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In honor of the year's scariest day, Brooklyn scene-maker Todd P and booking dynamo Panache have brought together a lineup of both frightening (AIDS Wolf)... View details »
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Junot Díaz
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Saturday Nov 1 (4pm) @ Brooklyn Public Library
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As part of the series Cosmopolis: Immigrant Writers in New York, WNYC's Leonard Lopate hosts a discussion with critically acclaimed author Junot Díaz at the... View details »
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Martín Ramírez
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Friday Oct 10 (11am–6pm) @ Ricco Maresca Gallery
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In 1931, Fresno police arrested a Mexican immigrant named Martín Ramírez for vagrancy: he was out of work in the Depression-era economy and cut off... View details »
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The Outsiders
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Friday Oct 10 (11am–7pm) @ Lazarides Gallery NYC
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Love children of the UK's infamous YBA, a host of British artists swarm New York for a two-week show of guerrilla wheatpasting, collage, stencil, and... View details »
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Four Color Sound
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Friday Oct 10 (10am–6pm) @ The Project
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Following in the synesthetic footsteps of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Olafur Eliasson, electronic musician and audio artist Stephen Vitiello transforms Project into a... View details »
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Jeff Koons on the Roof
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Friday Oct 10 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man who once scandalized the... View details »
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Mister Foe
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Friday Oct 10 @ Angelika Film Center
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Seventeen-year-old Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is a troubled lad. Clad in warpaint and animal furs, he prowls around his family's enormous Scottish estate, spying on... View details »
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The Wackness
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Friday Oct 10 @ Various locations
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The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
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Tell No One
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Friday Oct 10 @ Various locations
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Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has never gotten over the... View details »
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Battle in Seattle
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Friday Oct 10 @ Various locations
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In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political agenda. Most protest films... View details »
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William Pope.L
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Friday Oct 10 (10am–6pm) @ Mitchell-Innes & Nash
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In 2002, at NYC's Battery Park, William Pope.L donned his Superman costume and set out on a 22-mile belly crawl through the city, titled The... View details »
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Towelhead
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Friday Oct 10 @ Various locations
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It's hard to imagine how director/writer Alan Ball managed to pitch Towelhead. Jasira (Summer Bishil) is a 13-year-old Arab-American girl stranded in the Texas suburbs... View details »
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Bottle Shock
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Friday Oct 10 @ Various locations
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In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including one made by small... View details »
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Gilbert & George
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Friday Oct 10 (10am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In 1970, the pair painted... View details »
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Sol LeWitt
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Friday Oct 10 (11am–5:30pm) @ Storm King Art Center
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In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere, but the scribbled preparatory... View details »
