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Tara Donovan
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Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws and uses the material... View details »
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Extreme Embroidery
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Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Museum of Art and Design
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Following the success of its Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibition, the Museum of Arts and Design again draws glares from grandmas everywhere with Pricked:... View details »
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Francis Alÿs
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Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (1–4pm) @ Hispanic Society of America
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While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year collaboration. The first showcase... View details »
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Martin Puryear
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Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA
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On the heels of Richard Serra's steel behemoths comes MoMA's full-scale retrospective of the great American sculptor Martin Puryear, who works with wood using the... View details »
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Making a Home
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Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Japan Society
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Though New York's Japan Society hosts only two exhibitions a year, they're reliably terrific. This fall, young curator Eric C. Shiner presents a show of... View details »
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Paul McCarthy
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Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (noon–8pm) @ Maccarone Gallery
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LA performance artist Paul McCarthy has lathered himself with condiments, crammed his orifices full of hot dogs, and positioned inflatable, phallus-for-nose sculptures in front of... View details »
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Kara Walker
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Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art
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Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" earlier this year — sparks a tense dialogue... View details »
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Keith Edmier
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Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (1–5pm) @ CCS Bard Hessel Museum
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Sculptor Keith Edmier learned his trade in a Tinseltown special-effects studio; like Oscar-winning films, Edmier's meticulous sculptures traffic in grandiose sentimentality, making them a cathartic... View details »
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Sprinkle Brigade
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Sunday Dec 23, 2007 @ Riviera
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Addressing the problem of unattended doggy doo on city sidewalks, Sprinkle Brigade began its own twist on urban beautification. By adding plastic toys, mini placards,... View details »
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Gert & Uwe Tobias
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Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA
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The colorful woodcuts of Gert and Uwe Tobias are the stuff of Grimm fairy tales — narrow paths worn through the woods, ominous mountain ranges,... View details »
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Lawrence Weiner
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Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art
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Wordsmith/conceptualist Lawrence Weiner is best known for all the things he doesn't do with his visually ascetic artwork. In his gigantic, often blocky slogans, tagged... View details »
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Banksy Does New York
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Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Vanina Holasek Gallery
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Having successfully snuck his work into museums in New York and London and fetched close to a million dollars from the sales of under a... View details »
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Beth Campbell
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Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art
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In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in New York with her installations of two identical, but otherwise nondescript, bedrooms. While there was nothing... View details »
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Lucian Freud
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Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA
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Known for mountainous, fleshy portraits, like the painting of Leigh Bowery's backside at the Met, Lucian Freud (grandson of Sigmund) seemingly paints with a chisel,... View details »
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Salvador Dalí
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Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ William Bennett Gallery
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If your knowledge of Salvador Dalí stops at melting clocks, head to Soho's Bennett Gallery, which exhibits two divine collections that focus on the more... View details »
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The Streets of Europe
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Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Jonathan Levine Gallery
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The recent success of street-art group shows 11 Spring Street Project (NYC) and Urban Grassroots (Berlin) has raised interest in graffiti, and put... View details »
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Behind the Seen
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Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (1–8pm) @ Ad Hoc Art
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Michael de Feo (best known as the "flower guy") wants the world to know that street art ain't all aerosol and running from the vice... View details »
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Jaishri Abichandani
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Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Queens Museum of Art
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Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to Queens when she was 14 and has since become both an accomplished curator and a practicing... View details »
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Unmonumental
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Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
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The new New Museum inaugurates its faux-gritty emporium with three-part exhibition Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century. An ace curatorial squad brings together 30... View details »
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Marvin Franklin
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Sunday Dec 23, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ New York Transit Museum
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Marvin Franklin spent more than two decades of his life working as a night-shift track inspector for the MTA. This may not seem like a... View details »
