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Adrian Tomine
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (6:30–10pm) @ Giant Robot New York
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On the heels of the phenomenal success of Shortcomings, recently named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Giant Robot gallery hosts... View details »
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Handmade Holiday
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (noon–8pm) @ 3rd Ward
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Home to local artists, artisans, and hobbyists, 3rd Ward has decided to open its doors to potential members while showcasing work from current ones busily... View details »
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SantaCon
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (9am–9pm) @ Various locations
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With Black Friday and Cyber Monday behind us, it's time to rejoice in the true spirit of the season: St. Nick's seedy underbelly. Since 1994,... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Major Stars w/ Sightings
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (8:30pm) @ Mercury Lounge
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Sightings have been wreaking sonic mayhem and ripping rock a new one for the past five years with their deconstructionist noise punk. One-man ear-annihilator Prurient... View details »
- Music: DJ
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FIXED feat. Tiefschwarz
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10pm–4am) @ Studio B
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Berlin-based brothers Ali and Basti Schwarz bring the twisted, hedonistic spirit of their home city to NYC. Keep your ears open for their killer restyling... View details »
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Tara Donovan
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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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Kurt Kauper
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects
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Kurt Kauper loves to wonder why the male nude continues to provoke such discomfort and controversy when the female nude is all but synonymous with... View details »
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Extreme Embroidery
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Saturday Dec 8, 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 Art and Design once again draws glares from grandmas everywhere. In... View details »
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Bridget Riley
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein
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In the mid-'60s, Time magazine's review of a MoMA exhibition brought the term "op art" into the public consciousness; since then, modernism's first fun art... View details »
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Liz Craft
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
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With her inclusion in the Hammer Museum's Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists, sculptor Liz Craft was crowned one of the most LA of LA artists.... View details »
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Francis Alÿs
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10am–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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Saturday Dec 8, 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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Saturday Dec 8, 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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Saturday Dec 8, 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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Saturday Dec 8, 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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Saturday Dec 8, 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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Saturday Dec 8, 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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Charles Ray
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Matthew Marks Gallery
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The most influential sculptors in contemporary art aren't the formal purists of MoMA's recent exhibitions (Serra and Puryear), they're a coterie of LA-based humorists whose... View details »
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Gert & Uwe Tobias
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Saturday Dec 8, 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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Francesca Woodman
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Marian Goodman Gallery
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Francesca Woodman's evocative black-and-white photographs garner acclaim among popular audiences and feminist scholars alike. In this exhibition at Marian Goodman, 40-odd images represent the major... View details »
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Mariko Mori
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects
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Like many visionaries, Mariko Mori combines the ancient with the futuristic in her fantastical sculptures. At Deitch Projects, Mori presents three new works, including the... View details »
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Thomas Ruff
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner
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The cheat-sheet on Thomas Ruff goes like this: a student of the austere photographer-duo Bernd and Hilla Becher in Düsseldorf; contemporary of those other large-format... View details »
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Jason Rhoades
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner
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The late Jason Rhoades was out of control in the best and worst ways, often at the same time. Rumor has it that before he... View details »
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Bari Kumar
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Bose Pacia Gallery
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Painter Bari Kumar lives and works in Los Angeles but is, literally and figuratively speaking, a dweller in the wide world. He will show a... View details »
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Lawrence Weiner
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Saturday Dec 8, 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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Cy Twombly
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Gagosian Gallery
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This summer, police arrested a woman for kissing and leaving a red lipstick stain on one of American artist Cy Twombly's works. View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Chekhov's Chicks
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (8pm) @ Manhattan Theatre Source
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Turn-of-the-century Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's plays are notable for their intricately rendered female characters, none of whom have it easy. Elizabeth Rosengren's Chekhov's Chicks re-envisions... View details »
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Banksy Does New York
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Saturday Dec 8, 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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Saturday Dec 8, 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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Do-Ho Suh
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Lehmann Maupin
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Korean artist Do Ho Suh inaugurates Lehmann Maupin's new Chrystie Street space — located in the shadow of the new New Museum — with a... View details »
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The Streets of Europe
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Saturday Dec 8, 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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Slam Show X
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Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (3 & 7pm) @ Streb Lab for Action Mechanics
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Perhaps pigs can't fly, but humans sure can — or at least those in Elizabeth Streb's antigravitational dance company, STREB. Twice a year,... View details »
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Unmonumental
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Saturday Dec 8, 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 »
