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Adrian Tomine
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 »
Adrian Tomine

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Tara Donovan
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
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 »
Tara Donovan
Art: Architecture/Design
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Having won the 1401 door-design competition for Florence's Battistero di San Giovanni's (Baptistry of St. John) northern portal, native Florentine Lorenzo Ghiberti ushered in the... View details »
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
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Kurt Kauper
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
Free
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 »
Kurt Kauper
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Extreme Embroidery
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Museum of Art and Design More times »
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 »
Extreme Embroidery
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Bridget Riley
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times »
Free
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 »
Bridget Riley
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Liz Craft
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Marianne Boesky Gallery More times »
Free
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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Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now is... View details »
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
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New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
With New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006, MoMA rolls out more than 200 recently acquired works by Latin American artists, many of whom —... View details »
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
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Francis Alÿs
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10am–4pm) @ Hispanic Society of America More times »
Free
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 »
Francis Alÿs
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P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
P.S.1 curators have devised the best way to watch (or skim) all 15 hours and 39 minutes of Rainer... View details »
P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions
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Martin Puryear
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
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 »
Martin Puryear
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Making a Home
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Japan Society More times »
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 »
Making a Home
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Richard Prince: Spiritual America
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times »
Richard Prince's re-photographed pictures of fashion models, luxury goods, and cowboys — culled from advertisements in national magazines — set off a firestorm debate about... View details »
Richard Prince: Spiritual America
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Paul McCarthy
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (noon–8pm) @ Maccarone Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Paul McCarthy
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Infinite Island
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art More times »
The Brooklyn Museum's exhibition of contemporary Caribbean art gathers works from 14 diverse nations. Western... View details »
Infinite Island
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Kara Walker
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
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 »
Kara Walker
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Sprinkle Brigade
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 @ Riviera More times »
Free
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 »
Sprinkle Brigade
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Charles Ray
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Charles Ray
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Gert & Uwe Tobias
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
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 »
Gert & Uwe Tobias
Art: Photography
Francesca Woodman
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Marian Goodman Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Francesca Woodman
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Mariko Mori
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
Free
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 »
Mariko Mori
Art: Photography
Thomas Ruff
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
Free
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 »
Thomas Ruff
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Jason Rhoades
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
Free
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 »
Jason Rhoades
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Bari Kumar
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Bose Pacia Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Bari Kumar
Art: Architecture/Design
Luv-able and Hug-able
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (1–6pm) @ gallery hanahou More times »
Free
In the place where cockeyed monsters do battle with grumpy tomatoes and gold-lamé hearts rule, Soho's illustrator-friendly gallery hanahou brings in the things we love... View details »
Luv-able and Hug-able
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Lawrence Weiner
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
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 »
Lawrence Weiner
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White Columns Annual
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ White Columns More times »
Free
2007 isn't over yet, but Chelsea arts org White Columns gets the first word on the highlights. If you didn't make it to Chelsea enough... View details »
White Columns Annual
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Cy Twombly
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Gagosian Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Cy Twombly
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Banksy Does New York
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Vanina Holasek Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Banksy Does New York
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Beth Campbell
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
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 »
Beth Campbell
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Do-Ho Suh
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Lehmann Maupin More times »
Free
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 »
Do-Ho Suh
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The Streets of Europe
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Jonathan Levine Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
The Streets of Europe
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Unmonumental
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
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 »
Unmonumental