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Katy Grannan
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Friday Jan 11 (11am–6pm) @ Salon 94 Freemans
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Katy Grannan's series Lady into Fox at Salon 94 Freemans depicts a pair of middle-aged transsexuals, Gail and Dale, living their lives as females on... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Derrick May
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Friday Jan 11 (10pm) @ Pacha New York
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For the dance-music-minded in New York, underground, smaller-room affairs are often the norm. But on occasion, an epic night out is in order, and this... View details »
- Music: Global
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Luminescent Orchestrii
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Friday Jan 11 (11pm) @ The Living Room
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The new traditionalists of the klezmer revival, Luminescent Orchestrii — a "small ensemble with orchestral intent" — play a danceable and/or sultry miscellany of gypsy/tango/klezmer/punk,... View details »
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Excepter
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Friday Jan 11 (11:30pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
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Like Black Dice and Animal Collective before them, Brooklyn noiseniks Excepter have risen above the dark, basement-bound masses by tempering their noise-rock ethos with (relatively)... View details »
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Hans Haacke
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Friday Jan 11 (10am–6pm) @ Paula Cooper Gallery
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The venerable Paula Cooper hosts a miniretrospective of Hans Haacke. Haacke was an early practitioner of "institutional critique," an offshoot of conceptual art that applied... View details »
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The Masked Portrait
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Friday Jan 11 (10am–6pm) @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
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The Masked Portrait is a snapshot of postwar Japanese art, featuring work by 30 artists from the late '40s to the present. Curator Midori Nishizawa... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Dawoud Bey
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Friday Jan 11 (10am–6pm) @ Aperture Gallery
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Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey's series Class Pictures depicts teenagers from a high school on Chicago's South Side, a New England prep school, and classrooms in... View details »
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Tara Donovan
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Friday Jan 11 (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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Extreme Embroidery
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Friday Jan 11 (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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Friday Jan 11 (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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Friday Jan 11 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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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Friday Jan 11 (11am–9pm) @ 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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Kara Walker
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Friday Jan 11 (1–9pm) @ 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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Friday Jan 11 (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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Charles Ray
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Friday Jan 11 (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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Friday Jan 11 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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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Jason Rhoades
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Friday Jan 11 (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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Lawrence Weiner
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Friday Jan 11 (1–9pm) @ 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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Beth Campbell
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Friday Jan 11 (1–9pm) @ 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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Friday Jan 11 (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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Do-Ho Suh
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Friday Jan 11 (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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Superamas
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Friday Jan 11 (8pm) @ The Kitchen
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French Austrian collective Superamas concludes its epic satirical trilogy on contemporary capitalism and commercial culture with BIG, 3rd episode (happy/end). The troupe uses a fast-paced... View details »
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Jaishri Abichandani
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Friday Jan 11 (10am–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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Friday Jan 11 (noon–10pm) @ 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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AA Bronson
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Friday Jan 11 (10am–6pm) @ John Connelly Presents
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Godfather to queer artists everywhere, AA Bronson has made all varieties of artworks during his decades-long practice, focusing on a poetic obsession with the profundity... View details »
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Santiago Cucullu
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Friday Jan 11 (10am–6pm) @ Perry Rubenstein Gallery
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Argentinean artist Santiago Cucullu's chaotic cut-out vinyl works dominate gallery walls and museum hallways wherever they're shown. At one of Perry Rubenstein's two small 24th... View details »
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Michael Bell-Smith
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Friday Jan 11 (11am–6pm) @ Foxy Production
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Even with all the new technology available, the grand arc of Western art continue to hold sway over young artists. Michael Bell-Smith's conceptual animations deal... View details »
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Diana Thater
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Friday Jan 11 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner
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Taking her cue from W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming," Diana Thater presents a two-room video installation depicting the bond between falconers and their falcons. Set... View details »
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Donelle Woolford
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Friday Jan 11 (11am–6pm) @ Wallspace
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Donelle Woolford is a young African-American artist, currently living and working in Harlem, who fashions handsome, cubist-inspired assemblages from lumber scraps. At Wallspace Gallery, Woolford... View details »
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And Who Are You?
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Friday Jan 11 (11am–6pm) @ Sara Tecchia Roma
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Saatchi's online gallery boasts 50 million daily hits in the US alone. Now, young curator Ana Finel Honigman has pulled together 11 artists from the... View details »
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Otto Preminger
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Friday Jan 11 @ Film Forum
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Director Otto Preminger was a Jewish refugee of Austrian origin whose unflinching independence led to innovations in both storytelling and social awareness — often at... View details »
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Nordic Oscar Contenders
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Friday Jan 11 (6:30pm) @ Scandinavia House
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The American-Scandinavian Association presents a series of exclusive sneak peeks at the best films from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, all competing in the... View details »
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Marvin Franklin
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Friday Jan 11 (10am–4pm) @ 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 »
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New Prints: Winter 2008
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Friday Jan 11 (11am–6pm) @ International Print Center New York
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Elevating fine-art printing beyond the standard three-color poster, the International Print Center's new-season highlights include rodent-infested Victorian wallpaper, silhouettes of million-dollar homes, battle scenes with... View details »
