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Outsider Art Fair
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Friday Jan 25 (11am–8pm) @ Puck Building Ballroom
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The Outsider Art Fair hosts dozens of international galleries who specialize in this nebulous genre, which encompasses art brut, folk art, visionary art, intuitive art,... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Super Furry Animals
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Friday Jan 25 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
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Despite the continual resurgence of all things "psychedelic," no one can accuse Super Furry Animals of simply hopping aboard the wavy-gravy train. For years, the... View details »
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Ursula 1000
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Friday Jan 25 (10pm) @ APT
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Thievery Corp's ESL record label signed Ursula 1000 back in '99 for his bouncing breakbeats and mult-culti mix-ups of genres ranging from hip-hop to house... View details »
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Adam Matta: Beatbox Drift
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Friday Jan 25 (7pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
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With his world-class beatboxing and sampling skills, Adam Matta is a master of repurposing the music of the city. Tonight's show includes "Underground," a blues-trance... View details »
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Tara Donovan
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Friday Jan 25 (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 25 (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 25 (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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Kara Walker
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Friday Jan 25 (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 25 (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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Gert & Uwe Tobias
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Friday Jan 25 (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 25 (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 25 (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 25 (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 25 (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 25 (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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Jaishri Abichandani
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Friday Jan 25 (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 25 (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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Dan Perjovschi
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Friday Jan 25 (10am–6pm) @ Lombard-Freid Gallery
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Dan Perjovschi recently took over one of MoMA's massive interior-courtyard walls. Working on a mechanical lift during open hours, the Romanian artist covered several building... View details »
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Lee Friedlander
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Friday Jan 25 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Lee Friedlander made his name wandering across the US in the '50s and '60s, taking pictures of motel television sets, shop window reflections, and odd... View details »
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AA Bronson
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Friday Jan 25 (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 25 (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 25 (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 25 (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 25 (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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Katy Grannan
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Friday Jan 25 (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 »
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Luis Gispert
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Friday Jan 25 (10am–6pm) @ Zach Feuer Gallery
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Miami-born artist Luis Gispert takes over West 24th Street with works in film, sculpture, and photography. At Zach Feuer, the artist mounts a series of... View details »
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Anne Collier
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Friday Jan 25 (10am–6pm) @ Anton Kern Gallery
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It takes more than a first glance at Anne Collier's photographs to understand what you're looking at. Books, magazines, and other media sit upon neutral,... View details »
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Shirin Neshat
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Friday Jan 25 (10am–6pm) @ Gladstone Gallery
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Iran-born, US-educated photographer Shirin Neshat takes stirring, subversive pictures of Muslim women, forcefully engaging the troubling boundaries that separate men and women, Islam and secularism,... View details »
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Mark Bradford
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Friday Jan 25 (10am–6pm) @ Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
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Mark Bradford scours LA, collecting the billboard advertisements that make up his massive paper collages. Bradford layers the posters on top of one another and... View details »
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Jan de Cock
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Friday Jan 25 (10:30am–8pm) @ MoMA
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A relentless photographer and image archiver, Jan de Cock collects his findings in hefty books dubbed denkmals (German for "monument"). The Belgian artist brings his... View details »
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And Who Are You?
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Friday Jan 25 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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North
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Friday Jan 25 (10pm) @ La MaMa E.T.C.
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For her performance piece North, Heather Christian dresses her "tiny orchestra," the Arbornauts, in all white, creating an otherworldly, tabula rasa-like effect. While an airplane-flight... View details »
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Marvin Franklin
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Friday Jan 25 (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 25 (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 »
- Film: Documentary
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DOC
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Friday Jan 25 (1:15, 3:15, 6, 8 & 10pm) @ Film Forum
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Pronounced by Norman Mailer as "more intellectually arrogant than me," Harold L. "Doc" Humes hit the ground running in the late '50s, ripping out incendiary... View details »
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Grace
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Friday Jan 25 (8pm) @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
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Playwright Mick Gordon calls his plays "theatre essays" because they analyze a specific subject in hand, while portraying the lives of real people. On Religion,... View details »
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Archive Fever
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Friday Jan 25 @ International Center of Photography
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Exploring identity and memory through archived imagery, curator Okwui Enwezor has collected over 20 artists to explore the often formal institution with a creative eye.... View details »
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Irving Penn
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Friday Jan 25 (10:30am–9pm) @ The Morgan Library
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Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is best known for iconic,... View details »
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Hans Haacke
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Friday Jan 25 (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 25 (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 »
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The Sartorialist
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Friday Jan 25 (11am–6pm) @ Danziger Projects
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Scott Schuman is the August Sander of contemporary cool. Usually known by his blog handle, "the Sartorialist," the fashion photographer captures everyday fashionistas in their... View details »
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Dawoud Bey
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Friday Jan 25 (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 »
