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- Music: Electronic
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The Quavers
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Sunday Jan 27 (7pm) @ Barbès
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Just because it uses samplers, tape decks, found audio, and vibraphones doesn't mean the Quavers' music is all beeps, boops, and hissing. The experimental band... View details »
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- Art
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Tara Donovan
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Sunday Jan 27 (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 Jan 27 (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 Jan 27 (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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Kara Walker
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Sunday Jan 27 (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 »
- Getaway
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Keith Edmier
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Sunday Jan 27 (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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Outsider Art Fair
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Sunday Jan 27 (11am–7pm) @ 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 »
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Gert & Uwe Tobias
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Sunday Jan 27 (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 Jan 27 (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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Beth Campbell
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Sunday Jan 27 (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 Jan 27 (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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Jaishri Abichandani
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Sunday Jan 27 (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 Jan 27 (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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Lee Friedlander
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Sunday Jan 27 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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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Jan de Cock
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Sunday Jan 27 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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North
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Sunday Jan 27 (5:30pm) @ 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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Sunday Jan 27 (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 »
- Film: Documentary
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DOC
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Sunday Jan 27 (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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Sunday Jan 27 (3pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
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Archive Fever
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Sunday Jan 27 @ 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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Sunday Jan 27 (11am–6pm) @ 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 »
