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- Music: Jazz/Blues
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Lonnie Smith Trio
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Friday Jan 4 @ Iridium Jazz Club
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Eccentric, turban-wearing organist Dr. Lonnie Smith has a joy for creating music unmatched in the jazz world. Smith began playing the Hammond B3 as soon... View details »
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L'Âge d'or
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Friday Jan 4 (7:30pm) @ Anthology Film Archives
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Luis Buñuel's surrealist masterpiece L'Âge d'or so incensed the French right-wing movement when it was first shown in 1930 that, one night, fascist sympathizers rioted,... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Jamie Stewart
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Friday Jan 4 (8pm) @ Lutheran Church of the Messiah
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Fronting the most disturbingly skewed avant-pop act in a mule's age would turn any man into a bit of a monster. But, for all his... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Bear Hands
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Friday Jan 4 (8pm) @ Cake Shop
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We've said this before, but we never say it lightly: if you're craving a jump on the Next Big Thing, tonight's bill is the One.... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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The XYZ Affair
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Friday Jan 4 (8:30pm) @ Mercury Lounge
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... ile tonight's audience probably won't feature the stellar '90s-flashback cameos of the XYZ Affair's vid for "All My Friends" (yes, that is Double Dare's... View details »
- Art
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El Anatsui
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Friday Jan 4 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Shainman Gallery
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2007 Venice Biennale standout El Anatsui draws on his Ghanaian heritage in this collection, forming bottle tops into a singularly pliable material for his drape-like,... View details »
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Tara Donovan
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Friday Jan 4 (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 4 (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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Bridget Riley
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Friday Jan 4 (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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Francis Alÿs
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Friday Jan 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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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Francesca Woodman
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Friday Jan 4 (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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Jason Rhoades
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Friday Jan 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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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Salvador Dalí
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Friday Jan 4 (11am–7pm) @ William Bennett Gallery
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If your knowledge of Salvador Dalí stops at melting clocks, head to Soho's Bennett Gallery, which exhibits two divine collections that focus on the more... View details »
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Jaishri Abichandani
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Friday Jan 4 (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 4 (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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And Who Are You?
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Friday Jan 4 (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 »
- Film
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Otto Preminger
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Friday Jan 4 @ 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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Marvin Franklin
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Friday Jan 4 (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 »
