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- Music: Rock/Pop
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Foals
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Tuesday Feb 12 (8:30pm) @ Bowery Ballroom
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After topping plenty of lists across the pond (including the NME Awards and "Cool List") and wowing a few crowds at last year's SXSW, the... View details »
- Reading
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William T. Vollmann
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Tuesday Feb 12 (7pm) @ Barnes & Noble
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NYC's pulse may throb to the subway beat, but that's nothing compared to the old national tradition of riding the rails. Author William T. Vollmann's... View details »
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- Art
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Tara Donovan
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Tuesday Feb 12 (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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Tuesday Feb 12 (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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Tuesday Feb 12 (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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Dan Perjovschi
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Tuesday Feb 12 (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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Tuesday Feb 12 (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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Jasper Johns
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Tuesday Feb 12 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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In Jasper Johns' Gray, the Met culls a rigorous collection of work from the mid-'50s to the present. Johns, a pop artist for his use... View details »
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AA Bronson
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Tuesday Feb 12 (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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Tuesday Feb 12 (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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Tuesday Feb 12 (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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Donelle Woolford
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Tuesday Feb 12 (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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Tuesday Feb 12 (noon–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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Tuesday Feb 12 (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 »
- Art: Photography
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Anne Collier
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Tuesday Feb 12 (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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Tuesday Feb 12 (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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Tuesday Feb 12 (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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Marvin Franklin
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Tuesday Feb 12 (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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Tuesday Feb 12 (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 »
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Envisioning Russia
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Tuesday Feb 12 @ Walter Reade Theater
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Few Americans really grasp the breadth of Russian film in existence: we tend to treat film imports from that country as jewels rarely produced. The... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Grace
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Tuesday Feb 12 (7pm) @ 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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Tuesday Feb 12 @ 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 »
- Music: DJ
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Afrika Bambaataa
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Tuesday Feb 12 (10pm) @ APT
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Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance to those still "looking... View details »
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Irving Penn
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Tuesday Feb 12 (10am–5pm) @ 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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Tuesday Feb 12 (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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Jasper Johns
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Tuesday Feb 12 @ Matthew Marks Gallery
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While the Met hosts a survey of Jasper Johns' gray-hued works, Matthew Marks shows 40 of the artist's drawings from the last decade. Johns, now... View details »
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Xu Zhen
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Tuesday Feb 12 (10am–6pm) @ James Cohan Gallery
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A masterful obfuscator of facts and images, Xu Zhen (in his artworks, at least) has waged armed assaults on China's neighboring countries with remote-controlled toy... View details »
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Nayland Blake
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Tuesday Feb 12 (11am–6pm) @ Matthew Marks Gallery
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For many years, Nayland Blake's surrogate was a big white bunny that showed up in his drawings and sculptures. But in his new pieces at... View details »
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Dawoud Bey
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Tuesday Feb 12 (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 »
