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Steven Holl
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Thursday Feb 21 (7–9pm) @ Cooper Union's Great Hall
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Steven Holl is an international titan of contemporary architecture, but unlike some of his peers, he doesn't strive for celebrity. His designs are eccentric but... View details »
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Matt Leines
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Thursday Feb 21 (11am–6pm) @ Clementine Gallery
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Matt Leines' New York solo debut features his signature drawings, an installation, and a new, limited-edition series of flags. Leines, who studied illustration at RISD,... View details »
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Tara Donovan
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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Thursday Feb 21 (10am–8pm) @ 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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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Gert & Uwe Tobias
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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Beth Campbell
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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Katy Grannan
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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Anne Collier
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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Thursday Feb 21 (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 »
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Marvin Franklin
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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Pop Subversion
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Thursday Feb 21 (1–8pm) @ Ad Hoc Art
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Over 30 artists fill Ad Hoc's walls with twisted fairy-tale imagery, tortured visages, and disemboweled beauties in Pop Subversion. Some confront the frustrations of city... View details »
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Grace
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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Thursday Feb 21 @ 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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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Be Kind Rewind
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Thursday Feb 21 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects
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In his newest film, Be Kind Rewind, Michel Gondry tells the story of two childhood friends who work to recreate a video store's entire inventory... View details »
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Jasper Johns
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Thursday Feb 21 @ 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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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Looking Up
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Thursday Feb 21 (8pm) @ Theater for the New City
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Trapeze-theatre piece Looking Up seamlessly combines two unlikely mediums into a surprisingly nice little love story. Solo trapeze artist Wendy and fast-talking bartender Jack "meet... View details »
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Cherubina
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Thursday Feb 21 (8pm) @ Sanford Meisner Theater
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Set in pre-revolutionary Russia, Cherubina follows the true tale of Elisa Ivanovna, a frustrated poetess and disabled schoolmarm. Ivanovna becomes convinced that the only way... View details »
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Luc Tuymans
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Thursday Feb 21 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner
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Belgian painter Luc Tuymans makes every effort to stymie easy interpretation of his blurry, photo-derived paintings. A history painter in a media-saturated era, he's tackled... View details »
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The Sartorialist
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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Thursday Feb 21 (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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Jen DeNike
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Thursday Feb 21 (noon–6pm) @ Amy Smith Stewart
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At the LES' cozy Amy Smith Stewart gallery, Jen DeNike presents two new videos and a photo series, disparate projects united by a recurring motif... View details »
