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Tara Donovan
Tuesday Feb 26 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
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 »
Tara Donovan
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Extreme Embroidery
Tuesday Feb 26 (10am–6pm) @ Museum of Art and Design More times »
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 »
Extreme Embroidery
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Francis Alÿs
Tuesday Feb 26 (10am–4pm) @ Hispanic Society of America More times »
Free
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 »
Francis Alÿs
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Lee Friedlander
Tuesday Feb 26 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
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 »
Lee Friedlander
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Jasper Johns
Tuesday Feb 26 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
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 »
Jasper Johns
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Marvin Franklin
Tuesday Feb 26 (10am–4pm) @ New York Transit Museum More times »
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 »
Marvin Franklin
Art: Photography
Archive Fever
Tuesday Feb 26 @ International Center of Photography More times »
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 »
Archive Fever
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Cai Guo-Qiang
Tuesday Feb 26 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times »
Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with rays of light, it... View details »
Cai Guo-Qiang
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Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Tuesday Feb 26 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
France's first superstar painter, Nicolas Poussin trained in Rome during the baroque era, at the height of Italy's artistic dominance. His intellectual classicism didn't find... View details »
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
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Irving Penn
Tuesday Feb 26 (10am–5pm) @ The Morgan Library More times »
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 »
Irving Penn
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Be Kind Rewind
Tuesday Feb 26 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
Free
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 »
Be Kind Rewind
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Jasper Johns
Tuesday Feb 26 @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Jasper Johns
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Xu Zhen
Tuesday Feb 26 (10am–6pm) @ James Cohan Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Xu Zhen
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Nayland Blake
Tuesday Feb 26 (11am–6pm) @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Nayland Blake
Art: Photography
Robert Mapplethorpe
Tuesday Feb 26 (11am–6pm) @ Sean Kelly Gallery More times »
Free
Famous for his sensual photographs of flowers and notorious for his S&M images, Robert Mapplethorpe also took excellent portraits. Sean Kelly Gallery presents nearly 50... View details »
Robert Mapplethorpe
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Luc Tuymans
Tuesday Feb 26 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
Free
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 »
Luc Tuymans
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Sterling Ruby
Tuesday Feb 26 (10am–6pm) @ The Drawing Center More times »
Free
Soho's venerable Drawing Center hosts a broad range of 2-D works by LA-based sculptor Sterling Ruby in its Drawing Room project space. In addition to... View details »
Sterling Ruby
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Matt Leines
Tuesday Feb 26 (11am–6pm) @ Clementine Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Matt Leines
Art: Photography
Dawoud Bey
Tuesday Feb 26 (10am–6pm) @ Aperture Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Dawoud Bey
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The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito
Tuesday Feb 26 (10am–6pm) @ Milk Gallery More times »
Free
Master sculptor, calligrapher, engraver, and photographer Shinjo Ito was a devout Buddhist who founded his own branch of the religion that reached out to people... View details »
The Vision and Art of  Shinjo Ito
Art: Photography
Carrie Mae Weems
Tuesday Feb 26 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Shainman Gallery More times »
Free
... rican American photographer Carrie Mae Weems marks her return to New York with a mini-retrospective at Chelsea's Jack Shainman Gallery. Weems... View details »
Carrie Mae Weems