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Tara Donovan
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Thursday Feb 28 (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 28 (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 28 (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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Lucian Freud
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Thursday Feb 28 (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 28 (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 28 (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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Lee Friedlander
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Thursday Feb 28 (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 28 (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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Jan de Cock
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Thursday Feb 28 (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 28 (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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Pop Subversion
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Thursday Feb 28 (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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Archive Fever
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Thursday Feb 28 @ 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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Gustave Courbet
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Thursday Feb 28 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Gustave Courbet was the Damien Hirst of his day, never shying away from controversy; he was also a terrific artist, making modern paintings before the... View details »
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Irving Penn
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Thursday Feb 28 (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 28 (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 28 @ 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 28 (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 28 (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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Luc Tuymans
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Thursday Feb 28 (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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Sterling Ruby
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Thursday Feb 28 (10am–6pm) @ The Drawing Center
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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 »
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Matt Leines
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Thursday Feb 28 (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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Dawoud Bey
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Thursday Feb 28 (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 28 (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 »
