Events on Friday, March 28
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- Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
- @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
- France's first superstar painter, Nicolas Poussin trained in Rome during the baroque era, at the height of Italy's artistic dominance. His... View details » View details »
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- Tara Donovan
- @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws... View details » View details »
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- Gustave Courbet
- @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Gustave Courbet was the Damien Hirst of his day, never shying away from controversy; he was also a terrific artist, making... View details » View details »
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- Jasper Johns
- @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
- In Jasper Johns' Gray, the Met culls a rigorous collection of work from the mid-'50s to the present. Johns, a pop... View details » View details »
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- Lee Friedlander
- @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Lee Friedlander made his name wandering across the US in the '50s and '60s, taking pictures of motel television sets, shop... View details » View details »
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- Marvin Franklin
- @ New York Transit Museum
- Marvin Franklin spent more than two decades of his life working as a night-shift track inspector for the MTA. This may... View details » View details »
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- Peter Coffin
- @ Andrew Kreps Gallery
- In Peter Coffin's latest solo show, 30 video screens play archival footage of frolicking animals, while a motorized, roller coaster-like contraption... View details » View details »
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- Cao Fei
- @ Lombard-Freid Gallery
- Chinese artist Cao Fei's RMB City is a virtual metropolis designed for the online world Second Life, and Lombard-Freid Gallery is... View details » View details »
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- Francis Alÿs
- @ Hispanic Society of America
- While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year... View details » View details »
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- Kanishka Raja
- @ Envoy Gallery
- Kanishka Raja's immersive installation Indian Yellow, which tackles India's Gujarat carnage of 2002, greets viewers at the door with figures from... View details » View details »
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- The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito
- @ Milk Gallery
- Master sculptor, calligrapher, engraver, and photographer Shinjo Ito was a devout Buddhist who founded his own branch of the religion that... View details » View details »
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- LA Art in New York
- @ Altman Building
- LA Art in New York brings together a small, proud band of the West Coast's most dynamic contemporary-art galleries. Although the... View details » View details »
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- Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh
- @ Tina Kim Gallery
- Works by Iranian artist Reza Farkhondeh don't appear often outside of collaborations like these with Ghada Amer. Her nature scenes and... View details » View details »
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- Cai Guo-Qiang
- @ Guggenheim Museum
- Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with... View details » View details »
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- SCOPE New York
- @ Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
- The SCOPE fair brings together the beauty, violence, and humor of emerging artists in the global community. Exhibitors from Brooklyn to... View details » View details »
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- Subodh Gupta
- @ Jack Shainman Gallery
- Subodh Gupta traverses painting, sculpture, and video with tightly thematic stories from Indian history, told in the dialect of household utensils... View details » View details »
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- Jan de Cock
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- A relentless photographer and image archiver, Jan de Cock collects his findings in hefty books dubbed denkmals (German for "monument"). The... View details » View details »
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- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art,... View details » View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- As technology slowly stretches past the limits of sci-fi fantasy, designers must work within the rapidly evolving space between scientific innovation... View details » View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Irving Penn
- @ The Morgan Library
- Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is... View details » View details »
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- Beka Goedde and David Meanix
- @ Leo Kesting Gallery
- In two separate exhibitions, Beka Goedde and David Meanix present the fractured beauty of cityscapes and human faces, exploring in tandem... View details » View details »
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- Jeremy Boyle
- @ Hudson Franklin Gallery
- Like Sol Lewitt trapped in RadioShack, Jeremy Boyle surrenders his artistic role to mechanical gizmos. The latest version of his Self-Playing... View details » View details »
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- Martin McMurray
- @ Jeff Bailey Gallery
- In his second solo exhibition at Jeff Bailey Gallery, Martin McMurray presents The Unreliable Narrator, a series of subtle-toned, soft-focus acrylics.... View details » View details »
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- Art Now Fair
- @ Hotel 30/30
- In four days, six art fairs open their doors within a few square miles of each other — all the better... View details » View details »
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- Matt Leines
- @ Clementine Gallery
- Matt Leines' New York solo debut features his signature drawings, an installation, and a new, limited-edition series of flags. Leines, who... View details » View details »
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- Georganne Deen
- @ Smith-Stewart
- Los Angeles painter Georganne Deen is an icon among West Coast post-punk aesthetes, and well-known to readers of Juxtapoz magazine as... View details » View details »
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- PULSE
- @ Pier 40
- For its third year in New York, PULSE allocates two new spaces: the first for high-stress PERFORMANCE, and the second for... View details » View details »
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- Yoon Lee
- @ Pierogi
- In paintings by Californian artist Yoon Lee, colorful tendrils churn and dive in a storm that becomes indistinguishable from the landscape... View details » View details »
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- DiVA
- @ West Chelsea, Gallery District
- Now in its fourth year, DiVA provides an apt visual expression for the week's artistic traffic jam, as the gallery district... View details » View details »
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- WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- With Hillary Clinton in the political limelight, WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution couldn't be more timely. A survey of 120... View details » View details »
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- The Armory Show
- @ Pier 94
- The Armory Show is the epicenter of art-fair mania. In one of the art world's most opulent displays, artists from 21... View details » View details »
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- Lady Pink and Aiko
- @ Ad Hoc Art
- Brick Ladies of NYC celebrates Lady Pink and Aiko Nakagawa, longstanding heavy hitters in both the street-art scene and the modern-art... View details » View details »
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- Big Kids Little Kids
- @ Cinders
- There have been a lot of cheap shots volleyed between the youths of New York and Philadelphia. But regardless of who's... View details » View details »
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- Dark Fair
- @ Swiss Institute
- For Dark Fair, a group of international artists and galleries takes on an archaic challenge: hold an exhibition without the benefit... View details » View details »
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- ABC No Rio 5th Bi-Annual: Ides of March
- @ ABC No Rio
- ABC No Rio has been a hub for LES radicals and artists for over a quarter of a century, and now... View details » View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Street Limbo Blues
- @ Café Pick Me Up
- Upon arriving at Café Pick Me Up, you're handed a coffee, a prop to wear, and a piece of paper outlining... View details » View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Picture
- @ Mercury Lounge
- Winter was fruitful for the Picture, who are back from hibernation with a batch of epic songs and a new keyboardist.... View details » View details »
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- The Four of Us
- @ New York City Center
- Itamar Moses is a young, successful playwright who happens to be best friends with a young, incredibly successful novelist named Jonathan... View details » View details »
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- August: Osage County
- @ Imperial Theatre
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Macbeth
- @ Lyceum Theatre
- Director Rupert Goold switches out Scottish castles for Soviet regalia in his modern revamping of Macbeth. Patrick Stewart returns to the... View details » View details »
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- Rutlemania
- @ Gramercy Theatre
- According to esteemed commentator Stanley J. Krammerhead III, the Rutles were "essentially imperical malengistes of a rhythmically radical yet verbally passé... View details » View details »
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- Passing Strange
- @ The Belasco Theatre
- The loose autobiography-in-song of one Mark Stewart (aka Stew), Passing Strange tells the story of a restless Youth (the excellent Daniel... View details » View details »
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- Jump
- @ Union Square Theatre
- After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its... View details » View details »
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- Sunday in the Park with George
- @ Studio 54
- Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George is a concept musical based on the beyond-famous Georges Seurat... View details » View details »
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- In the Heights
- @ Richard Rodgers Theatre
- There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient... View details » View details »
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- Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
- @ Daryl Roth Theatre
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... View details » View details »
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- Paradise Park
- @ Signature Theatre
- Charles Mee's work might not be terribly straightforward, but his collage-like storytelling should suit the multitasking, ADD-prone masses. Paradise Park, the... View details » View details »
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- Adding Machine
- @ Minetta Lane Theatre
- After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven... View details » View details »
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- Fight Girl Battle World
- @ Center Stage
- Now that graphic novels and sci-fi movies possess some geek-chic caché, Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company has translated that aesthetic to the... View details » View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Brian Posehn
- @ Comix
- Metal aficionado and nerd hero Brian Posehn drops in to Comix for back-to-back nights of standup sets, fresh off a busy... View details » View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Tim Minchin
- @ New World Stages
- Australian comic Tim Minchin — dubbed Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival — gives Off-Broadway audiences a sampling of his... View details » View details »
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- [SOLD OUT] One Step Beyond feat. Simian Mobile Disco
- @ American Museum of Natural History
- Tonight, One Step Beyond opens your ears to every Lite-Brite shade of techno in the spectrum with a rare live set... View details » View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Benga
- @ Love
- Benga makes his first stateside appearance tonight at Love's Trouble & Bass party, riding in on the success of last year's... View details » View details »
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- The DeathSet
- @ Glasslands Gallery
- Tempering a synth-laden swagger with heavy beats and thrashing guitar, the DeathSet's electro-ditties are as anthemic as they are aggressive. Emerging... View details » View details »
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- Jasper Johns
- @ Matthew Marks Gallery
- While the Met hosts a survey of Jasper Johns' gray-hued works, Matthew Marks shows 40 of the artist's drawings from the... View details » View details »
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- Film
- New Directors/New Films
- @ Various locations
- There's never a shortage of good film festivals and programs in New York, but the annual New Directors/New Films consistently emerges... View details » View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Archive Fever
- @ International Center of Photography
- Exploring identity and memory through archived imagery, curator Okwui Enwezor has collected over 20 artists to explore the often formal institution... View details » View details »
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- Paragraph
- @ Paragraph
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... View details » View details »
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- J'entends plus la guitare
- @ Cinema Village
- J'entends plus la guitare is Philippe Garrel's tribute to art-rock muse Nico. Though most famous for her recordings with the Velvet... View details » View details »
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- blog.mode
- @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas... View details » View details »
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- Art: Fair
- Bridge Art Fair
- @ The Waterfront
- Hot on the heels of Asian Contemporary Art Week and just in time for the Armory Show comes a hybrid of... View details » View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- @ Broadhurst Theatre
- Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The... View details » View details »
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- Romeo and Juliet
- @ The Kirk at Theatre Row
- In this updated, witty interpretation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, familiar tropes clash with contemporary archetypes. The four-actor cast stays true... View details » View details »
