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Tara Donovan
Friday Apr 18 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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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Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Friday Apr 18 (10:30am–8pm) @ MoMA More times »
MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now is... View details »
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
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Lee Friedlander
Friday Apr 18 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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
Friday Apr 18 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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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Jan de Cock
Friday Apr 18 (10:30am–8pm) @ MoMA More times »
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 »
Jan de Cock
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Lady Pink and Aiko
Friday Apr 18 (1–8pm) @ Ad Hoc Art More times »
Free
Brick Ladies of NYC celebrates Lady Pink and Aiko Nakagawa, longstanding heavy hitters in both the street-art scene and the modern-art collections of the Brooklyn... View details »
Lady Pink and Aiko
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© MURAKAMI
Friday Apr 18 (10am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art More times »
Japanese neo-pop artist Takashi Murakami once said that Andy Warhol — to whom he's often compared — made art in order to distance himself from... View details »
© MURAKAMI
Art: Photography
Archive Fever
Friday Apr 18 @ 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
Friday Apr 18 (10am–7:45pm) @ 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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Gustave Courbet
Friday Apr 18 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
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 »
Gustave Courbet
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Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Friday Apr 18 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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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WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
Friday Apr 18 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
With Hillary Clinton in the political limelight, WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution couldn't be more timely. A survey of 120 international female artists working... View details »
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
Art: Architecture/Design
Design and the Elastic Mind
Friday Apr 18 (10:30am–8pm) @ MoMA More times »
As technology slowly stretches past the limits of sci-fi fantasy, designers must work within the rapidly evolving space between scientific innovation and consumer culture. In... View details »
Design and the Elastic Mind
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Martin McMurray
Friday Apr 18 (11am–6pm) @ Jeff Bailey Gallery More times »
Free
In his second solo exhibition at Jeff Bailey Gallery, Martin McMurray presents The Unreliable Narrator, a series of subtle-toned, soft-focus acrylics. The pieces set up... View details »
Martin McMurray
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Jeremy Boyle
Friday Apr 18 (11am–6pm) @ Hudson Franklin Gallery More times »
Free
Like Sol Lewitt trapped in RadioShack, Jeremy Boyle surrenders his artistic role to mechanical gizmos. The latest version of his Self-Playing Guitar replaces the musician... View details »
Jeremy Boyle
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Kanishka Raja
Friday Apr 18 (10am–6pm) @ Envoy Gallery More times »
Free
Kanishka Raja's immersive installation Indian Yellow, which tackles India's Gujarat carnage of 2002, greets viewers at the door with figures from an idyllic British colonial... View details »
Kanishka Raja
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Peter Coffin
Friday Apr 18 (10am–6pm) @ Andrew Kreps Gallery More times »
Free
In Peter Coffin's latest solo show, 30 video screens play archival footage of frolicking animals, while a motorized, roller coaster-like contraption pulls balloons through the... View details »
Peter Coffin
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Big Kids Little Kids
Friday Apr 18 (2–8pm) @ Cinders More times »
Free
There have been a lot of cheap shots volleyed between the youths of New York and Philadelphia. But regardless of who's a suburb of whom,... View details »
Big Kids Little Kids
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After the Reality 2
Friday Apr 18 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
Free
Tokyo gallerist Hiromi Yoshii revisits Japan's post-superflat art scene with After the Reality 2, a group exhibition featuring several first-time exhibitors and the return of... View details »
After the Reality 2
Art: Photography
Gregory Crewdson
Friday Apr 18 (10am–6pm) @ Luhring Augustine Gallery More times »
Free
For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with an army of production... View details »
Gregory Crewdson
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Georganne Deen
Friday Apr 18 (noon–6pm) @ Amy Smith Stewart More times »
Free
Los Angeles painter Georganne Deen is an icon among West Coast post-punk aesthetes, and well-known to readers of Juxtapoz magazine as a proponent of lyrical... View details »
Georganne Deen
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Ralph Bakshi
Friday Apr 18 (10am–7pm) @ Animazing Gallery More times »
Free
With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's worked with comix demigod... View details »
Ralph Bakshi
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Paul Chan
Friday Apr 18 (noon–10pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
Paul Chan's series of seven digital projections recounts the story of Genesis in light and shadow. Silhouettes of familiar objects drift either skyward or down... View details »
Paul Chan
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Lots of Things Like This
Friday Apr 18 (11am–6pm) @ Apex Art More times »
Free
Author and McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers curates this show of whip-smart, witty one-liners, selected for their playful mix of text and image. The list of... View details »
Lots of Things Like This
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Tseng Kwong Chi
Friday Apr 18 (10am–6pm) @ Paul Kasmin Gallery More times »
Free
Without newlyweds or a bus-load of septuagenarians, photographs of "picture-perfect" places like the Taj Mahal, Niagara Falls, and Cinderella's Castle are just postcards — it's... View details »
Tseng Kwong Chi
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Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Friday Apr 18 (10:30am–7:30pm) @ American Folk Art Museum More times »
The American Folk Art Museum is home to the world's largest collection of work by Henry Darger, the Chicago recluse and compiler of a 15,000-page... View details »
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
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Anne Hardy
Friday Apr 18 (10am–6pm) @ Bellwether Gallery More times »
Free
Photographer Anne Hardy could just as easily have succeeded as an installation artist or set dresser. Her elaborately staged photographs — five of which are... View details »
Anne Hardy
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Tamara Kostianovsky
Friday Apr 18 (11am–6pm) @ Black & White Gallery More times »
Free
Tamara Kostianovsky's debut solo exhibition, Actus Reus, is the second part of a three-part series, titled The Proper Animal and hosted by Black & White... View details »
Tamara Kostianovsky
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Lucas Reiner
Friday Apr 18 (11am–6pm) @ Kips Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles painter Lucas Reiner may be related by blood to some of the funniest men in America, but when it comes to painting, he's... View details »
Lucas Reiner
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The Date Farmers
Friday Apr 18 (11am–6pm) @ Jonathan Levine Gallery More times »
Free
Armando Lerma and Carlos Ramirez — collectively known as the multimedia-art team the Date Farmers — mash up art history with Southern California's multi-ethnic culture,... View details »
The Date Farmers
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Residential Erection
Friday Apr 18 (11am–6pm) @ Postmasters More times »
Free
In his new show Residential Erection, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung lifts the veil on American politics with the biting wit of a political cartoonist and the... View details »
Residential Erection