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© MURAKAMI
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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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 »
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After the Reality 2
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects
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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 »
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DJ Shake
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (10pm) @ Heathers
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Heathers, the chillaxed East Village bar that feels like a friend's apartment, switches gears tonight with its rowdy monthly hip-hop installment. DJ Shake spins classics... View details »
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Japanimated!
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (5–11pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Cosplay has gone mainstream, judging by this week's Target First Saturday. To kick off the Takashi Murakami exhibit, the Brooklyn Museum is throwing a Japanese-themed... View details »
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Black 'n Blue Bowl
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (2pm) @ Studio B
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Today's metalcore poseurs are self-hating jocks who abandoned NYC's hardcore boys' club in favor of eyeliner, black army caps, and ridiculously long band names like... View details »
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Daedelus w/ edIT
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (11pm) @ Knitting Factory
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One of Los Angeles' most celebrated parties is making its way East. Associated with the LA-based Alpha Pup and dublab collectives, Low End Theory has... View details »
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Wolf Eyes
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (8pm) @ Cake Shop
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Wolf Eyes have earned quite a reputation for doomy antagonism. Well-meaning critics tend to exaggerate the Sub Pop band's "scary" and "face-melting" qualities — but,... View details »
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The Date Farmers
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Jonathan Levine Gallery
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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 »
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Residential Erection
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Postmasters
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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 »
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Tara Donovan
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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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Francis Alÿs
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (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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Jump
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (2, 5 & 8pm) @ Union Square Theatre
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After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its appeal so universal. Almost... View details »
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Lee Friedlander
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (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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Lady Pink and Aiko
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (1–8pm) @ Ad Hoc Art
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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 »
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Archive Fever
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 @ 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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Cai Guo-Qiang
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum
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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 »
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Gustave Courbet
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ 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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Jasper Johns
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 @ 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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Paradise Park
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (2 & 8pm) @ Signature Theatre
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Charles Mee's work might not be terribly straightforward, but his collage-like storytelling should suit the multitasking, ADD-prone masses. Paradise Park, the playwright's third and final... View details »
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Yoon Lee
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Pierogi
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In paintings by Californian artist Yoon Lee, colorful tendrils churn and dive in a storm that becomes indistinguishable from the landscape beneath it. Each canvas... View details »
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Cao Fei
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Lombard-Freid Gallery
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Chinese artist Cao Fei's RMB City is a virtual metropolis designed for the online world Second Life, and Lombard-Freid Gallery is exhibiting a scale model... View details »
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Subodh Gupta
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Shainman Gallery
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Subodh Gupta traverses painting, sculpture, and video with tightly thematic stories from Indian history, told in the dialect of household utensils and clichéd scenes of... View details »
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Martin McMurray
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Jeff Bailey Gallery
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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 »
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Jeremy Boyle
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Hudson Franklin Gallery
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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 »
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Kanishka Raja
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Envoy Gallery
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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 »
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Peter Coffin
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Andrew Kreps Gallery
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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 »
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Beka Goedde and David Meanix
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (11am–7pm) @ Leo Kesting Gallery
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In two separate exhibitions, Beka Goedde and David Meanix present the fractured beauty of cityscapes and human faces, exploring in tandem the relationships between people... View details »
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Georganne Deen
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Amy Smith Stewart
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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 »
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Tseng Kwong Chi
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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Paul Kasmin Gallery
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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 »
