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Art
After the Reality 2
Saturday Apr 5 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
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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 »
After the Reality 2
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DJ Shake
Saturday Apr 5 (10pm) @ Heathers
Free
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 »
DJ Shake
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Japanimated!
Saturday Apr 5 (5–11pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
Free
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 »
Japanimated!
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The Date Farmers
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–6pm) @ Jonathan Levine Gallery More times »
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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 »
The Date Farmers
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Residential Erection
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–6pm) @ Postmasters More times »
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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 »
Residential Erection

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Francis Alÿs
Saturday Apr 5 (10am–4pm) @ Hispanic Society of America More times »
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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 »
Francis Alÿs
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Lady Pink and Aiko
Saturday Apr 5 (1–8pm) @ Ad Hoc Art More times »
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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 »
Lady Pink and Aiko
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Jasper Johns
Saturday Apr 5 @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
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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 »
Jasper Johns
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Yoon Lee
Saturday Apr 5 (noon–6pm) @ Pierogi More times »
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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 »
Yoon Lee
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Cao Fei
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–6pm) @ Lombard-Freid Gallery More times »
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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 »
Cao Fei
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Subodh Gupta
Saturday Apr 5 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Shainman Gallery More times »
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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 »
Subodh Gupta
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Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh
Saturday Apr 5 (10am–6pm) @ Tina Kim Gallery More times »
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Works by Iranian artist Reza Farkhondeh don't appear often outside of collaborations like these with Ghada Amer. Her nature scenes and wallpaper-like patterns are prim... View details »
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh
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Martin McMurray
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–6pm) @ Jeff Bailey Gallery More times »
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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 »
Martin McMurray
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Jeremy Boyle
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–6pm) @ Hudson Franklin Gallery More times »
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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 »
Jeremy Boyle
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Kanishka Raja
Saturday Apr 5 (10am–6pm) @ Envoy Gallery More times »
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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 »
Kanishka Raja
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Peter Coffin
Saturday Apr 5 (10am–6pm) @ Andrew Kreps Gallery More times »
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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 »
Peter Coffin
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Beka Goedde and David Meanix
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–7pm) @ Leo Kesting Gallery More times »
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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 »
Beka Goedde and David Meanix
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Big Kids Little Kids
Saturday Apr 5 (noon–7pm) @ Cinders More times »
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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
Art: Photography
Gregory Crewdson
Saturday Apr 5 (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
Saturday Apr 5 (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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Lots of Things Like This
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–6pm) @ Apex Art More times »
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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
Saturday Apr 5 (10am–6pm) @ Paul Kasmin Gallery More times »
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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 »
Tseng Kwong Chi