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Paul Chan
Wednesday Apr 9 (noon–6pm) @ 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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Tara Donovan
Wednesday Apr 9 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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
Wednesday Apr 9 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ 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
Wednesday Apr 9 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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
Wednesday Apr 9 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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
Wednesday Apr 9 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ 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
Wednesday Apr 9 (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
Wednesday Apr 9 (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
Wednesday Apr 9 @ 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
Wednesday Apr 9 (10am–5:45pm) @ 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
Wednesday Apr 9 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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
Wednesday Apr 9 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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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Irving Penn
Wednesday Apr 9 (10am–5pm) @ The Morgan Library More times »
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 »
Irving Penn
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Jasper Johns
Wednesday Apr 9 @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
Free
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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Design and the Elastic Mind
Wednesday Apr 9 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ 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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Subodh Gupta
Wednesday Apr 9 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Shainman Gallery More times »
Free
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
Wednesday Apr 9 (10am–6pm) @ Tina Kim Gallery More times »
Free
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
Wednesday Apr 9 (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
Wednesday Apr 9 (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
Wednesday Apr 9 (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
Wednesday Apr 9 (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
Wednesday Apr 9 (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
Wednesday Apr 9 (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
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Gregory Crewdson
Wednesday Apr 9 (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
Wednesday Apr 9 (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
Wednesday Apr 9 (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
Wednesday Apr 9 (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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The Date Farmers
Wednesday Apr 9 (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
Wednesday Apr 9 (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