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Recent Icelandic Art
Thursday May 1 (6–9pm) @ Scandinavia House More times »
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Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia House hosts work by... View details »
Recent Icelandic Art
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Purvis Young
Thursday May 1 (1pm–midnight) @ GalleryBar More times »
Free
After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and had a dream, wherein... View details »
Purvis Young

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Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Thursday May 1 (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
Thursday May 1 (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
Thursday May 1 (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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© MURAKAMI
Thursday May 1 (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
Thursday May 1 @ 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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Whitney Biennial
Thursday May 1 @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
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For its 74th installment, the Whitney Biennial expands its exhibition space and (lightly) trims its list of contributors. Through March, the Seventh Regiment Armory hosts... View details »
Whitney Biennial
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Gustave Courbet
Thursday May 1 (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
Thursday May 1 (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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Olafur Eliasson
Thursday May 1 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
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Olafur Eliasson works beyond gallery and exhibition spaces, dictating every aspect of the viewer's experience to create environments that are worthy of meteorological description. In... View details »
Olafur Eliasson
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WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
Thursday May 1 (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
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Design and the Elastic Mind
Thursday May 1 (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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Kanishka Raja
Thursday May 1 (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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Big Kids Little Kids
Thursday May 1 (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
Thursday May 1 (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
Thursday May 1 (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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Ralph Bakshi
Thursday May 1 (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
Thursday May 1 (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
Thursday May 1 (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
Thursday May 1 (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
Thursday May 1 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ 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
Thursday May 1 (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
Thursday May 1 (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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The New Normal
Thursday May 1 (noon–6pm) @ Artists Space More times »
Free
Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public — has inspired ample... View details »
The New Normal
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Lucas Reiner
Thursday May 1 (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
Thursday May 1 (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
Thursday May 1 (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
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The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Thursday May 1 (10am–6pm) @ Susan Inglett Gallery More times »
Free
The Bruce High Quality Foundation's motto is "Professional problems, amateur solutions" — a perfect summary of its invigorating handmade aesthetic and DIY spirit. The title... View details »
The Bruce High Quality Foundation
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Jeff Koons on the Roof
Thursday May 1 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man who once scandalized the... View details »
Jeff Koons on the Roof