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GlassLab
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Cooper-Hewitt
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The Corning Museum of Glass sets up shop in the Cooper-Hewitt garden for live demos of scalding hot design in its annual series GlassLab. Working... View details »
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Cameron Hayes
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (6–8pm) @ Ronald Feldman Gallery
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For his second solo show at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Australian artist Cameron Hayes parodies colonialism's effect on his native country with an absurdist sense of... View details »
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Saturday May 17, 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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Cai Guo-Qiang
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Saturday May 17, 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 May 17, 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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Olafur Eliasson
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA
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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 »
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Kanishka Raja
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Saturday May 17, 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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Ralph Bakshi
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (10am–7pm) @ Animazing Gallery
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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 »
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Paul Chan
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
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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 »
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Walton Ford
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Paul Kasmin Gallery
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Walton Ford's watercolors mimic the composition and style of history painting, and the confusing overlap of myth that accompanies it. In Dying Words, Ford plays... View details »
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Anne Hardy
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Bellwether Gallery
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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 »
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Robert Therrien
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Gagosian Gallery
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Robert Therrien quite literally transforms mundane items into objects of whimsically huge proportion. In No Title (Folding Table and Chairs), super-sized chairs lean propped against... View details »
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Tamara Kostianovsky
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Black & White Gallery
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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 »
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White Like Me
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Jack the Pelican
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David Ford's multimedia installation White Like Me incorporates the florid magic realism of his large-scale paintings, the incisive wit of his photography, and the unpredictability... View details »
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The New Normal
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Artists Space
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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 »
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Recent Icelandic Art
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Scandinavia House
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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 »
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Neo Rauch
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner
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Many critics think Neo Rauch is too slick for his own good — a hunky, brooding German painter with an abiding art-world buzz and a... View details »
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Jeff Koons on the Roof
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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 »
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Adolph Gottlieb
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein
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Although he shared many of their artistic concerns, Adolph Gottlieb didn't have the fraught backstory of his more prominent American and European contemporaries — he... View details »
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Zhang Huan
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein
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For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric Western world — must... View details »
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Bill Shannon
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (noon–7pm) @ Douz and Mille
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Outside the world of visual arts, Bill Shannon is best known as the breakdancer (and sometime-skater) deftly balanced on a pair of crutches. Born with... View details »
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Christian Vincent
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Mike Weiss Gallery
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... e realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they seem to be parts... View details »
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Purvis Young
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (1pm–midnight) @ GalleryBar
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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 »
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Tom Sachs
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Sperone Westwater
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In one of his two latest exhibitions, high-profile craftsman Tom Sachs (and his basement factory of art-elves) transform a Chelsea gallery into a ten-room menagerie... View details »
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Francisco de Goya
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Peter Blum Gallery Soho
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Just before producing his modern masterpieces, dubbed the Black Paintings, Goya vented his disgust with the human animal in a series of small etchings titled... View details »
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Eminent Domain
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ New York Public Library
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When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of heresy from legions of... View details »
