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Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Sunday May 18 (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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© MURAKAMI
Sunday May 18 (11am–6pm) @ 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
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Cai Guo-Qiang
Sunday May 18 (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
Sunday May 18 (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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Olafur Eliasson
Sunday May 18 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Giveaway
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
Art: Architecture/Design
NY Design Week
Sunday May 18 @ Various locations More times »
As the design community flocks to New York for the 20th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Javits Center (May 17-19), over 50 design... View details »
NY Design Week
Art: Photography
New York Photo Festival
Sunday May 18 @ Various DUMBO locations More times »
Giveaway
As March's art fairs fade from memory, fans of contemporary photography have carved out an event all to themselves. For five days in DUMBO, the... View details »
New York Photo Festival
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Ralph Bakshi
Sunday May 18 (11am–6pm) @ 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
Sunday May 18 (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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Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Sunday May 18 (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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White Like Me
Sunday May 18 (noon–6pm) @ Jack the Pelican More times »
Free
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 »
White Like Me
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GlassLab
Sunday May 18 (noon–6pm) @ Cooper-Hewitt More times »
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 »
GlassLab
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Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition
Sunday May 18 @ NYCAMS More times »
Free
Two years ago, Brooklyn College's MFA thesis exhibition became a First Amendment cause célèbre, after city officials closed the show because certain works weren't "appropriate... View details »
Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition
Art: Architecture/Design
Dine on Design
Sunday May 18 (8pm) @ Monkey Town More times »
More than ever, food represents our values, culture, and identities just as much as painting, literature, or film. Tonight, Monkey Town hosts a six-course meal... View details »
Dine on Design
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Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition
Sunday May 18 (noon–5pm) @ Fisher Landau Center for Art More times »
Free
Notorious shopping grounds for bloodthirsty gallerists and curators, Columbia's MFA Exhibition is your chance to play collector and try to guess which one of these... View details »
Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition
Art: Photography
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Sunday May 18 (10am–6pm) @ International Center of Photography More times »
Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan features 13 contemporary Japanese artists whose funny, evocative, and startling images penetrate Japanese cultural norms. Riffing on... View details »
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
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Jeff Koons on the Roof
Sunday May 18 (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
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Bill Shannon
Sunday May 18 (noon–5pm) @ Douz and Mille More times »
Free
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 »
Bill Shannon
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Purvis Young
Sunday May 18 (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