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Bernd and Hilla Becher
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Wednesday May 21 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA
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From the 1950s on, Bernd and Hilla Becher traversed the United States and Europe photographing silos, factories, mills, processing plants, and other industrial dinosaurs, many... View details »
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Ed Park
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Wednesday May 21 (7pm) @ McNally Robinson Booksellers
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Welcome to the working weak: reading Personal Days — the debut novel by Ed Park, a founding editor of The Believer — is like staying... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
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Indie Rock Trivia
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Wednesday May 21 (8pm) @ Highline Ballroom
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Known for riffing with audience members, comedian Zach Galifianakis isn't afraid of saying anything that pops into his mind — from impressions of "forgetful vegans"... View details »
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The Edge of Heaven
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Wednesday May 21 (1, 3:30, 7:15 & 9:40pm) @ Film Forum
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Fatih Akin's last feature, the much-touted Head-On (2004), packed a punch so punk rock that it injected raw adrenaline directly into your system. His latest,... View details »
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Augusten Burroughs
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Wednesday May 21 (12:30–1:45pm) @ Bryant Park
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During this midweek, midday installment of Bryant Park's Word for Word series, memoirist (or is that novelist?) Augusten Burroughs reads from his new work, A... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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The Dead Science
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Wednesday May 21 (7pm) @ Knitting Factory
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The Dead Science singer Sam Mickens makes no bones about being a total and complete nut. Like fellow over-emoters Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu) and Casey... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Németh
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Wednesday May 21 (7pm) @ Knitting Factory
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Situated squarely between ambient, techno, jazz, post-rock, indie, and the avant-garde, Radian offshoot Németh is a pretty tough pony to pin down. Suffice it to... View details »
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Cai Guo-Qiang
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Wednesday May 21 (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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Kanishka Raja
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Wednesday May 21 (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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© MURAKAMI
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Wednesday May 21 (10am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art in Bklyn
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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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Paul Chan
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Wednesday May 21 (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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Ralph Bakshi
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Wednesday May 21 (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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Tamara Kostianovsky
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Wednesday May 21 (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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Olafur Eliasson
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Wednesday May 21 (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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Jeff Koons on the Roof
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Wednesday May 21 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
- Film
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Roman de Gare
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Wednesday May 21 @ Angelika Film Center
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Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's whodunit plot is pure... View details »
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The New Normal
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Wednesday May 21 (2–8pm) @ 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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Wednesday May 21 (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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Purvis Young
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Wednesday May 21 (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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Redbelt
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Wednesday May 21 @ Various locations
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Gulf War veteran Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor) runs a ju-jitsu studio but refuses to participate in competitions, which he believes compromise the martial art's principles. But... View details »
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Son of Rambow
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Wednesday May 21 @ Angelika Film Center
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Young Will lives in a religious cult that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a bootleg copy of First... View details »
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Adolph Gottlieb
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Wednesday May 21 (9:30am–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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Superheroes
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Wednesday May 21 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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In association with Giorgio Armani and Vogue's Anna Wintour, curator Harold Koda of the Costume Institute investigates the distinction between costume and clothing. Superheroes delves... View details »
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Walton Ford
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Wednesday May 21 (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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Zhang Huan
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Wednesday May 21 (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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Tom Sachs
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Wednesday May 21 (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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The Fall
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Wednesday May 21 @ Landmark Sunshine
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In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone. To compel her to... View details »
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Noise
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Wednesday May 21 @ Various locations
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With Noise, writer/director Henry Bean has made a feature about urban sound pollution that doesn't grate on its viewers. It's no small feat, especially given... View details »
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Poultrygeist
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Wednesday May 21 @ Village East Cinema
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Serving up buckets of undead breasts and extra-slimy special sauce, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead keeps Troma Entertainment's traditions of sex and dismemberment alive.... View details »
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Robert Therrien
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Wednesday May 21 (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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Christian Vincent
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Wednesday May 21 (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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Neo Rauch
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Wednesday May 21 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
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MOMIX
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Wednesday May 21 (7:30pm) @ The Joyce Theater
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Moses Pendleton's gravity-defying MOMIX dance company performs Passion, a visually stunning piece that kicks off the group's four-week season at the Joyce. Breathtaking physical feats... View details »
- Getaway
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Sol LeWitt
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Wednesday May 21 (11am–5:30pm) @ Storm King Art Center in Mountainville
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In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere, but the scribbled preparatory... View details »
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Bill Shannon
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Wednesday May 21 (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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Francisco de Goya
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Wednesday May 21 (10am–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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GlassLab
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Wednesday May 21 (10am–5pm) @ 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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Wednesday May 21 (10am–6pm) @ 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 »
