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Darina Karpov
Friday May 23 (7–9pm) @ Pierogi More times »
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Darina Karpov's almost-sculptural ink drawings contain the pent-up tumult of a developing storm, gathering energy from the blank page and erupting outward. Close attention to... View details »
Darina Karpov

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Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Friday May 23 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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
Friday May 23 (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
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Cai Guo-Qiang
Friday May 23 (10am–7:45pm) @ 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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Olafur Eliasson
Friday May 23 (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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Kanishka Raja
Friday May 23 (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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Ralph Bakshi
Friday May 23 (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
Friday May 23 (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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Walton Ford
Friday May 23 (10am–6pm) @ Paul Kasmin Gallery More times »
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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 »
Walton Ford
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Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Friday May 23 (10:30am–7:30pm) @ 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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Robert Therrien
Friday May 23 (10am–6pm) @ Gagosian Gallery More times »
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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 »
Robert Therrien
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Tamara Kostianovsky
Friday May 23 (11am–6pm) @ Black & White Gallery More times »
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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 »
Tamara Kostianovsky
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Bernd and Hilla Becher
Friday May 23 (10:30am–8pm) @ MoMA More times »
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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 »
Bernd and Hilla Becher
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White Like Me
Friday May 23 (noon–6pm) @ Jack the Pelican More times »
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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 »
White Like Me
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The New Normal
Friday May 23 (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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Recent Icelandic Art
Friday May 23 (noon–6pm) @ 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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Neo Rauch
Friday May 23 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
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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 »
Neo Rauch
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The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Friday May 23 (10am–6pm) @ Susan Inglett Gallery More times »
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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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GlassLab
Friday May 23 (10am–9pm) @ 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
Friday May 23 (10am–5pm) @ 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
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Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition
Friday May 23 (noon–5pm) @ Fisher Landau Center for Art More times »
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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
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Cameron Hayes
Friday May 23 (10am–6pm) @ Ronald Feldman Gallery More times »
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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 »
Cameron Hayes
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Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Friday May 23 (10am–8pm) @ 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
Friday May 23 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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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Architecture of Authority
Friday May 23 (10am–6pm) @ Aperture Gallery More times »
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In support of the Architecture of Authority exhibition's accompanying book, photographer Richard Ross takes a Foucauldian look at institutional spaces. Ross examines everything from a... View details »
Architecture of Authority
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Adolph Gottlieb
Friday May 23 (9:30am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times »
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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 »
Adolph Gottlieb
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Zhang Huan
Friday May 23 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times »
Free
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 »
Zhang Huan
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Bill Shannon
Friday May 23 (noon–7pm) @ Douz and Mille More times »
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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 »
Bill Shannon
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Christian Vincent
Friday May 23 (10am–6pm) @ Mike Weiss Gallery More times »
Free
... 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 »
Christian Vincent
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Purvis Young
Friday May 23 (1pm–midnight) @ GalleryBar More times »
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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 »
Purvis Young
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Tom Sachs
Friday May 23 (10am–6pm) @ Sperone Westwater More times »
Free
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 »
Tom Sachs
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Francisco de Goya
Friday May 23 (10am–6pm) @ Peter Blum Gallery Soho More times »
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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 »
Francisco de Goya
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Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
Friday May 23 (10am–6pm) @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery More times »
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The Four Friends exhibition at Tony Shafrazi closed two months ago, bu­t you can still see it, sort of. American gallery owner Gavin Brown and... View details »
Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
Art: Photography
Eminent Domain
Friday May 23 (11am–6pm) @ New York Public Library More times »
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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 »
Eminent Domain