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Art
Playing the Building
Saturday May 31 (6–8pm) @ Battery Maritime Building More times »
Opening
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From the man who once danced with a lamp comes another animation of the inanimate. In conjunction with Creative Time, David Byrne creates a monumental... View details »
Playing the Building
More Flavor: Sports
Manhattan Polo Classic
Saturday May 31 (3pm) @ Governors Island
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It's been more than 70 years since an honest-to-jodhpurs polo match was played in NYC. And who better to bring back this high-class recreational activity... View details »
Manhattan Polo Classic
More Flavor: Festival
Bang on a Can Marathon
Saturday May 31 (6pm–6am) @ World Financial Center Winter Garden
Free
For the third year in a row, the Bang on a Can Marathon storms into the World Financial Center's Winter Garden for 12 straight hours... View details »
Bang on a Can Marathon

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Art
Kanishka Raja
Saturday May 31 (10am–6pm) @ Envoy Gallery More times »
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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 »
Kanishka Raja
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Walton Ford
Saturday May 31 (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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Darina Karpov
Saturday May 31 (noon–6pm) @ 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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Robert Therrien
Saturday May 31 (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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The New Normal
Saturday May 31 (noon–5pm) @ 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
Saturday May 31 (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
Saturday May 31 (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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Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition
Saturday May 31 (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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Cameron Hayes
Saturday May 31 (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
Art: Photography
Architecture of Authority
Saturday May 31 (10am–6pm) @ Aperture Gallery More times »
Free
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
Saturday May 31 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times »
Free
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
Saturday May 31 (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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Telectroscope
Saturday May 31 @ Fulton Ferry Landing More times »
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British artist Paul St George says his great-grandfather wanted to link the US and England with a tunnel under the ocean. He also claims that... View details »
Telectroscope
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Bill Shannon
Saturday May 31 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
TELL
Saturday May 31 (7:30pm) @ Collective:Unconscious More times »
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Funny, serious, and daring, TELL is a collaborative theatre work that explores the phenomenon of confession by artfully weaving together a series of vignettes. An... View details »
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Christian Vincent
Saturday May 31 (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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Natsuki Uruma
Saturday May 31 (noon–6pm) @ Rivington Arms More times »
Free
Natsuki Uruma's early guerrilla performances interrupted the humdrum routine of public life with feats that most would only consider after a night of heavy drinking... View details »
Natsuki Uruma
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Purvis Young
Saturday May 31 (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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Laleh Khorramian
Saturday May 31 (11am–6pm) @ Salon 94 Freemans More times »
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I Without End, the title piece of Laleh Khorramian's second solo show at Salon 94 Freemans, is a three-channel video projection that reads like a... View details »
Laleh Khorramian
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Tom Sachs
Saturday May 31 (10am–6pm) @ Sperone Westwater More times »
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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 »
Tom Sachs
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Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson
Saturday May 31 (11am–6pm) @ Honey Space More times »
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Straying from the austere, white-washed norm, Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson's Portrait of Sylvia Elena leads gallery patrons to subterranean levels of mourning. The ground... View details »
Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson
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Francisco de Goya
Saturday May 31 (11am–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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JACK*%SS
Saturday May 31 (10am–6pm) @ Susan Inglett Gallery More times »
Free
When bug-eyed boys mace each other on MTV, they're jackasses, but when Chris Burden's studio assistant shoots him in the arm, it's art. The distinction... View details »
JACK*%SS
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Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
Saturday May 31 (10am–6pm) @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery More times »
Free
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?
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hamlet
Saturday May 31 (8pm) @ Delacorte Theater More times »
Free
Shakespeare's tale of murder and madness hasn't been staged at the Delacorte Theater since 1975, when Sam Waterston played the title role, but it's been... View details »
Art: Photography
Eminent Domain
Saturday May 31 (11am–6pm) @ New York Public Library More times »
Free
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