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Art
Walton Ford
Thursday May 8 (10am–6pm) @ Paul Kasmin Gallery More times »
Free
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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Zhang Huan
Thursday May 8 (6–8pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times »
Opening
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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Tom Sachs
Thursday May 8 (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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Kanishka Raja
Thursday May 8 (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
Thursday May 8 (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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Lots of Things Like This
Thursday May 8 (11am–6pm) @ Apex Art More times »
Free
Author and McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers curates this show of whip-smart, witty one-liners, selected for their playful mix of text and image. The list of... View details »
Lots of Things Like This
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Anne Hardy
Thursday May 8 (10am–6pm) @ Bellwether Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Anne Hardy
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Tamara Kostianovsky
Thursday May 8 (11am–6pm) @ Black & White Gallery More times »
Free
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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The New Normal
Thursday May 8 (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
Art
Residential Erection
Thursday May 8 (11am–6pm) @ Postmasters More times »
Free
In his new show Residential Erection, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung lifts the veil on American politics with the biting wit of a political cartoonist and the... View details »
Residential Erection
Art
Recent Icelandic Art
Thursday May 8 (noon–6pm) @ Scandinavia House More times »
Free
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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The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Thursday May 8 (10am–6pm) @ Susan Inglett Gallery More times »
Free
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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Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition
Thursday May 8 (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
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Adolph Gottlieb
Thursday May 8 (9:30am–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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Purvis Young
Thursday May 8 (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
Art: Photography
Eminent Domain
Thursday May 8 (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