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Ignite NYC
Tuesday July 29 (7:30pm) @ M1-5
Free
Geeks rule the world, and these days, it seems like everyone is trying to be one, getting all Asperger's on everything from geopolitics to cupcakes.... View details »

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Art
Recent Icelandic Art
Tuesday July 29 (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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Christian Vincent
Tuesday July 29 (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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Francisco de Goya
Tuesday July 29 (10am–6pm) @ Peter Blum Gallery Soho More times »
Free
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
Tuesday July 29 (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
Art: Photography
Bill Owens
Tuesday July 29 (10am–6pm) @ James Cohan Gallery More times »
Free
Famous for his eviscerating depiction of middle-class suburbia, photographer Bill Owens ventures out into America's proverbial backyard. Owens tours the churches, amusement parks, roadside vistas,... View details »
Bill Owens
More Flavor: City Gem
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Tuesday July 29 @ Various locations in the East River More times »
Free
Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns to the source for... View details »
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
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Tetsumi Kudo
Tuesday July 29 (10am–6pm) @ Andrea Rosen Gallery More times »
Free
The first US gallery exhibition of Tetsumi Kudo's bright but morbid sculptures introduces American audiences to one of contemporary art's lesser-known forerunners. Working in Japan... View details »
Tetsumi Kudo
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The World's Smallest Art Fair
Tuesday July 29 (11am–6pm) @ Anna Kustera Gallery More times »
Free
When art imitates art fairs, the layers of irony are just too rich. Anna Kustera has converted her spacious gallery into an information center designed... View details »
The World's Smallest Art Fair
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If Love Could Have Saved You, You Would Have Lived Forever
Tuesday July 29 (10am–6pm) @ Bellwether Gallery More times »
Free
So summer isn't the ideal time for reflecting on death, but in Chelsea, it is the season for thematic group shows. Bellwether exhibits remembrances of... View details »
If Love Could Have Saved You, You Would Have Lived Forever
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Os Gemeos
Tuesday July 29 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
Free
Os Gemeos (the Twins) turn the walls of the world into sprawling krylon villages, incorporating whimsical imagery from their native São Paulo and Coney Island's... View details »
Os Gemeos
Performing Arts: Theatre
Twelve Ophelias
Tuesday July 29 @ McCarren Park Pool More times »
Free
Twelve Ophelias picks up where Hamlet left off: Ophelia re-emerges from the water after her suicidal drowning and sets off to overcome the past and... View details »
Twelve Ophelias
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Artist as Publisher
Tuesday July 29 (10–6pm) @ Center for Book Arts More times »
Free
In response to art-world elitism, or simply for lack of a better option, many young, independently minded artists have taken to publishing as a means... View details »
Artist as Publisher
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Good Wood 2008
Tuesday July 29 @ 3rd Ward More times »
Free
Though skateboard designers get bonus points for allowing their work to be defaced on handrails and curbs, deck art deserves its own unscuffed moment. Good... View details »
Good Wood 2008
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Constraction
Tuesday July 29 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
Free
Steel your stomach for a dose of kinetic op-art before entering Constraction, an exhibition devoted to new modernist technique. Tauba Auerbach's 50/50 black-and-white tile sets... View details »
Constraction
Art: Photography
Gerald Dearing
Tuesday July 29 (11am–7pm) @ Gallery Nine5 More times »
Free
The recently opened Gallery Nine5 in Nolita presents photographs by Gerald Dearing, who was born in Normandy as WWII raged around him. He immigrated to... View details »
Gerald Dearing
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Crop Rotation
Tuesday July 29 (10am–6pm) @ Marianne Boesky Gallery More times »
Free
Reduce. Reuse. Remediate. The thoughtful and invigorating Crop Rotation brings together work by artists who each do their part to minimize waste, be it theoretical... View details »
Crop Rotation
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Painting Now & Forever Part II
Tuesday July 29 (10am–6pm) @ Greene Naftali More times »
Free
A return to good old-fashioned painting, this 42-artist group exhibition is a welcome respite from the predictable deluge of overly conceptual art. Merlin Carpenter's Gallows... View details »
Painting Now & Forever Part II
Art: Photography
Eminent Domain
Tuesday July 29 (11am–7:30pm) @ 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
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I Won't Grow Up
Tuesday July 29 (10am–6pm) @ Cheim & Read More times »
Free
The solidly enjoyable summer show I Won't Grow Up presents on-the-radar artists at their most childlike. Mark Fox's video Nutzilla catches a ginormous monocled Mr.... View details »
I Won't Grow Up
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The Science Barge
Tuesday July 29 (4pm) @ Riverside Park South More times »
Free
Take a 45-minute guided tour of the city's only functioning, large-scale sustainable farm: the Science Barge boasts a vegetable garden grown by 100% renewable energy... View details »
The Science Barge