Events on Saturday, May 30
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- You Are Not Alone
- @ Highline Ballroom
- Hilarity meets highbrow wit at McSweeney's, Smith, and Rumpus magazine's literary bash at the Highline Ballroom. Hosted by Rumpus editor and... View details »
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- KRS-One
- @ Santos Party House
- While Relapse is busy forcing everybody to acknowledge that perhaps Eminem's perceived impact on rap is in desperate need of some... View details »
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- YoGA at the MoMA
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- The transformative art of yoga finds its way to the extraordinarily serene setting of the MoMA's sculpture garden. Flavorpill is honored... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Pilooski
- @ Secret Brooklyn location
- Sometimes we feel the disco edit scene has become too fruitful for its own good. For every tasteful reworking (Wurst, Soft... View details »
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- Gowanus Free Swap
- @ The BKLYN Yard
- This Saturday afternoon, friendly outdoor venue the BKLYN Yard is hosting a massive swap, where fashionable New Yorkers gather to rifle... View details »
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- Creating the Modern Stage
- @ The Morgan Library
- If only it was possible to see how designs for Creating the Modern Stage looked and functioned back in their original... View details »
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- Kenneth Anger
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- Kenneth Anger's supernaturally influential, six-decade-long career is not without its sighing what-ifs: several adaptations never went past maybe steps; famed shorts... View details »
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- Rashomon
- @ Film Forum
- Released in 1950, Rashomon left a seismic mark on cinema's landscape and language — not to forget lie-test graphs. Akira Kurosawa's... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Our Town
- @ Barrow Street Theater
- David Comer's justly praised production (he took home the '09 Obie for Outstanding Director, the play won the Lucille Lortel Award... View details »
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- The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Pictures Generation pulls the curtain on the young laboratory of the New York art scene in the '70s and '80s.... View details »
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- The Heart of a Woman: Harlequin Cover Art 1949-2009
- @ Open House Gallery
- Romance novels may not be taken seriously as literature, but this exhibition at Openhouse Gallery positions their covers as legitimate artwork.... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- The Complete Dardenne Brothers
- @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
- It should come as little surprise that hyperrealist Belgian auteurs Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne began with experimental, political, hard-knock documentaries —... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- South Pacific
- @ Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center
- Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific is one of those rare, magical experiences that makes musical theater... View details »
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- Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- For all its fundamental utility, language can also warp into an abstract whatsit — at least in the artful hands of... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- West Side Story
- @ The Palace Theatre
- Argentine opera singer Josephine Scaglione's magnetically angelic presence contrasts beautifully with the unforgiving world around her in Arthur Laurents' gritty revival... View details »
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- Jenny Holzer
- @ Whitney Museum of American Art
- Jenny Holzer thrives outside the more traditional, brick-and-mortar art world of paint and photography, using LED and light projection as her... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Play on Words
- @ 59E59 Theaters
- True to its title, Brian Dykstra's A Play on Words is an English major's idea of non-stop fun. A Play on... View details »
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- Frogs: A Chorus of Colors
- @ American Museum of Natural History
- What eats fish, fowl, snails, fruit, crawfish, and frogs? Frogs do. The neckless, tailless charmers of class Amphibia count some voracious... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- School of American Ballet
- @ Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Juilliard
- When philanthropist Lincoln Kirstein suggested to George Balanchine that they start their own ballet company (the future New York City Ballet),... View details »
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- Klaus Moje
- @ Museum of Art and Design
- As a German Down Under, glass-art virtuoso Klaus Moje has single-handedly made Australia a hub for that fine art's evolution. Artist... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Waiting for Godot
- @ Studio 54
- Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by... View details »
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- Ahmed Alsoudani
- @ Goff + Rosenthal Gallery
- Iraqi-born American painter Ahmed Alsoudani builds tumultuous compositions about violence, war, and human suffering, juxtaposing human and bestial figures whose violent... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Children's Hour
- @ Good Shepherd United Methodist Church
- One of the first Broadway plays to openly discuss female homosexuality, Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, from 1934, holds up remarkably... View details »
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- Surrendering the Absolutes
- @ Metro Pictures
- In Robert Longo's Surrendering the Absolutes, his signature large-scale charcoal drawings explore the atmospheric effects of light, and the ways in... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- A Clearing in the Streets
- @ Collect Pond Park
- The always awesome public-art sponsors at Public Art Fund debut a new downtown work by Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith. Their... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Things of Dry Hours
- @ New York Theatre Workshop
- Delroy Lindo returns to the New York stage as Tice Hogan, a black communist recruiter in depression-era Alabama whose values are... View details »
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- Huang Yong Ping
- @ Gladstone Gallery
- Viewers walk in spirals from a snake's tail to its head, and back again through the arches of this massive installation... View details »
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- Jonathan Horowitz
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- The connection between Paris Hilton and America's ill-fated military interventions might seem tenuous, but after viewing Jonathan Horowitz's sculptures and video... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Avedon Fashion 1944–2000
- @ International Center of Photography
- For photographer Richard Avedon, the decisive moment came as a flash of mischief. Picture: two lovely femmes, their coated backs shielding... View details »
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- Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- While the peripatetic, 20th-century artist may only have been the second most famous Francis Bacon to bless English shores, he was... View details »
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- Négritude
- @ Exit Art
- An ambitious multimedia exhibition in several parts, Négritude contemplates the inception, evolution, and contemporary international influence of a seminal 20th-century black... View details »
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- The Norman Conquests
- @ Circle in the Square Theatre
- Norman's plan for a "dirty weekend" with his sister-in-law Annie turns into a couple days of chaos with the whole family... View details »
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- The Dishwashers
- @ 59E59 Theaters
- Morris Panych's dark comedy The Dishwashers is reminiscent of a Samuel Beckett work, complete with existential philosophizing and dialogue that prompts... View details »
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- Make Love, Not War
- @ Black Betty
- During the day, Black Betty serves up solid samosas, couscous, and other North African/Mediterranean tasties; around midnight, the back room of... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- From Zane Grey's far-fetched dime novels to homespun images describing a seemingly limitless stretch of adventure, the American West — as... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- @ Richard Rodgers Theatre
- There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient... View details »
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- Brooklyn Indie Market
- @ Brooklyn Indie Market
- The Brooklyn Indie Market is the stateside equivalent of an Arab souk. Located a stone's throw from Smith Street's many tasty... View details »
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- Brooklyn Flea
- @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
- New Yorkers love their local secrets, whether it's an awesome taco truck or a hole-in-the-wall art gallery. Every Saturday in Fort... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Exit the King
- @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre
- 400-year-old King Berenger (Geoffrey Rush) doesn't know he has only 90 minutes left to live at the beginning of Ionesco's rarely... View details »
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- KRAZY!
- @ Japan Society
- For all the otaku and hikikomori out there, this exhibition needs no further explanation — but for anyone curious about how... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Success of Failure (or, The Failure of Success)
- @ St. Ann's Warehouse
- In her latest work, composer/singer/theatre artist Cynthia Hopkins explores when failure is actually success — and vice versa — voyaging from... View details »
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- Claes Oldenburg
- @ Whitney Museum of American Art
- With public-art dandy Claes Oldenburg, Pound's dictum seems especially true: all great art is born of the metropolis. The Whitney's Oldenburg... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Go-Go Killers!
- @ The Sage Theatre
- In the year 2019, the economy is in permanent economic downturn; the rich are richier and bitchier; New Jersey becomes "Old"... View details »
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- Nam June Paik
- @ James Cohan Gallery
- With his passing in 2006, Nam June Paik left a legacy as one of the ancestors of early video art. Paik's... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Next Fall
- @ Playwrights Horizons
- "You don't have to believe in hell to walk around all the time feeling like you're going to burn in it,"... View details »
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- Paragraph
- @ Paragraph
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... View details »
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- Japan Brand Pop-Up Store
- @ Felissimo Design House
- Bring home a taste (or a tasteful element) of Japan from Felissimo Design House's Japan Brand Pop-Up store. If MUJI just... View details »
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- Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
- @ Daryl Roth Theatre
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... View details »
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- Malcolm Morley
- @ Sperone Westwater
- Careening motocross and NASCAR racers skid across Malcolm Morley's new paintings — one even leaps through a monumental sculpture in a... View details »
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- Artists and Fleas
- @ Artists and Fleas
- The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to... View details »
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- charity: water at Chelsea Market
- @ Chelsea Market
- Flavorpill is a longtime fan of charity: water, a non-profit org dedicated to building sustainable, clean, freshwater wells in some of... View details »
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- Jessica Stockholder
- @ Senior & Shopmaker Gallery
- Jessica Stockholder gets wild with layered compositions of paint blobs, handmade paper, laser-cut textiles (some furry, some shiny), and other collaged... View details »
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- Spring Exhibitions
- @ Artists Space
- Flowers that manage to exist in cement-road crevices: a timeless analogy for nature's resiliency in the face of man, and also,... View details »
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- Red Hook Ball Fields Vendors
- @ Red Hook Ball Fields
- Foodies, rejoice! Sunday, May 2 marks the season opening of the Red Hook Ball Fields — as well as the dozen-plus... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Our House
- @ Playwrights Horizons
- Whip-smart playwright Theresa Rebeck's newest play, Our House, is a dark send-up of television and how the news and reality TV... View details »
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- Getaway
- The Zen Escape: Hike & Yoga
- @ Hudson Valley
- If you feel like Robinson Crusoe in New York — shipwrecked among 8 million people — then this daytrip is the... View details »
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- Yoga & Raw Food Expo
- @ The New Yorker Hotel
- No stranger to world religions or tip-to-toe purging, the New Age movement we all thought faded away is back. NY Yoga... View details »
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- Hair
- @ The Al Hirschfeld Theatre
- Although Hair was written over 40 years ago, capturing the spirit of a certain movement and period in our history, its... View details »
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- Polish Posters 1945-1989
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Bracketed by those historic "falls" in nearby Berlin (of the city itself and, later, its Wall), the Polish Poster School's expressionistic,... View details »
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- God of Carnage
- @ Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
- A playground altercation between two preteen boys escalates to full-on war when their parents get involved in French playwright Yasmina Reza's... View details »
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- Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea
- @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
- Thirty-odd years after reintroducing Gustave Caillebotte to American audiences, the Brooklyn Museum offers another marvelous paean to a figure whose posthumous... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Sleepwalk With Me
- @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker
- Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells... View details »
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- David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
- @ International Center of Photography
- By August 1944, France had been liberated from the clutch of the Vichy regime, but war had left its proud-as-a-peacock couture... View details »
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- Coraline
- @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
- It's no fluke that beloved songwriter Stephin Merritt chose to set Neil Gaiman's book-turned-movie Coraline to music. The darkly droll circumstances... View details »
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- Stuart Semple
- @ Anna Kustera Gallery
- The toast of London's contemporary art world, Stuart Semple brings a warped progression on Pop Art to New York. Everlasting, Nothing... View details »
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- Le Serpent Rouge
- @ 303 Bond Street
- The original "origin" story is another glittery triumph for choreographer/director Austin McCormick and XIV. With the assistance of a demonic Ringmistress... View details »
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- Gregory Crane
- @ Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts
- A champion of the good old-fashioned methods of observation and draughtsmanship, Gregory Crane populates urban and rural landscapes with spirited sets... View details »
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- True West
- @ 181 Ave B
- "I wanted to write a play about double nature, one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff,"... View details »
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- \'flō\: art, text, new media
- @ Center for Book Arts
- A motley collection of works by 30 artists makes up the \'flō\: art, text, new media exhibition, which examines the use... View details »
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- Billy Elliot
- @ Imperial Theatre
- The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- At mid-century MoMA played a leading role in the definition and dissemination of so-called Good Design, a concept that took shape... View details »
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- Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message... View details »
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- The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- After two years of major construction and renovation, the Met’s Charles Engelhard Court—the spectacular, light-filled pavilion along Central Park—has reopened to... View details »
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- Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
- @ Whitney Museum of American Art
- One of the most innovative artists of the postwar period, Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) is best known for sculptures and drawings... View details »
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- Intervals
- @ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Intervals is a new contemporary art series designed to reflect the spirit of today’s most innovative practices. Conceived to take place... View details »
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- Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool, an extraordinary and visually confounding installation by the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich.... View details »
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- Sculpture in Color
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- This summer's installation in The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden celebrates the bold use of color in modern and contemporary sculpture.... View details »
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- In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- In recent decades "landscape" has taken on an expanded definition in architecture. In the first half of the twentieth century, the... View details »
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- Sadie Benning: Play Pause
- @ Whitney Museum of American Art
- Artist Sadie Benning is known for her experimental video narratives, which she started making in the late 1980s. First shown here... View details »
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- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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- A Year with Children 2009
- @ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- A Year with Children 2009 showcases art by students participating in Learning Through Art (LTA), an artist-in-residence program of the Solomon... View details »
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- Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, acquired by the Museum in 2005, is an extraordinary collection of over 2,500 contemporary... View details »
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- Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
- @ Asia Society and Museum
- Check out the premiere U.S. museum showing of Yang Fudong's Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest. The five-part cinematic masterpiece depicts... View details »
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- Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Visual artists have long been interested in the stage as an arena for experimentation, and their interdisciplinary collaborations have immeasurably enriched... View details »
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- Learn By Doing
- @ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- In conjunction with Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, the Sackler Center for Arts Education presents Learning By Doing, an exhibition... View details »
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- Photoconceptualism, 1966-1973
- @ Whitney Museum of American Art
- The final installment in a three-part series taking a closer look at photography in the Whitney’s collection, this exhibition focuses on... View details »
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- Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward
- @ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Come celebrate the 50th anniversary of the newly restored Frank Lloyd Wright-designed landmark—the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The anniversary year opens... View details »
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- Lutz Bacher: MY SECRET LIFE
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is pleased to present MY SECRET LIFE, Lutz Bacher's first museum survey exhibition, which spans several decades... View details »
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