Events on Friday, June 12
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- More Flavor: Competition
- Air Sex World Championship
- @ Highline Ballroom
- Finally, the perfect competition for those of us who find no day complete without a proper air-hump. Austin's Air Sex Championship... View details »
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- More Flavor: Discussion
- Harold Ramis and David Cross
- @ The Times Center
- As the genius behind such genre-redefining comedies as Caddyshack, Animal House, Groundhog Day, and of course, Ghostbusters, Harold Ramis probably has... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Yoga Soundscape
- @ YogaWorks
- Recently, the experience of yoga in NYC has been particularly creative, with legions of New Yorkers moving through classes at the... 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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- 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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- More Flavor: City Gem
- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- machineX7
- @ HERE Arts Center
- Three uniformed dimwits (Trey Lyford, Geoff Sobelle, Gabriel Quinn Bauridel) wait for the enemy. Yet the guys' nonsensical machismo is unspecific... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Sports
- The Putting Lot
- @ The Putting Lot
- To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- 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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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Behind the Screen: Video Game Technology
- @ Museum of the Moving Image
- Sure, some of us like a microbrew to accompany our vintage video-gaming — and for that, we head to Barcade. But... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- Staunch! Grey Gardens Fest
- @ Maysles Cinema
- Fans have been daft about Big and Little Edie Beale — cloistered aunt and cousin of Jackie O. — ever since... 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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- Film: Festival
- Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
- @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
- For 20 years now, this festival has tirelessly recited those three little words: justice for all. This year's edition features dozens... 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Workshop
- Open Tables
- @ Sputnik
- Sometimes it feels like NYC's got as many "DJ"s as it does "actors." But, if you're a budding turntablist serious about... View details »
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- Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
- @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
- The Brooklyn Museum joins forces with the Met to present a well-chosen selection of art objects and manuscripts illuminating the Islamic... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Richard III: An Arab Tragedy
- @ BAM Harvey Theater
- Merciless warlords, political spin, and religious foment render the Shakespearean canon rich terrain for mining contemporary global unrest. Enter Kuwaiti director... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- The Antidepressant Festival
- @ The Brick Theater
- The Brick's Antidepressant Festival doesn't promise more traditional antidepressants (of the self-medicating sort) like tubs of ice cream or scotch, but... 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
- Sweet Storm
- @ The Kirk at Theatre Row
- Two southern newlyweds are the only characters present in Sweet Storm, but there is more than enough drama stemming from this... 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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- 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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- Film: Festival
- NYC Food Film Festival
- @ Various locations
- The most mouth-watering movie series in the city returns for its third-annual installment. Documentaries — like the shroomy (and Flaming Lips-scored)... 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
- Shafrika, the White Girl
- @ Vineyard Theatre
- The Brady Bunch meets The Bill Cosby Show in the age of Obama in Anika Larsen's autobiographical new musical Shafrika, the... 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: 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Stunning
- @ The Duke Theater
- David Adjmi's off-Broadway debut is a striking, and yes, stunning black satire of the insular Syrian-Jewish community in Midwood, Brooklyn. Teenage... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Festival
- Northside Music and Arts Festival
- @ Various locations
- CMJ better watch its back. The L magazine launches the inaugural Northside Festival this week, featuring the best in NYC —... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 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: 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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- 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: Dance
- Jennifer Muller/The Works
- @ The Joyce Theater
- Jennifer Muller has had her company with its great, to-the-point name for 35 years. The influential choreographer's signature technique is rooted... 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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- Art: Festival
- FIGMENT
- @ Governors Island
- Back for its third year, the massive community-art playground that is FIGMENT takes over Governors Island with a free weekend of... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Amish Project
- @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
- Jessica Dickey's The Amish Project occupies a nebulous zone between fact and fiction, billing itself as a "fictional exploration" of the... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Film: Documentary
- Frank Lloyd Wright: The Mike Wallace Interviews
- @ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- While in New York for the construction of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 90-year-old Frank Lloyd Wright was invited to be... View details »
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- The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions at the 1959 Inaugural
- @ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- When the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum first opened its doors in October 1959, the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda was filled with... View details »
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- Looking at Music: Side 2
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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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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- Art: Architecture/Design
- 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- View the exhibition Napoleon III and Paris before it closes on Monday, September 7 and explore the changing shape of Paris during... View details »
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- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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- Film: Documentary
- Art, Architecture, and Innovation: Celebrating the Guggenheim Museum
- @ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- In honor of its 50th Anniversary, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has produced a documentary film on the history of its... View details »
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- Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- See this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Learn how with strokes of genius, artists in the Middle Ages explored... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Art: Exhibition
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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