Events on Tuesday, July 21
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- The Sound Flows Overground: A Busker's Ball
- @ Galapagos Art Space
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- Film: Documentary
- Gimme Shelter
- @ Maysles Cinema
- Let it bleed, indeed. Albert and David Maysles' expansive Rolling Stones doc Gimme Shelter — titled after the brooding lead track... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Red Directors
- @ Arlene's Grocery
- Local band Red Directors unleash their debut record tonight, offering fun, top-down cruisin' music. It's a meta-rock n' roll album, with... View details »
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- Music: Experimental
- Tortoise w/ Grey Reverend
- @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Grey Reverend
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- Music: DJ
- The Move featuring DJ Cleveland
- @ Sullivan Room
- Shake your week up with The Move featuring DJ Cleveland and special guests.... View details »
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- Beyond Race Magazine Party Hosted by Mark Demayo with Mayer Hawthorne & County and More!
- @ Santos Party House
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Jul 21, 2009 upstairsDoors @ 7 PM$10.00 AdvBeyond Race Magazine Anniversary Party with...MAYER HAWTHORNE &... View details »
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- Art
- Gallery Talk: African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Join educator Amy Silva as she visits the exhibition African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of... View details »
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- Music: Experimental
- Sessions At Santa's with Ducktails and Cassie (Harley and Cassie)
- @ Santos Party House
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Jul 21, 2009 downstairsDoors @ 10 PM$5 with RSVP/$10 dosResident DJ Spencer Sweeney +... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Catherine Russell and Cat & the Hounds Swing Band
- @ Lincoln Center
- Whether she's shimmying through a barrelhouse stomper, kicking up her heels honky-tonk style, or dragging her weary heart through a torchy... View details »
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- Nat Geo Music Residency w/ Jovannotti & Beco
- @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
- Nat Geo Music Residency is a free gallery party that features modern music from around the globe. Featuring DJ sets from... 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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- More Flavor: Discussion
- Comic Book Club
- @ The People's Improv Theater
- Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
- @ The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
- As we anxiously wait for the Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze's adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, this exhibition at... View details »
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- Film
- Whatever Works
- @ Various locations
- Long ago, Woody Allen owned up: his one regret in life was that he was not someone else. Yet, for the... 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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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Pilobolus
- @ The Joyce Theater
- Pilobolus has come to be synonymous with summer in New York, with the thrilling company staging an extensive, three-week stay at... 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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- Ben Tour
- @ Joshua Liner Gallery
- Bay Area artist Ben Tour's hypnotic and surreal mixed-media portraits both engage and obscure the identity of his subjects. Using quivering,... View details »
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- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Jazz in July
- @ 92nd St Y
- Acclaimed post-Bop pianist Bill Charlap returns for his fifth year as artistic director of this popular festival encapsulating all things jazz.... 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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- 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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- Film
- Humpday
- @ Angelika Film Center
- Don't let the doltish title dissuade: Humpday is a truly astute comedy of manners. Herein lies the basic setup behind Kelly... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Festival
- East to Edinburgh Festival
- @ 59E59 Theaters
- New York City audiences indulge in a small sampling of the cultural extravaganza that is the Edinburgh Festival Fringe! View details »
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- Performing Arts: Festival
- Lincoln Center Festival
- @ Lincoln Center
- Over the past decade, the Lincoln Center Festival has brought productions from the farthest reaches of the world to New York... View details »
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- NAKED!
- @ Paul Kasmin Gallery
- Out with the pretensions and in with the, ahem, naked truth. The Paul Kasmin Gallery celebrates the naked form through September,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- @ Various locations
- Think you know Shakespeare? Seen it all, have you? Not quite like this, you haven't. Nylon Fusion Collective's new production of... View details »
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- Art
- 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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- More Flavor: Competition
- Sputnik Chess Knights
- @ Sputnik
- Calling all chess nerds: Clinton Hill's Sputnik bar wants you to bust out a clever zwischenzug or risk a tricky gambit... 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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- 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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- 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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- Shane Hope
- @ Winkleman Gallery
- The hyper-technical world of future studies, nanotech, artificial intelligence, neurosystems, and the digital evolution all find accessible, even playful, expression in... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Europeans
- @ Atlantic Stage Two
- Howard Barker's The Europeans explores the scarring left in the wake of empire building. The already decaying Austro-Hungarian Empire and Habsburg... View details »
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- Spencer Finch
- @ The High Line, Chelsea Market Passage
- Brooklyn-based artist Spencer Finch is a man in search of lost time. He feeds viewers a Proustian Madeleine for their senses,... 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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- Iran Inside Out
- @ Chelsea Art Museum
- The Chelsea Museum presents what has to be one of the timeliest exhibitions in its history: Iran Inside Out. With violence... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Thérèse Raquin
- @ Atlantic Stage Two
- Like The Europeans, this second play of PTP's New York season is another portrait of a woman in distress. Èmile Zola's... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Summer Play Festival
- @ The Public Theater
- There's not a whole lot you can do in the New York theatre world for $20, but with the 2009 Summer... 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: Festival
- undergroundzero festival
- @ P.S. 122
- East River Commedia and Collective:Unconscious join forces with Performance Space 122 to host undergroundzero, a massive experimental-theatre festival. Curator Paul Bargetto... 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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- 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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- 6 works, 6 rooms
- @ David Zwirner
- David Zwirner takes full advantage of its adjacent gallery spaces and gives four walls to each of six pioneering conceptual and... 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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- Wild Feature
- @ Galerie Zurcher
- "Greater than an earful of CoolWhip or getting frisked at Newark Airport," Wild Feature lives up to its debaucherous premise, showing... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Soul Power
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- Soul Power documents the Zaire '74 all-star concert that set the stage for Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's legendary Rumble in... 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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- Invader
- @ Jonathan Levine Gallery
- If you've ever wondered what those Space Invaders are doing around the streets of New York, LA, or Paris — or... View details »
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- Deadpan
- @ 44 1/2
- This July, as part of the ongoing 44 1/2 series, Creative Time recontextualizes Steve McQueen's Deadpan, a restaging of a classic... 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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- 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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- Film: Documentary
- Died Young, Stayed Pretty
- @ IFC Center
- We've all been there: walking innocently down the street, only to be taken aback by a little poster tacked to a... View details »
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- Wondermare
- @ Apex Art
- Despite taking thematic queues from Alice in Wonderland, the latest exhibition at Apex is thoroughly modern. Entitled Wondermare, the piece is... 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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- Art: Photography
- Lynn Saville
- @ Yancey Richardson Gallery
- Known for her atmospheric, black-and-white city portraits, photographer Lynn Saville's latest body of color work, Night/Shift, presents a flaneur's view of... View details »
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- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Slavic Soul Party!
- @ Barbès
- While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain... View details »
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- Last Chance—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! This landmark exhibition is devoted to one of the most important painters of... 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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- Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
- @ Asia Society and Museum
- Sight Unseen showcases rarely seen video works from Afghanistan and Iran. The exhibition features Afghan artist Rahraw Omarzad and Iranian artist... View details »
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- Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The collections of African and Oceanic art in the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva,... 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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- 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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- The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Exploring the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and evolving ideals of beauty, The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion focuses on iconic... 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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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- BROWN AMBITION
- @ 59E59 Theaters
- A mix of stand-up, characters and hip-hop, Brown Ambition chronicles the life of Carolyn Castiglia (Miss CKC from MTV, VH1) as... View details »
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- Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- See the exhibition before it closes on Monday, September 7! Do you remember your first painting? Michelangelo’s biographers wrote that his... View details »
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- Carlos Motta: Brief History, (2005-2009)
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- P.S.1 presents Brief History, (2005-2009), the first solo project in a New York museum by Colombian-born, New York-based artist Carlos Motta.... 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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- 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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- Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America
- @ Asia Society and Museum
- Not just for history buffs, the Asian Journeys exhibition explores the socio-political context for the American collecting of Asian Art in... 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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- Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! American artist Roxy Paine (born in 1966) has created a 130-foot-long by 45-foot-wide... View details »
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- Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Ancient Afghanistan—at the crossroads of major trade routes and the focus of invasions... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- Premiere Brazil! 2009
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Premiere Brazil 2009, the seventh annual collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art and the Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival,... 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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- Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- When Esoteric Buddhism was introduced to Japan from mainland China in the 9th century, it forever changed the visual landscape of... View details »
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- Young Architects Program 2009: Afterparty by MOS
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- The Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center announce the winner of the 2009 MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program: the... View details »
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- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Jazz in July Summer Festival
- @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
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- Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Met’s unparalleled collection of American art includes some 45 sculptures by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), the American Beaux-Arts sculptor who worked... View details »
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- Dan Graham: Beyond
- @ Whitney Museum of American Art
- As one of contemporary art's most innovative and influential figures, Dan Graham has been at the forefront of many of the... View details »
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- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, A ROCK OPERA
- @ 59E59 Theaters
- Fickle teenage love, magic and comedy in this modern retelling of the Shakespeare classic. Madcap adventure and magic, underscored by a... 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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- 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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- Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Keith Christiansen and Michael Gallagher of the Met discuss their research and conservation of the first known painting by Michelangelo Buonarroti... 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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- 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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- The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- This is the first major museum exhibition to focus exclusively on “The Pictures Generation.” Educated in the self-reflexive and critical principles... View details »
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- Young Architects Program: YAP 10th Anniversary Review
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- YAP 10th Anniversary Review is a visual chronicle of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and The Museum of Modern Art's Young Architects... 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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