Events on Tuesday, July 7

Adult Ed presents <em>Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture</em>
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
More Flavor: Discussion
Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture
@ Union Hall
Tonight, the Adult Ed lecture series schools you on subliminal advertising, the evil behind marketing campaigns' endorsement of deferred responsibility, and...  View details »
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Kermit Ruffins & The Barbecue Swingers
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
Performing Arts: Dance
Kermit Ruffins & The Barbecue Swingers
@ Lincoln Center
With a knowing grin on his face and a smile in his voice, Kermit Ruffins kicks off the season with New...  View details »
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The Move featuring DJ Cleveland
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
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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<em>Frogs: A Chorus of Colors</em>
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
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Creative Time presents Steve McQueen: <em>Deadpan</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free Featured
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
<em>N&eacute;gritude</em>
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
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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 »
Ongoing
Fifth Annual Afro-Punk Festival
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
Performing Arts: Festival
Afro-Punk Festival
@ BAM
Promising "movies, music & revolution," BAM's annual Afro-Punk fest features acclaimed docs like the quiet A Man Named Pearl, the stirring...  View details »
Ongoing
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Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
Art
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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Comic Book Club
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
Nylon Fusion Collective presents <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
<em>South Pacific</em>
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
Invader
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
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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<em>Behind the Screen</em>: Video Game Technology
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>&nbsp;The Europeans: Struggles to Love</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
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Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
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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Huang Yong Ping
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
Free
undergroundzero festival
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
Lincoln Center Festival 2009
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
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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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Sputnik Chess Knights
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Spencer Finch: <em>The River That Flows Both Ways</em>
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>Waiting for Godot</em>
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
Public Art Fund presents Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith: <em>A Clearing in the Streets</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Our Town</em>
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
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Shane Hope: <em>Your Mom Is Open Source</em>
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>Billy Elliot</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Creating the Modern Stage: Designs for Theater and Opera</em>
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
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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<em>Sweet Storm</em>
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
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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<em>David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945</em>
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
Art
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Th&eacute;r&egrave;se Raquin</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
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Sixth-Annual Summer Play Festival
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
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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<em>6 works, 6 rooms</em>
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Slavic Soul Party!
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
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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Paragraph
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
<em>In the Heights</em>
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Wild Feature</em>
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
Art
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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Free Featured
<em>Whatever Works</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Iran Inside Out</em>
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
Art
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 »
Ongoing
<em>The Norman Conquests</em>
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
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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<em>Hair</em>
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions at the 1959 Inaugural
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
Art
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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Young Architects Program: YAP 10th Anniversary Review
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
Art
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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Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
Art: Architecture/Design
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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Performing Arts: Theatre
undergroundzero festival: WaxFactory & Eric Dean Scott
@ Performance Space 122
WaxFactory & Eric Dean Scott - Tales from Bordertown Let's get lost. Downtown performer Eric Dean Scott follows a trail of...  View details »
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The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
Art
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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SummerDANZ: Emerging Artists
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
Performing Arts: Dance
SummerDANZ: Emerging Artists
@ Dance Theater Workshop
This year our evening of emerging artists kicks off the festival with the work of Gregory Dolbashian, Sara Joel, and Sydney...  View details »
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Learn By Doing
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
Art: Architecture/Design
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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Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
Film
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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Dan Graham: Beyond
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
Art
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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Photoconceptualism, 1966-1973
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
Art
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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Lutz Bacher: <em>MY SECRET LIFE</em>
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
Art
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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Intervals
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
Art
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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Carlos Motta: <em>Brief History, (2005-2009)</em>
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
Art
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—Napoleon III and Paris
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
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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Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
Art
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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Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
Art
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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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
Art
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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Leandro Erlich: <em>Swimming Pool</em>
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
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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A Year with Children 2009
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
Art
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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Young Architects Program 2009: <em>Afterparty</em> by MOS
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
Art: Architecture/Design
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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Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
Art
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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Tully Tini @ AT65
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Tully Tini @ AT65
@ Lincoln Center
In the Lincoln Center area? Looking for a quick bite or drink?  Check out AT65 at Alice Tully Hall.
 ... 
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Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
Art
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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Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
Performing Arts: Theatre
Les Éphémères
@ Lincoln Center
From the matriarch of exploratory French theater comes a truly visionary play that, at its root, asks life’s ultimate question: What...  View details »
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
Art
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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Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Month_07 Tuesday Day_07
Film
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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Sadie Benning: Play Pause
Month_07 Wednesday Day_08
Art
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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