Events on Tuesday, August 18
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- DJ Premier vs Pete Rock
- @ Red Hook Ball Fields
- If you stuck Jesus and Moses behind a pair of turntables, the result would resemble this event. As far as hip-hop... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Bring Your Own Pinot w/ Daniel Johnnes
- @ City Winery
- We are honored to host our good friend Daniel Johnnes celebrate the launch of his new Oregon and Burgundy wines under... View details »
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- Kurt Andersen and Regina Spektor
- @ Barnes & Noble
- At first pass, singer/songwriter Regina Spektor and penman/radio personality Kurt Andersen may seem strange stage-fellows. But Barnes & Noble's Upstairs at... View details »
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- Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival Rescheduled Show--Feat. Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog w/special guest Eszter Balint
- @ City Winery
- This Week Featuring Mark Ribot, rescheduled from a previous date! Ribot’s melodies flow with classical guitar style as he drifts and... View details »
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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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- Mugison partners with Amnesty International for a free show
- @ City Winery
- Mugison Returns to New York To Play The Five... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Breeders
- @ The Bowery Ballroom
- This Spring sees the release of the first Breeders... View details »
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- Diane Birch w/ Hard Drugs
- @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Diane Birch
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Doors 6:30 | show 7:30 | Diane Birch 8:30
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- Gallery Talk: 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, August 23! Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages celebrates the... View details »
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- Nat Geo Music Residency with DJ Afro (Los Amigos Invisibles) and Mat Geo
- @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
- Nat Geo Music Residency is a free gallery party that features modern music from around... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Staycation II: Free Comedy
- @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
- Back by popular demand, the second Staycation is here! We had great success two weeks ago with the first show and... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Ambulance LTD
- @ The Mercury Lounge
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- Reading: Poetry
- Word for Word Poetry Reading in Bryant Park
- @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
- Housing Works co-sponsors a poetry reading at the Bryant Park Reading Room. Featuring Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Ada Limon, and Robert Polito. View details »
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- More Flavor: Discussion
- Harvesting Legacies from the Land with Author David Mas Masumoto
- @ 92YTribeca
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Ron Binaghi Jr., Ron Binaghi Sr., Fred Wilklow and Cheryl Rogowski (panel)
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- Performing Arts
- A Little Night Music: Borromeo String Quartet
- @ Lincoln Center
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- Music: Folk/Country
- Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson
- @ Joe's Pub
- "Smoke don't rise, fuel don’t burn, sun don’t shine no more Late one night, sorrow come round,... View details »
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- Lemonade with Cale Parks, Dinowalrus, Teengirl Fantasy and JDH & Dave P (FIXED)
- @ Santos Party House
- Psych-electronic trio LEMONADE invades Santos with their fantasy landscapes and outsider beats. To further the ride is CALE PARKS, DINOWALRUS, TEENGIRL... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Angel Taylor
- @ Joe's Pub
- A passionate blend of youthful innocence, soulful essence and a spiritual center, Angel Taylor is every bit... 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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- Visit the Met blog “Medieval Garden Enclosed”
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Take a break from city life and visit the Met’s blog dedicated to your neighboring medieval garden! July 1, 2009 marked the first anniversary... 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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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Re:Construction
- @ Various locations
- Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried... 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
- 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: 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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- Flame and Citron
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- After the last fretted and beautifully stylized episode in Flame and Citron, Ole Christian Madsen's name appears beside the Danish word... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Is Life Worth Living?
- @ The Mint Theater
- Lennox Robinson's 1933 comedy is set in a sleepy Irish resort town where a troupe of third-rate actors has unleashed Russian... 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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- One-Eyed Auteurs
- @ Anthology Film Archives
- Mid-century Hollywood had enough eye-patched directors roaming its lots to form a themed doo-wop group: John Ford, Fritz Lang, Nicholas Ray,... View details »
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Film: Documentary
- Gotta Dance
- @ Beekman Theatre
- With the tagline "Age doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese," Gotta Dance sets its defiant yet humorous tone right from... 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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- Film: Festival
- Natalie Wood
- @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
- Angelic film icon Natalie Wood made a career playing innocent leading ladies with a bit of a bad-girl flair that endeared... 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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- 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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- 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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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design-to-Go
- @ Blank SL8
- Marrying a contemporary design aesthetic to old-fashioned wanderlust, the Design-to-Go pop-up boutique by retailer AREAWARE presents an alternative view of the... 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
- 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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- 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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- Lorna's Silence
- @ Various locations
- Lorna's Silence — the Dardenne brothers' latest piece of blue-collar verisimilitude — merits neither the "master" prefix nor the lambasting it's... 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: Festival
- NY Fringe Festival
- @ Various downtown theaters
- With more than 200 shows crammed into roughly two weeks, the Fringe is a feat of endurance. Urinetown, 21 Dog Years,... 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
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- SUMMER SHORTS 3
- @ 59E59 Theaters
- The critically acclaimed festival of one acts returns to 59E59 Theaters for a third sizzling summer season! This festival of eight... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Said Tayeb Jawad, speaks about the rich culture and history of Afghanistan at... 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—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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- 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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- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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- Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
- @ Brooklyn Bowl
- Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,... View details »
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Louis Langrée conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, featuring Jeffrey Kahane
- @ Lincoln Center
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Louis Langrée, conductor
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Randall Ellis, oboe
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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