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Nayland Blake
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Tuesday Dec 2 (noon–6pm) @ Location One
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Location One presents a survey of Nayland Blake's provocative mixed-media work, drawing from nearly every facet of Blake's 25-year career. Blake, a New York native,... View details »
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Annie Leibovitz
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Friday Dec 5 (7pm) @ 192 Books
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From John and Yoko's unintended last farewell to Mylie Cryrus' bed-sheet inception of womanhood, Annie Leibovitz has stood squarely behind her apparatus through some of... View details »
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Catherine Opie
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Tuesday Dec 9 (7pm) @ The Strand
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With the mid-career survey of photographer Catherine Opie's career on view at the Guggenheim until January 7, the museum releases an exhibition catalogue that comprises... View details »
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The Dudion Levers
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Thursday Dec 11 (10am–6pm) @ Martos Gallery
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At the 1998 Grammys, "Director of Behavior" Michael Portnoy achieved as-seen-on-TV notoriety when he spazzed out beside a bewildered Bob Dylan with "Soy Bomb" scrawled... View details »
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Sean Fader
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Tuesday Dec 2 (8am) @ 3rd Ward
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Thespian and award-winning photographer Sean Fader reveals his unsettling self portraits at 3rd Ward's third solo art show. In the tradition of Cindy Sherman, Fader... View details »
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Rudy Burckhardt
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Tuesday Dec 2 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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While Weegee always set his aperture for shocking front-page shots, fellow émigré photographer Rudy Burckhardt captured Gotham's more quotidian spectacles. Equipped with an outsider's eye... View details »
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Broken Glass
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Tuesday Dec 2 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of the City of New York
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The South Bronx, cradle of hip-hop, was ironically an urban tomb of crumbled buildings and deserted streets during the music genre's gestation. Photographer Ray Mortenson's... View details »
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Mario Merz
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Tuesday Dec 2 (10am–6pm) @ Gladstone Gallery
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In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera ("poor art"), a movement... View details »
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Cory Arcangel
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Tuesday Dec 2 (10am–6pm) @ Team Gallery
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Cory Arcangel rose to art-world fame with his hall-of-mirrors work, which cleverly (and cheekily) reappropriates media to highlight technology's protean relationship with humans. From an... View details »
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Robert Morris
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Tuesday Dec 2 (10am–6pm) @ Leo Castelli Gallery
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Like Paris between the Wars, '60s New York was the epicenter of the art world — whether in theory, tectonic creativity, or the army of... View details »
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Richard Prince
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Tuesday Dec 2 (10am–6pm) @ Gagosian Gallery
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Part post-apocalyptic vision, part biographical flashback, Richard Prince's Canal Zone is set in primal overdrive. Filled with an abundance of virile bodies, pulp beauties, and... View details »
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Ann Lislegaard
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Tuesday Dec 2 (10am–6pm) @ Murray Guy
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For parts two and three of her highly referential 3D video trilogy, artist Ann Lislegaard filters her consuming mind-and-matter explorations about time, space, and human... View details »
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Mr.
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Tuesday Dec 2 (10am–6pm) @ Lehmann Maupin
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In 2005, the painter known as Mr. first creeped out New York with his disproportionate bobble-head sculptures of wide-eyed, Japanese youths, standing stark naked in... View details »
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Quilts of the 1930s
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Tuesday Dec 2 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch
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For Recycling & Resourcefulness, the American Folk Art Museum unfurls 12 quilts that were sewn together from secondhand fabrics by women during the Great You-Know-What.... View details »
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Cindy Sherman
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Tuesday Dec 2 (10am–6pm) @ Metro Pictures
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After a four-year hiatus, Cindy Sherman returns strong at Metro Pictures. Her striking self-portraits continue in the clever, satirical tradition of her earlier work, while... View details »
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Andreas Gursky
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Tuesday Dec 2 (11am–6pm) @ Matthew Marks Gallery
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Rave culture — its primordial Dionysian spirit of oneness decried as mind-numbingly repetitive or drug-induced — has languished outside the art world's alabaster walls for... View details »
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Perverted by Theater
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Tuesday Dec 2 (11am–6pm) @ Apex Art
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In the '60s, art critic Michael Fried claimed theatre was profoundly hostile to visual art. Curators Franklin Evans and Paul David Young mock his thesis,... View details »
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Gilbert & George
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Wednesday Dec 3 (10am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In 1970, the pair painted... View details »
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Pipilotti Rist
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Wednesday Dec 3 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA
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Video artist Pipilotti Rist exhibits a site-specific, immersive piece commissioned by MoMA across the museum's second-floor atrium. Attendees can walk around or observe these 25-foot-high... View details »
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Kate Gilmore
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Wednesday Dec 3 (noon–6pm) @ Smith-Stewart
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Whether they appear foolhardy or feminist, Kate Gilmore's masochistic video performances transfix with the same fear/fascination ratio as a ten-car pileup. For her new exhibition... View details »
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Elizabeth Peyton
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Wednesday Dec 3 (noon–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
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Elizabeth Peyton's first stateside exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and prints is at once vast and utterly intimate. More than 100 portraits feature an array of... View details »
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NeoHooDoo
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Thursday Dec 4 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
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In 1972, the poet Ishmael Reed decreed: "Neo-HooDoo believes that every man is an artist and every artist a priest." The sculptors and mixed-media artists... View details »
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Keith Haring
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Thursday Dec 4 (2–8pm) @ Deitch Studios
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Biblical law may have taken three days and an exodus, but Keith Haring's Ten Commandments have waited 23 years to grace our side of the... View details »
