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apexart - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for apexart. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

“KANTEN 観展: The Limits of History” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2023-03-24 - 2023-05-20
Curated by Eimi Tagore-Erwin KANTEN 観展 is a play on the Japanese kanji for 観点 kanten, perspective, and 展覧会 tenrankai, art exhibition—coming together to indicate an exhibition of perspectives. KANTEN...More »
“My Pen Won’t Break, But Borders Will” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2023-01-13 - 2023-02-11
Curated by Julia Hartmann The exhibition is a response to Parwana Amiri—a teenage girl from Afghanistan—who arrived on the Greek island of Lesvos in 2019, in hopes of a safer and happier life. What...More »
“Flora Fantastic: Eco-Critical Contemporary Botanical Art” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2022-11-04 - 2022-12-23
Curated by Corina L. Apostol and Tashima Thomas The nature of plants can be two-sided, as the line between poison and panacea is often thin. The knowledge of what heals and what is a hazard can be...More »
“Oh, I Love Brazilian Women!” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2022-01-14 - 2022-03-12
Curated by Luiza Testa Featuring Work By: Benedita Arcoverde Santarosa Barreto Lenora de Barros June Canedo de Souza Vitória Cribb Micaela Cyrino Camilla D’Anunziata Brenda Nicole Juliana...More »
“Dance Trans* Revolution” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2021-11-05 - 2021-12-23
Curated by After Party Collective (Vidisha-Fadescha & Shaunak Mahbubani) Featuring Work By: 7thGrl a.k.a. Liniya, Grace Banu, Jonathan Eden, Habibitch, Jasmine Infiniti, LoMaasBello &...More »
“The Nature of the Beast: Meditations on Life, Death, and the Art of Collecting” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2021-09-10 - 2021-10-23
curated by JD Powe and Morbid Anatomy From intricate Victorian dioramas featuring squirrels and frogs engaged in whimsical human pursuits, to a stunning array of taxidermy pets frozen in time, to hundreds...More »
“Beyond Metaphor: Women and War” Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Installation
- 2021-05-28 - 2021-07-31
Curated by Katarzyna Falęcka Artists: Marwa Arsanios, Kader Attia, Katia Kameli, Nadja Makhlouf, Zineb Sedira Beyond Metaphor: Women and War showcases the work of five contemporary artists...More »
“Queer-y-ing the Arab” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2021-03-19 - 2021-05-15
Curated by the Earl of Bushwick Artists: Jamil Hellu, Aghiles Mana, Queer Habibi, Rima Najdi, The Earl of Bushwick, Elias Wakeem In the bath-house, the mysteries hidden by trousers / Are revealed...More »
“Souls Grown Diaspora” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Installation
- 2020-01-11 - 2020-03-07
Curated by Sam Gordon Featuring Work By: Alvin Baltrop Raynes Birkbeck Stephanie Crawford Curtis Cuffie Otis Houston Jr. Dapper Bruce Lafitte Reverend Joyce McDonald Sara Penn Frederick Weston Wesley...More »
“The Tribeca Show” Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Installation - Performance Art
- 2019-12-05 - 2019-12-21
curated by Carl Glassman and April Koral Through the perspectives of five long-time Tribeca-based photographers and one local poet, this show provides diverse and divergent views of the neighborhood...More »
“Musow Ka Touma Sera” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2019-11-30 - 2019-12-30
curated by Fatima Bocoum In a quest to shatter the restrictive cultural norms that govern women in Mali, the exhibition Musow Ka Touma Sera presents work from six Malian women artists that provide...More »
“The Criminal Type” Exhibition
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- Media: Photography
- 2019-09-07 - 2019-10-26
Curated by Elizabeth Breiner Featuring work by: Joy Buolamwini Paolo Cirio Heather Dewey-Hagborg Eric Etheridge Stephen Maturen Zora J. Murff Josh Ritchie Arne Svenson What does a criminal...More »
“Occupational Hazards” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2019-05-30 - 2019-07-27
Occupational Hazards is dedicated to artworks that have been lost, damaged, or destroyed while being shipped throughout the Middle East—whether by deliberate force or through passive negligence. In its...More »
“How to Travel in Time” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2018-11-08 - 2018-12-22
organized by S.I. Rosenbaum Featuring work by: Morehshin Allahyari Lee Brogan Hector Ferreiro Nicholas Galanin Gideon Rubin Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind EXHIBITION ESSAY: “The prime purpose...More »
“Outlaw Glass” Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2017-03-30 - 2017-05-27
Artists: Alex Aitken, Joseph Aitken, Stan Alba, Kristian Alex, B$, Kurt B, Tommy B, Banjo, Ben Barocas, Big Z, CapNCrunk, Colton, Coyle, DIET, Jarred Dlux, Dwreck, Elbo, Chandler Ellis, Kiva Ford, G-Check,...More »
“Setting Out” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2016-01-21 - 2016-03-05
Setting Out seeks to untangle the terms that motivate and define contemporary expeditions. It holds in one hand the historical legacy of science, art, and society and their pursuit of all knowable and...More »
“Alternative Unknowns: an exhibition of potential emergency” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2015-11-05 - 2015-12-19
Curators Elliott P. Montgomery and Chris Woebken, co-founders of the speculative design research practice “The Extrapolation Factory,” experiment with new methods for extending speculative design to a...More »
“Life After Death and Elsewhere” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture
- 2015-09-10 - 2015-10-24
organized by Robin Paris and Tom Williams Life After Death and Elsewhere will focus on designs by the prisoners for their own memorials, which take various forms such as drawings, photographs, paintings,...More »
“Profiled: Surveillance of a Sharing Society” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2015-06-04 - 2015-07-25
organized by Mary Coyne In the wake of recent events such as Edward Snowden exposing NSA’s egregious breach of personal privacy and accusations of social media platforms such as Facebook controlling...More »
“Feel Big Live Small” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2015-03-19 - 2015-05-16
Dioramas and miniatures are used in the field of architecture to preview a vision, in cinema to create a fabricated, world, and in workshops as a means for children to process traumatic events. There are...More »
“FOOT NOTES: On the Sensations of Tone” Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Video installation
- 2015-01-15 - 2015-03-07
Contemporary musicians and sound artists are indebted to the 19th century German physicist Herman Helmholtz (1821-1894) who authored On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of...More »
David Bianculli “Bianculli’s Personal Theory of TV Evolution”
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- Media: Media Arts
- 2014-11-06 - 2014-12-20
Among the treasures on view are the story board from Breaking Bad’s final episode, Mr. Rogers’ iconic sweater and sneakers, Rod Serling’s typewriter, and surrealist puppets from the soon-to-be-retired...More »
“Decolonized Skies” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2014-09-11 - 2014-10-25
Since the invention of aerial photography during the last decades of the 19th century, the sky above our heads has become a territory subjected to militarized conflicts over mastery and command. Following...More »
“The Hidden Passengers” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2014-05-22 - 2014-07-26
Scientific research aspires to systematically build and organize knowledge, to explain and understand the universe. The role of art in scientific research was once very clear. 16th Century Belgian physician...More »
“Coding the Body” Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Other
- 2014-03-20 - 2014-05-10
Our bodies and our lives are defined by codes. Smart phone apps tell us where we are, genetic codes map our past and future, and religious codes mandate what we can put in and on our bodies. Exoskeletons...More »
“Current Conditions” Film Screening
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- Media: Film - Video installation
- 2014-03-06 - 2014-03-06
The artists included in Current Conditions comment on the failure of physical and mental limits to contain the many itinerations of people and their societies, ideologies, and ambitions. The program...More »
“Private Matters” Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2014-01-16 - 2014-03-01
In recent years, it has become increasingly apparent that the revelation of classified information and confidential documents is no longer the sole province of journalists or mere fodder for Hollywood...More »
“SCARYOKE!!!” Exhibition
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- Media: Art Party - Performance Art
- 2013-11-07 - 2013-12-21
SCARYOKE!!! An inquiry into the joy and terror of singing in public, with snacks. Singing can be joyous. Research shows that music produces a wash of chemicals to the brain—endorphins and serotonin...More »
“Death of a Cameraman” Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-09-12 - 2013-10-26
On June 29, 2011, in the neighborhood of Karam Shami in Homs, Syria, a young man stands on the rooftop of a building. He uses his cell phone to document gunfire taking place in the streets below as his...More »
“<laughter>” Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-05-23 - 2013-07-27
In January 1962, an unexplained laughter epidemic began in the town of Kashasha in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in Central Africa, spanning six months, spreading through the region, and affecting hundreds....More »
“Exhibition Space” Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Installation
- 2013-03-21 - 2013-05-08
In August 1960, the fledgling NASA launched Echo I, a mirrored spherical balloon, or “satelloon,” 100 feet across, which was inflated 1,000 miles above the earth. Nominally a reflective communications...More »
“Video Slink Uganda” Exhibition
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- Media: Video installation
- 2013-02-06 - 2013-03-06
Synopsis Video Slink Uganda is a multi-part project that explores the language of video, cultural translations and transpositions, as well as contemporary media distribution and reproduction. It consists...More »
“Open Sesame” Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Sculpture - Installation
- 2013-01-17 - 2013-03-02
The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, and the Gulf wars that ensued, contributed to violence that is still very much a part of the region today, twenty-two years later. These wars have shaped...More »
“As Real As It Gets” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation
- 2012-11-16 - 2012-12-22
In the savvy 21st century, we view commercial material culture as inauthentic, phony, and less than legitimate. Or at least, that’s what we say we think. As Real As It Gets puts a different idea on offer...More »
"UNREST: Revolt against Reason" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Prints - Installation - Video installation
- 2012-09-12 - 2012-10-27
“Revolt against Reason!” stated Herbert Marcuse in his 1972 book Counter-Revolution and Revolt. Writing against the backdrop of the escalating Vietnam War, Marcuse judged that the conditions of twentieth...More »
"The Permanent Way" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography
- 2012-06-06 - 2012-07-28
July 1 is the sesquicentennial of the Pacific Railway Act, the federal legislation that enabled the development of the first transcontinental railroads. This exhibition marks the occasion by bringing together...More »
"Consent" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2012-03-21 - 2012-05-12
When apexart approached me about curating an art show on the topic of pornography, it struck me that porn is a difficult thing around which to structure an intelligent dialogue, especially from an art...More »
"The Walls That Divide Us"
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- Media: Photography - Prints - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2011-11-09 - 2011-12-22
In the early 1990s, Western-style liberal democracies appeared as the archetypal form of government from which a peacekeeping transnational power would emerge. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in...More »
"Private Stash: A Musician’s Eye" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography
- 2011-09-08 - 2011-10-29
Private Stash is a look at the varied influences that have helped shape jazz musician Fred Hersch’s life and work to date. The exhibition is a highly personal immersion into the music, artwork, and life...More »
"The Peripheterists" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Other
- 2011-06-01 - 2011-07-30
Tony Bennett pointed to a Kokoschka landscape in a book at Hacker's on 57th Street and said he liked what Oskar did "along the peripheter," coining a term of surprising relevance. Though referring to the...More »
"Let It End Like This" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Other
- 2011-03-09 - 2011-05-14
Elna Baker’s stories have appeared on This American Life, BBC Radio 4, The Moth, Studio 360, and at the UCB Theater. She's written for ELLE, Glamour and Five Dials Literary Journal. She's also the author...More »
" Change the Channel: WCVB‐TV 1972–1982" Exhibition
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- Media: Other - Video installation
- 2011-01-12 - 2011-03-05
Change the Channel: WCVB‐TV 1972–1982 focuses on the grassroots takeover of a corporate television station in Boston. The individuals who won the rights to operate the channel -- a collective of academics...More »
"Comvideo" Exhibition
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- Media: Video installation
- 2010-11-10 - 2010-12-22
We invited artists and creative others from around the world to cut, dub, reverse, add to, and otherwise manipulate at least one broadcast commercial and submit a 60 second video. We are asking you to...More »
"You can't get there from here but you can get here from there" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography
- 2010-09-15 - 2010-10-30
Curated by Courtenay Finn, including work by: Sophie Calle, Patty Chang, Rodney Graham, Joachim Koester, Kris Martin, Bruce Nauman, Allen RuppersbergMore »
"Men With Balls: The Art of the 2010 World Cup" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Video installation - Art Talk
- 2010-06-10 - 2010-07-11
Including work by artists Miguel Calderon, Hellmuth Costard, Liam Gillick, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, Mark Leckey, Maria Marshall, Santo Tolone, and Uri Tzaig with memorabilia contributed by...More »
"Digital Domination - Cyber Nation" Exhibition
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- Media: Digital
- 2010-05-27 - 2010-06-04
apexart once again partners with high school students from Satellite Academy to present a group exhibition of contemporary artists. The student curators organize all aspects of the project including developing...More »
"Don't Piss on Me and Tell Me it's Raining" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2010-04-07 - 2010-05-22
Curated by Bad at Sports Featuring objects, images, and ephemera.More »
"The Incidental Person" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2010-01-06 - 2010-02-20
The late British artist John Latham (1921-2006) coined the expression “the Incidental Person” in the context of Artist Placement Group, known as APG, which he co-founded in 1966 with Barbara Steveni, Jeffrey...More »
"AVANT-GUIDE TO NYC: Discovering Absence" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Installation - Video installation
- 2009-11-04 - 2009-12-19
Curated by Sandra Skurvida, eighteen contemporary artists map sites of New York avant-garde in new works created for this exhibition. [Image: Dexter Sinister (2009)]More »
"A Way Beyond Fashion" Exhibition
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- Media: Fashion
- 2009-09-16 - 2009-10-24
A Way Beyond Fashion analyzes the shifting boundaries between art and fashion design. The selected 11 artists and designers blur the lines between the two disciplines when exploring phenomena related to...More »
"It's Not a Lie if You Believe It" Artist Talk
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-07-29 - 2009-07-29
Current apexart resident British artist Kelly Warman and Matthew Lyons, curator for the Kitchen, discuss the translation of the written word into performative, mediated and cinematic space, focusing on...More »
"Wondermare" Exhibition
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- Media: Video installation - Digital
- 2009-07-08 - 2009-08-08
"Wondermare" is based on the notion that much of the behavioral conditioning programmed in our subconscious is the unhealthy byproduct of a world out of balance, a "house of cards" on the brink of catastrophe;...More »
"Franchise" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Film
- 2009-06-10 - 2009-07-03
While the franchise is on view in L.A., apexart will present an exhibition that comments on business strategies adopted by the artworld and the process of the franchise project. In December, apexart...More »
"I Can’t Get No Satisfaction: Contemporary Views on the Everyday" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2009-05-14 - 2009-05-30
An exhibition of contemporary art curated by the students of Satellite Academy, a "last chance" high school in NYC. Student curators: Alexis Arnau, Earon Brathwaite, Machiel Espinal, Ernest Johnson, Kiara...More »
Conrado Uribe and Carlo McCormick "resident/alien: In Search of the 'Local'"
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-04-22 - 2009-04-22
Join current apexart resident Conrado Uribe and culture critic Carlo McCormick in a discussion about the relevance of the “local” in contemporary curating. Coming from Medellín, Colombia, Conrado Uribe...More »
"Kick My Heart's Ass: Short Films About Love" Exhibition
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- Media: Film
- 2009-02-11 - 2009-03-21
If the secrets to finding true love are often elusive, well, so are the secrets to making films about love. How do you inject humor into a film about heartbreak? How do you portray a happy romance without...More »
Henk Slager "Nameless Science"
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- Media: Other - Art Talk
- 2008-12-10 - 2009-01-31
The debate on artistic research emerging worldwide in the field of visual art for some five years focuses on what artistic research could be or should be. The exhibition Nameless Science aims to expand...More »
Eugen Radescu and Bosko Blagojevic "How innocent is that?"
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-11-13 - 2008-11-13
Eugen Radescu and Bosko Blagojevic in conversation about the state of innocence in Eastern Europe. Eugen Radescu is an independent curator, co-founder, and co-publisher at Pavilion magazine, president...More »
"Perverted by Theater" Exhibition
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- Media: Performance Art
- 2008-10-22 - 2008-12-06
In his 1967 essay "Art and Objecthood," art critic Michael Fried's central thesis was "theater's profound hostility to the arts": "theater and theatricality are at war today, not simply with modernist...More »
"Scrawl" Exhibition
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- Media: Other - Performance Art
- 2008-09-04 - 2008-10-11
"Scrawl" consists of close to 100 different handmade pronouncements collected from the streets and subways of New York City over the past 25 years. The works on exhibition range from the haragious to the...More »
"Nessie Does New York: Monetizing Myth, Legend & Culture" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2008-07-02 - 2008-08-02
On May 26, 2007, a 55-year old lab technician named Gordon Holmes captured a digital video of what he called “this jet black thing, about 4 to 5 feet long, moving fairly fast in the water.” Even skeptics...More »
"Come Out & Play" Exhibition
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- Media: Film - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2008-06-04 - 2008-06-14
6 days of projects organized by Azeb Worku Sibane, Vicky Shick, Daniel Seiple, Sheree Rose, Radhika Subramaniam, and Shelly Silver. More »
"The Blue Print. From The Ground Up." Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2008-05-16 - 2008-05-31
apexart once again partners with high school students from Satellite Academy to present their exhibition The Blue Print. From the Ground Up. The student curators organize all aspects of the project including...More »
"Lots of Things Like This" Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Other
- 2008-04-02 - 2008-05-10
This show will explore a very small and specific type of artmaking exemplified by contemporary people like David Shrigley, Raymond Pettibon, Nedko Solakov, and Tucker Nichols. This kind of art, which we...More »

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