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  <Name>Rodin &quot;The Cantor Gift to the Brooklyn Museum&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Due to installations in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, twelve bronze sculptures by Auguste Rodin have been installed in the Rubin Entrance Pavilion. This newly excerpted presentation of the Museum's large holdings by Rodin includes The Age of Bronze, a signature conception from the early years of the sculptor's career, as well as other works from his most significant commissions, including The Burghers of Calais, The Gates of Hell, and the Monument to Balzac. These casts came to the Brooklyn Museum through the generosity of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor.  ]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;American Identities: A New Look&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
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  <Description><![CDATA[This major installation of more than three hundred fifty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's premier collection of American art integrates a vast array of fine and decorative arts (silver, furniture, ceramics, and textiles) ranging in date from the colonial period to the present. For the first time, major objects from these exceptional collections are joined by selections from the Museum's important holdings of Native American and Spanish colonial art. The galleries are organized according to a set of eight innovative themes, through which visitors can explore historical moments and crucial ideas in American visual culture over the course of nearly three hundred years.]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Arts of Asia and the Islamic World&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The Asian and Islamic Art galleries provide a survey of the full range of Asian and Islamic art in the Brooklyn Museum, which houses one of America's foremost collections. It presents more than one hundred masterpieces from these extraordinary holdings, representing China, Korea, Japan, India, Southeast Asia and the Himalayas, and the Islamic world.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/5692" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/5692">
  <Name>&quot;Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[In April, 2003, the Brooklyn Museum completed the reinstallation of its world-famous Egyptian collection, a process that took ten years. Three new galleries joined the four existing ones that had been completed in 1993 to tell the story of Egyptian art from its earliest known origins (circa 3500 B.C.) until the period when the Romans incorporated Egypt into their empire (30 B.C.–A.D. 395). Additional exhibits illustrate important themes about Egyptian culture, including women's roles, permanence and change in Egyptian art, temples and tombs, technology and materials, art and communication, and Egypt and its relationship to the rest of Africa. More than 1,200 objects— comprising sculpture, relief, paintings, pottery, and papyri—are now on view, including such treasures as an exquisite chlorite head of a Middle Kingdom princess, an early stone deity from 2650 B.C., a relief from the tomb of a man named Akhty-hotep, and a highly abstract female terracotta statuette created over five thousand years ago.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/576E" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/576E">
  <Name>&quot;Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Dedicated in 1966, the Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden at the Brooklyn Museum is a preeminent collection of terracotta, stone, and metal architectural elements salvaged from now-demolished structures throughout the metropolitan area and reinstalled outside the Museum's Norman M. Feinberg Entrance. Most of these remarkable objects date to the period between 1880 and 1910, recording a great era in the cultural, architectural, and industrial history of New York City.]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Visible Storage ▪ Study Center&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The last phase in the creation of the Luce Center for American Art concludes with the opening of the 5,000 square-foot Visible Storage ▪ Study Center. The dense display of objects in the Visible Storage ▪ Study Center offers you an inside look at how museums work and provides a glimpse of the breadth and scope of the Brooklyn Museum's extensive American collections. As huge as the Museum's building is, just a small fraction of the permanent collections can be displayed in its limited exhibition gallery space. Whereas only about 350 works are on view in the adjacent American Identities exhibition, this facility gives open access to some 2,000 of the many thousands of American objects held in storage, which are now available for viewing and research by students, scholars, and the general public.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/5D0B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/5D0B">
  <Name>&quot;The Arts of Africa&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Over 250 works spanning more than 2,500 years represent art from the African continent in the Museum's first-floor galleries. Additional related art from ancient Egypt and Islamic North Africa can be found in the second- and third-floor galleries. The art on view in the first-floor galleries ranges from ancient Nubian pottery and sculpture, Berber jewelry, and West African masks to East African beadwork, Ethiopian processional crosses, and a contemporary ceramic vessel by the Kenya-born artist Magdalene Odondo. The main focus of the African collections is on sculpture from West and Central Africa.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/A59B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/A59B">
  <Name>&quot;The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The Dinner Party, an important icon of 1970s feminist art and a milestone in twentieth-century art, is presented as the centerpiece around which the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is organized. The Dinner Party comprises a massive ceremonial banquet, arranged on a triangular table with a total of thirty-nine place settings, each commemorating an important woman from history. The settings consist of embroidered runners, gold chalices and utensils, and china-painted porcelain plates with raised central motifs that are based on vulvar and butterfly forms and rendered in styles appropriate to the individual women being honored. The names of another 999 women are inscribed in gold on the white tile floor below the triangular table. This permanent installation is enhanced by rotating biographical gallery shows relating to the 1,038 women honored at the table. Pharaohs, Queens, and Goddesses is the first such exhibition.]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Decorative Arts Galleries and Period Rooms&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The Brooklyn Museum's decorative arts collection occupies the fourth floor of the Museum. The focus of the collection is a group of American period rooms ranging in date from the 18th century to the 20th century. Interspersed with the period rooms are galleries that display an outstanding collection of American furniture, silver, pewter, glass, and ceramics. Additional objects from the decorative arts collection are on display in American Identities.  ]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/C486" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/C486">
  <Name>&quot;Assyrian Reliefs&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[These twelve massive carved alabaster panels, on view together for the first time, dominate the walls of the Brooklyn Museum's Hagop Kevorkian Gallery of Ancient Middle Eastern Art. Originally brightly painted, they once adorned the vast palace of King Ashur-nasir-pal II (883–859 B.C.), one of the greatest rulers of ancient Assyria. Completed in 879 B.C. at the site of Kalhu (modern Nimrud, slightly north of what is now Baghdad, Iraq), the palace was decorated by skilled relief-carvers with these majestic images of kings, divinities, magical beings, and sacred trees.]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;That Place: Selections from the Collection&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Our home, our street, our city, our country—these are familiar locations, places that define our lives. Yet places can be more than physical. Some of the works on view in these galleries evoke a literal place, either domestic or communal. Others, however, approach the concept of place metaphorically, with evocations of a social and cultural place or references to art history that offer a point of departure, where traditions can be reworked or reconsidered. The past—both personal and collective—occupies a significant place in our memories from which we see the present and imagine the future. Not limited to dwelling, the idea of place transcends geographical and temporal boundaries to include race, ethnicity, and gender in the creation of places where past and future, illusion and reality, meet.
[Image: Nina Chanel Abney (American, b. 1982) &quot;Forbidden Fruit&quot; (2009) Acrylic on canvas, 67 x 77 1/2 in. ]]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;European Paintings&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Although the collection of European paintings has often been presented in a chronological arrangement by school or style, this installation exploits the architecture of the soaring Beaux-Arts Court by devoting each wall to an exploration of the meaningful connections that the works display when arranged according to theme. The section called “Painting Land and Sea” surveys the formal methods that painters have used to render their physical surroundings across the centuries. “Art and Devotion” considers the ways in which the artists of the early Renaissance expressed the central tenets of the Catholic faith. “Narratives Large and Small” shows how artists distill the elements of a story into a single telling moment. Finally, “Tracing the Figure” charts the enduring artistic interest in the human figure, from portraits that place an individual in a clearly defined place and time to timeless abstractions of the human form.

[Image: Frans Hals &quot;Portrait of a Man&quot; Oil on canvas 29 x 21 3/4 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $10, Seniors and Students $6, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/91C9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/91C9">
  <Name>&quot;Small Wonders from the American Collections&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This special exhibition celebrates a major new installation in the Luce Center for American Art: Visible Storage ▪ Study Center that gives the public access to more than 350 additional objects from the Museum’s collections. Since its opening in January 2005, the Luce Visible Storage ▪ Study Center has housed approximately 2,100 objects in two types of storage units: vitrined cases and paintings screens. The facility also contains forty-two drawers for storage. Beginning in mid-October and in stages over subsequent months, they will be filled with works from the Museum’s renowned American holdings and opened to the public. Once the drawers are full, the number of objects on view in visible storage will rise to 2,500—an increase of almost 20 percent.

The drawers’ contents will encompass a variety of objects from the Americas—including art of the United States as well as of the indigenous and colonial peoples of North and South America—and dating from the pre-Columbian period to the present day. Although the works range widely in terms of medium, date, function, and geographical origin, they do share a diminutive scale and suitability for flat storage. Among the objects that will be installed in the drawers are: American and Hopi ceramic tiles; Mexican pottery stamps; jewelry and other ornaments from Native and South American cultures; Modernist jewelry; silverplated flatware and serving pieces; Spanish Colonial devotional objects; American portrait and mourning miniatures; commemorative medals; and embroidery. As in other sections of the Luce Visible Storage ▪ Study Center, objects in the drawers are densely installed to maximize the available space and are grouped by type, medium, or culture. Visitors can learn more about the works by using one of the nearby computer kiosks in the facility, or by accessing the Luce database online. To obtain a list of a drawer’s entire contents, use the Map feature and select numbers 41 through 47.

Held in conjunction with the drawers installation, Small Wonders from the American Collections features an eclectic selection of seventy works of art on the walls and in the display cases above the drawers. This exhibition both highlights objects that will be installed in the drawers and reveals a diversity of cultural traditions and artistic practices that constitute American art. A variety of jewelry and objects of personal adornment—although produced by different peoples—function similarly to signify information about the wearer’s identity. Flatware, pins, and other silver items on display reflect a broad array of forms, styles, and uses for this valuable metal. Ceramic tiles made contemporaneously by Native and non-Native Americans provide an interesting cross-cultural comparison with respect to the decoration and marketing of these wares.

[Image: Unknown Artist &quot;Fan&quot; (1822–31) Ivory sticks and painted paper mount. ]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $10, Seniors and Students $6, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/1442" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/1442">
  <Name>&quot;It Happened In Brooklyn&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/11A24962">
    <Name>The Brooklyn Historical Society</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>128 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>718-222-4111</Phone>
    <Fax>718-222-3794</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Clinton St. Subway: 2/3/4/5 to Borough Hall or A/C/F to Jay Street/Borough Hall, or M/R to Court Street  </Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 10:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Closed on July 4, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Years Day.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This exhibit highlights key moments in our nation's history and how they played out in Brooklyn. Through artifacts from the Brooklyn Historical Society's permanent collection such as photographs, artworks, and documents, visitors will meet a diverse range of residents from Brooklyn's earliest Native American settlements, to the men and women who fought in the Revolutionary War on Brooklyn's shores, to the Brooklynites who worked to abolish slavery, immigrants from all over the world who made Brooklyn home, and the women who kept America going by working in the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II.
]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults 	$6, Seniors 62 and over, Students 12 and over $4, College students must show student I.D., Teachers $4, Children under 12 and BHS Members Free. Groups of 10 people or more must arrange a group tour in advance.</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/F0A8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/F0A8">
  <Name>Hank Willis Thomas &quot;Unbranded&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Graphics</Media>
  <Media>2D: Illustration</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In the series Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America, Hank Willis Thomas appropriates print advertisements from 1968 to the present that targeted a black audience or featured black subjects. From the original ads, taken from popular magazines such as Ebony and Essence, the artist digitally removed all text as well as logos. The remaining figures and scenarios are often both captivating and perplexing, especially in juxtaposition with the sometimes witty and provocative titles given to each image by the artist (which include the original date of the ad followed by the date of the Willis Thomas work).
[Image: Hank Willis “Why wait another day to be adorable? Tell your beautician 'Relax Me'” (1968/2007) Chromogenic photograph 34 1/8 x 30 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $10, Seniors and Students $6, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/F7DF" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/F7DF">
  <Name>&quot;From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Fashion</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Inspired by surrealism, biomorphicism, and primitivism, Art Smith’s jewelry is dynamic in its size and form. Although sometimes massive in scale, his jewelry remains lightweight and wearable. The jewelry dates from the late 1940s to the 1970s and includes his most famous pieces, such as a “Patina” necklace inspired by the mobiles of Alexander Calder; a “Lava” bracelet, or cuff, that extends over the entire lower arm in undulating and overlapping forms; and a massive ring with three semi-precious stones that stretches over three fingers. 
[Image: Model wearing Art Smith’s “Modern Cuff” Bracelet, circa 1948]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $10, Seniors and Students $6, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/4FCC" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/4FCC">
  <Name>African Innovations Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Brooklyn Museum presents a long-term installation of 200 of the finest objects from its renowned collection of African art in the recently renovated gallery space on the first floor. African Innovations, a chronological and contextual reinstallation, will be on view while the galleries in which the African collection has been installed since 1935 undergo large-scale renovation.

African Innovations, in which works will be arranged historically for the first time, will be framed on either end by two displays. The first, containing masterpieces from the seventh century b.c.e. to 1800 c.e. by artists ranging from those of ancient Nok and Hellenistic North Africa to the Sapi of Sierra Leone and sculptors of the ancient kingdom of Benin, will establish a pattern of Africa’s ongoing interaction with other parts of the world. The other display, with a selection of contemporary works, will bring this story up to the present and represents the Museum’s first dedicated space for works from present-day Africa.

Selections from the African collection’s largest portion, which dates from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, will be installed between these two end displays, organized by five themes: protection, authority, transitions, performance, and personal beauty.

Among the works on view will be the sculpture Figure of a Horn Blower, an important example of Benin’s history of stylized naturalism; Mother with Child (Lupingu Lua Luimpe), a Lulua sculpture from the Democratic Republic of the Congo that is considered to be one of the great masterpieces of African art; Snake Pendant, a small, delicate work in gold by an unknown Ebrié or Baule artist; and Skipping Girl by Yinka Shonibare, a contemporary artist whose figures examine the history of interaction between Europe and Africa, making particular use of Dutch wax fabric, a commodity created in Europe and sold in West Africa.

The Brooklyn Museum was the first museum in America to display African objects as works of art and has one of the largest and most important collections in the country. African Innovations continues the Museum’s pioneering history in the field, inviting the visitor to examine the Museum’s world famous collection with new eyes and to celebrate centuries of African creativity. This reinstallation has been organized by Kevin Dumouchelle, Assistant Curator, Arts of Africa and the Pacific Islands, Brooklyn Museum.

[Image: Unidentified Lega artist. South Kivu or Maniema province, Democratic Republic of the Congo &quot;Three-Headed Figure (Sakimatwemtwe)&quot; 19th century, Wood, fiber, kaolin 5 1/2 x 2 x 1 1/8 in.]]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/8870" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/8870">
  <Name>&quot;The Mummy Chamber&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This installation of more than 170 objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-famous holdings of ancient Egyptian material explores the complex rituals related to the practice of mummification and the Egyptian belief that the body must be preserved in order to ensure eternal life. On view are the mummy of the priest Thothirdes; the mummy of Hor, encased in an elaborately painted cartonnage; and a nearly twenty-five-foot-long Book of the Dead scroll. Also in the installation are canopic jars, used to store the vital organs of mummies, as well as several shabties, small figurines placed in tombs, each of which was assigned to work magically for the deceased in the afterlife. The installation includes related objects, among them stelae, reliefs, gold earrings, amulets, ritual statuettes, coffins, and mummy boards.

[Image: &quot;Coffin and Mummy Board of Pa-seba-khai-en-ipet.&quot; Egypt, from Thebes. Third Intermediate Period, circa 1070–945 B.C.E. Wood, painted, 76 3/8 x 21 5/8 x 12 5/8 in. (194 x 55 x 32 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 08.480.2a–c]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $10, Seniors and Students $6, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/9578" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/9578">
  <Name>Caroline Mak &quot;Chain Reaction&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F73BEDB">
    <Name>BAC Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>718-625-0080</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Washington and Adams St. Subway: F to York Street, A/C to High Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="1" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Call ahead for group visits.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This new 25 foot long, site-specific wall installation was created specifically for BAC Gallery. A seemingly mundane object, a potted plant, initiates a series of chain reactions that travel down the length of the gallery wall. Along the way, collections of objects collide, creating visual puns that are a whimsical play on each object’s intended function.

Rather than attempting to create a large scale kinetic installation, Mak uses commonly found everyday household objects to weave a complex directional, wall-sized collage where carefully chosen formal elements dictate the topsy-turvy, yet strangely logical, sequence. Six-pack rings and garden hoses find their way into the work, becoming critical junctions in this long wall installation.

Chain Reaction continues Mak’s fascination with attempting to translate and recreate natural processes using man-made and found materials. In the process of trying to re-construct and further understand these processes, systems start to become apparent in the spaces they are assigned to, each self-contained worlds with their own inherent logic.

Caroline Mak is an installation and mixed media artist from Hong Kong, now based in Brooklyn, NY. She received a BA in Biology from Stanford University (2002) and an MFA from the University of Chicago (2005). She has been the recipient of an Emerging Artist Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park, a BRIC Media Fellowship and she was an NEA Fellow at the Elsewhere Collaborative Residency during the summer or 2010. Exhibition highlights include the installations at Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; Islip Art Museum, NY and ‘Mirage’ at Hong Kong Art Fair. Mak was a resident at Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ in 2010, and will have a solo exhibition at Aferro in September 2011. In addition, her work will be exhibited at ArtSpace New Haven in the spring of 2012.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-09-23</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-10</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/9B2C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/9B2C">
  <Name>&quot;Foreign Bodies&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/1FEF4D0D">
    <Name>SET Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>287 3rd Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215</Address>
    <Phone>718-852-7609</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Carroll and President Sts., Subway: R to Union Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[We first “make Other” by seeing, by encountering physically. Looking at the body, we begin to categorize it. Othering is one of the first steps to identifying the self; one learns who she is in relation to/ against another. It's a method of self-identification, a construction of roles, a learning of boundaries. But it is also a way to discriminate, stigmatize, demonize, condemn. We exoticise, eroticize, fetishize and objectify what seems foreign. The process of making other applies to female bodies, ethnic bodies, queer bodies, immigrant bodies. It's a mode of exclusion and alienation, of fascination tempered by disgust, a desire covered over by fear.

Each artist in this exhibition is evoking a body or a stand in for the body, and the bodies on view are ethnic, distorted, chaotic, ambiguously gendered. But each artist examines the body through his or her own lens. At times, an overt dialogue of Otherness is made visible; in other cases, it is merely a whisper heard through the layers of multiple voices.

When encountering the video work of Vydavy Sindikat, the audience is a voyeur to a dialogue. The video is of a private conversation where participants are ethnically ambiguous, the language is not English, the state is indistinctly tense. Introduced to this foreign situation, the viewer is simultaneously estranged from and placed into the role of the objectfier. One is invited to view in order to decide how to partake.

Looking at Yevgeniya Baras’s work, one comes in contact with the skin of paint, the crustiness, scarring, dryness, and layering of material, the many different modes that define the process of painting. Sometimes, she weaves the surface out of thin strips of canvas or sheets; occasionally, it’s papier-mâché that composes the initial layer. She draws with yarn, sewing a pattern, gluing glass, foil, and paper onto canvas, or cuts and rips canvas before she begins the application of oil and acrylic paint. These works dance between sculpture and painting. They talk about an uneasy kind of beauty: unsettling and slightly repulsive. They are small and overloaded, sullied, dingy, burdened, compact, demanding bodies, loved and loathed in equal measure.


Irina Danilina’s work is created using hair. The cutting of hair is ceremonial, performative; it marks time, the stages of transformation. Hair is associated with crimes against humanity; it is what is left of the massacred. It is as much an element of beauty as it is what marks the body as ethnic. Hair both repulses and attracts, connoting desire and seediness. These braids on display are traces of a female mourning. These photographs provide context , documentation of performances passed, while the objects are contained in a scientific manner. They are trapped: the ethnic body made safe, nonthreatening, disarmed, limp.

Alina and Jeff Bliumis’s sculpture of bones overtly references the body. The bones are arranged in a circle, used as formal elements to create a composition. It is a mandala, a fragmented body reaching towards wholeness. The wooden sculptures are ambiguously gendered. They hint at masculinity and femininity but they can easily switch, can easily role-play. They make sense as a pair. As a couple, they are less vulnerable, their surface queer but armed, challenging heteronormativity. Unlike the seemingly fleeting material of Danilova’s work, these pieces are heavily present; they repeatedly reaffirm themselves. There is a density, a core of materiality in them. All three sculptures are firmly present, one in its fragmentation and two in their union. All three waver between body and spirit.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/AAF8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/AAF8">
  <Name>&quot;Micro Museum's 25 Years on Smith Street&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F3C19A11">
    <Name>Micro Museum</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>123 Smith St., Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>718-797-3116</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Dean and Pacific St. Subway: A/C/G to Hoyt-Schermerhorn, F/G to Bergen Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="1" thu="1" fri="1" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>Weekdays Micro Museum is a living art center focusing on performing arts, creative training, and more</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Digital</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Kathleen and William Laziza, founding artists of Micro Museum now celebrate the museum's 25 year on Smith Street in an ongoing showcase of their interactive interdisciplinary and visual art works.  This progressive exhibition is adding new works every few months until December 2013.
New additions - VIDEOSCOPO  - features a multi-channel TV installation that has sound and visual components that viewers can alter as they walk around the art work.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">$2</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-01-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2013-12-01</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Fortunes Told JANUARY 8 - MAY 30 - where Kathleen will read your tarot cards for $20 + videodance and drawings on exhibition.</ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/AD96" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/AD96">
  <Name>Ellen Chuse Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/279BADB4">
    <Name>440 Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>440 6th Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215</Address>
    <Phone>718-499-3844</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 9th and 10th St. Subway: F to 7th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays openinghour 16:00, fridays openinghour 16:00, </ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The 440 Gallery presents Imagined Light, new paintings by Ellen Chuse inspired by an Italian sojourn
 
Is it possible to revive an old love affair? Almost forty years after living in Italy for a year as a Fulbright Fellow in Sculpture, Ellen Chuse returned to Rome for several months in 2010. She not only rekindled her love affair with the city, the country, and its culture, but also reconnected with the unique light, shapes and colors she encountered during her daily outings. Chuse has brought these impressions to life in a series of acrylic paintings on paper. This new body of work springs directly from her walks in the parks and gardens of Rome where the pines in particular came to represent the city for her. These new paintings, including several very large, bold pieces, reflect Chuse's decades-long fascination with tree forms as well as her continuing exploration of the emotional resonance of color and line.
 
Imagined Light opens at the 440 Gallery on Thursday, January 12th, and will run through Sunday, February 19th, 2012. There will be a reception for the artist from 6:00-9:00 PM, Thursday, January 12th. The 440 Gallery, located at 440 Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, is in the Park Slope neighborhood and convenient to the F, M, and R subways.
 
This is Chuse's third solo show at the 440 Gallery. On display will be five 61&quot; by 42&quot; acrylic paintings on paper, together with five small studies and two companion pieces. Working with organic forms in nature, both representational and abstract, the work reflects the intensity of her experience of form and place. Chuse said, &quot;I prefer to paint on paper, which entices me with its texture, flexibility and abundance. Painting on paper has renewed my connection to drawing where the paper itself often creates the line. The larger scale works convey the monumentality of the forms and the intensity of the light and atmosphere surrounding them. I bring my experience of light, place and time to the viewer through these paintings, which I think of as landscapes of the mind.&quot;
 
Long a part of the Brooklyn art community, particularly in Gowanus and Red Hook, Ellen Chuse has been a member of the 440 Gallery for over five years. Chuse received a BFA in Sculpture from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1967, and her MFA in Fine Arts from Queens College, CUNY in 1971. In 1972 she was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to Italy in Sculpture. During the 1970's her sculpture was exhibited in various galleries in New York and New Jersey. While living in Austin, TX, in the mid-1980s she turned to drawing in charcoal and showed widely there. In recent years her practice has evolved from painting with pastel and chalk to working in graphite and acrylic or oil on paper. She has participated in group exhibitions in New York City, such as at the Kentler International Drawing Space, and has shown regularly during the annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour since 2000.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/B812" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/B812">
  <Name>&quot;19th-Century Modern&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Fashion</Media>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Featuring more than forty items from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection of American and European decorative arts, 19th-Century Modern will focus on the emergence of Modernism, a design aesthetic based in part on the machine as a source of artistic inspiration. To many, “modern design” suggests the simple lines, abstract decoration, and machine-based methods and materials that gained widespread popularity in the twentieth century. The objects in this installation demonstrate that the development of modern industrial design and the emergence of a taste for abstraction began much earlier. In addition to differences in objects’ appearance, this period marked important modifications in how objects were produced and marketed. The works included illustrate the development of the modern industrial world and of an appreciation for simple decoration based either on geometry or organic curves.

The installation will feature objects dating from the early nineteenth century, when the trend toward Modernism began, to the twentieth century. The items on view include furniture by John Henry Belter, Duncan Phyfe, the Thonet Brothers, Samuel Gragg, Bradley &amp; Hubbard, and George Hunzinger; silver objects by Tiffany &amp; Company, Gorham Manufacturing, and Napier (in particular designs by Christopher Dresser and Elsa Tannhardt); and a five-piece French clock garniture manufactured by Guilmet.

[Image: Guilmet Cie (active 1861–1910). Five-Piece Clock Garniture, circa 1885. Silvered bronze, 9 1/4 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Marcus S. Friedlander, by exchange, 2009.49.1-5]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $10, Seniors and Students $6, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-09-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-01</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/007E" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/007E">
  <Name>&quot;The Architecture of Space&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/006A0DA0">
    <Name>Klompching Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., Suite 206, Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>212-796-2070</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Washington and Adams St. Subway: F to York Street, A/C to High Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Extended Hours: 1st Thursdays, 11am — 8:30pm.  Closed August 15-25.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[KLOMPCHING GALLERY presents the New York showing of The Architecture of Space, originally curated for and enthusiastically received at the inaugural Flash Forward Festival in Toronto.

This is an exhibition of contemporary photography exploring the perception and representation of space—the collapse between public and private, it’s abstract form and its role as metaphor. In many respects, the selected artists also embody the state of contemporary photography itself; in that their artworks are not easily packaged into identifiable genres, but illustrate the blurring of those categories. This can be seen through the wide-reaching visual strategies employed, as well as the imaginative modes of production that bring attention to the photograph as an abject of construction.

Monika Sziladi provides a voyeuristic look into social networks and subcultures, presented as panoramic fictions, assembled so tightly that you might believe they’re ‘shot from the hip’. Ben Lowy’s images of Iraq also play on this notion of voyuerism, but in his case he provides the spectator with a rare viewpoint of war, as seen from the photographer’s perspective. Street photography is addressed in Matthew Baum’s photographs, of the passing moments of people he encounters and observes, but re-presented as a kind of hyper-reality that results from a subtle and perceptive use of post-production.

The intervention of the artist is also utilized to great effect in the work of Sebastian Lemm, who creates negative space in his large-scale landscapes and new work by S. Billie Mandle, who transforms the familiarity of car parks into spaces of quiet meditation. The idea of a shared private space is also evident in the restrained portraits, by Andrea Land; of little girls in their bedrooms that entice the viewer into their imaginative worlds of make believe.

This highly personalized insight can be seen in the work of Justine Reyes too, where she fuses personal family artifacts within the tropes of traditional dutch still life. Greg Stimac’s images of built-up grit and bugs register tangible evidence of road journeys but also conjure up a sense of time and distance. James Pomerantz’s, images of anonymous landscapes culled from a CCTV camera, on the other hand, bring about mystery and intrigue.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-02</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1B67" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/1B67">
  <Name>Giuseppe Luciani &quot;Brooklyn Views&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F1212C26">
    <Name>Brooklyn Public Library (Central)</Name>
    <Type>Other</Type>
    <Address>10 Grand Army Plz., Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-230-2100</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>At Eastern Pkwy. Subway: 2/3/Q to Grand Army Plaza or Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum of Art, or Q to 7th Avenue. </Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>21:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>friday closinghour 18:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00, saturdays openinghour 10:00, fridays openinghour 10:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Aiming to create a visual account of the everyday, my immediate surroundings have been the subject of recent paintings. This body of work articulates an effort to reinterpret my impressions of both the beauty and the blight of contemporary urban daily life.

My influences are culled from the entire history of Western painting: Greek/Roman murals and mosaics, Byzantine schemas, Renaissance portraiture, Dutch and Flemish peasant scenes, post-impressionist color, and twentieth-century social realism.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2011-12-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/27F7" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/27F7">
  <Name>Musa Hixson &quot;Time Harvest&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/60B7653D">
    <Name>FiveMyles</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>558 St. Johns Pl., Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-783-4438</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Classon and Franklin Aves.  Subway: 2/3/4/5 to Franklin Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The sphere, an important theme in the artist’s work, is here presented by eight large weather balloons that fill up half of the gallery space. The balloons are an undecided presence; their density is as much of a menace as their soft roundness gives comfort. 

As the viewer maneuvers around the balloons, a vista opens up and reveals a spider-web like installation made of barbed wire. For the artist it represents a birth process. The outline of a figure hangs on its ambil. Cord in mid-air. The cord opens up and spreads out its barbed wire tentacles into the open space around it. 

Musa Hixson describes himself as an installation artist. He has repeatedly used the weather balloons to add volume to a space or to condense it. In the gray space at FiveMyles the white whether balloons become a separate environment that serves to heighten the unexpected discovery of the barbed wire installation. 

Musa Hixson received an MFA degree from Pratt University in 1998. He recently returned from a residency at the 3-D foundation in Verbier Switzerland, and in 2010 spent some time in at a residency in Obama, Japan. Locally his work has been seen at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery in Chelsea, the Mocada Museum, the Skylight Gallery and Long Island University in Brooklyn, and he exhibited both in Japan and in Switzerland.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/2F54" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/2F54">
  <Name>Karen Gibbons &quot;A Cup of Air&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/279BADB4">
    <Name>440 Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>440 6th Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215</Address>
    <Phone>718-499-3844</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 9th and 10th St. Subway: F to 7th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays openinghour 16:00, fridays openinghour 16:00, </ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The 440 Gallery presents A Cup of Air, whimsical new sculpture by Karen Gibbons created from found objects and photography.

&quot;I'm going out for a cup of air,&quot; Brooklyn artist Karen Gibbons's mother would say to her five children as she stepped outside for a reprieve from the stresses of parenting. The free-standing sculpture and sculptural wall pieces in this exhibit, A Cup of Air, express that whimsical metaphor. They are playful, curious and evocative. This new body of work draws inspiration from three sources: the pastoral landscape, the Gowanus Canal neighborhood of Brooklyn, and the artist's recently rediscovered family photo archives. Gibbons ingeniously integrates photographs and found objects with an eclectic approach that combines sculpture, painting, drawing and photography in surprising ways. Delightful, unexpected contradictions arise out of the mixture of these elements. The pieces have an air of both reminiscence and anticipation, they combine the ephemeral with the enduring, and they mingle the cherished and the forbidden.

This is Gibbons's third solo show at the 440 Gallery. Over the past several years Gibbons has been developing a unique approach of combining different artistic processes. This method unites her formal training as a painter, her years of practice as a sculptor, and a more recent foray into photography. Gibbons's penchant for incorporating found elements into her work continues in this show, with found objects now taking center stage. The notion of &quot;found&quot; applies to photographic images, which are layered onto &quot;found&quot; objects. In each piece, shape, form and color are distilled until a singular image emerges from the tension between the found and the deliberate. Gibbons consolidates layers of color and texture in each piece until its shape becomes iconic, nearly symbolic. Its disparities take on a new life, and its ambiguities allow associations and references to surface for each viewer.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-23</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-08</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/3467" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/3467">
  <Name>&quot;The Influential Female, Drawings Inspired by Women in History&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A26ADE60">
    <Name>Kentler International Drawing Space</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>353 Van Brunt St., Brooklyn, NY 11231</Address>
    <Phone>718-875-2098</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Wolcott and Dikeman St. Subway: F/G Smith and 9th Streets. Bus: 61/77 to Ostego Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
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  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The human figure has been a subject for visual artists throughout history. With such an expansive subject matter, this exhibition has chosen to focus on contemporary artists drawing inspiration from the female form. Refined even more, these artists draw their inspiration from historic or specific female subjects to create fresh and challenging gender related artwork.  This new work is intriguing because it directly reflects on history while making history.  ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Curator’s Talk:  Sunday, February 19, 4pm </ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/34B7" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/34B7">
  <Name>&quot;Question Bridge: Black Males&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Question Bridge: Black Males is an innovative video installation created by artists Hank Willis Thomas and Chris Johnson in collaboration with Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair. The four collaborators spent several years traveling throughout the United States, speaking with 150 Black men living in 12 American cities and towns, including New York, Chicago, Oakland, Birmingham, and New Orleans. From these interviews they created 1,500 video exchanges in which the subjects, representing a range of geographic, generational, economic, and educational strata, serve as both interviewers and interviewees. Their words were woven together to simulate a stream-of-consciousness dialogue, through which important themes and issues emerge, including family, love, interracial relationships, community, education, violence, and the past, present, and future of Black men in American society.

The exhibition includes multiple screens playing videos of the interviews, edited so that it appears as if the men are having a conversation. The artists hope that the Question Bridge project will be a catalyst for constructive dialogue that will help deconstruct stereotypes about Black male identity in our collective consciousness. Museum visitors are also invited to visit the user-generated Question Bridge website, accessible on iPads throughout the gallery, which offers a platform to represent and redefine Black male identity in America.

[Image: Hank Willis Thomas, Chris Johnson, Bayeté Ross Smith, Kamal Sinclair &quot;Still from 'Question Bridge B-Roll 3'&quot; (2011) Courtesy of the artists and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $10, Seniors and Students $6, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-13</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-06-03</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/3C6C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/3C6C">
  <Name>Jeanette May &quot;Bachelor Pads&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2FD3D32C">
    <Name>A.I.R. Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., #228, Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-6651</Phone>
    <Fax>212-255-6653</Fax>
    <Access>Between Washington and Adams Sts. Subway: F to York Street, A/C to High Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[A.I.R. Gallery presents the exhibition  of  Jeanette Mayʼs captivating photographs  depicting  attractive  men in their contemporary Bachelor Pads.

Inspired by 1960s movies and magazine spreads  highlighting  the  phenomenon  of  the  “bachelor  pad,”  Jeanette May stages  the  contemporary  bachelor  in  his  metropolitan  dwelling.  The original bachelor pads were conspicuously heterosexual and masculine in design—filled with the latest gadgets and signifiers of hedonistic pleasure. Mayʼs  photographs examine  whether  the  current version  evolved  or  if  the reel-to-reel sound systems were merely  swapped  for  iPod  stations  and  large  screen  TVs.  The pad  may define  oneʼs  economic  or  cultural standing, provide refuge, or seduce potential lovers. Mayʼs  images raise  these issues while offering a voyeuristic peek into the private living space of single men. 

Bachelor Pads  furthers Mayʼs  investigation  into  the  representation  of desirable  men and the development of the “female gaze” in contemporary visual cultural. In this recent project, she concentrates on bachelors: unmarried men who  do  not  live  with  their  parents,  spouses,  or  lovers. Her bachelors identify as straight or gay, live alone or  with roommates, and cover a range of ages and socio-economic groups. May poses the men in a formal manner; their gaze is never toward the camera,  but  they  seem  self-consciously  aware  of  an audience.  She produces photographs located somewhere between portraiture and documentary,  that  allow  women  (and  men)  to  stare unabashedly at  attractive bachelors and  then visually rifle through their  belongings. May presents her archival pigment prints in a scale that  enables  us to read the spines of books on the shelves or covet a particularly desirable apartment. What do we learn about these specific bachelors, how do men present themselves to the camera, and does the female viewer take pleasure in the sight? 

Jeanette May is a photographer using a critical, sometimes playful, approach to investigate representation itself. May earned her MFA in Photography from CalArts and her BFA in Painting from the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the NEA Regional Artistsʼ Projects Fund, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and Ms. Foundation. Her work is exhibited in galleries and museums internationally, including New York; Chicago; Los Angeles; Toronto, Canada; Sandviken, Sweden; and Athens, Greece. May lives in Brooklyn, NY.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/4522" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/4522">
  <Name>&quot;150th Anniversary Archive&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A10932DB">
    <Name>BAM</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, New York 11217</Address>
    <Phone>718-636-4101</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Flatbush Ave. and Fulton St. Subway: 2/3/4/5/B/Q/ N/R/D/M to Atlantic Avenue/ Pacific Street or C to Lafeyette Avenue or G to Fulton Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>00:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Depends on each event.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[BAM presents a special archival exhibition delving into the rich history of an institution a century and a half in the making. Original documents, archival video, photographs, and more—many dating from the earliest days of BAM—illuminate the moments, memories, and cultural happenings that have transpired both on and off its stages. BAMart curator David Harper and archivist Sharon Lehner co-curate this free exhibition, open to the public in the lobby of the BAM Peter Jay Sharp Building during normal business hours.

Curated by David Harper and Sharon Lehner]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Depends on each event.</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-29</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>20</DaysBeforeEnd>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.686742</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/45BB" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/45BB">
  <Name>Bob Rothstein &quot;The Other Bushwick&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F1212C26">
    <Name>Brooklyn Public Library (Central)</Name>
    <Type>Other</Type>
    <Address>10 Grand Army Plz., Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-230-2100</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>At Eastern Pkwy. Subway: 2/3/Q to Grand Army Plaza or Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum of Art, or Q to 7th Avenue. </Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>21:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>friday closinghour 18:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00, saturdays openinghour 10:00, fridays openinghour 10:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This artistic study combines old photos and present day collages to capture the feel of the Bushwick I knew as a young child. It actually speaks more about my own response to the old neighborhood.

One of the many influences on my artistic direction was a painting my grandfather did, which always hung in my family’s home. It is of three men sitting on a bench, very much like one from Ben Shahn. The painting is very primitive, but marvelous and always greeted with strong emotions.

My artistic journey has also been molded by the colors and figurative character of German expressionism, the California bay artists, the Ashcan School and John Marin. I owe a great deal to my former teacher at the Art Students League, Dan Dickerson.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>9</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/5A50" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/5A50">
  <Name>Rachel Pollak &quot;...the I and the We&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F45A47AC">
    <Name>Gowanus Print Lab</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>54 2nd Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215</Address>
    <Phone>718-788-3930</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 7th and 8th Sts., Subway: F/G/R/M to 9th St and 4th Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>22:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 19:00, saturdays closinghour 19:00, sundays openinghour 12:00, sundays closinghour 19:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Chosen from entries to our GET SERIOUS GO SOLO solo exhibition contest, Rachel Pollak's sensitive paintings of ritual captured us with their quiet significance and simultaneously sparse and ornate spaces.

Rachel on her work:&quot;In my work I am seeking out moments when an “I” becomes a “We”—and moments when these affiliations break down. My gouache paintings are inspired by rituals I observe in everyday life: crew members raking the infield dirt at the seventh-inning stretch, children playing parachute games, the inauguration of a new president. By re-imagining the context of these rituals, and their accompanying furniture, uniforms, and equipment, my works consider the tension between the persistent identities of the individuals in these scenes and the groups they are a part of.&quot;

As our GET SERIOUS GO SOLO winner, Pollack also receives a free 1 month studio pass to explore what print can bring to her work.

&quot;The content of this work-- focused on the relationships between individuals and groups--would lend itself in an ideal way to the the print medium and its traditions of multiples, repeat patterns, and narrative series,&quot;  Rachel says of exploring print.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-05</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-10" start="18:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>25</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/5D2F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/5D2F">
  <Name>Yuki Ioroi Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/5824D07A">
    <Name>Ouchi Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>170 Tillary St., Suits 507, Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>347-559-1368</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Gold St. and Flatbush Ave. Subway : M/N/R to Lawrence Street or C/F to Jay Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="1" sun="1" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote>Appointment needed.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Yuki Ioroi was born in 1980, Shizuoka Japan. She started her career as an artist when she moved to Los Angeles in 2001, and participated in local artist showcase events throughout the two years. Her style of pieces was mostly abstract in these years. After returning to Japan, Yuki moved to Tokyo and graduated from Asagaya Art College, School of Image Creation in 2007. She started creating painting pieces that incorporated words of her messages, shifting from the previous abstract style. Yuki creates pieces that speak to the mind of people who have lost themselves in today’s overwhelming world. Being force fed with information from every possible direction, it is easy for any of us to lose our own values, or feel threatened to live up to the unrealistic standards portrayed by the media and social peers alike. Her words directly reach out to those who have convinced themselves of their created identities as their true selves. The recurrent concept of her artwork is to offer an opportunity for the audience to look within themselves and reflect. Through her thoughtful and playful words, Yuki wants her audience to dig deep to their conscious and find that something they might have forgotten while busy living. In 2011, she moved to London and continuing her career and actively participating local exhibitions. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>2.90598</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-12</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/6153" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/6153">
  <Name>“Immaculate: Reflections of Mary” Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/FE24F6F7">
    <Name>MF Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>213 Bond St., Brooklyn, NY 11217</Address>
    <Phone>917-446-8681</Phone>
    <Fax>212-431-2579</Fax>
    <Access>Between Butler and Baltic Sts. Subway: F or G to Bergen Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>14:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="1" thu="1" fri="1" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[MF Gallery presents “Immaculate: Reflections of Mary”.
 
The Virgin Mary has played the longstanding role of a mother, daughter, wife, and saint. This iconographic female figure’s influence on artists has been expressed through songs, poetry, paintings and statues throughout history. Today she is represented in film, television, t-shirts, stickers, tattoos, and even visualized on toast, allotting her a most unusual occupancy in popular culture.
 
Immaculate: Reflections of Mary seeks to reveal artwork influenced by the Virgin Mary.  This unique collection will show us how her image has transcended from a figure in religious institutions into modern culture.
 ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-11" start="19:00:00" end="22:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>37</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/6A70" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/6A70">
  <Name>&quot;FUNNY HA HA&quot; Exhibition </Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F73BEDB">
    <Name>BAC Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>718-625-0080</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Washington and Adams St. Subway: F to York Street, A/C to High Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="1" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Call ahead for group visits.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[There are many theories of humor which attempt to explain what humor is, what social function it serves, and what would be considered humorous. Artists sometimes use humor to question relationships between art and everyday life, but, using humor to deflate the pretentiousness of the art world is not a new concept. One can say that ever since Marcel Duchamp placed a urinal on a pedestal, artists have been mocking the conventions of art and the artworld. 

But can art be critical and humorous? Undoubtedly, humor is subjective, and not all of these artists are even trying to be funny. Artworks that go for the obvious joke can be easily dismissed as insincere or worse mere entertainment, but humor can also be used as a tactic, a way to help the audience digest serious ideas. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-03-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-07-27</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-03-01" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>169</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.702694</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/6B03" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/6B03">
  <Name>Isabel Hill &quot;Building Stories&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F1212C26">
    <Name>Brooklyn Public Library (Central)</Name>
    <Type>Other</Type>
    <Address>10 Grand Army Plz., Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-230-2100</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>At Eastern Pkwy. Subway: 2/3/Q to Grand Army Plaza or Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum of Art, or Q to 7th Avenue. </Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>21:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>friday closinghour 18:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00, saturdays openinghour 10:00, fridays openinghour 10:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This exhibition is an offshoot of my recently published book, Building Stories. Reproductions of color plates from the book are an architectural exploration of some of the symbols and icons on a variety of buildings in New York City. Making the analogy that buildings are like books with stories to tell, Building Stories transforms and animates the history of some of New York’s more unusual and fantastic architectural treasures. Historic photographs from a variety of sources—including Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Historical Society, and other city and national archives—give a rich and colorful look at our past.

The study of architecture and the nature of cities have been compelling interests for me since college. My work, both in writing children’s books and producing documentary films, continues to be greatly influenced by my colleagues—urban planners, architects and historians—and by cities themselves!

Most recently I have been incredibly impressed with children in the neighborhood schools I visit; their views and observations of the city help me to understand and see things in different ways. I conduct architecture tours with them because I believe in the importance of an early appreciation for our built environment. These tours are a wonderful first step toward neighborhood preservation, as kids develop enthusiasm and concern about their neighborhoods just by looking at buildings. They start to feel good about their communities and care about making them cleaner, safer and more beautiful.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/6C16" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/6C16">
  <Name>Chie Fujii &quot;fragment memories&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/5824D07A">
    <Name>Ouchi Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>170 Tillary St., Suits 507, Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>347-559-1368</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Gold St. and Flatbush Ave. Subway : M/N/R to Lawrence Street or C/F to Jay Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="1" sun="1" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote>Appointment needed.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Chie Fujii was reared in Nagoya and Tokyo, Japan. She holds a masters degree in sculpture from Tokyo University of the Arts. After graduating Chie worked in the product industry in Tokyo for 6 years  as a 3D modeling and 3D scanning artist ,which create digital models from scan data to replicate existing real-world objects or from 2D only concepts. This professional experience, creating actual three-dimensional models from 3D software,  has influenced her current work where she creates sculpture, not only by hand,  but with computer 3D software. Her work explores themes of the mind, reality vs. fantasy and what makes up the human body.  In her thought and work, memory forms the boundary between reality and fantasy,  also between herself and others.
Chie lives and works in Los Angles and New York, working as a sculptural artist. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-14</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>10</DaysBeforeEnd>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/77C3" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/77C3">
  <Name>Derek Lerner Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/333EA2E9">
    <Name>RHV Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>683 6th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215</Address>
    <Phone>718-473-0819</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 19th and 20th St. Subway: R to Prospect Ave. or F to 7th ave</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>14:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Derek Lerner layers countless well refined marks, lines, and shapes to create complex systems that look as if we are peering through a microscope and a telescope at the same time. After 15 years of working, this group of 10 ink on paper drawings (all 2011) constitute Lerner's latest body of work, stemming from his contradictory feelings about urban sprawl, over-development and humanity as a virus.
As Lerner's fictional landscapes meander across the paper, growing outward as layer upon layer is applied, they depict a co-mingling of human-made and natural systems and the tensions between those forces. The elements of each composition multiply and attach themselves to one another or consume others like fungi or suburbs encroaching on open land. He coalesces questions about how complex systems work, about parasites, pesticides and poisons, genetically modified foods, over-consumption and over-population into ironically beautiful visual metaphors that reference mapping, satellite photography, microscopic imagery, radial irrigation systems as well as signs, symbols and the random marks, scrapes and scratches found on the streets of major metropolitan areas.
Looking both biological and man-made, his lyrical compositions embody dualities that reflect Lerner's conflicted feelings about his own role and impact on our environment,
&quot;…while in many ways my work is a reaction to over-consumption and environmental politics, the drawings themselves are yet another &quot;thing&quot; added to the world, made no less with materials that are potentially damaging to the environment.&quot; Although Lerner's work emphasizes the destructive nature of man his work is evidence that beauty can be found in what humans make as well as what we destroy; and that it is perhaps unavoidable for humans to create without consuming at the same time. ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-26" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>17</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/8580" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/8580">
  <Name>Dannielle Tegeder &quot;Transparent Studio&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/CD2A2C33">
    <Name>Bose Pacia</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>163 Plymouth St., Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>212-989-7074</Phone>
    <Fax>212-989-6982</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Jay St. Subway: A/C to High Street/ Brooklyn Bridge or F to York Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 12:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Bose Pacia presents the second installment of Transparent Studio with Dannielle Tegeder. The artist will occupy the gallery space from February 7 through March 1 during which time the public is invited to view the work in progress in the open studio space. We encourage visitors to stop by to see the artist in action. The studio residency term will culminate in an evening with the artist on Thursday, March 1 during the Dumbo First Thursdays evening event. 
 
Dannielle will be facilitating four workshop sessions, each consisting of invited artists, writers, poets, friends, affiliates of Bose Pacia and the public. During the sessions the group will reflect, research, and create collaborative projects on ideas inherent in drawing and abstraction. The work produced may include non-traditional drawings, a screening of drawing, writing projects, and discussions on art inspired by well-known debates on theory and practice at the Institute of Artistic Culture in Moscow, from 1920–22. The project produced during the residency, including the research and raw materials process, will be on continuous display throughout her entire residency term. Finally, the workroom will function as a dynamic space that merges the role of the working studio and exhibition space.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-01</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <DaysBeforeEnd>21</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/948F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/948F">
  <Name>Leah Kohlenberg &quot;Ruin:Rebirth&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/32814AC4">
    <Name>Hadas Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>541 Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11205</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Steuben and Emerson Sts., Subway: G to Classon Ave.</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="1" sat="1" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Also by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Hadas Gallery presents the recent work of photographer Leah Kohlenberg.

“Ruin: Rebirth” is a series of 30 photographs that focus on the evolution and devolution of urban life. Kohlenberg has spent the past 5 years traveling the eastern block and Mediterranean region documenting communities left in the shadow of the soviet collapse and economic downfall.

Her photographs find beauty in the decay of urban structures and humor in its awkward attempts at repair. Kohlenberg’s use of floral imagery is an important sub-theme that serves as a poetic reminder of “vanitas”, as well as a counterpoint to the manmade structures.

The inclusion of Grecian ruins helps relate the timeless lifecycle of a city. As Kohlenberg documents tourism to these ruins, she brings into question her own tourism of the fallen communist empire. The inclusion of single image taken in Brooklyn links our city to those halfway around the world and asks us if we are in a state of ruin or rebirth.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-29</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-16" start="19:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>39</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9542" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/9542">
  <Name>&quot;The Bricoleurs&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8887592D">
    <Name>BRIC Rotunda Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>33 Clinton St., Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>718-683-5621</Phone>
    <Fax>718-488-0609</Fax>
    <Access>Between Tillary and Pierrepont St. Subway: A/C at High Street, 2/3/4/5/M/R trains at Court Street/Borough Hall</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Hours during exhibition only</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn presents The Bricoleurs, an exhibition at BRIC Rotunda Gallery featuring a range of Brooklyn artists who embrace the practice of bricolage and construct visual works from discrepant elements, creating new forms and imagery. Curated by Christian Fuller and Risa Shoup.

All artists in the show were selected from BRIC’s Contemporary Artists Registry, the oldest registry of visual artists in Brooklyn with more than 16,000 digital submissions from 800 artists. Founded in 1983, the Registry is open to artists living or working in Brooklyn; visit registry.bricartsmedia.org to view a range of artists’ work.

Bricolage is a term used in several disciplines to refer to the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of sometimes seemingly disparate  things; a person who engages in bricolage is called a bricoleur. The range of work in this show includes: video, painting, collage, assemblage, sculpture and digital printing.

According to the curators: “We have chosen artists for the exhibition who pull together styles and materials that might otherwise appear disparate and unattractive save for the artist’s ability to combine them into one cogent, integral whole… With The Bricoleurs, we turn our analytical gaze more to the practice of creating bricolage less than the product, the bricolage itself.”]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.02919</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-25" start="19:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>23</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9917" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/9917">
  <Name>&quot;Exposed&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F7040037">
    <Name>The Muriel Guépin Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>47 Bergen St., Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>718-858-4535</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Smith and Court Sts. Subway: F to Bergen Street, 2/ 3/ 4/ 5 to Borough Hall, R to Court Street. </Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>sundays openinghour 12:00, sundays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Muriel Guépin Gallery presents &quot;Exposed&quot; a new group show featuring the artwork of: Andrea Dezsö, Donald Graham Hershey &amp; Rogelio Manzo.

Interested primarily in human forms as a vehicle to penetrate human psychology and reveal their true character, these artists all work with different medium -such as embroideries to reveal personal experiences with social myths and family pressures- or use deceptive delicate works that reveal unsettling tension of human existence.  
 
Andrea Dezso received Best show in The Village Voice 2007. A visual artist and writer work across a broad range of media including drawing, artist's books, cut paper, embroidery, sculpture, site-specific installation, animation and large scale public art.The Transylvanian-born Dezsö has embroidered dozens of her mother's sayings and arrayed them along the close-set walls of a maze-like corridor. Andrea Dezsö has shown her work in museums and galleries around the world.    
 
Donald Graham Hershey's drawing and video works memorialize the intangible world with tangible elements slowly procured from a sensualist's unconscious. Hershey's work eludes one emotional impact. Often rendered in pencil on off-white paper, his drawings explore corporeal disconnections, narrative fragments, and manifestations of distant memory all imbued with a characteristic darkness.  Hershey's drawings are not typically ornamental - sometimes depicting a singular part of a figure, a lone garment, or an aura engulfed by a graphite sfumato.  They are deceptively delicate works that reveal unsettling tension without the slightest use of gore or camp. The series is part of the artist's ongoing investigation on the effects of corporate and mass media aesthetics, primarily packaged beauty and the individual's perception of identity. 

In most of his works, Rogelio Manzo places the figures in the foreground with rarely a sense of an environment. Thus, the viewer is forced to focus on the fragmented visages and figures that are painted with an expressionistic fervor. The surfaces of these works range from thick impasto to thin washes, worn and scratched areas to realistic hand painted hints of skin, flesh and bones, and sleek digital image transfers. This treatment adds to the sensation of his subjects being flayed to reveal their innermost feelings. Manzo's preferred format of squares, often as large as 6' x 6', are painted on resin panel and canvas. Manzo also focuses the viewer's attention on the anguished faces and bodies. His palette of tones of black, brown, gray, and a blood red adds to the feeling of bleak reality. As perhaps accents of optimism, occasional hits of dandelion yellow, sky blue, or cardinal red brightens his palette.  ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-13</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-13" start="18:30:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>17</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9B9A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/9B9A">
  <Name>Jane Swavely &quot;New Work&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2FD3D32C">
    <Name>A.I.R. Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., #228, Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-6651</Phone>
    <Fax>212-255-6653</Fax>
    <Access>Between Washington and Adams Sts. Subway: F to York Street, A/C to High Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[New Work features pastel drawings and oil paintings of vibrant and visceral landscapes. Swavely employs cinematic quick cuts of landscape against panoramic shots. Swavely captures the transient moment, the changing tide of light, tonal values of deepening color and shadow, and the volume of space and depth.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9CDF" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/9CDF">
  <Name>&quot;Hey Beautiful!&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E76E578F">
    <Name>Amos Eno Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., #202, Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>718-237-3001</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Washington and Adams Sts. Subway: F to York Street, A/C to High Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Beauty. There is perhaps no concept more closely associated with art in the popular imagination. But beauty has been having a rough time lately. Successive avant-garde movements and each corresponding “anti-art” gesture have deposed the belle of the ball. The art world did not drive out beauty directly; rather it got rid of her partner, the ugly. Decaying ruins became Romantic; banal fixtures became Culture; Film du Soleil made the burned out wasteland a magical counter-utopia. By aestheticizing and canonizing the Gothic, the Industrial, the Abject, and the Uncanny, the art world turned “ugly” into “interesting”. And where did that leave beauty? No longer the opposite of ugly, beauty became the opposite of relevant. Never one to dance alone, beauty sat on the sidelines. Someone once offered her a Sublime corsage; it lifted her spirit, but provided no gladness to the senses. 

This exhibition inquires into the role of beauty in art now. Can beauty retake the aspirational zenith of art? Or does it function as cultural décor and marketable commodity? Is art today merely designed or aesthetically purposive? These works play with, against, and for beauty, asking us to consider whether beauty can be reformed. Even celebrated. Is beauty back? ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/BF7F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/BF7F">
  <Name>Tamara Gayer &quot;The Final Contraction&quot;, Stephen Sollins &quot;Piecework&quot; &amp; Heeseop Yoon &quot;Still Life #1&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/5B36DFD6">
    <Name>Smack Mellon</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>92 Plymouth St., Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>718-834-8761</Phone>
    <Fax>718-834-5233</Fax>
    <Access>Between Main and Washington St. Subway: F to York Street or A/C to High Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Smack Mellon presents three solo exhibitions featuring new work and site specific projects by Brooklyn-based artists Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop Yoon. Tamara Gayer reconfigures and translates the geometry of urban landscapes into an intricate vinyl installation for her window project The Final Contraction. Covering all 24 windows with various colors and textures of vinyl Gayer presents an alternate all-encompassing prismatic cityscape. Disorganized spaces, often hidden from public view by design, are the focus of Heeseop Yoon's Still Life #11. Yoon provides a dramatic view of chaotic interior spaces using black masking tape on the gallery's oversized 24' x 60' long wall. In the back gallery, Stephen Sollins presents Piecework, a series of large scale works on paper made entirely of collected mailing envelopes. Intersecting his mathematical approach with his interest in the sentimental, Sollins methodically assembles the recognizably patterned paper into the form of traditional American quilts.

Tamara Gayer,  The Final Contraction
Tamara Gayer is an artist transfixed by the city. Suspended between the impulses of an image maker and a builder she creates work that mutates from drawing to installation to video. Born in NYC, Tamara Gayer grew up in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv. She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from Hunter College. In New York her work has been show at Priska Juschka Fine Art, Foxy Production, Mixed Greens and Exit Art among others. She is represented in several prominent collections including that of the Museum of Modern Art. Click here for more info.

Stephen Sollins,  Piecework
Stephen Sollins works primarily by altering found materials, applying various mediums and methods to direct the viewer's attention.  Themes in his work center around the possibility of communication in the domestic arena. He describes this as &quot;the space between people&quot; or alternately as &quot;lyrical non-communication and the poetry of silence&quot;.   Sollins holds a BA in Photography from Bard College and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts.  He is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and Smack Mellon.  His work has been exhibited at galleries and museums such as the Brooklyn Museum, The Drawing Center, and Mitchell-Innes and Nash in New York and is part of public and private collections including at The Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and others.  Click here for more info.

Heeseop Yoon,  Still Life #11
Heeseop Yoon's work explores memory and perception within disorganized spaces. Born and raised in Seoul, Korea, Yoon currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.  Yoon received a BFA from Chung-ang University, Seoul, Korea and an MFA from City College of NY.  She has had solo and two person shows at Triple Candie, NY; March Gallery, NY; Bose Pacia, NY and Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea.  She has exhibited in museums and art centers internationally, including MASS MOCA, North Adams, Massachusetts; The Bronx Museum, NY; Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea; CAST, Australia and Median Art Center, Beijing, China.  Yoon has participated in artist residencies such as the Marie Walsh Sharpe, Skowhegan School of Painting, and Sculpture, Artist Alliance Inc., NY and Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany. Click here for more info.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C025" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C025">
  <Name>Robby Herbst &quot;New Pyramids for the Capitalist System&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A30362A3">
    <Name>Dumbo Arts Center</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., suite 212, Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>718-694-0831</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Washington and Adams Sts. Subway: F to York Street, A/C to High Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Dumbo Arts Center presents “New Pyramids For the Capitalist System,” an exhibition by Robby Herbst. “New Pyramids For The Capitalist System” explores acrobatics, class, bodies and interpersonal dynamics through a series of large-scale drawings, installations, and performances of human pyramids. The project was inspired by Herbst’s grandfather’s photos (a collection of beach and socialist acrobats) and a 1911 diagram produced by Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) called “Pyramid for the Capitalist System.”

At sites associated with Occupy LA Herbst and a group of amateur, costumed, acrobats enacted the IWW diagram by creating human pyramids. Acrobats dressed as workers, managers, law enforcement, clergy and capitalists. This exhibition focuses on social dynamics and the efforts to memorialize the actions highlighted in the pyramid performances. Drawings and sculpture will examine the spatial and political implications of what it means to bear the weight of this classed system.

“New Pyramids For The Capitalist System” reminds us that we are physical beings, inhabiting specific time and spaces. The acrobats hold and press against each other in the fleshy, intimate experience of supporting one another, a responsible community of interdependent relations.

Herbst’s grandfather was a talented acrobat involved who for decades did stunts with others at Orchard Beach in the Bronx. In the 1930s he associated with the Young Worker’s Athletic Club (YWAC) - a socialist acrobatic group. On display are many photographs of Herbst's grandparents' acrobatic performances in which banners with anti-fascist and pro-Communist slogans can be seen. Herbst's grandfather, Martin, was generally at the bottom of pyramids and stunts. As a strong trusted man, he was able to bear the weight of others. By tying in their acrobatic activities to the Capitalist Pyramid, Herbst makes literal the need we have for mutual support.

Through a public re-visitation of a popular political text (the Pyramid) from the early 20th century, the project aims to investigate the resonance of such language today. Following from a tradition of ambiguity in participatory new genres public art, this project explores the possibility of the legacy of class ideology within public spaces. &quot;New Pyramids&quot; raises questions of how the built environment can influence political participation. It explores the potential for human interaction, as exemplified by the acrobatic pyramids, to change our understanding of spaces. The show will also question how the spaces we occupy are meant to bear the weight of our interactions within them. The performance of the human pyramids raises issues of the nature of cooperation and complicity by citizens in the maintenance (or overturning!) of societal divisions.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-01</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C221" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C221">
  <Name>Mac Premo &quot;The Dumpster Project&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/890A7C33">
    <Name>The Invisible Dog</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>51 Bergen St., Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Smith &amp; Court Sts. Subway: F/G to Bergen Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Dumpster Project is a work of transportable public art. The Dumpster Project is also a daily blog (www.thedumpsterproject.com). Fundamentally, though, The Dumpster Project is a physical taxonomy of one man’s existence.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-12</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C7AD" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C7AD">
  <Name>&quot;A. Object Migration&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C3AD66D1">
    <Name>Proteus Gowanus</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>543 Union St., Brooklyn, New York 11215</Address>
    <Phone>718-243-1572</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Nevins St.  Subway: M/R to Union Street, F/G to Carroll Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays openinghour 15:00, fridays openinghour 15:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[When we think about migration, we tend to focus on people and creatures, the mobile inhabitants of the planet. But life and motion create products and byproducts: tools, waste, the implements of culture. These are often the things that drive us onward in our migrations. We asked our community of friends and collaborators and all others to contribute objects with migratory stories for this show. With over 50 contributors, objects on display range from a 50 million year old “dinosaur fart” (or gas bubble) to a collection of wild bird’s stomach contents collected in the early 20th C for “scientific” purposes. There are also talismans, mundane objects with secret meanings, things of beauty and much more.

We will view these objects as independent beings with stories of their own, stories that began before the object’s encounter with its current owner and that will likely continue long after they part. The stories may migrate into the economic, the industrial, the political, the historical, the geologic, the environmental and so on as visitors add to the stories on display with information they may have about the object in question.

B. The Bureau of Unknown Destinations
As part of Object Migrations, we introduce The Bureau of Unknown Destinations, offering temporary displacements to members of the public seeking to experiment with their migratory impulses.

Make a booking for a day’s journey, and you’ll be presented with a free round trip ticket for a train adventure (along with a notebook and a small, somewhat absurd, task). Begin your day by tearing open a sealed envelope and revealing the mystery of where you will find yourself by noon. Set forth, free of decisions, into the great (or perhaps, in this case, the small) unknown. Test your sense of destiny. Have lunch someplace new.

Book your travel up to two weeks in advance at the Bureau’s offices, located at Proteus Gowanus. Offices are open most Saturdays 1-5, as well as irregularly on other days, and always by appointment.

The Bureau of Unknown Destinations is part of a three month artist’s residency by Sal Randolph at Proteus Gowanus, extending through mid-April.

Object Migrations is presented by Proteus Gowanus with curatorial assistance from the artist Sal Randolph, creator of the Free Biennale, Free Manifesta, Free Words and Manifesta, and from Smudge Studio, creator of the book Geologic City: A Field Guide to the GeoArchitecture of New York, exploring the convergence of the geologic and the human, and of  Friends of the Pleistocene. Sal will also be our Artist-In-Residence for the duration of the Objects Show. We also wish to thank Twig Terraria, on 4th Ave and President, for assisting us with our display by providing glass terraria.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-07</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C7E3" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C7E3">
  <Name>Annie Ewaskio &quot;Futurescapes&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2FD3D32C">
    <Name>A.I.R. Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., #228, Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-6651</Phone>
    <Fax>212-255-6653</Fax>
    <Access>Between Washington and Adams Sts. Subway: F to York Street, A/C to High Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In her first solo exhibition in New York, Ewaskio exhibits a series of colorful and luminous oil paintings that depict nonexistent places. Painted in a luscious and visceral manner, the works are scenes that stem from the artist's imagination but are rooted in her experience traversing the American landscape. ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Artist talk: Thursday February 2th, 6 PM</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-02" start="18:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/CD84" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/CD84">
  <Name>Rachel Kneebone &quot;Regarding Rodin&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Rachel Kneebone: Regarding Rodin, an exhibition featuring new works by the British artist Rachel Kneebone shown alongside iconic works from the nineteenth-century French master Auguste Rodin in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Kneebone's first major museum presentation, the exhibition will include eight intricately wrought, large-scale porcelain sculptures paired with fifteen Rodin sculptures from the Brooklyn Museum's collection.

Rachel Kneebone: Regarding Rodin will focus on Kneebone's and Rodin's shared interest in the examination of gender and sexuality, the nature of sculptural form, and the formal representation of mourning, ecstasy, death, and vitality in figurative sculpture. This pairing will also offer a visual comparison of their sculptural materials and processes. Kneebone's porcelain sculptures make reference to the history of sculpture including comparisons to Michelangelo, Gianlorenzo Bernini, and Louise Bourgeois. Her simultaneously pristine and agitated artworks, which integrate human forms that merge into odd mutations, provide a stark contrast to Rodin's heavy, dark, yet equally animated bronzes. Whereas Rodin cast his sculpture, Kneebone creates unique artworks that she fires in a small kiln in her studio. Her larger sculptures are fired in sections and then assembled later into completed pieces.

This exhibition marks the first time that Kneebone will present her artwork along with one of her significant historical referents. The centerpiece of the exhibition and the largest work that she has created to date, The Descent (2008), was inspired by Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, as was Rodin's masterpiece The Gates of Hell (1880-1917). The Descent is a highly theatrical sculpture consisting of hundreds of hybrid figures tumbling into an abyss of teeming with bodies and flesh. Both Kneebone's and Rodin's sculptures take thematic inspiration from The Inferno, the first section of the Divine Comedy, and highlight the charged emotion and the tensions that emerge from life wrestling with death and momentary ecstasy mixed with eternal suffering.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $10, Seniors and Students $6, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-27</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-08-12</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/CF34" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/CF34">
  <Name>&quot;Reading Images&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F1212C26">
    <Name>Brooklyn Public Library (Central)</Name>
    <Type>Other</Type>
    <Address>10 Grand Army Plz., Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-230-2100</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>At Eastern Pkwy. Subway: 2/3/Q to Grand Army Plaza or Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum of Art, or Q to 7th Avenue. </Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>21:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>friday closinghour 18:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00, saturdays openinghour 10:00, fridays openinghour 10:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[We now straddle book culture and cyberspace. Because we have a foot in both worlds, we are granted a glimpse into the way these technologies shape how we derive meaning from what we see. But it is like stepping from a dock onto a boat; we risk losing our balance by staring into the water between our feet. Meaning shifts and may be lost altogether.

The works in this exhibition are oil, graphite and screen printing on wood panels. Obsolete and residual technology is an important element in my work, and residual print technologies were utilized in the fabrication of this work, including thermal screen printing, ditto masters and letterpress type.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2011-12-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D2F9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D2F9">
  <Name>&quot;Dona Nobis&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Concrete Utopia</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>39 Hampton Pl., Brooklyn, NY 11213</Address>
    <Phone>347-559-6155</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Sterling and St. John's Pls., Subway: 2/3/4/5 to Kingston Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Art is a gift. This winter the 20 artists of Dona Nobis have probed the gift dimension of the work of art---the idea that seems to come from somewhere beyond the artist, the value of the work that escapes the valuation of the market, the communities art builds through viewership and circulation, and the world of exchange between artists themselves. On February 11, Concrete Utopia opens its winter group show Dona Nobis at our project space in Crown Heights, featuring paintings, sculpture, electronic installation, and photography from:]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Carrie Pollack &quot;Witness&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Minus Space</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., Suite 226, Brooklyn, NY 11201  </Address>
    <Phone>347-525-4628</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Washington and Adams Sts. Subway: A/C to High Street or F to York Street</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[MINUS SPACE presents the exhibition Carrie Pollack: Witness. This is the Brooklyn-based artist’s first solo exhibition in New York and it will feature a suite of new paintings consisting of digital prints on linen.

Carrie Pollack describes her work as “a catalog of her memories”. In it she examines what we as individuals consciously or unconsciously choose to remember, and how our memories of people, places, and events degrade and change over time. Begun after the death of her father in 2009, Pollack’s new paintings are both poetic and existential, and they investigate the notions of permanence and impermanence, as well as uncertainty and contradiction. She deliberately intends her paintings to function “more as conversations than as statements”. Her imagery can often appear both familiar and unknown at the same time spanning both abstraction and representation.

The source materials of Pollack’s new paintings can be found in long meditative walks she takes daily with her dog around her Greenpoint, Brooklyn neighborhood. She carries her camera with her religiously, which she uses as a research tool to record the fleeting nature of her immediate environment. Each day Pollack takes dozens of photographs, which as of late have focused on deteriorating advertising posters, faded graffiti tags, vacant lots, worn textiles, and the fleeting quality of the sky, as well as other elements in transition and flux.

Pollack in turn organizes her photographs – now numbering in the thousands – into several distinct categories: posters, skies, newspapers, and textiles, among others. She spends weeks pouring over her images, intuitively arranging and rearranging them, looking for shared relationships between them. Once she identifies an image of essential interest, Pollack reduces it down to gray-scale in Photoshop, occasionally adjusting its contrast if needed to bring the image into a neutral state. She then prints upwards of one hundred test images with her large-format printer onto a wide array of supports, including newsprint, paper, canvas, and linen. The printing process is intentionally laden with glitches and hiccups, which she readily embraces. She remarks that the technology “adds its own interpretation of the image”, which reflects the way one’s mind continually tries to understand, interpret, and find meaning in the past, present, and future.

In the concluding steps of her process, Pollack prints a final image onto linen in a size that is unequal – sometimes larger, sometimes smaller – to the dimensions of the painting stretcher that will support it. As a result, the printed image often appears misaligned at first glance. Sometimes an image will wrap around the sides of the stretcher bars and onto the back the painting. Other times an image will be completely isolated within a much larger field of raw linen on the surface of the painting. These choices starkly contrast the digital quality of the image with the physical materiality of the painting itself, which directly parallels and exemplifies the complexity of memory.

Carrie Pollack (b. 1973) has exhibited her work throughout the United States, as well as in Germany and Belgium. Her work was recently included in the group exhibition Between This Light and That and Space curated by artist Douglas Melini at the gallery this past summer. Pollack has also recently exhibited at BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Monya Rowe Gallery, and David Krut Projects, all in New York. She has also produced editions with Daily Operation in New York and Sonnenzimmer in Chicago, IL.

Pollack has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Jentel, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been discussed in publications, such as Time Out New York, Metropulse, and The Daily Beacon. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, and a BFA from Alfred University, Alfred, NY.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-13</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;It's a Thin Line Between Love and Hate&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C2FC31E7">
    <Name>United Photo Industries</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., Suite 204, Brooklyn, NY, 11201 </Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Washington and Adams St. Subway: F to York Street, A/C to High Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[In strict observance of February - the year's most emotionally conflicted month - we'll be kicking things off with a two-week show focusing on the concept of Love before flipping the gallery over to another two-week show, aptly dedicated to the art of pure, unadulterated Hate. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-28</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Even Robart and James Moore Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/31ECD29E">
    <Name>Open Source Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>255 17th St., Brooklyn, NY 11215</Address>
    <Phone>646-279-3969</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and 6th Ave. Subway: R to Prospect Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Open Source presents Evan Robarts and James Moore.

Responding to their environment, Evan Robarts and James Moore will be presenting two site specific works intending to activate the space into a different dimension based on their work’s energies. Both artists work is characterized by formal and conceptual experimentation with material and a desire to transform thoughts into objects. An exchange and interplay of notions ranging from platonic ideals, semiology, biomimicry and nostalgia influence and infiltrate one another changing the original context of their individual pieces while its interplay creates a new understanding to the larger work as singular whole.

Evan Robarts’ work stems from an attraction to material and form as a means to capture the ideal and eternal. Reaching back to his childhood, he incorporates nostalgic memories, colors, and objects in his work. “Youth is central in my work, I relate very strongly to the evocative pull of the mysticism and unencumbered joy of childhood.” says Robarts about his work.

James Moore experiments with industrial objects that symbolically resemble organic matter, such as foam as tree sap, electrical circuits as a human nervous system, and modern, architectural spaces with life forms and bodily matter seeping from the cracks. “I often inject what I see as a mutating, extraterrestrial, and psychedelic life force into my work in order to resurrect or rebirth a space in contrast. ”

At Open Source Evan Robarts shows a variation of the series “popsicles”. He covers the concrete floor with (melted) popsicles. In juxtaposition to Evans nostalgic installation, James Moore will install a single light sculpture that leaks a primordial ooze out of the bulbs, reminiscent of the office light at one’s day job, or factory. As if it had a mysterious visitor channelling through it from another world.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-28</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/F80C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/F80C">
  <Name>Josh Alexander &quot;INWARD&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/6704514F">
    <Name>Giacobetti Paul Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St. #220, Brooklyn, NY 11215</Address>
    <Phone>917-548-8107</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Washington St. Subway: F train to York Street </Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[New York based artist Josh Alexander unveila his most recent work at the Giacobetti Paul gallery in Brooklyn next month. In his latest exhibition, INWARD, Alexander presents a visual narrative of human emotions through the use of color, texture and shapes. The show will include several series of work, including collections of emotions, scars, and abstract figures. In his new works, Alexander captures honesty in introspection ­­ and reveals his continual influence from human nature.

Josh Alexander uses art to manifest truth. More commonly known for his paintings of the figure, still life’s, and self­portraits, the artist has recently taken a new direction with his work in pursuit of finding truth through imagery. “I don't set out to produce art about one subject or another. I'm never without a sketchbook so I am constantly drawing. Sometimes the drawings are left in the book and other times they develop into more in­depth ideas. A few months ago, I found myself drawing visual representations of emotions. This led to an exploration of art in a deeper and more personal level,” says Alexander. Alexander studied figure drawing under John Thrasher at The Ohio State University where he earned a degree in Architecture in 2000. After moving to New York in 2002, he studied painting under Robert Neffson at The Art Students League of New York before joining Madarts where he works from his studio in Brooklyn.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-02</DateStart>
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