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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/0088" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/0088">
  <Name>&quot;Action: Sex and the Moving Image&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/93172088">
    <Name>The Museum of Sex</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>233 5th Ave., New York, NY 10016</Address>
    <Phone>212-689-6337 ×113</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 27th St., Subway: R/W 28th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="flatiron_gramercy">Flatiron, Gramercy</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:30:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[We live in a visual culture. Everywhere we look we are bombarded with images often to the point of sensory overload. Images shape our desires, the way we think and the manner in which we connect and interact with the world around us. Images serve as the driving force behind decisions about what to buy, what to believe, what to value, where to go and which people and relationships are worth our time and energy. These images come flying at us in commercials, music videos, television shows, mainstream film and in Internet spam. It is impossible to ignore the sensuality and sexuality of these images…and why should we?

Action: Sex and the Moving Image opening at the Museum of Sex in March 2007, traces the way sex and sexual imagery have impacted film, television, advertising and more contemporary outlets like the internet while simultaneously creating the multi- billion dollar porn industry and influencing popular art such as film, social standards, mores and behaviors.

Sex on film propelled the development of video technologies such as beta players, VCRS, and DVD players that have brought movies of all types into our homes. The Internet, the latest of this stream of technologies, has made sexual imagery more accessible than ever. No matter how much it is discussed, denounced, and demonized sex on film, sex on our televisions, sex on our computer screens and now sex on our mobile devices is here to stay.

Sex, nudity, and innuendo have always been a source of controversy and topics of public discourse and debate. Throughout the history of moving images legislation has affected not only what filmmakers could create, but also what people were “allowed” to see. Sex on film has been banned, censored, edited, and destroyed by those deeming the content to be obscene or immoral. Action: Sex and the Moving Image surveys the history of sex and the moving image over more than 150 years, featuring everything from sex symbols to “sexploitation” films of the 1950s to “porn chic” to contemporary celebrity “home-made” porn. The exhibition aims at providing the tools to become literate in the barrage of sexual driven images in our society.

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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/2F1D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/2F1D">
  <Name>&quot;Spotlight on the Permanent Collection&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/93172088">
    <Name>The Museum of Sex</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>233 5th Ave., New York, NY 10016</Address>
    <Phone>212-689-6337 ×113</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 27th St., Subway: R/W 28th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="flatiron_gramercy">Flatiron, Gramercy</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:30:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Graphics</Media>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Spotlight on the Permanent Collection is the first exhibition featuring a sampling of objects and ephemera drawn from over nine thousand objects that comprise the permanent collection of the Museum of Sex. This ever-growing collection, begun five years ago, covers many aspects of human sexuality. The vast majority of items reflect America's changing attitudes about sex and sexuality over the last 250 years.

Spotlight on the Permanent Collection explores eight themes: sex education; mapping sex in America; sex in art; law and public morality; sex in advertising; sex and technology; sex and entertainment; and the significance of the Museum of Sex in New York City. The exhibition includes erotic works by well known artists like Randy Wray, Gerald Gooch and Alex Rockman donated to the museum by the Peter Norton Family and the Lannan Family Foundation. Highlights of the technology collection include homemade contraptions and commercial devices registered with the U.S. Patent Office that prevent, improve or enhance sexual function. Dan Siechert's &quot;Monkey Rocker&quot; or Abyss Creations LLC's &quot;Real Doll&quot; are just a few of the exhibits featured.

The gallery development team, lead by John Vollmer and Karen Eckhaus of the Museum of Sex, includes several leading authorities from a wide range of disciplines: Dr. Pepper Schwartz, Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, St. Louis serves as a key advisor for &quot;Sex Education America.&quot; Joshua Berger and Sarah Dougher, authors of the (award-winning) book, XXX: The Power of Sex in Contemporary Design, have curated &quot;Stimulating Sales: Sex and Design.&quot;

Andrea Tone, Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine Social Studies of Medicine &amp; Department of History at McGill University, and Rachel Maines, Researcher at Cornell University, offer commentary in &quot;Sex and Technology.&quot; Dr. Joseph Slade, Professor at the School of Telecommunications, Ohio University and advisor on the exhibition, Stag, Smokers, and Blue Movies, helped to plan the exhibits in &quot;American pornography&quot; which are drawn from the Museum of Sex's Ralph Whittington collection.

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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/0716" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/0716">
  <Name>Jim Campbell &quot;Scattered Light&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/1A8017B1">
    <Name>Mad. Sq. Art</Name>
    <Type>Other</Type>
    <Address>1 W 23rd St., New York, NY, 10010</Address>
    <Phone>212-538-6667</Phone>
    <Fax>212-538-3970</Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and 6th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="flatiron_gramercy">Flatiron, Gramercy</Area>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Featuring two new major public art commissions, Jim Campbell's Scattered Light will blanket Madison Square Park's Oval Lawn with a 3-D matrix of nearly 2,000 LED lights featuring moving images. For the larger of the two pieces, which shares the name Scattered Light with the exhibition, nearly 2,000 LED lights, encased in standard light-bulb casings, will create a vibrant light grid suspended within a support structure spanning 20 feet high and 80 feet wide, across the center of Madison Square Park's Oval Lawn. The LED bulbs, engineered to flicker scattered light at the command of computer programming, will create the illusion of figurative images that explore and reflect the human experience amidst the urban landscape.  These figures will appear to move across the park's central Oval Lawn. As one travels around the piece, the vantage point alters and the light figures begin to abstract, blurring the boundaries between image and object. Both abstract and representational, sculptural and image based, Scattered Light will illuminate and activate Madison Square Park with Campbell's light-based sculptural approach to the concept of contemporary image-making as pixilation in a manner that is at once elegantly simple and quintessentially contemporary. ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-10-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-12-10</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/0D1A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/0D1A">
  <Name>Eiji Matsukubo &quot;9029 &amp; Now&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/92E7959A">
    <Name>NYCoo Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1133 Broadway, #335, New York, NY 10010 </Address>
    <Phone>212-380-1149</Phone>
    <Fax>646-383-7943</Fax>
    <Access>Between 25th and 26th St.  Subway:  R/W to 28th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="flatiron_gramercy">Flatiron, Gramercy</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[NY Coo Gallery presents Eiji Matsukubo’s &quot;9029 &amp; Now&quot; ; the artist’s first solo exhibition in NY.
 
Matsukubo was born in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan. He earned his BFA and MFA at Tama Art University and soon after held his own exhibitions in his hometown and Tokyo.  He was very active in promoting his own art work and eventually attained exhibitions overseas in Korea and New York.  In 1984, he received Japan’s Graphic Parco Award in addition to many others.  In 2005, he achieved his Grand Prix award at the first annual NY Coo Gallery Open Art Contest.
 
In the year 1985 he moved to the East Village, one of the center of American art, where his true art identity formed. Ironically, it all began at a fish market where he worked to put food on the table.  To give an example, there is the idea of “Gestalt (configuration).”  The concept itself is already hard to grasp from a theoretical perspective, yet, he discovered its true meaning while working at this fish market. The rest is history; he was able to discover his own definition and style of art.  He sees “art” as something ordinary that does not distinguish itself as a special matter.  Art is abstract expressionism; however, he goes beyond it to add his own storyline which he believes is integral to art. Living in an era in which pop art is currently becoming more familiar, he is trying to define and support his own style of art through “anti-pop” perspective.    
 
Then tragedy struck. He was diagnosed with ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, the same disease that renowned physicist Stephen Hawking suffers from and the basis of the book, “Tuesdays with Morrie.”  ALS is a disease that affects muscle movement due to damage to the central nervous system. It is considered progressive and fatal; it eventually leads to inability to control all voluntary movements, including the ability to breathe.  His condition is still at an early stage, yet he regretfully decided to leave NY to face his reality.  In order to have an appropriate closure to a place where it all started, he decided to have his solo exhibition in NY.
 
The exhibition title, 「9029 &amp; Now」, the 9029 signifies the exact number of days that has elapsed since he first stepped out of the plane on December 16, 1985 at JFK airport. His life did take a sudden turn, yet he wants to face his reality with strength and he hopes to portray his 25 years in NY from all perspectives. He hopes to grasp the viewers’ attention by showing that his artwork goes beyond self-control and God’s blessings have added more flavor to his own artwork. The theme for the exhibition is “water.” It is named for water’s continuous cycle; its vitality and necessity for human and other life forms.  In another words, water gives the strength to live in the same way that are given him the strength to carry on.

He recognizes and realizes the differences in concept between “comprehension” and “ability to express”; the fact that he respects Twombly and Richter shows that Eiji Matsukubo is definitely a philosophical –oriented artist. 

To keep and enhance the true beauty from vivid colors is something difficult to achieve, yet he finds two- dimensional art as most fascinating and alluring rather than any other forms of art, i.e. 3D. More than “drawing” pictures per se, he is into “smearing” colors to create his art pieces. At this exhibition, there will be twenty paintings as well as several computer-graphic paintings.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-09-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-09-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/20BE" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/20BE">
  <Name>&quot;16 mm Postcards:  Home Movies of American Jewish Visitors to 1930s Poland&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D4560155">
    <Name>Yeshiva University Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>15 W 16th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-294-8330</Phone>
    <Fax>212 294-8335</Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and 6th Ave. Subway: Q/W/N/R/4/5/6 to Union Square, 1/2/3/9 to 14th Street or A/C/E to 14th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="flatiron_gramercy">Flatiron, Gramercy</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The richly textured and complex world of pre-WWII Poland is revealed in a fascinating exhibition that features the amateur films of Polish-American Jews who returned home to visit their families, friends, and old communities during the 1920's and 30's.

From August 29, 2010 through January 2, 2011, visitors to the Yeshiva University Museum in Chelsea can gain a vivd and poignant glimpse into this long-gone world through 16 mm Postcards:  Home Movies of American Jewish Visitors to 1930s Poland, developed in collaboration with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and in cooperation with the Center for Jewish History.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $8, Seniors and Students $6, Members, Children under 5, Yeshiva University Faculty, Administration and Students Free (with valid ID)</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-08-29</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2011-01-02</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/C64C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/C64C">
  <Name>&quot;The Book Show&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/EC88A2E5">
    <Name>SVA Gallery</Name>
    <Type>University or School</Type>
    <Address>209 E 23rd St., New York, NY</Address>
    <Phone>212-592-2145</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 2nd and 3rd Ave. Subway: 6 to 23rd Street or R/W to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="flatiron_gramercy">Flatiron, Gramercy</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 10:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Illustration</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[An annual exhibition of book projects by second-year students in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department. Curated by Department Chair Marshall Arisman and faculty member Carl Nicholas Titolo.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-09-23</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-10-13</DateEnd>
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 <Party type="1" date="2010-09-28" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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