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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/3057" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/3057">
  <Name>&quot;Museum as Hub: Be(com)ing Dutch at a Distance&quot; Series</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B16209D5">
    <Name>The New Museum of Contemporary Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-219-1222</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>On the corner  of Prince St. Subway: 6 to Spring Street or N/R to Prince Street. Bus: M103 to Prince and Bowery or M6 to Broadway and Prince.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00, fridays closinghour 22:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This is the second in a series of conversations organized by Museum as Hub Fellow Ivet Reyes Maturano in conjunction with the exhibition Museum as Hub: Be(com)ing Dutch at a Distance.

Ramon Hulspas and Erik Vermeulen are two young artists living and working in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Hulspas and Vermeulen first met in the mid ’90s through the Eindhoven skateboard scene. They formed the collective Æ in 2002 after a popular underground venue was torn down, discovering the creative possibilities of squatting. Each artist also has an independent practice and participated in a temporary project occupying the Van Abbemuseum together with artists Erwin van Doorn, Sarge Vermeulen, and Aaron van Erp with the goal of interacting and sharing conversations with its public.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">General Admission $12, Seniors $8, Students $6, 18 and under Free, Members Free, Thursday Evenings (from 7pm to 10pm) Free.</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-03-14</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-06-30</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/6E63" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/6E63">
  <Name>&quot;Reading Room: 2000 books on contemporary art&quot; Library</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/355E9211">
    <Name>e-flux</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>41 Essex St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-619-3356</Phone>
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    <Access>Between Hester and Grand Sts.  Subway: B/D to Grand Street, F to East Broadway, J/M/Z to Essex</Access>
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  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The reading room is a rapidly growing collection of several thousand books on contemporary art exhibitions open to the public at 41 Essex Street. The books have been donated by numerous art institutions and individuals from all parts of the world and reflect some of the more interesting developments in art of the past decade. e-flux reading room is open for research and study.

Contributing institutions include:
A Prior, Aeroplastics contemporary, Agentur fur Fotografie und Fotoprojekte, alphadelta gallery, aMAZElab, Americas Society, Annika Larsson, Apex Art Curatorial Program, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine (ADKV), Arch+ Foundation / Volume, Archis, Art &amp; Industry Biennial Trust, Art en Marge, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Art Goes Heiligendamm, Art in General, Art Lies - A Contemporary Art Quarterly, Art Press (Art Resources Transfer INC), Artangel, ArtBOX, artconnexion, Artes Mundi, Artfairs inc, artforum (Bookforum), Art-ist 5, artspace witzenhausen gallery, Artspeak, Asperger Autorenwerkstatt e.V., Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Athens Biennial, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, B&amp;M Verlag, BAK - basis voor actuele kunst, BAM/PFA, b-books, Bettinna Pousttchi, BIDA - Bienial Internacional del Deporte en el Arte, Bidoun: Arts and Culture from the Middle East, Black Dog publishing, Blanton Museum of Art, Boijmans Museum, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonniers Konsthall, Bookworks, Bristol School of Art Media and Design, bruno dorn verlag, Buchmann Galerie Berlin, Bury Art Gallery, CAB, Caja de Burgos Art Centre, Cabinet, CCA Wattis, Center for Contemporary Non-objective Art, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Centre Culturel Suisse Paris, Centre d'Art Nicolas de Stael, Centre d'Art Santa Monica Generalitat de Catalunya, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Centro de Arte Y Naturaleza (CDAN), Chiang Mai University Art Museum, Christian Brandstatter Verlag, Wien, Conner Contemporary Art, Contact (Toronto Photography Festival), Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Crawford Gallery, Crosswords, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Deutsche Guggenheim, Dia Center for the Arts, Didier Devillez Editeur, Dienst voor Cultuur, E31 Gallery, Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, e-flux, EIE (Primer Encuentro Internacional De Espacios De Arte Independiente 2005), Ellen Blumenstein, Fabbrica del Vapore, Festival der Regionen, Fillip, Fine Arts Unternehmen, Flatform, Fleunt-Collaborative, Flintridge Foundation, Florence Lynch Gallery, Fondacio &quot;Sa Nostra&quot;, Caixa de Balears, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, FormContent, FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, Framis International Office, Francesca Minimi, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frieze, GAK, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Galerie im Taxispalais - Galerie des Landes Tirol, Galerija &quot;Meno Parkas&quot;, Kaunas, Lithuania, Galerija Skuc, Galleri Image, Galleria Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Bergamo (GAMeC), Galleria Civica di Modena, Gallery at REDCAT, Gasworks Gallery, Goteborgs Konsthall, Gowett-Brewster Art Gallery, Green Cardamom, Gronlands Kulturhus, Hadley &amp; Maxwell, Halle für Kunst e.V., Harriet Godwin, Hellenic Culture Organisation, Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art, High Desert Test Sites, Hogeschool Gent, HomeShop, I Sotterranei delle Agostiniane, Monte Carasso, IM Projects, Independent Curators International (iCI), Index A / Stockholm, InSite/Installation Gallery, Institute National d'Histoire de l'Art , Paris, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Irwin, j &amp; k world, Jan Van Eyck Academie, jrg|ringier, Julie Joyce &amp; Sandra Firmin, k3 project space, Kasseler Kunstverein, Katuaq / Kirsten Justesen, Krannert Art Museum, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Kunsthaus Dresden, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Kunstmuseet Brundlund Slot, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Kunstverein Gottingen, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Kvindemuseet i Danmark, KW, Berlin, La Maison Rouge, Laura Palmer Foundation, Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Ashkal Alwan, Lehman College Art Gallery, Lightworks Magazine, Lismore Castle Arts, Livraison - Revue d'Art Contemporain / Contemporary Arts Journal, Locus Athens, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal State L.A., Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Matt's Gallery, London, MDD - Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Miami Design District, Middelheim Museum, Mobile Academy, MoBY, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, mono.kultur, Montenmedio Arte Contemporaneo / NMAC, Moskow Biennale 02, MOUSSE, Mucsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest, MUSAC Museu de Arte Contemporeáneo de Castilla y Léon, MUSEION, Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Museum in Progress, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Muzej savremene umetnosti, Beograd, Nada, nassauischer kunstverein e.V., National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), National Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest (Mucsarnok), National Sculpture Factory, Ireland, Netwerk/centrum for heedendaagse kunst, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V., Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nuno Cera, Nuno Ferreira de Carvahlo, O.K. Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Objectif Projects, Obra Social Caja Madrid, Office for Contemporary Art, Norway, Old Mill Books, OneStar Press, Or gallery, Vancouver, Parasol Unit, Foundation for Contemporary Art, Parker's Box, Parkett, PEAR, Picnic Magazine, Polonca Lovsin, Portikus, Printed Project, Project Art Center, Essex/ Project Press, Project Gentili, PS1, Public Art Lab /Mobile Studios, Public Art Lower Austria, Raphael Grisey, Regine Basha, Rekalde, Renee Ridgway, RSA Arts &amp; Ecology, Salzburger Kunstverein, SCI-Arc Gallery, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Sculpture Center, NY, Secession, Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession, Serpentine Gallery, Sharjah International Biennial, Site Gallery &amp; Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum, SITE Santa Fe, Spike - Art Quarterly, Sportmagzin Verlag GmbH, Star Ship, Statens Museum for Kunst, Sternberg Press, Stroom Den Haag, Studies of Anedafology, Studio 1, Summit, Susanne Kriemann, Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taipei Biennial and Taiwan Pavilion), Teachers College of Technology, Rachel &amp; Israel Pollak Gallery, Textem Verlag, The Armory Show, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, The Drawing Center, The Free Academy, The Moore Space, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania, The Power Plant - Contemporary Art Gallery Harbourfront centre, The press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, The Queens Museum of Art, The Vera List Center for Art and Politics - The New School, , The Women's Art Library - Make, Goldsmiths University London, Thelma Mathias, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (T-B A21), Topographis Press, TORCH Gallery, tranzit, initiative for contemporary art, Tyler Coburn, Umetnostna Galerija Maribor (Maribor Art Gallery), UP, Veenman Publishers, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Via Farini, Villa Arson, Nice, Villa Manin: Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Vydal KANT, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Witte de With, Wyspa Progress Foundation.
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/0325" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/0325">
  <Name>Dustin Wayne Harris &quot;Cake Mixx&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/812EE5BF">
    <Name>Heist Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>27 Essex St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-253-0451 </Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Hester and Grand Sts. Subway: F to East Broadway, J/M/Z to Essex Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Harris explains his inspiration for “Cake Mixx:”

“A few years ago, my girlfriend at the time insisted upon baking me a cake for my birthday. I begged her not to, but she (and the cake) arrived at my house wrapped in Saran Wrap, a little worse for wear. Since I had no intention of eating it, I did the next best thing: I took a picture of it. The relationship eventually sagged – like the cake. But I learned something valuable. Whereas some people consult astrologers, read Tarot cards, or tea leafs to predict the future, cakes tell it all. The process is simple. After a first date with someone, I ask her to bake me a cake. I give no direction, but the way the cake looks never fails to become a metaphor for the relationship. Take Chloe for example: You can see from her first cake, the relationship had great promise. The second cake tells you that it ended badly. I am convinced I have stumbled on a valuable tool in the arsenal of psychoanalysis: cake reading.”

While the photographs in “Cake Mixx” are a continuation of Harris’s ongoing infatuation with the objects his lovers leave behind – a bar of soap, a hairbrush, a tangle of deflating birthday balloons – they also elevate the cakes to become not only metaphors about his relationships but also portraits of their makers. In this series of photographs, the cakes cease to be merely relics invested with all the intense beauty and suffering of memory and longing, and instead become infused with a heightened sense of uniqueness, of introspection and of self. Part of the reason for this shift in consequence is a shift in procedure: by inviting his lovers to make him a cake, they inevitably reveal some essence of themselves in the process. At Harris’s urging, the viewer is invited to participate in a bit of cake reading psychoanalysis. Once past the initial threshold of seeing merely the objects as something &quot;Gourmet Magazine&quot; might publish, the viewer’s interior wonder begins whizzing: That cake looks professional. Bet she bought it. Then again, maybe she’s a baker. Are those layers meant to make me think that she’s complicated? Is Saran Wrap code for safe sex or daddy issues? Because the frosting is messy, she’s probably wild in bed. If she took a long time making this, does that mean she takes a long time to get ready? The fact that Harris’s photographs play with domestic issues and the familiar trope– the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach– should give the viewer proper pause, however, for the dance of seduction– both as lovers and viewers– can make even the most sober-minded lightheaded and easily taken advantage of.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/0334" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/0334">
  <Name>&quot;Tantra&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/844E0DE9">
    <Name>Feature Inc.</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>131 Allen St., New York, NY 10002  </Address>
    <Phone>212-675-7772</Phone>
    <Fax>212-675-7773</Fax>
    <Access>Between Delancey and Rivington Sts. Subways: 6 to Spring Street, F/M/J/Z to Delancey Street or B/D to Grand Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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>sundays openinghour 13:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[These small paintings are made anonymously in India by practitioners of tantra, some of whom are artists, to signify and stimulate specific mental and/or spiritual experiences. While they are traditional images that have evolved over centuries with highly conventionalized forms and colors, they exude such a high level of intentionality that they continually appear fresh and alive. Despite their didactic function, they also have a history of being coveted as decorative objects and abstract art.

[Image: Anonymous &quot;tantric painting (10–10: Divine Love; Jaïpur, Rajasthan&quot; (1990) unspecified paint on found paper 12.375 x 10.675 in.]
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  <DateStart>2010-03-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-27</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/03A8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/03A8">
  <Name>Julia Dault &quot;Total Picture Control&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/39060712">
    <Name>Blackston</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>29C Ludlow St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-695-8201</Phone>
    <Fax>212-695-8202</Fax>
    <Access>Between Hester and Canal Sts.  Subway: F to East Broadway, B/D to Grand Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Physical negotiations are paramount in Dault's three-dimensional practice, particularly those between the recalcitrance of her industrial materials and her desire to marshal them into unexpected forms. Her sculptures, made from Formica, Plexiglas, wood, and aluminum, often have dents, scrapes, or jagged shards-testament both to the components' previous life and to the sheer effort underpinning the finished works' austerity. These sinuous forms are often anchored to the wall with bricklayers' nylon string, which affirms the &quot;control&quot; Dault has managed to exert. The sculptures exemplify the precise meeting point between their materials' physical properties and the artist's manual dexterity: unlike the works of Dault's artistic forebears, which were often outsourced to production companies, to date she has always worked alone, creating a &quot;performed&quot; Minimalism in-situ. Of course, the &quot;totality&quot; of this control, as in life itself, is an illusion, and the sculptures' solidity can never be fully fixed. Achieving balance, often with unconventional, commercially available materials, is likewise central to Dault's painting practice. The juxtaposition of athletic tape and imitation gold and silver leaf with more traditional oil and acrylic paints accompanies a formal equipoise between chastened grids and free-form mark-making. Her densely layered compositions, achieved through expressive gestures, the use of stencils, the imprinting of discarded palettes, uncontrolled drips, and other means, emphasize the détente between planning and risk so evident in her sculptures.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/0478" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/0478">
  <Name>Josh Azzarella Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/69F3B391">
    <Name>DCKT Contemporary</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>195 Bowery, New York, NY 1002</Address>
    <Phone>212-741-9955</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Spring St.  Subway: J/M/Z to Bowery, F/V to 2nd Avenue or 6 to Spring Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 12:00, sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Summer Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Josh Azzarella manipulates images from cinema, journalism and amateur photography. His photographs muddy the waters between the artificial beauty of a cinematic set and the inherent beauty of the natural landscape. Absent their most significant events, Azzarella’s images raise questions about how our society constructs a narrative of our collective history. The emptying of the photographs presents each scene in its formal beauty but leaves a ghost of its narrative past. The viewer is tempted to draw relational lines between individual photographs and to decipher patterns and groupings, taking cues from color and film grain. Movie stills, homemade images and documentary footage mix together, as in our collective memory. How individual and collective memories form, the possibilities of confusing memories with realities or creating memories where none previously existed are all key to his oeuvre. In one photograph vines drape across branches, hearkening documentary photographs of the Vietnam War although its true source is the B movie classic &quot;Creature from the Black Lagoon.&quot; Emptied seascapes recall the stillness of Hiroshi Sugimoto photographs. The backs of two men on an Elvis Presley film set evoke 1960s family photographs, perhaps of a picnic.

[Image: Josh Azzarella &quot;Untitled #86 (Lopez)&quot; (2009) Cibachrome 10 x 10 in.]  ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-19</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/0801" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/0801">
  <Name>Cristiana Palandri &quot;Noiseless&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Scaramouche c/o Fruit and Flower Deli</Name>
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    <Address>53 Stanton St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-228-2229</Phone>
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    <Access>Between Forsyth St. and Eldridge St.  Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[As the final exhibition at the former Fruit &amp; Flower Deli space, &quot;Scaramouche&quot; is pleased to present an exhibition by Italian artist Cristiana Palandri. For her first solo-show in New York, Palandri presents a selection of recent drawings and sculptures, as well as an installation specifically conceived for the gallery space. Building on her previous investigation with organic materials, this new body of work continues to explore the sculptural possibilities of human hair, animal bones, and bees wax, which simultaneously act as both fragile, ephemeral elements, as well as objects that transcend life.  As if it were a Wünderkammer, the gallery is taken over by Palandri's personal microcosm of destabilized and reinvented structures, deformed pieces of furniture, and test tubes filled with exotic materials in dilution. Borrowing its title from her recent work &quot;Noiseless,&quot; the show articulates around the imperceptible processes of decomposition and transformation that the artist's works undergo.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-02</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/0E0D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/0E0D">
  <Name>&quot;Unspecific Objects&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F88F8111">
    <Name>Thierry Goldberg Projects</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>5 Rivington St., Fl. 1, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-967-2260</Phone>
    <Fax>646-415-7810</Fax>
    <Access>Between Bowery and Chrystie St. Subway: J/M/Z to Bowery</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Making a reference to “Specific Objects,” Donald Judd's seminal essay of 1965, the show brings together a group of six artists, who approach art-making with a fresh take on the process of reduction. It is through this reduction that the artists reinvest minimalist art, what Judd located as &quot;neither painting nor sculpture,&quot; with a voice specific to their own time and attitudes. Through these artists' ironic sense of touch, they deflect any sense of nostalgia. As this particular brand of Minimalism has been incorporated into the mainstream of fashion and music, these six aren't just looking back, but looking towards the contemporary culture and economy of a style. Martin Basher confronts painting and sculpture with an ironic take on desire and disappointment. His casual handling of ready-made materials can be seen in his installation piece where a poster of a Claude Monet landscape is affixed to a vertically stripped hard-edge painting. He undercuts notions of escape by the harsh fluorescent light propped against the painting. Both attracting and deflecting the viewer, the fluorescent tube is part Dan Flavin part bug-light. Best known for his band YACHT, Jona Bechtolt primarily works with sound and video. His piece NTSC-YA animates what is typically the static field of a standard TV test pattern. Where Minimalism and Colorfield paintings once focused on uniformity, Bechtolt’s video disrupts and transforms the standard by infusing it with a sense of play, as a childhood Chimalong. Minimal and monochromatic, Daniel Ellis’ paintings capture networks of regular repeating patterns. The patterns, on the one hand, articulate the surface of the painting and, at the same time, soften the solid backgrounds. His work deals with the tension between subtle affects via regimented graphic elements. Though spare in composition, Rashawn Griffin’s work is loaded with references brought by his materials. His paintings feature fabrics, second-hand and new, bringing their own associations and histories to the minimalist object, so often devoid of the personal. Free standing, and sometimes suspended, his work speak to the sculptural presence of painting. Parts and wholes are consistent players in David Scanavino’s work. For instance, his sculpture Untitled (rope cast) makes two parts of one length of rope while his Untitled (one square foot) makes one form of equally sized parts. His use of common materials as standards keeps their transformations articulate and arresting. Takayuki Kubota presents sound in the format of painting. He unravels and splices together reels of tape-recorded readings or atmospheric sound and adheres them to panels. In this way, the work becomes a sonic portrait of a space or literary work.
]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/1156" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/1156">
  <Name>&quot;The EGO and The ID&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Bridge Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>98 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-674-6320</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Delancey and Broome Sts. Subway: J/M/Z/F to Delancey Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>00:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Featuring mixed media by Lori Schouela, Narcissistic Shells by Sydney Cash, and metal sculptures by Zac Max.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-28</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-29</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/1AAD" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/1AAD">
  <Name>&quot;A Reluctant Apparition&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/685D94A8">
    <Name>Sue Scott Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1 Rivington St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212.358.8767</Phone>
    <Fax>212.358.8785</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Bowery.  Subway: F to 2nd Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;A Reluctant Apparition&quot; is an exhibition of gallery artists who each invited an artist of their choice– all twelve presenting work selected in response to the show’s title. The haunting of images and their residual effects has long been an artistic preoccupation; recreations and remakes are of particular interest now. Through curatorial doubling, this exhibition proposes less literal– maybe even reluctant– acts of summoning.

[Image: Fraser Stables &quot;Philip Johnson's Living Room&quot; (2009) digital print 30 x 20 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/1CC7" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/1CC7">
  <Name>Ryan Scully &quot;Always Moving&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/1AD3043E">
    <Name>Sloan Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>128 Rivington St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-477-1140</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Norfolk St.  Subway: F/J/M/Z to Essex/Delancey</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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>fridays closinghour 20:00, saturdays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>By appointment only July 19 through September 11, 2009.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Ryan Scully grew up in the shadow of the DOE Hanford Nuclear Site in Richland, WA. The unique influence of dependence on a controversial industry, a striking desert landscape and the ominous importance of resources deeply impacted the young artist’s development. In Always Moving, his canvases are populated with rough landscapes and amorphous characters in a state of anxious flux. Rocky overhangs struggle to break free. Threatening clouds sweep in and out of frame. Multiple inhabitants scurry towards perceived safety or to join in a group offense. These elements share an unsettling yet cooperative relationship. They are in a state of push and pull, an ever twisting but also evolving relationship in which life and it’s environment struggle against each other yet ultimately become equal and find space to co-exist.

[Image: Ryan Scully “The Storyteller” (2009) oil on canvas 50 x 60 in.]
]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-24</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-20</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/2129" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/2129">
  <Name>&quot;Imperfect as they are&quot; Video Art and Home Movie Night</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B16209D5">
    <Name>The New Museum of Contemporary Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-219-1222</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>On the corner  of Prince St. Subway: 6 to Spring Street or N/R to Prince Street. Bus: M103 to Prince and Bowery or M6 to Broadway and Prince.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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>thursdays closinghour 22:00, fridays closinghour 22:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[PowerShovel/Superheadz, in association with the New Museum, along with Tokion, are presenting a night of art from the world’s most innovative video artists. Using the Digital Harinezumi camera (the Japanese digital answer to the Super8), more than 15 international artists have created films exclusively for the event. From Bruce La Bruce, Jonas Mekas, Albert Maysles, Agnes B, and Mark Borthwick, to Harmony Korine, Miranda July, Mount Eerie, Erroll Morris and more- this event will bring together a living museum of top artists. Art and the artists will collide for a one-night meeting of the tastemakers, tasters, technology, turning the evening into the destination for new art and new ideas.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Free with RSVP: storersvp@newmuseum.org</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-19</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/2CBB" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/2CBB">
  <Name>&quot;In Print&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/355E9211">
    <Name>e-flux</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>41 Essex St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-619-3356</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Hester and Grand Sts.  Subway: B/D to Grand Street, F to East Broadway, J/M/Z to Essex</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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" />
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  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Curated by Adam Carr.

From André Breton's &quot;La Révolution surréaliste&quot; to printed publications offering space for artist projects today, the magazine has served as a site for artistic production for decades. In Print revolves around the magazine as a location for artwork, looking at recent instances in which artists have utilized this format in periodicals from a variety of origins. Offering a short history of the fusion of artwork and magazine, &quot;In Print&quot; focuses more on recent cases than those of the past, on publications whose contents are entirely available for handling and viewing by visitors. In doing so, &quot;In Print&quot; not only foregrounds the artists' original intention of choosing such an available context as a site for work, but also intends to encourage participation and eschew the frontal, expected relationship of artwork and viewer. Taking the form of a library shelf, with all of the included publications ordered according to the participating artists' surnames, &quot;In Print&quot; is the first in a series of curated bookshelf projects at e-flux reading room. Reflecting the library or bookstore, and mimicking the movement typically occurring within such domains, the inventory of &quot;In Print&quot; will expand over time, with the number of participating artists increasing as the exhibition travels.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.32441</Karma>
  <Price free="0"></Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-15</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>58</DaysBeforeEnd>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.716255</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/30F3" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/30F3">
  <Name>&quot;Sketchbot Custom Show&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D2CE67CE">
    <Name>myplasticheart</Name>
    <Type>Shop</Type>
    <Address>210 Forsyth St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>646-290-6866</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between E.Houston and Stanton Sts. Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[myplasticheart presents the &quot;The Sketchbot Custom Show,&quot; the official launch of the new figure by NYC animator Steve Talkowski. 50 artists and designers will have their hand in creating original designs for the Sketchbot platform.

&quot;Sketchbot's origin is two-fold: Being an avid Tesujin-28 (Gigantor) collector and fanatic, I had always been fascinated with toy robots. My sketchbooks throughout the years were constantly populated with little robotic characters.  In late 2007 I decided to start a blog that would showcase my own work and was having a hard time coming up with a unique name.  Then it hit me - Sketchbot!  It combines my love of drawing + my obsession with robots.  The character design itself had it's origins from a small, barrel-shaped bot I had sketched out around 1998, and used as a test bed animation &amp; render.  The designed evolved over the next 2 years to what it is today - an iconic, pencil wielding, cycloptic 'bot that embodies all things creative!&quot; - Steve Talkowski]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-23</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2010-03-26" start="18:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>36</DaysBeforeEnd>
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  <Latitude>40.722417</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/3296" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/3296">
  <Name>J. Parker Valentine Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/9A4AFAEB">
    <Name>Lisa Cooley Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>34 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-680-0564</Phone>
    <Fax>212-680-0565</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Hester St.  Subway: F to East Broadway</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In J. Parker Valentine’s work, tangible, concrete forms emerge from fragments of gesture, thought and memory. She confronts binaries such as drawing and erasure or abstraction and figuration, and uses these opposing forces of push and pull in an elastic way to arrive at something elemental. Valentine’s drawings, on paper and MDF, are raw and tectonic. She speaks of “finding forms” – which, at times, arise immediately and yield spare, elegant works. At others, her process of drawing and erasure requires that works be cut, torn apart, broken down and re-assembled. The exhibition space is parsed by drawings on precariously arranged panels of MDF – a material approached by the artist for its paper-like surface as well as its tentative structural potential. Each individual panel leans against the surface of the wall to varying degrees, supported by a single, bent nail. Valentine uses photographic images from her personal archive as a solid counter to her drawn works. For this show, she presents found images in the form of silver gelatin prints or as a series of roughly shaped “vessels’ made with book pages bonded to clay. These hollow, bottomless chambers suggest conduits, funnels or repositories of information. The printed works in the exhibition allude to alternative legacies – cultural, artistic, and familial - or play upon language and typography, in particular their ability to be transformed by our perception.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-28</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <DaysBeforeEnd>10</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/336A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/336A">
  <Name>Sue Gurnee &quot;The Fulgent Cadences&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Feature Inc.</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>131 Allen St., New York, NY 10002  </Address>
    <Phone>212-675-7772</Phone>
    <Fax>212-675-7773</Fax>
    <Access>Between Delancey and Rivington Sts. Subways: 6 to Spring Street, F/M/J/Z to Delancey Street or B/D to Grand Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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>sundays openinghour 13:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Artist and healer Sue Gurnee will present a series of paintings each constructed to stimulate viewers to fully utilize his or her decision-making process. Through her independent observational research that was begun in 1989, she has identified a cross cultural/cross generational set of seven distinct rhythmic brain functions, the fulgent cadences, that drive our decision-making process. These paintings have been made as a way for viewers to balance their rhythmic brain functions so to embrace growth and development through the quality of their choices.

[Image: Sue Gurnee &quot;Fulgent Cadences #9&quot; (2009) acrylic paint on canvas 24 x 24 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-27</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/3427" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/3427">
  <Name>Hannah Whitaker &quot;Victory over the Sun!&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/13DC32F2">
    <Name>Gallery KUMUKUMU</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>42 Rivington St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-677-5160</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Forsyth and Eldridge St.  Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue, J/M/Z to Bowery Street or 6 train to Bleeker St.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</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: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0.778431</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-28</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2010-02-18" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>10</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.721047</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.991083</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/3478" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/3478">
  <Name>&quot;The Headless Conference&quot; Talk</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B16209D5">
    <Name>The New Museum of Contemporary Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-219-1222</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>On the corner  of Prince St. Subway: 6 to Spring Street or N/R to Prince Street. Bus: M103 to Prince and Bowery or M6 to Broadway and Prince.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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>thursdays closinghour 22:00, fridays closinghour 22:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The lectures, documentaries, and didactic displays that have accompanied the presentation of Headless at art institutions share little of the heady cloak-and-dagger suspense found in the fictional texts that the project spawns. &quot;The Headless Conference&quot; is no exception to this rule. Co-organized by Rhizome and the Office for Parafictional Research, the event will take the form of an academic symposium on issues pertinent to the discourse surrounding Goldin+Senneby's work. Up for discussion are topics as diverse as the economic theories of George Bataille and the nature of virtual spaces built by offshore finance networks. Participants are to include Angus Cameron, lecturer in human geography at the University of Leicester and Goldin+Senneby's chosen emissary; Brian Droitcour, Rhizome staff writer; Keller Easterling, associate professor at the Yale School of Architecture; Ginny Kollak, director of the Office for Parafictional Research and second-year graduate student at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; and Allan Stoekl, professor of French at Penn State University.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">General Public $8, Members $6</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>1</DaysBeforeEnd>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.722383</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.99305</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/364A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/364A">
  <Name>Jessica Jackson Hutchins &quot;Over Come Over&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D7B3A48B">
    <Name>Small A Projects</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>261 Broome St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-274-0761</Phone>
    <Fax>212-274-0756</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Orchard St. Subway: D/B to Grand Street, J/M/Z to Essex Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Jessica Jackson Hutchins employs hand-formed ceramic vessels, household furniture and collage to articulate sculptural forms that interrogate the space between the banal and the sublime. Her sculptures and collages put found objects and familiar materials in conversation, resulting in poetic abstractions where aggregate forms transcend the immediacy of their common parts. The insistent materiality of her sculptures and their raw surfaces yields to a humor and intimacy that solicits an empathic response from the viewer. Patently abstract, the works in this exhibition all point indirectly toward figurative forms.  Some pieces originate with furnishings taken from the artist’s home, which invests them with both an emotional urgency and an acute specificity.  These care-worn domestic objects bear the familiar marks and dents of encounters with bodies and things; casual imperfections that humanize them.  In other pieces, Hutchins pulls prints and casts impressions directly from furniture: She makes collages on prints that capture the carved and inked surface of a dining-room table, and two sculptures assume the bulky mass of an old green arm chair. The use of ceramics in the work simultaneously signifies domestic utility and the realm of historical artifacts.  But Hutchins’ vessels also generate metaphors for bodies and body parts (both literal and fantastic) as regenerative or spiritual containers.  Hutchins’ expansive vocabulary is deeply invested in the innate human ability to recognize and associate with others and objects.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-28</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>10</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.718059</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.990492</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/53AC" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/53AC">
  <Name>Natalie Edgar &quot;From Above&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/0C30A694">
    <Name>Woodward Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>133 Eldridge St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-966-3411</Phone>
    <Fax>212-966-3491</Fax>
    <Access>Between Delancey and Broome St.. Subway: J/M/Z to Essex Street, S/D/Q to Grand Street or J/M to Bowery Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Woodward Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Natalie Edgar. She demonstrates the continuing vitality of the New York School of painting. The sensibilities of color, space and rhythm are her métier. About the current exhibition, Judd Tully observes in his catalog essay that the painting as a whole is a fusion of many sources, “There’s no correct way to read a painting. No matter how long you look, either abstract or figurative. You can imagine or believe you see a head emerging from that tangle of explosive marks, a veiled reference to a Picasso head or perhaps a Pisano apostle, or a summit of a mountain.” Space is the hidden black matter in the imagery. Gerard McCarthy had noticed, “Her images may or may not suggest figures, but effectively evoke a vertiginous sensation.” (Art in America) It is this odd feeling of altitude in her space that prompted the title “From Above” for the exhibition.

[Image: Natalie Edgar &quot;Ether Zone&quot; (2009)]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-06</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-24</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2010-03-06" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>37</DaysBeforeEnd>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.718753</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/55F2" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/55F2">
  <Name>&quot;ABC No Rio's Ides of March: The Seventh Biennial Building-Wide&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/5812D6D5">
    <Name>ABC No Rio</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>156 Rivington St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-254-3697</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Clinton ad Suffolk St. Subway: F to Delancey Street or J/M/Z to Essex Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-09</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2010-03-19" start="19:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>22</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.719389</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.985367</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/568B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/568B">
  <Name>Victor Demarchelier &quot;Creating Image&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/3E93D552">
    <Name>Clic Bookstore &amp; Gallery (424 Broome St.)</Name>
    <Type>Shop</Type>
    <Address>424 Broome St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-219-9308</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Crosby and Lafayette Sts.  Subway: 6 to Spring Street </Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/568B-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/568B-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/568B-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>1.54111</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-04</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2010-03-15" start="18:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>17</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.721375</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/6C61" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/6C61">
  <Name>&quot;Reconstruction #1&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B06885C2">
    <Name>On Stellar Rays</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>133 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-598-3012</Phone>
    <Fax>718-534 -4667</Fax>
    <Access>Between Rivington and Delancey Sts.  Subway: J/M/Z/F to Essex Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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>sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Reconstruction #1&quot; is a mnemonic exhibition and consideration of On Stellar Rays programming to date. One new work by each artist who has presented a solo exhibition in the gallery will be on view. &quot;Reconstruction #1&quot; is not curated, rather, works on view simply represent the trajectories that each artist has followed since his or her exhibition. Though processes, media, and content vary widely, all artists are working in indeterminate modes, remaking, reiterating and exploiting works that were shown at On Stellar Rays in the past year-and-a-half, with displays of commitment to their respective investigations. The exhibition contains traces of actions that took place in the gallery, suggesting a shared interest in performative gestures and engagement with the viewer. The exhibition is fundamentally introspective, exploring how a small number of people, objects, and activities influence the nebulous and open-ended history of a gallery.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-28</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-04</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2010-02-28" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>17</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.719906</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.989508</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/6D43" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/6D43">
  <Name>&quot;Sampling and Revisions: The L.E.S. Deframed&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/87C6AF0A">
    <Name>Gallery Bar</Name>
    <Type>Cafe or Bar</Type>
    <Address>120 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-529-2266</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Delancey and Rivington Sts.  Subway: F/J/M/Z to Essex Street/ Delancey</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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" />
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The gallery presents &quot;Sampling and Revisions,&quot; a photography exhibition juxtaposing the Lower East Side Tenement Museum archival photos with those by contemporary artists. Curated by Zoe Lukov.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-24</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2010-03-03" start="19:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>6</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.719486</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/70BA" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/70BA">
  <Name>&quot;Portrait of a Lady&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F346A8DB">
    <Name>Allegra LaViola Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>179 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>917 463 3901</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Jefferson and Rutgers Sts. Subway: F to East Broadway or 4/5/6/N/R to Canal Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</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></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[[Image: Virginia Inés Vergara &quot;Untitled&quot; (2009)]
 


]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-20</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.714078</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/7602" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/7602">
  <Name>Agnes Pezeu &quot;Impressions&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/BD909DFE">
    <Name>Gallery Nine5</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>24 Spring St., New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-965-9995</Phone>
    <Fax>212-965-9997</Fax>
    <Access>Between Elizabeth and Mott Sts. Subway: 6 to Spring Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Based in Paris, Pezeu works in a similar manner to the action painters of the 1940s, tracing charcoal outlines of models enacting various scenes before drizzling paint over the canvas to further delineate the silhouettes. The fluidity and palpable lightness of Pezeu’s canvases convey a sense of intangibility, yet they give transient, fleeting moments of time permanence. The works exhibited in Impressions demonstrate Pezeu’s experimentation with a more vibrant tonal palette, and her increasingly diverse representation of the ephemeral. The show will be accompanied by a performance at gallery nine5. Allowing an audience to observe her creative process, Pezeu will read a fairytale then ask her model to choose a pose that reflects their interpretation of the story.

[Image: Agnes Pezeu &quot;Hot July&quot; (2009) Oil, charcoal, and varnish on canvas 39.25 x 80.5 in]  ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0"></Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-02</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2010-03-11" start="18:30:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>15</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.721417</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/7AC8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/7AC8">
  <Name>Shannon Plumb &quot;The Olympics (Track &amp; Field)&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/95ACB24C">
    <Name>Nicelle Beauchene Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>21 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-375-8043</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Canal and Hester Sts.  Subway: F to East Broadway or D/B to Grand Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Inspired by the stoic, silent comedy of Buster Keaton and Leni Riefenstahl's 1938 documentary
&quot;Olympia&quot;-- &quot;Olympics (Track and Field)&quot; follows a group of aspiring athletes through their Olympic events. Relying on spontaneity and character traits, Plumb presents the humor in going for the gold. Total running time: 18 minutes.
]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/7E53" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/7E53">
  <Name>&quot;Into the Unknown&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8AE19062">
    <Name>Ludlow 38 / The Goethe-Institut New York</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>38 Ludlow St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-228-6848</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Grand and Hester Sts. Subway: F to East Broadway or B/D to Grand</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Into the Unknown&quot; brings together works by artists and filmmakers who reflect upon and make productive use of archival film footage and other material from the past. The works focus on how such stored images are received and interpreted today, not just on the circumstances in which they were once produced. In their hands the archive becomes a journey into unknown territories, but at the same time it is always reconfigured according to today's interests and perspectives. Paradoxically, the constructed past that these artists excavate from the archive radiates a presence rivaling that of the present moment. The works presented in the gallery at Ludlow 38 and during screenings at the Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building open up new pockets of time that allow us to observe the past and the communities that lived in it, at our own leisure. At the same time they set up spaces for future agency. The exhibition encompasses topics such as social uprising, official versions of everyday routines, the disappearance of political systems and the individual’s relationship to society and to collective memory.

[Image: Deimnatas Narkevičius &quot;Into the Unknown&quot; (2009) image courtesy of the artist.]]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/8031" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/8031">
  <Name>Elena Pankova &amp; Anke Weyer &quot;Mother the Cake is Burning&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B108B06D">
    <Name>Canada</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>55 Chrystie St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-925-4631</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Hester and Canal St.. Subway: B/D to Grand Street or 6/N/Q/R/W/J/M/Z to Canal Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Mother the Cake is Burning&quot; refers to a schoolyard game that both artists played as children growing up in Germany and the USSR. The point of the game was for girls act to out what trouble could arise when mothers and daughters are neglectful of their kitchens.  Here in the gallery, these women underscore the importance of rebuked responsibility and mischievous desires gone astray in paint.  It is this delinquency that has consistently propelled these divergent practices.  

&quot;Now all you children stay at home,
And be good girls while I am gone...
Especially you, my daughter Sue,
Or else I'll beat you black and blue.&quot;
Rhyme for the game &quot;Mother the Cake is Burning&quot;, 1883 

Over the course of the last decade Anke Weyer has presented paintings that seem to defend and then discard the obvious traditions of craft and subject matter in painting. We have seen paintings that go from blackened landscapes to emotive dreamy figuration to coarse and degenerate abstractions all hanging within the same show. This latest exhibition is no exception. Decimated landscapes are returned to their animals, under-painting is washed with high chroma where unnatural color glows from behind a sometimes sludgy, sometimes lacy surface.  Riffing on the dashed Fauvist landscapes of Maurice de Vlaminck, Weyer tempers her color and brushwork. This restraint is lost when it comes to rendering form. Here a Kirchnerian freedom to place expression over the visual order of the real is consistently upheld.

In contrast to the unapologetic sprawl of Weyer’s works, Ms. Pankova offers us a series of stenciled face paintings on modest sized store bought canvases.  Made from a few stencils that are layered in many colors, the paintings are at once mysterious and plain. Ms. Pankova has often used a kind of installation to frame or modify a body of painting.  Here they are re-contextualized through the bookends of domestic potted plants, referencing Marcel Broodthaer's  home-built installation from 1968: ‚ Museum of Modern Art, Department of Eagles. This famous Duchampian &quot;institutional critique&quot;  is re-interpreted here by Pankova. Broodthaers' ironic objects are both replaced and deflated with the charm of lowbrow sentimental painting. The less-coded contents of Pankova's museum employ pathos over wit.  Here the critique can't even climb the institutions' front steps. Instead it loiters out front with the guy selling craft paintings on a blanket. The whole endeavor brings us down! to the street where paintings are returned their humble and stupid root.  

Both of these women stage a complex investment in how painting can fail. Both are insistent painters. Pankova is merciless in her deflation of painting but cant help to make a sincere picture when faced with the task.  In doing so she insists on the freedom to make a painting as she sees fit even if she trips over pathetic on the way.  Weyer's insistence is more to undermine than deflate.  She will keep digging.  Destined for avalanche, Ms Weyer holds a stubborn and illogical romance for light and shadow. There is a symbiotic relationship between these two practices that we are happy to finally have an opportunity to celebrate.  ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-21</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/803E" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/803E">
  <Name>Valerie Hegarty &quot;Cosmic Collisions&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Nicelle Beauchene Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>21 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-375-8043</Phone>
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    <Access>Between Canal and Hester Sts.  Subway: F to East Broadway or D/B to Grand Street.</Access>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[For this exhibition, Hegarty expands her dialogue between American master paintings and catalytic events by drawing upon a broad range of influences to include the sublime, quantum physics, alchemy, origami, abstract expressionism and imagery produced from the Hubble telescope.  As in works past, Hegarty reconfigures the paradigms of American painting through interventions that appear to be the result of natural events.  With works that recall Rothko, LeWitt and Pollock, &quot;Cosmic Collisions&quot; pushes the parameters of such events, to suggest the effects of the quantum mechanics of space on these iconic works, creating almost petrified relics.

[Image: Valerie Hegarty &quot;Rothko Burn (blue)&quot; (2010)]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-04</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/899B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/899B">
  <Name>&quot;Hey, Hot Shot! 2009 Second Edition&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Jen Bekman Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>6 Spring St., New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-219-0166</Phone>
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    <Access>Between Elizabeth St. and Bowery.  Subway: 6 to Spring Street, N/R to Prince St., F/V to 2nd Avenue, B/D/F/Q to Broadway/Lafayette or J/M to Bowery</Access>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[[Image: Alejandro Cartagena &quot;Fragmented Cities, Santa Catarina, Suburbia Mexicana Project&quot; (2008) Archival Pigment Print 20 x 24 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-05</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/8B99" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/8B99">
  <Name>&quot;Who are you close to&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/BB583D3A">
    <Name>Jane Kim / Thrust Projects</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>114 Bowery, #301, New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-431-4802</Phone>
    <Fax>212-431-4019</Fax>
    <Access>Between Grand and Hester St., Subway: F to East Broadway or B/D to Grand</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Who are you close to,&quot; is a group exhibition inspired by Louise Lawler's work of the same title. Commissioned for the Tel Aviv museum in 1988, Lawler created a set of four postcards with &quot;Who are you close to&quot; printed in Arabic, Hebrew, and English. Each card represents a different color of the Israeli and Palestinian flags: red, green, blue, and black. The piece discusses the problems of relationships, and their often complex nature. The works in the exhibition will allow the audience to engage in a dialog about such complexities and encourages spiritual, political, and cultural responses.

[Image: Yasser Agguour &quot;Cairo&quot; (2005)]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-06</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/8C03" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/8C03">
  <Name>Valeska Soares &quot;Vaga Lume&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F985AB6C">
    <Name>Eleven Rivington</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>11 Rivington St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-982-1930</Phone>
    <Fax>212-982-1936</Fax>
    <Access>Between Bowery and Chrystie St.  Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue, 6 to Spring Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The exhibition is concurrently on view with a show of new sculptural works and wall installations at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, on view from February 18 ­ March 21, 2010.

&quot;Vaga Lume&quot; is comprised of thousands of individual porcelain sockets and commercial bulbs of warm yellow light anchored overhead into the gallery ceiling; each of the lights may be turned on or off by a beaded chain which extends vertically from the ceiling towards the floor. These chains fill the space completely, creating a repeated series of veils that one has to move through. As the viewer navigates the space, he or she becomes a performer that activates the work by pulling on the chains to turn the lights on and off; by changing the pattern of lights, the viewer creates a changing composition of visual illumination. Vaga Lume exists in time as it changes constantly. Soares describes one’s physical experience of Vaga Lume as “almost like being in the middle of a waterfall, looking at constellations in the sky.” In Portuguese, Vaga Lume refers to a light that is subtle, wandering, vague and transient.

[Image: Valeska Soares &quot;Vaga Lume&quot; (2006, installation view) Mixed media installation, Dimensions variable]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-28</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-11</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>February 28th 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM </ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/8F09" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/8F09">
  <Name>&quot;Just Off&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/1AD3043E">
    <Name>Sloan Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>128 Rivington St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-477-1140</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Norfolk St.  Subway: F/J/M/Z to Essex/Delancey</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 20:00, saturdays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>By appointment only July 19 through September 11, 2009.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The most profoundly uncanny moments in life aren’t recognizable as such. They are like a ringing in the ears or a frame permanently askew, the missing object on a mantelpiece that lets you know that the scene has been disturbed. For &quot;Just Off,&quot; curators Peter Drake and Alix Sloan have brought together eleven uncannily like-minded emerging artists. With disconnected gestures, anatomical drawings of non-existent creatures, detritus still lives that remind one of ceramic figurines and everyday environments disrupted by unsettling forces, their imagery is similarly, subtly, disquietingly unhinged. The collected works are at their core familiar and beautiful but together they are undeniably and intriguingly &quot;Just Off.&quot;

[Image: Mitra Walter &quot;Party of the Second Part&quot; (2009) oil on wood panel 6 in. dia.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-24</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/903A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/903A">
  <Name>Bill Komoski &quot;3/2/10&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Feature Inc.</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>131 Allen St., New York, NY 10002  </Address>
    <Phone>212-675-7772</Phone>
    <Fax>212-675-7773</Fax>
    <Access>Between Delancey and Rivington Sts. Subways: 6 to Spring Street, F/M/J/Z to Delancey Street or B/D to Grand Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 13:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[[Image: Bill Komoski &quot;3/2/10&quot; (2010) acrylic paint, site-specific wall painting]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-01</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/91EA" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/91EA">
  <Name>Naomi Campbell &quot;Silent Harvest&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/164AD061">
    <Name>WHITE BOX</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>329 Broome St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-714-2347</Phone>
    <Fax>212-714-2354</Fax>
    <Access>Between Bowery and Chrystie st. Subway: B/D/Q to Grand Street or J/M to Bowery Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Silent Harvest,&quot; seen through the eye of the solitary traveler as revealing nightscapes and stark panoramas, immediately distances the viewer as dark monuments cleave the horizon through the speeding processional of progress.  Set against a black wall in a dimly lit room, the exhibit combines traditional painting with modern installation.  The monumental representation of industry is ironically compressed and transformed to a dotted band of pearls lining the room where the dark images are juxtaposed with the brilliant gems of light emitted from tiny windows and burning towers. This series of nocturnal landscapes by Naomi Campbell will be on display at White Box Projects. The result of a year's research and travel throughout the northeast, her work includes 26 small-scale oil paintings on canvas board and paper, mediums that contrast with the steel and brick of the subject matter and highlight the artist's long-term preoccupation with the fragility of life. Growing up amidst the industry that spans the Canadian landscape had a profound impact on Campbell's perception of transportation and industrialization and its effects on the people and the land.  In the Silent Harvest series, Campbell's representation of these brooding and silent industrial sites reflects on the past and anticipates the future.

[Image: Naomi Campbell &quot;Untitled&quot; oil on board 9.75 x 19 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-21</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/9248" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/9248">
  <Name>Keith O. Anderson &quot;What Becomes of a Broken Heart&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/47879A0F">
    <Name>Number 35</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>39 Essex St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-388-9311</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Grand and Hester St., Subway: F to East Broadway or B/D to Grand</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Dadaists understood the elements of change and chance to be influential to the creation of an artwork. Anderson's work cradles the idea of chance in that he finds his inspiration and materials walking along the street in discarded boards, chairs and broken records. To these items, he adds his own untameable element: fire. 
Either ignited or dormant, the flammable aspect of Anderson's work plays into its understanding. In &quot;This Side of the Bed is Occupied&quot; (2002), a stray piece of wood is surrounded entirely by matchsticks and glue, the sticks decapitated and therefore robbed of their only function. The heads are found in &quot;A Prayer Cloth&quot; (2009), where they are glued to a piece of canvas soaked with linseed oil. The two components lay side by side without igniting. Anderson also draws his aesthetic from after the alchemic reaction has occurred. In &quot;Pour Robert Filliou&quot; (2010), the matchsticks appear again, this time as spent objects strung together to resemble an explosive, ammunition, or a chain reaction.  &quot;Autoportrait&quot; (2009), reveals golden raisins adhered to the inside of an old shirt, their shriveled remains representing the artist himself, or more poignantly, a dream deferred.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-13</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <DaysBeforeEnd>31</DaysBeforeEnd>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.716183</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.98962</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/95B9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/95B9">
  <Name>&quot;Landscapes of Quarantine&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/BBB9B5CB">
    <Name>Storefront for Art and Architecture</Name>
    <Type>Other</Type>
    <Address>97 Kenmare St.,  New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-431-5795</Phone>
    <Fax>212-431-5755</Fax>
    <Access>Between Cleveland  Place and Mulberry St. /Subway: 6 to Spring Street or R/W to Prince Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Illustration</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[From Chernobyl's Zone of Exclusion to the artificial quarantine islands of the New York archipelago, and from camps set up to house HIV+ Haitian refugees at Guantánamo Bay to the modified Airstream trailer within which returning Apollo astronauts once waved at President Nixon, the landscapes of quarantine are as varied as they are unexpected. &quot;Landscapes of Quarantine&quot; features new works by a multi-disciplinary group of eighteen artists, designers, and architects, each of whom was inspired by one or more of the physical, biological, ethical, architectural, social, political, temporal, and even astronomical dimensions of quarantine. During the exhibition, a series of quarantine-inspired dinners will be hosted at the gallery. As envisioned by Michael Cirino of &quot;A razor, a shiny knife,&quot; the events will feature quarantine-aged meats, layered encapsulated flavors and other themed edibles. Ticketing details will be announced soon.
]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-17</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>30</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.721325</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.996975</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/9B80" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/9B80">
  <Name>Desi Santiago &quot;Declare Void&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/61F8CCD4">
    <Name>Envoy</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>131 Chrystie St., New York, NY, 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-4555</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Delancey and Broome St. Subway: J/M/Z to Bowery or B/D/F/Q to Grand Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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" />
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Since the late eighties – early nineties, Desi Santiago’s artistic practice has been strongly influenced by subcultural scenes. A visual and performance artist, his large-scale installations often involve performative and theatrical platforms, richly layered with philosophical, historical and social references. His first solo exhibition at envoy enterprises, “Declare Void,” comprises of a small shrine of six black French-polished wooden boxes and two inflatable sculptures. Embracing the symbolic and the iconic, Santiago’s work creates truly ceremonial experiences. The six monolithic boxes, each containing their own power, seem to symbolize the automotive black boxes that record data during a crash. Two of the boxes in the installation are empty (having once contained the inflatable sculptures), while the other four contain objects that can be viewed upon request. By keeping the boxes closed, the artist challenges the viewer’s conflicting emotions of curiosity and fear of its contents. The challenge is heightened when the viewer must request the boxes to be opened. By placing a plastic Star Trek cup carefully between the artist's bronzed baby shoes (all three filled with Goya rice), Santiago presents the adult world as one of mystery, while also conjuring up an intimate shrine that represents his family. Juxtaposing the intimate and the monumental, two black, large-scale inflatable sculptures command the space. A 7-foot-tall shape-shifting shaman, representing ‘the child,’ stands facing a 6.5-foot-tall suspended female head with crystalled earrings, which represents ‘the mother.’ The choice of material reflects the artist’s desire to breathe life into subjects whose lives have been lost.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.719269</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/9C60" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/9C60">
  <Name>Wael Noureddine &quot;Spreading DNA&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8933DFD5">
    <Name>Kleio Projects</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>153 1/2 Stanton St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>860-782-1030</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Sufflok and Clinton Sts. </Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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" />
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  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-10</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/A2AB" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/A2AB">
  <Name>&quot;N'ap Boule: A Benefit for the People of Haiti&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8CA0FAA0">
    <Name>Anonymous Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>186 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>646-238-9069</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Stanton and Houston St.,  Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue / Houston Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[All of the artists involved will donate artwork and all proceeds will go to Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders),an organization that has played an integral role in the mission to bring health and sanity back to the people of Haiti over the years. Their immediate response in the first hours following the disaster in Haiti was only possible because of private unrestricted donations from around the world received before the earthquake struck. They are mobilizing a large emergency response to the recent disaster. They are currently reinforcing their teams on the ground in order to respond to the immediate medical and humanitarian needs of the Haitian people. Additional support will be provided in part by SCOPE Art Show, Benefit Events (www.benefitevents.com ) and other supporters. The benefit will combine forces with the closing party for the SCOPE Art Show and feature a live auction, silent auction, guest performances, and speakers from the BSVAC (BEDFORD SYUYVESANT VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORP) who were among the first responders in Haiti after the disaster.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">$10 Entry Donation. All proceeds will go to Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders). </Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-21</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>3</DaysBeforeEnd>
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  <Latitude>40.721639</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/A460" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/A460">
  <Name>&quot;Karl Fritsch + Richard Wathen&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B8A7CACA">
    <Name>Salon 94 Freemans</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1 Freeman Alley, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-529-7400</Phone>
    <Fax>212-529-7401</Fax>
    <Access>Between Bowery and Christie St., off Rivington St. Subway: F/V to 2nd Ave. or J/M/Z to Bowery Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>tuesdays openinghour 13:00, sundays openinghour 14:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Challenging the conventions of both sculpture and jewelry making, Munich-based artist Karl Fritsch creates rings that read as miniature sculptures. Often intricately constructed yet coarsely finished, Fritsch’s rings are marked by rough, oxidized finishes and detectable fingerprints, conveying the urgency of the rings’ materialization. He playfully mixes high and low materials, giving equal billing to diamonds, rubies, plastic pearls and glass gemstones. By making all his sculptures wearable in the form of rings, Fritsch liberates his media from static presentation and creates an unprecedented intimacy to the works, simultaneously subverting the notion that jewelry is mere décor and that sculpture must be admired at a distance. Among Fritsh’s works on display are a grouping of 7 rings inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins (Die 7 Todsünden)— pride (superbia), envy (invidia), avaice (avaritia), wrath (ira), sloth (acedia), gluttony (gula), and extravagance (luxuria). Decadently Baroque yet ominous in appearance, Fritsch interprets each sin with visual and material metaphors, using shards of glass, hand-formed oxidized gold &amp; silver, recycled estate jewelry, along with diamonds and pearls to create these spectacular allegorical pieces. The exhibition also features three new paintings by British artist, Richard Wathen, each featuring an enigmatic female figure of undeterminable age against a muted, tonal background. Transposing the cubist idea of using multiple perspectives of a singe object or person to describe the whole subject or experience, Wathen’s paintings convey multiple emotional and psychological states, revealing a subject whose lack of specificity tends toward the allegorical rather than the representational.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-10</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/A747" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/A747">
  <Name>Amelie Chabannes “Vast”</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/00038288">
    <Name>Luxe/ Stephan Stoyanov Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>29 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-582-4425</Phone>
    <Fax>212-582-2366</Fax>
    <Access>Between Hester &amp; Canal Sts.  Subway: F to East Broadway, B/D to Grand Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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>sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Amelie Chabannes continues her investigation into the monumental topic of identity. “Vast” follows her 2008 exhibition at Luxe Gallery entitled “My Portrait of Your Identity”. With the current title, the artist is front and center concerning the scope of her limitless topic. Vast conjures up endless vistas, the great sun lit expanse. Chabannes describes, “vast” as directly referring to Baudelaire, whose use of this word imparted the “immensity of the intimate”, which the artist molds and coaxes into the “intensity of the intimate being”. In this exhibition, as in 2008, Chabannes places herself in the hotspot of her inquiries, as well as, taking the view from the outside and often intermingling the two, allowing the viewer a glimpse at the vacillating, vague and often counterintuitive aspects of defining the individual. Chabannes employs sculpture, drawing, video and installation in her entangled enterprise. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-27</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-31</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>13</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/A991" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/A991">
  <Name>Edwin Ushiro &quot;At Night, Lights Fell and Loved Ones Returned Home&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/1AD3043E">
    <Name>Sloan Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>128 Rivington St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-477-1140</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Norfolk St.  Subway: F/J/M/Z to Essex/Delancey</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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>fridays closinghour 20:00, saturdays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>By appointment only July 19 through September 11, 2009.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The content of Edwin Ushiro’s work is as richly layered as the works themselves. Influenced by the memories and folklore of his childhood in Hawaii and with nods to Japanese Anime, he creates his own mythology populated with modern characters and contemporary references. With &quot;At Night, Lights Fell and Loved Ones Returned Home,&quot; Ushiro utilizes his technique of layering paint, ink, graphite, varnish and iron transfers on vinyl sheets to create romantic, luminescent works that focus on the mystery, and histories, held by abandoned and forgotten places.

[Image: Edwin Ushiro &quot;The Secret Life of a Rustling Brush&quot; (2010) mixed media 31 x 21 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-24</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-17</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2010-03-24" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>30</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/AA3A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/AA3A">
  <Name>&quot;Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B16209D5">
    <Name>The New Museum of Contemporary Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-219-1222</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>On the corner  of Prince St. Subway: 6 to Spring Street or N/R to Prince Street. Bus: M103 to Prince and Bowery or M6 to Broadway and Prince.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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>thursdays closinghour 22:00, fridays closinghour 22:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[“Skin Fruit” will be the first exhibition in the United States of the Athens-based Dakis Joannou Collection, renowned as one of the leading collections of contemporary art in the world. This will also be the first exhibition curated by Koons, whose early work inspired the evolution of the Joannou collection.

“Skin Fruit” will include over 100 works by 50 international artists spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the exhibition will spotlight the age-old preoccupation with the human form as a vessel of and vehicle for experience. Koons’s title “Skin Fruit” alludes to notions of genesis, evolution, original sin, and sexuality. Skin and fruit evoke the essential tensions between interior and exterior, between what we see and what we consume.

Starting with the first, now-legendary exhibitions, such as “Artificial Nature” and “Post Human,” at his DESTE Foundation’s non-profit museum in Athens, Dakis Joannou has focused on works that present a new image of man. It is no coincidence that his collection developed in the cultural context of Greece, where Classical sculpture defined the Western canon of anatomical representation. Artists have arrived at a much more uncertain image of mankind in this new century, in which bodies are still idealized but also are assaulted by forces of our own making. Joannou’s collection is comprised of more than 1,500 works by 400 contemporary artists, from the most eminent to those just emerging. For “Skin Fruit,” Koons has selected sculptures, works on paper, paintings, installations, and videos by a group of artists including David Altmejd, Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Nathalie Djurberg, Robert Gober, Mike Kelley, Terence Koh, Mark Manders, Paul McCarthy, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Kiki Smith, Christiana Soulou, Jannis Varelas, Kara Walker, and Andro Wekua, among others.

The show will also premiere new works such as Charles Ray’s re-envisioned Revolution Counter-Revolution (1990/2010); a new public installation of Jenny Holzer’s Selections from the Survival Series (1984); and a special 3-D book project by Italian artist Robert Cuoghi, and will include living sculptures by Pawel Althamer and Tino Sehgal. “Skin Fruit” will feature only one work by Koons—his One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (1985)—the first major artwork that Dakis Joannou acquired, initiating the collection that would grow to be one of the world’s finest. Within the context of the exhibition this influential object, with its both familiar and mysterious orb suspended in fluid, becomes a womb, a point of origin and of departure. The installation for “Skin Fruit” has been conceived by Koons as a kind of panorama, with frequent shifts in scale and unconventional juxtapositions. Role-playing games and dramas occur: a man will stage a religious ritual; a sculpture literally sings out; white chocolate monuments tower above visitor’s heads; voracious creatures eat themselves and each other while bodies are buried or frozen; icons and deities are adored or dethroned.

The Imaginary Museum

With the exhibition “Skin Fruit,” the New Museum launches The Imaginary Museum, a new exhibition series that will periodically showcase leading private collections of contemporary art from around the world, providing the opportunity for rarely seen, great works of art to be accessible to a broader public.

Koons as Curator

The Museum invited Jeff Koons to curate the first in this series. Koons had his first museum exhibition at the New Museum in 1981. In addition to being one of the most accomplished artists of our time, Koons is a committed and highly informed art lover and collector whose interests span from Greek and Roman sculpture to contemporary art. Koons has said that he collects art “to have a world besides my world, to have another field of experience.” It is the combined perspective of artist, collector, and connoisseur that he brings to the task as curator of the New Museum exhibition. Jeff Koons and Dakis Joannou have enjoyed a close friendship and artistic dialogue for nearly three decades. Joannou has been a great supporter of Koons’s work from the beginning of his career, and a large concentration of Koons’s work from all periods is at the core of the Joannou collection. Koons’s role as curator reflects the ideals at the forefront of Joannou’s collection: ongoing conversations and collaborations with artists. In addition, it also signals the New Museum’s continued experimentation with adventurous curatorial formats. With this exhibition, the Museum seeks to further dialogues about alternative collaborations and the history of artist-curated exhibitions.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/C9C8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/C9C8">
  <Name>&quot;Friends in High Places&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/80BD8452">
    <Name>Christopher Henry Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>127 Elizabeth St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-244-6004</Phone>
    <Fax>646-416-6437</Fax>
    <Access>Between Grand and Broom St., Subway: J/M/Z to Bowery, 6 to Spring Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Friends in High Places,&quot; is an exhibition of abstract painting and sculpture by seventeen contemporary artists, organized by participants Zach Needler and Adrian Ting. Conceived as an organic interchange, &quot;Friends in High Places,&quot; explores the implicit connections within a community and takes as an article of faith that a fluid curatorial approach can yield a comprehensive catalog of practices and principles. The project began with a select number of artists who were asked to recommend artists they felt were making strong abstract work, who were then asked to make their own recommendations. The result is a show that while strikingly varied in form and professional experience reveals a common conceptual framework behind artistic tendencies and methods. Surprising synergies between the organic and the modular, the excessive and the minimal, and the intuitive and the formal are affirmed.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-18</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Les Tristes: Invisible-Exports&quot; Lucas Ajemian and Julien Bismuth</Name>
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    <Name>INVISIBLE-EXPORTS</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>14A Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-5447</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Hester and Canal Sts.  Subway: F to East Broadway</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</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" />
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  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Collaboration is a way of working. It is also a genre, founded on an idea or ideal of authorship. Dialogue, on the other hand, is a form of interaction, one that has its own ethos and discipline of engagement, in which each protagonist is constantly asked to shift between listening and speaking, proposing and understanding, deciding and complying.

For their first exhibition at Invisible-Exports, Lucas Ajemian and Julien Bismuth are staging a dialogue of or out of sorts. By means of a series of objects, performances, the filming of scenes for a long-standing film project, and a publication, they will engage in an exchange across a frail and blurred divide of authorship. The materials used for this exhibition will be newspaper, glue, water, wire mesh, a mime, newsprint and ink, a printing press, computers and cell phones, and other, miscellaneous and as of yet more or less unknown items. Scenes for the “Les Tristes” film will be staged and shot every week at or within proximity to the gallery. Anyone interested in participating or auditioning for these scenes may contact the gallery for dates and times.

The exhibition ventures to address such topics as: (a.) the immateriality of concepts as an ideal rendered unattainable by the materiality of language, (b.) the ideal of furniture as objects rendered immaterial by our familiar and unconscious relation to them, (c.) the material and yet seemingly immaterial nature of the filmic illusion, (d.) the fallacy of commerce as an end to a means rather than a means to an end, (e.) the irascibility of the avant-gardes, (f.) the difficulty of breaking down language into analyzable units, (g.) the morning papers, (h.) distraction, (i.) manholes, and - perhaps most importantly (j.) the consequences of having an absence of motives being counteracted by a plenitude of impulses.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-28</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Professional Women Photographers presents: High School Girls’ Competition &amp; Awards&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A0FF8A41">
    <Name>Educational Alliance / Whittaker Center Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>197 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-780-2300 x 378</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of at Jefferson St. Subway: F to East Broadway or J/M/Z to Delancey / Essex</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>21:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Celebrating creative young women photographers from NYC area high schools. Over 80 students submitted photographs for consideration. Photographs were selected for the exhibit that demonstrated a unique vision and passion for the medium and adherence to the theme. This year’s theme is ‘water’. Special recognition and prize awards will be announced at the reception. This exhibit is co-sponsored by Professional Women Photographers (PWP). PWP, a non-profit professional group has been supporting the work of women photographers for over thirty years, providing educational forums to encourage artistic growth and to stimulate public interest in the art of photography. This is the 6th annual exhibit for high school girls. http://www.pwponline.org. The Educational Alliance Art School is a center for black and white photography offering classic, wet darkroom, black and white photo classes for kids, teens and adults.  The Young Artists Photography Program is support in part by National Endowments for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Rehabilitation Through Photography and private foundations and donors.]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Reality Gallery: American Slide-All (RGASA)&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>NY Studio Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>154 Stanton St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-627-3276</Phone>
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    <Access>Between Suffolk and Clinton St. Subway: F to 2nd Avenue or J/M/Z to Essex Street. </Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[For those who wonder how commercial galleries decide who and what to exhibit, NY Studio Gallery (NYSG) has demystified the selection process with Reality Gallery: American Slide-All (RGASA). This exhibit spoofs reality-based shows so popular in today's mass media through a contest that encourages widespread participation by national and international artists, increasing their exposure and offering a chance at a solo exhibition in New York City. How does the Reality Gallery work?  Now in its fourth year and increasing in popularity, NYSG's judges panel narrows the field from nearly four hundred to as many as thirty finalists.  The top two finalists are awarded a solo exhibit.  The remaining finalists' images and exhibition concepts are included in a group slideshow within the gallery.  The gallery-going public is invited to vote on their favorite work and the resulting winner is awarded a “People’s Choice” solo exhibition at NY Studio Gallery.  NYSG accepts submissions in all media from emerging, mid-career and established artists worldwide.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-18</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;Accrochage&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Ramiken Crucible</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>221 E Broadway, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>917-434-4245</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Clinton St.  Subway: F to E Broadway.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[un accrochage: collision, fender-bender; skirmish, clash; coupling, hitching; (picture) hanging; (boxing) clinch -also: Intermittent synchronization of two different rhythms of the heart with one influencing the behaviour of the other when neither is dominant.

[Image: Nolan Hendrickson &quot;Last Resort Wear&quot; acrylic and latex on canvas 72 x 48 in.]]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/D73F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/D73F">
  <Name>Robert Priseman &quot;No Human Way to Kill&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>WHITE BOX</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>329 Broome St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-714-2347</Phone>
    <Fax>212-714-2354</Fax>
    <Access>Between Bowery and Chrystie st. Subway: B/D/Q to Grand Street or J/M to Bowery Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[This spring, White Box in association with Firstsite Contemporary Art is hosting a highly challenging exhibition of paintings and drawings of execution chambers in the USA by the critically acclaimed artist Robert Priseman. The exhibition is a part of Robert Priseman's extended &quot;Modern Means of Execution&quot; project which has been four years in the making. It was initially inspired by Nick Broomfield's television documentary on the execution of serial killer Aileen Wuornos. &quot;I was working on paintings of hospital interiors when I saw the documentary, and I became aware of similarities between the iconography of execution facilities and those of medical institutions,” explains Priseman. Originally shown at the Dazed Gallery in London, the book was launched in London and Paris in October with the support of Firstsite Contemporary Art. It opens with an account from Rev. Cathy Harrington whose daughter Leslie Ann Mazzara was lost to murder. Cathy negotiated a life sentence for her daughter’s murderer, Eric Copple, who had potentially been facing the death sentence. This is followed by a view of life from inside death row at San Quentin by PEN winner Anthony Ross who was a former Crips gang member alongside Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams. Then former Texas prison Warden and Peabody recipient, Jim Willett, who oversaw 89 executions gives a detailed description of how an execution is carried out. A visit to see Robert Priseman's paintings and etchings of American execution chambers is no easy experience. Standing in front of the almost life-size paintings, you, as the visitor, are the only person in the painting and therefore the execution 'room'. There is no escaping from a full-on confrontation with the cruelty of the death penalty and the reality of your own mortality.

[Image: Robert Priseman &quot;Lethal Injection Gurney&quot; (2008)]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-15</DateStart>
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  <Name>Diane Barcelowsky &quot;So the Story Goes&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Sloan Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>128 Rivington St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-477-1140</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Norfolk St.  Subway: F/J/M/Z to Essex/Delancey</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Diane Barcelowsky returns to Sloan Fine Art with a new body of work, &quot;So the Story Goes.&quot; With an installation that includes mixed media elements and abstract and representational works on both paper and panel, Barcelowsky transforms the main gallery at Sloan Fine Art into a continuous, flowing narrative. Elaborate patterns of color, line and texture act as portals to another world. Vacant landscapes, flowing waterways, mysterious trails and roads all entice the viewer from one dreamlike narrative to the next. Once arrived, Barcelowsky’s impossible perspectives, saturated colors, fantasy characters and peculiar, yet familiar situations captivate the viewer in a voyeuristic trance. Each individual work is a stand-alone piece with a message of its own. Together they are an epic saga, rich with humor, tragedy and the contagious optimism that makes Barcelowsky’s work consistently engaging and compelling.

[Image: &quot;Diane Barcelowsky in her studio&quot; Photo courtesy Lauren Bilanko Photography]]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Intersections&quot; Exhibitions</Name>
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    <Name>Educational Alliance/ Ernest Rubenstein Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>197 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-780-2300 x 378</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of at Jefferson St.  Subway: F to East Broadway or J/M/Z to Delancey / Essex</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>21:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Corey D'Augustine's work examines the intersection of formalism and everyday life. Social and economic inequality is endemic and a function of social systems that consistently reward greed. For D'Augustine art is a model for a personal withdrawal from these systems to maintain a positive influence on the people and environment around us. This model aims to erase preconceived distinctions in favor of the direct experience of materials and their formal qualities. Marsha Melnick's recent paintings occupy a terrain that navigates between figuration and abstraction. In her response to the natural world, color, composition, gesture, and mark-making play supporting roles in the intuitively orchestrated development of her work. Real and invented landscape elements intertwine and provide a jumping-off point for the artist's deeper exploration of imagery. With raw materials, Gar Wang's wall sculptures reflect her passion for animals and a lifestyle closely entwined with nature. She works with silk, bamboo, hemp, as well as wool from rabbit, sheep, goat, dog, alpaca, and camel combining these soft materials with stainless steel, wood, metal and clay. By contrasting these raw materials she brings out their inherent characteristics as she explores their texture, form and light.

[Image: Marsha Melnick]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-25</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/ECA3" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/ECA3">
  <Name>Alejandro Vidal &quot;When it rains, all shines black&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Participant Inc.</Name>
    <Type>Other</Type>
    <Address>253 E Houston St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-254-4334</Phone>
    <Fax>212-254-4141</Fax>
    <Access>Between Norfolk St. and Suffolk St. Subway: F/V to Lower East Side</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[the first U.S. solo exhibition of Barcelona-based artist Alejandro Vidal. Known for his large-format photographs, videos, and installations that assert a post-cinematic aesthetic of conflict, seen through a generational lens that distinguishes the obsolescence of transgression in societies obsessed with control, the exhibition will consist of new works in photography and video. Vidal’s new photographs for When it rains, all shines black are a loose re-staging of a common form of popular political dissent in Latin American countries, involving the symbolic washing of the national flag in front of government buildings. Shooting at night from a hermetically remote location, usually from inside a car and illuminated only by the glare of headlights, Vidal de-objectifies the original act through distancing strategies, insinuating a subtle yet threatening rupture. The location and actions appear inscrutable, foreboding a dystopic resistance or enacting a B-movie-esque ceremony of an imaginary secret society. The flags are unidentifiable, and the actors are theatrically styled to produce a “vernacular upheaval, insinuating those forms of cultural subversion that are more powerful for going undetected.” (Erica Papernik, Crime and Punishment, Tallinn Kunstihoone, 2006).]]></Description>
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  <DateEnd>2010-04-11</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Marco Rios &quot;Plasma Pool&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Simon Preston Gallery</Name>
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    <Address>301 Broome St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-431-1105</Phone>
    <Fax>212-431-1106</Fax>
    <Access>Between Forsyth and Eldridge St.  Subway: B/D/Q to Grand Street or F/J/M/Z to Essex Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Adopting traits from a variety of late 19th Century Gothic fiction, such as Robert Louis Stevenson's novella &quot;The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde&quot; (1866), H.G Wells' &quot;The Island of Doctor Moreau&quot; (1896) and Bram Stoker's &quot;Dracula&quot; (1897), the exhibition comprises of a series of sculptures, photographs and drawings. By combining elements of romance and horror, Rios suggests various modes of physical and emotional transformation, while continuing to mine an intimate personal psychology. The title of the show, &quot;Plasma Pool,&quot; directly references Cronenberg's &quot;The Fly&quot; (1986), itself a modern day story of metamorphosis and mutation. Titles such as &quot;Neurochemical Squirt&quot; and &quot;Affectionate Cranial Scoop,&quot; suggest tender, if unsettling, gestures towards intimacy, while the objects themselves, a human-scale nutcracker and spoon-shaped drill-bit, reveal the hyperbolic brutality required to perform their unique tasks. &quot;Tip Sips (700ml at a time),&quot; a glass device shaped to wrap around the necks of a couple in embrace, implies the ingesting of tears expelled and caught in delicate eyeglasses. Orificial Juice Exchange, a large-scale laboratory-inspired glass sculpture, foregoes this modesty and restraint, with attachments for a total bodily fluid transfusion. By assuming literary, filmic and art historical guises, Rios is able to employ humor and slapstick in his exploration of a mind tormented by plurality. The walls of the gallery are painted to resemble a theatrical stage or setting. Two black and white photographs depict the artist firstly with a rock tethered to his head, and then with his head entirely replaced by a nut. In a third fleeting snapshot, while caught in an act of depravity, his face appears as a grotesque. Two 'dry-erase' drawings attempt to illustrate and work through this condition in a futile attempt at diagnosis and understanding.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-06</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-25</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Herb Brown &quot;Painting &amp; Video Works from the 1960s&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>BLT Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>270 Bowery, Fl.2, New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-260-4129</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Houston and Prince Sts. Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue, 6 to Bleecker, B/D to Broadway/Lafayette</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Herb Brown has never colored between the lines. His over-painted advertising signs and subway posters boldly challenged both the role of graphic imagery in consumer culture and the unacknowledged censorship imposed upon society and the art world in the 1960s. Brown refused to conform, even when major New York art gallery owner Leo Castelli rejected his work in 1965 deeming the content pornographic and inappropriate for a commercial gallery space. The following year, Brown was interviewed by the New York Times at a show of erotic art at the Sidney Janis Gallery. Though the authorities visited the show, the work was less confronting and, therefore, tolerated. Brown called it “a vast deception, fantastically watered down.” He continued to paint uninhibitedly, producing a body of work that artist Budd Hopkins described years later as “so blatant and ferocious that (it) may give pause to D.H. Lawrence or to that matter to Henry Miller.” Brown is far from a newcomer to the art world. Yet the obscenity laws of the 1960s, along with a massive studio fire that destroyed over 900 works of art in 1966, have kept his truly historical works hidden from the public eye. BLT gallery is proud to start off their second season presenting the paintings and video works by New York artist Herb Brown (b. 1923). A prized student of Max Beckmann, teaming a trained de Kooning stroke with a wit usually reserved for collage works, Brown’s work is refreshingly intelligent. With his exploration of consumerism and hypocritical societal values, bold use of color, and fondness for the comic, Herb Brown is a true 1960’s pop art Icon.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/F615" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/F615">
  <Name>Allan Sekula &quot;This Ain't China&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>e-flux</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>41 Essex St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-619-3356</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Hester and Grand Sts.  Subway: B/D to Grand Street, F to East Broadway, J/M/Z to Essex</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Allan Sekula's 1974 photo-text work, &quot;This Ain't China: A Photonovel,&quot; announces the artist's early attention to China as a foil for Western paradigms of production—cultural and economic. The work combines a (meta)narrative with staged photographs, shot in the spirit of Jean-Luc Godard (in a Maoist phase and channeling Bertolt Brecht). Sekula's plot concerns the employees of a greasy spoon restaurant in San Diego (artist included), all musing about working and living conditions, and plotting a strike— a microcosm implicated in a global imaginary, transformed by the presence of a different culture. &quot;This Ain't China&quot; was made at a time of great interest— especially amongst left-leaning Western artists and intellectuals—in the possibilities of Maoism. Yet the counter-example of China, and its negation, remain elusive. In the ambiguous way it is evoked, China could be both the country at the height of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and fine dinnerware (porcelain or &quot;fine china&quot;). Presenting the work in 2010 raises the question of how both these Chinas— as well as today's People's Republic, with its (ever enigmatic) embrace of capitalist manufacturing and consumption with a communist face— continue to configure imaginaries of alternative forms of production. Sekula's 1974 photonovel is paired with a new work: a backlit transparency made for the storefront window of the e-flux space on Essex Street in New York's Chinatown. The image was captured while the artist was doing research in one of China's &quot;special economic zones&quot; near the port city of Guangzhou for a forthcoming documentary on working conditions in and around the world's most active ports. It shows a young Chinese factory worker holding part of a kitchen appliance she is helping to manufacture, her eyes closed. The image may be seen as evidence of Sekula's shift from staged photography to a documentary approach, and opens a question concerning the artist's paths to realism. And yet the new image shares an element of refusal with the earlier photonovel. A solo-show of two works, &quot;This Ain't China: A Photonovel&quot; (1974) and &quot;Eyes Closed Assembly Line&quot; (2010), thus enables the visitor to trace key trajectories for Allan Sekula's entire practice. The investigation of his special interest in China leads to other questions concerning the politics and aesthetics of working class refusal, what we might call an &quot;attitude of ain't.&quot;

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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/F908" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/F908">
  <Name>Shalom Neuman &quot;Selected Works: 1966-2010&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>FusionArts Museum</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>57 Stanton St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-995-5290</Phone>
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    <Access>Between Forsyth and Eldridge St.  Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue, B/D train to Grand Street or 6 train to Bleeker St.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[A solo exhibit of selected works by New York fusion artist Shalom Neuman. The work spans the years 1966 through 2010 and is meant to be a very brief overview of a career that spans more than 40 years. Called an “unprecedented phenomenon” by distinguished art critic Donald Kuspit, Ph.D., Shalom pursued and accomplished a methodology for the seamless integration or &quot;fusion&quot; of all artistic disciplines long before there was any interest in creating art that was both multi disciplinary and multi sensory. The artist sees his work as a language which speaks directly to American culture with its chaos, conflict, waste and utter confusion. The addition of erratic audio and garish incandescent light adds to the overall mayhem of the art.

[Image: Shalom Neuman &quot;Wall of Cultural Confusion&quot; (2002-2010) multi-sensory sculptural instrument, oils, found objects, audio, incandescent light on plywood 9 x 8 x 2 ft.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-01-30</DateStart>
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