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Josh Azzarella Exhibition
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...More »
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"Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection" Exhibition
- at The New Museum of Contemporary Art
- 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- Closes in 81 days
“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...More »
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"Reading Room: 2000 books on contemporary art" Library
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...More »
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"Hey, Hot Shot! 2009 Second Edition" Exhibition
[Image: Alejandro Cartagena "Fragmented Cities, Santa Catarina, Suburbia Mexicana Project" (2008) Archival Pigment Print 20 x 24 in.]More »
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Victor Demarchelier "Creating Image"
- at Clic Bookstore & Gallery (424 Broome St.)
- 424 Broome St., New York, NY 10013
- Media: Photography
- Closes in 18 days
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Allan Sekula "This Ain't China"
- at e-flux
- 41 Essex St., New York, NY 10013
- Media: Photography - Video installation
- Closes in 17 days
Allan Sekula's 1974 photo-text work, "This Ain't China: A Photonovel," announces the artist's early attention to China as a foil for Western paradigms of production—cultural and economic. The work combines...More »
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"Tantra" Exhibition
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...More »
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"Intersections" Exhibitions
- at Educational Alliance/ Ernest Rubenstein Gallery
- 197 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002
- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Other
- Closes tomorrow
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...More »
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Valeska Soares "Vaga Lume"
- at Eleven Rivington
- 11 Rivington St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- Closes in 25 days
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. "Vaga Lume" is comprised...More »
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Alejandro Vidal "When it rains, all shines black"
- at Participant Inc.
- 253 E Houston St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Photography - Video installation
- Closes in 25 days
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...More »
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Hannah Whitaker "Victory over the Sun!"
- at Gallery KUMUKUMU
- 42 Rivington St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Photography
- Closes in 11 days
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J. Parker Valentine Exhibition
- at Lisa Cooley Fine Art
- 34 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Drawing - Photography
- Closes in 11 days
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...More »
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Robert Priseman "No Human Way to Kill"
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...More »
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"Who are you close to" Exhibition
- at Jane Kim / Thrust Projects
- 114 Bowery, #301, New York, NY 10013
- Media: Drawing - Photography - Video installation
- Closes in 32 days
"Who are you close to," 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 "Who are you...More »
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"Accrochage" Exhibition
- at Ramiken Crucible
- 221 E Broadway, New York, NY 10002
- Media: Painting - Drawing
- Closes in 17 days
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...More »
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Elena Pankova & Anke Weyer "Mother the Cake is Burning"
"Mother the Cake is Burning" 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...More »
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"N'ap Boule: A Benefit for the People of Haiti" Exhibition
- at Anonymous Gallery
- 186 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Other
- Closes in 4 days
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...More »
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Jessica Jackson Hutchins "Over Come Over"
- at Small A Projects
- 261 Broome St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Sculpture - Ceramics
- Closes in 11 days
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...More »
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Valerie Hegarty "Cosmic Collisions"
- at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
- 21 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Sculpture
- Closes in 25 days
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,...More »
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"Unspecific Objects" Exhibition
- at Thierry Goldberg Projects
- 5 Rivington St., Fl. 1, New York, NY 10002
- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Video installation
- Closes in 32 days
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...More »
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Naomi Campbell "Silent Harvest"
"Silent Harvest," 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...More »
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Natalie Edgar "From Above"
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...More »
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"ABC No Rio's Ides of March: The Seventh Biennial Building-Wide" Exhibition
- at ABC No Rio
- 156 Rivington St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- Starts in 2 days
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"Portrait of a Lady" Exhibition
- at Allegra LaViola Gallery
- 179 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002
- Media: Painting - Photography
- Closes in 3 days
[Image: Virginia Inés Vergara "Untitled" (2009)] More »
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Shannon Plumb "The Olympics (Track & Field)"
- at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
- 21 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Video installation
- Closes in 25 days
Inspired by the stoic, silent comedy of Buster Keaton and Leni Riefenstahl's 1938 documentary "Olympia"-- "Olympics (Track and Field)" follows a group of aspiring athletes through their Olympic events....More »
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Cristiana Palandri "Noiseless"
- at Scaramouche c/o Fruit and Flower Deli
- 53 Stanton St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- Closes in 46 days
As the final exhibition at the former Fruit & Flower Deli space, "Scaramouche" is pleased to present an exhibition by Italian artist Cristiana Palandri. For her first solo-show in New York, Palandri...More »
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"In Print" Exhibition
Curated by Adam Carr. From André Breton's "La Révolution surréaliste" to printed publications offering space for artist projects today, the magazine has served as a site for artistic production for...More »
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"Sampling and Revisions: The L.E.S. Deframed" Exhibition
The gallery presents "Sampling and Revisions," a photography exhibition juxtaposing the Lower East Side Tenement Museum archival photos with those by contemporary artists. Curated by Zoe Lukov.More »
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Wael Noureddine "Spreading DNA"
- at Kleio Projects
- 153 1/2 Stanton St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Video installation
- Starts in 3 days
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Dustin Wayne Harris "Cake Mixx"
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...More »
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"Karl Fritsch + Richard Wathen" Exhibition
- at Salon 94 Freemans
- 1 Freeman Alley, New York, NY 10002
- Media: Painting - Product - Crafts
- Closes in 24 days
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,...More »
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"Friends in High Places" Exhibition
- at Christopher Henry Gallery
- 127 Elizabeth St., New York, NY 10011
- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- Closes in 32 days
"Friends in High Places," 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,...More »
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"Museum as Hub: Be(com)ing Dutch at a Distance" Series
- at The New Museum of Contemporary Art
- 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
- Media: Other - Art Talk
- Closes in 105 days
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...More »
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Keith O. Anderson "What Becomes of a Broken Heart"
- at Number 35
- 39 Essex St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- Closes in 32 days
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...More »
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"Just Off" Exhibition
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...More »
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Diane Barcelowsky "So the Story Goes"
Diane Barcelowsky returns to Sloan Fine Art with a new body of work, "So the Story Goes." With an installation that includes mixed media elements and abstract and representational works on both paper and...More »
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Marco Rios "Plasma Pool"
- at Simon Preston Gallery
- 301 Broome St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Photography
- Closes in 39 days
Adopting traits from a variety of late 19th Century Gothic fiction, such as Robert Louis Stevenson's novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1866), H.G Wells' "The Island of Doctor Moreau"...More »
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"Les Tristes: Invisible-Exports" Lucas Ajemian and Julien Bismuth
- at INVISIBLE-EXPORTS
- 14A Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002
- Media: Film - Performance Art
- Closes in 11 days
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,...More »
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"Into the Unknown" Exhibition
- at Ludlow 38 / The Goethe-Institut New York
- 38 Ludlow St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Photography - Film
- Closes in 25 days
"Into the Unknown" 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...More »
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Sue Gurnee "The Fulgent Cadences"
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...More »
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Desi Santiago "Declare Void"
- at Envoy
- 131 Chrystie St., New York, NY, 10002
- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- Starts tomorrow
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...More »
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Bill Komoski "3/2/10"
- at Feature Inc.
- 131 Allen St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Drawing - Installation
- Closes in 45 days
[Image: Bill Komoski "3/2/10" (2010) acrylic paint, site-specific wall painting]More »
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Ryan Scully "Always Moving"
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...More »
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Edwin Ushiro "At Night, Lights Fell and Loved Ones Returned Home"
- at Sloan Fine Art
- 128 Rivington St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Painting - Other
- Starts in 7 days
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...More »
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Amelie Chabannes “Vast”
- at Luxe/ Stephan Stoyanov Gallery
- 29 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Drawing - Sculpture - Installation
- Closes in 14 days
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...More »
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"Professional Women Photographers presents: High School Girls’ Competition & Awards" Exhibition
- at Educational Alliance / Whittaker Center Gallery
- 197 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002
- Media: Photography
- Starts in 4 days
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...More »
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Herb Brown "Painting & Video Works from the 1960s"
- at BLT Gallery
- 270 Bowery, Fl.2, New York, NY 10012
- Media: Painting - Video installation
- Closes in 15 days
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...More »
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"Reconstruction #1" Exhibition
- at On Stellar Rays
- 133 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation
- Closes in 18 days
"Reconstruction #1" 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. "Reconstruction...More »
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"Imperfect as they are" Video Art and Home Movie Night
- at The New Museum of Contemporary Art
- 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
- Media: Video installation
- Starts in 2 days
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...More »
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"Landscapes of Quarantine" Exhibition
- at Storefront for Art and Architecture
- 97 Kenmare St., New York, NY 10012
- Media: Illustration - Other - Installation
- Closes in 31 days
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...More »
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"A Reluctant Apparition" Exhibition
- at Sue Scott Gallery
- 1 Rivington St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Painting - Photography - Video installation
- Closes in 17 days
"A Reluctant Apparition" 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...More »
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Julia Dault "Total Picture Control"
- at Blackston
- 29C Ludlow St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- Closes in 28 days
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....More »
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"Sketchbot Custom Show" Exhibition
- at myplasticheart
- 210 Forsyth St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Product - Other
- Starts in 9 days
myplasticheart presents the "The Sketchbot Custom Show," the official launch of the new figure by NYC animator Steve Talkowski. 50 artists and designers will have their hand in creating original designs...More »
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Shalom Neuman "Selected Works: 1966-2010"
- at FusionArts Museum
- 57 Stanton St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Performance Art
- Closes in 39 days
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....More »
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Agnes Pezeu "Impressions"
- at Gallery Nine5
- 24 Spring St., New York, NY 10012
- Media: Painting - Performance Art
- Closes in 16 days
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...More »
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"The EGO and The ID" Exhibition
- at Bridge Gallery
- 98 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- Closes in 12 days
Featuring mixed media by Lori Schouela, Narcissistic Shells by Sydney Cash, and metal sculptures by Zac Max.More »
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"The Headless Conference" Talk
- at The New Museum of Contemporary Art
- 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
- Media: Art Talk
- Starts in 2 days
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...More »
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"Reality Gallery: American Slide-All (RGASA)" Exhibition
- at NY Studio Gallery
- 154 Stanton St., New York, NY 10002
- Media: Painting - Photography - Other
- Starts tomorrow
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...More »








