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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/0302" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/0302">
  <Name>Reconstruction and Reinstallation of the Egyptian Art Galleries</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art, 1st floor
Upon entering the Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art this season, visitors will see several newly installed galleries, which are part of a reconstruction project that began in 2002. The reinstallation covers the Museum’s collections of Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egyptian art (from before the 5th millennium to ca. 2650 B.C.) in a large space along Fifth Avenue, and the art of Roman Egypt (30 B.C. to ca. 400 A.D.) in two galleries on the opposite side of the centrally located Old Kingdom tomb of Perneb (ca. 2350 B.C.). Highlights of the project also include the uncovering of three windows facing Fifth Avenue, the exposure of the original Richard Morris Hunt ceiling beams in the Predynastic/Early Dynastic gallery and in one of the Roman Egypt galleries, and the reconfiguration of the architecture of the Old Kingdom tombs of Perneb and Raemkai (ca. 2350 and 2440 B.C.) to more closely resemble their original settings.
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2004-01-29</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/051A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/051A">
  <Name>New Galleries for Oceanic Art</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The islands of the Pacific Ocean encompass nearly 1,800 distinct cultures and hundreds of artistic traditions in an area that covers about one-third of the earth’s surface. The Museum’s new permanent galleries for Oceanic art, completely redesigned and reinstalled, display a substantially larger portion of the Museum’s Oceanic holdings than was previously on view. Featuring renowned masterworks from the Metropolitan’s Oceanic collection as well as recent acquisitions, the installation presents sculpture and decorative arts from the regions of Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Australia. The displays also feature the Museum’s first gallery devoted to the arts of the indigenous peoples of Island Southeast Asia.
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  <Karma>1.4993</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/13C8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/13C8">
  <Name>&quot;Reinstallation of the South Asia Galleries Gandhara, Mathura, Andhra and Gupta Sculpture&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[These galleries explore the South Asian emergence of Buddhist and Hindu sculptural traditions between the 2nd century B.C. and the 8th century A.D. More than 160 works from the permanent collections are juxtaposed to trace the range of stylistic and iconographic developments in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during a period that witnessed great ideological ferment and international exchange. ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2007-08-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/28E1" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/28E1">
  <Name>&quot;Classic/Fantastic: Selections from the Modern Design Collection&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Order and disorder, reason and emotion, restraint and excess—opposing impulses such as these have influenced design since the beginning of civilization. The exhibition juxtaposes these divergent approaches, presenting an Apollonian/Dionysian dichotomy of design philosophies in the modern era. Of the approximately 75 works in a wide range of media—including furniture, metalwork, ceramics, glass, textiles, and drawings—half are devoted to designs rooted in the centuries-old vocabulary of classicism, updated yet still linked to the rules and traditions of the past, and the other half to romantic and surreal subjects of fantasy, drawn from the realm of pure imagination. ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>0000-00-00</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/5515" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/5515">
  <Name>&quot;Pop Art: Works on Paper&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The term Pop Art was first used around 1954 to describe a group of British artists, but by the early 1960s it became synonymous with a new American art movement that appropriated images, techniques, and materials from mass-media and popular culture and presented them in bold, graphic formats. Notable members of the movement included the painters Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol, and Tom Wesselmann, and the sculptor Claes Oldenburg. While these artists worked in different styles, they were similarly captivated by everyday consumer products, advertisements, billboard signs, television, films, comic books, newspapers, and magazines. Humor and satire often accompanied their art, which held a mirror up to modern-day society to reflect its values, mores, and obsessions.

]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0.052006</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2008-02-29</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/566A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/566A">
  <Name>Reopening of The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Wrightsman Galleries have undergone extensive renovations to improve the presentation of the Museum's renowned collection of French furniture and related decorative arts pieces—many of which have a royal provenance. The galleries include a number of important artworks previously not on view, including a mid-seventeenth-century carved ebony cabinet on a stand and a late-eighteenth-century carved and gilded state bed, as well as additional pieces of Sèvres porcelain and gold snuff boxes.

Renovations to the galleries included the repainting of the paneling in one of the period rooms, the conservation treatment of a large group of objects, and the reupholstering of several pieces of furniture with modern re-creations of their original show covers.

In addition to the visible enhancements made to the galleries, important behind-the-scenes renovations included the installation of state-of-the-art climate control and security systems, as well as new lighting and fire suppression systems, which will ensure the continued safety of these spectacular galleries.
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2007-10-30</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/8F9E" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/8F9E">
  <Name>New Galleries for 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Paintings and Sculpture, including the Henry J. Heinz II Galleries</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The New Galleries for 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Paintings and Sculpture are reopening with renovated rooms and 8,000 square feet of additional gallery space—the Henry J. Heinz II Galleries—to showcase works from 1800 through the early twentieth century. The renovated galleries feature all of the Museum's most loved nineteenth-century paintings, which have been on permanent display in the past, as well as works by Bonnard, Vuillard, Soutine, Matisse, Picasso, and other early modern artists. Among the many additions are a full-room assembly of &quot;The Wisteria Dining Room,&quot; a French art nouveau interior designed by Lucien Lévy Dhurmer shortly before World War I that is the only complete example of its kind in the United States; Henry Lerolle's enormous The Organ Rehearsal (a church interior of 1885); a group of newly accessioned nineteenth-century landscape oil sketches; and a selection of rarely exhibited paintings by an international group of artists.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2007-12-04</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/A758" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/A758">
  <Name>New Gallery for the Art of Native North America</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Museum’s renovated gallery devoted to Native North American art display approximately 90 works made by numerous American peoples. Ranging from the beautifully shaped stone tools known as bannerstones of several millennia B.C. to a mid-1970s tobacco bag, the objects illustrate a wide variety of cultural background, artistic style, and functional purpose, all qualities inherent in the art of the peoples of the large North American continent. Works include wood sculpture from the Northwest Coast of North America, ivory carvings from the Arctic, wearing blankets from the Southwest, and objects of hide from the Great Plains. ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2007-11-14</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/B1D9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/B1D9">
  <Name>New Greek and Roman Galleries</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Fashion</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The opening of the new Hellenistic, Etruscan, and Roman galleries—an entire wing housing over 5,300 objects in more than 30,000 square feet—completes the reconstruction and reinstallation of the permanent galleries of Greek and Roman art. The newest galleries present Hellenistic art and its legacy alongside those of Southern Italy and Etruria, forming the background to the story of Rome from the Late Republican period and the Golden Age of Augustus's Principate to the conversion of Constantine the Great in A.D. 312. The centerpiece of the new installation is the Leon Levy and Shelby White Court, a dramatic, skylit space that links the various galleries and themes. These include displays of the art of Magna Graecia and the world of the Etruscans, together with the stunning collection of Roman wall paintings that is unrivaled outside of Italy. The presentation of the art of the Late Hellenistic and Early Imperial periods is crowned by the newly reconstructed Cubiculum from the villa at Boscoreale near Pompeii and the Black Bedroom from Boscotrecase. In addition, on the mezzanine floor overlooking Fifth Avenue, there is a large display covering the entire cultural and chronological span of the department's rich collection.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0.52106</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2007-04-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/D13A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/D13A">
  <Name>&quot;Masterpieces of Modern Design&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This installation will feature important works in all media from the modern design collection by some of the most renowned designers of the 20th century. A highlight will be the 1934 History of Navigation, a magnificent and monumental reverse-painted and gilt-glass mural by Jean Dupas (French, 1882–1964), made for the first-class salon of the French ocean liner Normandie. Visitors will also have the opportunity to view a number of recent acquisitions of more contemporary works, including Gaetano Pesce’s Black Rotation Vase (2005), the Gyre Lounge Chair (2006) by Zaha Hadid, and Dusasa II (2007), in found aluminum and copper wire, by El Anatsui. ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
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  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
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  <Latitude>40.779</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/DF1C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/DF1C">
  <Name>&quot;Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/17E1F92A">
    <Name>The Jewish Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1109 5th Ave., New York,NY 10128</Address>
    <Phone>212-423-3271</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 92nd St.  Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:45:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 16:00, thursdays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Thanksgiving and major Jewish holidays. Note new Thursday hours from November 19, 2009.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[At the heart of The Jewish Museum is its permanent exhibition, Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey, representing one of the world's great opportunities to explore Jewish culture and history through art. This vibrant two-floor exhibition features 800 works from the Museum's remarkably diverse collection of art, archaeology, ceremonial objects, video, photographs, interactive media and television excerpts. It examines the Jewish experience as it has evolved from antiquity to the present, over 4,000 years, and asks two vital questions: How has Judaism been able to thrive for thousands of years across the globe, often in difficult and even tragic circumstances? What constitutes the essence of Jewish identity?

The exhibition traces the dynamic interaction among three catalysts that have shaped the Jewish experience: the constant questioning and reinterpretation of Jewish traditions, the interaction of Jews and Judaism with other cultures, and the impact of historical events that have transformed Jewish life. Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey proposes that Jews have been able to sustain their identity, despite wide dispersion and sometimes tragic circumstances, by evolving a culture that can adapt to life in many countries and under various conditions. Survival as a people has depended upon both the continuity of Jewish ideas and values and the flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $12, Seniors $10, Students $7.50, Free for Members and Children under 12 and on Saturday</Price>
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  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/F889" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/F889">
  <Name>&quot;Gallery Selections&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D2F542C2">
    <Name>Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, LLC</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>667 Madison Ave., 24 Fl., New York, NY 10065</Address>
    <Phone>212-813-9797</Phone>
    <Fax>212-813-9876</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 61st St. Subway: N/R/W to 5th Ave., 4/5/6 to 59th St./Lexington Ave. or F to Lexington Ave./63rd St.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>05:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="1" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 11:00, sundays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts is pleased to present a selection of its finest and newest acquisitions. The current installation of works in the gallery highlights the modernist landscapes of John Marin and Charles Burchfield, as well as the Ashcan paintings and drawings of William Glackens and Henry Glintenkamp. Exceptional works by such American Masters as George Bellows and Marsden Hartley are also on view, and are just a sampling of the extensive inventory the gallery has to offer. Please click the image to see further information. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>0000-00-00</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
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  <PermanentEvent>1</PermanentEvent>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/2312" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/2312">
  <Name>Anish Kapoor &quot;Memory&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/78479D33">
    <Name>Guggenheim Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1071 5th Ave., New York, NY 10128</Address>
    <Phone>212-423-3500</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 89th St.  Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:45:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="1" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 19:45</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[With the inauguration of the Deutsche Guggenheim in 1997, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Deutsche Bank launched a unique and ambitious program of contemporary art commissions that has enabled the Guggenheim to act as a catalyst for artistic production. Anish Kapoor: Memory is the fourteenth commission project to be completed since the program’s inception and is the Guggenheim Foundation’s first collaboration with the artist, known for his expansive vision and profound aesthetics.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $18, Students and Seniors $15, Members and Children under 12 Free, Friday 5:45-7:45pm Pay As You Wish</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-10-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-28</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/812A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/812A">
  <Name>&quot;Kandinsky and Expressionist Painting before World War I&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/78479D33">
    <Name>Guggenheim Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1071 5th Ave., New York, NY 10128</Address>
    <Phone>212-423-3500</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 89th St.  Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:45:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="1" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 19:45</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The work of Post-Impressionists, such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse and the Fauves, and the Cubists in Paris, all informed the development of Expressionist art in the years immediately preceding World War I. The practitioners of this style, largely working and exhibiting in Germany, crossed paths via various associations and were also deeply influenced by their encounters with Japanese and African art, as well as Germanic folk art. From Vasily Kandinsky to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, artists who came to be associated with Expressionism sought to convey the communicative force of color through vibrantly hued canvases and bold forms.

The connections among these different artists were severed with the 1914 outbreak of World War I. Nonetheless, the postwar period saw the reunion of Kandinsky, Klee, and Jawlensky, who together with Lyonel Feininger, formed the Blue Four group in the United States. It was then that these artists were able to pursue their color theories with renewed vigor.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $18, Students and Seniors $15, Members and Children under 12 Free, Friday 5:45-7:45pm Pay As You Wish</Price>
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  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/840B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/840B">
  <Name>&quot;Voces y Visiones&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/437D176A">
    <Name>El Museo del Barrio</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1230 5th Ave., New York, NY 10029</Address>
    <Phone>212-831-7272</Phone>
    <Fax>212-831-7927</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 104th St., Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street or 96th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
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  <Media>2D: Graphics</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The premiere exhibition in our new Carmen Ana Unanue Permanent Collection Galleries celebrates El Museo's 40th anniversary. Over 100 works created by a cross-section of Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American artists trace the museum's history and the artistic contributions and milestones that have been part of El Museo's four decades. Highlighting the strengths of the collections, this installation ranges from artifacts of the ancient Taíno people and their legacy to traditional objects, postwar and contemporary art, including graphics, photography and mixed media installations.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>12.3395</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $6, Seniors and Students $4, Members, Children under 12 and on Wednesdays Seniors Free</Price>
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  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/8961" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/8961">
  <Name>&quot;Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Photographs are often perceived as transparent windows onto a three-dimensional world. Yet photographs also have their own material presence as physical objects. Contemporary artists who exploit this apparent contradiction between photograph as window and photograph as object are featured in Surface Tension. The exhibition presents 30 works that play with the inherent tension between the flatness of the photograph and the often lifelike illusion of depth. Surface Tension highlights the ways in which artists use photographic and multi-media techniques to direct our attention to the physical surface of the photograph. Among the works featured are photographs that have been purposely scratched, burned, or painted on, as well as photograms made by placing objects directly on top of a sheet of photographic paper. The exhibition is drawn entirely from the permanent collection and features several recent acquisitions and other contemporary photographs never before shown at the Museum. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>2.05319</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-09-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-16</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>60</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
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  <Latitude>40.779</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.962342</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/B07A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/B07A">
  <Name>&quot;Contemplating the Vold: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum Rotunda&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/78479D33">
    <Name>Guggenheim Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1071 5th Ave., New York, NY 10128</Address>
    <Phone>212-423-3500</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 89th St.  Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:45:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="1" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 19:45</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[On the occasion of the museum's 50th anniversary, the Guggenheim has invited approximately 250 artists, architects, and designers to imagine their dream intervention in Frank Lloyd Wright’s rotunda. A salon-style installation of two-dimensional renderings of their visionary projects will emphasize the rich and diverse range of inspired proposals, and an accompanying catalogue will include reproductions of all of the submissions.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $18, Students and Seniors $15, Members and Children under 12 Free, Friday 5:45-7:45pm Pay As You Wish</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-16</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>60</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.782925</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.959369</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/C1AA" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/C1AA">
  <Name>&quot;Thannhauser Collection&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/78479D33">
    <Name>Guggenheim Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1071 5th Ave., New York, NY 10128</Address>
    <Phone>212-423-3500</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 89th St.  Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:45:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="1" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 19:45</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Justin K. Thannhauser (1892–1976) was the son of art dealer Heinrich Thannhauser (1859–1935), who founded the Moderne Galerie in Munich in 1909. From an early age, Thannhauser worked alongside his father in the flourishing gallery and helped to build an impressive and versatile exhibition program that included the French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, the Italian Futurists, and regularly featured contemporary German artists. The Moderne Galerie presented the premier exhibitions of the New Artists’ Association of Munich (Neue Künstlervereinigung München) and The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter), both of which included Vasily Kandinsky, in 1901 and 1911, respectively. Kandinsky later described the gallery’s rooms as “perhaps the most beautiful exhibition spaces in all of Munich.” The Moderne Galerie also mounted the first major Pablo Picasso retrospective in 1913, thus initiating the close relationship between Justin K. Thannhauser and Picasso that lasted until the artist’s death in 1973.

The Thannhausers’ commitment to promoting artistic progress paralleled the vision of Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861–1949). In appreciation of this shared spirit, and in the memory of his first wife and two sons—who might have continued in the family’s art trade had they not died at tragically young ages—Thannhauser gave a significant portion of his art collection, including over 30 works by Picasso, to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1963. From 1965 until Thannhauser’s death in 1976 (when his collection formally entered the Guggenheim’s holdings), the Thannhauser Collection was on long-term loan to the museum. A bequest of 10 additional works received after Hilde Thannhauser’s death in 1991 enhanced the legacy of this family of important art dealers.

Organized by Tracey Bashkoff.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.89225</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults $18, Students and Seniors $15, Members and Children under 12 Free, Friday 5:45-7:45pm Pay As You Wish</Price>
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  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/CC02" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/CC02">
  <Name>&quot;Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The second porcelain factory in Europe able to make true porcelain in the manner of the Chinese was established in Vienna in 1718. Founded by Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier, the small porcelain enterprise developed a highly distinctive style that remained Baroque in inspiration throughout the history of the factory, which was taken over by the State in 1744. Du Paquier produced a range of tablewares, decorative vases, and small-scale sculpture that found great popularity with the Hapsburg court and the Austrian nobility. This exhibition will chart the history of the development of the Du Paquier factory, setting its production within the historic and cultural context of Vienna in the first half of the eighteenth-century. The porcelain to be featured will be drawn from both the Metropolitan Museum and the premier private collection of this material.
Accompanied by a publication. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-08-22</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-21</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
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  <Latitude>40.779</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/0207" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/0207">
  <Name>Martin Mull &quot;The Four Seasons and Other New Works&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/4594DA54">
    <Name>Stellan Holm Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1018 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10075</Address>
    <Phone>212-627-7444</Phone>
    <Fax>212-627-4646</Fax>
    <Access>Between 78th and 79th Sts. Subway: 6 to 77th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Stellan Holm Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by painter Martin Mull, entitled The Four Seasons and Other New Works. This will be Martin Mull's second solo exhibition at Stellan Holm Gallery.

In The Four Seasons and Other New Works, Martin Mull's reinterpretation of the theme of the four seasons finds itself transplanted onto the contemporary landscape of Los Angeles, CA. This series of four large-scale, color paintings depicts various black-and-white nude figures residing within the colorful, suburban backdrop of LA, where a lack of any distinguishable season becomes quickly apparent. The reference points for the human figures are culled from popular nudist magazines from the 1950's and 60's. Combined with the artist's own photographs of LA taken with a disposable 35mm camera; the result is a pastiche of time, place, and season, where fragments of an ambiguous narrative unfold.

In a series of small black-and-white paintings, Mull revisits the imagery of vintage nudist magazines, in which nude figures partake in ordinary, quotidian activities. These bucolic and candid images convey something entirely different than the traditional, posed nude so prevalent to the history of Western art. They appear to lack any sense of self-consciousness; their presence simultaneously intimate yet unfamiliar, commonplace yet curious.

Mull utilizes a unique blend of traditional painting techniques and postmodern appropriation, whereby the artist pieces together imagery from multiple photographic sources, then renders them in paint. A cutout, collage feeling is retained, allowing the viewer a glimpse into the process. Mull frequently paints his subjects in grisaille, a technique of rendering in varying shades of gray. The monochromatic palette not only gives a sculptural quality to its figures, but also allows the viewer to step back to a time and place before the use of color photography.

Born in 1943, Martin Mull was raised in the era that he illustrates. He received his BFA (1965) and MFA (1967) from Rhode Island School of Design. 

[Image: Martin Mull &quot;Spring&quot; (2009) oil on linen 50 x 70 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0.799238</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/0238" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/0238">
  <Name>&quot;Lincoln and New York&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D3C8617E">
    <Name>The New-York Historical Society</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023</Address>
    <Phone>212-873-3400</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 76th and 77th Street. Subway: B or C to 81st Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 11:00, sundays closinghour 17:45, fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on selected holiday Mondays and Mondays during special exhibitions for school and adult groups.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln—the quintessential westerner—owed much of his national political success to his impact on the eastern state of New York—and, in turn, New York's impact on him. This exhibition of original artifacts, iconic images, and hand-written period documents, many in Lincoln's own hand, will for the first time fully trace the evolution of Lincoln's relationship with the nation's largest and wealthiest state: from the time of his triumphant Cooper Union address here in 1860, to his efforts to hold the Union together in 1861, to the early challenges of recruitment and investment in the Civil War, to the development of new military technologies, and the challenge to civil liberties in time of rebellion. Lincoln's evolving stance on slavery issues alternately pleased and infuriated New Yorkers. African-Americans, many of them veterans of the anti-slavery movement and Underground Railroad activism, saw Lincoln as slow to deal with the numerous slaves escaping during the war. These &quot;contraband&quot; forces clamored to join the Union army which for several years excluded colored troops – be they free men or the newly freed. Meanwhile free black New Yorkers readied volunteer regiments. 

New York's role as the Union's prime provider of manpower, treasure, media coverage, image-making, and protest, some of it racist—the 1863 Draft Riots and the robust effort to unseat Lincoln in 1864—will be traced alongside Lincoln's concurrent growth as a leader, writer, symbol of Union and freedom, and ultimately as national martyr. Through all, from political parades to funeral processions, as this show will demonstrate, New York played a surprisingly central role in the Lincoln story—and Lincoln became a leading player in the life of New York. This exhibition commemorates the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial. A catalog will accompany the exhibition.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults: $10, Seniors and Educator $7, Members, Children under 12(accompanied by adults) and on Fridays from 6 pm to 8 pm: Free </Price>
  <DateStart>2009-10-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/0A4C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/0A4C">
  <Name>&quot;Knock Knock: Who's There? That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D1F6F44C">
    <Name>Armand Bartos Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>25 E 73rd St., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-288-6705</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Madison and 5th Ave. Subway: 6 to 77th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper 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: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Humor in all it's forms, including social satire, wordplay, games and jokes, has been an underlying theme in art throughout the 20th century. Dada's playfulness is the precursor of this thread, born as a response to the destruction wreaked on a global scale during WWI. Knock Knock explores how artists have drawn on this strategy, using humor as a hook to tackle more complex social, sexual, and political issues. The resulting historical exhibition, mounted over two venues, is superficially all farce, gaffs, puns and parody, and exposes the embedded tensions inherent in the work when the laughter dies down.

Curated by Sarah Murkett and Elana Rubinfeld]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-24</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-09</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/0B1A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/0B1A">
  <Name>&quot;The Concours&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/5CFEF494">
    <Name>The Art Students League of New York</Name>
    <Type>Other</Type>
    <Address>215 W 57th St., New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-247-4510</Phone>
    <Fax>212-541-7024</Fax>
    <Access>Between 7th Avenue and Broadway. Subway: N/Q/R/W at 57th Street or 1/A/B/C/D at 59th Street/Columbus Circle</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 09:00, saturdays closinghour 15:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Concours takes its name from exhibitions and contests of various kinds held in French ateliers (for example, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Academie Julian) during the nineteenth century, with the students competing for prizes, medals, or even for working spots in the studio. From its inception, the League has held similar concours. Early on, the instructors first picked their best students, and then all the works were exhibited together. There was a purchase prize of $105 called The Instructors' Prize, which was awarded to the student voted the best by a jury of League instructors. Eugene Speicher won this prize in 1908 for his portrait of fellow student Georgia O'Keeffe, and a still-life by O'Keeffe was also acquired for the League's collection.
Each week during the Concours, a judge assigns a seal or &quot;red dot&quot; to the work deemed best of each class. All of the red dot works are exhibited at the end of the year. A committee composed of members of the Board of Control may select works from this exhibit to be purchased for the League's Permanent Collection.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-15</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/1126" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/1126">
  <Name>&quot;Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D3C8617E">
    <Name>The New-York Historical Society</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023</Address>
    <Phone>212-873-3400</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 76th and 77th Street. Subway: B or C to 81st Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 11:00, sundays closinghour 17:45, fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on selected holiday Mondays and Mondays during special exhibitions for school and adult groups.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Drawn almost exclusively from the Archive housed at the University of California Santa Cruz, Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society, will chronicle the history of the Grateful Dead, its music, and phenomenal longevity through an array of original art and documents related to the band, its members, performances, and productions. Exhibition highlights from the archive will include concert and recording posters, album art, large-scale marionettes and other stage props, banners, and vast stores of decorated fan mail. Together, these materials provide unique glimpses into the political and social upheavals and artistic awakenings of the 1960s and 1970s, a tumultuous and transformative period that has shaped our current cultural and political landscape. The exhibition will examine how the Grateful Dead's origin in northern California in the mid-1960s was informed by the ideology and spirit of both the Beat Generation and the burgeoning Hippie scene, including experimentation with LSD and the Acid Tests. The exhibition will also explore the way in which the band's refusal to follow the established rules of the record industry revealed an unexpected business savvy that led to both innovations in a rapidly changing music industry and also a host of consumer-driven marketing enrichments that kept fans in frequent contact with the band. The Grateful Dead's time in New York will be viewed in the context of cultural traditions and events unique to New York, but also as yet another stop on a long, strange touring trip that included dates in New York, San Francisco, and everywhere in between.

[Image: Alton Kelley &quot;American Beauty&quot; (1970) album cover © 2010 Alton Kelley]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults: $10, Seniors and Educator $7, Members, Children under 12(accompanied by adults) and on Fridays from 6 pm to 8 pm: Free </Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-07-04</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/140E" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/140E">
  <Name>&quot;The Brandywine Illustrators&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/47120F6A">
    <Name>American Illustrators Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>18 E 77th St., Suite 1A, New York, NY 10075</Address>
    <Phone>212-744-5190</Phone>
    <Fax>212-744-0128</Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and Madison Avs. Subway: 6 to 77th St.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Illustration</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The American Illustrators Gallery presents its current exhibition of artworks featuring the students of Howard Pyle. A]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-11-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-31</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>14</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/1923" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/1923">
  <Name>Galia Gur Zeev &quot;Seder Table&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E0718A07">
    <Name>Weill Art Gallery/ 92nd Y</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>1395 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10128</Address>
    <Phone>212-415-5563</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 91st and 92nd St.  Subway: 4/5/6 to 96th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper 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 Passover Seder is one of the most important festive meals in Jewish tradition. This annual gathering rearranges the family unit with each meal and demands &quot;taking stock&quot; of the family members in order to accommodate the inevitably growing, changing group – a routine, familiar and comforting ritual carried out from one seder meal to the next. A great deal of tension, excitement, joy and sadness come together on this occasion. The meeting around the table maps out the present and the absent and marks changing roles in the family as elders pass on and children become adults.

In her first exhibition in North America, Israeli photographer Galia Gur Zeev explores these family gatherings around the dining table in Seder Table. The exhibit consists of a wall piece depicting the diners around the table from a bird's-eye view. The table is nonexistent, and the relevant information emerges from the black background. Zeev’s photographs address a person's relationships with oneself, one's body, and one's family, portraying a universe centered on the home and the family. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/2132" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/2132">
  <Name>Hilla Rebay &quot;Art Educator&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/78479D33">
    <Name>Guggenheim Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1071 5th Ave., New York, NY 10128</Address>
    <Phone>212-423-3500</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 89th St.  Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:45:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="1" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 19:45</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[When one thinks of Hilla Rebay, the words artist, curator, founder, and director of the Guggenheim Museum often come to mind. But her interests and initiatives as an art and museum educator have remained largely unrecognized. Hilla Rebay: Art Educator features some of her remarkably progressive efforts to provide a variety of audiences—from youth and teachers to artists and museum visitors—with opportunities to learn about nonobjective art, or art without representational links to the material world.
Rebay had a clear vision of how the museum should function, as well as how it should present nonobjective paintings. As museum director, she gave gallery talks and instructed her staff, comprised primarily of artists, to “advise people who visited the museum.” The paintings on view were purposefully hung close to the floor and accompanied by comfortable gallery seating and music to encourage sustained, contemplative viewing of the works. Comment books in the galleries enabled visitors to share their responses. Study prints and posters were sent to individuals and schools free of charge. Nonobjective works submitted to the foundation offices were returned along with a written critique, and Rebay would sometimes note her “corrections” directly on the canvas or paper, in the tradition of the European masters. Painters of promise were awarded scholarships and funding for art supplies.
As a testimony to her foresight, innovative spirit, and intuitive educational sensibilities, sixty-five years later many of Rebay’s initiatives exist today as standard art museum education practice.
]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults $18, Students and Seniors $15, Members and Children under 12 Free, Friday 5:45-7:45pm Pay As You Wish</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-29</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-08-22</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/221C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/221C">
  <Name>&quot;Marguerite Duras par Hélène Bamberger&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/253B23E0">
    <Name>Cultural Services of the Embassy of France</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>972 5th Ave., New York, NY 10075</Address>
    <Phone>212-439-1417</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 79th St. Subway: 6 to 77th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="1" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Hélène Bamberger took photographs of Marguerite Duras during the summers they spent together in Trouville, Normandy, from 1980 to 1994. These images tell the story of Duras and depict her haunts, her worktable, her room, the skies of Normandy, her lover Yann Andréa…

“When I first met Marguerite, I had never read any Duras. It was only afterwards that I read her. We got on so well right from the very beginning; we started our road trips in my father’s car, a rusty old Peugeot. I was the one who drove during the summer of 1980; in the years that followed it was Yann. We would go wherever she wanted. Each place had a different name and a story of its own: the bridge at Tancarville crossed the Mekong; the salt-meadows became rice-fields; we drove through “the forests of Canada”… I took photos from the start; often she would direct my efforts and occasionally would put herself in the frame. Before I got to know her, the idea of photographing a landscape would never have entered my head, much less a puddle of water.” - Hélène Bamberger

Since the late 70s, Hélène Bamberger has worked as a photojournalist and she co-founded the Odyssey Agency in 1982. From 1980 to 1994, she made an impressive series of portraits that covers almost fifteen years of Marguerite Duras’s life, representing the most thorough photographic essay on the author. Her work is regularly featured in magazines such as Elle, Marie-Claire, Le Figaro, National Geographic France, Der Spiegel…

[Image: Marguerite Duras &quot;Hall des Roches Noires, Trouville&quot; (1982) © Hélène Bamberger]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Free. Space is limited. RSVP required. duras@frenchculture.org / 212 439 1485</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/23CC" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/23CC">
  <Name>&quot;185th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C3D0A9CA">
    <Name>National Academy</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1083 5th Ave.  New York, NY 10128</Address>
    <Phone>212-369-4880 x 223</Phone>
    <Fax>212-360-6795</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 89th St.  Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper 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="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>wednesdays closinghour 17:00, thursdays closinghour 17:00, wednesdays openinghour 12:00, thursdays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The 185th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art will feature 65 emerging and established artists selected by a jury of National Academicians.  This biennial invitational is an inter-generational exhibition of non-Academicians that offers an opportunity for the public to preview new artistic directions in contemporary American art.  Seen from the perspective of distinguished American artists, this national exhibition includes artists working in the New York area and the Eastern region as well as the Midwest, West Coast, and as far away as Hawaii. 

It spans the gamut from realism to abstraction, and includes a mix of painting, sculpture, mixed media and installation art.  Selections represent diverse ideas, mediums and techniques from an historic number of over 400 artists that submitted work for consideration.  “The exhibition includes an array of artists and art-making strategies from emerging and veteran abstractionists to representational artists addressing issues of identity and sexuality,” notes Marshall Price, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Academy Museum.

Friday, February 19, 6:45PM – Inside the Invitational with Robert Berlind
Get an inside view of the 185thAnnual from a National Academician. Following on the heels of the opening, Robert Berlind, a National Academician and member of the selection jury chooses a quieter moment to share his vision of the exhibition. Registration is recommended. To RSVP, please email cortiz@nationalacademy.org.

Friday, April 9, 6:45PM - The Annual through the Ages 
Join former Chief Curator of the National Academy Museum David Dearinger, currently Susan Morse Hilles Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Boston Athenaeum, for a lecture on the history of the Academy’s Annual Exhibition. Dr. Dearinger’s lecture will provide a retrospective look at the importance of the Academy’s Annual.

Friday, April 16, 6:45PM - Panel Discussion
Lets Talk About Sex: Gender Issues in a Post-Feminist World 
Join artists Julia Randall, Ghada Amer, and Judith Bernstein for an important discussion examining the greater implications of incorporating sexual imagery into their work. Hear the artists talk about how cultural and generational issues have played a part in their art-making strategies. Maura Reilly, Senior Curator AFA and Founding Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, moderates.

Friday, June 4, 6:30PM - Curator Talk with Marshall Price
Don’t miss your last chance to view The 185th Annual exhibition. Join Marshall Price, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Academy, for a tour and gallery talk with a featured artist from the show.

[ Image: Petah Coyne &quot;Untitled #1287 (Tati)&quot; (2009), Mixed media, 55 x 42 x 19 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $10, Students and Seniors $5, Children under 12 Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-06-08</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/2495" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/2495">
  <Name>Ruth Ford &quot;Model and Muse: A Life in Photographs&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E337A50F">
    <Name>John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Bookseller</Name>
    <Type>Shop</Type>
    <Address>50 1/2 E 64th St., New York, NY 10065</Address>
    <Phone>212-754-5626</Phone>
    <Fax>212-754-5727</Fax>
    <Access>Between Park Ave. and Madison Ave. Subway: F to 63rd Street/ Lexington Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Drawn from the personal collection of Ruth Ford this exhibition features photographs, artworks and archival materials which document an extraordinary life of work and friendship amongst the cultural elite of the 1930s through the 1980s. An intimate gathering of personal pieces that resonate with the creativity of the cultural avant-garde of their day.]]></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="2010/256F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/256F">
  <Name>Elvis Studio &quot;Toy Sculptures&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Adam Baumgold Gallery (40 E 75th St.)</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>40 E 75th St., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-861-7340</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Madison and Park Aves.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote>Summer Hours: M-F 11am - 5.30pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The exhibition will feature hand painted wooden sculptures of toys by the enigmatic Swiss (Geneva) artists Helge Reumann and Xavier Robel, who have done collaborative work as Elvis Studio since 1996.
The new series of Toy Sculptures by Elvis Studio explore boyish violence and the terrors of play. A nostalgic 1950's spaceman toy &quot;Robot&quot; is layered like a nesting doll- remove the iron shell to discover the vulnerable astronaut within- remove the astronaut's skin to see the trouble workings of his interior. The hand-made silkscreened box pictures the spaceman running in fear across a lunar wasteland.
The bumper car amusement ride &quot;Wetzel&quot; is surrounded by thuggish spectators, and recalls the unsavory fun of the carnival. A toy sawmill becomes a scene of martyrdom for helpless trees, the dying logs sporting halos. An innocent toy bus is neatly sliced down the center, to open and reveal all the passenger's guts. Each precisely crafted piece dissects the dark realms of the childish imagination. The &quot;Brutallo Toy Series&quot; repackages cheap plastic toys to highlight their dark lessons about adult life. &quot;The Elvis Studio vision is deliberately juvenile in a good way. In its cheerfully dark humor it expresses feelings shared by people of all ages that the world might be teetering on the brink of total chaos .&quot;
.Also included in the exhibition will be large drawings executed individually by Xavier Robel for the monolithic comics anthology Kramer's Ergot 7.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-20</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/343A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/343A">
  <Name>&quot;Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Sixty years before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century, aristocratic Victorian women were already experimenting with photocollage. The compositions they made with photographs and watercolors are whimsical and fantastical, combining human heads and animal bodies, placing people into imaginary landscapes, and morphing faces into common household objects. Such images, often made for albums, reveal the educated minds as well as the accomplished hands of their makers. With sharp wit and dramatic shifts of scale akin to those Alice experienced in Wonderland, these images stand the rather serious conventions of early photography on their heads.

[Image: Maria Harriet Elizabeth Cator &quot;Untitled page from the Cator Album&quot; (late 1860s/70s) collage of watercolor and albumen silver prints 11 x 8.5 in. Courtesy Hans P. Kraus, Jr., New York]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-09</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/37ED" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/37ED">
  <Name>Charles Burchfield &quot;Heat Waves in a Swamp&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/04C0543A">
    <Name>The Whitney Museum of American Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>945 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3600</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 75th St. Subway: 6 to 77th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper 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>fridays openinghour 13:00, fridays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Although he lived next door to Niagara Falls, artist Charles Burchfield (1893–1967) chose to focus his nature-based art on the ground beneath his feet. Curated by artist Robert Gober, this exhibition features over one hundred major watercolors, drawings, oils on canvas, sketches, notebooks, journals, and doodles by this visionary American artist. Acclaimed by critics and known to a broad public audience during his lifetime, Burchfield is curiously under-appreciated today. Working almost exclusively in watercolor, Burchfield’s primary subject was landscape, often focusing on his immediate surroundings: his garden, the views from his windows, snow turning to slush, the sounds of insects and bells and vibrating telephone lines, deep ravines, sudden atmospheric changes, the experience of entering a forest at dusk, to name but a few. He often imbued these subjects with highly expressionistic light, creating at times a clear-eyed depiction of the world and, at other times, a unique mystical and visionary experience of nature. Organized by the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">General admission: $18; Ages 19-25, 62+, and students: $12; Ages 18 &amp; under: FREE; Fridays 6-9pm are pay what you wish.</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-06-24</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-10-10</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/397F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/397F">
  <Name>Richard Serra &quot;Weights and Levels &quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/5DB3AC1E">
    <Name>Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>980 Madison Ave., 5 Fl., New York, NY 10075</Address>
    <Phone>212-249-3324</Phone>
    <Fax>212-249-3354</Fax>
    <Access>Between 76th and 77th St. Subway: 6 to 77th St.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</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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    <ScheduleNote>Summer hours: Monday-Friday 10-6</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Richard Serra once again pushes the boundaries of printmaking with five new large-scale etchings. These prints are evidence of this renowned artist’s continued ability to convey on paper the weight and monumentality of his sculpture. Over the years, Serra has worked closely with Gemini master printers to develop new techniques for creating astonishing texture in his etchings. The resulting rough, raised surfaces – the texture of which was derived from rubbings of asphalt road paving – compel viewers to experience the prints in a very physical, three-dimensional manner.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-10</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Celebration: The Birthday in Chinese Art&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In Chinese art, the birthday is a celebration of a long and rewarding life. This exhibition—focusing on scenes of splendid celebrations and works incorporating the theme of longevity—draws together examples in many media from the Museum’s collection as well as some exceptional promised gifts.
A recurring scene of a grand reception at a family compound—appearing in a lacquer screen and boxes, a set of embroidered panels, a porcelain vase, and a tapestry—represents the eightieth birthday party of General Guo Ziyi (697–781), a Tang-dynasty hero who was transformed into a popular god of wealth, honor, and happiness. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this celebratory scene itself became a metaphor for birthday celebrations and a frequent theme in large-scale works presented to distinguished individuals to commemorate a birthday, promotion, or retirement. The largest works are usually in tripartite form: scenes of arriving guests, the reception, and the family's private quarters.
Themes of longevity were pervasive in art of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and decorative arts, paintings, and garments with such themes were appropriately given, displayed, and worn on birthdays. Long life was encoded in the character for longevity (shou), in scenes with Daoist immortals, and in rocks, peaches, cranes, and flora and fauna of many kinds. Other associations with longevity are based on myths and legends, such as tales of the theft of peaches of immortality from the orchard belonging to Xiwangmu, the Daoist deity known as the queen mother of the west.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-27</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-08-15</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/3D1A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/3D1A">
  <Name>&quot;Design USA: Contemporary Innovation&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B813076B">
    <Name>Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>2 E 91st St., New York, NY 10128</Address>
    <Phone>212-849-8420</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 5th Ave., Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street or 96th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays closinghour 18:00, sundays closinghour 18:00, sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Graphics</Media>
  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Fashion</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Design USA celebrates the accomplishments of the winners honored during the first ten years of the prestigious National Design Awards. The exhibition features outstanding contemporary achievements in American architecture, landscape design, interior design, product design, communication design, corporate design, interaction design, and fashion. Developed in collaboration with the renowned firm 2x4, Design USA focuses on innovation through the lens of technology, material, method, craft and transformation.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $15, Seniors and Students $10, Members and Children under 12 Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-10-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-04</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>18</DaysBeforeEnd>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/3EEB" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/3EEB">
  <Name>&quot;Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/745F2E48">
    <Name>The Frick Collection</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1 E 70th St., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-288-0700</Phone>
    <Fax>212-628-4417</Fax>
    <Access>Between Madison Ave. and 5th Ave.  Subway: 6 to 68th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 11:00, sundays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Frick Collection presents Watteau's Les Plaisirs du bal, now on view in the museum's North Hall. The painting — considered to be one of the artist's most beautiful — is one of nine works from Dulwich that will be shown exclusively at the Frick.
On March 9, the remaining eight Old Master paintings will be installed in the exhibition and open to the public. The Dulwich Picture Gallery is one of the major collections of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century pictures in the world. The exhibition, which heralds the Gallery’s bicentenary in 2011, will introduce American audiences to this institution’s collection through an exceptional group of works, to be shown exclusively at the Frick.
The signature masterpieces, many of which have not been on view in the United States in recent years, and, in some cases, never in New York City, are: Rembrandt van Rijn’s (1606–1669) Girl at a Window, 1645; Sir Anthony Van Dyck’s (1599–1641) Samson and Delilah, c. 1619–20; Thomas Gainsborough’s (1727–1788) The Linley Sisters, probably 1772; Sir Peter Lely’s (1618–1680) Nymphs by a Fountain, before 1640; Canaletto’s (1697–1768) Old Walton Bridge over the Thames, 1754; Gerrit Dou’s (1613–1675) A Woman Playing a Clavichord, c. 1665; Antoine Watteau’s (1684–1721) Les Plaisirs du Bal, most likely 1715–17; Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s (1618–1682) The Flower Girl, 1665–70; and Nicolas Poussin’s (1594–1665) The Nurture of Jupiter, mid-1630s.
]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults $15, Seniors $10, Students $5, Members Free, Sunday 11am-1pm Pay As You Wish</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-30</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/4130" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/4130">
  <Name>Priscila De Carvalho &quot;No One's Land&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/893B51B6">
    <Name>Praxis International Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>25 E 73rd St., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-772-9478</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and Madison Ave. Subway: 6 to 77th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Priscila De Carvalho’s installations are dynamic architectural landscapes composed of paintings, drawings, collage, foam and rubber that convey the complexity, chaos and paradoxes of contemporary urban life in cities, sprawling, decaying and affected by uncontrolled massive urbanization. Through beaming colors and multiple surfaces her urban labyrinths transmit into the space the energy of these cities constantly changing.
 
Born in Brazil in 1975, she lives and works in New York. A Recipient of the 2009 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and of the 2010 Sculpture Space Fellowship and Residency Program, her works have been featured in individual and group exhibitions in the US including The Aljira Center for Contemporary Arts and The Jersey City Museum. This is De Carvalho's first solo show with Praxis International Art. 

[Image: Priscila De Carvalho &quot;Unloaded Guns&quot; Mixed Media on Canvas, 28 x 40 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-20</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/4144" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/4144">
  <Name>&quot;The Drawings of Bronzino&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This exhibition is the first ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572), and will present nearly all the known drawings by, or attributed to, this leading Italian Mannerist artist, who was active primarily in Florence. A painter, draftsman, academician, and enormously witty poet, Bronzino became famous as the court artist to the Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici and his beautiful wife, the Duchess Eleonora di Toledo. This monographic exhibition will contain approximately 60 drawings from European and North-American collections, many of which have never before been on public view.

[Image: Agnolo Bronzino &quot;Head of a Smiling Young Woman in Three-Quarter View&quot; (ca. 1542–43) Charcoal and black chalk, with stumping, highlighted with white chalk; outlines partly incised for transfer 11 5/16 x 8 1/2 in. Courtesy Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts Graphiques, Paris]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/4547" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/4547">
  <Name>Robert Morris &quot;Untitled (Scatter Piece), 1968-69&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E1A16C50">
    <Name>Leo Castelli</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>18 E 77th St., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-249-4470</Phone>
    <Fax>212-249-5220</Fax>
    <Access>Between Madison and 5th Ave.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-15</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/488D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/488D">
  <Name>Kazimir Malevich &quot;Malevich in Focus: 1912–1922&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/78479D33">
    <Name>Guggenheim Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1071 5th Ave., New York, NY 10128</Address>
    <Phone>212-423-3500</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 89th St.  Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:45:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 19:45</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Kazimir Malevich (b. 1878, near Kiev, Ukraine; d. 1935, Leningrad), one of the most celebrated Russian artists of his generation, is recognized for his innovations in Suprematism, an abstract style that sought to capture the essence of color and form. Before arriving at this point around 1914, however, he experimented with various styles such as Realism and Impressionism, as well as more current developments in contemporary art. He was especially influenced by Cubism, characterized by the breaking down of form and space, and Italian Futurism, which sought to simultaneously convey shifting forms and the dynamism of the modern city. Malevich had encountered these modernist movements through his active engagement with the Russian avant-garde. 
This intimate presentation of six paintings spans a ten-year period and illustrates Malevich’s path toward a truly original mode of artistic expression. Moreover, the works share a unique history: each was included in the retrospective exhibition of Malevich’s work in Poland and Germany in 1927 and the works have not been exhibited together since that time.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $18, Students and Seniors $15, Members and Children under 12 Free, Friday 5:45-7:45pm Pay As You Wish</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-06-30</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/4B0F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/4B0F">
  <Name>&quot;John Brown: The Abolitionist and his Legacy&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D3C8617E">
    <Name>The New-York Historical Society</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023</Address>
    <Phone>212-873-3400</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 76th and 77th Street. Subway: B or C to 81st Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 11:00, sundays closinghour 17:45, fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on selected holiday Mondays and Mondays during special exhibitions for school and adult groups.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[October 16, 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of John Brown's doomed raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859.  Brown, an ardent abolitionist who believed in racial equality, embraced violence as a means to end slavery. Executed in 1859, he has been both vilified as a murderer and celebrated as a martyr. This exhibition of rare materials from the Gilder Lehrman Collection and N-YHS explores Brown's beliefs and activities at a critical juncture in American history and invites us to ponder the struggle for civil rights down to the present.

[Image: Thomas Satterwhite Noble &quot;John Brown's Blessing&quot; (1867) oil on canvas]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults: $10, Seniors and Educator $7, Members, Children under 12(accompanied by adults) and on Fridays from 6 pm to 8 pm: Free </Price>
  <DateStart>2009-09-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/4B9A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/4B9A">
  <Name>&quot;The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The renovation of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon provides an opportunity for the unprecedented loan of the alabaster mourner figures from the tomb of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and his wife, Margaret of Bavaria. Each of the statuettes is approximately sixteen inches high. They were carved by Jean de La Huerta and Antoine Le Moiturier between 1443–1456 for the ducal tomb originally in the church of Champmol, and they follow the precedent of the mourner figures carved by Claus Sluter and colleagues for the tomb of Duke Philip the Bold (1342–1404). The tombs are celebrated as among the most sumptuous and innovative of the late Middle Ages. The primary innovation was the space given to the figures of the grieving mourners on the base of the tomb, who seem to pass through the real arcades of a cloister.
The installation at the Metropolitan will be supplemented by related works from the Museum’s collection, including the monumental Enthroned Virgin from the convent at Poligny (established by John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria) that was carved by Claus de Werve.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-23</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Whitney Biennial 2010</Name>
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    <Name>The Whitney Museum of American Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>945 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3600</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 75th St. Subway: 6 to 77th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper 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>fridays openinghour 13:00, fridays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</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[The Biennial is the Whitney’s panoramic signature survey of the latest in American art. It includes a blend of well established artists together with a predominance of emerging artists from all over the country. This is the 75th in the ongoing series of Biennials and Annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the Museum was founded.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">General admission: $18; Ages 19-25, 62+, and students: $12; Ages 18 &amp; under: FREE; Fridays 6-9pm are pay what you wish.</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-30</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/4EBF" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/4EBF">
  <Name>&quot;Collecting Biennials&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/04C0543A">
    <Name>The Whitney Museum of American Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>945 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3600</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 75th St. Subway: 6 to 77th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper 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>fridays openinghour 13:00, fridays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[As a prelude, counterpoint, and coda to the Biennial, the Museum’s fifth floor is devoted to artists in the Whitney’s collection whose works were shown in Biennials over the past eight decades. Collecting Biennials, opening on January 16, is installed as a kind of historical survey within the Biennial, underscoring the importance of previous Biennial exhibitions in the Museum’s history and the formation of its collection. Work by one of the artists in 2010, George Condo, is included in the mix. Collecting Biennials begins nearly six weeks before the rest of the Biennial and remains on view until November 2010.

[Image: Richard Diebenkorn &quot;Girl Looking at Landscape&quot; (1957) Oil on canvas, 59 × 60 3/8in. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alan H. Temple 61.49 © The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">General admission: $18; Ages 19-25, 62+, and students: $12; Ages 18 &amp; under: FREE; Fridays 6-9pm are pay what you wish.</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-11-28</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/56B9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/56B9">
  <Name>Patrick Faigenbaum &quot;People and Places&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Barbara Mathes Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>22 E 80th St., New York, NY 10075</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-4190</Phone>
    <Fax>212-570-4191</Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and Madison Ave. Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Patrick Faigenbaum first received critical notice in the mid-1980s for his portraits of Italian aristocratic families. In black and white prints rendered in a smoky chiaroscuro, he shot his subjects posing stiffly in their palatial residences. Isolated against the backdrop of luxuriously appointed interiors, Faigenbaum's sitters silently articulated the tensions found in contemporary lives bound to an inheritance from a bygone era. The artist has since broadened his purview from straight portraiture to documentary projects that capture the lives and histories of a growing list of towns and neighborhoods. 
Inspired by pioneers of the medium, such as Paul Strand, Bill Brandt, and W. Eugene Smith, Faigenbaum has turned to a wider range of genres, all while maintaining the portraitist's attention to the specificity of individual identities. His scenes of everyday life are rooted in the details of lived experience, 
]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-06-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/5A18" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/5A18">
  <Name>Eva Hesse Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/DB4C7EE5">
    <Name>Hauser &amp; Wirth</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>32 E 69th St., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-794-4970</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Park and Madison Ave. Subway : 6 to 68th Street Hunter College.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</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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    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In 1969, one year before her death at the age of 34, German-born American artist Eva Hesse wrote of her desire “to get to non-art, non-connotive, non-anthropomorphic, non-geometric, non-nothing; everything…It’s not the new, it is what is yet not known, thought, seen, touched; but really what is not and that is.” In her effort to make works that could transcend literal associations, Hesse cultivated mistakes and surprise, precariousness and enigma. The objects she produced, at once humble and enormously charismatic, came to play a central role in the transformation of contemporary art practice.
Hauser &amp; Wirth New York presents an exhibition of such objects: ‘EVA HESSE’ brings together fourteen works, many never before shown publicly in the United States, that previously have been considered improvisational ‘test pieces’ or prototypes for larger sculptures. Of these, eleven are delicate papier caché forms – wisps of assembled paper, tape, cheesecloth and adhesive made between 1966 and 1969 – that are neither round nor rectangular, but indeterminate. Intimate manifestations of the artist’s thought process, they evoke the bodily, suggesting fragments of skull, sheaths of timeworn parchment, tablets awaiting manuscript, curving shadows, the lens of an eyeball. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-24</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/65DE" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/65DE">
  <Name>Issei Suda &quot;Vintage Photographs 1970s and 80s&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/6C06747C">
    <Name>Higher Pictures</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>764 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10065</Address>
    <Phone>212-249-6100</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 65th and 66th Sts.  Subway: 6 to 68 Street/ Hunter College</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper 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: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Higher Pictures presents the first United States solo exhibition by Japanese photographer Issei Suda. This exhibition consists of over twenty vintage photographs that date from 1971 through the 1980s primarily from Suda's best-known monograph &quot;Fûshi Kaden&quot; (1978) and includes works from &quot;Tokyo 100,&quot; &quot;Human Memory&quot; and &quot;Minyou Sanga.&quot; Suda's complex portraits and street scenes reveal his intense interest in the mysterious side of everyday life and otherworldliness. His first notable book and exhibition &quot;Fûshi Kaden&quot; “transmission of the flower of acting style” is a series based on the fifteenth-century treatise by Zeami on the principles of No theatre. Suda, a devout student of Zeami, translates the treatise in photographs that return to an emotional landscape that predates the rise of cities produced on his trips to remote locations in Japan from 1971–1978. Often Suda’s photographs are suspended in time, either one moment too soon or too late, allowing for an unsettling effect on the viewer. Suda’s fascination continues in photographic scenes remembered from days past and preserved regardless of time. His diverse series include people who dressed up for village festivals, dreamlike landscapes and studies of pattern, texture and beauty.

[Image: Issei Suda &quot;Ginzan Onsen, Yamagata Perfecture&quot; (1976) vintage gelatin silver print 6 1/8 x 6 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>4.86816</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-24</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/70F5" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/70F5">
  <Name>&quot;Accumulation&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/CAC9473D">
    <Name>Allan Stone Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>113 E 90th St., New York, NY 10128</Address>
    <Phone>212-987-4997</Phone>
    <Fax>212-987-1655</Fax>
    <Access>Between Lexington and Park Ave. Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street or 6 to 96th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Summer Mon - Thu 10 - 6, Fri 10 - 4. Closed in August.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[If collage, the major innovation of early 20th century art that led to everything we now classify as “mixed media,” was born when Picasso and Braque revolutionized still life painting by pasting pieces of real newspaper into their Cubist compositions, the actual object as an autonomous entity in art truly came into its own with the advent of Dada and Marcel Duchamp’s “readymades.”

Arman was born in France but spent the longest and most productive period of his career in New York City, where he became best known for letting paint tubes speak wittily for themselves, spewing blobs of brilliant pigment within blocks of clear epoxy. Also on view are Arman’s accumulations of aspirin tubes and welded revolvers, as well as a work in which loose scraps that look like the contents of an overturned wastepaper basket coalesce into a composition with an elegance akin to a Motherwell collage.

César established himself as the most famous French sculptor of recent decades with works ranging from fantastic representations of animals and insects to sculptures made with crushed car parts that are often compared to those of John Chamberlain, another artist Allan Stone showed and collected. The brilliantly colorful, blockily compacted piece by Cesar featured in the exhibition is one of the prime examples of his “compressions.”

Both Arman and César were associated with Nouveau Realisme –– a French movement typically incorporating consumer goods and other three-dimensional objects, whose original meaning becomes muddled when translated into English, because besides being a synonym for Pop, the term New Realism has also been confusingly applied to various kinds of contemporary figurative painting.

In any case, it can be tempting to draw a line of demarcation between the European and American artists in the exhibition by pointing out that the formers’ use of mass-manufactured products is often more naked and blatant than the more poetic works by American artists.
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Certainly Maureen McCabe’s accumulations of colorful feathers in bell jars are as evocative for the sense of wistfulness that they convey. The same for Barry Cohen’s metal egg crate with real eggs, straw, and miniature wooden hens arranged as in a surreal candy sampler that might at any moment hatch amid a cacophony of chirping.

Equally evocative, one of Dan Basen’s assemblages brings to mind a city skyline with vertical stacks of colored chalk, while another, “Concentration Camp,” makes the holes in an aggregation of buttons massed behind a wire grid suddenly appear as haunting as a crowd of hollow eyes and beseeching mouths. The argument can be made that Basen’s compartmentalized conglomeration of loose paint tubes, lined up like products on the shelves of an art supply store is a prime example of Nouveau Realisme.

By contrast, Linda Cross’ rocky terrains rubbled with rusty tin cans, tires, and other debris are tours de force of tactile trompe-l’oeil, flawlessly fabricated in paper and acrylic, making their accumulative aspect more virtual than actual. Yet what unites them with the rest of the work in the show is that they are chockablock with sociopolitical implications vis-à-vis the disposable culture of consumer glut, industrial waste products, and what Cross, specifically, refers to as “the encroachment of civilization” on a natural setting.

Just as germane as the aesthetic ecology that some of these artists practice simply by recycling everyday detritus through creative vision –– as well as the questions they raise concerning our compulsion to collect, classify, and create taxonomies –– is the sheer sense of wonder the viewer experiences upon encountering Bill Will’s “$100,” a block of clustered pennies suggesting the cut-rate cousin of a gold bar from Fort Knox; Philip Sultz’s “books” of weathered tree bark and paper treated with subtly faded and chipped watercolor; Rosamond Berg’s many tiny white or beige bags of “Spring Air Dust” or “Sea Flight Dust”; Krista Van Ness’ mound of cicada shells piled up behind glass; Wayne Nowak’s Victorian birdcage housing a fanciful assortment of alphabet blocks, drumsticks, cosmetics bottles, and other incongruous things; and Kathryn Spence’s surprisingly convincing little birds fashioned from unadorned wads of crumpled trash and string, positioned on a long pedestal in the winningly derelict manner of sparrows and pigeons meandering aimlessly over a city sidewalk.

Also included are mysterious and powerful wire and junk sculptures by a presumably deceased outsider artist known only as Philadelphia Wire Man, as well as selected memory vessels.
]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-13</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/78BF" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/78BF">
  <Name>&quot;Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School at the New-York Historical Society (2009)&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D3C8617E">
    <Name>The New-York Historical Society</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023</Address>
    <Phone>212-873-3400</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 76th and 77th Street. Subway: B or C to 81st Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 11:00, sundays closinghour 17:45, fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on selected holiday Mondays and Mondays during special exhibitions for school and adult groups.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The New-York Historical Society continues to showcase together more than 100 famous paintings by artists of the Hudson River School, including Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, John F. Kensett, Jasper F. Cropsey and Albert Bierstadt, in a series of exhibitions drawn from the Society's extraordinary American art collection. The N-YHS holds one of the oldest and most comprehensive collections of landscape painting by artists of the Hudson River School, the first school of truly American art to garner worldwide recognition and fame. Artists, poets and writers forged the first self-consciously &quot;American&quot; landscape vision and literary voice, grounded in the exploration of the natural world as a source of spiritual renewal and as an expression of national identity, first expressed through the scenery of the Hudson River Valley.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults: $10, Seniors and Educator $7, Members, Children under 12(accompanied by adults) and on Fridays from 6 pm to 8 pm: Free </Price>
  <DateStart>2009-09-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>8</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/7B1B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/7B1B">
  <Name>Ray Johnson &quot;Dear Max, Dear Ray, Dear Vince&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C90F5CC3">
    <Name>Andrew Roth</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>160A E 70th St., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-717-9067</Phone>
    <Fax>212-717-9575</Fax>
    <Access>Between Lexington and 3rd Ave. Subway: 6 to 68th St./ Hunter College</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 12:00, saturdays closinghour 16:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This exhibition presents Ray Johnson's correspondence art spanning the mid-50s to the late 70s, culled from two private archives. It gives evidence to the chameleon-like identity that Johnson manifested in relation to his correspondent. For Earl and Carol Brown, he was working distinctly in a Surrealist/Dadaist tradition, under the shadow of Ernst and Duchamp; while for Vince Aletti, a member of the The New York Correspondence School, he presented himself as a whimsical pornographic provocateur, amending images back and forth through the post, often seeking out introductions to cultural affiliates. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-27</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>10</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/7FDE" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/7FDE">
  <Name>Félix Vallotton Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/16C8A466">
    <Name>Michael Werner Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>4 E 77 St., New York, NY 10075</Address>
    <Phone>212-988-1623</Phone>
    <Fax>212-988-1774</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 5th Ave. Subway: 6 to 77th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings by Swiss artist Félix Vallotton (Lausanne, 1865 – Paris, 1925). The exhibition features portraits of women, primarily nudes, and is the first gallery exhibition in New York devoted to the artist's paintings. 

Félix Vallotton's paintings do not give pleasure easily. In portraiture he is not a flashy virtuoso and his nudes are not &quot;sexy&quot;, at least not in any typical fashion. His paint handling is careful and deliberate; his palette, subdued and a little flat; his surfaces, slow and at times somewhat dry. His intense, unforgiving attention to detail lends a palpable realism to the paintings. Enlivened by a thinly veiled eroticism, his subtly voyeuristic scenes leave one feeling more than a little uncomfortable. This distinguishing quality in Vallotton is perhaps attributable to the artist’s method of combining sketches and photographs to compose a picture (encouraged by Vuillard and Bonnard, who also used photographs in the preparation of their paintings, Vallotton made frequent use of a Kodak). This process is more often associated with another of his contemporaries, Francis Picabia, yet Vallotton does not share Picabia's willful exuberance and lightness of touch, nor are his paintings concerned with any exploration of the relationship between painting and photography. Masterfully, Vallotton deployed an academic approach to create a unique psychological edge in his art. His surprisingly &quot;pre-modern&quot; qualities set Vallotton apart from his contemporaries and make his works appear fresh and worthy of consideration today. 

[Image: Félix Vallotton &quot;Le Printemps&quot; (1908) Oil on canvas, 45 3/4 x 28 3/4 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-10</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/800F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/800F">
  <Name>&quot;Vernissage 9&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/5FC761F0">
    <Name>Gallery RIVAA</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>527 Main St., New York, NY 10044</Address>
    <Phone>212-308-6630</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Subway: F to Roosevelt Island. Tram at 60th Street &amp; Second Avenue to Roosevelt Island</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="1" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>wednesdays openinghour 18:00, fridays openinghour 18:00, wednesdays closinghour 21:00, fridays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-06</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/868D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/868D">
  <Name>Robert M. Kulicke &quot;Paintings and Works on Paper&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2E237DF4">
    <Name>Davis &amp; Langdale Company</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>231 E 60th St., New York, NY 10022</Address>
    <Phone>212-838-0333</Phone>
    <Fax>212-752-7764</Fax>
    <Access>Between 2nd and 3rd Ave. Subway: N/R/W to Lexington Ave./59th St., 4/5/6 to 59th St./Lexington Ave. or F to Lexington Ave./63rd St.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The show is composed of forty still life paintings, monotypes, and drawings dating from 1962 until 1990, coming from two private collections. Of the forty pictures, thirty-five have never before been exhibited. They include a peach with almond; a single pear; a watermelon wedge; roses in a glass vase; a group of orange, apples, and pear; and a single dollar bill, the last an exceedingly rare subject for which KULICKE is famous. KULICKE is renowned for his contributions to the field of historic and contemporary frame making, and many of the works in this exhibition were framed by the artist himself.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-06</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-03</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>17</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/8EDE" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/8EDE">
  <Name>Xie Zhiliu &quot;Mastering the Art of Chinese Painting (1910–1997)&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This exhibition includes a selection of around one hundred and fifty works by Xie Zhiliu (pronounced &quot;shay jer-leo&quot;), one of modern China's leading traditional artists and a preeminent connoisseur of painting and calligraphy. The rare trove of material on view demonstrates how studying and copying earlier models were as much a part of Chinese artistic tradition as learning from nature. Drawn from a recent gift of sketches, calligraphic works, manuscripts, and seals presented to the Museum by the artist’s daughter, Sarah Shay, the installation commemorates the one-hundredth anniversary of Xie Zhiliu’s birth.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-06</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-07-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>130</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.779</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.962342</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/8FC1" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/8FC1">
  <Name>&quot;BLAB!: A Retrospective&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/85231847">
    <Name>The Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>128 E 63rd St., New York, NY 10065</Address>
    <Phone>212-838-2560</Phone>
    <Fax>212-838-2561</Fax>
    <Access>Between Park Ave. and Lexington Ave. Subway: F to 63rd Street/ Lexington Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>tuesdays closinghour 20:00, saturdays openinghour 12:00, saturdays closinghour 16:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Illustration</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators presents &quot;BLAB!: A Retrospective,&quot; a periodic anthology of works from leading contemporary illustrators, painters, sequential artists and printmakers worldwide.  Founded by acclaimed Chicago-based graphic designer and art director Monte Beauchamp in 1986, BLAB! invites more than twenty-five visual artists each year from the fields of sequential art, graphic design, illustration, painting, and printmaking to contribute to BLAB!, a selection informed by Beauchamp's distinctive vision and aesthetic. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-01</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2010-03-26" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>45</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.764867</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.966728</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/9045" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/9045">
  <Name>&quot;The AIPAD Photography Show New York&quot; Art Fair</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E9BED306">
    <Name>Park Avenue Armory</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>643 Park Ave., New York, NY 10065</Address>
    <Phone>212-616-3930</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>On the corner of 66th Street. Subway: 6 to 68th Street or B/Q to Lexington Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper 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>Depends on each event.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[One of the most important international photography events, The AIPAD Photography Show New York, will be presented by The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) from March 18 through 21, 2010.  More than 70 of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work including contemporary, modern and 19th century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video and new media, at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street in New York City.  The 30th edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York will open with a Gala Preview on March 17 to benefit the John Szarkowski Fund, an endowment for photography acquisitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>7.61869</Karma>
  <Price free="0">$40 run of show pass (includes catalogue), $25 one day pass, $10 one day pass with valid student ID </Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-21</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>March 18-20 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Sunday, March 21 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. </ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.767353</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.966219</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/9665" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/9665">
  <Name>Marta Minujín &quot;MINUCODEs&quot; </Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2536BB0F">
    <Name>Americas Society</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>680 Park Ave., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-249-8950</Phone>
    <Fax>212-249-1880</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 68th St., Subway: 6 to 68th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper 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="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Marta Minujín is a prominent voice of the Argentine neo-avant-garde art scene of the 1960s and 70s, with a brilliant international career that helped define the discussion about media, performance, and participation. Minujín is often mentioned as one of the pioneers of happenings. 
Marta Minujín’s Minucode (1968), originally commissioned by the Center for Inter-American Relations (now Americas Society), explored social codes in four groups of leading figures in the arts, business, fashion, and politics in New York through a series of cocktail parties/happenings. Deeply interested in Marshall McLuhan’s theories about the mass media, Minujín created an electronic environment with footage and light and sound shows produced during the happenings. 
MINUCODEs, organized by Gabriela Rangel and José Luis Blondet, revisits that project more than 40 years later. Through recently recovered footage and documents, the exhibition will shed light on the original mythical event. MINUCODEs, organized by Gabriela Rangel and José Luis Blondet, revisits the project through recently recovered footage and documents]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0.873188</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-30</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>44</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.768722</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.9657</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/9CCC" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/9CCC">
  <Name>Marc Dennis &quot;Nature Morte&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/371E0BC8">
    <Name>Hirschl &amp; Adler</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>21 E 70th St., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-535-8810</Phone>
    <Fax>212-772-7237</Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and Madison Ave. subway: 6 to 68th St./Hunter College</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>16:45:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="1" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The artist’s second solo exhibition at Hirschl &amp; Adler Modern will feature more than sixteen new works in oil, ranging in size from 9 x 11 inches to 40 x 60 inches. Fresh and unconventional, the still life paintings in Nature Morte explore the subversive potential of beauty and pleasure found in the “raw stuff” of life – and death.

Dennis is known for his hyper naturalistic, highly detailed and obsessively delineated paintings that evoke nostalgia for familiar historical styles and aesthetic notions of beauty. However, it is Dennis’ provocative content that makes his work so compelling. In order to distill something otherworldly from within nature’s beneficence, Dennis uses imagery that is disorienting, disquieting, and even freakish. There is always something stirring beneath the surface.

[Image: Marc Dennis (b. 1967) &quot;The Musk of the Rose Blown&quot; (2010), Oil on canvas, 40 x 58 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-20</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>3</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.770653</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.966781</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/9FAE" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/9FAE">
  <Name>&quot;Cars, Culture, and the City&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/1C69A591">
    <Name>The Museum of the City of New York</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1220 5th Ave., New York, NY 10029</Address>
    <Phone>212-534-1672</Phone>
    <Fax>212-423-0758</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 103rd St.  Subway: 6 to 103rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</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: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Even though New York, like many major cities, has a low per capita ownership of automobiles, it has surprisingly played an essential role in creating today's car culture, and the car has helped, in turn, to shape modern New York. Cars, Culture, and the City is the first exhibition to explore New York City’s century-long relationship with the car and marks the 100th anniversary of the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association (GNYADA). The exhibition will feature visionary drawings and models; historic photographs, films, and advertisements; and a wealth of car memorabilia to tell this fascinating, yet untold, story.  ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Admission: Adults $9, Seniors and Students $5, Families $20 (max. 2 adults) Memebers and Children 12 and under, on Sundays 10am and 12pm</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-08-08</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>144</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.792389</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/A0BE" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/A0BE">
  <Name>&quot;Pablo Bronstein at the Met&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Digital</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Pablo Bronstein at the Met&quot; is a presentation of new work by the London-based artist, addressing the history and future of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Several large ink drawings by the artist suggest a mythical history of the Metropolitan Museum, imagining the building under construction. A series of computer drawings focus on hypothetical futures of the Museum. This is the artist's first solo exhibition in New York. Through drawings, installations, performances, and books, Pablo Bronstein has investigated a variety of historical periods and tastes. His palette encompasses a myriad of styles: from the mannered baroque of Turin to the classical architecture of 18th-century France, from early 20th-century Modernism to Postmodernism in its various manifestations. Adopting the guise of the architect, architectural historian, and the user of buildings, Bronstein reveals what might be described as the veneer of architecture. In doing so he highlights the complicit power structures that are required to accomplish great works, in turn inviting viewers to consider the mechanisms that delineate private and public space.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-10-06</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>32</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.779</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/A0ED" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/A0ED">
  <Name>&quot;Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired more than four hundred works of Japanese art from collector Harry G. C. Packard (1914-1991), by gift and purchase. The acquisition instantly transformed the Museum into an institution boasting one of the finest collections of its kind in the West, with encyclopedic holdings from the Neolithic period through the nineteenth century. This exhibition celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of the acquisition of the Packard Collection, showcasing its particular strengths in archaeological artifacts, Buddhist iconographic scrolls, ceramics, screen paintings of the Momoyama and Edo periods (sixteenth through nineteenth centuries), and sculptures of the Heian and Kamakura periods (ninth through fourteenth centuries).

[Image: Kano Sansetsu &quot;Detail from The Old Plum&quot; (ca. 1645) four sliding door panels (fusuma); ink, color, and gold on gilded paper 68 3/4 in. x 15 ft. 11 1/8 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/A0ED-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>2.23003</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-12-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-06-06</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>81</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.779</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.962342</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/A25B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/A25B">
  <Name>&quot;Paris and the Avant-Garde: Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Collection&quot; Exhibition </Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/78479D33">
    <Name>Guggenheim Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1071 5th Ave., New York, NY 10128</Address>
    <Phone>212-423-3500</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 89th St.  Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:45:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="1" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 19:45</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[During the first decades of the twentieth century, numerous painters and sculptors migrated to Paris, which had become the international nexus for vanguard art. Bringing with them their diverse customs, these artists absorbed and contributed to the latest creative developments, often fusing novel formal elements with aspects from their respective local traditions. Although these artists did not adhere to a fixed style typical of a school, they were united in their defiance of academicism. 
Paris and the Avant-Garde: Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Collection will feature some thirty paintings from the Guggenheim Collection by such artists as Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Robert Delaunay, Albert Gleizes, Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró, and Yves Tanguy, among others, as well as showcase a significant group of sculpture by Constantin Brancusi and Alexander Calder. The exhibition is curated by Tracey Bashkoff, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, and Megan Fontanella, Assistant Curator.
This exhibition is supported by a grant from the Joseph and Sylvia Slifka Foundation. The Leadership Committee for Paris and the Avant-Garde: Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Collection is gratefully acknowledged.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults $18, Students and Seniors $15, Members and Children under 12 Free, Friday 5:45-7:45pm Pay As You Wish</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-23</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-12</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>56</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.782925</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.959369</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/A33F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/A33F">
  <Name>Rashid Johnson &quot;Our Kind Of People&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/011AC1C0">
    <Name>Salon 94</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>12 E 94th St., New York, NY 10128</Address>
    <Phone>646-672-9212</Phone>
    <Fax>646-672-9217</Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and Madison Ave. Subway: 6 to 96th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="1" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Salon 94 presents Our Kind of People, an exhibition of new work by Rashid Johnson. The exhibition features a monumental sculptural installation and his new film, The Sweet Sweet Runner.

The Sweet, Sweet Runner is our kind of people.
Like Jack Johnson, he’s unforgivable. He runs to, not from; he’s privileged. When the sweet runner lines up at the starting gate he thanks the Boulé, not God. He collects plants because he thinks it brings him closer to Broodthaers. When he runs, he listens to Eric Dolphy, Public Enemy and the clones of doctor funkenstein. He has a membership to the Mothership. He’s connected. He told Alain Locke about the New. He once broke up a fight between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Dubois, with a baby in his arms. He sent Sun Ra to Saturn. When he broke up with Debra Dickerson, she wrote the End. He colonizes modernism. He thinks Watermelon Man is Melvin Van Peebles best film. When he crosses the finish line, he yells “watch out”!
If you don’t know, you better ask somebody.

Rashid Johnson (b. 1977, Chicago, IL) lives and works in New York.

[Image: Rashid Johnson &quot;Sweet Sweet Runner&quot; (2010) still, video]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-30</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>44</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.786417</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/A8B6" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/A8B6">
  <Name>&quot;Tata Nano-The People's Car&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B813076B">
    <Name>Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>2 E 91st St., New York, NY 10128</Address>
    <Phone>212-849-8420</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 5th Ave., Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street or 96th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays closinghour 18:00, sundays closinghour 18:00, sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Unveiled last year in India by Tata Motors, India's largest automobile manufacturer, the Tata Nano is targeted to families who had not previously been able to afford a car. Billed as &quot;the people's car,&quot; the base model starts at $2,200 in India and can accommodate up to five adults. A bright, sunshine yellow Nano will be on display in Cooper-Hewitt's Great Hall, along with diagrams and photos illustrating its concept, development and production.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $15, Seniors and Students $10, Members and Children under 12 Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/AC0D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/AC0D">
  <Name>Odon &quot;Weaver of Dreams&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2BE72432">
    <Name>French Institute Alliance Française</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>22 E 60th St., New York, NY 10022</Address>
    <Phone>212-355-6100</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Park and Madison Ave. Subway: 4/5/6/ to 59th Street or N/R/Q to 59th Street/ 5th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 18:00, sundays closinghour 17:00, </ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Closed on Saturdays, July 4–September 19</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[FIAF presents an exhibition reflecting the art world’s new interest in paper as a creative medium. Acclaimed French artist Odon’s thrilling, luminous spiral paper works employ this traditional material in a revolutionary and beautiful way.

Early in his career, Odon’s intensely personal and mysterious images were inspired by the Cobra movement (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam), a group of expressionist painters interested in freedom of color and form. In the 1970s Odon began experimenting with the inclusion of cut and woven modifications on the surfaces of his paintings. By the late 1970s this had evolved into an increasingly complex process of cutting, shredding, and braiding paper, painted by him on both sides, into never-ending, sunburst-like forms that he calls mandalas. The ancient form of the mandala, meaning circle in Sanskrit, is a common symbol of sacred power in many cultures, representing a cosmic diagram viewed from the human perspective.

Odon’s works are dream-like meditations on the order of the world. The artist works slowly, weaving the flat, meticulously painted paper into magical endless webs. Through these circular sculptures, Odon presents the infinite in finite form and alludes to the natural energy and tension of circular motion. The resulting works are both spectacular and thought provoking.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-24</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/AE36" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/AE36">
  <Name>&quot;Beyond Participation: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida in New York&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E0B14313">
    <Name>Hunter College Bertha &amp; Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery</Name>
    <Type>University or School</Type>
    <Address>695 Park Ave., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-772-4991</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>SW corner of 68th St. and Lexington Ave. Subway: 6 to 68th St./ Hunter College</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Hunter College presents Beyond Participation: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida in New York. The collaboration between renowned Brazilian artists Hélio Oitica and Nevielle D’Almeida from the late 1960s though the 1970s changed how audiences perceived art, shifting them from passive viewers to active participants. Exhibited for the first time together, the slide-show environment Cosmococa—Programa in progress, CC1 Trashiscapes (1973)is shown alongside D’Almeida’s film Jardim de Guerra (1967), as well as two of Oiticica’s notebooks from 1973 reproduced in facsimile. The dynamic installation CC1 Trashiscapes comprises two projectors flashing 32 slide-photographs onto opposing gallery walls, accompanied by a soundtrack including forró music (typically from the Northeast of Brazil) such as Luis Gonzaga’s baião, Jimi Hendrix songs, street sounds, and voices. Mattresses line the floor, and nail files are available for use by visitors. The audience is invited to relax and recline horizontally while filing their nails in the dark as they watch the images on the surrounding walls.The slides themselves consist of three distinct photographic series: Luis Buñuel’s face on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, a series of black-and-white photographs of Luis Fernando Guimarães (an actor and friend of Oiticica) wearing Parangolé 30 Capa 23 M’Way Ke, and the album cover for Weasels Ripped My Flesh by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, all manipulated with white line of cocaine by the artists’. This work is an important progenitor of early video and installation art and influenced subsequent generations of artists tremendously.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-01</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;African American Abstract Masters&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/39407A80">
    <Name>Anita Shapolsky Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>152 E 65th St., New York City, NY 10065</Address>
    <Phone>212-452-1094</Phone>
    <Fax>212-452-1096</Fax>
    <Access>Between Lexington and 3rd Ave. Subway: F to 63rd St, 6 to 68th St./Hunter College</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper 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>by appointment.  June: Tue–Fri 11:00–18:00,  July: Tue–Thu 11:00–17:00 </ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This is the first time I am exhibiting an African-American group of artists. My gallery has exhibited black artists over the years in group shows. Many galleries have never shown them. The public should be made aware of good art whoever does it. 
The artists in this exhibition are truly masters of Abstraction. The black art movement was helped by the W.P.A., the G. I. Bill (after WWII) and the Civil Rights movement. With all that, most artists had to go to Europe to paint and sell – similar to the jazz musicians of that era. Many of these artists did show in the fifties and early sixties but like all abstract artists, they were eclipsed by the Pop and Minimal movements. Today, many galleries are showing younger artists of all races. This group of first and second generation black artists has fallen through the cracks and should not be forgotten.

[Image: Ed Clark “Louisiana Series” (1978) Acrylic / canvas, 56 x 68 ½ in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-06</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-24</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/B0A1" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/B0A1">
  <Name>Romare Bearden &quot;The Block&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This small-focus show from the Museum’s permanent collection features the 1971 mural-size collage The Block by Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988), as well as a dozen of his preliminary sketches and photographs, which were recently given to the Museum and are being shown for the first time. As a group, they reveal the artist’s creative process whereby he literally and figuratively &quot;collages&quot; different images and experiences from reality and from his memory and imagination into a tableau that transcends the limitations of a fixed time and place, even as it pays homage to a specific street in Harlem, the New York City neighborhood that inspired so much of Bearden’s work.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-30</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/B34C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/B34C">
  <Name>Ed Paschke Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/BD565E74">
    <Name>Gagosian Gallery Madison Avenue</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>980 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10075</Address>
    <Phone>212.744.2313</Phone>
    <Fax>212.772.7962</Fax>
    <Access>Between 76th and 77th St. Subway: 6 to 77th St.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</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>
  <Description><![CDATA[Central to my work is what I refer to as the law of opposites; I believe that there are polarities between things […] Positive/negative, the idea of pacing a painting in terms of complexity and simplicity, the idea of public versus private, are elements that have always interested me and that I've always tried in some way to build into the character of the paintings.
--Ed Paschke

Ed Paschke taught me what it meant to be a professional artist. His paintings are like drugs, but in a good way: they are among the strongest physical images that I've ever seen. Their effect is neurological.
--Jeff Koons

Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of the work of Ed Paschke, curated by Jeff Koons. As a student, Koons admired Paschke's work and became his assistant in Chicago in the mid-1970s while attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Paschke would prove to be an important mentor and formative inspiration for the young artist. The exhibition includes loans from key public and private collections in the U.S. and abroad, as well as rarely seen works from the Ed Paschke Foundation.

Born in Chicago in 1939, Paschke studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago during the height of the Imagist movement in the late fifties, while supporting himself as a commercial artist. He avidly collected photograph-related visual media in all its forms, from newspapers, magazines, and posters to film, television, and video, with a preference for imagery that tended toward the risqué and the marginal. Through this he studied the ways in which these media transformed and stylized the experience of reality, which in turn impacted on his consideration of formal and philosophical questions concerning veracity and invention in his own painting. At the same time, he sought living and working situations -- from factory hand to psychiatric aide -- that would connect him with Chicago's diverse ethnic communities as well as feed his fascination for gritty urban life and human abnormality. Thus he developed a distinctive oeuvre that oscillated between personal and aesthetic introspection and confronting social and cultural values.

In his early paintings Paschke both incorporated and challenged depictions of legendary figures by transforming them into corps exquis, such Pink Lady (1970) where he set Marilyn Monroe's famous head atop the suited body of an anonymous male accordion player; or Painted Lady (1971) where he redesigned screen legend Claudette Colbert as a tattooed lady fresh from a freak show. Another direction through which he explored the features and quirks of meaning and logic was in paintings of leather accessories interpreted as anthropomorphized fetish objects, such as Hairy Shoes (1971) and Bag Boots (1972). In the decades separating Pink Lady and Matinee (1987), Paschke shifted his interest from print to electronic media and a dazzling spectrum of televisual waves and flashes began to fill the paintings. Forms and images disintegrated, broken apart in the fabric of electronic disturbance and its surface. In Matinee, the face of Elvis Presley is fragmented into a field of glowing swathes of color with lips and eyes alone suggesting the human presence beneath the electronic overlay.

Paschke made use of an overhead projector to layer images, which he then rendered using the traditional and time-consuming medium of oil painting. He began with an underpainting in black and white, then addressed it with refined systems of colored glazing or impasto to enliven the optical and physical textures of his painting. With this original and painstaking process he created a formal parallel with the black-and-white-to-color progression in the historical development of printing, film, and television images, at the same time moving the subject matter from the particular to the non-specific to allow a wider range of interpretation. In his later work, once again forms became more solidified, moving back towards certain kinds of psychologized presences and the edgy tension that characterized his earlier work.

Unlike most of his Pop predecessors with their unthreatening embrace of popular culture, Paschke gravitated towards the images that exemplified the underside of American values -- fame, violence, sex, and money – a preference that he shared with Andy Warhol, who was one of his foremost inspirations. Although long considered to be an artist of his own time and place, his explorations of the archetypes and clichés of media identity prefigured the appropriative gestures of the &quot;Pictures Generation,&quot; and for a new generation of global artists his totemic, eye-popping paintings have come to embody the essence of cosmopolitan art.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, which includes essays by Jeff Koons and art critic Dave Hickey as well as reprints of important essays by the Chicago critic and art historian Dennis Adrian and New Museum curator Richard Flood.

[Image: Ed Paschke &quot;Pink Lady&quot; (1970) Oil on canvas 64 3/4 x 51 1/4 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-24</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/BD50" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/BD50">
  <Name>Otto Dix Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/627129FA">
    <Name>Neue Galerie</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1048 5th Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-628-6200</Phone>
    <Fax>212-628-8824</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 86th St.  Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[More than almost any other German painter, Otto Dix (1891-1969) and his works have profoundly influenced the popular notion of the Weimar Republic. His paintings were among the most graphic visual representatives of  that period, exposing with unsparing and wicked wit the instability and contradictions of the time.

The exhibition includes more than 100 masterpieces by Otto Dix, and addresses four themes. The first is Dix’s traumatic experiences as a soldier in World War I. The second is portraiture, a genre at which the artist excelled. The third is sexuality, a key theme in the Dix oeuvre. The fourth is religious and allegorical painting. The show includes the work that Dix is best know for—paintings from the so-called “golden Weimar years”—but to contextualize them, it also includes Dix’s work from the early 1920s, as well as his later work, produced as veiled protest against the Third Reich.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $15, Students and Seniors $10</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-08-30</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/BF4D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/BF4D">
  <Name>&quot;Tehran - New York&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D5A1D817">
    <Name>Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>39 E 78th St., Fl. 3,  New York, NY 10075</Address>
    <Phone>212-249-7695</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Madison Ave.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper 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>Summer Hours: M-F 11am - 6pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Tehran- New York&quot; surveys work by 40 well-known and emerging contemporary Iranian artists – including artists living in New York and the United States such as Shoja Azari, Shiva Ahmadi, Negar Ahkami, Shirin Neshat and Y.Z. Kami – as well as the work of artists currently living in Tehran, such as Reza Derakshani, Shadi Ghadirian and Farideh Lashai.  A significant portion of the work has never been shown in the U.S.
Through paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, installation, and video painting, TEHRAN - NEW YORK will explore synergies and differences among the work of Iranian artists living in Iran and the U.S.  The exhibition does not aim to define Iranian art, but rather to examine the unique visions that exist among Iranian artists, while encouraging a much-needed place for dialogue.  However great the distance, there are always loose ties that unite these artists across the globe.  While many of the artists tackle the same political and social issues, the result is hugely varied due to the different perspectives of the geographically dispersed group. 
]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-01</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/C18F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/C18F">
  <Name>&quot;Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/4BBB30DE">
    <Name>Asia Society and Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>725 Park Ave., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-288-6400</Phone>
    <Fax>212-517-8315</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 70th St.  Subway: 6 to 68th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper 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="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This exhibition of ancient and traditional Vietnamese art demonstrates the role of Vietnam as an important hub of cultural and commercial interchange from the prehistoric period in the first millennium BCE through the nineteenth century. Although Viet Nam has been an important part of United States history in the 20th century, the country’s rich artistic and cultural heritage remains largely unknown.  As long as two thousand years ago, a maritime trade route extended from southern China to Roman-controlled ports in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, via ports in what is now northern Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and Iran. As a result of this exchange, Vietnam developed unique art objects with connections to China, India, and other cultures of Southeast Asia. The exhibition will include approximately 115 spectacular examples selected from Vietnamese museums conveying the country’s impressive artistic developments and attesting to its importance in the cultural development of Southeast Asia. Objects range from early burial goods and large bronze ritual drums to gold jewelry with precious stones, Hindu and Buddhist stone sculptures, and beautifully decorated ceramics. A full-color catalogue will accompany the exhibition.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0.478883</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults $10, Seniors $7, Students $5, Children under 16, Memebers and Fridays 6-9pm  Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-02</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>46</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.76985</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.964481</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/C243" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/C243">
  <Name>&quot;Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/4BBB30DE">
    <Name>Asia Society and Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>725 Park Ave., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-288-6400</Phone>
    <Fax>212-517-8315</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 70th St.  Subway: 6 to 68th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper 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="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art is the first major exhibition of its kind devoted to the impact of Buddhist pilgrimage on Asia’s artistic production. It highlights approximately 120 objects of importance and extraordinary quality, including sculptures, paintings, prints, ritual implements, photographs, and maps. The objects, dating from the first to the twentieth century, will be on loan from museums and private collections in North America, and a number of the pieces have never been displayed publicly before. Pilgrims and pilgrimage inspired centuries of artistic production and its patronage influenced the development of visual culture in Asia. ]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/C243-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0.6945</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults $10, Seniors $7, Students $5, Children under 16, Memebers and Fridays 6-9pm  Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-06-20</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>95</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.76985</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.964481</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/C448" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/C448">
  <Name>David Smith &quot;Don Quixote&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F465E09B">
    <Name>Craig F. Starr Associates</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>5 E 73rd St., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-1739</Phone>
    <Fax>212-570-6848</Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and Madison Ave. Subway: 6 to 77th St.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</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[]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/C448-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/C448-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-03</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>17</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.773047</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.966278</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/C638" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/C638">
  <Name>&quot;Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The second porcelain factory in Europe able to make true porcelain in the manner of the Chinese was established in Vienna in 1718. Founded by Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier, the small porcelain enterprise developed a highly distinctive style that remained Baroque in inspiration throughout the history of the factory, which was taken over by the State in 1744. Du Paquier produced a range of tablewares, decorative vases, and small-scale sculpture that found great popularity with the Hapsburg court and the Austrian nobility. This exhibition charts the history of the development of the Du Paquier factory, setting its production within the historic and cultural context of Vienna in the first half of the eighteenth-century. The featured porcelain is drawn from both the Metropolitan Museum and the premier private collection of this material. ]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/C638-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/C638-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-11-22</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-21</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.779</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.962342</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/C754" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/C754">
  <Name>Charles Addams &quot;New York&quot; </Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/1C69A591">
    <Name>The Museum of the City of New York</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1220 5th Ave., New York, NY 10029</Address>
    <Phone>212-534-1672</Phone>
    <Fax>212-423-0758</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 103rd St.  Subway: 6 to 103rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</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: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Charles Addams’s New York is an exhibition of original artworks by the legendary New Yorker cartoonist that capture Addams's quintessentially idiosyncratic and slyly subversive view of the city, depicting his signature macabre characters, twisted situations, and distorted reimaginings of the cityscape. The works in the exhibition include watercolors, preliminary pencil sketches, completed cartoons, and examples of published work from the cover of the New Yorker. The subjects are gleefully varied, ranging from charming to creepy; they include depictions of life on New York's subways and buses, in offices, department stores, museums, parks, streets, and homes.  A special section will look at the evolution of the creepy assemblage of characters who were dubbed &quot;the Addams Family&quot; as they developed as mainstays of Addams's cartoons, moving through the streets of his New York and adding to the sense of mischief and deviancy that characterized the world as he saw it]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/C754-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/C754-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Admission: Adults $9, Seniors and Students $5, Families $20 (max. 2 adults) Memebers and Children 12 and under, on Sundays 10am and 12pm</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-16</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>60</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.792389</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.952667</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/C9FA" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/C9FA">
  <Name>William Scott Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/80D0C828">
    <Name>McCaffrey Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>23 E 67th St., New York, NY 10065</Address>
    <Phone>212-988-2200</Phone>
    <Fax>212-988-2250</Fax>
    <Access>Between Madison Ave. and 5th Ave.  Subway: 6 to 68th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</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>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[McCaffrey Fine Art is proud to present a survey exhibition of the work of William Scott. The first major overview of Scott s work in New York in almost twenty years, it features thirty-five paintings and works on paper created between 1950 and 1986. 

Born in Greenock, Scotland, in 1913 and reared in Northern Ireland, Scott received his art training in Belfast and London. An outward-looking soul in the often provincial London art scene, Scott was engrossed with developments in the arts of continental Europe and the United States throughout his career. While remaining faithful to the centuries-old genres of still life and the nude, he pursued innovation through the use of an intentionally awkward line, aggressive impasto, and flattened perspective, creating works that possess great subtlety and resonance.

Repeatedly marking, refining, erasing, adding, and deleting, Scott established a dialogue between subject, background, and genre, through which an expression of an entirely different thing grows, a figure into landscape or into a still life, a man into a woman. This in-between-ness is at the heart of Scott s work as he once remarked, I am an abstract artist in the sense that I abstract. I cannot be called non-figurative while I am still interested in the modern magic of space, primitive sex forms, the sensual and the erotic, disconcerting contours, the things of life. 

Upon meeting Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock on a visit to New York in 1953, he found new freedom in scale and color, and his canvases enlarged and the palette warmed upon his return to Britain. Scott s first exhibition in New York took place the following year at the Martha Jackson Gallery, where he would show until 1979, to great acclaim. However, a lapse in representation in the United States thereafter led to the virtual disappearance of this singular figure from the American viewing public. Scott passed away in 1989, and this exhibition presents an opportunity to become reacquainted with the artist and his work.

[Photo: Jorge Lewinski &quot;William Scott in his London studio, 1972 (detail)&quot;  © The Lewinski Archive at Chatsworth]]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/C9FA-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/C9FA-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-27</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-14</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>28</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.769111</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.968133</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/CC42" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/CC42">
  <Name>&quot;Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This installation features fourteen bold and colorful paintings created by contemporary Aboriginal Australian artists. Drawn from a private collection in the U. S., the installation provides an introduction to Aboriginal painting, which has become Australia’s most celebrated contemporary art movement and has attained prominence within the international art world. The works on view—all of which have never before been on public display—were created primarily over the past decade by artists from the central desert, where the contemporary painting movement began, and from adjoining regions, to which the movement spread. On view are paintings by prominent artists, including some of the founders of the contemporary movement, as well as emerging figures. This is the first presentation of contemporary Australian Aboriginal painting to be held at the Metropolitan Museum.

[Image: Paddy Bedford &quot;Queensland Creek (Merrmerrji)&quot; (2005) Ocher on composition board 32.75 x 40.25 in. © Paddy Bedford Estate]]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/CC42-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/CC42-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-12-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-06-13</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>88</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.779</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.962342</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/D329" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/D329">
  <Name>George Segal Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/6BE0A45F">
    <Name>L&amp;M Arts</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>45 E 78 St., New York, NY 10075</Address>
    <Phone>212-861-0020</Phone>
    <Fax>212-861-7858</Fax>
    <Access>Between Madison and Park Ave.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Summer Hours:  Monday - Friday, 10:00am - 5:30pm</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Recognized as a great American sculptor of the twentieth century, George Segal used plaster and found objects to create innovative works depicting his immediate surroundings while invoking scenes which resonate universally. Working out of an old chicken coop as his studio on the family farm in New Jersey, Segal produced scenes witnessed throughout his life in his native New York City and later in suburban New Jersey, capturing the lives of ordinary people in daily activities. 
Feeling trapped stylistically in the medium of paint, Segal transitioned into creating three-dimensional figures and objects. He developed his ideas mentally, never through sketches. After experimenting with roughly assembled proto-plaster figures and accumulating objects used as props for his pieces, he developed his technique in several stages and began producing everyday scenes in larger than life-size sculptural installations and wall reliefs. With his focus on the human form, Segal created ghost-like plaster figures in such works as Three People on Four Benches; color sculptural reliefs like Girl Sitting on Bed with Bedpost; and bronze statues such as Chance Meeting, bringing to life a tableau of human activity.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/D329-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0.686568</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-03</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>17</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.775639</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.962408</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/D4B8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/D4B8">
  <Name>Confucius &quot;His Life and Legacy in Art&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/3F82DA9B">
    <Name>China Institute</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>125 E 65th St., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-744-8181</Phone>
    <Fax>212-628-4159</Fax>
    <Access>Between Park Ave. and Lexington Ave.  Subway: 6 to 68th Street or F to Lexington Ave-63rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>tuesdays closinghour 20:00, thursdays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Closed between exhibition</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This exhibition will focus on the teachings and continuing influence of Confucius, who has become increasingly synonymous with Chinese culture.  Nearly 100 objects from the world of Confucius and his ennobled descendants will be on exhibition, including hanging scrolls, album leaves, bronze vessels, stone carvings, jade ceremonial implements, wood-block prints and textiles.  The works are on loan for the first time in the U.S. from the Shandong Provincial Museum in Jinan and the Confucius Museum in his hometown of Qufu.  This exhibition is the first exhibition in the U.S. to explore the culture of Confucius.  The show incorporates images and artifacts that were created to venerate the man himself, as well as the ideas associated with him, loosely called Confucianism.  A fully illustrated scholarly catalogue will accompany the exhibition.  ]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/D4B8-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/D4B8-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults $7, Students and Seniors $4, Members, Children under 12, Tuesday and Thursday 6-8pm Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-06-13</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>88</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.766158</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.965872</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/D7BC" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/D7BC">
  <Name>Milton Avery &quot;Industrial Revelations&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/83D87DE8">
    <Name>Knoedler &amp; Company</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>19 E 70th St., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-794-0550</Phone>
    <Fax>212-772-6932</Fax>
    <Access>Between Madison and 5th Ave.  Subway: 6 to 68th Street/Hunter College</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 10:00, saturdays closinghour 17:30</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Knoedler &amp; Company presents, in cooperation with the artist’s family and the Milton Avery Trust, Milton Avery: Industrial Revelations, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper (including both watercolors and gouaches) depicting the urban and industrial landscape of the 1920s and 1930s, most painted in and around New York City. A relatively little-known body of work, from the early years of Avery’s mature career, many of the paintings and works on paper in this exhibition have never been previously exhibited.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/D7BC-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/D7BC-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-01</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>45</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.770703</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.966894</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/E441" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/E441">
  <Name>&quot;Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/437D176A">
    <Name>El Museo del Barrio</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1230 5th Ave., New York, NY 10029</Address>
    <Phone>212-831-7272</Phone>
    <Fax>212-831-7927</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 104th St., Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street or 96th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Phantom Sightings is the first exhibition to focus on the work of Chicano artists since the mid-1990s with a strong conceptual dimension. It features some 100 works in all contemporary media, and includes video, performance, and installation art by 27 artists and collectives. El Museo, the final venue for this event, is the only place to see it on the East Coast.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $6, Seniors and Students $4, Members, Children under 12 and on Wednesdays Seniors Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-24</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-09</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>53</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.792911</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.951986</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/E680" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/E680">
  <Name>Alberto Di Fabio Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/BD565E74">
    <Name>Gagosian Gallery Madison Avenue</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>980 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10075</Address>
    <Phone>212.744.2313</Phone>
    <Fax>212.772.7962</Fax>
    <Access>Between 76th and 77th St. Subway: 6 to 77th St.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</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[Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Alberto Di Fabio.

Di Fabio's work is inspired by the fundamental laws of the physical world, as well as organic elements and their interrelation. His paintings and works on paper merge the worlds of art and science, depicting natural forms and biological structures in vivid color and imaginative detail. Throughout his abstract images, he has developed and expanded his interest in the natural world. In his early paintings, he examined the structures of flora and fauna, as well as eco- and astral systems, moving on to the study of genetics, DNA, and the synaptic receptors of the brain, and the realm of pharmaceutical and medical research.

In his latest work, Di Fabio investigates the perennial human fascination with the relationship between art and the cosmos, addressing the laws that regulate chaos in the universe, such as the theory of relativity and quantum theory. Di Fabio cites a broad range of influences and inspirations from Italian Futurist Giacomo Balla, to post-war modernists such as Enrico Castellani, Lucio Fontana, and Robert Ryman. Speed of Light (2009), for example, represents light rays in minimal form, meditating on the vastness and infinity of the medium. In this new series, Di Fabio expands his vision into meticulous detail using dots and strips of acrylic paint to interrupt the spatial field of the painting. Each of the multiple centers of the composition serves as both a cognitive and visual cue. 

[Image: Alberto Di Fabio &quot;Speed of Light&quot; (2009) Acrylic on canvas, 19 11/16 x 19 11/16 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.6098</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-24</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2010-03-18" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>38</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.774597</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.963408</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/EF62" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/EF62">
  <Name>&quot;America's Mayor: John V. Lindsay and The Reinvention of New York&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/1C69A591">
    <Name>The Museum of the City of New York</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1220 5th Ave., New York, NY 10029</Address>
    <Phone>212-534-1672</Phone>
    <Fax>212-423-0758</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 103rd St.  Subway: 6 to 103rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</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[This exhibition looks at the mayoralty of John Lindsay (1966-1973) within the context of the complex social, cultural, and economic issues facing New Yorkers during one of the city's most turbulent eras. The exhibition explores Mayor Lindsay's ideology, strategy, accomplishments, and challenges, looking at his campaign as a candidate of change; his confrontation with the city's unions; his relationship with inner-city neighborhoods and efforts to maintain calm during racially tense times, such as the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; the fiscal consequences of his budget management and social policies; and his use of urban design and planning as a proactive tool to defend and redefine the value of the city.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Admission: Adults $9, Seniors and Students $5, Families $20 (max. 2 adults) Memebers and Children 12 and under, on Sundays 10am and 12pm</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-05-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-10-03</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>200</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.792389</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.952667</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/F4B9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/F4B9">
  <Name>Kenneth Josephson Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/420CC6AB">
    <Name>Gitterman Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>170 E 75th St., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-734-0868</Phone>
    <Fax>212-734-0869</Fax>
    <Access>Between Lexington and 3rd Ave. Subway: 6 to 77th St.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper 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="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>by Appointment</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Throughout his career, from his days as a student at the Institute of Design through his years as a teacher at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Kenneth Josephson has explored the concepts of photographic truth and illusion.  Whether his works utilize a single negative, multiple exposures, collage, or a construction that is photographed, Josephson creates art that challenges our perspectives and invites us to consider different concepts of representation.   Josephson consistently frames these ideas with dynamic compositions and creates beautiful objects with seductive printing.  Yet, regardless of how exquisite his prints are or cerebral his ideas might be, Josephson consciously utilizes humor; for this is just art, and it is meant to be enjoyed.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>2.37043</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-17</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>31</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.772075</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/F647" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/F647">
  <Name>&quot;Irving Kriesberg: Works on Paper, 1970's-1980's&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E168263D">
    <Name>Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>980 Madison Ave., Fl. 3, New York, NY 10075</Address>
    <Phone>212-644-7171</Phone>
    <Fax>212-644-2519</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 76th St. Subway: 6 to 77th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[While many Abstract Expressionists shunned figural elements in their work, Kriesberg used them lavishly. As a result he was termed a “Figural Expressionist,” combining intense abstract colors with human and animal elements. Margalit Fox of the New York Times described Kriesberg’s work as a space where “small creatures tower and loom, dancers weave through unorthodox angles, and customarily static objects appear fluid and sinuous. All these things gave his work a sense of wit and mystery (November 11, 2209 Obituary).” Originally from Chicago, Kriesberg arrived in New York in the 1950’s. The artist came to wide attention with his inclusion in many prestigious museum shows, including the Museum of Modern Art’s show “Fifteen Artists” in 1952, where he was showcased alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Clifford Still. He was given his first solo show in 1955, at the Curt Valentin Gallery in New York. This exhibition features Kriesberg’s works on paper, where scrawled, brightly colored pastel lines and cartoonish figures play the prominent role. In “Blasé,” fauvist dashes of viridian, cadmium orange, and rust brown outline a simian figure, who cradles his head in his hands and stares absently at the viewer. In “Lift,” vertical streaks of cobalt blue charge the image with a sense of energy, as a winged, bug-like creature takes off from an emerald green stem. A dreamlike symbolism suffuses Kriesberg's work, the meaning of each symbol and character known only to the artist. 

[Image: Irving Kriesberg &quot;Blase&quot; (c. 1980) pastel and mixed medium 29 x 33 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-31</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>14</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.774672</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.963531</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/F750" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/F750">
  <Name>Group Show</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/AA0BBC92">
    <Name>Soufer Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1015 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-628-3225</Phone>
    <Fax>212-628-3752</Fax>
    <Access>Between 78th and 79th St. Subway: 6 to 77th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[André Lhote : Works on Paper 
Brother Thomas : Honan Tenmoku Glaze
Jean Lambert-Rucki : Wood Reliefs]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-27</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-21</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.775803</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.962486</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/FC8A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/FC8A">
  <Name>&quot;New York Painting Begins: Eighteenth-Century Portraits&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D3C8617E">
    <Name>The New-York Historical Society</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023</Address>
    <Phone>212-873-3400</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 76th and 77th Street. Subway: B or C to 81st Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 11:00, sundays closinghour 17:45, fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on selected holiday Mondays and Mondays during special exhibitions for school and adult groups.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The New-York Historical Society holds one of the nation's premiere collections of eighteenth-century American portraits. During this formative century a small group of native-born painters and European émigrés created images that represent a broad swath of elite colonial New York society-- landowners and tradesmen, and later Revolutionaries and Loyalists-- while reflecting the area's Dutch roots and its strong ties with England.

[Image: John Durand &quot;The Rapalje Children&quot; (1768) oil on canvas]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults: $10, Seniors and Educator $7, Members, Children under 12(accompanied by adults) and on Fridays from 6 pm to 8 pm: Free </Price>
  <DateStart>2009-09-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>8</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.779428</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.973738</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/FF0C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/FF0C">
  <Name>&quot;Peaceful Conquerors: Jain Manuscript Painting&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The art of the book in medieval India is closely associated with the Jain religious community, and illustrated palm-leaf manuscripts survive from around the tenth century, while those on paper appear after the twelfth, when paper was introduced from Iran. The use of paper permitted larger compositions and a greater variety of decorative devices and borders. Significantly, however, the format of the palm-leaf manuscript was retained. By the end of the fourteenth century, deluxe manuscripts were produced on paper, brilliantly adorned with gold, silver, crimson, and a rich ultramarine derived from imported lapis lazuli. The patrons of the works were mainly Svetambara Jains, who considered the commissioning of illustrated books and their donation to Jain temple libraries to be an important merit-making activity. A selection of these exquisite manuscripts will be on view, along with bronzes sculptures of Jinas and a ceremonial painted textile.

[Image: Unknown Artist &quot;Lustration of the Infant Jina Mahavira, detail from a Kalpasutra manuscript folio&quot; (late 14th century) opaque watercolor on paper 3.5 x 11 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-09-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-28</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.779</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.962342</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/FF86" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/FF86">
  <Name>James Rosenquist &quot;The Hole in the Middle of Time and the Hole in the Wallpaper&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F86EEBD0">
    <Name>Acquavella Galleries</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>18 E 79th St., New York, NY 10075</Address>
    <Phone>212-734-6300</Phone>
    <Fax>212-794-9394</Fax>
    <Access>Between Madison and 5th Ave. Subway: 6 to 77th St.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="1" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[As prime subjects, Time and Space have preoccupied James Rosenquist since he turned contemporary culture on its head in the early 1960s with paintings that splintered ideas as well as images.
Married to his penetration of cosmic mysteries is a hands-on skill not only with paint on canvas but also with low-tech mechanics. For over four decades he has integrated moving parts as diverse as conveyer belts and laser clocks into his canvases.
These preoccupations and skills combine in two powerfully innovative themes that constitute his exhibition of new work at Acquavella Galleries.
The Hole in the Middle of Time is a series of seven works manifesting clock face images, the three largest of which incorporate motorized spinning mirrors.
The Hole in the Wallpaper is a series of fourteen motorized images each reprising a smaller version of an earlier painting by the artist. In the center of every work is a circular mirror. While the paintings spin, the mirrors remain static and reflect the viewer.
]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>2</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.776539</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.962875</Longitude>
 </Event>

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