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"Kandinsky and Expressionist Painting before World War I" Exhibition
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...More »
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"Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey" Exhibition
- at The Jewish Museum
- 1109 5th Ave., New York,NY 10128
- Media: Photography - Other - Video installation
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...More »
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"Voces y Visiones" Exhibition
- at El Museo del Barrio
- 1230 5th Ave., New York, NY 10029
- Media: Graphics - Photography - Installation - Crafts
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...More »
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Yoshitomo Nara "Nobody's Fool"
- at Asia Society and Museum
- 725 Park Ave., New York, NY 10021
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- Starts in 7 days
This fall, Asia Society devotes its entire exhibition space to a major retrospective of Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara, one of the most influential Neo Pop artists working today. More than one hundred...More »
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Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin "The Land Before You"
- at Weill Art Gallery/ 92nd Y
- 1395 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10128
- Media: Photography
- Closes in 39 days
Using black and white infrared film, Hofkin captures both the visible spectrum and the infrared light that lies beyond what the human eye can see. This exhibit features photographs of dramatic cloud formations,...More »
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"Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980" Exhibition
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
- Media: Photography
- Closes in 45 days
Leon Levinstein (American, 1910–1988), an unheralded master of street photography, is best known for his candid and unsentimental black-and-white figure studies made in New York City neighborhoods from...More »
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"Samurai in New York: The First Japanese Dellegation, 1860" Exhibition
- at The Museum of the City of New York
- 1220 5th Ave., New York, NY 10029
- Media: Photography - Other
- Closes in 39 days
Samurai in New York invites visitors to return to the New York of 150 years ago and to share the city’s excitement over the visit of a delegation of more than 70 samurai from Japan—the first Japanese to...More »
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"Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance" Exhibition
- at Guggenheim Museum
- 1071 5th Ave., New York, NY 10128
- Media: Photography - Video installation
- Closes in 4 days
Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by ghostly apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive media, as well as in live performance and the virtual world. By using dated,...More »
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"Masterpieces of Modern Design" Exhibition
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,...More »
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"Thannhauser Collection" Exhibition
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...More »
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New Galleries for Oceanic Art
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
- Media: Sculpture - Other
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...More »
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"National Design Triennial: Why Design Now?" Exhibition
- at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- 2 E 91st St., New York, NY 10128
- Media: Architecture - Fashion - Product
- Closes in 129 days
Inaugurated in 2000, the Triennial program seeks out and presents the most innovative designs at the center of contemporary culture. In this fourth exhibition in the series, the National Design Triennial...More »
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Doug and Mike Starn "Big Bambú"
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
- Media: Installation
- Closes in 59 days
Invited by The Metropolitan Museum of Art to create a site-specific installation for The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, the twin brothers Mike and Doug Starn (born in New Jersey in 1961) will present...More »
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"Collecting Biennials" Exhibition
- at The Whitney Museum of American Art
- 945 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10021
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Prints - Sculpture - Installation
- Closes in 87 days
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...More »
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"Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana" Exhibition
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
- Media: Drawing - Sculpture
- Closes in 31 days
The story of Rama—the Ramayana—one of the great epics of South Asia literature, has captured the imagination of Indian artists for centuries. Scenes from the Ramayana first appear at Deogarh, in north...More »
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"Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society" Exhibition
- at The New-York Historical Society
- 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023
- Media: Drawing - Photography - Other
- Closes in 3 days
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,...More »
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"America's Mayor: John V. Lindsay and The Reinvention of New York" Exhibition
- at The Museum of the City of New York
- 1220 5th Ave., New York, NY 10029
- Media: Photography
- Closes in 31 days
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....More »
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"Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography" Exhibition
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
- Media: Photography
- Closes in 164 days
Themes of dislocation and displacement in contemporary photography are explored in this exhibition of works from the collection. Perambulations and digressions in photographic works from the 1960s and...More »
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"The Young Archer Attributed to Michelangelo" Exhibition
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
- Media: Sculpture
- Closes tomorrow
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents the marble sculpture Young Archer, attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti (Florence 1475–Rome 1564), in its Vélez Blanco Patio as part of a special loan from the...More »
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New Greek and Roman Galleries
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Fashion - Crafts - Ceramics
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...More »
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"Ted Muehling Selects: Lobmeyr Glass from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
- at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- 2 E 91st St., New York, NY 10128
- Media: Crafts
- Closes in 122 days
New York-based designer Ted Muehling will serve as the tenth guest curator of the 'Selects' exhibition series in the Nancy and Edwin Marks Gallery, devoted to showing the museum's permanent collection....More »
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"Pop Art: Works on Paper" Exhibition
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
- Media: Drawing - Prints
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...More »
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Charles Burchfield "Heat Waves in a Swamp"
- at The Whitney Museum of American Art
- 945 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10021
- Media: Painting
- Closes in 45 days
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...More »
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"Consider the Oyster" Exhibition
- at James Graham & Sons
- 32 E 67th St., New York, NY 10065
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation
- Starts in 21 days
Curated by Ingrid Dinter [Image: John Zinsser "The Pearl : Myron Stout" (2010) Watercolor and colored pencil on paper, 16 x 12 in.]More »
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New Galleries for 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Paintings and Sculpture, including the Henry J. Heinz II Galleries
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
- Media: Painting - Sculpture
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...More »
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"Screens and Scrolls of the Taisho Period" Exhibition
- at Erik Thomsen LLC Asian Art
- 23 E 67 St., New York NY 10065
- Media: Painting
- Starts in 29 days
ERIK THOMSEN ASIAN ART is launching its 25th Anniversary Year in a new gallery at 23 East 67th Street. Thomsen has chosen the short but important Taisho Period (1912-1926) as the subject of his inaugural...More »
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"Reinstallation of the South Asia Galleries Gandhara, Mathura, Andhra and Gupta Sculpture" Exhibition
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...More »
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Trisha Brown "Off the Wall: Part 2"
- at The Whitney Museum of American Art
- 945 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10021
- Media: Performance Art
- Starts in 28 days
Off the Wall: Part 2: Seven Works by Trisha Brown, features the Trisha Brown Dance Company, on the occasion of the company’s fortieth anniversary, performing iconic works from the 1970s, including the...More »
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Andrew Stevovich "Alternate Universe"
Featuring some 40 oils and related drawings, the Adelson Galleries show provides a wonderful sampling of the artist’s ordinary people in timeless settings – at once thoroughly contemporary and unquestionably...More »
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Derrick Guild "After Eden"
- at Allan Stone Gallery
- 113 E 90th St., New York, NY 10128
- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- Starts in 8 days
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"Istanbul Cool! What’s Happening in Contemporary Turkish Art Now" Exhibition
- at Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery
- 39 E 78th St., Fl. 3, New York, NY 10075
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2010-06-02 - 2010-09-01
Istanbul Cool! What’s Happening in Contemporary Turkish Art Now will offer the work of 27 artists living in Turkey, as well as the U.S. and Europe, and will include painting, sculpture, works on paper,...More »
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Hitoshi Nomura "Marking Time"
- at McCaffrey Fine Art
- 23 E 67th St., New York, NY 10065
- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Video installation
- Starts in 13 days
I had already received the opinion that sculptures are things that are supposed to stand firm. That was the conceptual framework through which people traditionally viewed sculpture. And my purpose in presenting...More »
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"Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered" Exhibition
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
- Media: Crafts
- Closes in 66 days
Following the acquisition in 2002 of a pair of wine coolers from the Sachsen–Teschen Service, the core of the surviving parts was discovered in a French private collection. This superb ensemble was last...More »
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Ryoji Ikeda "The Transcendental”
- at French Institute Alliance Française
- 22 E 60th St., New York, NY 10022
- Media: Media Arts
- Starts in 9 days
Renowned artist/composer Ryoji Ikeda presents a special installation designed for the FIAF Gallery featuring computer-generated imagery and sound. For this solo exhibition, Ikeda will show a selection...More »
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Reopening of The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
- Media: Furniture - Ceramics
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...More »
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"From Mansion to Museum: The Frick Collection Celebrates Seventy-Five Years" Exhibition
- at The Frick Collection
- 1 E 70th St., New York, NY 10021
- Media: Drawing - Photography
- Closes in 3 days
It was the desire of Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) that his extraordinary art collection and magnificent home at 1 East 70 Street be opened as a museum following his family's period of residence. After...More »
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“Seeing New York” Exhibition
- at Czech Center New York
- 321 E 73rd St. New York, NY 10021
- Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation
- Starts in 14 days
The artworks in “Seeing New York” range from subtle reflections and quotations to powerful and imaginative gestures, addressing different aspects of the New York experience -and their conceptual implications-...More »
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Charles Burchfield "Heat Waves in a Swamp"
- at The Whitney Museum of American Art
- 945 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10021
- Media: Painting
- Closes in 38 days
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...More »
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"Talking Glass" Exhibition
- at Czech Center New York
- 321 E 73rd St. New York, NY 10021
- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- Closes in 8 days
The unique exhibition Talking Glass is a result of a creative encounter of glass artist Borek Sipek and didgeridoo player Ondrej Smeykal. The exhibition will be opened on June 17th in New York. A musical...More »
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Tad Sudol "Roosevelt Island Tram - Past and Future"
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"Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
- Media: Drawing - Prints
- Closes in 31 days
This exhibition includes works on paper that date from the seventeenth century to the present day. A selection of French drawings includes recent acquisitions by Claude Vignon (1593–1670), Jacques André...More »
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Julie Mehretu "Gray Area"
The term “gray area” speaks to a condition of indeterminacy, a liminal state in which something is not clearly defined or perhaps impossible to define. Julie Mehretu (b. 1970, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) adapts...More »
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Richard Garet "Electrochroma"
- at French Institute Alliance Française
- 22 E 60th St., New York, NY 10022
- Media: Media Arts
- Starts in 23 days
Sound and visual artist Richard Garet explores aural and visual spatial-contexts, relational structures, process, materiality, function, and form. Electrochroma is an audiovisual experiential installation...More »
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New Gallery for the Art of Native North America
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
- Media: Sculpture - Crafts
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...More »
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"Woodcuts in Modern China, 1937 - 2008: Towards A Universal Pictorial Language" Exhibition
Chronologically, the first section of the exhibition Woodcuts In Modern China, 1937-2008: Towards A Universal Pictorial Language incorporates 34 works drawn from an important collection of over 200 woodcuts...More »
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Dor Guez "The Monayer Family"
- at The Jewish Museum
- 1109 5th Ave., New York,NY 10128
- Media: Video installation
- Closes in 5 days
Visual artist Dor Guez offers perspectives from different generations of a Christian Arab family. Counted among 125,000 Christian Arabs, the Monayers consider themselves a minority within a minority.More »
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Abraham Cruzvillegas "Inequality Reexamined. Summer 2010"
- at Hunter College Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery
- 695 Park Ave., New York, NY 10021
- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- Closes in 2 days
The ACE group, an MA and MFA student curatorial collective at Hunter College, is pleased to present the exhibition Inequality Reexamined. Summer 2010. This show features a selection of sculptures by the...More »
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"Gallery Selections"
- at Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, LLC
- 667 Madison Ave., 24 Fl., New York, NY 10065
- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Furniture
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...More »
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Anj Smith "Geometry Bliss"
No larger than an envelope and as lapidary as an 11th century Persian miniature, Anj Smith’s painting ‘R.’ depicts a close friend of the artist as a 21st century Mona Lisa. An enigmatic figure stares out...More »
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"Tutankhamun’s Funeral" Exhibition
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
- Media: Crafts
- Closes in 4 days
In 1908, while excavating in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, the American archaeologist Theodore Davis discovered about a dozen large storage jars. Their contents included broken pottery, bags of natron...More »
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"Paris / New York: Crisscross Views" Exhibition
- at French Institute Alliance Française
- 22 E 60th St., New York, NY 10022
- Media: Photography
- Starts in 63 days
FIAF’s Gallery and La Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) proudly present—for the first time in New York—a collection of MEP’s important archival works. Paris / New York will provide a preview...More »
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"Broken Forms: European Modernism from the Guggenheim Collection" Exhibition
Drawn from the museum’s holdings of early modern art, Broken Forms: European Modernism from the Guggenheim Collection explores artistic developments immediately preceding and during World War I. From Germany...More »
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Gregory Crewdson "Sanctuary"
- at Gagosian Gallery Madison Avenue
- 980 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10075
- Media: Photography
- Starts in 21 days
In these pictures I draw upon the inherent quietness and uncanny aspects of the empty sets. As with much of my work, I looked at the blurred lines between reality and fiction, nature and artifice, and...More »
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"Summer Reading" Exhibition
Michael Werner Gallery presents "Summer Reading", an exhibition of rarely seen artists' books published by the gallery over the last three decades. This historical exhibition includes a selection of prints...More »
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Dike Blair "Sculptures and Paintings"
- at Gagosian Gallery Madison Avenue
- 980 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10075
- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- Starts in 9 days
The relationship between my paintings and sculpture (or other installation-type work) has intrigued me for a couple decades. The paintings are fairly traditional and almost always personal while the sculptures...More »
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"Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania" Exhibition
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
- Media: Other
- Closes in 4 days
Music is a universal human phenomenon. Musical instruments and musical expression, however, take an almost infinite variety of forms throughout the world. This is especially true in Oceania (the Pacific...More »
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"Lithographs from the Mourlot Studio" Exhibition
Galerie Mourlot presents Lithographs from the Mourlot Studio, an exhibition of graphic works by Modern Masters printed at the Atelier Mourlot. More »
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Franz Xaver Messerschmidt "From Neoclassicism to Expressionism, 1736-1783"
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt will be the first exhibition in the United States devoted exclusively to this major late 18th-century Austro-Bavarian sculptor. It will focus on the artist’s so-called “character...More »
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Summer Shows
- at Gagosian Gallery Madison Avenue
- 980 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10075
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Prints - Sculpture - Installation
- Closes tomorrow
Three exhibitions on three floors: The 6th Floor group show features Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra and Christopher Wool The 5th Floor show features a selection of works by German artist...More »
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Reconstruction and Reinstallation of the Egyptian Art Galleries
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
- Media: Architecture - Other
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...More »
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Jill Magid "A Reasonable Man in a Box"
- at The Whitney Museum of American Art
- 945 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10021
- Media: Video installation
- Closes in 10 days
In her first solo exhibition in an American museum, Jill Magid (b. 1973) continues to explore means of penetrating closed systems of power. Taking institutional structures, rules, laws, and language as...More »
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"New York: A Bird's-Eye View" Exhibition
- at Keith de Lellis Gallery
- 1045 Madison Avenue, #2, New York, NY 10075
- Media: Photography
- Starts in 14 days
[Image: "Fairchild Aerial Surveys" (1931) Vintage Gelatin Silver Print, 14 x 18 in.]More »
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Christian Marclay "Festival"
- at The Whitney Museum of American Art
- 945 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10021
- Media: Photography - Installation - Performance Art
- Closes in 24 days
Artist/composer Christian Marclay (b. 1955) is known for his distinctive fusion of image and sound. Celebrated as a pioneer of turntablism, Marclay transforms sound and music into visual and physical forms...More »
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"Illuminations (After Arthur Rimbaud)" Exhibition
- at Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery
- 39 E 78th St., Fl. 3, New York, NY 10075
- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- Starts in 13 days
Illuminations(After Arthur Rimbaud)is an exhibition by 16 well-known and emerging artists who work with light. Creating a revealing dialogue between artists living and working in the East and West, Illuminations(After...More »
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"Classic/Fantastic: Selections from the Modern Design Collection" Exhibition
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
- Media: Drawing - Furniture - Ceramics
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,...More »
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"An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo" Exhibition
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
- Media: Drawing
- Closes in 17 days
Over the past twenty years, Julie and David Tobey have assembled one of the preeminent collections of Italian Old Master drawings in private hands. Ranging across the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth...More »
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Neil Jenney "New Work/Old Work"
- at Barbara Mathes Gallery
- 22 E 80th St., New York, NY 10075
- Media: Painting
- Starts in 42 days
Neil Jenney has been a defiantly unique voice in contemporary painting for over forty years. As declared by the cheeky "Foto Free" stickers he has been known to stick to his frames, he has been an outspoken...More »
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"Off the Wall: Part 1—Thirty Performative Actions" Exhibition
- at The Whitney Museum of American Art
- 945 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10021
- Media: Performance Art
- Closes in 17 days
The first installation in a two-part exhibition, Off the Wall: Part 1—Thirty Performative Actions, focuses on actions using the body in live performance, in front of the camera, or in relation to a photographic...More »
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"Claridad: 50 AÑOS DE LUCHA" Exhibition
- at Taller Boricua
- 1680 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10029
- Media: Photography
- Closes in 22 days
Co-sponsored by Taller Boricua, Amigos de Claridad and the Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture, 50 AÑOS DE LUCHA, celebrates the 50th year of uninterrupted, consistent and valiant reporting by Puerto...More »
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"Accrochage - Summer 2010" Exhibition
- at Kouros Gallery
- 23 E 73rd St., New York, NY 10021
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture
- Closes tomorrow
A Multi-media Exhibition of Works by Gallery and New Artists [Image: Eozen Agopian "Talisman" (2009) Thread, ink, pencil on canvas, 10 x 8 in.]More »








