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  • poster for "Kandinsky and Expressionist Painting before World War I" Exhibition

    "Kandinsky and Expressionist Painting before World War I" Exhibition

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    • at Guggenheim Museum
    • 1071 5th Ave., New York, NY 10128
    • Media: Painting

    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 »

  • poster for "Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey" Exhibition

    "Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Voces y Visiones" Exhibition

    "Voces y Visiones" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Yoshitomo Nara "Nobody's Fool"

    Yoshitomo Nara "Nobody's Fool"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin "The Land Before You"

    Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin "The Land Before You"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980" Exhibition

    "Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Samurai in New York: The First Japanese Dellegation, 1860" Exhibition

    "Samurai in New York: The First Japanese Dellegation, 1860" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance" Exhibition

    "Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Masterpieces of Modern Design" Exhibition

    "Masterpieces of Modern Design" Exhibition

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    • at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    • 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
    • Media: Installation

    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 »

  • poster for "Thannhauser Collection" Exhibition

    "Thannhauser Collection" Exhibition

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    • at Guggenheim Museum
    • 1071 5th Ave., New York, NY 10128
    • Media: Painting

    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 »

  • poster for New Galleries for Oceanic Art

    New Galleries for Oceanic Art

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "National Design Triennial: Why Design Now?" Exhibition

    "National Design Triennial: Why Design Now?" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Doug and Mike Starn "Big Bambú"

    Doug and Mike Starn "Big Bambú"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Collecting Biennials" Exhibition

    "Collecting Biennials" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana" Exhibition

    "Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society" Exhibition

    "Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "America's Mayor: John V. Lindsay and The Reinvention of New York" Exhibition

    "America's Mayor: John V. Lindsay and The Reinvention of New York" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography" Exhibition

    "Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "The Young Archer Attributed to Michelangelo" Exhibition

    "The Young Archer Attributed to Michelangelo" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for New Greek and Roman Galleries

    New Greek and Roman Galleries

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Ted Muehling Selects: Lobmeyr Glass from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition

    "Ted Muehling Selects: Lobmeyr Glass from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Pop Art: Works on Paper" Exhibition

    "Pop Art: Works on Paper" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Charles Burchfield "Heat Waves in a Swamp"

    Charles Burchfield "Heat Waves in a Swamp"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Consider the Oyster" Exhibition

    "Consider the Oyster" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for New Galleries for 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Paintings and Sculpture, including the Henry J. Heinz II Galleries

    New Galleries for 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Paintings and Sculpture, including the Henry J. Heinz II Galleries

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Screens and Scrolls of the Taisho Period" Exhibition

    "Screens and Scrolls of the Taisho Period" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Reinstallation of the South Asia Galleries Gandhara, Mathura, Andhra and Gupta Sculpture" Exhibition

    "Reinstallation of the South Asia Galleries Gandhara, Mathura, Andhra and Gupta Sculpture" Exhibition

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    • at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    • 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
    • Media: Sculpture

    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 »

  • poster for Trisha Brown "Off the Wall: Part 2"

    Trisha Brown "Off the Wall: Part 2"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Andrew Stevovich "Alternate Universe"

    Andrew Stevovich "Alternate Universe"

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    • at Adelson Galleries
    • 19 E 82nd St., New York, NY 10028
    • Media: Drawing
    • Starts in 27 days

    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 »

  • poster for Derrick Guild "After Eden"

    Derrick Guild "After Eden"

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    • at Allan Stone Gallery
    • 113 E 90th St., New York, NY 10128
    • Media: Painting - Sculpture
    • Starts in 8 days
  • poster for "Istanbul Cool! What’s Happening in Contemporary Turkish Art Now" Exhibition

    "Istanbul Cool! What’s Happening in Contemporary Turkish Art Now" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Hitoshi Nomura "Marking Time"

    Hitoshi Nomura "Marking Time"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered" Exhibition

    "Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Ryoji Ikeda "The Transcendental”

    Ryoji Ikeda "The Transcendental”

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Reopening of The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts

    Reopening of The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "From Mansion to Museum: The Frick Collection Celebrates Seventy-Five Years" Exhibition

    "From Mansion to Museum: The Frick Collection Celebrates Seventy-Five Years" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for “Seeing New York” Exhibition

    “Seeing New York” Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Charles Burchfield "Heat Waves in a Swamp"

    Charles Burchfield "Heat Waves in a Swamp"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Talking Glass" Exhibition

    "Talking Glass" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Tad Sudol "Roosevelt Island Tram - Past and Future"

    Tad Sudol "Roosevelt Island Tram - Past and Future"

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    • at Gallery RIVAA
    • 527 Main St., New York, NY 10044
    • Media: Photography
    • Closes in 24 days
  • poster for "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition

    "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Julie Mehretu "Gray Area"

    Julie Mehretu "Gray Area"

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    • at Guggenheim Museum
    • 1071 5th Ave., New York, NY 10128
    • Media: Painting
    • Closes in 34 days

    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 »

  • poster for Richard Garet "Electrochroma"

    Richard Garet "Electrochroma"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for New Gallery for the Art of Native North America

    New Gallery for the Art of Native North America

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Woodcuts in Modern China, 1937 - 2008: Towards A Universal Pictorial Language" Exhibition

    "Woodcuts in Modern China, 1937 - 2008: Towards A Universal Pictorial Language" Exhibition

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    • at China Institute
    • 125 E 65th St., New York, NY 10021
    • Media: Prints
    • Starts in 14 days

    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 »

  • poster for Dor Guez "The Monayer Family"

    Dor Guez "The Monayer Family"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Abraham Cruzvillegas "Inequality Reexamined. Summer 2010"

    Abraham Cruzvillegas "Inequality Reexamined. Summer 2010"

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    • 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 »

  • "Gallery Selections"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Anj Smith "Geometry Bliss"

    Anj Smith "Geometry Bliss"

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    • at Hauser & Wirth
    • 32 E 69th St., New York, NY 10021
    • Media: Painting
    • Starts in 5 days

    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 »

  • poster for "Tutankhamun’s Funeral" Exhibition

    "Tutankhamun’s Funeral" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Paris / New York:  Crisscross Views" Exhibition

    "Paris / New York: Crisscross Views" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Broken Forms: European Modernism from the Guggenheim Collection" Exhibition

    "Broken Forms: European Modernism from the Guggenheim Collection" Exhibition

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    • at Guggenheim Museum
    • 1071 5th Ave., New York, NY 10128
    • Media: Painting
    • Closes in 125 days

    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 »

  • poster for Gregory Crewdson "Sanctuary"

    Gregory Crewdson "Sanctuary"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Summer Reading" Exhibition

    "Summer Reading" Exhibition

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    • at Michael Werner Gallery
    • 4 E 77 St., New York, NY 10075
    • Media: Prints
    • Closes tomorrow

    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 »

  • poster for Dike Blair "Sculptures and Paintings"

    Dike Blair "Sculptures and Paintings"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania" Exhibition

    "Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Lithographs  from the Mourlot Studio" Exhibition

    "Lithographs from the Mourlot Studio" Exhibition

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    • at Galerie Mourlot
    • 16 E 79th St., New York, NY 10075
    • Media: Prints
    • Closes tomorrow

    Galerie Mourlot presents Lithographs from the Mourlot Studio, an exhibition of graphic works by Modern Masters printed at the Atelier Mourlot. More »

  • poster for Franz Xaver Messerschmidt "From Neoclassicism to Expressionism, 1736-1783"

    Franz Xaver Messerschmidt "From Neoclassicism to Expressionism, 1736-1783"

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    • at Neue Galerie
    • 1048 5th Ave., New York, NY 10028
    • Media: Sculpture
    • Starts in 14 days

    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

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Reconstruction and Reinstallation of the Egyptian Art Galleries

    Reconstruction and Reinstallation of the Egyptian Art Galleries

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Jill Magid "A Reasonable Man in a Box"

    Jill Magid "A Reasonable Man in a Box"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "New York: A Bird's-Eye View" Exhibition

    "New York: A Bird's-Eye View" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Christian Marclay "Festival"

    Christian Marclay "Festival"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Illuminations (After Arthur Rimbaud)" Exhibition

    "Illuminations (After Arthur Rimbaud)" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Classic/Fantastic: Selections from the Modern Design Collection" Exhibition

    "Classic/Fantastic: Selections from the Modern Design Collection" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo" Exhibition

    "An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Neil Jenney "New Work/Old Work"

    Neil Jenney "New Work/Old Work"

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Off the Wall: Part 1—Thirty Performative Actions" Exhibition

    "Off the Wall: Part 1—Thirty Performative Actions" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Claridad: 50 AÑOS DE LUCHA" Exhibition

    "Claridad: 50 AÑOS DE LUCHA" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

  • poster for "Accrochage - Summer 2010" Exhibition

    "Accrochage - Summer 2010" Exhibition

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    • 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 »

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