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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/94F7" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/94F7">
  <Name>&quot;Renoir, Impressionism, and the Full-Length Format&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 an exhibition of nine iconic Impressionist paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, offering the first comprehensive study of the artist's engagement with the full-length format, which was associated with the official Paris Salon in the decade that saw the emergence of a fully fledged Impressionist aesthetic.  The project was inspired by La Promenade of 1875-76, the most significant Impressionist work in the Frick's permanent collection.  It explores Renoir's portraits and subject pictures of this type from the mid-1870s to mid-1880s.  Intended for public display, these vertical grand-scale canvases are among the artist's most daring and ambitious presentations of contemporary subjects and are today considered masterpieces of Impressionism.  On view only at the Frick, Renoir, Impressionism, and the Full-Length Format is a landmark exhibition, bringing together, with the Frick painting, several beloved masterpieces from around the world.  Works on loan from international institutions are La Parisienne (1874) from the National Museum of Art, Cardiff; The Umbrellas (c. 1881 and 1885) from The National Gallery, London (first time since 1886 on view in the United States); and Dance in the City and Dance in the Country (1882-83) from the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.  Works on loan from American institutions are The Dancer (1874) from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Madame Henriot &quot;en travesti&quot; (1875-76) from the Columbus Museum of Art; Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (1879) from the Art Institute of Chicago; and Dance at Bougival (1882-83) from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.  The exhibition will be shown in the Frick's Oval Room, a gallery traditionally used for the display of full-length portraits from the institution's permanent collection.

[Image: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), The Umbrellas, (c. 1881 and 1885) Oil on canvas 71 x 45 in.,
The National Gallery, London; photo: National Gallery, London / Art Resource, NY]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $18, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members Free, Sunday 11am-1pm Pay As You Wish</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-13</DateEnd>
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  <DaysBeforeEnd>94</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/01A9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/01A9">
  <Name>&quot;Winners of Soho Photo's 2012  Small Works National Competition&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/39ECC723">
    <Name>Soho Photo Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>15 White St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-8571</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between W Broadway and Church St. Subway: 1 to Franklin Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_manhattan">Lower Manhattan</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Soho Photo Gallery presents the winners of its second Small Works National Competition, as chosen by our distinguished juror, Karen Marks, Exhibitions Director of The Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York City. We initiated this competition to recognize those photographers who still enjoy the discipline of creating small masterpieces in an era when large photographs-very large-are in vogue. The competition's rules stated that the height and width of entries could not exceed six inches in each direction. After viewing more than 600 images submitted by 94 photographers from across the country, Karen Marks said:   
 
The jurying process for this show was not easy because there were so many wonderful images. It was very hard to choose among them. Usually, being quite decisive, I know what kind of work moves me. But I was surprisingly affected by some of these entries that are different from the ones I would ordinarily select. These artists have shown me that even when I think I know what I like, I can find something new.  
 
Marks chose 141 images from 61 photographers to be in the Small Works exhibition.   ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Aperture Foundation's The Art of Small Books (Guest exhibition) </ScheduleNote>
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 <DaysBeforeEnd>23</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/04C1" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/04C1">
  <Name>Kim Dong Yoo Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/57E7DAC9">
    <Name>Hasted Kraeutler</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>537 W 24th St., New York, NY 10011 </Address>
    <Phone>212-627-0006</Phone>
    <Fax>212-627-5117</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_24">Chelsea 24th</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="1" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Hasted Kraeutler presents the first exhibition of paintings by KIM DONG YOO in the United States.

Kim Dong Yoo is best known for paintings of iconic images that are comprised of thousands of smaller images, which either contradict or support the primary subject, such as John F. Kennedy, Mao Tse-Tung, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, Madonna and Albert Einstein.

Born in 1965 in Gongju, Korea, Kim Dong Yoo has exhibited widely in Korea and internationally since 1988, when he completed his MFA at Mokwon University. He now lives in Seoul, Korea. 

[Image: Kim Dong Yoo &quot;Marilyn &amp; JFK&quot; (2010)]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-24</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/060D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/060D">
  <Name>James Busby &quot;Wingspan&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/BB53F343">
    <Name>Stux Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-352-1600</Phone>
    <Fax>212-352-0302</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</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>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[One of the enigmatic centerpieces of James Busby’s fourth exhibition at Stux Gallery is attempting an escape. A meticulously polished black painting rests on a cart that appears as if it emerged from an ancient shipwreck. Gnarly fiberglass growth threatens to consume the pristine surface from all sides as the rusty cart wheels the piece away to a determined but indecipherable destination.

Poets have been comparing artworks to wings that transport the artist and viewer to the realm of aesthetic imagination since the Romantic Era. Works in “Wingspan”, on the other hand, remind us that in addition to the ability to sponsor intellectual flight, various properties of the figurative “wings” themselves are fascinating in their own right. Influenced by Russian Constructivism, Suprematism and the works of Robert Ryman, Donald Judd and Richard Tuttle, amongst others, Busby’s new paintings are also inspired by the physical, temporal, and interactive process of art creation. They raise important questions about the way visual art initiates dialogue with its viewers and influences—or becomes influenced by—its surrounding environment.

The effects of Busby’s obsessive attention to surface texture and geometric relations are magnified in his new works of unprecedentedly large scale, for the artist. Created by sanding thick layers of gesso, his already low reliefs become vanishingly subtle amidst the enlarged overall dimensions. However, up close the viewer will discover forms that hover above or sink below one another in their new spacious habitat, creating frictions and spatial tensions that echo beyond the visual field. Oddly, the compounded complexity renders his works even more intimate as Busby’s trademark techniques dazzle in in their expanded venue.

The three-dimensionality and variations in surface quality allow Busby to paint with the light cast upon them to create ephemeral colors and textures unachievable by applying paint alone. Viewing his larger works requires viewers to completely immerse themselves in Busby’s meticulous world of visual and spiritual poetry, and engage thoroughly with the newly acquired wingspan before taking off.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
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 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/119A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/119A">
  <Name>&quot;A Large Anonymous Artwork&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/CAF7825C">
    <Name>Specific Object </Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>601 W 26 St., Room M285, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-242-6253</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 11th and 12th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</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" />
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  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[On the morning of May 14, 2011 I encountered this artwork outside my apartment. At the time it struck me as being a humorous, ironic and ominous statement of where things were heading: on the verge of Occupy Wall Street, prior to the ramp-up of political campaigns, and at the cusp of the United States debt-ceiling debate. Early in the first week of January 2012 it felt like the right time to present it in the gallery, thus Specific Object now presents I've Seen the Future &amp; It Doesn't Look Good.

Spray painted onto a discarded 1/8 inch thick plywood shipping crate lid, I've Seen the Future &amp; It Doesn't Look Good measures 46 1/2 x 113 1/2 inches [108 x 208.5 cm]. The artwork either pokes a stick at Banksy's infamous rats that inhabit SoHo from time to time, comments on cheap consumer commodities sold by Crocs, or maybe it was just painted in the spirit of good fun.

Nevertheless, it's now an artwork, hanging on a gallery wall, within a white cube in Chelsea.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-30</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>50</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1562" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/1562">
  <Name>&quot;IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/85B7E2A7">
    <Name>The National Museum of the American Indian (George Gustav Heye Center)</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1 Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004</Address>
    <Phone>212-514-3700</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Adjacent to NE corner of Battery Park. Subway: 4/5 to Bowling Green, 1 to South Ferry, R/W to Whitehall Street, M/J/Z to Broad Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_manhattan">Lower Manhattan</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>thursdays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Closed on December 25. The Museum Stores are open every day from 10 am to 5 pm.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This 20-panel banner exhibition focuses on the interactions between African American and Native American people, especially those of blended heritage. It also sheds light on the dynamics of race, community, culture, and creativity, and addresses the human desires of being and belonging. With compelling text and powerful graphics, IndiVisible includes accounts of cultural integration and diffusion as well as the struggle to define and preserve identity. Stories are set within the context of a larger society that, for centuries, has viewed people through the prism of race brought to the Western Hemisphere by European settlers.

By combining the voices of the living with those of their ancestors, IndiVisible provides an extraordinary opportunity to understand the history and contemporary perspectives of people of African and Native American descent. The exhibition is accompanied by a 160-page publication and 10-minute media piece.

Developed by the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian with the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Organized for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-08-31</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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  <Latitude>40.704489</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/17A3" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/17A3">
  <Name>&quot;Under the Influence: The Comics and Contemporary Art&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A6C9C115">
    <Name>Lehman College Art Gallery</Name>
    <Type>University or School</Type>
    <Address>250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, Bronx, NY 10468</Address>
    <Phone>718-960-8731</Phone>
    <Fax>718-960-6991</Fax>
    <Access>Lehman College campus.  Subway: 4 or D to Bedford Park Boulevard</Access>
    <Area areaId="harlem_bronx">Harlem, Bronx</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>16:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Under the Influence: The Comics and Contemporary Art will examine the work of approximately 25 artists indebted to the style and energy of comics imagery. The comics connote humor with the term &quot;funnies&quot; suggesting a lighthearted sensibility and playfulness with irony and satire also a part of the territory. But the comics often explore a more complex side of human existence - for Freud humor was a path to the unconscious. The exhibition will feature a range of media. There will be an online catalogue.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-12</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/2C9B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/2C9B">
  <Name>Charles Lutz &quot;ReMake/Re-Model&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/0213BC1F">
    <Name>Hionas Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>89 Franklin St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Church St and Broadway. Subway: 1 to Franklin Street or N/Q/R/W/4/6 to Canal Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_manhattan">Lower Manhattan</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>14:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote>Also by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Hionas Gallery presents ReMake/Re-Model, a solo exhibition of new works by Charles Lutz comprised of a selection of the artist’s signature Post-Pop paintings and sculpture, from his Equivocal Voids and High Life series’.

Lutz’s wandering eye is keen to the satirical, the sexual and the absurd, found in objects both mundane and iconic, from Warhol’s appropriated Brillo boxes, re-appropriated by Lutz for a somber result in cold black stainless steel, to Franz Kline’s fluid action brushstrokes, re-made to reveal disparate body parts lustfully intertwined. With each work, Lutz begins and ends with a simple premise: to extract from a particular source only its most vital information, and with that information find some new way to communicate. For much of his source material Lutz takes familiar symbols and brand names one might find in a magazine or on a billboard, and given the solarized, monochromatic effect that’s inherent in much of Lutz’s work, what he chooses to extract can appear to some a harsh, if not apathetic commentary on the very imagery and iconography that feeds off our minds and wallets.

“I like to think this work reveals a sober and real portrait of us as a culture,” says Lutz, “one that is constantly shifting yet has remained largely unchanged.” Indeed, the unambiguous origins of this body of work may inspire some to recall readymades or the cold steel constructions of the early Minimalists. Whatever one’s perspective, the originality, or lack thereof, of abstraction, Pop and other artistic modes is brought into question here, and becomes the crux of Re-Make/Re-Model. By synthesizing what is consumable 
and what has, in a sense, already been consumed, Lutz’s work evokes a false déjà vu, wherein we recognize the objects at hand, but clearly we have not witnessed these very things before.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/2E1B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/2E1B">
  <Name>&quot;Theater, Life, and the Afterlife: Tomb Décor of the Jin Dynasty from Shanxi&quot; Exhibition</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>
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  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[A new exhibition at China Institute Gallery will explore how theater and art intersected in the realm of the Chinese afterlife.

Since the 1950s and as recently as a few years ago, hundreds of brick tombs from the Jin dynasty (1115-1234) have been excavated in Shanxi province, located in the north central region of China. The exhibition presents more than 80 beautifully sculpted objects revealing a passion for theater and opera in this region during the Jin dynasty. One of the highlights, a re-creation of a newly excavated tomb, will enable visitors to see how thoughtfully prepared art patrons were for the afterlife.

he ancient Chinese believed in an afterlife and imagined they would have needs similar to those they’d had in their lives on earth. Not only were the nobles buried in elaborate tombs filled with household goods, but the tomb décor in Shanxi province, like that of many tombs found in China, featured numerous references to entertainment.
 
Famed for their brick carving, artists in Shanxi developed sophisticated techniques, creating lively sculptural images in the grey bricks, some of them painted with vibrant colors. The most intriguing of the dozens of intricate and dramatic brick carvings found in tombs dating back to the Song dynasty (960-1127) are those depicting theatrical performances.. The carvings serve as evidence of the popularity of the theater in ancient Shanxi, said to be the cradle of Chinese opera and drama, and illustrate two kinds of popular entertainment: Za Ju, formal performances of written plays; and San Qu, performances related to village festivals.
 
Notes Willow Weilan Hai Chang, Director, China Institute Gallery, “The role of theater was crucial to ancient Chinese life in Shanxi. Not only was it an important form of entertainment, but it enlightened people’s lives, providing a moral education. One of the most important aspects of the Chinese value system developed by Confucius is filial piety, respect for parents and ancestors, which provided many story lines in ancient theater.”
 
The most recent discovery of Chinese brick carvings occurred in July 2009, during the renovation of a staff residence for a chemical company in Jishan county in Shanxi province. When construction workers hit a brick wall while digging, they called the local museum. An excavation ensued, revealing an ancient tomb from the Jin dynasty (1115-1234) decorated with magnificent painted brick carvings surrounding one raised coffin bed that contained a couple of skeletons. Assembled for the first time above ground, the reconstructed tomb presented in Theater, Life, and the Afterlife will include 43 of these carved bricks. Adorned with floral motifs, strongman guardians, and the faces and figures of auspicious animals – all carved in brick and painted with colored pigments – the tomb is considered a treasured gem of ancient Chinese art.
 
Among the performances depicted by carvings is the story of the Eight Immortals, who were considered to be actual people with special capabilities not unlike today’s superheroes. These seven men and one woman were the subjects of countless theatrical performances, stories, and poems.
 
Considered one of the most famous of the eight, Lü Dongbin, an actual historical figure, was a well-known Taoist master at the end of the Tang dynasty. Worshipped as a deity, he appears in many legends. Lü was said to have had a youthful look when he was more than a hundred years old – and had such a quick pace that he could travel hundreds of Chinese miles (known as li, about 1,640 feet) in a single moment.
 
Tieguai Li, another of the eight, represents the most dramatic story of reaching immortality: his body was accidentally cremated when it was still in spiritual transience. Thus, Li had to inhabit the body of a homeless man who had just died of starvation. Fortunately, Laozi, the founder of Taoism, provided him with magical medicines, and he was able to care not only for himself but also for the poor , traveling to help them with a gourd full of medicine on his back.
 
Another fascinating story told by the bricks concerns Meng Zong who was worried about his ill mother who craved bamboo shoots in winter. Meng wandered the bamboo forest, discouraged by the impossibility of the request. However, filial piety moved heaven and earth, and bamboo shoots miraculously emerged from a crack in the ground. Meng brought them home and cooked them in a soup for his mother, who subsequently recovered from her illness.
 
Under the direction of Willow Weilan Hai Chang, Director, China Institute Gallery, Theater, Life, and the Afterlife: Tomb Décor of the Jin Dynasty from Shanxi is curated by Shi Jinming, Director, Shanxi Museum, China. This exhibition is made possible, in part, by the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation and China Institute Friends of the Gallery.

[Image: Tomb, Jin dynasty (1115–1234), L. 2.8 m; W. 2m Unearthed at a chemical company, Jishan county, Shanxi province Courtesy of Shanxi Museum]]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG LOVE&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/4B957CD4">
    <Name>Underline Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>238 W 14th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-242-2427</Phone>
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  <Description><![CDATA[BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG LOVE, a group show exploring the subject of relationships through the formal properties of light and color, spotlights a variety of mediums – from light installations and sculpture to painting and photography. Through these ephemeral, subjective media, the works demonstrate, question, and complicate the fragility and uncertainty of intimacy against the backdrop of some of the coldest months of the year.

The underpinning narrative of the collection speaks to the creation and destruction of relationships. The curators at Underline have managed to cull alluring, new works that address a particularly relevant theme in the coldest months: The seasonal nature of love.]]></Description>
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  <Name>Jan ten Broeke &quot;Ten&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Noho Gallery</Name>
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    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The artist's intent is &quot;to transcend the superficial, socially established eroticism of sexuality”....” All flowers are sex organs and that their function to be fertilized, to produce seed and to propagate, gives a deeper meaning to the beauty we so admire and enjoy.”]]></Description>
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  <Name>Rachel Pollak &quot;...the I and the We&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Gowanus Print Lab</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>54 2nd Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215</Address>
    <Phone>718-788-3930</Phone>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Chosen from entries to our GET SERIOUS GO SOLO solo exhibition contest, Rachel Pollak's sensitive paintings of ritual captured us with their quiet significance and simultaneously sparse and ornate spaces.

Rachel on her work:&quot;In my work I am seeking out moments when an “I” becomes a “We”—and moments when these affiliations break down. My gouache paintings are inspired by rituals I observe in everyday life: crew members raking the infield dirt at the seventh-inning stretch, children playing parachute games, the inauguration of a new president. By re-imagining the context of these rituals, and their accompanying furniture, uniforms, and equipment, my works consider the tension between the persistent identities of the individuals in these scenes and the groups they are a part of.&quot;

As our GET SERIOUS GO SOLO winner, Pollack also receives a free 1 month studio pass to explore what print can bring to her work.

&quot;The content of this work-- focused on the relationships between individuals and groups--would lend itself in an ideal way to the the print medium and its traditions of multiples, repeat patterns, and narrative series,&quot;  Rachel says of exploring print.]]></Description>
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  <Name>Yuki Ioroi Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Ouchi Gallery</Name>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Yuki Ioroi was born in 1980, Shizuoka Japan. She started her career as an artist when she moved to Los Angeles in 2001, and participated in local artist showcase events throughout the two years. Her style of pieces was mostly abstract in these years. After returning to Japan, Yuki moved to Tokyo and graduated from Asagaya Art College, School of Image Creation in 2007. She started creating painting pieces that incorporated words of her messages, shifting from the previous abstract style. Yuki creates pieces that speak to the mind of people who have lost themselves in today’s overwhelming world. Being force fed with information from every possible direction, it is easy for any of us to lose our own values, or feel threatened to live up to the unrealistic standards portrayed by the media and social peers alike. Her words directly reach out to those who have convinced themselves of their created identities as their true selves. The recurrent concept of her artwork is to offer an opportunity for the audience to look within themselves and reflect. Through her thoughtful and playful words, Yuki wants her audience to dig deep to their conscious and find that something they might have forgotten while busy living. In 2011, she moved to London and continuing her career and actively participating local exhibitions. ]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Bling!&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Jim Kempner Fine Art</Name>
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  <Name>&quot;New Materials, New Approaches&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>D. Wigmore Fine Art</Name>
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    <Address>730 5th Ave., Suite 602, New York NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-581-1657</Phone>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The gallery is pleased to announce &quot;New Materials, New Approaches,&quot; an exhibition of 1960s-1970s works in plastics by Julian Stanczak, Mon Levinson, and Leroy Lamis. The exhibition focuses on the extension through plastic of abstract investigations of color, light, and line demonstrated in Lamis’s sculptures, Levinson’s constructions, and Stanczak’s unique series of oil on plastic works created for a solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1972.

Over the past five years, the gallery has researched artists investigating new materials in the 1960s, a period that saw both enthusiasm for technology brought on by the Space Race and a renewed interest in the Constructivist and Bauhaus artists of the 1920s. For the exhibition &quot;New Materials, New Approaches,&quot; Mon Levinson (b.1926), Leroy Lamis (1925-2010), and Julian Stanczak (b.1930) were selected as each artist re-purposed industrial materials in innovative ways to create art that rewarded the engaged viewer with shifting imagery of line, color, and reflection. Plastic was first incorporated into art in Europe by the Constructivist and Bauhaus artists of the 1920s. In the United States, Alexander Calder and Charles Biederman incorporated plastic into their sculpture and reliefs in the 1930s. The exploration of plastic in art went into a hiatus through the war years. It was not until the 1960s that artists again looked to plastic for its malleability as well as its smooth surface, luminosity, and ability to be opaque, clear, or colored. By the end of the decade artists working in plastic received attention in focused museum exhibitions like A Plastic Presence at New York’s Jewish Museum in 1969.

[Image: Leroy Lamis &quot;Construction No. 110&quot; yellow, green, blue, and white Plexiglas construction 26 3/8 x 13 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Name>Dannielle Tegeder &quot;Transparent Studio&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Bose Pacia</Name>
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    <Address>163 Plymouth St., Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>212-989-7074</Phone>
    <Fax>212-989-6982</Fax>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Bose Pacia presents the second installment of Transparent Studio with Dannielle Tegeder. The artist will occupy the gallery space from February 7 through March 1 during which time the public is invited to view the work in progress in the open studio space. We encourage visitors to stop by to see the artist in action. The studio residency term will culminate in an evening with the artist on Thursday, March 1 during the Dumbo First Thursdays evening event. 
 
Dannielle will be facilitating four workshop sessions, each consisting of invited artists, writers, poets, friends, affiliates of Bose Pacia and the public. During the sessions the group will reflect, research, and create collaborative projects on ideas inherent in drawing and abstraction. The work produced may include non-traditional drawings, a screening of drawing, writing projects, and discussions on art inspired by well-known debates on theory and practice at the Institute of Artistic Culture in Moscow, from 1920–22. The project produced during the residency, including the research and raw materials process, will be on continuous display throughout her entire residency term. Finally, the workroom will function as a dynamic space that merges the role of the working studio and exhibition space.]]></Description>
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  <Name>Willie Alexander &quot;Wall Works&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Esopus Space</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>64 W 3rd St., #210, New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-473-0919</Phone>
    <Fax>212-473-7212</Fax>
    <Access>Between LaGuardia Pl. and Thompson St. Subway: D/B/F/V/A/C/E to West 4th Street</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[An exhibition of never-before-exhibited large-scale collages by rock-and-roll musician Willie Alexander, whose five-decades-long musical career includes stints with The Velvet Underground, The Bagatelle, The Lost, and The Boom Boom Band. For the past 25 years, Alexander has used thousands of yards of packing tape to affix newspaper clippings, ephemera from concert tours, personal photographs, cat litter packaging, and virtually every other material to the walls of his house in Gloucester, Massachusetts. These &quot;crazy quilts from a truly amazing creative consciousness&quot; (John Jacob) will be shown to the public for the first time at this exhibition, which represents Alexander's New York debut.
]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/8D14" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/8D14">
  <Name>Louis Renzoni &quot;The Darker the Shadow The Brighter the Light&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D62ACC27">
    <Name>Kim Foster Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>529 W 20th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-229-0044</Phone>
    <Fax>212-229-0044</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_20">Chelsea 20th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Darker the Shadow, The Brighter the Light is a show of recent figurative paintings by Louis Renzoni.

Using a color palette of dark blue, soft yellow, pink and white , Renzoni creates a noir atmosphere of women caught in a moment of transition. Ordinary routines appear slightly sinister. Small areas of light don't illuminate but seem on the verge of being completely overwhelmed by darkness. Major characters, rather than being accented by shadows, are in and hidden by them. The paintings convey a specific mood, usually a kind of disturbing quiet. He calls it a flicker between the romantic and the ordinary.

In the largest paintings, the portraits are imbued with the glamour of old fashion movie heroines. The women appear doll-like with radiant cheeks and cherry lips. In several smaller works, faces are turned away and we are left to view shadows that become visual silhouettes. The closer one gets to the painting, the more blurred the imagery.

Renzoni's preference for oblique lines, and the constant opposition of light and dark, creates the compositional tension that radiate from these paintings. Adding to the tension is Renzoni's technique of painting in layers, sanding down, then repainting, a process that obliterates certain details but leaves smoky shadows in the background.

Louis Renzoni is a New York based, Canadian born artist who has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally. He is in numerous private and public collections. His artwork has been reviewed in ARTnews, Art in America, among other publications.

[Image: Louis Renzoni &quot;Lost Necklace&quot; (2011) Oil on canvas, 70 x 70 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/8DA4" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/8DA4">
  <Name>&quot;Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/EB18574C">
    <Name>Museum of Arts &amp; Design</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-299-7777</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>At 58th St. and 8th Ave.  Subway: B/C/D to 59th Street/Columbus Circle</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</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>thursdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>In the Summer opened on Tuesdays.  Check with the venue for details.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[MAD has explored the intersection of traditional or unusual materials and techniques as viewed through the lens of contemporary art and design in a series of exhibitions that include &quot;Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting;&quot; &quot;Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary;&quot; &quot;Slash: Paper Under the Knife;&quot; &quot;Dead or Alive: Nature Becomes Art;&quot; and &quot;Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities.&quot;

The next investigation into unusual mediums features an international group of artists whose major materials are dust, ashes, dirt, and sand. &quot;Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design&quot; will highlight works that deal with issues such as the ephemeral nature of art and life, the quality and content of memory, issues of loss and disintegration, and the detritus of human existence. Sculptures made from ash by Chinese artist Zhang Huan, life-size sculptures of unfired dirt by American artist James Croak, and works created from city smog by American artist Kim Abeles, among others, illustrate the transformative potential of humble, overlooked, and discarded materials.

[Image: Phoebe Cummings &quot;Flora&quot; (2010) unfired clay Photo: Sylvain Deleu]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults $15, Students and Seniors $12, Members and Children under 12 Free, Thursdays 6 - 9pm Pay What You Wish</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-08-12</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/8E21" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/8E21">
  <Name>David Febland &quot;Bringing it Home&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/04E999AD">
    <Name>George Billis Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>521 W 26th St., B1, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-645-2621</Phone>
    <Fax>212-645-2397</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/90F8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/90F8">
  <Name>Duro Olowu &quot;Material&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B8A7CACA">
    <Name>Salon 94 Freemans</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1 Freeman Alley, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-529-7400</Phone>
    <Fax>212-529-7401</Fax>
    <Access>Between Bowery and Christie St., off Rivington St. Subway: F/V to 2nd Ave. or J/M/Z to Bowery Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>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>tuesdays openinghour 13:00, </ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[London-based fashion designer Duro Olowu will present a show and pop-up shop of fashion and art at Salon 94’s Freeman Alley Gallery. The show will present a group of limited edition fashion and accessory designs from Duro's Spring 2012 collection as well as a selection of vintage and contemporary photography, textiles, contemporary art, furniture, music, books and objets trouvés.
Duro has long curated, in his London store in Masons Yard Saint James, a diverse assemblage of &quot;things&quot; that have captivated and inspired him and his work. Clothing created by Duro for the exhibition will include intricately draped bias dresses with ruffle details, guipure lace jackets and paneled tail coats, collage bib sheaths and gilets, corseted and full skirted print dresses, billowing chiffon gowns and skirts, and hand made footwear and will be featured alongside commissioned pieces by Paris-based jeweler Taher Chemirik, New York-based artist Mathew Ronay and paintings by Katherine Bernhardt.
Installed in a mise-en-scène featuring works by Juergen Teller, including images from collaborations with Duro, vintage photography by Malian photographer Hamidou Maiga and designer Carlo Mollino, a large photograph by Laurie Simmons, illustrations by Bella Foster, woven canvases by New York artist Tony Cox, prints by Suzanne Wenger, drawings by Lorna Simpson, furniture and objects by Martino Gamper and Maria Pergay, sculptures by Ghanaian artist Paa Joe and London based Francis Upritchard, ceramics by Matthias Merkel Hess, vintage West African textiles and rare fabrics from couture fabric makers including Abraham of Switzerland, along with work by Kara Hamilton, Jackie Nickerson, Ludovica Gioscia, and Philip Kwame Apagya. Olowu adds &quot; My work, like my eye, is certainly international in its aesthetic, offbeat yet focused. As such, I am always open to the surprise of the new, the technique and skill of the past and the ability of fashion and art to challenge preconceived ideas of taste and culture.&quot;
After training in law, Duro Olowu turned to a career in fashion, launching his label in 2004. In 2005 the British Fashion Council honored him with the prestigious New Designer of the Year Award. Last year, he won the Best Designer Award at the African Fashion Awards and was a finalist for the Swiss Textiles Award. Alluring silhouettes, sharp tailoring, original prints and vintage textiles in combinations are Duro’s signature, inspired by his Jamaican-Nigerian heritage and London upbringing, making him a favorite among fashion insiders.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-08</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/94BE" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/94BE">
  <Name>&quot;Night Falls&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F26D3665">
    <Name>P.P.O.W.</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>535 W 22nd Street, Fl. 3, New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-647-1044</Phone>
    <Fax>212-647-1043</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_22">Chelsea 22nd</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="1" />
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Martin &amp; Muñoz are an art team best known for their “Travelers” series of snow globes and photographs. In the world that they have developed, blizzard transformed landscapes often serve as backdrops for enigmatic narratives. These are in some instances angst-dream inspired. Others are hard times fables. There is a socio-political as well as a psychological aspect to these images and sculptures. As is often the case with this couple's work, the narratives have an unfinished open ended quality. 

For this exhibition, Martin &amp; Muñoz have chosen night as a back drop.  Fires, flashlights and moonlight puncture the dark to expressive effect.  Important details and aspects of the narratives are lent a dynamic chiaroscuro where the interplay of light and dark shape both the mood and contour of the subject.  Some of the images and snow globes depict a sort of dystopian Kinderland.  This is a place where children have no parents, a place where adults appear only as an opposing tribe.  Some of characters depicted and developed in this group of photos include: a giant black dog, a band of rogue tree children and a nefarious priesthood.  A small group of related snow globes will also be exhibited.

Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz have been collaborating since 1993 and have since exhibited internationally. Their work is in numerous museum collections, including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas, and the KIASMA Museum of Contemporary art in Helsinki, Finland.  Recently their work was featured in group exhibitions at the Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington; the Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Concurrent with the exhibition at P.P.O.W the artists are participating in the exhibition “Fairytales, Monsters and the Genetic Imagination” at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9675" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/9675">
  <Name>&quot;From Iceland&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8C69B816">
    <Name>Luise Ross Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., #307, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-343-2161</Phone>
    <Fax>212-343-2468</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Some years ago, Icelandic artists would have been a category unfamiliar to the American art public. It would have seemed a category without discernible unity or order, thus devoid of the kind of meaning that would allow itself to be turned into myth.  By connecting all the dots we have the beginnings of a myth centering  on a society precariously poised between the civilized and savage, urban and rural, self-deprecation (How do you like Iceland?) and dreams of world domination.
 
Typically, the Icelandic artists included in this survey both conform to this myth and render it meaningless. All of them have close ties to the countryside; they use it as a refuge or incorporate its features and legends into their art, both of which is true of Gudbjorg Lind, Gudrun Kristjansdottir and Niels Hafstein. At the same time they are ready to fly to New York, Paris or Beijing at a moments notice. Their approach to their work may be firmly centered on the physicality of the body, as is the case with Gudny Kristmanns, or it may be predicated on the dissolution of materiality, which is the kind of thing we find in the work of Gustav Geir Bollason. Or they may take up a position midway between sense and big time sensuality, as happens in the highly literate and knowing work of Jon Laxdal and Thordis Alda. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/98D2" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/98D2">
  <Name>Yong Sun Suh &quot;Territory&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/00BEE330">
    <Name>Kips Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-242-4215</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[As an artist, I have always been interested in our history, our story. I have prepared this exhibition in the intention to create a base in expressing my thoughts on the Korean War. We store what we see in the society and in nature within our body as our memory and we communicated it with others. There is a moment this phenomena became a part of my identity.The Korean language I speak has been developed in a specific Asian region. Throughout the long years, as the boundary of the region where the language is used changes, the identity of the folks who speak the language changes. These memories turn into deep experience carved onto me and serve me as a guide to live in this world.  They even create ideology or faith.Like pictures or photographs, the stored images in our unconscious become imprinted in our memory and part of our social communication, Even sound or it's memories like other sensory perceptions, are sometime brought back on viewing these specific images.
 
People, particularly in the west define this event in the history of our Country, as the &quot;Korean War&quot;. The Korean War bears a special meaning for me. The Korean War refers to a regional conflict between South Korea and North Korea.  However, it also refers to a war directly involving other countries such as the United States, the Soviet Union, and China.  The point is that it is so unnatural for the twoKoreas to exist as two separate nations, because their natures are so identical.The memories of those including my parents who remember the War have become a part of mine and my personal experience. It was hard to recreate them in pictures. However, because of my experience and cultural background these past associations are dissociable from my way of living and expressing myself, as an artist.
 
These paintings represent my latest attempt in trying to give it a tangible life.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9DC4" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/9DC4">
  <Name>Mark Price &quot;Hyper 20XX&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/AD344CA8">
    <Name>Kesting / Ray</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>30 Grand St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-334-0204 </Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Thompson St. and 6th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to Canal Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="soho">Soho</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[KESTING/RAY presents Hyper 20XX, the second New York solo exhibition for Philadelphia-based artist Mark Price. In a new series of meticulously-cut and super-color-saturated collages incorporating screenprinting, painting and photography, Price packs multiple moments into single frames stuck in the endless loop of an inescapable present. 

Price's work speaks to a deep-seated human fear of groundlessness and change. We seek stability and a world we recognize as sane and reliable, and Price's work won't give it to us. Instead he offers incomplete warnings of a shattered future in day-glow gestures that pierce the picture plane, flattening it into odd shapes that we strain to recognize. A silhouetted character appears from time to time in the work, functioning as a reminder of the fragmentary and incomplete nature of consciousness.

In Price's installation, our own experience can no longer be trusted. The high-resolution screen through which we view things has shattered into stuttering and razor-sharp regions of color and text. Pierced and pinned to the wall as fragmentary bits of a larger situation, his collages emerge into a three-dimensional plane that feels tentative, vulnerable and hyper-real. Philosopher Paul Virilio, in describing the global financial crisis, touches on this atmosphere when he states, &quot;We have moved from the stage of the acceleration of History to that of the acceleration of the Real. This is what 'progress' is: a consensual sacrifice.&quot;

In 2011, Price spent months traveling throughout the US and India to deepen his experience of non-linear perception. In describing this time he notes, &quot;In not having a fixed home base, I began to understand a new kind of stillness that comes from being perpetually in motion. Whether on a bike or train or plane, I found comfort from the mode of constant acceleration and the knowledge that everything remains open and inconclusive.&quot;]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/A71F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/A71F">
  <Name>Sarah Kurz &quot;Made For Love&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F346A8DB">
    <Name>Allegra LaViola Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>179 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>917 463 3901</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Jefferson and Rutgers Sts. Subway: F to East Broadway or 4/5/6/N/R to Canal Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 13:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2012/A71F-30" width="30" />
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-08" start="18:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>30</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.714078</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.989222</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/AB44" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/AB44">
  <Name>James Croak &quot;Chandelier Mistaken for God&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/BB53F343">
    <Name>Stux Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-352-1600</Phone>
    <Fax>212-352-0302</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</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>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In Chandelier Mistaken for God, a store-bought chandelier is discovered by a boy who appears to have just finished swimming on a warm summer day. The boy is startled, empowered, and utterly absorbed by the light from the interlacing flock of bulbs and crystals, as if he is experiencing the same exhilarating, inexplicable excitement of someone encountering an angel's halo, a golden religious icon, or the glory of Aurora Borealis. It is a spontaneous, subliminal and physical experience of absolute truth that cannot be controlled or explained. However, the universal tendency to associate light with the divine is purified and replicated here with, jarringly, an almost Duchampian chandelier: an overtly ornate, artificial living room staple, designed to tame and edit the light which is deem to be holy. 

A raw dirt drawing, Repelling Foreign Invaders, complements the gleaming installation. Inspired by Francisco Goya's Disasters of War series, Croak creates an ominous, violent, eerie and oddly peaceful portrait of the war in Afghanistan. Unlike Goya's grotesque and nightmarish visions, Croak's representation of war is quiet and meditative. Soldiers sit calmly next to an unidentifiable broken machine, while undisturbed, unmistakably Afghan mountain ranges loom in the background. The composition is stable and balanced as the prolonged war has comfortably integrated into Afghanistan's identity. &quot;Repelling foreign invaders&quot;, or war in general, is now a permanent state instead of an emergency national security response. The same material used by God to create the Afghan landscape--dirt--is also used to create the drawing itself, erasing the boundary between reality and the aesthetic realm and allowing the subject to literally present itself in the drawing. This way, Croak's ideas of war are not only expressed as artistic, abstract concepts, but also a living, breathing manifestation, molded with dirt just like Adam and Eve.     ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>37</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.749336</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-74.004122</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/B08B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/B08B">
  <Name>Garrett Pruter &quot;Mixed Signals&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F1BADDF">
    <Name>Charles Bank Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>196 Bowery, New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-219-4095</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Prince and Spring Sts.  Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue or 4 to Spring Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Charles Bank Gallery presents its first solo exhibition with Garrett Pruter. A graduate of Parsons School of Design, Pruter presents a body of work that explores the frailty of memory in his exhibition, &quot;Mixed Signals.&quot;

Using discarded photos from junk stores, estate sales, and old magazines, Pruter enlarges found images and then slices and reassembles the fragments to create new imagery that blurs the line between what is real and what is imagined.

These altered images fuse together various people, places, and periods of time to engage viewers in a dialogue that connects past and present.  Through the physical alteration of found photographs, the passage of time is distilled and abstracted into geometric compositions of light, color, and void. With context stripped and reconfigured, an alternative universe emerges where multiple perspectives collide and fact becomes diluted in ambiguity.

For this new body of work, Pruter introduces his recent exploration of multimedia. Drawing on the walls with fractured reflections, the projector and mirror installation continues with the same visual language used in his works on paper.  The multimedia installation contains found 35mm slides that are projected onto curved mirror tiles, fragmenting the images into myriad pieces and creating complex compositions out of intimate travel photographs and family portraits.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-14</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="18:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>34</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.721219</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.993861</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/BC5C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/BC5C">
  <Name>Gerri Davis &quot;Iteration&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/EF870F67">
    <Name>Bridge Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>98 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-674-6320</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Delancey and Broome Sts. Subway: J/M/Z/F to Delancey Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</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 openinghour 12:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Who has the balls to tackle Picasso and Matisse head-on?
Wielding her fervid palette artist Gerri Davis sets the old guys on fire against a backdrop of other seminal, temporal works.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-15</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>35</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.718453</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.989869</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C488" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C488">
  <Name>The Hilton Brothers &quot;Tyrants + Lederhosen&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/80BD8452">
    <Name>Christopher Henry Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>127 Elizabeth St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-244-6004</Phone>
    <Fax>646-416-6437</Fax>
    <Access>Between Grand and Broom St., Subway: J/M/Z to Bowery, 6 to Spring Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Tuesday by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Christopher Henry Gallery presents The Hilton Brothers: Tyrants + Lederhosen.  Photographers  Christopher Makos and Paul Solberg (a.k.a. the Hilton Brothers) break new ground with an exhibition mounted concurrent with the book publication Tyrants + Lederhosen.  The duo have authored a modern take on the photo travelogue, compiled in the first ever published Hilton Brothers anthology from 2004 to 2011. After 8 years traveling the globe as non-traditional  ‘photo-anthropologists’, the duo captures a raw candor with their pictures, void of restraint and self-consciousness.  The duo are storytellers through their photographs, seeming to unconsciously explore the contradictions and obsessions of Myth.
 
It is an artistic collaboration like no other. Two photographers in an intense collaboration over several years;  one with a legendary resume photographing many of the 20th Centuries biggest pop icons and the other a rising creative talent; fearless, borderless, with fresh eyes, known firstly for his seductive flower portraits.  The Hilton Brothers are an experiment of collaboration, as well as making art.
 
The Brothers use their cameras as their paintbrush as much as to document; details of shadows and light, suggesting the ordinary as extraordinary. They open a new window on both familiar and unfamiliar worlds.  From the Far East to the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, all worlds collide into dramatic dissonance in this seminal photographic document of our time.  The Hilton Brothers have been exhibited throughout the world, including Galerie Catherine Houard, Paris and a “one man” show at la Casa Encendida Museum, Madrid.
]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="19:00:00" end="22:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>24</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.719492</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.995361</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C65C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C65C">
  <Name>Joseph Adolphe &quot;Toro Bravo&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/EDF7F316">
    <Name>Bertrand Delacroix Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>535 W 25th St. New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-627-4444</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:30:00</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[&quot;Toro Bravo&quot; is an exhibition of recent works by Joseph Adolphe. Echoing the anxiety of an age marked by austerity and personal uncertainty, Adolphe’s subjects vary between the beaten down fighter, the agile and stoic beast, the exposed human and the vulnerable child – each of them leaving their life force in the ring. Strength and individuality are measured by their ability to endure the respective
hardships of their personal confrontations with the world. They are brave despite facing a constant barrage of disappointments, setbacks and unfulfilled dreams. Any remaining optimism seems to slip into darkness. While the trajectory of Adolphe’s paintings follows this same course there is nevertheless an illogical optimism reflected in the confident and powerful force of his marks and colors, as if to say that, ‘in spite of the downfall of the proud, we still stand, bloody and marked, broken, but beautiful’.

Joseph Adolphe was born in Calgary, Alberta Canada in 1968. He moved to NYC in 1992 to attend the School of Visual Arts, where he received an MFA in 1994. His work is mostly in private collections, as well as in several corporate collections. He currently teaches drawing and painting in the Department of Fine Arts at St. John’s University in New York, and lives in New Haven, CT with his wife and seven children.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>30</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.749398</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D819" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D819">
  <Name>&quot;Makeup on Empty Space&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/96F464D6">
    <Name>Larissa Goldston Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>551 W 21st St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-206-7887</Phone>
    <Fax>212-206-7829</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_21">Chelsea 21st</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>
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  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Larissa Goldston Gallery inaugurates its new ground floor space with the exhibition Makeup on Empty Space, featuring works by Nicole Cherubini, Lauren Clay, Orly Genger, Janelle Iglesias, Fabienne Lasserre, Shana Moulton, Arlene Shechet, Lotte Van den Audenaeren, and Lorna Williams.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-31</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>51</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.74715</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-74.006554</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/DE5B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/DE5B">
  <Name>&quot;Departure&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/598BC9AF">
    <Name>2/20 Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>220 W 16th St., New York, NY, 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-807-8348</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 7th Ave. and 8th Ave.  Subway: 1/2/3/9/ to 14th Street or L to 8th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_east">East Chelsea</Area>
    <OpeningHour>14:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Departure is a dual exhibition, celebrating the work of artists Pansum Cheng and Phyllis and Victor Merriam, which takes the viewer on a journey into the artists’ exploration of the dislocation of physical space from the forms that exist within it. Through the mutual negation of space by form and form by space, obvious connections are lost and the audience is challenged to venture beyond the visual and enter the works in an emotional way.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="18:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>16</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.740069</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/DF70" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/DF70">
  <Name>Marilla Palmer &quot;Nature Burlesque&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F457E489">
    <Name>Kathryn Markel Fine Arts</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>529 W 20th St., Suite 6W, New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-366-5368</Phone>
    <Fax>212-366-5468</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Avenue. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_20">Chelsea 20th</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 openinghour 11:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Marilla Palmer's delicate compositions of flowers and leaves combine nature and theatrical embellishments; sequins, glitter and beads are all decadent components used to make nature her Soubrette. Palmer's eight new works on paper and sculptures reflect her overall interest in combining natural elements with fabricated materials. Palmer's faux botanical studies are derived directly from fallen shadows of handheld twigs and branches, and incorporate mushroom spores with thread, pressed leaves with holographic paper, and glitter with watercolor. The intricacy of Palmer's work entices exploration and beguiles the viewer. Look close and the work reveals details of intense study that are faithfully copied but made to be, as Palmer says, &quot;more gorgeous, more exciting.&quot; It is what Mother Nature would create if she were casting a play. Marilla Palmer gilds the lily of nature in its perfection; delicate and ethereal, sensual and seditious, it is nature accompanied by flare.

Marilla Palmer lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and has had numerous exhibitions of her work in New York and Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from Philadelphia College of Art. A review of a New York exhibition in the New Yorker says Palmer &quot;successfully amalgamates light-emitting diodes and bits of forest fungus.&quot; Time Out New York said Palmer &quot;sidesteps kitsch to create vivid and complex environment&quot;; and the Village Voice described her work as &quot;wistful rather than ornamental.&quot;]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>30</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.746167</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-74.0062</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/E696" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/E696">
  <Name>Ray Smith &amp; G.T. Pellizzi &quot;The Execution of Maximilian: Border Paintings&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/DB6B2A8E">
    <Name>Y Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>165 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>917-721-4539</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Stanton and Rivington Sts., Subway: F to 1st Avenue or F/M/J/Z to Delancey Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 11:00, sundays openinghour 11:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Y Gallery presents &quot;The Execution of Maximilian: Border Paintings&quot; by Ray Smith and G.T. Pellizzi, two Mexican-American artists of different heritages, but common cultural backgrounds. The exhibition refers to the violence represented by the border itself, replicated in the way illegal immigrants are treated—“backyard” policies creating a ripple effect of economic and social strife, as far off as in cities such as Ciudad Juarez. The daily violence that is produced at the borders is somehow reflected through these paintings, which were executed by shooting at cans of paint with shotguns, on the Texan border of Mexico near Brownsville, between the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012. The making of the paintings took place outdoors in what is, and has been for over a century, the dump for the Iturria Ranch. This arena of action and the displacement of painterly production from the artist’s studio directly into nature and the outdoors echoes the Impressionist movement-taking place around the same time as Manet’s Maximilian paintings. Here, though, the natural landscape is taken to reference the Mexican–American border.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-06</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Hair: Text &amp; Image&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/3743889D">
    <Name>Chrystoph Marten </Name>
    <Type>Other</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St.,# 608, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-414-1422</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 09:00, saturdays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[CHRYSTOPH MARTEN’s gallery presents a site-specific reading, book-launch, and exhibit of artwork on the subject of hair in an exhibit space that also serves as a salon. “HAIR” is a hand-bound, limited-edition chapbook of texts and images (art, poetry, and prose) from Cover Story, an imprint of Q Avenue Press. A selection of poems will be exhibited as prints. Featured art includes photographs by Paola Ferrario**, Helen Verbanz, John Kramer, and reprints of woodcuts (of samurai hair) by Beatriz Inglessis.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Molua Muldown and Lisa Pan &quot;The Dandy’s New York&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Dorian Grey Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>437 E 9th St., New York, NY 10009</Address>
    <Phone>516-244-4126</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 1st Ave. and Avenue A  Subway: L to 1st Avenue, 6 to Astor Place</Access>
    <Area areaId="villages">Villages</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
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  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Dandy’s New York 
 
The dandy's beauty consists above all in the cold appearance which comes from the unshakable resolution not to be moved; one might say the latent fire which makes itself felt, and which might, but does not wish to, shine forth. 
‐ Baudelaire 
 
Christopher Pusey and Luis Accorsi present the exhibition of &quot;The Dandy's New York&quot;.
 
Photographer Molua Muldown and multi‐media artist Lisa Pan reveal the authentic man behind New York’s celebrated and enigmatic dandy, Patrick McDonald. A series of environmental portrait photographs, mixed media collages and Patrick’s own poetry illustrate the East Village life and ethos of this unconventional artist. In this series, we look through the eyes of a man who has been described as a New York City living landmark and a walking work of art. Historically, New York City has been a haven for unique artists such as W. H. Auden, Quentin Crisp and Klaus Nomi. For over two decades, Patrick has been a muse and model for some of our most celebrated painters, photographers and illustrators. In our rapidly changing city, with it’s ever increasingly endangered environment for artists, Patrick’s uncompromising life simply inspires. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/F5B9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/F5B9">
  <Name>&quot;Look | Sharp: Art and Fashion from the Edge&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/21254E86">
    <Name>Galerie Protégé</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>197 9th Ave., Lower Level, New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-807-8726</Phone>
    <Fax>212-924-3208</Fax>
    <Access>http://www.galerieprotege.com/</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_22">Chelsea 22nd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:30:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 18:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00, sundays openinghour 11:00, sundays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Avant-garde art and fashion have long been associated with a lifestyle radically expressive of rebellion, the rejection of complacency, and the struggle to draw strength through vulnerability. Look | Sharp: Art and Fashion from the Edge, is a group exhibition of works by five New York-based artists displaying a selection of paintings, photographs, clothing, and accessories evocative of danger, dark glamour and sensuous alternative beauty. In a time characterized by war, protest, and insurgency, these visual manifestations are both a reflection of passionate times and a respite from oppression through beauty. Look | Sharp coincides with the launch of New York Fashion Week. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-08</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Animal Love&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/9ADC0199">
    <Name>Kraine Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>85 E 4th St., New York, NY 10003</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
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    <Access>Between Bowery and 2nd Ave., Subway: F to 1st Avenue or 6 to Astor Place.</Access>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Curated by Herbert Mendoza and Bonnie De Witt, ANIMAL LOVE is the latest exhibition from Kraine Gallery, conveniently adjacent to KGB (Kraine Gallery Bar), and featuring New York artists with an interest in the role of animals in contemporary art. Sincere animal portraiture, oil paintings of critters and beasts, anthropomorphism, ﬁgures and creatures, and carnal eroticism give this little art show sharp little teeth. Beware, love bites.

[Image: Sebastian Deregibus &quot;Angelicus Demonicus&quot; oil on canvas, 10 x 8 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-18</DateEnd>
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