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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/0088" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/0088">
  <Name>&quot;Action: Sex and the Moving Image&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/93172088">
    <Name>The Museum of Sex</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>233 5th Ave., New York, NY 10016</Address>
    <Phone>212-689-6337 ×113</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 27th St., Subway: R/W 28th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="flatiron_gramercy">Flatiron, Gramercy</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:30:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[We live in a visual culture. Everywhere we look we are bombarded with images often to the point of sensory overload. Images shape our desires, the way we think and the manner in which we connect and interact with the world around us. Images serve as the driving force behind decisions about what to buy, what to believe, what to value, where to go and which people and relationships are worth our time and energy. These images come flying at us in commercials, music videos, television shows, mainstream film and in Internet spam. It is impossible to ignore the sensuality and sexuality of these images…and why should we?

Action: Sex and the Moving Image opening at the Museum of Sex in March 2007, traces the way sex and sexual imagery have impacted film, television, advertising and more contemporary outlets like the internet while simultaneously creating the multi- billion dollar porn industry and influencing popular art such as film, social standards, mores and behaviors.

Sex on film propelled the development of video technologies such as beta players, VCRS, and DVD players that have brought movies of all types into our homes. The Internet, the latest of this stream of technologies, has made sexual imagery more accessible than ever. No matter how much it is discussed, denounced, and demonized sex on film, sex on our televisions, sex on our computer screens and now sex on our mobile devices is here to stay.

Sex, nudity, and innuendo have always been a source of controversy and topics of public discourse and debate. Throughout the history of moving images legislation has affected not only what filmmakers could create, but also what people were “allowed” to see. Sex on film has been banned, censored, edited, and destroyed by those deeming the content to be obscene or immoral. Action: Sex and the Moving Image surveys the history of sex and the moving image over more than 150 years, featuring everything from sex symbols to “sexploitation” films of the 1950s to “porn chic” to contemporary celebrity “home-made” porn. The exhibition aims at providing the tools to become literate in the barrage of sexual driven images in our society.

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  <Price free="0">Adults $14.50, Students and Seniors $13.50</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/0302" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/0302">
  <Name>Reconstruction and Reinstallation of the Egyptian Art Galleries</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art, 1st floor
Upon entering the Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art this season, visitors will see several newly installed galleries, which are part of a reconstruction project that began in 2002. The reinstallation covers the Museum’s collections of Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egyptian art (from before the 5th millennium to ca. 2650 B.C.) in a large space along Fifth Avenue, and the art of Roman Egypt (30 B.C. to ca. 400 A.D.) in two galleries on the opposite side of the centrally located Old Kingdom tomb of Perneb (ca. 2350 B.C.). Highlights of the project also include the uncovering of three windows facing Fifth Avenue, the exposure of the original Richard Morris Hunt ceiling beams in the Predynastic/Early Dynastic gallery and in one of the Roman Egypt galleries, and the reconfiguration of the architecture of the Old Kingdom tombs of Perneb and Raemkai (ca. 2350 and 2440 B.C.) to more closely resemble their original settings.
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/051A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/051A">
  <Name>New Galleries for Oceanic Art</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The islands of the Pacific Ocean encompass nearly 1,800 distinct cultures and hundreds of artistic traditions in an area that covers about one-third of the earth’s surface. The Museum’s new permanent galleries for Oceanic art, completely redesigned and reinstalled, display a substantially larger portion of the Museum’s Oceanic holdings than was previously on view. Featuring renowned masterworks from the Metropolitan’s Oceanic collection as well as recent acquisitions, the installation presents sculpture and decorative arts from the regions of Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Australia. The displays also feature the Museum’s first gallery devoted to the arts of the indigenous peoples of Island Southeast Asia.
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/09AA" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/09AA">
  <Name>&quot;Folk Art Revealed&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/FC8AFCCD">
    <Name>American Folk Art Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>45 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-977-7170</Phone>
    <Fax>212-977-8134</Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and 6th Ave. Subway: E/V to 5th Avenue or B/D/F/V to 49th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 19:30</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Folk Art Revealed,&quot; opened on November 16, 2004. The exhibition explores the nature of folk art through four themes applied to a diverse range of artwork from the museum's rich and extensive holdings, many of which have never before been on view.  These four perspectives: symbolism, utility, individuality, and community-- infuse all of folk art and speak to essential aspects of both traditional and unconventional expressions. Spanning the 18th century to the present, the works selected by curators Stacy C. Hollander and Brooke Davis Anderson, invite a deeper understanding of folk art and its role in people's lives.

[Image: Unknown &quot;New York&quot; (1848) Oil on wood panel 34 x 57 x 1 3/8 in. Courtesy of American Folk Art Museum, promised gift of Ralph Esmerian]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $9, Students and Seniors $7, Children under 12, Members, Friday after 5.30pm Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/13C8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/13C8">
  <Name>&quot;Reinstallation of the South Asia Galleries Gandhara, Mathura, Andhra and Gupta Sculpture&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[These galleries explore the South Asian emergence of Buddhist and Hindu sculptural traditions between the 2nd century B.C. and the 8th century A.D. More than 160 works from the permanent collections are juxtaposed to trace the range of stylistic and iconographic developments in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during a period that witnessed great ideological ferment and international exchange. ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2007-08-10</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/1BAC" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/1BAC">
  <Name>Rodin &quot;The Cantor Gift to the Brooklyn Museum&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</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, saturdays closinghour 18:00, sundays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Due to installations in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, twelve bronze sculptures by Auguste Rodin have been installed in the Rubin Entrance Pavilion. This newly excerpted presentation of the Museum's large holdings by Rodin includes The Age of Bronze, a signature conception from the early years of the sculptor's career, as well as other works from his most significant commissions, including The Burghers of Calais, The Gates of Hell, and the Monument to Balzac. These casts came to the Brooklyn Museum through the generosity of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor.  ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $8, Seniors and Students $4, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm  Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/2409" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/2409">
  <Name>&quot;Early Gothic Hall&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/0472F082">
    <Name>The Cloisters</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>99 Margaret Corbin Drive, New York, NY 10040</Address>
    <Phone>212-923-3700</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Subway: A train to 190th Street and exit the station by elevator. Walk north along Margaret Corbin Drive for approximately ten minutes or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop. If you are coming from the Museum's Main Building, you may also take</Access>
    <Area areaId="harlem_bronx">Harlem, Bronx</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:15:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleNote>November–February closing 4:45pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Early Gothic Hall at The Cloisters reopened in the Spring of 2006 after a five-year renovation. Completely refurbished 13th-century limestone windows and two dozen panels of newly conserved and reinstalled stained glass, primarily from the 13th- and 14th-centuries, are among the objects on view. Four recently acquired and exceptional examples of German stained glass from the late-13th century glazing program for the convent church in Altenberg-an-der-Lahn are reunited in this new installation. The renovation of the Early Gothic Hall also features construction of two new limestone apertures in an interior wall (for the display of grisaille glass windows) and new lighting. The display in this room constitutes the largest and most varied group of 13th- and 14th-century panels outside Europe. Also returned to view are more than a dozen important Gothic sculptures and paintings from the Museum’s permanent collection, including the lifesize Virgin from the choir screen of Strasbourg Cathedral (mid-13th century) and a recently acquired late 13th-century head also from the region of Strasbourg on the Upper Rhine. As a result of a new protective glazing program installed along the exterior wall, rare examples of Gothic stained glass are now illuminated by natural daylight, as they were originally meant to be seen.
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/28E1" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/28E1">
  <Name>&quot;Classic/Fantastic: Selections from the Modern Design Collection&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Order and disorder, reason and emotion, restraint and excess—opposing impulses such as these have influenced design since the beginning of civilization. The exhibition juxtaposes these divergent approaches, presenting an Apollonian/Dionysian dichotomy of design philosophies in the modern era. Of the approximately 75 works in a wide range of media—including furniture, metalwork, ceramics, glass, textiles, and drawings—half are devoted to designs rooted in the centuries-old vocabulary of classicism, updated yet still linked to the rules and traditions of the past, and the other half to romantic and surreal subjects of fantasy, drawn from the realm of pure imagination. ]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/2F1D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/2F1D">
  <Name>&quot;Spotlight on the Permanent Collection&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/93172088">
    <Name>The Museum of Sex</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>233 5th Ave., New York, NY 10016</Address>
    <Phone>212-689-6337 ×113</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 27th St., Subway: R/W 28th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="flatiron_gramercy">Flatiron, Gramercy</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Graphics</Media>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Spotlight on the Permanent Collection is the first exhibition featuring a sampling of objects and ephemera drawn from over nine thousand objects that comprise the permanent collection of the Museum of Sex. This ever-growing collection, begun five years ago, covers many aspects of human sexuality. The vast majority of items reflect America's changing attitudes about sex and sexuality over the last 250 years.

Spotlight on the Permanent Collection explores eight themes: sex education; mapping sex in America; sex in art; law and public morality; sex in advertising; sex and technology; sex and entertainment; and the significance of the Museum of Sex in New York City. The exhibition includes erotic works by well known artists like Randy Wray, Gerald Gooch and Alex Rockman donated to the museum by the Peter Norton Family and the Lannan Family Foundation. Highlights of the technology collection include homemade contraptions and commercial devices registered with the U.S. Patent Office that prevent, improve or enhance sexual function. Dan Siechert's &quot;Monkey Rocker&quot; or Abyss Creations LLC's &quot;Real Doll&quot; are just a few of the exhibits featured.

The gallery development team, lead by John Vollmer and Karen Eckhaus of the Museum of Sex, includes several leading authorities from a wide range of disciplines: Dr. Pepper Schwartz, Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, St. Louis serves as a key advisor for &quot;Sex Education America.&quot; Joshua Berger and Sarah Dougher, authors of the (award-winning) book, XXX: The Power of Sex in Contemporary Design, have curated &quot;Stimulating Sales: Sex and Design.&quot;

Andrea Tone, Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine Social Studies of Medicine &amp; Department of History at McGill University, and Rachel Maines, Researcher at Cornell University, offer commentary in &quot;Sex and Technology.&quot; Dr. Joseph Slade, Professor at the School of Telecommunications, Ohio University and advisor on the exhibition, Stag, Smokers, and Blue Movies, helped to plan the exhibits in &quot;American pornography&quot; which are drawn from the Museum of Sex's Ralph Whittington collection.

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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/3359" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/3359">
  <Name>&quot;American Identities: A New Look&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</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, saturdays closinghour 18:00, sundays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[This major installation of more than three hundred fifty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's premier collection of American art integrates a vast array of fine and decorative arts (silver, furniture, ceramics, and textiles) ranging in date from the colonial period to the present. For the first time, major objects from these exceptional collections are joined by selections from the Museum's important holdings of Native American and Spanish colonial art. The galleries are organized according to a set of eight innovative themes, through which visitors can explore historical moments and crucial ideas in American visual culture over the course of nearly three hundred years.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $8, Seniors and Students $4, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm  Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/3738" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/3738">
  <Name>&quot;Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Art&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8049BA8A">
    <Name>Queens Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>Queens Museum of Art, Meridian Rd., Flushing, NY 11368</Address>
    <Phone>718-592-9700</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Ten-minute walk through the park to the Unisphere, where the museum is located. Follow the yellow signs. Subway: 7 to Willets Point/Shea Stadium</Access>
    <Area areaId="queens">Queens</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 12:00, sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933) was one of the foremost decorative artists of his time. His father, Charles Lewis Tiffany, was the co-founder of Tiffany &amp; Company, the luxury retailer best known for fine silver and jewelry. At an early age Tiffany was exposed to superbly-designed and expertly-crafted objets d’art, undoubtedly stimulating his love and appreciation for exceptional objects and setting him on a self-proclaimed “quest for beauty.”

Tiffany began his career as a landscape painter but eventually branched out into interior design and the decorative arts. Over the years he formed a number of companies in both Manhattan and Queens that manufactured leaded-glass windows, lamps, mosaics, glassware, enamels, ceramics, metalwork, furniture, and textiles. These works were available at his Manhattan showroom and in fine retail and jewelry stores throughout the United States and Europe.

Tiffany embarked on the production of lamps in the early 1890s. Although the light bulb was patented in 1879, electricity was not widely available until shortly after the turn of the century and even then only the wealthy could afford it. Tiffany’s earliest lamps, made of blown glass or leaded-glass and bronze, were fueled by kerosene. As electric light became affordable and gained popularity, Tiffany began offering his clients the choice of either oil or electric lamps.

One of the earliest serious collectors of Tiffany lamps, Dr. Neustadt assembled an encyclopedic collection which included desk, reading, library, and floor lamps as well as hanging shades and chandeliers. He also added leaded-glass windows and bronze desk sets to his collection. In 1967, he acquired some 500 crates of sheet and pressed glass made and used by the Tiffany Studios which were left over after the company went bankrupt in the early 1930s.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested donations: Adults $5, Seniors and Children $2.50, Members and Children under 5 Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/4A49" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/4A49">
  <Name>&quot;Arts of Asia and the Islamic World&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</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, saturdays closinghour 18:00, sundays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Asian and Islamic Art galleries provide a survey of the full range of Asian and Islamic art in the Brooklyn Museum, which houses one of America's foremost collections. It presents more than one hundred masterpieces from these extraordinary holdings, representing China, Korea, Japan, India, Southeast Asia and the Himalayas, and the Islamic world.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $8, Seniors and Students $4, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm  Free</Price>
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  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Replica of the Statue of Liberty&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</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, saturdays closinghour 18:00, sundays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Brooklyn Museum has completed conservation work on its &quot;little&quot; Lady Liberty, a thirty-foot replica of the Bedloe's Island Statue of Liberty. The historic statue, which once adorned the Liberty Warehouse in Manhattan, is part of the Museum's permanent collection of New York City architectural pieces.
Since 1885, when the 151-foot original created by the French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (1834–1904) was erected on Bedloe's Island, the colossal figure has inspired numerous smaller-scale replicas intended to echo the ideals of freedom, tolerance, and opportunity that it embodied for waves of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island. This thirty-foot replica was commissioned about 1900 by the Russian-born auctioneer William H. Flattau to sit atop his eight-story Liberty Warehouse (at 43 West 64th Street), then one of the highest points on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Flattau thus combined his entrepreneurial spirit with pride in the adopted country in which he had prospered.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $8, Seniors and Students $4, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm  Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/4F45" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/4F45">
  <Name>&quot;Tiffany: The Glass&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8049BA8A">
    <Name>Queens Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>Queens Museum of Art, Meridian Rd., Flushing, NY 11368</Address>
    <Phone>718-592-9700</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Ten-minute walk through the park to the Unisphere, where the museum is located. Follow the yellow signs. Subway: 7 to Willets Point/Shea Stadium</Access>
    <Area areaId="queens">Queens</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 12:00, sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Tiffany: The Glass, an installation of two windows, eleven lamp shades, and more than two hundred examples of sheet glass, explores some of the remarkable patterns, textures, and colors of opalescent glass used by the Tiffany Studios. This exhibition is the first of its kind and focuses on the beauty and diversity of the material used in the creation of spectacular leaded-glass windows, lamps, and mosaics produced under Louis Comfort Tiffany’s artistic direction.

This display highlights some of the most commonly used types of sheet glass produced at the Tiffany Furnaces in Corona, Queens, as well as glass purchased from commercial glass manufactures. The lamps and windows included in the exhibition demonstrate the ways in which these distinctive materials were used to replicate the details of the natural world.
]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested donations: Adults $5, Seniors and Children $2.50, Members and Children under 5 Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/5515" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/5515">
  <Name>&quot;Pop Art: Works on Paper&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The term Pop Art was first used around 1954 to describe a group of British artists, but by the early 1960s it became synonymous with a new American art movement that appropriated images, techniques, and materials from mass-media and popular culture and presented them in bold, graphic formats. Notable members of the movement included the painters Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol, and Tom Wesselmann, and the sculptor Claes Oldenburg. While these artists worked in different styles, they were similarly captivated by everyday consumer products, advertisements, billboard signs, television, films, comic books, newspapers, and magazines. Humor and satire often accompanied their art, which held a mirror up to modern-day society to reflect its values, mores, and obsessions.

]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0.051707</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2008-02-29</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Latitude>40.779</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/566A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/566A">
  <Name>Reopening of The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Wrightsman Galleries have undergone extensive renovations to improve the presentation of the Museum's renowned collection of French furniture and related decorative arts pieces—many of which have a royal provenance. The galleries include a number of important artworks previously not on view, including a mid-seventeenth-century carved ebony cabinet on a stand and a late-eighteenth-century carved and gilded state bed, as well as additional pieces of Sèvres porcelain and gold snuff boxes.

Renovations to the galleries included the repainting of the paneling in one of the period rooms, the conservation treatment of a large group of objects, and the reupholstering of several pieces of furniture with modern re-creations of their original show covers.

In addition to the visible enhancements made to the galleries, important behind-the-scenes renovations included the installation of state-of-the-art climate control and security systems, as well as new lighting and fire suppression systems, which will ensure the continued safety of these spectacular galleries.
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2007-10-30</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/5692" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/5692">
  <Name>&quot;Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</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, saturdays closinghour 18:00, sundays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In April, 2003, the Brooklyn Museum completed the reinstallation of its world-famous Egyptian collection, a process that took ten years. Three new galleries joined the four existing ones that had been completed in 1993 to tell the story of Egyptian art from its earliest known origins (circa 3500 B.C.) until the period when the Romans incorporated Egypt into their empire (30 B.C.–A.D. 395). Additional exhibits illustrate important themes about Egyptian culture, including women's roles, permanence and change in Egyptian art, temples and tombs, technology and materials, art and communication, and Egypt and its relationship to the rest of Africa. More than 1,200 objects— comprising sculpture, relief, paintings, pottery, and papyri—are now on view, including such treasures as an exquisite chlorite head of a Middle Kingdom princess, an early stone deity from 2650 B.C., a relief from the tomb of a man named Akhty-hotep, and a highly abstract female terracotta statuette created over five thousand years ago.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>9.88538</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $8, Seniors and Students $4, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm  Free</Price>
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  <Name>&quot;The Campin Room&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/0472F082">
    <Name>The Cloisters</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>99 Margaret Corbin Drive, New York, NY 10040</Address>
    <Phone>212-923-3700</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Subway: A train to 190th Street and exit the station by elevator. Walk north along Margaret Corbin Drive for approximately ten minutes or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop. If you are coming from the Museum's Main Building, you may also take</Access>
    <Area areaId="harlem_bronx">Harlem, Bronx</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:15:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>November–February closing 4:45pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Campin Room at The Cloisters, the branch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, recently reopened to the public following an extensive renovation. The gallery houses Robert Campin’s Annunciation Triptych (known as the Merode Triptych), which has been one of the masterworks at The Cloisters for nearly half a century. The new installation highlights the phenomenon of late medieval private devotion. Two new wall cases allow the exhibition of devotional objects formerly seen in the Treasury, and two important 15th-century stained-glass panels—one representing Christ as the Man of Sorrows, the other the Virgin as the Mater Dolorosa—have been installed in the central windows. Acquired in 1998, these panels are on view at The Cloisters for the first time and contribute greatly to the private devotional theme. New, more discreet lighting has been installed and the gallery walls have been re-plastered to match the original color. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0.253643</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Childeren under 12 Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2007-06-29</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
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  <Latitude>40.864675</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/576E" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/576E">
  <Name>&quot;Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Dedicated in 1966, the Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden at the Brooklyn Museum is a preeminent collection of terracotta, stone, and metal architectural elements salvaged from now-demolished structures throughout the metropolitan area and reinstalled outside the Museum's Norman M. Feinberg Entrance. Most of these remarkable objects date to the period between 1880 and 1910, recording a great era in the cultural, architectural, and industrial history of New York City.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $8, Seniors and Students $4, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm  Free</Price>
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  <Name>Walter de Maria &quot;The New York Earth Room&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Walter de Maria : The New York Earth Room</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>141 Wooster St., New York NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-989-5566</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between W Houston St. and Prince St. Subway: R/W to Prince Street or B/D/F/V to Broadway-Lafayette Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="soho">Soho</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The New York Earth Room, 1977, is the third Earth Room sculpture executed by the artist, the first being in Munich, Germany in 1968. The second was installed at the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, Germany in 1974. The first two works no longer exist.

The New York Earth Room has been on long-term view to the public since 1980. This work was commissioned and is maintained by Dia Art Foundation.

photo credit: John Cliett.

]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Visible Storage ▪ Study Center&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 11:00, sundays openinghour 11:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00, sundays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The last phase in the creation of the Luce Center for American Art concludes with the opening of the 5,000 square-foot Visible Storage ▪ Study Center. The dense display of objects in the Visible Storage ▪ Study Center offers you an inside look at how museums work and provides a glimpse of the breadth and scope of the Brooklyn Museum's extensive American collections. As huge as the Museum's building is, just a small fraction of the permanent collections can be displayed in its limited exhibition gallery space. Whereas only about 350 works are on view in the adjacent American Identities exhibition, this facility gives open access to some 2,000 of the many thousands of American objects held in storage, which are now available for viewing and research by students, scholars, and the general public.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $8, Seniors and Students $4, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm  Free</Price>
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  <Name>&quot;The Arts of Africa&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</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, saturdays closinghour 18:00, sundays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Over 250 works spanning more than 2,500 years represent art from the African continent in the Museum's first-floor galleries. Additional related art from ancient Egypt and Islamic North Africa can be found in the second- and third-floor galleries. The art on view in the first-floor galleries ranges from ancient Nubian pottery and sculpture, Berber jewelry, and West African masks to East African beadwork, Ethiopian processional crosses, and a contemporary ceramic vessel by the Kenya-born artist Magdalene Odondo. The main focus of the African collections is on sculpture from West and Central Africa.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $8, Seniors and Students $4, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm  Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/87CA" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/87CA">
  <Name>Walter De Maria &quot;The Broken Kilometer&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>The Broken Kilometer</Name>
    <Type>Other</Type>
    <Address>393 West Broadway, New York NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-989-5566</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Spring St. and Broome St. Subway: C/E to Spring Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="soho">Soho</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Broken Kilometer, 1979, located at 393 West Broadway in New York City, is composed of 500 highly polished, round, solid brass rods, each measuring two meters in length and five centimeters (two inches) in diameter. The 500 rods are placed in five parallel rows of 100 rods each. The sculpture weighs 18 3/4 tons and would measure 3,280 feet if all the elements were laid end-to-end. Each rod is placed such that the spaces between the rods increase by 5mm with each consecutive space, from front to back; the first two rods of each row are placed 80mm apart, the last two rods are placed 580 mm apart. Metal halide stadium lights illuminate the work which is 45 feet wide and 125 feet long.

This work is the companion piece to De Maria's 1977 Vertical Earth Kilometer at Kassel, Germany. In that permanently installed earth sculpture, a brass rod of the same diameter, total weight and total length has been inserted 1,000 meters into the ground.

The Broken Kilometer has been on long-term view to the public since 1979. This work was commissioned and is maintained by Dia Art Foundation.

All images of The Broken Kilometer are copyright Dia Art Foundation and may not be reproduced in any form without written permission from Dia Art Foundation. photo credit: Jon Abbott
]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
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  <Name>Gallery Talks</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/0472F082">
    <Name>The Cloisters</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>99 Margaret Corbin Drive, New York, NY 10040</Address>
    <Phone>212-923-3700</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Subway: A train to 190th Street and exit the station by elevator. Walk north along Margaret Corbin Drive for approximately ten minutes or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop. If you are coming from the Museum's Main Building, you may also take</Access>
    <Area areaId="harlem_bronx">Harlem, Bronx</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:15:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
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    <ScheduleNote>November–February closing 4:45pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Childeren under 12 Free</Price>
  <DateStart>0000-00-00</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>At noon and 2pm every Saturday and 1st Sunday of each month.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Latitude>40.864675</Latitude>
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  <Name>New Galleries for 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Paintings and Sculpture, including the Henry J. Heinz II Galleries</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The New Galleries for 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Paintings and Sculpture are reopening with renovated rooms and 8,000 square feet of additional gallery space—the Henry J. Heinz II Galleries—to showcase works from 1800 through the early twentieth century. The renovated galleries feature all of the Museum's most loved nineteenth-century paintings, which have been on permanent display in the past, as well as works by Bonnard, Vuillard, Soutine, Matisse, Picasso, and other early modern artists. Among the many additions are a full-room assembly of &quot;The Wisteria Dining Room,&quot; a French art nouveau interior designed by Lucien Lévy Dhurmer shortly before World War I that is the only complete example of its kind in the United States; Henry Lerolle's enormous The Organ Rehearsal (a church interior of 1885); a group of newly accessioned nineteenth-century landscape oil sketches; and a selection of rarely exhibited paintings by an international group of artists.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2007-12-04</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/A59B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/A59B">
  <Name>&quot;The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 11:00, sundays openinghour 11:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00, sundays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Dinner Party, an important icon of 1970s feminist art and a milestone in twentieth-century art, is presented as the centerpiece around which the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is organized. The Dinner Party comprises a massive ceremonial banquet, arranged on a triangular table with a total of thirty-nine place settings, each commemorating an important woman from history. The settings consist of embroidered runners, gold chalices and utensils, and china-painted porcelain plates with raised central motifs that are based on vulvar and butterfly forms and rendered in styles appropriate to the individual women being honored. The names of another 999 women are inscribed in gold on the white tile floor below the triangular table. This permanent installation is enhanced by rotating biographical gallery shows relating to the 1,038 women honored at the table. Pharaohs, Queens, and Goddesses is the first such exhibition.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.60225</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $8, Seniors and Students $4, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm  Free</Price>
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  <Name>New Gallery for the Art of Native North America</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Museum’s renovated gallery devoted to Native North American art display approximately 90 works made by numerous American peoples. Ranging from the beautifully shaped stone tools known as bannerstones of several millennia B.C. to a mid-1970s tobacco bag, the objects illustrate a wide variety of cultural background, artistic style, and functional purpose, all qualities inherent in the art of the peoples of the large North American continent. Works include wood sculpture from the Northwest Coast of North America, ivory carvings from the Arctic, wearing blankets from the Southwest, and objects of hide from the Great Plains. ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2007-11-14</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
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  <Latitude>40.779</Latitude>
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  <Name>New Greek and Roman Galleries</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Fashion</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The opening of the new Hellenistic, Etruscan, and Roman galleries—an entire wing housing over 5,300 objects in more than 30,000 square feet—completes the reconstruction and reinstallation of the permanent galleries of Greek and Roman art. The newest galleries present Hellenistic art and its legacy alongside those of Southern Italy and Etruria, forming the background to the story of Rome from the Late Republican period and the Golden Age of Augustus's Principate to the conversion of Constantine the Great in A.D. 312. The centerpiece of the new installation is the Leon Levy and Shelby White Court, a dramatic, skylit space that links the various galleries and themes. These include displays of the art of Magna Graecia and the world of the Etruscans, together with the stunning collection of Roman wall paintings that is unrivaled outside of Italy. The presentation of the art of the Late Hellenistic and Early Imperial periods is crowned by the newly reconstructed Cubiculum from the villa at Boscoreale near Pompeii and the Black Bedroom from Boscotrecase. In addition, on the mezzanine floor overlooking Fifth Avenue, there is a large display covering the entire cultural and chronological span of the department's rich collection.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0.516269</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2007-04-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <PermanentEvent>1</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.779</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.962342</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/B59D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/B59D">
  <Name>&quot;Decorative Arts Galleries and Period Rooms&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</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, saturdays closinghour 18:00, sundays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Brooklyn Museum's decorative arts collection occupies the fourth floor of the Museum. The focus of the collection is a group of American period rooms ranging in date from the 18th century to the 20th century. Interspersed with the period rooms are galleries that display an outstanding collection of American furniture, silver, pewter, glass, and ceramics. Additional objects from the decorative arts collection are on display in American Identities.  ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $8, Seniors and Students $4, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm  Free</Price>
  <DateStart>0000-00-00</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>0</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>1</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.671525</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.962556</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/BB6B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/BB6B">
  <Name>Gallery Workshops for Families</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/0472F082">
    <Name>The Cloisters</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>99 Margaret Corbin Drive, New York, NY 10040</Address>
    <Phone>212-923-3700</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Subway: A train to 190th Street and exit the station by elevator. Walk north along Margaret Corbin Drive for approximately ten minutes or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop. If you are coming from the Museum's Main Building, you may also take</Access>
    <Area areaId="harlem_bronx">Harlem, Bronx</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:15:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>November–February closing 4:45pm</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Children ages 4 through 12 and their families are invited for an hour-long program at The Cloisters, the branch of the Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, located in upper Manhattan. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Childeren under 12 Free</Price>
  <DateStart>0000-00-00</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>At 1pm, 1st and 3rd Saturdays and 1st Sunday of each month.</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>0</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>1</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.864675</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.930981</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/C486" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/C486">
  <Name>&quot;Assyrian Reliefs&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</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, saturdays closinghour 18:00, sundays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[These twelve massive carved alabaster panels, on view together for the first time, dominate the walls of the Brooklyn Museum's Hagop Kevorkian Gallery of Ancient Middle Eastern Art. Originally brightly painted, they once adorned the vast palace of King Ashur-nasir-pal II (883–859 B.C.), one of the greatest rulers of ancient Assyria. Completed in 879 B.C. at the site of Kalhu (modern Nimrud, slightly north of what is now Baghdad, Iraq), the palace was decorated by skilled relief-carvers with these majestic images of kings, divinities, magical beings, and sacred trees.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $8, Seniors and Students $4, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm  Free</Price>
  <DateStart>0000-00-00</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <PermanentEvent>1</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.671525</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.962556</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/D13A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/D13A">
  <Name>&quot;Masterpieces of Modern Design&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This installation will feature important works in all media from the modern design collection by some of the most renowned designers of the 20th century. A highlight will be the 1934 History of Navigation, a magnificent and monumental reverse-painted and gilt-glass mural by Jean Dupas (French, 1882–1964), made for the first-class salon of the French ocean liner Normandie. Visitors will also have the opportunity to view a number of recent acquisitions of more contemporary works, including Gaetano Pesce’s Black Rotation Vase (2005), the Gyre Lounge Chair (2006) by Zaha Hadid, and Dusasa II (2007), in found aluminum and copper wire, by El Anatsui. ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
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  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <PermanentEvent>1</PermanentEvent>
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  <Latitude>40.779</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/D453" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/D453">
  <Name>&quot;The Adventures of the Real Winnie-the-Pooh&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/03120B68">
    <Name>Humanities and Social Sciences Library</Name>
    <Type>Other</Type>
    <Address>476 5th Ave., New York, NY 10018</Address>
    <Phone>212-930-0757</Phone>
    <Fax>212-930-9218</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 41st St.  Subway: 7 to 5th Avenue, D/B/F/V to 42nd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>tuesdays closinghour 19:30, wednesdays closinghour 19:30, sundays openinghour 13:00, sundays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The REAL Winnie-the-Pooh won't be found on a video, in a movie, on a T-shirt or a lunchbox. Since 1987, the REAL Pooh and four of his best friends--Eeyore, Piglet, Kanga, and Tigger--have been living at The New York Public Library. Long before Walt Disney turned Pooh and his pals into movie stars, Christopher Robin Milne, a very real little boy living in England, received a small stuffed bear on his first birthday. He named him Edward Bear (later renamed Winnie-the-Pooh). Following Edward came the rest of the stuffed animals, which Christopher loved and played with throughout his childhood. One day, Christopher's father, A.A. Milne, and an artist named Ernest H. Shepard, decided that these animals, and two other imaginary friends, Owl and Rabbit, would make fine characters in a bedtime story. From that day on, Pooh and his friends have had many fanciful adventures, from Piglet's encounter with a Heffalump to Eeyore's loss of his tail. These stories have been embraced by millions of children and adult readers for more than 70 years.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>0000-00-00</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>0</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>1</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.752772</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.981531</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/DF1C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/DF1C">
  <Name>&quot;Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/17E1F92A">
    <Name>The Jewish Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1109 5th Ave., New York,NY 10128</Address>
    <Phone>212-423-3271</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 92nd St.  Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:45:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 16:00, thursdays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Thanksgiving and major Jewish holidays. Note new Thursday hours from November 19, 2009.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[At the heart of The Jewish Museum is its permanent exhibition, Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey, representing one of the world's great opportunities to explore Jewish culture and history through art. This vibrant two-floor exhibition features 800 works from the Museum's remarkably diverse collection of art, archaeology, ceremonial objects, video, photographs, interactive media and television excerpts. It examines the Jewish experience as it has evolved from antiquity to the present, over 4,000 years, and asks two vital questions: How has Judaism been able to thrive for thousands of years across the globe, often in difficult and even tragic circumstances? What constitutes the essence of Jewish identity?

The exhibition traces the dynamic interaction among three catalysts that have shaped the Jewish experience: the constant questioning and reinterpretation of Jewish traditions, the interaction of Jews and Judaism with other cultures, and the impact of historical events that have transformed Jewish life. Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey proposes that Jews have been able to sustain their identity, despite wide dispersion and sometimes tragic circumstances, by evolving a culture that can adapt to life in many countries and under various conditions. Survival as a people has depended upon both the continuity of Jewish ideas and values and the flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults $12, Seniors $10, Students $7.50, Free for Members and Children under 12 and on Saturday</Price>
  <DateStart>0000-00-00</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <PermanentEvent>1</PermanentEvent>
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  <Latitude>40.785383</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/F889" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/F889">
  <Name>&quot;Gallery Selections&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D2F542C2">
    <Name>Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, LLC</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>667 Madison Ave., 24 Fl., New York, NY 10065</Address>
    <Phone>212-813-9797</Phone>
    <Fax>212-813-9876</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 61st St. Subway: N/R/W to 5th Ave., 4/5/6 to 59th St./Lexington Ave. or F to Lexington Ave./63rd St.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>05:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="1" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 11:00, sundays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts is pleased to present a selection of its finest and newest acquisitions. The current installation of works in the gallery highlights the modernist landscapes of John Marin and Charles Burchfield, as well as the Ashcan paintings and drawings of William Glackens and Henry Glintenkamp. Exceptional works by such American Masters as George Bellows and Marsden Hartley are also on view, and are just a sampling of the extensive inventory the gallery has to offer. Please click the image to see further information. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>0000-00-00</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>0</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>1</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.764583</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.970778</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/FB1E" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/FB1E">
  <Name>&quot;A Watershed Moment: Celebrating the Homecoming of The New York City Water Supply Model&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8049BA8A">
    <Name>Queens Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>Queens Museum of Art, Meridian Rd., Flushing, NY 11368</Address>
    <Phone>718-592-9700</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Ten-minute walk through the park to the Unisphere, where the museum is located. Follow the yellow signs. Subway: 7 to Willets Point/Shea Stadium</Access>
    <Area areaId="queens">Queens</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 12:00, sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In 1937, New York City was in preparation for the 1939's World's Fair, the first of two in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. To celebrate the immense and intricate inner-workings of the City, various agencies were invited to produce exhibitions for the New York City Pavilion (now the Queens Museum of Art). The Board of Water Supply (today's Department of Environmental Protection) commissioned the Cartographic Survey Force of the Works Progress Administration to create a magnificent scale model of the New York City watershed, a relief map measuring almost 700 square feet and weighing 10,000 pounds. Tracing the City's water supply system from the outermost, upstream tributaries of the Delaware River to sea level at the Nassau County line, the watershed model identified the various aqueducts, water shafts and drainage basins that feed the City's water supply.

qmaDue to space limitations within the New York City Pavilion, the model was never exhibited in its entirety. After nearly 70 years in storage, the 27 completed panels were in desperate need of conservation. Through a collaboration between The Queens Museum of Art and the Department of Environmental Protection, the plaster and wood relief map was sent to McKay Lodge Fine Arts Conservation Lab in Oberlin, Ohio for one year of treatment. In time for its 70th anniversary, the model has been restored to its original brilliance and returns to its intended home in the New York City Building where it will remain on long-term loan. In celebration, the QMA and DEP will commemorate this momentous homecoming with an exhibition featuring the model, historic documentation, and contemporary photographs of the New York City watershed.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested donations: Adults $5, Seniors and Children $2.50, Members and Children under 5 Free</Price>
  <DateStart>0000-00-00</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>long term exhibition</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>0</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>1</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.744969</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.84685</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/FC50" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/FC50">
  <Name>&quot;Visionaire 53: Sound&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/51B30273">
    <Name>Visionaire Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>11 Mercer St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-274-8959</Phone>
    <Fax>212-343-2595</Fax>
    <Access>Between Grand and Canal St. Subway: A/C/E to Canal Street or N/Q/R/W to Canal Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="soho">Soho</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[An interactive exhibition of images and tracks from Visionaire 53. SOUND is currently on view at the Gallery.  Visionaire 53 consists of five 12-inch vinyl records, imprinted with images (picture discs), containing approximately 100 minutes of sound content featuring audio experiments, unreleased songs, samples, and spoken word pieces.

[Image: Anna Blessman and Peter Saville &quot;Heaven&quot; (2008)]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>0000-00-00</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>0</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>1</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.720378</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-74.002069</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/1792" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/1792">
  <Name>&quot;Extended Family: Contemporary Connections&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</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, saturdays closinghour 18:00, sundays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In the face of the social upheaval of the past few decades, the family has remained territory that is routinely explored in art. The intergenerational selection of work on view in this installation demonstrates that familial relationships continue to provide a rich source of artistic material, while the concept of the family has also been extended beyond blood ties to embrace larger groups or communities united by shared values, identities, lifestyles, or emotional needs. The artists express fluid definitions of the family and domesticity, drawing on experiences that are private and public, individual and communal. As members of a community that is both homegrown and globetrotting, many of the artists in this installation also transcend national boundaries, representing a new twenty-first-century breed that travels to create work in cities around the world.

Extended Family: Contemporary Connections highlights recent acquisitions and presents them alongside notable works that entered the collection over the past five decades. The Museum’s contemporary collecting focuses on art of the twenty-first century, which has seen the rise of Brooklyn as one of the most vibrant centers of cultural production in the world. Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Dumbo—now established artists’ enclaves—have given way to Red Hook, Bed-Stuy, the Gowanus Canal, and Bushwick as frontiers that offer artists prospects for affordable studio spaces. The Brooklyn Museum has collected contemporary art since the mid-nineteenth century. Extended Family demonstrates the Museum’s continuing commitment to living artists and to collecting distinctive art of our time.

[Image: Nina Chanel Abney (American, b. 1982) &quot;Forbidden Fruit&quot; (2009) Acrylic on canvas, 67 x 77 1/2 in. ]]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;European Paintings&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 11:00, sundays openinghour 11:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00, sundays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Although the collection of European paintings has often been presented in a chronological arrangement by school or style, this installation exploits the architecture of the soaring Beaux-Arts Court by devoting each wall to an exploration of the meaningful connections that the works display when arranged according to theme. The section called “Painting Land and Sea” surveys the formal methods that painters have used to render their physical surroundings across the centuries. “Art and Devotion” considers the ways in which the artists of the early Renaissance expressed the central tenets of the Catholic faith. “Narratives Large and Small” shows how artists distill the elements of a story into a single telling moment. Finally, “Tracing the Figure” charts the enduring artistic interest in the human figure, from portraits that place an individual in a clearly defined place and time to timeless abstractions of the human form.

[Image: Frans Hals &quot;Portrait of a Man&quot; Oil on canvas 29 x 21 3/4 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Compost-Modern&quot; Discussion Forum</Name>
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    <Name>Dactyl Foundation for the Arts &amp; Humanities</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>64 Grand St., 1 Fl., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-696-7800</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between West Broadway and Wooster St. Subway: A/C/E to Canal Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="soho">Soho</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>Saturdays 12am to 7 pm</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;CompostModern,&quot; a salon-style discussion forum, revolutionizing the way we present the work of poets and writers to the public. We have opened the floor to the community, bringing you in to participate in the planning, discussion, and hopes for the future of art, poetics and science. As the name implies, the CompostModern forum aims to re-cycle our rich aesthetic history. If the project of postmodernism was to deconstruct traditions, it has left us with a fertile soil out of which new forms may emerge. It is with the belief that all new forms of art must evolve from a history that we approach the guiding question of the forum: What is creativity? At each weekly meeting, Dactyl members, noted artists, poets, and scientists will be able to talk freely and on equal terms. We want to know your opinions, beliefs, values and theories about everything from beauty and meaning to pop-culture and hype. ]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Reading Room: 2000 books on contemporary art&quot; Library</Name>
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    <Name>e-flux</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>41 Essex St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-619-3356</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Hester and Grand Sts.  Subway: B/D to Grand Street, F to East Broadway, J/M/Z to Essex</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The reading room is a rapidly growing collection of several thousand books on contemporary art exhibitions open to the public at 41 Essex Street. The books have been donated by numerous art institutions and individuals from all parts of the world and reflect some of the more interesting developments in art of the past decade. e-flux reading room is open for research and study.

Contributing institutions include:
A Prior, Aeroplastics contemporary, Agentur fur Fotografie und Fotoprojekte, alphadelta gallery, aMAZElab, Americas Society, Annika Larsson, Apex Art Curatorial Program, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine (ADKV), Arch+ Foundation / Volume, Archis, Art &amp; Industry Biennial Trust, Art en Marge, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Art Goes Heiligendamm, Art in General, Art Lies - A Contemporary Art Quarterly, Art Press (Art Resources Transfer INC), Artangel, ArtBOX, artconnexion, Artes Mundi, Artfairs inc, artforum (Bookforum), Art-ist 5, artspace witzenhausen gallery, Artspeak, Asperger Autorenwerkstatt e.V., Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Athens Biennial, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, B&amp;M Verlag, BAK - basis voor actuele kunst, BAM/PFA, b-books, Bettinna Pousttchi, BIDA - Bienial Internacional del Deporte en el Arte, Bidoun: Arts and Culture from the Middle East, Black Dog publishing, Blanton Museum of Art, Boijmans Museum, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonniers Konsthall, Bookworks, Bristol School of Art Media and Design, bruno dorn verlag, Buchmann Galerie Berlin, Bury Art Gallery, CAB, Caja de Burgos Art Centre, Cabinet, CCA Wattis, Center for Contemporary Non-objective Art, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Centre Culturel Suisse Paris, Centre d'Art Nicolas de Stael, Centre d'Art Santa Monica Generalitat de Catalunya, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Centro de Arte Y Naturaleza (CDAN), Chiang Mai University Art Museum, Christian Brandstatter Verlag, Wien, Conner Contemporary Art, Contact (Toronto Photography Festival), Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Crawford Gallery, Crosswords, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Deutsche Guggenheim, Dia Center for the Arts, Didier Devillez Editeur, Dienst voor Cultuur, E31 Gallery, Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, e-flux, EIE (Primer Encuentro Internacional De Espacios De Arte Independiente 2005), Ellen Blumenstein, Fabbrica del Vapore, Festival der Regionen, Fillip, Fine Arts Unternehmen, Flatform, Fleunt-Collaborative, Flintridge Foundation, Florence Lynch Gallery, Fondacio &quot;Sa Nostra&quot;, Caixa de Balears, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, FormContent, FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, Framis International Office, Francesca Minimi, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frieze, GAK, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Galerie im Taxispalais - Galerie des Landes Tirol, Galerija &quot;Meno Parkas&quot;, Kaunas, Lithuania, Galerija Skuc, Galleri Image, Galleria Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Bergamo (GAMeC), Galleria Civica di Modena, Gallery at REDCAT, Gasworks Gallery, Goteborgs Konsthall, Gowett-Brewster Art Gallery, Green Cardamom, Gronlands Kulturhus, Hadley &amp; Maxwell, Halle für Kunst e.V., Harriet Godwin, Hellenic Culture Organisation, Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art, High Desert Test Sites, Hogeschool Gent, HomeShop, I Sotterranei delle Agostiniane, Monte Carasso, IM Projects, Independent Curators International (iCI), Index A / Stockholm, InSite/Installation Gallery, Institute National d'Histoire de l'Art , Paris, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Irwin, j &amp; k world, Jan Van Eyck Academie, jrg|ringier, Julie Joyce &amp; Sandra Firmin, k3 project space, Kasseler Kunstverein, Katuaq / Kirsten Justesen, Krannert Art Museum, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Kunsthaus Dresden, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Kunstmuseet Brundlund Slot, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Kunstverein Gottingen, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Kvindemuseet i Danmark, KW, Berlin, La Maison Rouge, Laura Palmer Foundation, Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Ashkal Alwan, Lehman College Art Gallery, Lightworks Magazine, Lismore Castle Arts, Livraison - Revue d'Art Contemporain / Contemporary Arts Journal, Locus Athens, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal State L.A., Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Matt's Gallery, London, MDD - Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Miami Design District, Middelheim Museum, Mobile Academy, MoBY, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, mono.kultur, Montenmedio Arte Contemporaneo / NMAC, Moskow Biennale 02, MOUSSE, Mucsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest, MUSAC Museu de Arte Contemporeáneo de Castilla y Léon, MUSEION, Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Museum in Progress, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Muzej savremene umetnosti, Beograd, Nada, nassauischer kunstverein e.V., National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), National Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest (Mucsarnok), National Sculpture Factory, Ireland, Netwerk/centrum for heedendaagse kunst, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V., Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nuno Cera, Nuno Ferreira de Carvahlo, O.K. Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Objectif Projects, Obra Social Caja Madrid, Office for Contemporary Art, Norway, Old Mill Books, OneStar Press, Or gallery, Vancouver, Parasol Unit, Foundation for Contemporary Art, Parker's Box, Parkett, PEAR, Picnic Magazine, Polonca Lovsin, Portikus, Printed Project, Project Art Center, Essex/ Project Press, Project Gentili, PS1, Public Art Lab /Mobile Studios, Public Art Lower Austria, Raphael Grisey, Regine Basha, Rekalde, Renee Ridgway, RSA Arts &amp; Ecology, Salzburger Kunstverein, SCI-Arc Gallery, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Sculpture Center, NY, Secession, Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession, Serpentine Gallery, Sharjah International Biennial, Site Gallery &amp; Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum, SITE Santa Fe, Spike - Art Quarterly, Sportmagzin Verlag GmbH, Star Ship, Statens Museum for Kunst, Sternberg Press, Stroom Den Haag, Studies of Anedafology, Studio 1, Summit, Susanne Kriemann, Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taipei Biennial and Taiwan Pavilion), Teachers College of Technology, Rachel &amp; Israel Pollak Gallery, Textem Verlag, The Armory Show, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, The Drawing Center, The Free Academy, The Moore Space, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania, The Power Plant - Contemporary Art Gallery Harbourfront centre, The press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, The Queens Museum of Art, The Vera List Center for Art and Politics - The New School, , The Women's Art Library - Make, Goldsmiths University London, Thelma Mathias, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (T-B A21), Topographis Press, TORCH Gallery, tranzit, initiative for contemporary art, Tyler Coburn, Umetnostna Galerija Maribor (Maribor Art Gallery), UP, Veenman Publishers, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Via Farini, Villa Arson, Nice, Villa Manin: Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Vydal KANT, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Witte de With, Wyspa Progress Foundation.
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  <Name>&quot;Kandinsky and Expressionist Painting before World War I&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/78479D33">
    <Name>Guggenheim Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1071 5th Ave., New York, NY 10128</Address>
    <Phone>212-423-3500</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 89th St.  Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 19:45</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The work of Post-Impressionists, such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse and the Fauves, and the Cubists in Paris, all informed the development of Expressionist art in the years immediately preceding World War I. The practitioners of this style, largely working and exhibiting in Germany, crossed paths via various associations and were also deeply influenced by their encounters with Japanese and African art, as well as Germanic folk art. From Vasily Kandinsky to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, artists who came to be associated with Expressionism sought to convey the communicative force of color through vibrantly hued canvases and bold forms.

The connections among these different artists were severed with the 1914 outbreak of World War I. Nonetheless, the postwar period saw the reunion of Kandinsky, Klee, and Jawlensky, who together with Lyonel Feininger, formed the Blue Four group in the United States. It was then that these artists were able to pursue their color theories with renewed vigor.]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Voces y Visiones&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>El Museo del Barrio</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1230 5th Ave., New York, NY 10029</Address>
    <Phone>212-831-7272</Phone>
    <Fax>212-831-7927</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 104th St., Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street or 96th Street</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The premiere exhibition in our new Carmen Ana Unanue Permanent Collection Galleries celebrates El Museo's 40th anniversary. Over 100 works created by a cross-section of Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American artists trace the museum's history and the artistic contributions and milestones that have been part of El Museo's four decades. Highlighting the strengths of the collections, this installation ranges from artifacts of the ancient Taíno people and their legacy to traditional objects, postwar and contemporary art, including graphics, photography and mixed media installations.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/85DE" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/85DE">
  <Name>Christian Marclay &quot;2822 Records (PS1), 1987-2009&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101</Address>
    <Phone>718-784-2084</Phone>
    <Fax>718-482-9454</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 46th Ave.  Subway: E/V to 23rd St./Ely Avenue, 7 to 45th Road, G to 21st Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="queens">Queens</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[This fall P.S.1 presents 2822 Records (PS1), 1987-2009, a site-specific floor-based installation of vinyl records by Christian Marclay.  Consisting entirely of 12-inch records of every musical genre and style, Marclay’s installation highlights the experiential qualities of music and vinyl recording by inviting visitors to walk on the artwork. Marclay’s installation highlights some of the most primal notions around music, namely volume, space, and physicality. As an example of viewer and audience participation, it highlights a seminal aspect of the upcoming exhibition 100 Years (version #1, ps1, nov 2009), drafting a  short history of actions, events, situations, happenings, and performances beginning with the Futurist Manifesto in 1909 until the present. Opening November 1.

[Image: Christian Marclay &quot;2822 vinyl records&quot; Photo: Richard Wilson. Courtesy P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.]]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Small Wonders from the American Collections&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
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    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This special exhibition celebrates a major new installation in the Luce Center for American Art: Visible Storage ▪ Study Center that gives the public access to more than 350 additional objects from the Museum’s collections. Since its opening in January 2005, the Luce Visible Storage ▪ Study Center has housed approximately 2,100 objects in two types of storage units: vitrined cases and paintings screens. The facility also contains forty-two drawers for storage. Beginning in mid-October and in stages over subsequent months, they will be filled with works from the Museum’s renowned American holdings and opened to the public. Once the drawers are full, the number of objects on view in visible storage will rise to 2,500—an increase of almost 20 percent.

The drawers’ contents will encompass a variety of objects from the Americas—including art of the United States as well as of the indigenous and colonial peoples of North and South America—and dating from the pre-Columbian period to the present day. Although the works range widely in terms of medium, date, function, and geographical origin, they do share a diminutive scale and suitability for flat storage. Among the objects that will be installed in the drawers are: American and Hopi ceramic tiles; Mexican pottery stamps; jewelry and other ornaments from Native and South American cultures; Modernist jewelry; silverplated flatware and serving pieces; Spanish Colonial devotional objects; American portrait and mourning miniatures; commemorative medals; and embroidery. As in other sections of the Luce Visible Storage ▪ Study Center, objects in the drawers are densely installed to maximize the available space and are grouped by type, medium, or culture. Visitors can learn more about the works by using one of the nearby computer kiosks in the facility, or by accessing the Luce database online. To obtain a list of a drawer’s entire contents, use the Map feature and select numbers 41 through 47.

Held in conjunction with the drawers installation, Small Wonders from the American Collections features an eclectic selection of seventy works of art on the walls and in the display cases above the drawers. This exhibition both highlights objects that will be installed in the drawers and reveals a diversity of cultural traditions and artistic practices that constitute American art. A variety of jewelry and objects of personal adornment—although produced by different peoples—function similarly to signify information about the wearer’s identity. Flatware, pins, and other silver items on display reflect a broad array of forms, styles, and uses for this valuable metal. Ceramic tiles made contemporaneously by Native and non-Native Americans provide an interesting cross-cultural comparison with respect to the decoration and marketing of these wares.

[Image: Unknown Artist &quot;Fan&quot; (1822–31) Ivory sticks and painted paper mount. ]]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Chinatown Film Project: How Do You See Chinatown?&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/556D6C14">
    <Name>The Museum of Chinese in America</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>215 Centre St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-619-4785</Phone>
    <Fax>212-619-4720</Fax>
    <Access>Between Howard &amp; Grand Sts. Subway: N/R/Q/W/J/M/Z/6 to Canal Street.</Access>
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  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Chinatown Film Project (CFP), MOCA's inaugural film exhibition features ten original short films by ten of New York's most exciting filmmakers. 

The Guy with the Cigarette directed by Miguel Arteta; Church Basement Bomb Shelter directed by Patty Chang; New York Night Scene directed by Jem Cohen; Kiwi Lotion directed by Cary Fukunaga; I Can’t Wait directed by So Yong Kim &amp; Bradley Rust Gray; Fortune Cookie directed by Amir Naderi; Chinatown: In Their Own Words directed by Sam Pollard; Five Lessons and Nine Questions directed by Shelly Silver; Sunday at 6 directed by Rose Troche; Tuesday directed by Wayne Wang &amp; Richard Wong with Lonely Alone, a special opening trailer directed by Richard Wong.

The Chinatown Film Project (CFP) tackles Chinatown's elusiveness and its stereotyped representations by constructing new images for the viewer.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $7, Seniors and Students $4, Children under 12 in groups less than 8 and MOCA Members and on Thursdays Free. </Price>
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  <Name>&quot;With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>The Museum of Chinese in America</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>215 Centre St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-619-4785</Phone>
    <Fax>212-619-4720</Fax>
    <Access>Between Howard &amp; Grand Sts. Subway: N/R/Q/W/J/M/Z/6 to Canal Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_manhattan">Lower Manhattan</Area>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America, MOCA’s new core exhibit, will bring to life the Museum’s unique historical content and birth a compelling art work by fusing itself with the architectural heart of its new home designed by Maya Lin on Centre Street.  Metaphorically and literally, this “heart” will ground visitors, and be the focal point of the “new MOCA experience.”  This presentation is an innovative approach to museum and exhibition design.  It will facilitate a new way of interacting with content: through the evocative use of space that stirs visitors’ emotion and breaks down barriers to deeper learning and understanding.

The core exhibition presents the diverse layers of the Chinese American experience while examining America’s journey as a nation of immigrants—from an historical overview of Chinese immigration to the United States, to the individual stories that reveal what it has meant to be Chinese in America at different moments in time, to the physical traces and images left behind by past generations for us to consider, reflect and reclaim.

A key element of the exhibition is its dialogue with Maya Lin’s architectural centerpiece – a sky lit courtyard at the heart of the museum. The exhibit wraps around and engages with the courtyard, which represents the idea of China – a collective origin, which for many after the first generation, becomes a constructed, rather than an actual, memory. Not unlike the rooms of a Chinese house, each section of the exhibit is connected to the courtyard via portals. Each one containing films of people narrating personal life stories, demonstrating how history is propelled by individual moments of decision-making in the face of circumstances larger than themselves. External walls dialogue with the inner, in order to provide the larger historical context for Chinese American struggles and achievements.

Thematically and chronologically, the exhibit reveals the complex layers of the Chinese American experience through six modules:

1) Go East! Go West!  examines how the flow and exchange of goods and people helped shape the formation of new identities, ideas, and perceptions of both Chinese and Americans during the 19th century.

2) America: Staking Claims explores the political climate in America leading up to the Chinese Exclusion Act, and its impact as the first federal law to restrict the immigration of a specific group based on nationality, defining in legal terms who could not “become American.”


3) Greetings from Chinatown shows how by the turn of the century, Chinatowns had sprung up in cities all across America forming an important economic and social network for Chinese Americans, as well as sites of cultural exchange in America’s urban centers.

4) Allies, Enemies? looks at how conflicts abroad dictated the fortunes of Chinese Americans at home.  While World War II brought about the eventual repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, China’s Communist revolution fueled Red Scare targeting of Chinese in America.

5) Seeds of Change presents the great shifts in Chinese American communities during the latter half of the 20th century. The landmark Immigration Reform of 1965 helped revitalize and diversify the Chinese population, and a second generation of Chinese Americans came of age in a time of cultural activism and community organizing.

6) Made in America!? explores how globalization has transformed American culture as much as the circulation of American culture has influenced peoples and nations outside the U.S., and while globalization promotes new and complex versions of national identity, it also creates conditions for expressions of ethnicity and identity politics.
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/C1AA" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/C1AA">
  <Name>&quot;Thannhauser Collection&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Guggenheim Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1071 5th Ave., New York, NY 10128</Address>
    <Phone>212-423-3500</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 89th St.  Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Justin K. Thannhauser (1892–1976) was the son of art dealer Heinrich Thannhauser (1859–1935), who founded the Moderne Galerie in Munich in 1909. From an early age, Thannhauser worked alongside his father in the flourishing gallery and helped to build an impressive and versatile exhibition program that included the French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, the Italian Futurists, and regularly featured contemporary German artists. The Moderne Galerie presented the premier exhibitions of the New Artists’ Association of Munich (Neue Künstlervereinigung München) and The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter), both of which included Vasily Kandinsky, in 1901 and 1911, respectively. Kandinsky later described the gallery’s rooms as “perhaps the most beautiful exhibition spaces in all of Munich.” The Moderne Galerie also mounted the first major Pablo Picasso retrospective in 1913, thus initiating the close relationship between Justin K. Thannhauser and Picasso that lasted until the artist’s death in 1973.

The Thannhausers’ commitment to promoting artistic progress paralleled the vision of Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861–1949). In appreciation of this shared spirit, and in the memory of his first wife and two sons—who might have continued in the family’s art trade had they not died at tragically young ages—Thannhauser gave a significant portion of his art collection, including over 30 works by Picasso, to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1963. From 1965 until Thannhauser’s death in 1976 (when his collection formally entered the Guggenheim’s holdings), the Thannhauser Collection was on long-term loan to the museum. A bequest of 10 additional works received after Hilde Thannhauser’s death in 1991 enhanced the legacy of this family of important art dealers.

Organized by Tracey Bashkoff.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $18, Students and Seniors $15, Members and Children under 12 Free, Friday 5:45-7:45pm Pay As You Wish</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/DAAA" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/DAAA">
  <Name>&quot;Rachel Beach and Nicole Stager&quot; Exhibiton</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/23274AC1">
    <Name>92YTribeca Art</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>200 Hudson St., New York, NY 10013 </Address>
    <Phone>212-601-1000</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Canal St.  Subway: 1, A/C/E to Canal Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="soho">Soho</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
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    <ScheduleNote>Daytime hours subject to change.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[92YTribeca presents the works of Rachel Beach and Nicole Stager – both formerly shown at Like the Spice gallery in Brooklyn – in an opening reception for this semi-permanent exhibit.

Brooklyn-dwelling, Ontario-born Rachel Beach creates works that have been described as “tough, precise and disciplined with a hard edged cheeriness.” Her wall-mounted sculptures – wooden portals and towers – rest on the border “between sculpture and painting, illusion and reality, masculine and feminine, representation, abstraction and decoration.” The portals literally take on the idea of a window, framing a section of wall or empty space in the gallery; the towers are architectural but can also seem at times like freestanding ornament. Each of these sculpture/paintings is designed to alter our visual perception of three-dimensional form.

Nicole Stager creates her work in the darkroom, drawing with handheld light sources in a process that combines the specificity of photography with the aesthetic of abstract painting. Time, color, shape and line are all uniquely presented in Stager’s work; the final product has far more to do with the interaction of light, shadow and chemistry than with the objects that produced them. A native of Pennsylvania, Stager is currently completing her MFA in New Media from the Transart Instituta at Danube University in Krems, Austria.

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  <Name>&quot;Behind the Screen&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/6F3A19B8">
    <Name>The Museum of the Moving Image</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>3601 35th Ave., Astoria, New York 11106</Address>
    <Phone>718-784-0077</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 36th St.  Subway: weekends R/G, weekdays R/V to Steinway</Access>
    <Area areaId="queens">Queens</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Museum's core exhibition, Behind the Screen, illuminates the many processes involved in producing, marketing, and exhibiting the moving image, with more than a thousand film and television artifacts, computer-based interactive experiences, commissioned installations, audio-visual materials, and demonstrations of professional equipment and techniques.

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