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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>
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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="2008/3359" 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>
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    <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: Other</Media>
  <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>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 12:00, sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
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  <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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 <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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 <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.
]]></Description>
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  <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/A59B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/A59B">
  <Name>&quot;The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago&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: 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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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/B1D9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/B1D9">
  <Name>New Greek and Roman Galleries</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
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  <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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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2007-04-20</DateStart>
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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>
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  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
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  <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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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/9FB0" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/9FB0">
  <Name>&quot;Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/EB18574C">
    <Name>Museum of Arts &amp; Design</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-299-7777</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>At 58th St. and 8th Ave.  Subway: B/C/D to 59th Street/Columbus Circle</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>In the Summer opened on Tuesdays.  Check with the venue for details.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The first major exhibition of Viola Frey's work since her death in 2004 will feature Frey's colossal clay figures, sculptures, ceramic plates as well as a selection of her paintings and works on paper. Frey emerged in the complex and often contradictory art world of the 1950's, where painting, craft (specifically ceramics), and design often merged and diverged in dynamic ways. Coming from abstract expressionist traditions in the 1950s, she became involved in ceramics as her contemporaries Peter Voulkos and Robert Arneson were taking this medium to new sculptural and expressive horizons. Frey found her unique style and visual vocabulary in her life-long fascination with mass-produced ceramics figurines which she collected in flea markets combining molded and actual versions of these elements in what are known as her &quot;bricolage&quot; sculptures. Frey recounted her own life, as well as late-twentieth century culture, through her art. She is a forerunner in self-revelation by creating sculptures and vignettes based on her own personal relationships, recollections and the people she knew. &quot;Frey is best known for her brilliantly colored, literally larger-than-life ceramic figures of domineering men and over-wrought women,&quot; notes Sims. &quot;Not only does Frey reveal her early involvement in painting in the dynamic color glazes of the surfaces of these ceramic sculptures, but she also proves to be a perceptive observer of gender and power issues as they specifically played out in mid-twentieth century America.&quot;

[Image: Viola Frey &quot;Weeping Woman&quot; (1990-1991) Ceramic, glaze 76 x 58 x 80 in. © Artists' Legacy Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $15, Students and Seniors $12, Members and Children under 12 Free, Thursdays 6 - 9pm Pay What You Wish</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-02</DateEnd>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/CC02" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/CC02">
  <Name>&quot;Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The second porcelain factory in Europe able to make true porcelain in the manner of the Chinese was established in Vienna in 1718. Founded by Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier, the small porcelain enterprise developed a highly distinctive style that remained Baroque in inspiration throughout the history of the factory, which was taken over by the State in 1744. Du Paquier produced a range of tablewares, decorative vases, and small-scale sculpture that found great popularity with the Hapsburg court and the Austrian nobility. This exhibition will chart the history of the development of the Du Paquier factory, setting its production within the historic and cultural context of Vienna in the first half of the eighteenth-century. The porcelain to be featured will be drawn from both the Metropolitan Museum and the premier private collection of this material.
Accompanied by a publication. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-08-22</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-21</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>3</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.779</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.962342</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/364A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/364A">
  <Name>Jessica Jackson Hutchins &quot;Over Come Over&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D7B3A48B">
    <Name>Small A Projects</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>261 Broome St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-274-0761</Phone>
    <Fax>212-274-0756</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Orchard St. Subway: D/B to Grand Street, J/M/Z to Essex Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Jessica Jackson Hutchins employs hand-formed ceramic vessels, household furniture and collage to articulate sculptural forms that interrogate the space between the banal and the sublime. Her sculptures and collages put found objects and familiar materials in conversation, resulting in poetic abstractions where aggregate forms transcend the immediacy of their common parts. The insistent materiality of her sculptures and their raw surfaces yields to a humor and intimacy that solicits an empathic response from the viewer. Patently abstract, the works in this exhibition all point indirectly toward figurative forms.  Some pieces originate with furnishings taken from the artist’s home, which invests them with both an emotional urgency and an acute specificity.  These care-worn domestic objects bear the familiar marks and dents of encounters with bodies and things; casual imperfections that humanize them.  In other pieces, Hutchins pulls prints and casts impressions directly from furniture: She makes collages on prints that capture the carved and inked surface of a dining-room table, and two sculptures assume the bulky mass of an old green arm chair. The use of ceramics in the work simultaneously signifies domestic utility and the realm of historical artifacts.  But Hutchins’ vessels also generate metaphors for bodies and body parts (both literal and fantastic) as regenerative or spiritual containers.  Hutchins’ expansive vocabulary is deeply invested in the innate human ability to recognize and associate with others and objects.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-28</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>10</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.718059</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.990492</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/3BCF" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/3BCF">
  <Name>&quot;California Dreamers: Ceramic Artists from the MAD Collection&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/EB18574C">
    <Name>Museum of Arts &amp; Design</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-299-7777</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>At 58th St. and 8th Ave.  Subway: B/C/D to 59th Street/Columbus Circle</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>In the Summer opened on Tuesdays.  Check with the venue for details.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The exhibition is presented in conjunction with Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey to give a sense of the lively era in which she was working. At the beginning of Viola Frey's career- the early 1950s, the art climate in California encouraged experimentation. Far removed from the New York art world and its hierarchical and conventional definitions of fine art, California artists were free to explore with more personal and artistic freedom. They created work which was informal and vibrant, introducing the concepts of Abstract Expressionism and Funk to the field of ceramics.

[Image: David Gilhooly &quot;Europa Version of Cowpachino&quot; (1993) Low fire white earthenware, commercial glazes; wheel-thrown, hand-built 7.75 x 8 x 7 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults $15, Students and Seniors $12, Members and Children under 12 Free, Thursdays 6 - 9pm Pay What You Wish</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-30</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>73</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.767589</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.982067</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/3C8C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/3C8C">
  <Name>&quot;Celebration: The Birthday in Chinese Art&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In Chinese art, the birthday is a celebration of a long and rewarding life. This exhibition—focusing on scenes of splendid celebrations and works incorporating the theme of longevity—draws together examples in many media from the Museum’s collection as well as some exceptional promised gifts.
A recurring scene of a grand reception at a family compound—appearing in a lacquer screen and boxes, a set of embroidered panels, a porcelain vase, and a tapestry—represents the eightieth birthday party of General Guo Ziyi (697–781), a Tang-dynasty hero who was transformed into a popular god of wealth, honor, and happiness. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this celebratory scene itself became a metaphor for birthday celebrations and a frequent theme in large-scale works presented to distinguished individuals to commemorate a birthday, promotion, or retirement. The largest works are usually in tripartite form: scenes of arriving guests, the reception, and the family's private quarters.
Themes of longevity were pervasive in art of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and decorative arts, paintings, and garments with such themes were appropriately given, displayed, and worn on birthdays. Long life was encoded in the character for longevity (shou), in scenes with Daoist immortals, and in rocks, peaches, cranes, and flora and fauna of many kinds. Other associations with longevity are based on myths and legends, such as tales of the theft of peaches of immortality from the orchard belonging to Xiwangmu, the Daoist deity known as the queen mother of the west.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-27</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-08-15</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>150</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.779</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.962342</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/C638" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/C638">
  <Name>&quot;Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The second porcelain factory in Europe able to make true porcelain in the manner of the Chinese was established in Vienna in 1718. Founded by Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier, the small porcelain enterprise developed a highly distinctive style that remained Baroque in inspiration throughout the history of the factory, which was taken over by the State in 1744. Du Paquier produced a range of tablewares, decorative vases, and small-scale sculpture that found great popularity with the Hapsburg court and the Austrian nobility. This exhibition charts the history of the development of the Du Paquier factory, setting its production within the historic and cultural context of Vienna in the first half of the eighteenth-century. The featured porcelain is drawn from both the Metropolitan Museum and the premier private collection of this material. ]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/C638-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/C638-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.nyartbeat.com/media/event/2010/C638-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-11-22</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-21</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>3</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.779</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.962342</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/E0EF" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/E0EF">
  <Name>&quot;Curator's Choice Featuring Japanese Art Brut&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E7FA1E66">
    <Name>Cavin-Morris Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>210 11th Ave., 2 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-3768</Phone>
    <Fax>212-226-0155</Fax>
    <Access>Between 24th and 25th St. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 11:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Calligraphy</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Cavin-Morris presents one of the first exhibitions in New York City of artwork by self-taught artists from Japan.  The show will be this first of many exhibitions centered on drawings and paintings with strong abstract calligraphic content, ceramics with an almost deconstructed tribal feeling, and wildly expressionistic textiles.  There is a sub-current that travels through this work; it unravels the tightly wound meticulous constrictions of Japanese Traditional Craft and explodes it into a fascinating world of anti-calligraphy, anti-sculpture, and anti-textile formalism.  The art in this exhibition never loses its Japanese context but its aesthetic capacity to interface with contemporary world art by trained and untrained artists is powerful and non-challengeable.
 
We were introduced to this body of Japanese Art Brut by the contemporary artist Yohei Nishimura, whose sensitive guidance and non-interference has nurtured the creative journeys of artists with disabilities in Japan.  This work is raw and beautiful.   Its ragged edges appear because the individual expression is less about control of technique then the struggle for direct expression and immediate contact with materials and translation of ideas.  The strength of individual styles prevail through the drawings, ceramics and fiber pieces, and this is as much a testament to Nishimura’s sensitive midwifery of expression in a world where too often instructors unduly dominate and influence the work.   He offers immediate help when it comes to the technical process of firing the ceramics. The two ateliers represented in this exhibition provide the artists studio space away form home, but most of these artists continue their creative activities at home as well. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0.486549</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-27</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>9</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.750583</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-74.006147</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/F750" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/F750">
  <Name>Group Show</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/AA0BBC92">
    <Name>Soufer Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1015 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-628-3225</Phone>
    <Fax>212-628-3752</Fax>
    <Access>Between 78th and 79th St. Subway: 6 to 77th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[André Lhote : Works on Paper 
Brother Thomas : Honan Tenmoku Glaze
Jean Lambert-Rucki : Wood Reliefs]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-27</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-21</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>3</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.775803</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.962486</Longitude>
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