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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/051A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/051A">
  <Name>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>
    <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: 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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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $25, Seniors $17, Students $12, Members and Children Free</Price>
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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>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Graphics</Media>
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  <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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  <Price free="0">Adults $14.50, Students and Seniors $13.50</Price>
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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>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
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  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <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 $10, Seniors and Students $6, 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>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="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 12:00, sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Closed Monday &amp; Tuesday With the exception of Learning Programs &amp; Workshops.  Also closed on New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day.</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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  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
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  <Latitude>40.744969</Latitude>
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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>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</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>
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  <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 $10, Seniors and Students $6, 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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 <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>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 12:00, sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Closed Monday &amp; Tuesday With the exception of Learning Programs &amp; Workshops.  Also closed on New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day.</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="2008/57EA" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/57EA">
  <Name>&quot;Visible Storage ▪ Study Center&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>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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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 $10, Seniors and Students $6, 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/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>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <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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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $10, Seniors and Students $6, 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/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>
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    <ScheduleDetails>tuesdays closinghour 19:30, wednesdays closinghour 19:30, sundays openinghour 13:00, sundays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <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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 <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>1.03387</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults $12, Seniors $10, Students $7.50, Free for Members and Children under 12 and on Saturday</Price>
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  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <PermanentEvent>1</PermanentEvent>
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  <Latitude>40.785383</Latitude>
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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>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="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 12:00, sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Closed Monday &amp; Tuesday With the exception of Learning Programs &amp; Workshops.  Also closed on New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day.</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>2.72301</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>
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  <Latitude>40.744969</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/DD08" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/DD08">
  <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>10:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 20:00, saturdays closinghour 19:00, sundays closinghour 19:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Museum is currently closed for renovations, until January 15, 2011.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <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.

Museum Closed for Renovation. Grand Re-Opening, January 15, 2011. From October 12 through December 23, 2010, the core exhibition Behind the Screen will be open to school and adult groups by appointment.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults $10, Seniors and Students $7.50, Children (5-18) $5, Members and Children under 5, Friday 4-8pm (galleries only) Free</Price>
  <DateStart>0000-00-00</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Museum Closed for Renovation. Grand Re-Opening, January 15, 2011. From October 12 through December 23, 2010, the core exhibition Behind the Screen will be open to school and adult groups by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/1E6D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/1E6D">
  <Name>&quot;Material Lab&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/AE192502">
    <Name>The Museum of Modern Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-708-9400</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th Ave. and 6th Ave.  Subway: V/E to 53rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Summer Hours through Sept. 3: Sunday through Wednesday, 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, 10:30 a.m.–8:30 p.m.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Explore a multitude of materials in our latest interactive space. In the lab, visitors of all ages can touch, assemble, and create. Experiment with painting techniques using a new digital painting program from Microsoft. Stop by before or after visiting MoMA’s galleries! ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults $25, Seniors $18, Students $14, Children and Members and on Friday 4pm–8pm Free. Film Admission as of September 1, 2011: $12 adults; $10 seniors, 65 years and over with I.D.; $8 full-time students with current I.D. (for admittance to film program</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-02-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-06-30</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Material Lab is open Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, 10:30–17:00; Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 10:30–20:00. Free with Museum admission.</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>142</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.761072</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/7A02" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/7A02">
  <Name>&quot;Mirror of the Buddha&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E60BEA54">
    <Name>Rubin Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>150 W 17th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-620-5000</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 7th Ave. Subway: 1/2/3 to 14th Street or 1 to 18th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_east">East Chelsea</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>wednesdays closinghour 19:00, fridays closinghour 22:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00, sundays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>7-10pm the museum is free to all visitors, the K2 Lounge/bar is open from 6 pm. until late. Happy Hour 6–7 pm. Performances in the theater start at 7pm.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The exhibition is the third in a series of eight exhibitions and catalogs by the foremost scholar of Tibetan Buddhist painting, David Jackson. Jackson’s current research focuses on the history of Tibetan painting as it can be reconstructed through inscriptions and representations of religious lineages from Tibetan primary
sources. Treating paintings as historical documents, Jackson offers an unprecedented methodological approach to studying Tibetan art. He has examined and contextualized these objects and woven them into a rich historical narrative that provides many insights into the culture and art of Tibet and, in this exhibition, identifies the major players in the development of the Tibetan Buddhist religious traditions  --  teachers, monks, students, and patrons of  historical teaching lineages.
 
The exhibition can be seen concurrently with Once Upon Many Times: Legends and Myths in Himalayan Art until January 30, an exhibition that presents the variety of forms that tell stories of the Buddha, great teachers, legendary masters and their spiritual quests, and adventures of heroes painted in thangkas, murals, and told in front of portable shrines.
 
 
What do such ancient paintings mean to us today? According to Donald Rubin, co-founder and co-chair of the board of the Rubin Museum, “When we look at the portraits of teachers presented in the exhibition, we feel that we know them because of the human features depicted -- balding heads, peculiar facial hair, or protruding teeth. They look like people we might have met just yesterday. And in feeling that connection, we receive the inspiration they offer us -- great saints all of them -- reaching across time and space.” Chief Curator Jan Van Alphen added, “David Jackson fully explores this notion of guru worship and its artistic outcomes, noting the conflicting tendencies present in such paintings—depicting the idealized saint and the recognizable human teacher at the same time.”
 
Mirror of the Buddha includes portraits of the founders and teachers in all of the Tibetan Buddhist schools. Six Tibetan Buddhist sects are represented in all, in rough chronological order. They begin with the Kadam School, followed by Taklung, Drigung Kagyu, Karma Kagyu, Sakya, and Geluk traditions. Within each school, the paintings are ordered chronologically. Grouping the art by religious tradition allows the visitor to observe broad pan-Tibetan stylistic developments. It also highlights a few cases of striking sectarian stylistic preferences.
 
Dating between roughly 1200 and 1550, the images chosen for presentation exemplify two classic Indic styles of Tibetan painting. Most are in the East-Indian inspired Sharri (“Pala”) style, characterized by classic Indian forms, delicate colors, and intricate decorative details. Though this style spread from India to many parts of Asia, it was emulated most faithfully by Tibetans, enjoying its highest popularity in Tibet from the twelfth to fourteenth century.  A number of the later portraits are in the Nepalese-inspired Beri style, which succeeded the Sharri in Tibet in the mid-fourteenth century.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0.589259</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults $10, Seniors, Students, Artists and Neighbors(zips 10011/10001 with ID) $7, Children under 12 and on Fridays 7pm-10pm Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-10-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-05</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>25</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/8870" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/8870">
  <Name>&quot;The Mummy Chamber&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>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This installation of more than 170 objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-famous holdings of ancient Egyptian material explores the complex rituals related to the practice of mummification and the Egyptian belief that the body must be preserved in order to ensure eternal life. On view are the mummy of the priest Thothirdes; the mummy of Hor, encased in an elaborately painted cartonnage; and a nearly twenty-five-foot-long Book of the Dead scroll. Also in the installation are canopic jars, used to store the vital organs of mummies, as well as several shabties, small figurines placed in tombs, each of which was assigned to work magically for the deceased in the afterlife. The installation includes related objects, among them stelae, reliefs, gold earrings, amulets, ritual statuettes, coffins, and mummy boards.

[Image: &quot;Coffin and Mummy Board of Pa-seba-khai-en-ipet.&quot; Egypt, from Thebes. Third Intermediate Period, circa 1070–945 B.C.E. Wood, painted, 76 3/8 x 21 5/8 x 12 5/8 in. (194 x 55 x 32 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 08.480.2a–c]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $10, Seniors and Students $6, 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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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/29E8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/29E8">
  <Name>&quot;Skewville's 80th Birthday: A Retro Retrospective&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/27C35EA9">
    <Name>Factory Fresh</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1053 Flushing Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11237</Address>
    <Phone>917-682-6753</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Morgan and Knickerbocker. Subway: L to Morgan Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="williamsburg">Williamsburg</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</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: Installation</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Skewville twins have been making things since birth, from building club houses in the 70's, graffiti in the 80's, then on to commercial ventures in the 90's. In the past 13 years, they have been making innovations on the street and in art galleries with their stylized work and installations. Best known for their wooden sneaker mission &quot;When Dogs Fly&quot; which continues to evolve and has grown to many new cities and editions.

This past year they returned from their final european show in the UK at High Roller Society and did a coast to coast tour showing at Pawn Works in Chicago, Black Book in Colorado &amp; White Walls in San Francisco. They have also done a large scale mural for Brooklyn's North Side Festival as well as creating The Bushwick Art Park and making an outdoor prototype at the New Museum. The Bushwick neighborhood summer favorite for 2011 was when Skewville painted an entire building to look like boombox.
As the largest collectors of their own work, Skewville will showcase past favorites such as the original giant &quot;Hype&quot; signs from Wooster Collective's 11 Spring Street show in 2006, as well as the Skewville &quot;Lawnmower Stamper&quot; that prints out &quot; Keep on Grass&quot; and The Secret Laboratory Book Shelf Door from Basement AIr Show in 2005. Also featuring their wooden sneaker archives from 1999 to present as well as recent artworks from the past few years will also be available and on display.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-11</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-03" start="19:00:00" end="22:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>31</DaysBeforeEnd>
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  <Latitude>40.704233</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/2F54" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/2F54">
  <Name>Karen Gibbons &quot;A Cup of Air&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/279BADB4">
    <Name>440 Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>440 6th Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215</Address>
    <Phone>718-499-3844</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 9th and 10th St. Subway: F to 7th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays openinghour 16:00, fridays openinghour 16:00, </ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The 440 Gallery presents A Cup of Air, whimsical new sculpture by Karen Gibbons created from found objects and photography.

&quot;I'm going out for a cup of air,&quot; Brooklyn artist Karen Gibbons's mother would say to her five children as she stepped outside for a reprieve from the stresses of parenting. The free-standing sculpture and sculptural wall pieces in this exhibit, A Cup of Air, express that whimsical metaphor. They are playful, curious and evocative. This new body of work draws inspiration from three sources: the pastoral landscape, the Gowanus Canal neighborhood of Brooklyn, and the artist's recently rediscovered family photo archives. Gibbons ingeniously integrates photographs and found objects with an eclectic approach that combines sculpture, painting, drawing and photography in surprising ways. Delightful, unexpected contradictions arise out of the mixture of these elements. The pieces have an air of both reminiscence and anticipation, they combine the ephemeral with the enduring, and they mingle the cherished and the forbidden.

This is Gibbons's third solo show at the 440 Gallery. Over the past several years Gibbons has been developing a unique approach of combining different artistic processes. This method unites her formal training as a painter, her years of practice as a sculptor, and a more recent foray into photography. Gibbons's penchant for incorporating found elements into her work continues in this show, with found objects now taking center stage. The notion of &quot;found&quot; applies to photographic images, which are layered onto &quot;found&quot; objects. In each piece, shape, form and color are distilled until a singular image emerges from the tension between the found and the deliberate. Gibbons consolidates layers of color and texture in each piece until its shape becomes iconic, nearly symbolic. Its disparities take on a new life, and its ambiguities allow associations and references to surface for each viewer.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-23</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-08</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-23" start="18:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>59</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.667664</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/94BE" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/94BE">
  <Name>&quot;Night Falls&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F26D3665">
    <Name>P.P.O.W.</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>535 W 22nd Street, Fl. 3, New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-647-1044</Phone>
    <Fax>212-647-1043</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_22">Chelsea 22nd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Martin &amp; Muñoz are an art team best known for their “Travelers” series of snow globes and photographs. In the world that they have developed, blizzard transformed landscapes often serve as backdrops for enigmatic narratives. These are in some instances angst-dream inspired. Others are hard times fables. There is a socio-political as well as a psychological aspect to these images and sculptures. As is often the case with this couple's work, the narratives have an unfinished open ended quality. 

For this exhibition, Martin &amp; Muñoz have chosen night as a back drop.  Fires, flashlights and moonlight puncture the dark to expressive effect.  Important details and aspects of the narratives are lent a dynamic chiaroscuro where the interplay of light and dark shape both the mood and contour of the subject.  Some of the images and snow globes depict a sort of dystopian Kinderland.  This is a place where children have no parents, a place where adults appear only as an opposing tribe.  Some of characters depicted and developed in this group of photos include: a giant black dog, a band of rogue tree children and a nefarious priesthood.  A small group of related snow globes will also be exhibited.

Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz have been collaborating since 1993 and have since exhibited internationally. Their work is in numerous museum collections, including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas, and the KIASMA Museum of Contemporary art in Helsinki, Finland.  Recently their work was featured in group exhibitions at the Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington; the Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Concurrent with the exhibition at P.P.O.W the artists are participating in the exhibition “Fairytales, Monsters and the Genetic Imagination” at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Laura Westby &quot;Transcendental Spaces&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8402CDDA">
    <Name>Phoenix Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>210 11th Ave., Suite 902, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-8711</Phone>
    <Fax>212-343-7303</Fax>
    <Access>Between W 24th and W 25th St. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.　</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[My work deals with the function of landscape, not from a point of view, but as a field of change. The multiple canvases allow the overall field to be a conversation between its parts, thus allowing the viewer to be able to perceive the landscape as though one were walking through it. In this way the paintings are a concept of a landscape and not a single view.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
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