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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>
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    <Access>Corner of 27th St., Subway: R/W 28th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="flatiron_gramercy">Flatiron, Gramercy</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
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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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 <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>
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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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  <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>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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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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 <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>
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    <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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 <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>
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    <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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 <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>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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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="2009/91C9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/91C9">
  <Name>&quot;Small Wonders from the American Collections&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>
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    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00,</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <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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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/46DC" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/46DC">
  <Name>The André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments</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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  <Description><![CDATA[After an eight–month hiatus, the gallery devoted to Western musical instruments has reopened, showcasing more than two hundred works of art drawn primarily from the Metropolitan's extensive holdings, among the most important in the world. The new installation explores each work within its musical and cultural context, offers exciting comparisons of how individual makers realized the same concept, and introduces examples of the various instruments' developments. Among the wide range of objects on view—keyboard, string, percussion, woodwind, and brass instruments—a highlight is the famed &quot;Batta&quot; cello made in Cremona, Italy, by Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737), on loan from a private collection. 
[Image: Antonio Stradivari  “Violoncello 'Batta-Piatigorsky'” (1714) Spruce, maple, ebony]]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/7ECF" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/7ECF">
  <Name>&quot;Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980&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>
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    <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>
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    <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>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The new installation of the Architecture and Design Galleries features a selection of visionary objects, graphics, architectural fragments, and textiles from the Museum’s collection that reveal the attempts of successive generations to shape their experience of living in the modern world. Roughly three hundred works are thematically organized into five installations: Art Nouveau objects and posters  from 1890 to 1914, featuring stunning designs by Hector Guimard, Antoné Gaudi, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh; posters and graphics of the New Typography movement (1927–37) (on view through July 12); works from 1925 to 1940, including a giant railroad-car spring and a billboard for Ford Motors, that focus on the relationship of mind, body, and machine; a survey of the influential Good Design movement (1944–56), including iconic pieces by Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, and Hans Wegner; and works from the 1960s  and 1970s that merged the clean and elegant forms of modern design with new materials, colors, and forms, opening up new possibilities for more playful, expendable design.

[Image: Paolo Lomazzi, Donato D'Urbino, and Jonathan De Pas &quot;Blow Inflatable Armchair&quot; (1967) PVC plastic. Manufactured by Zanotta S.p.A., Italy. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the manufacturer.]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.32058</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>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/A605" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/A605">
  <Name>&quot;On the Move: Transportation Toys from the Permanent Collection&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/1C69A591">
    <Name>The Museum of the City of New York</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1220 5th Ave., New York, NY 10029</Address>
    <Phone>212-534-1672</Phone>
    <Fax>212-423-0758</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 103rd St.  Subway: 6 to 103rd 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="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[On the Move is a special installation of toy and miniature vehicles from the Museum's Permanent Collection that not only suggest the lives of the children who played with them but also reveal how transportation evolved and changed in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The transportation toys on view are modeled on vehicles once commonly recognized throughout our city: Boats for traversing New York's rivers and harbors; horse-drawn carts and wagons used for local transport, conveying goods throughout the city, and enabling police and fire departments to get where they were needed; and the gas-powered automobiles and trucks that were traveling the city's streets and crossing its great bridges by the early 20th century.
[Image: Clockwork Ocean liner, ca. 1915 Painted tin, Carette &amp; Co., Nuremberg, Germany.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Admission: Adults $10, Seniors and Students $6, Families $20 (max. 2 adults) Children 12 and under Free</Price>
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  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/BD5E" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/BD5E">
  <Name>Tibetan Arms and Armor from the Permanent Collection</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: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This installation presents approximately forty highlights from the Museum's extensive permanent collection of rare and exquisitely decorated armor, weapons, and equestrian equipment from Tibet and related areas of Mongolia and China, dating from the eighth to the twentieth century. Included are several recent acquisitions that have never before been exhibited or published.
[Image: Tibetan, and possibly Bhutanese and Nepalese cavalry armor (18th-19th century) Iron, gold, copper alloy, wood, leather, and textile]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $25, Seniors $17, Students $12, Members and Children Free</Price>
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  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></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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  <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>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/9C87" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/9C87">
  <Name>&quot;Highlights from the Modern Design Collection, 1900 to the Present, Part II&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>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This installation of modern and contemporary design objects features new acquisitions and other important works from the past century to the present. Highlights include René Lalique's &quot;Swan&quot; necklace of opals and amethysts, a newly acquired chair by Henry Van de Velde, a playfully brilliant room divider by Ettore Sottsass, and a chandelier by the Dutch designer Joris Laarman. Also presented are glass, ceramics, metalwork, drawings, and posters.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $25, Seniors $17, Students $12, Members and Children Free</Price>
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  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/9E9B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/9E9B">
  <Name>&quot;Plywood: Material, Process, Form&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>
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  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[“Plywood,” explained &quot;Popular Science&quot; in 1948, “is a layercake of lumber and glue.” In the history of design, plywood is also an important modern material that has given 20th-century designers of everyday objects, furniture, and even architecture greater flexibility in shaping modern forms at an industrial scale. This installation features examples, drawn from MoMA's collection, of modern designs that take advantage of the formal and aesthetic possibilities offered by plywood, from around 1930 through the 1950s. Archival photographs illuminate the process of design and manufacture in plywood. Iconic furniture by Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, and Arne Jacobsen appear alongside organic platters by Tapio Wirkkala (1951), Sori Yanagi’s Butterfly Stool (1956), an architectural model for a prefabricated house by Marcel Breuer (1943), and experimental designs for plywood in the aeronautics industry.
[Image: Sori Yanagi. Butterfly Stool. 1956. Molded plywood and metal, 15 1/2 x 17 3/8 x 12 1/8&quot; (39.4 x 44.1 x 30.8 cm). Manufactured by Tendo Co., Ltd., Tokyo. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the designer, 1958]]]></Description>
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  <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>2011-02-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-27</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/B812" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/B812">
  <Name>&quot;19th-Century Modern&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: Fashion</Media>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Featuring more than forty items from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection of American and European decorative arts, 19th-Century Modern will focus on the emergence of Modernism, a design aesthetic based in part on the machine as a source of artistic inspiration. To many, “modern design” suggests the simple lines, abstract decoration, and machine-based methods and materials that gained widespread popularity in the twentieth century. The objects in this installation demonstrate that the development of modern industrial design and the emergence of a taste for abstraction began much earlier. In addition to differences in objects’ appearance, this period marked important modifications in how objects were produced and marketed. The works included illustrate the development of the modern industrial world and of an appreciation for simple decoration based either on geometry or organic curves.

The installation will feature objects dating from the early nineteenth century, when the trend toward Modernism began, to the twentieth century. The items on view include furniture by John Henry Belter, Duncan Phyfe, the Thonet Brothers, Samuel Gragg, Bradley &amp; Hubbard, and George Hunzinger; silver objects by Tiffany &amp; Company, Gorham Manufacturing, and Napier (in particular designs by Christopher Dresser and Elsa Tannhardt); and a five-piece French clock garniture manufactured by Guilmet.

[Image: Guilmet Cie (active 1861–1910). Five-Piece Clock Garniture, circa 1885. Silvered bronze, 9 1/4 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Marcus S. Friedlander, by exchange, 2009.49.1-5]]]></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>
  <DateStart>2011-09-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-01</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Latitude>40.671525</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/BC40" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2011/BC40">
  <Name>&quot;Mobilier National&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E0759F6E">
    <Name>Demisch Danant</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>542 W 22nd St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-989-5750</Phone>
    <Fax>212-989-5730</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street, A/C/E to 14th Street or L to 8th Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_22">Chelsea 22nd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 12:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Demisch Danant gallery will unveil the first American exhibition devoted exclusively to the 20th century furniture created under the Mobilier National - an institution of the République française conceived to decorate the official palaces and residences of the Republic and to promote the highest levels of beauty, originality and technical innovation in French decorative arts and design. Mobilier National will present more than 20 rare examples of furniture realized under this extraordinary program between 1964, including Olivier Mourgue’s Montreal Chair and Table (1967), and a selection of Pierre Paulin designs for the Palais de l'Elysée including a rare Bureau de Dame (1981). Also on view will be an important President's Desk (1968) by Henri Lesetre and a Chaise Grains de café (1971) by Francois Xavier and Claude Lalanne.

The exhibition will remain on view through February 2012 at the gallery’s New York space in the West Chelsea arts district of Manhattan.

Dating back to the 17th century, the Mobilier National has been responsible for the decoration of the Republic’s many official government spaces at home and abroad. In 1964, the Atelier de Recherche et Creation (ARC) was created under the Mobilier National to promote a uniquely French contemporary style by engaging and supporting the work of 
French designers and artists. Since the 1960s, the ARC has realized over 500 prototypes for furniture and lighting, including many objects now viewed as icons of modernity. Pierre Paulin and Olivier Mourgue were the first to participate in the Mobilier National’s ARC in the 1960s. They were followed over ensuing decades by such significant figures as Elizabeth Garouste and Mattia Bonetti, and Martin Szekely in the 1980s, and the Bourroullec brothers Ronan and Erwan in the 1990s. Today, ARC continues to promote extraordinary artistic creativity in France, providing leading designers and new talents alike the resources necessary to experiment with new techniques and materials.

The exhibition at Demisch Danant focuses primarily upon the important commissions that emerged during the ARC’s first years. In 1967 the Mobilier National requested Olivier Mourgue to design the seats and tables for the French Pavilion at Expo ‘67 in Montreal. The organization commissioned Pierre Paulin to furnish the private apartments of President George Pompidou at the Palais de l'Elysée in 1969, and for the Exposition Universal in Osaka in 1970, where Paulin’s now famous Amphis sofa was unveiled. In these cases, the ARC-sponsored prototypes gave way to editions through commercial entities, allowing the vision and talent of French designers to emanate beyond the nation’s borders, influencing design internationally: these curved and softened objects heralded the beginning of a broader cultural design shift away from the more functional, hard-edged and streamlined Modernist aesthetic of the early 1960s, and toward an organicism still powerful today.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.25252</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-11-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-11</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>2</DaysBeforeEnd>
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  <Latitude>40.747694</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/2E1B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/2E1B">
  <Name>&quot;Theater, Life, and the Afterlife: Tomb Décor of the Jin Dynasty from Shanxi&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/3F82DA9B">
    <Name>China Institute</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>125 E 65th St., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-744-8181</Phone>
    <Fax>212-628-4159</Fax>
    <Access>Between Park Ave. and Lexington Ave.  Subway: 6 to 68th Street or F to Lexington Ave-63rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>tuesdays closinghour 20:00, thursdays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Closed between exhibition</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[A new exhibition at China Institute Gallery will explore how theater and art intersected in the realm of the Chinese afterlife.

Since the 1950s and as recently as a few years ago, hundreds of brick tombs from the Jin dynasty (1115-1234) have been excavated in Shanxi province, located in the north central region of China. The exhibition presents more than 80 beautifully sculpted objects revealing a passion for theater and opera in this region during the Jin dynasty. One of the highlights, a re-creation of a newly excavated tomb, will enable visitors to see how thoughtfully prepared art patrons were for the afterlife.

he ancient Chinese believed in an afterlife and imagined they would have needs similar to those they’d had in their lives on earth. Not only were the nobles buried in elaborate tombs filled with household goods, but the tomb décor in Shanxi province, like that of many tombs found in China, featured numerous references to entertainment.
 
Famed for their brick carving, artists in Shanxi developed sophisticated techniques, creating lively sculptural images in the grey bricks, some of them painted with vibrant colors. The most intriguing of the dozens of intricate and dramatic brick carvings found in tombs dating back to the Song dynasty (960-1127) are those depicting theatrical performances.. The carvings serve as evidence of the popularity of the theater in ancient Shanxi, said to be the cradle of Chinese opera and drama, and illustrate two kinds of popular entertainment: Za Ju, formal performances of written plays; and San Qu, performances related to village festivals.
 
Notes Willow Weilan Hai Chang, Director, China Institute Gallery, “The role of theater was crucial to ancient Chinese life in Shanxi. Not only was it an important form of entertainment, but it enlightened people’s lives, providing a moral education. One of the most important aspects of the Chinese value system developed by Confucius is filial piety, respect for parents and ancestors, which provided many story lines in ancient theater.”
 
The most recent discovery of Chinese brick carvings occurred in July 2009, during the renovation of a staff residence for a chemical company in Jishan county in Shanxi province. When construction workers hit a brick wall while digging, they called the local museum. An excavation ensued, revealing an ancient tomb from the Jin dynasty (1115-1234) decorated with magnificent painted brick carvings surrounding one raised coffin bed that contained a couple of skeletons. Assembled for the first time above ground, the reconstructed tomb presented in Theater, Life, and the Afterlife will include 43 of these carved bricks. Adorned with floral motifs, strongman guardians, and the faces and figures of auspicious animals – all carved in brick and painted with colored pigments – the tomb is considered a treasured gem of ancient Chinese art.
 
Among the performances depicted by carvings is the story of the Eight Immortals, who were considered to be actual people with special capabilities not unlike today’s superheroes. These seven men and one woman were the subjects of countless theatrical performances, stories, and poems.
 
Considered one of the most famous of the eight, Lü Dongbin, an actual historical figure, was a well-known Taoist master at the end of the Tang dynasty. Worshipped as a deity, he appears in many legends. Lü was said to have had a youthful look when he was more than a hundred years old – and had such a quick pace that he could travel hundreds of Chinese miles (known as li, about 1,640 feet) in a single moment.
 
Tieguai Li, another of the eight, represents the most dramatic story of reaching immortality: his body was accidentally cremated when it was still in spiritual transience. Thus, Li had to inhabit the body of a homeless man who had just died of starvation. Fortunately, Laozi, the founder of Taoism, provided him with magical medicines, and he was able to care not only for himself but also for the poor , traveling to help them with a gourd full of medicine on his back.
 
Another fascinating story told by the bricks concerns Meng Zong who was worried about his ill mother who craved bamboo shoots in winter. Meng wandered the bamboo forest, discouraged by the impossibility of the request. However, filial piety moved heaven and earth, and bamboo shoots miraculously emerged from a crack in the ground. Meng brought them home and cooked them in a soup for his mother, who subsequently recovered from her illness.
 
Under the direction of Willow Weilan Hai Chang, Director, China Institute Gallery, Theater, Life, and the Afterlife: Tomb Décor of the Jin Dynasty from Shanxi is curated by Shi Jinming, Director, Shanxi Museum, China. This exhibition is made possible, in part, by the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation and China Institute Friends of the Gallery.

[Image: Tomb, Jin dynasty (1115–1234), L. 2.8 m; W. 2m Unearthed at a chemical company, Jishan county, Shanxi province Courtesy of Shanxi Museum]]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/5180" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/5180">
  <Name>&quot;Ukrainian Kilims: Journey of a Heritage&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/CF206ABF">
    <Name>The Ukrainian Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>222 E 6th St., New York, NY 10003</Address>
    <Phone>212-228-0110</Phone>
    <Fax>212-228-1947</Fax>
    <Access>Between 2nd and 3rd Ave. Subway: 6 to Astor Place, W/R to 8th St. or F/V to 2nd Ave. and Houston St.</Access>
    <Area areaId="villages">Villages</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:30:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Ukrainian Kilims: Journey of a Heritage, an exhibition of selected kilims from The Ukrainian Museum's permanent collection, will open to the public on February 12, 2012. More than 30 prized examples from the collection, the oldest kilim dating back to the late 18th century and others from the early 20th century, reveal the range and richness of colors and motifs used in the weaving of kilims. The exhibition will remain on display until October 21.

&quot;Kilim weaving has been practiced by Ukrainians for more than a thousand years,&quot; said Lubow Wolynetz, the Museum's curator of folk arts. &quot;Some of the kilims that are on display had survived war and the destructive Soviet occupation of Ukraine. They were transported across borders by Ukrainian refugees determined to preserve their cultural legacy. Left in our care after the arduous journey from Ukraine to this country, we are proud to present them as part of our growing collection of traditional textiles.&quot;

The flat tapestry rugs, woven on vertical or horizontal looms to produce stylized floral ornamentation or geometric patterns respectively, are made with naturally dyed wool, which yields rich, soft hues and adds to the beauty and warmth of the traditional Ukrainian kilim.

Spinning and weaving tools dating back to the Trypillian age (ca. 5000-2000 BC) have been found on the territory of today's right-bank Ukraine. The earliest known account documenting Ukrainian kilim weaving is a 10th century chronicle by the Arabian traveler, Ahmed Ibn Faldan, who wrote about a funeral kilim and the woman responsible for its production. References in other chronicles describing both the ritualistic and everyday usage of kilims by the princes of Kyivan Rus continue into the 12th century. By the 15th century, the importance of the kilim was indisputable, as detailed descriptions of kilims identified among the property holdings of Ukrainian aristocrats often included color, ornamentation, quality, size, and values, as well as their uses – as wall decor, table or bench covers, floor covering, and as important components of brides' dowry chests.

Stimulated by Western European demand, kilim production in Ukraine boomed from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Weaving guilds were formed. Workshops staffed by serf labor supplied private estates and manufactured kilims for the trade. Even monasteries took part in kilim production. Once an object coveted by the nobility, by the 19th century the kilim became a universal ornamental item in the average home. Kilims were being routinely produced on looms in Ukrainian villages as adornment for home interiors, highly-prized dowry chest items, and essential funeral textiles. By the end of the 19th century, however, the abolition of serfdom and rise of industrialization led to a significant decline in Ukraine's kilim industry, the socioeconomic effects negatively impacting village kilim weaving as well.

Around the turn of the 20th century, Ukrainian scholars and art lovers started developing an interest in folk art. Workshops reappeared and folk art schools were established. Students of weaving learned the art by copying antique kilims in private collections and museums, many of which have been since destroyed, thus preserving the designs and techniques. Artists such as Mykola Butovych, Sviatoslav Hordynskyi, Robert Lisovsky, Petro Cholodny, Jr., and Olena Kulchytska built reputations as kilim designers in the 20th century, and created several of the designs for original pieces that are included in this exhibition.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/70A3" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/70A3">
  <Name>Greg Sholette &quot;Fifteen Islands for Robert Moses&quot;</Name>
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    <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: Architecture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Fifteen Islands for Robert Moses is a site-specific art infiltration into the Panorama of the City of New York, which was built for the 1964 World’s Fair by urban planner Robert Moses and is now a centerpiece of the Queens Museum of Art. Artist and theorist Greg Sholette made and placed new islands about the Panorama’s waterways, where they exist as silent, post-9/11 observers of the City’s past, present, and future. Modeled in the same style as the Panorama, each island represents Sholette’s interpretation of a question he posed to a group of other artists and art theorists: “If you could add an island to New York City, what would that new landmass be like?” Touching on issues from environmental and economic justice to the overflowing archives of human memory and immigrant’s rights, the new fantasy islands interrupt the familiar geography of the Panorama, subtly haunting a favorite destination for students, tourists, and urban planners. Surrounding the Panorama is a series of posters about the project’s participating collaborators: Hana Shams Ahmed, Brett Bloom, Larry Bogad, Marc Fischer, Aaron Gach/Center for Tactical Magic, Libertad Guerra, Dara Greenwald, Marisa Jahn, Karl Lorac/Themm!, Ann Messner, Ted Purves, Rasha Salti, Dread Scott and Jenny Polak, Jeffrey Skoller, and Nato Thompson. ]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/BED8" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/BED8">
  <Name>&quot;RETROspect&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Charles Bank Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>196 Bowery, New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-219-4095</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Prince and Spring Sts.  Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue or 4 to Spring Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Charles Bank Gallery presents RETROspect, a pairing of staff selected contemporary artworks with examples of exquisitely painted nineteenth-century woodworking from the collection of Elliott and Grace Snyder. The contemporary collection includes work by Allen Grubesic, Adam Henry, Barnaby Hosking, Eske Kath, Kim Keever, Ryan James MacFarland, Kasper Sonne, and Pär Strömberg. 
 
Elliott and Grace Snyder have been full-time antiques dealers since 1970, and currently exhibit in the most important antiques shows in this country, including the Winter Antiques Show in New York. They are also founding members of the Antiques Dealers’ Association of America, a trade organization dedicated to encouraging the maintenance of high ethical standards in the business of buying and selling antiques.
 
The Snyders specialize in 17th, 18th, and early 19th century American furniture and decorative arts with an emphasis on textiles, painted and/or decorated furniture in original condition, and folk art. Their interest has always been in 'country' interpretations of formal designs in which craftsmen were freer to improvise on prevailing structures. The Snyders always seek out pieces that successfully embody individual imagination.

The six antiques from the Snyder collection were specifically chosen for their hand-painted surfaces that resemble abstract paintings from a more recent period in Art History. As a result, the juxtaposition of these pieces with artworks from the Charles Bank Gallery program offers viewers a fresh perspective on both collections.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C370" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/C370">
  <Name>&quot;Bright Future: New Designs in Glass&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Pratt Manhattan Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>144 W 14th St., 2 Fl., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-647-7778</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 6th and 7th Ave., Subway: L to 7th Avenue, 1/2/3/9 to 14th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_east">East Chelsea</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Glass is an ancient material whose second life is just beginning. &quot;Bright Future&quot; introduces innovative designs that reflect traditions in glass while demonstrating its new possibilities.
 
Guest Curator: Sarah Archer

Participating artists, designers and firms:
 
Lindsey Adelman Studio, U.S.A.
Werner Aisslinger and CIAV Meisenthal, France
Omer Arbel for Bocci, Canada
Alison Berger, U.S.A.
Amiram Biton, Israel
James Carpenter Design Associates, U.S.A.
Marco Dessí for J. &amp; L. Lobmeyr, Austria
GlasPro, U.S.A.
Hulger and Samuel Wilkinson, U.K.
Helen Lee, U.S.A.
Áron Losonczi / Litracon, Hungary
Ingo Maurer, Germany and U.S.A.
Giovanni Moretti for Carlo Moretti Srl., Italy
Moving Color, U.S.A.
Bruce Munro, U.K.
Tom Patti, U.S.A.
Robert Stadler, France
SWITCH Lighting, U.S.A.
Liana Yaroslavsky, France]]></Description>
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  <Name>Eva Zeisel &quot;Important Works of 20th Century Design&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Schroeder Romero &amp; Shredder</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>531 W 26th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-630-0722</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 11th and 12th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Eva Zeisel: Important Works of 20th Century Design&quot; extends our previous exhibition celebrating Zeisel's long career on the occasion of her passing, December 30, 2011. Born in Hungary in 1906, Zeisel was one of the most important industrial designers of the 20th century with an over 80 year career. About Zeisel, art critic Jed Perl wrote, &quot;There are elements of the magician, the poet, and the joker in everything that Eva Zeisel does. Seeing her objects next to one another, I know that stories are unfolding. Zeisel is a philosopher of the table top; she imagines all the relationships that can develop in a community of forms.&quot; This exhibition features works ranging from her early Bauhaus-influenced geometric designs for the Schramberg factory in the late 1920s to the rare small edition reissued designs produced in the late 1990s. In this context, Zeisel's designs are showcased for being continuously fresh and vibrant. Underscoring Zeisel's uniquely fluid form and self-confessed commitment to the s-curve, on view are her famous room dividers, iridescent Zsolnay vases, sterling silver bud vases and well-known ceramic pieces such as the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, among many other pieces.  Zeisel's designs are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, and many others around the world.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D6DF" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/D6DF">
  <Name>&quot;Come and Get It!&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/3F1AA6BF">
    <Name>Hendershot Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>195 Chrystie St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-239-1210</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Stanton and Rivington Sts.  Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Hendershot Gallery presents the opening of Come and Get It!, a group show that features the work of Alben, Daniel Arango, Ghost of a Dream, Ted Noten, Rachel Bee Porter, Tom Sanford, Shelter Serra and Marie Vic.

Come and Get It! encompasses our inherent fascination with consumer goods. While the artist's reference to popular culture is certainly not a new endeavor, the boundary between art and commerce has become increasingly faint. Come and Get It! exhibits the work of eight contemporary artists, each of whom explores the intersection between popular culture, consumerism and art. Inspired by bold and overt advertisements scattered throughout Manhattan, the title of this show further exaggerates the sales tactics used to seduce us into making an impulsive purchase. For the duration of this five-week exhibition, Hendershot Gallery will redesign its gallery space – creating an ironic juxtaposition between the contemporary art world and the retail experience.
 
Highlighting this reciprocal dialogue between art and commerce, Hendershot Gallery has partnered up with local businesses and artists to contribute their products for this exhibition. Books and t-shirts from photographer Jesper Haynes’ St. Marks: 1986-2006 series will be available at the gallery, revealing twenty years of memories throughout his time living on the iconic New York City block. The opening reception for Come and Get It! will be sponsored by our friends at BOMB Beer Company and The Little Cupcake Bakeshop. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
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  <Name>Thomas Heatherwick &quot;Extruding and Spinning&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Haunch of Venison</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>550 W 21st St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-259-0000</Phone>
    <Fax>212-259-0001</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_21">Chelsea 21st</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Haunch of Venison presents the first U.S. exhibition of Thomas Heatherwick, one of Britain’s most celebrated architect designers. Heatherwick’s designs engage in the spectrum of architecture, engineering and public art. He has worked on a diverse range of projects from buildings, bridges to handbags and furniture. His British pavilion won the top prize for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010 and he was awarded three RIBA awards in 2010, including the prestigious Lubetkin Prize 2010 and has been selected to design the 2012 Olympic cauldron.  Extruding and Spinning is an exhibition of Heatherwick’s first two high-end furniture projects; Extrusion, a series of extruded benches and chairs and Spun Coriolis, a series of spinning metal chairs for which he was awarded Design Medal at the London Design Festival 2010.
Highlights of the exhibition will include four extruded, mirror  polished, nickel plated, aluminum benches made without fixtures or fittings  – the world’s first single component of metal furniture, extruded by machine.  Heatherwick Studio commissioned a specially designed die through which a single billet of  aluminum  was ‘squeezed’ into a chair profile, complete with  legs, seat and back. The aluminum emerges in a raw unpolished finish, which is then cut and sometimes shaped; each cut piece of bench then undergoes 300 hours of polishing. 
The project, 18 years since conception, takes technology used in the aerospace industry to produce the world’s largest ever extruded piece of metal. The graceful aluminum pieces each have a unique, dramatic form that combines the back, seat and legs into one element. Until now, extrusion technology has been limited to smaller dimension profiles, and since graduating from the RCA in 1994, Heatherwick has been searching for a machine capable of producing a chair with legs, seat and back from a single component. A second highlight of the exhibition is ‘Spun Coriolis ’ a functional chair formed from a single profile rotated through 360 degrees. The design transforms the domestic seat into a beautifully rendered spinning top. Each chair is assembled with six spinnings of thick metal, welded together and polished to give a uniform single form. The handmade spun pieces are created by pressing large sheets of metal against a rotating cast iron form using a large paddle.
The concept of this new design evolved from Heatherwick’s interest in the traditional manufacturing technique used for making large timpani drums in order to create a design using rotational symmetry while asking the question  – could a functional chair be formed from a single profile rotated through 360 degrees?  Spun Coriolis demonstrates Heatherwick’s interest in challenging traditional rules of design by transforming a static piece of sculpture into a playful piece of design. When upright Spun Coriolis is a gleaming sculptural vessel and it is only when it is lent on its side that the playful possibilities of its form come to light; Spun Coriolis allows the sitter to swivel in a circular rocking motion, including being able to rotate in a complete circle. Spun Coriolis chairs are made in limited edition series in different finishes like stainless steel or copper, each series signed and dated, some are rippled and others smooth or with a patinated finish. Heatherwick will make no more than 35 chairs in total, one of which was recently acquired for MoMA’s permanent collection. Thomas Heatherwick (b.1970) founded the Heatherwick Studio in London in 1994 after graduating from the RCA. Today, the practice operates from a combined studio and workshop in King’s Cross, London where a team of architects, designers and makers work on projects ranging from buildings and bridges to products and large scale works of art. The studio’s work includes La Maison Unique, the flagship store for luxury French brand, in New York Longchamp, multi-award winning East Beach Café, Littlehampton, and bridge, Paddington.  A major exhibition of Thomas Heatherwick's architecture and design will open at The Victoria &amp; Albert Museum in 
London in 2012 and the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas will host a survey exhibition in the fall of 2014 before touring to other American museums and institutions.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
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