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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/57D9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/57D9">
  <Name>Walter de Maria &quot;The New York Earth Room&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/1A5F4ADF">
    <Name>Walter de Maria : The New York Earth Room</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>141 Wooster St., New York NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-989-5566</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between W Houston St. and Prince St. Subway: R/W to Prince Street or B/D/F/V to Broadway-Lafayette Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="soho">Soho</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The New York Earth Room, 1977, is the third Earth Room sculpture executed by the artist, the first being in Munich, Germany in 1968. The second was installed at the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, Germany in 1974. The first two works no longer exist.

The New York Earth Room has been on long-term view to the public since 1980. This work was commissioned and is maintained by Dia Art Foundation.

photo credit: John Cliett.

]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
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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>
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  <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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  <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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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/1792" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/1792">
  <Name>&quot;Extended Family: Contemporary Connections&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F478E4D">
    <Name>Brooklyn Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238</Address>
    <Phone>718-638-5000</Phone>
    <Fax>718-501-6136</Fax>
    <Access>Subway: 2/3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 11:00, sundays openinghour 11:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00, sundays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>First Saturday of the month 11am to 11pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In the face of the social upheaval of the past few decades, the family has remained territory that is routinely explored in art. The intergenerational selection of work on view in this installation demonstrates that familial relationships continue to provide a rich source of artistic material, while the concept of the family has also been extended beyond blood ties to embrace larger groups or communities united by shared values, identities, lifestyles, or emotional needs. The artists express fluid definitions of the family and domesticity, drawing on experiences that are private and public, individual and communal. As members of a community that is both homegrown and globetrotting, many of the artists in this installation also transcend national boundaries, representing a new twenty-first-century breed that travels to create work in cities around the world.

Extended Family: Contemporary Connections highlights recent acquisitions and presents them alongside notable works that entered the collection over the past five decades. The Museum’s contemporary collecting focuses on art of the twenty-first century, which has seen the rise of Brooklyn as one of the most vibrant centers of cultural production in the world. Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Dumbo—now established artists’ enclaves—have given way to Red Hook, Bed-Stuy, the Gowanus Canal, and Bushwick as frontiers that offer artists prospects for affordable studio spaces. The Brooklyn Museum has collected contemporary art since the mid-nineteenth century. Extended Family demonstrates the Museum’s continuing commitment to living artists and to collecting distinctive art of our time.

[Image: Nina Chanel Abney (American, b. 1982) &quot;Forbidden Fruit&quot; (2009) Acrylic on canvas, 67 x 77 1/2 in. ]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Contributions: Adults $8, Seniors and Students $4, Members and Children under 12 and First Saturday of the month 5pm to 11pm  Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/2A08" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/2A08">
  <Name>&quot;Mapping New York's Shoreline, 1609-2009&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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  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Illustration</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[September 2009 marks 400 years since Henry Hudson sailed into New York Harbor and up the Hudson River, almost to what is now Albany, performing detailed reconnaissance of the Hudson Valley region. Other explorers passed by the outwardly hidden harbor, but did not linger long enough to fully realize the commercial, nautical, strategic, or colonial value of the region. Once the explorers returned to Europe, their strategic information was passed on to authorities. Some data was kept secret, but much was handed over to map makers, engraved on copper, printed on handmade paper, distributed to individuals and coffee-houses (the news centers of the day), and pored over by dreamers, investors, and potential settlers in the “new land.” &quot;Mapping New York's Shoreline&quot; celebrates the Dutch accomplishments in the New York City region, especially along the waterways forming its urban watershed, from the Connecticut River and Long Island Sound to the North (or Hudson) River and the South (or Delaware) River. Inspired by The New York Public Library's collection of Dutch, English, and early American mapping of the Atlantic Coastal regions, this exhibition exemplifies the best early and growing knowledge of the unknown shores along our neighboring rivers, bays, sounds, and harbors. From the earliest mapping reflecting Verazzano's brief visit to gloriously decorative Dutch charting of the Atlantic and New Netherland, illustrating their knowledge of the trading opportunity Hudson's exploration revealed, the antiquarian maps tell the story from a centuries-old perspective. We are brought up to date with maps and text exploring growing environmental concern for this harbor, and the river that continuously enriches it. From paper maps to vapor maps, those created with computer technology, the story of New York Harbor in its 400th year is told.

[Image: Willem Blaeu &quot;Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova [New Netherland and New England]&quot; (1635) engraving. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-09-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-06-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed Sunday. Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 11am-6pm. Tuesday, Wednesday 11am-7:30pm.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Latitude>40.752772</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.981531</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/6C51" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/6C51">
  <Name>&quot;Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention&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>
  <Description><![CDATA[The constant motif of Man Ray’s life was liberation, change, and transgression: whether in name, medium, style, or content, he sought to free the object or subject of its limitations, just as he sought to free himself from his own personal origins and outsider past. The exhibition will demonstrate how the artist’s assimilation, his emergence from an immigrant world of stereotype, ethnicity, and fixed identity, produced a dynamic polarity of revelation and concealment. It will examine the myriad means he used to create this willful construction of veiled identity, revealing a hide-and-seek game of encrypted self-reference seen throughout his oeuvre. His relentless chronicling of his career through self-portraits exemplifies this conundrum, as does his autobiography, “Self-Portrait,” which, without dates or reference to his family or origins, purported to chronicle his life. Alias Man Ray argues that issues of identity are central to the interpretation of Man Ray’s work, and that through his lifelong need for anonymity, his constant self-remaking and chronicling, the artist managed to shadow if not totally occlude his personal history. 

[Image: Man Ray &quot;Untitled (Self-Portrait with Camera)&quot; (1930)]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.63168</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults $12, Seniors $10, Students $7.50, Free for Members and Children under 12 and on Saturday</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-11-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-14</DateEnd>
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  <Latitude>40.785383</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/7767" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/7767">
  <Name>&quot;Between Spaces&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/CA14E641">
    <Name>P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101</Address>
    <Phone>718-784-2084</Phone>
    <Fax>718-482-9454</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 46th Ave.  Subway: E/V to 23rd St./Ely Avenue, 7 to 45th Road, G to 21st Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="queens">Queens</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Between Spaces is a group exhibition organized by P.S.1’s junior curatorial staff. The exhibition brings together eleven emerging and established artists who remove familiar objects from their traditional functions, creating work that suggests new contexts and possibilities.
 
Adopting the role of alchemist, the artists in Between Spaces reform and shift the aesthetic and cultural connotations of their materials. Notions of presence and absence are highlighted, evoking the space in between.

In recasting the functionality of standard materials, including light, the works in Between Spaces challenge the viewer’s perception of domestic material conventions. In his series Blinds, Martin Soto Climent explores the physical limits of Venetian blinds as he twists and transforms them into a draped installation that cascades from the wall. Artist Alex Da Corte uses homemade multicolored soda as the sole medium in his large site-specific floor installation. The soda is poured into molds and then hardens into an abstract composition of juxtaposed primary shapes.

Organized by Tim Goossens and Kate McNamara, P.S.1 Curatorial Assistants

[Image: Marc Swanson &quot;Untitled (Window Box)&quot; (2008-2009) Wood, glass, paper, shellac 81 1/2 x 32 x 11 in. Courtesy the artist and Richard Gray Gallery, NY]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.00793</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested donations: Adults $5, Students and Seniors $2, MoMA members and with MoMA admission tickets Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-10-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-05</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Latitude>40.74565</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/840B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/840B">
  <Name>&quot;Voces y Visiones&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/437D176A">
    <Name>El Museo del Barrio</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1230 5th Ave., New York, NY 10029</Address>
    <Phone>212-831-7272</Phone>
    <Fax>212-831-7927</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 104th St., Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street or 96th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Graphics</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The premiere exhibition in our new Carmen Ana Unanue Permanent Collection Galleries celebrates El Museo's 40th anniversary. Over 100 works created by a cross-section of Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American artists trace the museum's history and the artistic contributions and milestones that have been part of El Museo's four decades. Highlighting the strengths of the collections, this installation ranges from artifacts of the ancient Taíno people and their legacy to traditional objects, postwar and contemporary art, including graphics, photography and mixed media installations.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $6, Seniors and Students $4, Members, Children under 12 and on Wednesdays Seniors Free</Price>
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  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
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  <Latitude>40.792911</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/8447" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/8447">
  <Name>&quot;Size Does Matter&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E13CCD41">
    <Name>The FLAG Art Foundation</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>545 W 25th St, 9 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>16:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open every Friday from 11am to 3pm and occasional Saturdays.  Otherwise open by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The FLAG Art Foundation presents &quot;Size DOES Matter&quot;, curated by basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal. This exhibition includes works from international artists exploring the myriad ways that scale affects the perception of contemporary art.

Weighing 320 pounds and standing 7'1&quot; atop his size 22 shoes, Shaq is one of the most dominant players ever to play in the NBA.  Throughout his career, O'Neal has capitalized on his size and strength to overpower opponents for points and rebounds earning him nicknames such as Diesel and Superman.  Now Shaq takes the opportunity to reflect on his size with an exhibition boasting works from microscopic to giant pieces that have the ability to dwarf and exaggerate everyone -- even Shaq himself.

The exhibition will include works in a variety of media that employ scale as a key component of their composition. Every work in the show was selected by Shaq himself or is being newly made at his request.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.18834</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-27</DateEnd>
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  <Latitude>40.749528</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/8961" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/8961">
  <Name>&quot;Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Photographs are often perceived as transparent windows onto a three-dimensional world. Yet photographs also have their own material presence as physical objects. Contemporary artists who exploit this apparent contradiction between photograph as window and photograph as object are featured in Surface Tension. The exhibition presents 30 works that play with the inherent tension between the flatness of the photograph and the often lifelike illusion of depth. Surface Tension highlights the ways in which artists use photographic and multi-media techniques to direct our attention to the physical surface of the photograph. Among the works featured are photographs that have been purposely scratched, burned, or painted on, as well as photograms made by placing objects directly on top of a sheet of photographic paper. The exhibition is drawn entirely from the permanent collection and features several recent acquisitions and other contemporary photographs never before shown at the Museum. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>2.14404</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-09-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-16</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/B4FD" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/B4FD">
  <Name>&quot;With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/556D6C14">
    <Name>The Museum of Chinese in America</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>215 Centre St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-619-4785</Phone>
    <Fax>212-619-4720</Fax>
    <Access>Between Howard &amp; Grand Sts. Subway: N/R/Q/W/J/M/Z/6 to Canal Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_manhattan">Lower Manhattan</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 21:00, saturdays openinghour 10:00, sundays openinghour 10:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America, MOCA’s new core exhibit, will bring to life the Museum’s unique historical content and birth a compelling art work by fusing itself with the architectural heart of its new home designed by Maya Lin on Centre Street.  Metaphorically and literally, this “heart” will ground visitors, and be the focal point of the “new MOCA experience.”  This presentation is an innovative approach to museum and exhibition design.  It will facilitate a new way of interacting with content: through the evocative use of space that stirs visitors’ emotion and breaks down barriers to deeper learning and understanding.

The core exhibition presents the diverse layers of the Chinese American experience while examining America’s journey as a nation of immigrants—from an historical overview of Chinese immigration to the United States, to the individual stories that reveal what it has meant to be Chinese in America at different moments in time, to the physical traces and images left behind by past generations for us to consider, reflect and reclaim.

A key element of the exhibition is its dialogue with Maya Lin’s architectural centerpiece – a sky lit courtyard at the heart of the museum. The exhibit wraps around and engages with the courtyard, which represents the idea of China – a collective origin, which for many after the first generation, becomes a constructed, rather than an actual, memory. Not unlike the rooms of a Chinese house, each section of the exhibit is connected to the courtyard via portals. Each one containing films of people narrating personal life stories, demonstrating how history is propelled by individual moments of decision-making in the face of circumstances larger than themselves. External walls dialogue with the inner, in order to provide the larger historical context for Chinese American struggles and achievements.

Thematically and chronologically, the exhibit reveals the complex layers of the Chinese American experience through six modules:

1) Go East! Go West!  examines how the flow and exchange of goods and people helped shape the formation of new identities, ideas, and perceptions of both Chinese and Americans during the 19th century.

2) America: Staking Claims explores the political climate in America leading up to the Chinese Exclusion Act, and its impact as the first federal law to restrict the immigration of a specific group based on nationality, defining in legal terms who could not “become American.”


3) Greetings from Chinatown shows how by the turn of the century, Chinatowns had sprung up in cities all across America forming an important economic and social network for Chinese Americans, as well as sites of cultural exchange in America’s urban centers.

4) Allies, Enemies? looks at how conflicts abroad dictated the fortunes of Chinese Americans at home.  While World War II brought about the eventual repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, China’s Communist revolution fueled Red Scare targeting of Chinese in America.

5) Seeds of Change presents the great shifts in Chinese American communities during the latter half of the 20th century. The landmark Immigration Reform of 1965 helped revitalize and diversify the Chinese population, and a second generation of Chinese Americans came of age in a time of cultural activism and community organizing.

6) Made in America!? explores how globalization has transformed American culture as much as the circulation of American culture has influenced peoples and nations outside the U.S., and while globalization promotes new and complex versions of national identity, it also creates conditions for expressions of ethnicity and identity politics.
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  <Price free="0">Adults $7, Seniors and Students $4, Children under 12 in groups less than 8 and MOCA Members and on Thursdays Free. </Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/C2C0" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/C2C0">
  <Name>&quot;1969&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/CA14E641">
    <Name>P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101</Address>
    <Phone>718-784-2084</Phone>
    <Fax>718-482-9454</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 46th Ave.  Subway: E/V to 23rd St./Ely Avenue, 7 to 45th Road, G to 21st Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="queens">Queens</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This will be the first exhibition at P.S.1 of works drawn from virtually all of the collecting areas of  The Museum of Modern Art and will fill P.S.1’s second-floor galleries with examples of painting, sculpture, photography, print, illustrated books, design, drawing, media, and film, nearly all produced during the year 1969. These works will explore the artistic aesthetic incited by a period marked with revolution and socio-political tumult. Within the collection show will be a series of interventions by a current generation of artists whose work will refract the concerns of 1969 and the MoMA collection forty years after the original date and on the 80th anniversary of the museum.

[Richard Hamilton &quot;Swingeing London 67&quot; (c 1968-69) Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas 26 1/2 x 33 1/2 in. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Donald L. Bryant, Jr., Douglas S. Cramer, Ronald S. Lauder, and John Angelo Funds, 2002, © 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / DACS, London]

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  <Karma>2.18384</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested donations: Adults $5, Students and Seniors $2, MoMA members and with MoMA admission tickets Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-10-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-05</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;WE ARE THE WORLD:  Figures &amp; Portraits&quot; Exhibition </Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/6E8CA5FD">
    <Name>Fisher Landau Center For Art</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>38-27 30th St., Long Island City, NY 11101</Address>
    <Phone>718-937-0727</Phone>
    <Fax>718-937-9397</Fax>
    <Access>Between 38th Ave. and 39th Ave.  Subway: N/W to 39th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="queens">Queens</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Inspired by Gary Hume’s image of “Michael”, We Are the World presents a multi-media exhibition that celebrates the artists’ ability to capture humanity in a wide-ranging fashion.  From self-portraits to conceptual strategies, the exhibition surrounds viewers with an audience that blurs the notion of who’s on display. The individual understanding of each artist is revealed through their ability to capture limitless possibilities through the mediums of painting, sculpture, photography and works on paper.  Included in the exhibition are a number of artworks inspired by Mrs. Landau, her family and cherished friends by Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Annie Leibovitz, Peter Hujar, Inez van Lamsweerde, Robert Rauschenberg, Bruce Weber, Adam Fuss and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.

[Image: Gary Hume “Michael” (2002) Screenprint, 60 1/8 x 30 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-11-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-29</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009)&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/CA14E641">
    <Name>P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101</Address>
    <Phone>718-784-2084</Phone>
    <Fax>718-482-9454</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 46th Ave.  Subway: E/V to 23rd St./Ely Avenue, 7 to 45th Road, G to 21st Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="queens">Queens</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This exhibition will gather important happenings, actions, moments, and gestures to outline a history of performance art that is still largely unknown. Organized by P.S.1 and Performa, a non-profit interdisciplinary arts organization committed to presenting and researching performance art, 100 Years will then travel to other venues, with content varying and developing over time.  For each version, works can be added to or detracted from, or include a greater local emphasis, depending on where the exhibition takes place. 

This collaborative exhibition is a product of discussions between both institutions and is presented on the occasion of Performa 09, the third visual art performance biennial happening November 1-22, 2009. Performa 09 is inspired by the 100 years that have passed since The Futurist Manifesto was published in 1909. Last February, Performa hosted a Futurist banquet to acknowledge this momentous anniversary.

In conjunction with 100 Years, a Free Space program, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), a New York-based nonprofit that is a leading resource for video art, presents 45 Years of Performance Video from EAI. Featuring works from 1965 to the present, this survey highlights over four decades of artists¹ performances created specifically for video, from conceptual exercises of the late 1960s to new, digitally-mediated performance narratives.

Organized by P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and Performa. The exhibition is curated by Klaus Biesenbach, P.S.1 Chief Curatorial Advisor and MoMA Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art; and RoseLee Goldberg, Performa Director and Curator.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested donations: Adults $5, Students and Seniors $2, MoMA members and with MoMA admission tickets Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/DAAA" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/DAAA">
  <Name>&quot;Rachel Beach and Nicole Stager&quot; Exhibiton</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/23274AC1">
    <Name>92YTribeca Art</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>200 Hudson St., New York, NY 10013 </Address>
    <Phone>212-601-1000</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Canal St.  Subway: 1, A/C/E to Canal Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="soho">Soho</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>00:00:01</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote>Daytime hours subject to change.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[92YTribeca presents the works of Rachel Beach and Nicole Stager – both formerly shown at Like the Spice gallery in Brooklyn – in an opening reception for this semi-permanent exhibit.

Brooklyn-dwelling, Ontario-born Rachel Beach creates works that have been described as “tough, precise and disciplined with a hard edged cheeriness.” Her wall-mounted sculptures – wooden portals and towers – rest on the border “between sculpture and painting, illusion and reality, masculine and feminine, representation, abstraction and decoration.” The portals literally take on the idea of a window, framing a section of wall or empty space in the gallery; the towers are architectural but can also seem at times like freestanding ornament. Each of these sculpture/paintings is designed to alter our visual perception of three-dimensional form.

Nicole Stager creates her work in the darkroom, drawing with handheld light sources in a process that combines the specificity of photography with the aesthetic of abstract painting. Time, color, shape and line are all uniquely presented in Stager’s work; the final product has far more to do with the interaction of light, shadow and chemistry than with the objects that produced them. A native of Pennsylvania, Stager is currently completing her MFA in New Media from the Transart Instituta at Danube University in Krems, Austria.

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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/EE95" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/EE95">
  <Name>Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster &quot;Chronotopes &amp; Dioramas&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/FF9FA5E7">
    <Name>The Hispanic Society of America</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>613 W 155th St., New York, NY 10032</Address>
    <Phone>212-926-2234</Phone>
    <Fax>212-690-0743</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Broadway. Subway: 1 to 157th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="harlem_bronx">Harlem, Bronx</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>16:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Commissioned by Dia, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s latest project offers an annex to the world renowned research library at the Hispanic Society of America.

Titled &quot;Chronotopes &amp; Dioramas,&quot; it expands and updates the historic collection with a range of twentieth century literature by some forty authors, whose texts will be installed in a trio of dioramas by reference to their place of origin in one of three distinct geographical regions: the desert, the tropics and the North Atlantic.

  	 
  	
  	
  	
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  <DateStart>2009-09-23</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-06-27</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/00A9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/00A9">
  <Name>Miao Xiaochun &quot;Microcosm&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E2FC1BE4">
    <Name>Arario Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>521 W 25th St., 2 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-206-2760</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Arario New York presents Miao Xiaochun’s Microcosm, an exhibition of more than twenty works in three dimensional animation, multi-panels, digital paintings, drawings, and embroideries.

As one of the most representative artists of China’s new media art, from early realism photograph to 3-dimensional work, Miao Xiaochun has always focused on the humanities, history and reality from a sociological and art historical perspective. The latest series of works employs the most advanced computer technologies, using classical paintings as a foundation of visual structure to create outlandish modern montages of virtual reality.

In views of subjective definitions toward historical images, Miao Xiaochun’s Microcosm is based on Dutch master Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delight. He reinterprets the traditional Chinese idiom ‘Looking up the Sky from the Well’ to ‘Looking down the Well from the Sky’ (the literal translation of ‘Microcosm’). If the idiom ‘looking up the sky from the Well’ is used to describe a person with limited sight and knowledge struggling to comprehend the essence of life, ‘Looking down the Well from the Sky’ offers an image of a person located in a macro environment open to examining with a micro-lens but also struggling an all expansive understanding.

Microcosm is not created to recover the very truth of historical images, rather it is transformed and deducted with implied meaning within the image system, an effort to deconstruct the internal meaning of history and create psychological medium analysis. It recreates modern images in the tangled relations among reality and virtual world, familiarity and strangeness, intimacy and alienation, ego and non-ego.

C-print photographs, drawings, digital ink and wash painting, embroiders and other works expand the technique of expression and the limitation of materials, taking the 3-dimensional effect as a medium and utilizing the character of one medium to recover, translate, imitate, mix another.

Miao Xiaochun was born in China and studied at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing where he currently teaches. He also attended the Kunsthochschule in Kassel, Germany. The artists has shown his works at Alexander Ochs Gallery in Berlin, Osage Gallery in Singapore and Walsh Gallery in Chicago. His works have also been exhibited at Le Grand Palais in France, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo in Brazil, and the Cincinnati Art Museum in Ohio. 

[Image: Miao Xiaochun &quot;Fullness&quot; (2008) Digital Print on Canvas, 135 x 253cm]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-04</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/0125" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/0125">
  <Name>Baron Adolph de Meyer Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/FB9F6C61">
    <Name>Robert Miller Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>524 W 26th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-366-4774</Phone>
    <Fax>212-366-4454</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Avenue. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Robert Miller Gallery presents an important survey of vintage and modern photographs by Baron Adolph de Meyer. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition worldwide since the International Center of Photography’s 1994 retrospective, A Singular Elegance: The Photographs of Baron Adolph de Meyer. The exhibition will include many images from De Meyer’s tenure as chief photographer at Vogue and Vanity Fair and from his years at Harper’s Bazaar, as well as exceptional, rarely seen, earlier photographs from the artist’s estate.

Baron Adolph de Meyer (1868-1946) is widely recognized as the founder of fashion photography. He began his career in London as an aristocratic amateur, making society portraits and still lifes in the Pictorialist style. His portraits brilliantly echoed the strategies employed by John Singer Sargent, transmuting aspects of his aesthetic into shimmering black and white or tonal images. ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/0238" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/0238">
  <Name>&quot;Lincoln and New York&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D3C8617E">
    <Name>The New-York Historical Society</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023</Address>
    <Phone>212-873-3400</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 76th and 77th Street. Subway: B or C to 81st Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 11:00, sundays closinghour 17:45, fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on selected holiday Mondays and Mondays during special exhibitions for school and adult groups.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln—the quintessential westerner—owed much of his national political success to his impact on the eastern state of New York—and, in turn, New York's impact on him. This exhibition of original artifacts, iconic images, and hand-written period documents, many in Lincoln's own hand, will for the first time fully trace the evolution of Lincoln's relationship with the nation's largest and wealthiest state: from the time of his triumphant Cooper Union address here in 1860, to his efforts to hold the Union together in 1861, to the early challenges of recruitment and investment in the Civil War, to the development of new military technologies, and the challenge to civil liberties in time of rebellion. Lincoln's evolving stance on slavery issues alternately pleased and infuriated New Yorkers. African-Americans, many of them veterans of the anti-slavery movement and Underground Railroad activism, saw Lincoln as slow to deal with the numerous slaves escaping during the war. These &quot;contraband&quot; forces clamored to join the Union army which for several years excluded colored troops – be they free men or the newly freed. Meanwhile free black New Yorkers readied volunteer regiments. 

New York's role as the Union's prime provider of manpower, treasure, media coverage, image-making, and protest, some of it racist—the 1863 Draft Riots and the robust effort to unseat Lincoln in 1864—will be traced alongside Lincoln's concurrent growth as a leader, writer, symbol of Union and freedom, and ultimately as national martyr. Through all, from political parades to funeral processions, as this show will demonstrate, New York played a surprisingly central role in the Lincoln story—and Lincoln became a leading player in the life of New York. This exhibition commemorates the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial. A catalog will accompany the exhibition.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults: $10, Seniors and Educator $7, Members, Children under 12(accompanied by adults) and on Fridays from 6 pm to 8 pm: Free </Price>
  <DateStart>2009-10-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/034C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/034C">
  <Name>17th Annual Members' Krappy Kamera Exhibition...</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/39ECC723">
    <Name>Soho Photo Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>15 White St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-226-8571</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between W Broadway and Church St. Subway: 1 to Franklin Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_manhattan">Lower Manhattan</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Until November 2008, also closed on Wednesday and open Thursday only 6 - 8pm.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Krappy Kamera® Show will feature images that have been produced using equipment from the low end of the technological scale. The concept underlying this show is that in the hands of an artist, any piece of equipment can be used to create engaging photographs. The Krappy camera category, which has included well-known names such as Diana, Holga and Lubitel as well as obscure junk-store finds and homemade pinhole jobs now adds cellphones and the like to the list. The March shows will include:

The National Juried Krappy Kamera Competition started in response to the tremendous number of photographers who were interested in the Gallery's Annual Krappy Kamera Show for its own members. With the competition now in its 12th year, 185 photographers from 37 states and 7 foreign countries submitted nearly 1,000 images. This year's juror was Daile Kaplan, Vice President &amp; Director, Photographs, Swann Auction Galleries. After she had finished the judging, Ms. Kaplan said:

As photographic practices continue to reflect advances in imaging technologies, fine art photography as we once knew it is being reinvented. Soho Photo's Krappy Kamera exhibition highlights 50 new pictures by artists and photographers whose personal visions are defining the distinct look of photography today. While some employed Dianas or Holgas-cameras that offer little technical control due to their plastic lenses and lack of focusing devices-others used iPhones. Although photography has always been inextricably linked with technique, now that notion seems more appropriate than ever.

The 2010 winners are:

Grand Prize Winner: Dan Burkholder, Palenville, NY; 1st Place: Karen Carson, Arroyo Grande, CA; 2nd Place: Michael Gonzales, Katy, TX; 3rd Place: Vaughn Wascovich, Commerce, TX; Honorable Mention: S. Gayle Stevens, Downers Grove, IL; Honorable Mention: Stephen Takacs, Portland, OR;

Honorable Mention: Tim Smith, Brooklyn, NY

More Krap downstairs . . .

The 17th Annual Members' Krappy Kamera Exhibition, featuring the work of 17 Gallery members, will be on display in our front gallery. They're a small group of Soho Photo's finest artists who have banded together to prove that the image is made by the photographer-not the camera. Point-and-shoot cameras and disposable cameras are too extravagant for this show-they are too easy to use. Their credo: a Krappy Kamera makes you work, serves as a reminder that the elements that create a photographic image-aperture, shutter speed, focus mechanism and exposure-can be masterfully controlled by trained hands.

And even more Krap upstairs. . .

Salon des Refusés-Krappy Kollage IV is a unique installation comprised of every non-winning image submitted to the 2010 competition-nearly 1,000 prints will be displayed, floor-to-ceiling, collage-style. As was the case last year, our competition coordinators (Sandra Carrion, Sarah Corbin, Larry Davis, Richard Gardner and Jeff Smith) were so impressed by the quality of work print entries that they wanted to share them with the photography community.

[Image: Dan Burkholder &quot;Wetlands and Distant Catskills&quot;]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-03</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Josh Azzarella Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/69F3B391">
    <Name>DCKT Contemporary</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>195 Bowery, New York, NY 1002</Address>
    <Phone>212-741-9955</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Spring St.  Subway: J/M/Z to Bowery, F/V to 2nd Avenue or 6 to Spring Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 12:00, sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Summer Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Josh Azzarella manipulates images from cinema, journalism and amateur photography. His photographs muddy the waters between the artificial beauty of a cinematic set and the inherent beauty of the natural landscape. Absent their most significant events, Azzarella’s images raise questions about how our society constructs a narrative of our collective history. The emptying of the photographs presents each scene in its formal beauty but leaves a ghost of its narrative past. The viewer is tempted to draw relational lines between individual photographs and to decipher patterns and groupings, taking cues from color and film grain. Movie stills, homemade images and documentary footage mix together, as in our collective memory. How individual and collective memories form, the possibilities of confusing memories with realities or creating memories where none previously existed are all key to his oeuvre. In one photograph vines drape across branches, hearkening documentary photographs of the Vietnam War although its true source is the B movie classic &quot;Creature from the Black Lagoon.&quot; Emptied seascapes recall the stillness of Hiroshi Sugimoto photographs. The backs of two men on an Elvis Presley film set evoke 1960s family photographs, perhaps of a picnic.

[Image: Josh Azzarella &quot;Untitled #86 (Lopez)&quot; (2009) Cibachrome 10 x 10 in.]  ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>6.75243</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-21</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Kukuli Velarde &quot;Patromonio&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/1604B624">
    <Name>Barry Friedman Ltd.</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>515 W 26th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd St. or 1 to 28th St.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Barry Friedman Ltd. presents contemporary Peruvian artist Kukuli Velarde in her first solo show since joining the gallery. Recently awarded the prestigious USA Knight Fellowship by the Knight Foundation and the United States Artists organization, Velarde will exhibit an installation of ceramic sculptures from her Plunder Me Baby series, figurative paintings on aluminum from her Cadavers series, and a video/drawing performance, Apple of his Eye, that will take place during the first two weeks of the exhibition. 
  
Inspired by pre-Columbian terracotta figures, Velarde's Plunder Me Baby sculptures reveal folk tradition, evoke histories of ornament and craft, and disrupt normal aesthetic hierarchies. Removed from their natural environment and installed as if in an anthropological museum, these figurative characters appear as though awakened for the first time. Each figure exhibits strong reactions to their new surroundings including fear, disdain, and aggressive anger. With pejorative slurs as titles, such as Chola Puteadora, Grabby!! Needs to Be Put in Her Place, or Méndiga Perra Autoctona, Bites. Will Not Trust. Likes Tough Love, Velarde imbues these “plundered” artifacts with references to the struggles of indigenous populations as a result of European colonization. Velarde re-casts these appropriated figures as self-portraits as a means of defiantly reclaiming their ownership while giving them new meaning and context. 
  
Velarde’s Cadavers paintings examine popular culture from the context of a Latin American origin.  Taking images from colonial Peruvian painting and contemporary culture, she infuses them with references to gender roles, flaunted sexuality, religious and political colonization, and Latin America’s expectations of women in society. Often based on self-portraiture as well, the results are intimate and personal. Velarde takes clear cues from art history and the influences of the renowned Cusquenian Baroque School. Parallels can also be drawn to the aesthetics of such culturally aware painters as Diego Velázquez and Frida Khalo. By alluding to indigenous myths through mass media, popular art, and modern religious references, she notes the many guises and archetypes that humans must endure in modern society.  
  
Apple of his Eye, the third component of Velarde’s exhibition, is comprised of both a video and a performance piece. The video, depicting her late father speaking about his hopes and dreams for his daughter, examines the strong paternal relationship that led Velarde to become an artist. In the performance piece, Velarde will draw directly onto a gallery wall daily for two weeks, summoning the 3-year old doodler who first caught her father’s eye. She states, “overt communication makes us vulnerable yet it may strengthen interaction and deepen bonds. I do not mind becoming ‘vulnerable’ if in the process common grounds are established and a relationship is created with the viewer.” At the close of the exhibition, the drawings on the wall will be painted over and, as Velarde describes it, “returned to memory.” 
]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-17</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/06E5" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/06E5">
  <Name>Kim Jones &quot;Venice High&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2CECDDEE">
    <Name>Pierogi</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>177 N 9th St., Brooklyn, NY 11211</Address>
    <Phone>718-599-2144</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Bedford Ave. and Driggs Ave.  Subway: L to Bedford Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="williamsburg">Williamsburg</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote>Also by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Jones' work incorporates performance, sculpture, drawing, and painting. He became known early on for his performance persona, “Mudman,” and could be seen walking the streets of Los Angeles and Venice, CA during the 1970s, and then during the 1980s in New York City and New York's subway system, covered in mud, and wearing on his back a crudely constructed lattice-work structure of sticks, tape, and twine, his face covered with a nylon stocking. Throughout this time he was consistently developing drawings and paintings on paper. His works on paper range from intricate graphite drawings involving “X” and “O” figures and erasure indicating movement of each force (referred to as war drawings), to works that incorporate photography, acrylic paint, ink line work, and collage, many of which have been made over a period of thirty years. Over the years Jones has developed a language of materials and marks: sticks, mud, twine, rats, and “X” and “O” symbols. “Mudman,” and other figures that resemble the performance persona, inhabit his elegant and simultaneously grotesque drawings and paintings.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-14</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/080F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/080F">
  <Name>Andrew Garn &quot;Lost Amazon – Nature’s Discontent&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/667ABCD7">
    <Name>A.M. Richard Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>328 Berry St., 3 Fl., Brooklyn, NY 11211</Address>
    <Phone>917-570-1476</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>L to Bedford Ave. stop.  Walk Bedford Ave past Metropolitan Ave.  Make a right on S4th St.  Walk one block to Berry.  Or,  J,M,Z to Marcy Ave</Access>
    <Area areaId="williamsburg">Williamsburg</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="1" thu="1" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>2nd Friday of every month closinghour 9pm.</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In the summer of 2008, Andrew Garn was assigned by the Smithsonian Institution to document biodiversity in a remote area of the Peruvian Amazon. This mission was an incomparable opportunity to photograph an unexplored region of the jungle. Accompanied by six scientists and a number of macheteros, the team traveled throughout the brush, many times creating new trails in untouched rain forest.
Soon the duplicitous nature of the expedition surfaced. The Smithsonian was in place to document the pristine conditions of the forest during the early stages of an extensive oil exploration project initiated by the Spanish energy giant Repsol. Leasing an immense 800 sq mile tract from the Peruvian government, Repsol created over 20 helicopter landing fields by clear cutting immense swaths of forest. Explosive charges were set off to measure the oil reserves under the jungle floor. Eventually, pumping rigs were flown in and a 50-mile pipeline was constructed to bring the oil to market.
Mr. Garn’s experience in the Amazon reveals a place of majestic beauty as well as one of overwhelming chaos, confusion and terror. His photographs and 8 minute video, Lost Amazon, depict a setting of obfuscation, where the boundaries of heavenly reprieve frequently dissolved into torment and wretchedness. 
Two series of photographs detail the jungle inhabitants in their grace and inevitable demise. The Shadow Series illustrates a troubling world where lies an artificial sense of safety. The main body of work, set in a darkened gallery, conveys both the seduction and fear that make up the Amazon.
]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/0A39" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/0A39">
  <Name>Ruben Natal-San Miguel &quot;NY, NY: The Concrete Jungle&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A5460B00">
    <Name>Kris Graves Projects</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>212-796-7558</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Washington and Adams Sts. Subway: F to York Street, A/C to High Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Description><![CDATA[+Kris Graves Projects presents the first exhibition, by photographer Ruben Natal-San Miguel, curated by world renowned photographer Matthew Pillsbury. The show, NY, NY: The Concrete Jungle is a culmination of a 5-year long survey project. Like an explorer trekking into unknown regions of the “Jungle” streets of New York City, photographer Ruben Natal-San Miguel travels in the footsteps of visionary photographers such as the likes of Helen Levitt, Bruce Davidson, Louis Faurer, and Robert Frank.


While NY City has a rich tradition of street photography, Ruben Natal-San Miguel brings this historic street photographic style forward into the new millennium with vivid living color. But Ruben is more than just an observer, for the past five years during the summer months; Ruben has traveled by bicycle throughout Upper Manhattan, searching for what it’s like to live in the Big Apple. For this is his chosen home, like many New Yorkers, Ruben is a transplant, eagerly coming to NY City to make his way in this School of Hard Knocks. As a trained architect he clearly sees both the concrete form and its human function, in particular, Ruben focused the viewer’s eye on the unseen. In this exhibition, the overlooked citizens, and environments are his subject, these are things most people cannot or choose not to see. For, this is not your posh “Sex and The City” Manhattan which people clamor for, but here, Ruben has been able to find, a vibrant and colorful vision of that other Manhattan.


Like Ruben’s Philadelphia friend and influence, photographer Zoe Strauss, he elevates these “unseen” people and places with poetic vision, working to create an endearing meaningful life lesson of what it’s like when the human spirit makes the best of what others may consider to be so little. This photographic project captures the beauty and struggle of everyday life which resonates as a social document of our time, and as a sheer and powerful visual art.


-Mike Hoeh]]></Description>
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  <DateEnd>2010-04-10</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/0A4C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/0A4C">
  <Name>&quot;Knock Knock: Who's There? That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D1F6F44C">
    <Name>Armand Bartos Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>25 E 73rd St., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-288-6705</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Madison and 5th Ave. Subway: 6 to 77th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>00:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Humor in all it's forms, including social satire, wordplay, games and jokes, has been an underlying theme in art throughout the 20th century. Dada's playfulness is the precursor of this thread, born as a response to the destruction wreaked on a global scale during WWI. Knock Knock explores how artists have drawn on this strategy, using humor as a hook to tackle more complex social, sexual, and political issues. The resulting historical exhibition, mounted over two venues, is superficially all farce, gaffs, puns and parody, and exposes the embedded tensions inherent in the work when the laughter dies down.

Curated by Sarah Murkett and Elana Rubinfeld]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-24</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-09</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/0AB3" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/0AB3">
  <Name>Lydia Panas &quot;The Mark of Abel&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C48D0049">
    <Name>Foley Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W 27th St., 5 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-244-9081</Phone>
    <Fax>212-244-9082</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Foley Gallery presents the first New York solo exhibition of photographer Lydia Panas. Lydia Panas is an observer of the family dynamic.  In her photographs, she manages to capture subtle hints of those complex relationships that tend to exist within the extended family or circles of friends.  Her photographs examine the way in which these relationships are simultaneously a product of and an influence upon the identity of each member of the family group.  The subjects are arranged similarly in each image; in some verdant setting, they openly face the camera through a narrowly selective depth of field.  Through this simple arrangement, the subjects confront the viewer with quieted expression and gesture.  Both tension and attraction within the group can be detected in the details: in posture, dress, closeness or distance.  The photographs capture and prolong a moment of pause whereby a slight and perhaps distracted gesture carries the mood and exposes some piece of an interpersonal identity.  Panas manages to disarm her subjects in such a way as to induce the unconscious display of this sort of familiar connectedness in various outdoor spaces made intimate.

Lydia Panas graduated from Boston College with a BA in Psychology.  She went on to study at the Art Institute of Boston and received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts.  She has also participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the New York University/ International Center for Photography MA in photography program. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>2.70061</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-20</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/1126" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/1126">
  <Name>&quot;Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D3C8617E">
    <Name>The New-York Historical Society</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023</Address>
    <Phone>212-873-3400</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 76th and 77th Street. Subway: B or C to 81st Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 11:00, sundays closinghour 17:45, fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on selected holiday Mondays and Mondays during special exhibitions for school and adult groups.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Drawn almost exclusively from the Archive housed at the University of California Santa Cruz, Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society, will chronicle the history of the Grateful Dead, its music, and phenomenal longevity through an array of original art and documents related to the band, its members, performances, and productions. Exhibition highlights from the archive will include concert and recording posters, album art, large-scale marionettes and other stage props, banners, and vast stores of decorated fan mail. Together, these materials provide unique glimpses into the political and social upheavals and artistic awakenings of the 1960s and 1970s, a tumultuous and transformative period that has shaped our current cultural and political landscape. The exhibition will examine how the Grateful Dead's origin in northern California in the mid-1960s was informed by the ideology and spirit of both the Beat Generation and the burgeoning Hippie scene, including experimentation with LSD and the Acid Tests. The exhibition will also explore the way in which the band's refusal to follow the established rules of the record industry revealed an unexpected business savvy that led to both innovations in a rapidly changing music industry and also a host of consumer-driven marketing enrichments that kept fans in frequent contact with the band. The Grateful Dead's time in New York will be viewed in the context of cultural traditions and events unique to New York, but also as yet another stop on a long, strange touring trip that included dates in New York, San Francisco, and everywhere in between.

[Image: Alton Kelley &quot;American Beauty&quot; (1970) album cover © 2010 Alton Kelley]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults: $10, Seniors and Educator $7, Members, Children under 12(accompanied by adults) and on Fridays from 6 pm to 8 pm: Free </Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-07-04</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/12F2" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/12F2">
  <Name>&quot;Companion&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/17610F30">
    <Name>EFA Project Space</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>323 W 39th St., 11 Fl., New York, NY 10018</Address>
    <Phone>212-563-5855</Phone>
    <Fax>212-563-1875</Fax>
    <Access>Between 8th and 9th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 42th Street or A/C/E to 34th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</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="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Also by appointment</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[EFA Project Space announces &quot;Companion,&quot; an exhibition of artworks contextualized with the source that influenced their creation. Using the EFA Studios Program as a curatorial foundation, &quot;Companion&quot; culls together cultural projects that draw inspiration from references mined from history, culture, and science.

Curated by: Marisa Jahn]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-13</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/1535" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/1535">
  <Name>&quot;...and sweeps me away&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2FD3D32C">
    <Name>A.I.R. Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., #228, Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-6651</Phone>
    <Fax>212-255-6653</Fax>
    <Access>Between Washington and Adams Sts. Subway: F to York Street, A/C to High Street.</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" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[A.I.R. Gallery announces ...and sweeps me away, an exhibition by A.I.R. National Members, curated by Barbara O’Brien.   

The thought-provoking works of art in ...and sweeps me away cannot be known by standing in a single place—either physical or philosophical. Each of the eighteen artists invites, expects, or demands that the viewer move from near to far to experience the surface or composition of the art, that the viewer brings an intellectual generosity and a willingness to engage. The works reflect a move away from the didactic to the interpretive, away from the self-portrait as an image of the self and towards the self-portrait as a cultural snapshot. Many of the artists imbue abstraction with political and social import while others explore non-traditional approaches in their chosen mediums. 

[Image: Judy Cooper &quot;Nancy Spero&quot; digital color pigment print]
]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-28</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/1700" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/1700">
  <Name>Greg Miller &quot;Nashville&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A5460B00">
    <Name>Kris Graves Projects</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>212-796-7558</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Washington and Adams Sts. Subway: F to York Street, A/C to High Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>Saturdays openinghour 13:00, Sundays openinghour 13:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[+Kris Graves Projects announces the upcoming solo exhibition of photographer Greg Miller’s series Nashville. Curated by Kris Graves.

Greg Miller returned to Nashville, Tennessee in 2008 after receiving the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in order to re-examine his hometown. Nashville looks at spaces and locations relevant to Miller’s childhood, from his grandmother’s home to the different neighborhoods where he lived. Miller attempts to reconstruct his past, searching for the city he once knew, amidst that which has inevitably changed. Casting strangers as characters from faded memories allows him to rediscover his past while moving forward to new narratives. 

Greg Miller has worked as a professional photographer in New York for over twenty years. He received his BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in 1990. Miller’s work has been exhibited in the Cheekwood Museum, Yossi Milo Gallery, Danziger Projects and David Salow Gallery. He currently resides in Connecticut. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>2.14731</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-10</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/1DDD" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/1DDD">
  <Name>Denis Darzacq &quot;Hyper&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/77649FCA">
    <Name>Laurence Miller Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>20 W 57th St., New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-397-3930</Phone>
    <Fax>212-397-3932</Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and 6th Ave. Subway: F at 57th Street or N/R/W at 5th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 11:00, saturdays closinghour 17:30</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Hyper&quot; refers to the new garish supermarkets in Paris and Rouen  where consumer goods, brightly packaged and presented, make for a vivid and contemporary backdrop for his pictures. Darzacq brings street dancers, mostly young men and women in their late teens and early twenties into these stores and asks them to perform their leaps, jumps, twirls, and other gravity-defying movements. Darzacq's working methods are wonderfully captured in a documentary film by Marie-Clotilde Chery. The photographs explore the tension between being and having, between the human body and the built environment. They offer a fresh, witty and intensely colorful commentary on global consumerism and freedom of spirit. Denis Darzacq’s photographs, taken in fractions of a second and not photoshopped, sit comfortably at the edge of traditional stop-action photography.

[Image: Denis Darzacq &quot;Hyper No.3&quot; (2007) c-print 50 x 40 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Free.</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-14</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-27</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/221C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/221C">
  <Name>&quot;Marguerite Duras par Hélène Bamberger&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/253B23E0">
    <Name>Cultural Services of the Embassy of France</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>972 5th Ave., New York, NY 10075</Address>
    <Phone>212-439-1417</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 79th St. Subway: 6 to 77th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="1" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Hélène Bamberger took photographs of Marguerite Duras during the summers they spent together in Trouville, Normandy, from 1980 to 1994. These images tell the story of Duras and depict her haunts, her worktable, her room, the skies of Normandy, her lover Yann Andréa…

“When I first met Marguerite, I had never read any Duras. It was only afterwards that I read her. We got on so well right from the very beginning; we started our road trips in my father’s car, a rusty old Peugeot. I was the one who drove during the summer of 1980; in the years that followed it was Yann. We would go wherever she wanted. Each place had a different name and a story of its own: the bridge at Tancarville crossed the Mekong; the salt-meadows became rice-fields; we drove through “the forests of Canada”… I took photos from the start; often she would direct my efforts and occasionally would put herself in the frame. Before I got to know her, the idea of photographing a landscape would never have entered my head, much less a puddle of water.” - Hélène Bamberger

Since the late 70s, Hélène Bamberger has worked as a photojournalist and she co-founded the Odyssey Agency in 1982. From 1980 to 1994, she made an impressive series of portraits that covers almost fifteen years of Marguerite Duras’s life, representing the most thorough photographic essay on the author. Her work is regularly featured in magazines such as Elle, Marie-Claire, Le Figaro, National Geographic France, Der Spiegel…

[Image: Marguerite Duras &quot;Hall des Roches Noires, Trouville&quot; (1982) © Hélène Bamberger]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Free. Space is limited. RSVP required. duras@frenchculture.org / 212 439 1485</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/24B7" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/24B7">
  <Name>Carissa Rodriguez Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/27F575F1">
    <Name>Swiss Institute Contemporary Art</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>495 Broadway 3 Fl., New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-925-2035</Phone>
    <Fax>212-925-2040</Fax>
    <Access>Between Broome and Spring St., Subway: N/R to Prince Street, 6 to Spring Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="soho">Soho</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Carissa Rodriguez is a New York based artist, writer and gallerist. In her work she addresses questions regarding authorship, originality and collective production. Her intervention at SI examines the function of the SI lobby as a transitory space.

Rodriguez’ first exhibition was in 1996 at American Fine Arts. She presented her first solo show at Forde, Geneva in 2000 under the curatorship of Mai-Thu Perret and Fabrice Stroun. From 2001-2002, Rodriguez attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. 2004 marked her last participation in an art exhibition in New York at Greene Naftali and her entry into the gallery world as an art dealer at Reena Spaulings Fine Art.

]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-06</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-24</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/24D3" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/24D3">
  <Name>Leah Oates &quot;Transitory Spaces&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/5547BFE6">
    <Name>The Center for Book Arts</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>28 W 27th St., Fl.3, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-481-0295</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 6th Ave. and Broadway. Subway: W/R to 28th Street or F train to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_east">East Chelsea</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays closinghour 16:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In this exhibition, Oates will show newer work from the “Transitory Space” series along with framed digital prints of book spreads. One of the books from this series is created from images shot in Finland and Newfoundland. Her past books have been created from a feminist perspective, while more recently she has explored ideas about public and private space, but intrinsic in all of her books is an acute sensibility for their visual appearance. She states, “Many of my books deal with an inner awareness of the world either as a woman or as an individual experiencing time, memory and space through poetic and fluid perspective.”]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/27C4" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/27C4">
  <Name>Robert Adams &quot;Summer Nights, Walking&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/717D47A1">
    <Name>Matthew Marks Gallery 523 W 24th St.</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>523 W 24th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-243-0200</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Avenue. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_24">Chelsea 24th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The exhibition consists of 50 photographs of nocturnal landscapes Robert Adams made between 1976 and 1982 near his home in Longmont, Colorado, on the eastern ridge of the Rocky Mountains. 
Robert Adams leads the viewer outwards in these photographs from the populated center of the suburban town towards the rustic plain and distant Rocky Mountains. During his evening perambulations the photographer captured trees and houses, mountains and streets, fields and sidewalks between dusk and approaching dark. Lit by the setting sun, street lamps, and moonlight, his compositions are never conventionally beautiful. They vacillate between quiet foreboding and tranquil domesticity and, as the photographer has expressed in his own writing, attempt to capture the timelessness and peace of warm summer evenings. 
]]></Description>
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  <Karma>2.43248</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-06</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-17</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/2991" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/2991">
  <Name>Amy Williams &quot;Within You, Without You&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>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</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, fridays closinghour 19:00, thursdays closinghour 19:00,</ScheduleDetails>
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  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Williams employs traditional photography, without the application of digital manipulation, to convey deep emotion combined with a sensitive use of technical skill bringing us effortlessly into her perception of the world. ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-04</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/2992" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/2992">
  <Name>&quot;Glitch Generation&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8F73BEDB">
    <Name>BAC Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>718-625-0080</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Washington and Adams St. Subway: F to York Street, A/C to High Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="1" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Call ahead for group visits.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[BAC Gallery presents Glitch Generation, a group exhibition of artworks rooted in mistakes, either intentional or found, including &quot;glitches&quot; in the wiring of our brains. Some participating artists have created a unique environment to produce a malfunction in an otherwise stable system, while others have happened upon a glitch by chance. The exhibition also includes a Music/Performance on April 1 and a Video Screening on May 6.

The Glitch art aesthetic is in part a reflection of the digital age. The fast development and quick improvements of media devices like phones, cameras and computers have heightened our expectations of communications tools.Glitch Generation plays with our collective expectations by pointing out the malfunctions, mistakes and imperfections that inevitably occur despite our desire for perfection. 

Whether the artist intentionally used a computer program to create a glitch, manipulated hardware to create a manufactured imperfect environment, or came across the aberration by chance, each saw an opportunity to create beauty and to work with color and form in a new way by shedding light on the glitches.

[Image: Valerie Hallier &quot;Elsa Tel Aviv 03/05/09 08:19&quot; (2009) C-print mounted on gatorboard, 24 x 36 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>2.4429</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-06-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/3296" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/3296">
  <Name>J. Parker Valentine Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/9A4AFAEB">
    <Name>Lisa Cooley Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>34 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-680-0564</Phone>
    <Fax>212-680-0565</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Hester St.  Subway: F to East Broadway</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In J. Parker Valentine’s work, tangible, concrete forms emerge from fragments of gesture, thought and memory. She confronts binaries such as drawing and erasure or abstraction and figuration, and uses these opposing forces of push and pull in an elastic way to arrive at something elemental. Valentine’s drawings, on paper and MDF, are raw and tectonic. She speaks of “finding forms” – which, at times, arise immediately and yield spare, elegant works. At others, her process of drawing and erasure requires that works be cut, torn apart, broken down and re-assembled. The exhibition space is parsed by drawings on precariously arranged panels of MDF – a material approached by the artist for its paper-like surface as well as its tentative structural potential. Each individual panel leans against the surface of the wall to varying degrees, supported by a single, bent nail. Valentine uses photographic images from her personal archive as a solid counter to her drawn works. For this show, she presents found images in the form of silver gelatin prints or as a series of roughly shaped “vessels’ made with book pages bonded to clay. These hollow, bottomless chambers suggest conduits, funnels or repositories of information. The printed works in the exhibition allude to alternative legacies – cultural, artistic, and familial - or play upon language and typography, in particular their ability to be transformed by our perception.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-28</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/3427" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/3427">
  <Name>Hannah Whitaker &quot;Victory over the Sun!&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/13DC32F2">
    <Name>Gallery KUMUKUMU</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>42 Rivington St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-677-5160</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Forsyth and Eldridge St.  Subway: F/V to 2nd Avenue, J/M/Z to Bowery Street or 6 train to Bleeker St.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-28</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/343A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/343A">
  <Name>&quot;Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Sixty years before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century, aristocratic Victorian women were already experimenting with photocollage. The compositions they made with photographs and watercolors are whimsical and fantastical, combining human heads and animal bodies, placing people into imaginary landscapes, and morphing faces into common household objects. Such images, often made for albums, reveal the educated minds as well as the accomplished hands of their makers. With sharp wit and dramatic shifts of scale akin to those Alice experienced in Wonderland, these images stand the rather serious conventions of early photography on their heads.

[Image: Maria Harriet Elizabeth Cator &quot;Untitled page from the Cator Album&quot; (late 1860s/70s) collage of watercolor and albumen silver prints 11 x 8.5 in. Courtesy Hans P. Kraus, Jr., New York]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-09</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Latitude>40.779</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/37A9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/37A9">
  <Name>&quot;Tichý&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/4341AC1C">
    <Name>International Center of Photography</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1133 6th Ave., New York, NY 10036</Address>
    <Phone>212-857-0000</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 43rd St.  Subway: B/D/F/V to 42nd Street or 1/2/3/7/N/Q/R/S/W to Times Sq-42nd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This is the first American museum exhibition devoted to the work of the reclusive and mysterious Czech photographer Miroslav Tichý. Now over eighty years old, Tichý is a stubbornly eccentric artist, known as much for his makeshift cardboard cameras as for his haunting and distorted images of women and landscapes, many of them taken surreptitiously. Tichý began photographing in the 1950s, in part as a political response to the social repressions of Czech communism. However, it is only in the past five years that his intensely private work has gained public attention. The exhibition, organized by ICP Chief Curator Brian Wallis, includes a number of Tichý's homemade cameras as well as approximately 100 of his photographs.

[Image: Miroslav Tichý &quot;Untitled&quot; (n.d.) © Tichý Ocean Foundation, Zurich]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $12, Students and Seniors $8, Members and Children under 12 Free, Friday 5-8pm Pay As You Wish</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-29</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-09</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/3882" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/3882">
  <Name>Michael Kenna &quot;Venezia&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/5C8E0872">
    <Name>Robert Mann Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>210 11th Ave, 10th Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-989-7600</Phone>
    <Fax>212-989-2947</Fax>
    <Access>Between W 24th and W 25th Street. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>00:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Michael Kenna's sixth solo exhibition at the gallery, Venezia, marks the premiere presentation of Kenna's photographs of Venice, Italy. The exhibition coincides with the publication of Michael Kenna: Venezia, available March 2010 from Nazraeli Press. With photographs spanning nearly 30 years, the exhibition reflects the quintessentially patient, quiet method of looking for which Kenna has become legendary.

Without a doubt one of the most magical cities ever to exist, Venice has captured the imagination of artists for hundreds of years. From Vivaldi to Canaletto, Shakespeare to Calvino, this almost mythical city has inspired some of Western cultures greatest works of art. With the photographs in the exhibition Venezia, Kenna adds his own distinctive interpretation of this great city. His photographs simultaneously capture the decadence and decay of the palazzos and esplanades that line the canals. Gondolas rise and fall with the tide, the brackish water eating away at the mooring posts that punctuate many of the images. Kenna's long exposures, some times lasting several hours during the darkest hours of the night, smooth over the surfaces of the canals, further emphasizing their street-like function in this floating city. With typically meticulous prints, Kenna distills Venice to its iconic, elemental characteristics of water and light.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-14</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-13</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/39B0" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/39B0">
  <Name>&quot;Narrative Sequences&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/5547BFE6">
    <Name>The Center for Book Arts</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>28 W 27th St., Fl.3, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-481-0295</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 6th Ave. and Broadway. Subway: W/R to 28th Street or F train to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_east">East Chelsea</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays closinghour 16:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This exhibition will focus on work that creates a sequence of images that leads from one to another as a literal or an implied narration unfolds. By this narrowing down to a single aspect of an artist’s book, Rosenberg is able to broaden the varieties of how artists explore telling a story, through form and content. For each of these artists in these works, a narrative emerges through the relationship of the previous to the following. They explore various commentaries on societies through who we are as a whole or as individuals, through personal experience or as participants in a broader culture, in an explicit way or a more abstract dance of natural forms.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/39F2" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/39F2">
  <Name>Thomas Roma &quot;Pictures for Books&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/334852E1">
    <Name>Miriam &amp; Ira D Wallach Art Gallery</Name>
    <Type>University or School</Type>
    <Address>1190 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027</Address>
    <Phone>212-854-7288</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Enter from the gate on Broadway and 116th Street. Subway: 1 to 116th Street- Columbia University</Access>
    <Area areaId="harlem_bronx">Harlem, Bronx</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Since 1980, the American photographer Thomas Roma (born 1950) has published eleven books of his photographs, compiled two limited-edition hand-bound volumes, and contributed his pictures to a variety of other publications. Columbia University’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery begins 2010 with a rare opportunity to view exhibition prints from his published works in Pictures for Books: Photographs by Thomas Roma organized by Susan Kismaric, a curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art.

Thomas Roma is a native of Brooklyn, where he currently resides. Many of his photographs describe mundane life in the borough: neighborhood gardens, passengers riding the elevated subway train, facades of storefront churches and synagogues, religious services in small African-American churches, and portraits of people waiting in the corridors of Brooklyn’s criminal court. Viewed as a whole, Roma’s photographs are a chronicle of urban life as it is lived by ordinary residents, a description of their aspirations and hopes, and a record of their successes and failures. In several projects, he has extended his concerns to communities outside of New York, such as the landscape and life of people in small villages in his ancestral Sicily. In a recent project done in New Jersey, he photographed the houses of patients visited by the poet William Carlos Williams, when he worked as doctor in the 1950s. A member of the post–Garry Winogrand and Diane Arbus generation of American photographers, Roma extends the tradition of photography’s documentary aesthetic with pictures of great formal confidence to reveal what might be called, for lack of a better term, traditional values.

Thomas Roma has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, and his work is in numerous public and private collections. Twice the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, he is on the faculty in the Visual Arts Program in the School of the Arts at Columbia. The exhibition at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, comprises almost 100 photographs selected from four key publications: Found in Brooklyn, Sicilian Passage, Come Sunday, and, On Three Pillars: Torah, Worship, and the Practice of Loving Kindness – The Synagogues of Brooklyn. Vistors to the gallery have an opportunity to both view prints from several projects side by side and to view his rare, limited-edition, hand-bound books: Brooklyn Gardens and Sirius Studies.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-01-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-27</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/3C46" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/3C46">
  <Name>&quot;Post-Gogol: The Silent Absence of the Body&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/744F5055">
    <Name>Slag</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>531 W 25th St., Ground 10, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-967-9818</Phone>
    <Fax>212-967-9819</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Gogol, not Google’… and we laughed. This exhibition appropriates the name of the great Russian/Ukrainian writer to speak about the haunting appearance of physical objects and images in the present world, in which laughter (sometimes through tears) continues to serve as a potent agent of timeless sublime. Laughter keeps disarming the body and makes it invisible.
The time and the place of action should be considered irrelevant. ‘[I] t is as useless to look in Dead Souls’, as another giant Russian writer observed, ‘for an authentic Russian background as it would be to try and form a conception of Denmark on the basis of that little affair in cloudy Elsinore.’ Who doubts the existence of Dead Souls …
Post-Gogol: The Silent Absence of the Body is a micro-tribute to books, or rather to the book, not as a text, a pure artifact or a found object, but rather as an inspiration (direct or indirect) for the artist. By alluding to such loaded referents as Gogol’s stories, the artist acknowledges the rigorous yet evanescent power of poesis. However, none of the artists in this show illustrates Gogol; what they do, instead, they share ‘a Gogolian gusto of weird details.’]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-16</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;A Sudden Thaw&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>C.C.C.P. Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>38 Marcy Ave., 1R,  Brooklyn, NY 11211</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
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    <Access>Corner of Hope St.(also the entrance). Subway: G/L to Lorimer Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="williamsburg">Williamsburg</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>fridays openinghour 15:00, fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-28</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/3FA9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/3FA9">
  <Name>Star Black &quot;The Collaged Accordion&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/5547BFE6">
    <Name>The Center for Book Arts</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>28 W 27th St., Fl.3, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-481-0295</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 6th Ave. and Broadway. Subway: W/R to 28th Street or F train to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_east">East Chelsea</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Star Black is a poet and photographer who has created a series of large-scale accordion books that merge found texts, found photographs and ephemera (maps, hand-written letters, ledgers, etc.) to create surreal imagery. The exhibition is accompanied by individual collages and her own writings. Black says: &quot;In many ways my collages are similar to poems but translated from visuals, taking symbols, textures and &quot;found&quot; words from else where and composing them within a page.&quot;]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-01-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/44C4" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/44C4">
  <Name>&quot;The Visible Vagina&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/FF819A5F">
    <Name>Francis M. Naumann Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>24 W 57th St., Suite 305, New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-472-6800</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-6866</Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and 6th Ave. Subway: F to 57th St.</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote>Between exhibitions by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[As the title of the exhibition suggests, the show is designed to make visible a portion of the female anatomy that is generally considered taboo―too private and intimate for public display.  If shown at all, this part of a woman’s body is usually presented in an abject fashion, generally within the context of pornography, intended, in almost all cases, for the exclusive pleasure of men.  The goal of this exhibition is to remove these prurient connotations, implicit even in works of art, ever since the pudendum was prudishly covered by a fig leaf.  This gesture of false modesty, it should be noted, was devised and enforced entirely by men (not only in the case of classical sculpture, but also in the Bible, in which, immediately after their disobedience in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve cover their genitalia with fig leaves).  Indeed, until recently, virtually all depictions of the frontal nude female figure were made by men, but as this exhibition will demonstrate, that has changed dramatically in recent years. Inspiration for both the show and its catalogue came from Eve Ensler’s &quot;The Vagina Monologues,&quot; a stage play that premiered off-Broadway in 1996, and was followed by various productions throughout the world (it appeared as a book in 1998).  Ensler gave voice to countless women worldwide, honoring the complexity and mystery of their sexuality, basically encouraging them to consider their vaginas as powerful and expressive components of their physical selves, something not to be ashamed of, but to be proudly protected as an assertive and positive manifestation of their being.  The idea for this show came from realizing that there was no better group to give vision to this goal than artists, many of whom had already incorporated imagery of the vagina in their works.  Because of Ensler’s pioneering work in this field, the catalogue is dedicated to her, and proceeds from its sale shall be donated to V-Day, the organization she founded to end violence against women and girls throughout the world.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-28</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-20</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/4591" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/4591">
  <Name>&quot;Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/4341AC1C">
    <Name>International Center of Photography</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1133 6th Ave., New York, NY 10036</Address>
    <Phone>212-857-0000</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 43rd St.  Subway: B/D/F/V to 42nd Street or 1/2/3/7/N/Q/R/S/W to Times Sq-42nd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place&quot; is an intimate exhibition that explores photography, memory and some of the meanings associated with &quot;place.&quot; Guest curator and native Montrealer, David Deitcher, presents approximately 60 black-and-white photographs by the little-known, Montreal-based photographer, Alan B. Stone (1928–1992). Proceeding from the assumption that one knows one's past in part through pictures, Deitcher presents Stone's work as a case study by which to examine some of the ways in which people experience, use and are affected by photographs. A working photographer who practiced many photographic idioms, Stone's limited claim to fame stems from his vocation as a shrewd purveyor of beefcake—male pin-ups and physique photographs—which he produced, published and sold, beginning in 1953 under the name of the Mark One Studio. This exhibition combines a selection of these images with Stone's oblique, enigmatic pictures of Montreal and period newspaper articles to realize this exhibition's location of the place one associates with &quot;home&quot; at the confluence of time, space, history, politics, the law, memory and imagination.

[Image: Alan B. Stone &quot;Untitled (Mark-One, Steve by Mark-One)&quot; (1964) Collection Archives gaies du Québec]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $12, Students and Seniors $8, Members and Children under 12 Free, Friday 5-8pm Pay As You Wish</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-29</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-09</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/45FC" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/45FC">
  <Name>James Hyde &quot;Redi_Mix&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A6731464">
    <Name>Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>508 West 26th St., Suite 5A, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-463-8500</Phone>
    <Fax>212-463-8501</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote>Summer Hours: Monday through Friday</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Kathleen Cullen presents Redi-Mix, an almost-solo-project of works byJames Hyde.  Along with Hyde's paintings, a constantly evolving group show will take place.

Hyde will present his recent paintings-- photographic prints which form the physical ground but also the image-space on which Hyde builds his painterly compositions. Styrofoam, papier-mache, blocks of wood, tape, as well as paint-- matte &amp; glossy; thick &amp; thin-- form Hyde's painting kit.  Hyde's emphatically material painting slathers and dissects pictures of unfinished building sites, late night reveries, and fragmented views of nature. Often startling, these paintings show Hyde engaging the world through the technical and emotional framework of abstract painting.

During the show the gallery will be in constant flux-- Hyde's paintings-on-photos will cycle in and out.  Every week the gallery and artist will organize a salon of works alongside Hyde's paintings. Sculpture, photography, paintings, drawings, prints and multiples by emerging, established and historical artists will appear every week like guests to a cocktail party. 

Photographs by Jan Groover, Lucas Blalock and Curtis Mann; sculpture by Fabienne Lasserre and Paul Lee; paintings by Joe Fyfe and Thomas Lindvig and prints byDieter Roth and Bridget Riley will be on view.  With this show we hope to transform the gallery to an intimate salon—a place to make unexpected connections between the familiar and the new.

[Image; James Hyde &quot;BUILT UP&quot; (2008) Acrylic on wood on archival inkjet print, 9.5 x 12.25 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-31</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/4822" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/4822">
  <Name>&quot;Harlem Postcards&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/6D0D23C1">
    <Name>Studio Museum Harlem</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>144 W 125th St., New York, NY 10027</Address>
    <Phone>212-864-4500</Phone>
    <Fax>212-864-4800</Fax>
    <Access>Between Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard and Lenox Ave. Subway: A/B/C/D/2/3/4/5/6 to 125th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="harlem_bronx">Harlem, Bronx</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 10:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Throughout the twentieth century, Harlem has been regarded as a beacon of African-American history and culture. Sites such as the Apollo Theater, Abyssinian Baptist Church, and Malcolm X Corner at 125th Street and Seventh Avenue serve as popular postcard images that represent significant places and moments in this community. Today, Harlem continues to evolve as a center of history and culture. Everyday, changes are witnessed by its residents and experienced by tourists and visitors from all over the world. Harlem Postcards, an ongoing project, invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site of cultural activity, political vitality, visual stimuli, artistic contemplation and creative production. Representing intimate and dynamic perspectives of Harlem, the images reflect each artist’s oeuvre with an idiosyncratic snapshot taken in, or representing, this historic locale. Each photograph has been reproduced as a limited-edition postcard available free to visitors.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested donation: Adults $7, Seniors and students with valid ID $3, Members and children under 12 Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-11-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-14</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/4855" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/4855">
  <Name>&quot;Whatʼs Left: Artworks Made by a Public&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/446933D8">
    <Name>Alexander Gray Associates</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>508 W 26 St., #215, New York NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-399-2636</Phone>
    <Fax>212-399-2684</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Whatʼs Left: Art Made by a Public showcases four signiﬁcant artworks made since the 1960s that are activated by public engagement. Situated between conceptualism, performance, intervention and public art, the exhibition raises questions concerning documentation and archive, event and object. 

Alison Knowlesʼ #2 Proposition (Make a Salad) (1962) is a seminal Fluxus piece, a performance-based artwork set to a Mozart score, with the artist preparing a salad for the audience. #2 Proposition premiered in 1962 at the Institute of Contemporary Art London, and was more recently presented at the Wexner Center for Contemporary Art (2004) and the Tate Modern (2008). The work will take place during the gallery opening on Friday, February 19, 2010; documentation will be presented in the exhibition. 

Lorraine OʼGradyʼs Art Is..., a 1983 performance intervention in the African-American Pride Parade was made in response to a fellow activistʼs challenge that “avant-garde art doesnʼt have anything to do with Black people”. Photo-documentation of the resulting artwork, made speciﬁcally for a non-art world audience, shows performers interacting with parade spectators, framing people and the Harlem street scape with gold frames in an afﬁrmative, joyful encounter. OʼGrady will be included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial. 

From her 1991 series Momento Mori, Karen Finleyʼs Ribbon Gate (1991) provided an interactive experience for the public to consider the impact of the AIDS crisis. Presented at The Kitchen and MOCA-Los Angeles, the public tied multicolor ribbons on an antique, wrought-iron gate in memory of someone who had died of AIDS. Made at a peak moment of the AIDS crisisʼ impact on the art community, the work today exists as an archive and memorial. 

Paul Ramírez Jonas’ Talisman I (2008–2009) is a triptych containing the objects from his public art work in the 28th São Paulo Biennale 2008, curated by Ivo Mesquita. Building on the exhibition’s theme of “in living contact”, the piece is comprised of hundreds of house keys exchanged by Sao Paulo residents to keys to the Biennale’s building, along with the contract that was signed by each participant. Talisman extends Ramírez Jonas’ interest in social contracts, manifested in earlier public works in Cambridge, MA; and will be further explored in Key to the City, a New York city-wide project to be produced by Creative Time in May 2010. 
 
[Image: Lorraine OʼGrady &quot;Art Is . . . (Women in Crowd Framed)&quot; (1983/2009)]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-13</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/4A21" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/4A21">
  <Name>Elizabeth Duffy, Inger Grytting &amp; Anne Mourier Attal Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F7040037">
    <Name>The Muriel Guépin Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>47 Bergen St., Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>718-858-4535</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Smith and Court Sts. Subway: F to Bergen Street, 2/ 3/ 4/ 5 to Borough Hall, R to Court Street. </Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Obsession, repetition, transcendence and a reliance on materials often taken for granted feature prominently in these artists' work. 
 
Elizabeth Duffy creates installations and collages with often overlooked materials: notebook reinforcement labels, security envelopes, and paper maps. In her words, she chooses materials that &quot;have a poignancy for their inevitable obsolescence.&quot; Her work has a quiet, almost book-like presence.

In graphite on paper, Inger Grytting draws layers of fine lines, which form densely constructed patterns. She describes her work as visual diary entries of psychological states.
 
Anne Mourier Attal, a photographer and mixed media artist, is exhibiting a series of photographic diptychs called &quot;The Little Signs,&quot; which look like paintings made with light. In this series, Attal uses light to connect with the universe, capturing the &quot;signs that light creates when it plays and interacts with nature or man-made objects.&quot; Her resulting photographs are soft, atmospheric, and abstract.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/4B0F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/4B0F">
  <Name>&quot;John Brown: The Abolitionist and his Legacy&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D3C8617E">
    <Name>The New-York Historical Society</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023</Address>
    <Phone>212-873-3400</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 76th and 77th Street. Subway: B or C to 81st Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 11:00, sundays closinghour 17:45, fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on selected holiday Mondays and Mondays during special exhibitions for school and adult groups.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[October 16, 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of John Brown's doomed raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859.  Brown, an ardent abolitionist who believed in racial equality, embraced violence as a means to end slavery. Executed in 1859, he has been both vilified as a murderer and celebrated as a martyr. This exhibition of rare materials from the Gilder Lehrman Collection and N-YHS explores Brown's beliefs and activities at a critical juncture in American history and invites us to ponder the struggle for civil rights down to the present.

[Image: Thomas Satterwhite Noble &quot;John Brown's Blessing&quot; (1867) oil on canvas]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults: $10, Seniors and Educator $7, Members, Children under 12(accompanied by adults) and on Fridays from 6 pm to 8 pm: Free </Price>
  <DateStart>2009-09-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-25</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/4D90" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/4D90">
  <Name>Whitney Biennial 2010</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/04C0543A">
    <Name>The Whitney Museum of American Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>945 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>1-800-944863</Phone>
    <Fax>212-570-4169</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 75th St. Subway: 6 to 77th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Biennial is the Whitney’s panoramic signature survey of the latest in American art. It includes a blend of well established artists together with a predominance of emerging artists from all over the country. This is the 75th in the ongoing series of Biennials and Annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the Museum was founded.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>9.32388</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults $15, Senior(62 and over) and students with valid ID $10, Members, New York City public high school students with valid student ID, and children under 12 free, Fridays 6-9pm pay as you wish admission.</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-30</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/4EBF" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/4EBF">
  <Name>&quot;Collecting Biennials&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/04C0543A">
    <Name>The Whitney Museum of American Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>945 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>1-800-944863</Phone>
    <Fax>212-570-4169</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 75th St. Subway: 6 to 77th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[As a prelude, counterpoint, and coda to the Biennial, the Museum’s fifth floor is devoted to artists in the Whitney’s collection whose works were shown in Biennials over the past eight decades. Collecting Biennials, opening on January 16, is installed as a kind of historical survey within the Biennial, underscoring the importance of previous Biennial exhibitions in the Museum’s history and the formation of its collection. Work by one of the artists in 2010, George Condo, is included in the mix. Collecting Biennials begins nearly six weeks before the rest of the Biennial and remains on view until November 2010.

[Image: Richard Diebenkorn &quot;Girl Looking at Landscape&quot; (1957) Oil on canvas, 59 × 60 3/8in. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alan H. Temple 61.49 © The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0.43124</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults $15, Senior(62 and over) and students with valid ID $10, Members, New York City public high school students with valid student ID, and children under 12 free, Fridays 6-9pm pay as you wish admission.</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-11-28</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/54BC" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/54BC">
  <Name>&quot;No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography &quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/FAC661FC">
    <Name>Aperture Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W 27th St, 4 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-505-5555</Phone>
    <Fax>212-598-4015</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Aperture Foundation, a non-profit arts institution dedicated to promoting photography in all its forms, and Instituto Cervantes, a non-profit organization that contributes to the cultural advancement of Spanish-speaking countries, have partnered to celebrate and interpret the art of flamenco through photography in two concurrent exhibitions.

Whether as social phenomenon or musical expression, flamenco has been of enduring interest and inspiration to photographers from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. While some photographers from outside of Spain went in search of it or encountered it by chance, to others flamenco and its practitioners are an essential, if not innate, aspect of their cultural heritage and their photographic work. This artistic form—also considered a way of life or being—has generated fascination in cultured urban circles, remaining one of the most secret, mysterious, and seductive manifestations of twentieth-century European popular art. Marginalized and ostracized, the world of flamenco took root in an economically backward region of southern Europe, culturally peripheral and marked by a history of authoritarianism and local despotisms. This exhibition of more than one hundred and fifty years of images, frequently taken by foreigners rather than Spaniards, is an extensive survey of how photographers of different eras have approached the universe of flamenco, whether documenting the dance itself, gestures that recall it, or the culture that is developed around it.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-06</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-01</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/55DA" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/55DA">
  <Name>Thomas Ruff &quot;zycles and cassini&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/4E0C8908">
    <Name>David Zwirner</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>525 W 19th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-727-2070</Phone>
    <Fax>212-727-2072</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th Ave. and West Side Expressway. C/E to 23rd Street or A/C/E to 14th Street or L to 8th Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_19_below">Chelsea 14th - 19th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[David Zwirner presents Thomas Ruff’s sixth solo exhibition at the gallery, marking the New York debut of new work in two series: zycles and cassini. 
 
Among the most influential photographers working today, Ruff has redefined photography’s conceptual possibilities, simultaneously capturing and questioning the essence of photography as both a means and a tool for visual experience. Over the past twenty-five years, he has approached various photographic genres in his work, including portraiture, the nude, landscape and architectural photography. He carries out these investigations using his own analog and digital photographs, computer-generated images, alongside images culled from scientific archives, print media, and the Internet. 
 
In both of his new series — drawing from the natural sciences, astronomy, neurology, and art history — Ruff creates elaborate, open-ended visual systems that challenge viewer’s perceptions, demonstrating that structures can become increasingly complex the more one contemplates the details. 
 
The zycles series, grounded in mathematics and physics, shows computer screen-grab recordings of curves modeled in three dimensions. The views captured by the computer are produced as large-scale chromogenic prints, or are printed directly onto canvas. Inspired by 19th century science books, Ruff’s zycles present abstract contours based on “cycloids,” the mathematical 
curves obtained from rolling one curve along a second, fixed curve. Particularly interesting to Ruff was Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell’s (1831-1879) treatise on electromagnetism, accompanied by copperplate engravings of magnetic fields. Ruff found these 
delicate traceries, while not intentionally aesthetic, suggestive of minimalist drawings. To explore their visual and spatial possibilities, Ruff used a three-dimensional rendering program to translate the algebraic formulae of the cycloids — regarded in mathematics as 
“the most aesthetic of curves” — into computer-generated imagery. The resulting virtual structures display the intricate linear filigree of cycloids as they would appear in space. The spiraling formations, always faithful to their mathematical origins, evoke a multitude 
of forms: the trajectories of planets, cascading ribbons, line drawings, or musical vibrations. 
 
The works in the cassini series are based on photographic captures of Saturn taken by NASA’s Cassini-Huygens Spacecraft, which launched in 2004 and completed its initial four-year mission in June 2008. The spacecraft orbited around Saturn to provide the first in-depth, close-up study of the planet and its domain, including its rings, moons, and magnetosphere, the enormous magnetic bubble that controls its planetary movement. Ruff acquired these black and white raw images from NASA’s website, where they were broadcast directly from the spacecraft and made available for public download. Through computer manipulation, Ruff infused each gray-scale image with saturated color. The resulting chromogenic prints transform the originals into visual statements that both  

[Imaga: Thomas Ruff &quot;zycles 3080&quot; (2009) Pigment print on canvas 100 3/4 x 81 1/8 x 2 3/4 in.]
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  <Karma>8.87797</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-13</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/56B9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/56B9">
  <Name>Patrick Faigenbaum &quot;People and Places&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B9A7E877">
    <Name>Barbara Mathes Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>22 E 80th St., New York, NY 10075</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-4190</Phone>
    <Fax>212-570-4191</Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and Madison Ave. Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Patrick Faigenbaum first received critical notice in the mid-1980s for his portraits of Italian aristocratic families. In black and white prints rendered in a smoky chiaroscuro, he shot his subjects posing stiffly in their palatial residences. Isolated against the backdrop of luxuriously appointed interiors, Faigenbaum's sitters silently articulated the tensions found in contemporary lives bound to an inheritance from a bygone era. The artist has since broadened his purview from straight portraiture to documentary projects that capture the lives and histories of a growing list of towns and neighborhoods. 
Inspired by pioneers of the medium, such as Paul Strand, Bill Brandt, and W. Eugene Smith, Faigenbaum has turned to a wider range of genres, all while maintaining the portraitist's attention to the specificity of individual identities. His scenes of everyday life are rooted in the details of lived experience, 
]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-06-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/57AE" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/57AE">
  <Name>&quot;Aloha&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/307B13A0">
    <Name>Elisa Tucci Contemporary Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>5622 Mosholu Avenue, Bronx, NY 10471</Address>
    <Phone>212-729-4974</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Liebing Ave.  Subway: 1 or 9 to last stop.</Access>
    <Area areaId="harlem_bronx">Harlem, Bronx</Area>
    <OpeningHour>18:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>22:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="1" thu="0" fri="1" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This Winter, the Elisa Contemporary Art (formerly Elisa Tucci Contemporary Art) Riverdale gallery will serve as a welcome oasis, with the new exhibit, Aloha.Come out of the snow and cold, and be transported to serene underwater worlds and natural paradises, and capture the spiritual essence of these islands with artistic visions from some of the top Hawaii-based artists.

The exhibit will feature a series of works by Kauai-based artist Carol Bennett including oil on wood paintings, paintings on recycled Dacron sailboat sails and watercolors, and oil on glass; photography by surfing-legend and Maui-artist, Pete Cabrinha, Mixed media and sand paintings by Mark Van Wagner, and artwork by Big Island artists Peter Antrim Kowalke, Connie Firestone, and Mike Field.

5% of gallery commissions from sales will be donated to Free Arts NYC – a NY based charities helping underserved children heal through art.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-28</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/5A47" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/5A47">
  <Name>Paula McCartney &quot;Bird Watching&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/006A0DA0">
    <Name>Klompching Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., Suite 206, Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>212-796-2070</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Washington and Adams St. Subway: F to York Street, A/C to High Street</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="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Extended Hours: 1st Thursdays, 11am — 8:30pm.  Closed August 15-25.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Paula McCartney’s Bird Watching series are exemplary, flawlessly composed photographs of a wide variety of perching birds. The diverse species are perfectly posed in a range of picturesque habitats across the United States, in settings that are pure wilderness. However, a closer inspection reveals stiff wire protrusions, over-dyed faux feathers and splashes of paint for eyes and beaks. In her amalgamation of natural settings with craft store songbirds, she has created a carefully enhanced landscape—a bird watcher’s dream.

The work explores how nature and fabricated elements can combine to create a scene that questions what is natural, and whether being so holds any intrinsic importance.

“In McCartney’s project there are no clear lines between fact and fiction. Like James Casebere or Oliver Boberg’s photographs of constructed models that at first glance appear to be real architectural spaces, she exploits the believability of photography and at the same time invites a mistrust of photographic evidence”.—Karen Irvine, curator, Museum of Contemporary Photography.

“These are gorgeous images, and in that sense, they are worthy of their subjects. She’s not laughing at us by drawing us into her fantasy, rather, she’s playfully reminding us that all photographs indulge in certain fictions...she takes us on a journey that is educative and inspiring”.—Darius Himes, editor, Radius Books.

[Image: Paula McCartney &quot;Bird Watching (Aqua Tanager)&quot; (2004)]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-23</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/5A5F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/5A5F">
  <Name>Daido Moriyama &quot;Hawaii&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/4A009A1D">
    <Name>Luhring Augustine Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>531 W 24th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-206-9100</Phone>
    <Fax>212-206-9055</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Avenue. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_24">Chelsea 24th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>In July/August open Monday-Friday, 10:00-17:30 </ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Witness to the spectacular changes that transformed postwar Japan, his photographs express a fascination with the cultural contradictions of age-old traditions that persist within modern society. Providing a harsh, crude vision of city life and the chaos of everyday existence, strange worlds, and unusual characters, his work occupies the space between the objective and the subjective, the illusory and the real. 
Hawaii, Moriyama's most recent body of work, was produced over a period of three years and presents his distinct perspective on the daily lives of the people living on the islands of Hawaii and Oahu. Returning to the island five times before feeling prepared to shoot these surroundings, Moriyama's overall approach is purposeful and considered despite his loose and informal style. The series was recently exhibited at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and published in a volume by the institution.
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  <DateStart>2010-02-13</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-13</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Frederick Sommer &quot;Circumnavigation&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Bruce Silverstein</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>535 W 24th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-627-3930</Phone>
    <Fax>212-691-5509</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_24">Chelsea 24th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[While well-known throughout his lifetime as an accomplished photographer, Sommer also maintained a lifelong passion for drawing, painting, collage, poetry and prose. This exhibition, comprised exclusively from works held by the Frederick &amp; Frances Sommer Foundation, is the first attempt to represent the complete artistic works of Sommer in over 50 years, and is organized to expand upon the knowledge and understanding of a truly complex and prolific artist. With artworks selected by Naomi Lyons, Sommer’s assistant from 1985 to 1999 and a trustee of the Foundation, Circumnavigation presents an exploration of the interrelationships between the various media utilized by Sommer, while also bringing to light the evolution of themes, structure, and line developed over time.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-20</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Here &amp; Now: Chinese Artists in New York Chapter III Towards Transculturalism&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/556D6C14">
    <Name>The Museum of Chinese in America</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>215 Centre St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-619-4785</Phone>
    <Fax>212-619-4720</Fax>
    <Access>Between Howard &amp; Grand Sts. Subway: N/R/Q/W/J/M/Z/6 to Canal Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_manhattan">Lower Manhattan</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 21:00, saturdays openinghour 10:00, sundays openinghour 10:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Presented in Chapter III of Here &amp; Now: Chinese Artists in New York, Towards Transculturalism includes 4 artists of Chinese descent who endeavor to be part of the transculturalism trend in the era of globalization. Working in varied medium and style, the four featured artists, Emily Cheng, Hung-Chih Peng, YoYo Xiao and Shen Chen share interest in using universal language in their art creations. Although they all have more or less connections with the Chinese art tradition, they pursue methods that are understandable and acceptable to a larger audience on the international level.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $7, Seniors and Students $4, Children under 12 in groups less than 8 and MOCA Members and on Thursdays Free. </Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-11</DateStart>
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  <Name>Issei Suda &quot;Vintage Photographs 1970s and 80s&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Higher Pictures</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>764 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10065</Address>
    <Phone>212-249-6100</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 65th and 66th Sts.  Subway: 6 to 68 Street/ Hunter College</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Higher Pictures presents the first United States solo exhibition by Japanese photographer Issei Suda. This exhibition consists of over twenty vintage photographs that date from 1971 through the 1980s primarily from Suda's best-known monograph &quot;Fûshi Kaden&quot; (1978) and includes works from &quot;Tokyo 100,&quot; &quot;Human Memory&quot; and &quot;Minyou Sanga.&quot; Suda's complex portraits and street scenes reveal his intense interest in the mysterious side of everyday life and otherworldliness. His first notable book and exhibition &quot;Fûshi Kaden&quot; “transmission of the flower of acting style” is a series based on the fifteenth-century treatise by Zeami on the principles of No theatre. Suda, a devout student of Zeami, translates the treatise in photographs that return to an emotional landscape that predates the rise of cities produced on his trips to remote locations in Japan from 1971–1978. Often Suda’s photographs are suspended in time, either one moment too soon or too late, allowing for an unsettling effect on the viewer. Suda’s fascination continues in photographic scenes remembered from days past and preserved regardless of time. His diverse series include people who dressed up for village festivals, dreamlike landscapes and studies of pattern, texture and beauty.

[Image: Issei Suda &quot;Ginzan Onsen, Yamagata Perfecture&quot; (1976) vintage gelatin silver print 6 1/8 x 6 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-24</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Christian Jankowski &quot;Strip the Auctioneer&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Friedrich Petzel Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>535 &amp; 537 W 22nd St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-680-9467</Phone>
    <Fax>212-680-9473</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>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The art of the auction is center to Jankowski's installation, &quot;Strip the Auctioneer.&quot; The gallery space, set in auction-house colors, contains sculpture, photographs and a video connected to a live auction that was orchestrated by Jankowski in May of 2009. The action takes place at Christie's auction house in Amsterdam and incorporates the auctioneer, Amo Verkade, as the desired possession. Verkade bids his garment piece by piece down to his hammer. He strips himself of his suit, baring and transforming those parcels of clothing into objects of desire. Jankowski's auction-house burlesque seduces the public at first sight with sharp humor while at the same time questions the relationship between the economic and the symbolic value of art. It emphasizes the ambiguity of where exactly meaning and value resides. The distinction between fiction and reality highlights the inherent theatrical mechanics of the sales process, creating a live parody of the auction and its players. &quot;Strip the Auctioneer&quot; was part of &quot;Take the Money and Run,&quot; a project that combined an exhibition at de Appel arts centre with an auction at Christie's Amsterdam (May 2009).

[Image: Christian Jankowski &quot;Strip the Auctioneer&quot; (2009) auctioneer's sock, wood pedestal 36 x 22 x 16 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-04</DateStart>
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  <Name>Five One Person Exhibitions and One Two-Person Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>OK Harris Works of Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>383 W Broadway, New York, N.Y., 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-431-3600</Phone>
    <Fax>212-925-4797</Fax>
    <Access>Between Spring St. and Broome St. Subway: C/E to Spring Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="soho">Soho</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open Tuesday - Friday 12-5pm in July and closed all of August and December 25 - December 28</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Through the medium of graphite powder, George Hrycun's drawings depict three dimensional shadows; a sustained record of objects that are no longer present.  The objects creating the shadow have been removed. What remains is the shadow alone, a visual forum for the discrepancy between perception and comprehension.

Mike Baur uses industrial materials to make artifacts that have all the physical presence of forms shaped by natural forces.   His sculpture inhabits a world beyond formalistic concerns where the most common materials transcend their origins.   This is a selection of recent sculpture by a mature artist who fully understands the unique power of the three-dimensional object.

Subdued, textured cityscapes are Spanish artist Alejandro Quincoces' subjects for his masterworks of understatement. Atmospheric and melancholy, the astuteness of the observation is intensified by a roughshod, frenetic surface texture that obliterates any sense of polish and leads the viewer deeply into the agonized beauty of the urban universe. The execution of the paintings transcends any attempt to name or identify the specific locales depicted, and they are instead realized as prototypical, iconic megalopolitan vistas.

Steve Gross and Susan Daley's series of black and white silver gelatin photographs are the result of a twenty year long exploration of the vernacular architecture and landscape in a remote county in upstate NY. The images are a narrative of a disappearing yet stoic way of life as shown in the timeworn, often abandoned buildings that are slowly dissolving back into the land.  The images transcend one particular place and time and speak of collective memories and mysteries.

Cara Wood Ginder's paintings appear as small blackboards with miniature &quot;chalk&quot; drawings in the corners.  In the center, Wood-Ginder paints a tightly realistic object from her everyday life, which when surrounded by drawings that apparently have no relation to the painting, create another dimension for the viewer.

[Steve Gross and Susan Daley &quot;Shew Hollow&quot; (1998) silver gelatin print, 11 x 14 in.]
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  <DateStart>2010-02-27</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/6938" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/6938">
  <Name>Laura Riboli &quot;Proclivities&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Wallspace</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>619 W 27th St., New York, NY 10001 </Address>
    <Phone>212-594-9478</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_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This exhibition marks a new direction for Riboli. While earlier works used a combination of puppetry and animation to present minimalist objects as quasi-sentient beings moving of their own volition, Riboli's new works consider the uncanny physicality of the human form. Her three videos and related photographs explore the relationship between the body and geometry, enlisting actors to engage with the kinds of minimal shapes (a hoop, a ball, a triangle) that earlier works examined in isolation.  Here, the body is presented as a site of abstraction. 
 
In Rolls, Tosses, Rotations (ball), 2009 and Rolls, Passages, Rotations, Walkovers (hoop), 2009, Riboli places her once-animated objects into real-time relationships with the bodies that manipulate them. Using a pearlescent ball and hoop respectively, a lone figure, dressed in a simple grey leotard, interacts with these objects in a series of gymnastic movements that dialectically demarcate the figure’s form, and the contours of the object itself. 
 
A third video focuses expressly on the site of interaction between the body and the object it manipulates. Shot with a camera at 120 frames per second and played back in slow motion, the object and hand perform quotidian movements to form a kind of minimalist choreography. 
 
The photographic works crystallize these relationships, highlighting the abstract possibilities of both figure and object.  Using a painted hand as a stand in for the human form, and nodding to Yvonne Rainer’s Hand Movie from 1966, Riboli records a series of minute gestures, creating a visual synecdoche of body and appendage. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-27</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Myriam Babin &quot;Artic&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Heskin Contemporary</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>443 W 37th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-967-4972</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 9th and 10th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street - Penn Station</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-27</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Global/National: The Order of Chaos&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/7AB0B586">
    <Name>Exit Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>475 10th Ave, New York, NY 10018</Address>
    <Phone>212-966-7745</Phone>
    <Fax>212-925-2928</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 36th St. Subway: A/C/E to 34th St./Penn Station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 20:00, saturdays openinghour 12:00, saturdays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The exhibition investigates how local artists from a variety of backgrounds are placed in relation to the rest of the world. Seen through a global lens, this exhibition explores the multiple cultures that populate our general culture and how the local and national are inextricably linked to the global. This exhibition examines the tensions of uncontrollable forces that are dislocating our society to redefine a new civilization. The artworks reflect how the national contains global concerns, searching inside our culture to project our global position. This exhibition tells the story of those concerns and new ways in which we can order the chaos.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-13</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-01</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/6B56" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/6B56">
  <Name>&quot;Atget, Archivist&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/4341AC1C">
    <Name>International Center of Photography</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1133 6th Ave., New York, NY 10036</Address>
    <Phone>212-857-0000</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 43rd St.  Subway: B/D/F/V to 42nd Street or 1/2/3/7/N/Q/R/S/W to Times Sq-42nd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This presentation of 31 vintage prints by the celebrated French photographer Eugène Atget (1857–1927) is drawn from the ICP permanent collection. Surrealists such as Man Ray were fascinated by Atget's images of dreamlike urban spaces. As this exhibition reveals, such photographs were part of a much larger body of work that reflected Atget's systematic documentation of the historic streets, buildings, and artifacts of Old Paris. This exhibition was organized by ICP Curator Christopher Phillips.

[Image: Eugène Atget &quot;Rue de la Montagne Sainte Geneviève&quot; (1922) (Printed 1922-1927)]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>2.06767</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults $12, Students and Seniors $8, Members and Children under 12 Free, Friday 5-8pm Pay As You Wish</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-29</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-09</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/6C17" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/6C17">
  <Name>&quot;Burning Desire&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/5C41009E">
    <Name>Michael Mazzeo Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>526 W 26th St., Suite 209, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-741-6599</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Summer Hours: 11 am - 5 pm, Tuesday - Friday.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Spring fever is here and we welcome it with Burning Desire, an exhibition of photographs, video, works on paper, sculpture and books.

Whether figuratively or metaphorically, this innovative and diverse group of artists address the nature of burning through personal and unique strategies.

[Image: Caleb Charland &quot;Silhouette with Matches&quot; (2009)]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-13</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-24</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/6C61" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/6C61">
  <Name>&quot;Reconstruction #1&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B06885C2">
    <Name>On Stellar Rays</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>133 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-598-3012</Phone>
    <Fax>718-534 -4667</Fax>
    <Access>Between Rivington and Delancey Sts.  Subway: J/M/Z/F to Essex Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Reconstruction #1&quot; is a mnemonic exhibition and consideration of On Stellar Rays programming to date. One new work by each artist who has presented a solo exhibition in the gallery will be on view. &quot;Reconstruction #1&quot; is not curated, rather, works on view simply represent the trajectories that each artist has followed since his or her exhibition. Though processes, media, and content vary widely, all artists are working in indeterminate modes, remaking, reiterating and exploiting works that were shown at On Stellar Rays in the past year-and-a-half, with displays of commitment to their respective investigations. The exhibition contains traces of actions that took place in the gallery, suggesting a shared interest in performative gestures and engagement with the viewer. The exhibition is fundamentally introspective, exploring how a small number of people, objects, and activities influence the nebulous and open-ended history of a gallery.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-28</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-04</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/6CEB" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/6CEB">
  <Name>&quot;Band of Bikers&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A1F09EF4">
    <Name>ZieherSmith</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>516 W 20th St., New York, NY 10010</Address>
    <Phone>212-229-1088</Phone>
    <Fax>212-229-1260</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street .</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_20">Chelsea 20th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In the basement of an apartment building in Manhattan, Scott Zieher discovered a pile of photographs among the discarded effects of a recently deceased tenant. Exhibited for the first time at ZieherSmith and presented in a new publication of the same name from powerHouse Books, these photographs from circa 1972 offer an intimate portrait of a group of gay bikers in the city and the woods, and a touching snapshot of a historical subculture at its carefree zenith.

The photographs bring into focus a brief, specific period of relative innocence, when middle-of-the-road Americans more often than not failed to perceive the homoerotic undertones of their most heterosexual of institutions. With conceptual light cast by issues ranging from anonymity in homosexuality and underground motorcycle chic to vernacular photography’s pop-culture ramifications, a warm and generous spirit of camaraderie pervades this subterranean survey. Like a real-world set for Scorpio Rising casually captured by an unpretentious extra, this found cache of old-school, leather party snapshots attains archeological significance.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.285</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-20</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/6D43" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/6D43">
  <Name>&quot;Sampling and Revisions: The L.E.S. Deframed&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/87C6AF0A">
    <Name>Gallery Bar</Name>
    <Type>Cafe or Bar</Type>
    <Address>120 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-529-2266</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Delancey and Rivington Sts.  Subway: F/J/M/Z to Essex Street/ Delancey</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>00:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The gallery presents &quot;Sampling and Revisions,&quot; a photography exhibition juxtaposing the Lower East Side Tenement Museum archival photos with those by contemporary artists. Curated by Zoe Lukov.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-24</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/6E1F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/6E1F">
  <Name>Tom Wool &quot;In the Shadow of Everest&quot;</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: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In the Shadow of Everest presents photographer Tom Wool's images of life in the villages of Tibet's Rongbuk Valley. Taken over the course of four weeks in May 2001, Wool's photographs capture the Valley's rugged terrain, which stretches roughly thirty miles from the base of Mount Everest on the north side. Home to some 3,000 Tibetans, the Rongbuk Valley area is of distinct importance to the indigenous population for its sacred geography and religious history. Believed to be the place where earth touches the heav ens, Mount Everest is called &quot;Chomolungma&quot; in Tibetan, meaning &quot;Mother Goddess of the Earth.&quot; The valley is also home to the Rongbuk Monastery, the highest of any in the world at 17,000 feet above sea level.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</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>2010-02-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-07-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/7026" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/7026">
  <Name>&quot;Downtown Pix: Mining the Fales Archives, 1961–1991&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/D1E743C4">
    <Name>Grey Art Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>100 Washington Sq. East, New York, NY 10003</Address>
    <Phone>212-998-6780</Phone>
    <Fax>212-995-4024</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Washington Pl.  Subway: A/B/C/D/E/F/V to West 4th Street or R/W to 8th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="villages">Villages</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>wednesdays closinghour 20:00, saturdays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Jointly organized by New York University’s Grey Art Gallery and Fales Library, NYU’s repository of rare books and manuscripts, Downtown Pix: Mining the Fales Archives, 1961–1991 features over 300 photographs and other printed materials from Fales’s pioneering Downtown Collection. The exhibition is drawn from the papers of artists, writers, poets, and arts organizations that comprise this important archive. The images presented in Downtown Pix create a rich photo-graphic portrait of the creative practices and social protests that defined the Downtown scene as it evolved over the course of three tumultuous decades.

For successive generations of New York artists, “Downtown” has signaled a state of mind as much as a geographic location. The artists, playwrights, choreographers, and political activists who called Downtown home built a lively community that fostered aesthetic experimentation and countercultural rebellion. Downtown Pix focuses on the central role played by photographers in capturing the vital but ephemeral practices of a diverse range of artists. Following in the footsteps of the Grey’s landmark 2006 Downtown Show, Downtown Pix maps a multifaceted cultural scene whose influence on the arts is still felt today.

As critic and guest curator Philip Gefter observes, “The photographs in Downtown Pix register not so much as moments frozen in time as paused frames from a live-action film. This is due, in part, to the kinetic energy of the period—the live performances in loft spaces that encouraged audience participation, the scene’s irreverence and experimentation, as well as a sexual charge that served as a live wire of social behavior—at least until the arrival of AIDS. Downtown Pix provides a photographic chronicle of the period when formal conventions were abandoned with a kind of nose-thumbing glee. And, for a period of time, photography itself became more authentic, more animated, and more fun.”

The exhibition includes work by renowned artists such as David Wojnarowicz, Nan Goldin, Jimmy DeSana, and Andy Warhol. Three photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, recently acquired as joint gifts to the Grey Art Gallery and Fales Library, will also be on display. Equally important to Downtown Pix are the works by photojournalists who reflected the scene as it developed. Fred W. McDarrah’s images of Greenwich Village’s Gay Pride Parade for the Village Voice document the annual event’s evolution. Robert Alexander’s iconic images of dancers, commissioned by the Soho Weekly News, appear alongside examples from his fine-art practice. Snapshots found among artists’ personal papers point to photography’s role in documenting private obsessions and capturing everyday beauty. Poet David Trinidad is represented by more than 40 color photos of miniature tableaux he made featuring his extensive collection of Barbie dolls and accessories. Martin Wong’s images of derelict cityscapes, made as source material for his paintings, offer a glimpse into the artist’s creative process. Whether records of performances, portraits of friends and lovers, or one-off experiments, the photographs in Downtown Pix blur the distinctions between fine-art photography, photojournalism, and amateur snapshots.

Downtown Pix focuses on the intergenerational dialogues and cross-disciplinary resonances that emerge from the archives’ sprawling logic. Photographs of Richard Hell’s concerts at CBGB, Richard Foreman’s experimental plays with the Ontological-Hysteric Theater company, Mabou Mines’s multimedia performances, the happenings at Judson Church, including Carolee Schneemann’s Meat Joy performance, and the installations at Creative Time’s Art on the Beach seriesmark explosive intersections of punk rock, art, dance, and drama. Lynn Gumpert, director of the Grey Art Gallery notes: “The photographs not only document seminal cultural practices, but also survey the vast ecology of artistic subcultures that flourished Downtown.”

Since 1994, when director Marvin J. Taylor founded Fales Library’s Downtown Collection, it has grown substantially to include over 12,000 printed items and 10,000 linear feet of archives. Taking a broad, inclusive approach, the Downtown Collection aims to document the entire scene rather than highlighting individual artists or groups. Among the invaluable materials Fales has acquired, and which are highlighted in Downtown Pix,are the archives of Fashion Moda and the papers of Andrea Callard, co-founder of the artists’ collective Colab. “To truly understand the climate in which key Downtown works were made,” Taylor writes, “requires an archive documenting the culture. All media are included: paper, film, video, and approximately 5,000 photographs from which the images in Downtown Pix were selected.”

The breadth of Fales’s Downtown Collection thus allows for individual artists, writers, and performers as well as collective groups to be situated within broader cultural and social contexts. Each photograph bears the indelible trace of its moment: from the pervasive sense of possibility of the 1960s, through the years of urban decay of the ’70s, and to the galvanized identity politics of the ’80s. The bohemian posturing evident in so many images celebrates a sense of personal freedom that was, for each generation, undoubtedly hard-won. The shared triumphs and inevitable failures documented in Downtown Pix continue to shape the memory of a scene that, through its many permutations, thrived on an ethics of experimentation, and a commitment to radical forms of urban life.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: $3, NYU Students, Facutly, Staff Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/70BA" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/70BA">
  <Name>&quot;Portrait of a Lady&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/F346A8DB">
    <Name>Allegra LaViola Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>179 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>917 463 3901</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Jefferson and Rutgers Sts. Subway: F to East Broadway or 4/5/6/N/R to Canal Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[[Image: Virginia Inés Vergara &quot;Untitled&quot; (2009)]
 


]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-20</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/73A3" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/73A3">
  <Name>Andrey Chezhin &quot;I Love This City&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/DD74BD31">
    <Name>Sputnik Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>547 W 27th St., #518., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-695-5747</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>00:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The title of this project, I Love This City, is simple and seemingly self-explanatory.  Undoubtedly, hundreds of photographers have created projects with similar titles.  But to Andrey Chezhin this apparent simplicity, almost banality, is significant and anything but simple.  Moreover, it is ambiguous in that he is referring to St. Petersburg, the most ambiguous city in Russia, perhaps in all of Europe. 

At first glance, Chezhin is a typical son of the post-modern era: he is a virtuoso at using different visual languages, his favorite approach is montage, his project is serially produced, his reality is not so much the reality of the city itself (sometimes, it seems there is no “real” city for Chezhin), but the reality of his own photographs. Like an alchemist, he subjects his photographs to numerous magical operations, converts them into silkscreens, and then paints them.  The techniques used by Chezhin, however, are so conservative, they border on exotic . 




]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-20</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Margeaux Walter &quot;Crowded&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E9D35000">
    <Name>Winston Wachter Fine Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-2718</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th Ave. and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-24</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Gaze&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C857C70C">
    <Name>Pace MacGill</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>32 E 57th St., 9 Fl.,  New York, NY 10022</Address>
    <Phone>212-759-7999</Phone>
    <Fax>212-759-8964</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Madison Ave.  Subway: N/R/W to 59th Street or to 5th Avenue, F/V to 5th Avenue/53rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</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="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 10:00, saturdays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Gaze&quot; explores photography's ability to capture both the literal and psychological space around a subject caught in a gaze. The photographs on view reveal the complex relationship between photographer and subject, and subsequently subject and viewer. As concessions are made on both sides o the camera, the portraits range from perplexingly distant to intimate and relatable. Each, however, requires the mediation of the viewer to unlock the psychology of the individual behind the gaze or decipher the photographer's intended reading of the portrait.

[Image: Jocelyn Lee &quot;Untitled (Julia and Greenery)&quot; (2005) chromogenic print 24 x 19 in. © Jocelyn Lee]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-11</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;Vernissage 9&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Gallery RIVAA</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>527 Main St., New York, NY 10044</Address>
    <Phone>212-308-6630</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Subway: F to Roosevelt Island. Tram at 60th Street &amp; Second Avenue to Roosevelt Island</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-06</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-11</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/864D" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/864D">
  <Name>Sangbin IM &quot;Confluence&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/56604917">
    <Name>Mary Ryan Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>527 W 26th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-397-0669</Phone>
    <Fax>212-397-0766</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Mary Ryan Gallery announces its first exhibition of new work by Sangbin IM.  IM's photographs are hyper-realistic visions that contrast our utopian desires with voracious consumerism.  Through his dramatic digital manipulation of painting and photography, IM challenges our perceptions of the world around us.
 
To create a single work, IM takes hundreds of digital photographs of a scene or landmark over a period of time, which he then combines seamlessly with digital images of his own paintings of atmospheric elements (sky, water, or flooring, for example), to heighten the drama. The resulting image is an idealized and subtly enhanced view of our urban environment.  At a first glance, these familiar settings may look real, but upon close inspection, the artifice becomes apparent. IM's work aims to blur the boundaries of illusion and verisimilitude through exaggeration of scale, color saturation and painterly textures.
 
Lush greenery surrounds a turquoise lake filled with boaters, set against a magnificent, if over-abundant, New York City skyline in Central Park-NY-2 (2009). This painterly photograph, an idealized rendering of a site familiar to so many New Yorkers, is a prefect example of the dualities that inform IM's work: the real and the virtual, the original and the manipulated, the analog and the digital. 
 
People-MoMA (2009) depicts a mass of people, photographed from several floors up, all making their way toward the entrance of the Museum of Modern Art, which itself is suggested only by barely visible glass doors and the edge of MoMA's atrium balcony.  The people--brightly colored strategically placed against IM's enhanced backgrounds-seem to be rushing toward the gap between the two panels of the diptych. With the museum's collection removed from view, the work shifts its focus to the relationship between people and architectural space, the cultural site, and the collective museum-going experience--as the artist says, &quot;the modern spectacle of appreciating art.&quot; 
 
Three examples from IM's &quot;Metropolitan Museum Project,&quot; a series of nine works, will also be on view.  In a different approach to commenting on the modern museum, IM, acting as 'curator,' completely reconfigures different portions of the museum's permanent collections.  He re-sizes the works based on his personal preference, changes the displays, lighting, and color saturations, while hanging the works in a massive salon-style grouping that nearly fills the picture plane.  IM makes each of the works in the series the same size, which gives each cultural collection equal attention.  Here IM explores the role of the museum and its effects on the public's perception of art history.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-27</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;The Visible Vagina&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C759D2E1">
    <Name>David Nolan Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>527 W 29th St., New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-925-6190</Phone>
    <Fax>212-334-9139</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street, A/C/E to 34th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_28_above">Chelsea 28th - 33rd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 11:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Monday by appointment only.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In conjunction with Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, &quot;The Visible Vagina,&quot; the show is designed to make visible a portion of the female anatomy that is generally considered taboo―too private and intimate for public display. If shown at all, this part of a woman's body is usually presented in an abject fashion, generally within the context of pornography, intended, in almost all cases, for the exclusive pleasure of men. The goal of this exhibition is to remove these prurient connotations, implicit even in works of art, ever since the pudendum was prudishly covered by a fig leaf. This gesture of false modesty, it should be noted, was devised and enforced entirely by men (not only in the case of classical sculpture, but also in the Bible, in which, immediately after their disobedience in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve cover their genitalia with fig leaves). Indeed, until recently, men made virtually all depictions of the frontal nude female figure, but as this exhibition will demonstrate, that has changed dramatically in recent years. Inspiration for both the show and its catalogue came from Eve Ensler's &quot;The Vagina Monologues,&quot; a stage play that premiered off-Broadway in 1996, and was followed by various productions throughout the world (it appeared as a book in 1998). Ensler gave voice to countless women worldwide, honoring the complexity and mystery of their sexuality, basically encouraging them to consider their vaginas as powerful and expressive components of their physical selves, something not to be ashamed of, but to be proudly protected as an assertive and positive manifestation of their being. The idea for this show came from realizing that there was no better group to give vision to this goal than artists, many of whom had already incorporated imagery of the vagina in their works. Because of Ensler's pioneering work in this field, the catalogue is dedicated to her, and proceeds from its sale shall be donated to V-Day, the organization she founded to end violence against women and girls throughout the world.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-01-28</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-20</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Hey, Hot Shot! 2009 Second Edition&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/34281FAF">
    <Name>Jen Bekman Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>6 Spring St., New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-219-0166</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Elizabeth St. and Bowery.  Subway: 6 to Spring Street, N/R to Prince St., F/V to 2nd Avenue, B/D/F/Q to Broadway/Lafayette or J/M to Bowery</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[[Image: Alejandro Cartagena &quot;Fragmented Cities, Santa Catarina, Suburbia Mexicana Project&quot; (2008) Archival Pigment Print 20 x 24 in.]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-20</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/8B99" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/8B99">
  <Name>&quot;Who are you close to&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/BB583D3A">
    <Name>Jane Kim / Thrust Projects</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>114 Bowery, #301, New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-431-4802</Phone>
    <Fax>212-431-4019</Fax>
    <Access>Between Grand and Hester St., Subway: F to East Broadway or B/D to Grand</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Who are you close to,&quot; is a group exhibition inspired by Louise Lawler's work of the same title. Commissioned for the Tel Aviv museum in 1988, Lawler created a set of four postcards with &quot;Who are you close to&quot; printed in Arabic, Hebrew, and English. Each card represents a different color of the Israeli and Palestinian flags: red, green, blue, and black. The piece discusses the problems of relationships, and their often complex nature. The works in the exhibition will allow the audience to engage in a dialog about such complexities and encourages spiritual, political, and cultural responses.

[Image: Yasser Agguour &quot;Cairo&quot; (2005)]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-06</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/8D4A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/8D4A">
  <Name>Ryuji Miyamoto &quot;Kobe&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C3406165">
    <Name>Amador Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>41 E 57th St., 6 Fl., New York, NY 10022</Address>
    <Phone>212-759-6740</Phone>
    <Fax>212-759-6746</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of Madison Ave. Subway: N/R/W to 5th Avenue or 4/5/6 to 59th Street or E/V to 5th Avenue/53rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[5:46 am, January 17, 1995. An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 originating from a point twenty kilometers below Awajishima Island in southern Hyogo Prefecture struck the city of Kobe and its vicinity. It shook the earth for a mere 15 seconds, enough to kill 5,000 people and destroy more than 100,000 homes and other structures. In the aftermath of the quake, the city caught fire, laying waste to an area of 1,043,000 square meters. Ryuji Miyamoto's photographs show Kobe as it was just after the earthquake.  Both in their overall aspect and in their finer details they give some idea of the magnitude of the force that assailed Kobe's buildings and of the way that whole districts were destroyed.  Frozen between their previous state of inactness and their soon to be complete demolition, Miyamoto gives us a look at the fallibility of the built form.

[Image: Ryuji Miyamoto &quot;San-no-miya, Kobe&quot; (1995) gelatin silver print 24 x 20 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>3.97408</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-08</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/8D57" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/8D57">
  <Name>&quot;The Mothership Has Landed&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/EB90A652">
    <Name>Rush Arts Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>526 W 26th St, #311, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-691-9552</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The title of the show borrows from the infamous George Clinton + Funkadelic and their decades-long experimental movement combining music, fashion, illustration and performance. Their phrase, &quot;The Mothership Has Landed&quot; can roughly translate to &quot;The shit is about to hit the fan!&quot; and illustrates the collective nature of the group's overall expressive and raw quality.

A similar expressive and raw quality can be seen in this group of artists. Their works are cultural hybrids borrowing from the familiar and inspired by their investigation of media transformed through personal experience, resulting in a cosmic array of images, objects and performance. &quot;Here's a chance to dance our way out of our constrictions…with the groove our only guide, we shall all be moved.&quot;

One Nation Under A Groove -George Clinton + Funkadelic

Live Performance Dates: Saturdays 4-5pm

Lainie Dalby: February 13th
Jacolby Satterwhite: February 27th
Glendalys Medina: March 6th

Guest Curator: Derrick Adams

[Image: Jacolby Satterwhite &quot;Adam For Adam&quot; (2009) video, 20 minutes]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-01-29</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-20</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/8E40" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/8E40">
  <Name>Robin Cameron and Jason Polan “The Assembled Picture Library of New York City”</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8D07E91F">
    <Name>Esopus Space</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>64 W 3rd St., #210, New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-473-0919</Phone>
    <Fax>212-473-7212</Fax>
    <Access>Between LaGuardia Pl. and Thompson St. Subway: D/B/F/V/A/C/E to West 4th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="villages">Villages</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>16:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="1" thu="0" fri="1" sat="1" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Esopus Space presents “The Assembled Picture Library of New York City,” a collaborative exhibition and workspace environment organized by artists Robin Cameron and Jason Polan. 

The exhibition will provide free and open access to hundreds of images from the collections of Cameron and Polan. Visitors are invited to come in during gallery hours (Mon/Tue/Thu from 12-5pm) and use these images—which include manuscripts, advertisements, prints, original drawings, and more—as raw material for their own artworks, which will be displayed on the walls of Esopus Space for the length of the exhibition. Visitors are also encouraged to submit their own images to build upon the collection, and will have the opportunity to participate in a dialogue with Cameron and Polan, who will be in attendance throughout the run of the show. 

With this project, the artists hope to create a collaborative and creative relationship with the general public—an important component of both Cameron and Polan’s previous work, as well as an essential aspect of the Esopus Foundation’s mission. The artists are also interested in engendering a sense of community around the production of self-published books, zines, and editions. Along those lines, Polan and Cameron will create a book featuring visitors’ artworks, The Assembled Picture Library of New York Book, that will be available at the closing reception on March 18. ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-18</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/8E9F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/8E9F">
  <Name>Yibin Tian &quot;Our New York&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/EE316383">
    <Name>The Chelsea Art Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>556 W 22nd St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-0719</Phone>
    <Fax>212-255-2368</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_22">Chelsea 22nd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Yibin Tian’s multi-media installation comprises C print photographs, three-dimensional sculptures, and video installation. Tian’s goal is to capture the effects that authoritarian Songun-ism (Military First) has on its citizenry. Tian uses color film and casual observation as his methodologies.  Aside from his aesthetic contributions, Tian’s work holds relevance in its timely cultural and social value especially given the recent political crisis resulting from North Korean nuclear testing and Jongil Kim’s refusal to cooperate with international disarmament policy.
Our New York by Yibin Tian (a.k.a. Lao Liu or Old Six) is an installation that continues his last year’s series All for One and One for All.  His work is a result of being reared in a totalitarian government in Bejing, China. This rigid environment provoked him to explore the contrary lifestyle of individualism. Many of the works express the North Korean Songun (military first) politics, yet simultaneously touch upon democratic values as they combine western figures and ideas. Tian’s photographs and sculptures of North Korean military authoritarianism (Songun) where a nation is at the service of its leader Jong-Il Kim, are metaphors for power.  Juche is akin to a religious philosophy that espouses worship of a charismatic leader and is informed by Confucianist values advocating the notion of filial piety and familial hierarchy. While exhibiting the last series in New York the artist enacted a pre-set visual dialogue between western and eastern militarism by posing together North Korean officers juxtaposed against New York uniformed policemen. 
]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults $6,  Students and Seniors $3, Members and Children 16 and under Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-17</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/8F85" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/8F85">
  <Name>Norbert Brunner &quot;Fuck Luck&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/EF0C5F09">
    <Name>Claire Oliver</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>513 W 26th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-929-5949</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>16:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Austrian Norbert Brunner’s inaugural American exhibition, Fuck Luck uses the gallery space as a reflection area for self actualization.  By juxtaposing large scale crystal embedded mirrors with iconic photo-portraits, the artist empowers the viewer to take charge of his own destiny and allows him to choose a positive attitude.  Brunner’s mirror objects reflect not only the viewer in the space, but superimpose the imbedded text across all in its path, insisting we become an interactive part of the installation.  The artist forces the viewer squarely into the center of the work, asking that they formulate their own interpretation of reality.  A mirror is not an exact reflection of reality, but a distorted reading which readily offers back to the viewer an interaction with his own preconceived prejudices, strengths, hopes and experiences.

[Image: Norbert Brunner &quot;I Am (detail)&quot; (2010), digital C-print, mounted under plexiglass, Swarovski crystals, 79.6 x 33.5 x 3  in., Courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery, New York]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-10</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/9045" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/9045">
  <Name>&quot;The AIPAD Photography Show New York&quot; Art Fair</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E9BED306">
    <Name>Park Avenue Armory</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>643 Park Ave., New York, NY 10065</Address>
    <Phone>212-616-3930</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>On the corner of 66th Street. Subway: 6 to 68th Street or B/Q to Lexington Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>00:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleNote>Depends on each event.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[One of the most important international photography events, The AIPAD Photography Show New York, will be presented by The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) from March 18 through 21, 2010.  More than 70 of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work including contemporary, modern and 19th century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video and new media, at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street in New York City.  The 30th edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York will open with a Gala Preview on March 17 to benefit the John Szarkowski Fund, an endowment for photography acquisitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">$40 run of show pass (includes catalogue), $25 one day pass, $10 one day pass with valid student ID </Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-21</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>March 18-20 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Sunday, March 21 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. </ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/909C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/909C">
  <Name>&quot;Brazilian&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>1500 Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>511 W 25th St., #607, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>917-362-0770</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[[Imaga: Julio Bittencourt]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0.591486</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-01</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/94BB" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/94BB">
  <Name>Yuken Teruya &quot;Earn A Lot of Money  No Need Send Any Letter  Send Money Home First&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/3897570B">
    <Name>Josee Bienvenu Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>529 W 20th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-206-7990</Phone>
    <Fax>212-206-8494</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th Ave. and West Side Highway. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_20">Chelsea 20th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Josée Bienvenu Gallery presents an exhibition featuring a video installation, new sculptures, and photographs by Yuken Teruya, continuing the artist's poetic investigation of national identity and the fluid boundaries between cultures and objects.

The 5 channel video installation Earn A Lot of Money; No Need Send Any Letter; Send Money Home First, is a maze of overturned cardboard moving boxes, some containing video projections, some housing projectors and speakers. As one navigates this Hooverville, the videos document the journey of small paper boats, fitted with Japanese, Puerto Rican, Mexican, and American flags, as they travel along the gutter of a street in Brooklyn’s low-rent melting pot of Bushwick. The title of the piece references a common early 20th century colloquial farewell at the Okinawa docks as ships carried family members away to South America in search of a better life.   One box shows a team of firemen opening a fire hydrant to flood the street, a neighborhood substitute for air-conditioning.  Another shows a kid picking one of the paper boats out of the water.  Others follow the boats as they navigate the current, swerving around litter and bumping into each other as they make their way towards their inevitable decent into the gaping sewer below.  Interspersed with the cinéma vérité of the street scene, Teruya has added slow pans of ocean views seemingly taken on a trans-pacific journey, (possibly the artist’s own?) from Japan to America.  At the very moment the narrative could become quite literal, it is picked up and washed off in a new direction.   

In Dawn, The artist looks for the ultimate places in a man made environment where a chrysalis, originally from his home island of Okinawa, could find a safe setting for the most crucial period in its cycle, the one preceding the birth of a butterfly. One of the spots is the sole of a luxury high heel shoe, which looses its function to become an architectural safe heaven for the vulnerable creature. A set of eight photographs documents the various stages of the transmutation process from the golden vessel hanging underneath the shoe, to the striped butterfly emerging upside down. In a group of sculptures, the same filigreed chrysalises hang delicately off the upturned barrel of a pistol, or underneath the blades of kitchen knifes planted into the wall, the possibility of death lying dormant, just like the unborn insect cocooned underneath the objects.

[Image: Yuken Teruya &quot;Tory Burch (Pink)&quot; (2010)  cuts on paper, glue, 6 x 16 x 12 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-27</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/95FE" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/95FE">
  <Name>&quot;'O' -mawaru- &quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/5C1EE31D">
    <Name>Art Next Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>530 W 25th St., 3rd Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-206-1668 </Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This three person exhibition presents three different viewpoints/perspectives of a simple yet ambiguous notion in Japanese, “mawaru.” In English, “mawaru” means to turn around, spin, circulate or cycle, and to visit places. The theme of this exhibition spontaneously grew out of the common ground found in the works of three artists from Japan, living in New York, USA. 

ON megumi Akiyoshi created a series of paintings and sculptures called, &quot;Blooming Bubbles&quot;. ON visualizes life circulating and flowing perpetually in this world and beyond. In this flux, spumes are born and disappear just like flowers open and lose their petals. &quot;Blooming Bubbles&quot; are the artist’s projection of our existence. We are all given a certain amount of time in one lifetime, during which, ON wishes full blossoming for all beings. 

In the series, &quot;Zoological Specimen&quot;, Akiyuki Ina has created ‘resurrected’ stuffed animals, made of discarded clothing found on the streets of NY. These works are loosely based on animals that may become extinct in the near future. Though these are endearing creatures, by re-constructing them in such a way that the bones emerge from their bodies, Akiyuki imposes the horror of hybrid-transformation and deformation in the process of recycling materials. “Zoological Specimen&quot; evokes a hazardous cycle of modernization, which often results in a fragile co-existence with nature. 

Hiroshi Sunairi created a collection of video, photography and sculpture, entitled, &quot;Pilgrimage,&quot; based on his trip to China in 2006, passing through Beijing (北京), Lijiang (丽江), Shangri-la (香格里拉), Deqin (德欽), Feilai si (飞来寺) and Yubeng village (雨崩村) in the Yunnan Province (雲南省), near the border of Tibet Autonomous Region. This journey, culminated in meeting a Tibetan Lama and making a pilgrimage to Yubeng's sacred waterfall at the foot of Meili Snow Mountain, Kawakarpo-la (梅里雪山). For Sunairi, this work is a documentation of the act of pilgrimage. 
]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-31</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/975C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/975C">
  <Name>Alexey Titarenko &quot;Saint Petersburg in Four Movements&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/9E0CA4DF">
    <Name>Nailya Alexander Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>41 E 57th St., Suite 704, New York, NY 10022</Address>
    <Phone>212-315-2211</Phone>
    <Fax>212-315-2220</Fax>
    <Access>Between Park and Madison Aves. Subway: 4/5/6 to 59th Street/ Lexington Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Description><![CDATA[This will be Alexey Titarenko’s first major exhibition in New York that features his entire St. Petersburg series (1991-2009). The four underlying sequences, or movements– to borrow a term from the vocabulary of music, which features prominently in the artist's mind, are &quot;The City of Shadows,&quot; &quot;The Anonymous,&quot; &quot;The Light of Saint Petersburg&quot; and &quot;Unfinished Time.&quot; Like music, the expression of time is a presence in Titarenko's art, associated with literature and in particular, the works of Marcel Proust.

[Image: Alexey Titarenko &quot;Untitled (St. Petersburg)&quot; (2007)]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-24</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/9781" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/9781">
  <Name>John Guerrero &quot;Respira&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/807BC854">
    <Name>Milk Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>450 W 15th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-645-2797</Phone>
    <Fax>212-645-2743</Fax>
    <Access>Between 9th and 10th Avenue. Subway: A/C/E to 14th Street or L to 8th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_19_below">Chelsea 14th - 19th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-22</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/9B0F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/9B0F">
  <Name>Marco Delogu &quot;Cardinals and Criminals&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/7D98063A">
    <Name>The Randall Scott Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St., #204, Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>202-332-0806</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Washington and Adams Sts. Subway: F to York Street, A/C to High Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleNote>11-8:30 pm on DUMBO First Thursday night.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Marco Delogu has always embarked on projects focused on groups of people who have experiences or idioms in common, and in doing so has always drawn inspiration from his own life.

The idea of photographing Vatican Cardinals (Cardinali) for example was inspired by Delogu's uncle who was a Bishop. Photographed in their private chapels, their apartments, austere or regal, in the magnificent Vatican buildings or in their hospital beds, these portraits recall the iconography of classical painting while being in the language of contemporary portraiture.

Captivity (Cattavita), Delogu's portraits of criminals in Rome's Rebibbia Prison stems from his fear of imprisonment, a constant concern for the people of his generation and their extreme expressions of the political struggles of the 70's. After twenty years, many of Delogu's former schoolmates are still in prison.

Cardinals and Criminals are complete opposites. Each represent societal extremes: Good and Evil. However, through Delogu's lens, these opposites manifest a collision of ethos and pathos. Delogu sees each person as an inhabitant within a web of imposed and self-imposed rules and regulations that are indecipherable to those who do not know their experience. Beyond the rules are men and women just trying to survive.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/9C77" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/9C77">
  <Name>Elene Usdin &quot;Femmes D’Interieur&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/52C0B037">
    <Name>Farmani Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>111 Front St. Suite 212, Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>718-578-4478</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Washington and Adams St. Subway: F to York Street, A/C to High Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Illustration</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Elene Usdin makes her New York debut exhibiting her current series Femmes D’Interieur, this month at the Farmani Gallery. Usdin, a Paris based artist, combines both her talents of photography and illustration in these imaginative artworks. Usdin’s stunning imagery also provides social commentary regarding the place of women as the decorations within their own domesticated situations. Usdin will be in attendance for the opening reception.

Usdin, a member of the creative collective Hartland Villa, which includes art directors Lionel Avignon and Stefan Vivies, was recently awarded with the London Photographic Associations Gold in Fashion for the “fair-etale” series. She has also been awarded the 2008 Px3 Prix De La Photographie Paris and the International Photography Awards honorable mention for her earlier series “Self Portrait with Mattress.” Her editorial and fashion work can also be seen in Eyemazing, Twill, and The World Magazine.

This latest series “Femmes D’Interieur,” which has already exhibited at the Gallery of Graphic Arts in Paris, Usdin reflects upon the representation of women as a decorative element, morphing objects like common household items, furniture, and even the countryside with that of women painted in the style of portraits from the Classical Era. This offbeat reinterpretation of “woman-as-object” is at one time unsettling and yet Usdin has the ability to convey this strong subject matter with wit and charm in her stunning artworks. It is has been said of Usdin’s work, “it is always about women – the women of fairytales, of mythology, and of fantasy,” and she provides that same ideology in this series.

Each artwork is a unique original, hand painted C-print mounted on aluminum. For the exhibition the gallery will show a mix of originals and reproductions available in two sizes.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/A026" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/A026">
  <Name>Viviane Sassen Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/4BB02AB7">
    <Name>Danziger Projects</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>534 W 24th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-629-6778</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street, or L to 8th Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_24">Chelsea 24th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Over the past several years, Viviane Sassen has emerged as one of the freshest voices in European photography. Already an acclaimed fashion photographer whose work appears regularly in magazines such as French VOGUE, Purple, and i-D, in 2001 Sassen began regular trips to Africa, where she had lived as a child. Her work there moved away from fashion and documentary and towards an ongoing body of collaborative portraits.

In this work she has established a visual vocabulary that is stylized, symbolic and mysterious. Her aesthetic combines a sense of childhood memory, where scenes are crystallized and highly saturated with color with a photographer's sensitivity to the body and surface. The strong presence of shadow and darkness in Sassen's images provokes more questions than answers. If there is such a thing as magical realism in photography, these photographs embody it.

This exhibition, Sassen's first American showing, draws on work from three series - 'Die Son Sien Alles' (The Sun Sees Everything), made in South Africa; 'Flamboya', made in Zambia and East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania); and the series 'Ultra Violet', made in Ghana. These portraits combine the spontaneous with the staged, and often come out of ideas that Sasson carries in a sketchbook of inspirations for future compositions. These ideas are shared with her subjects as the starting point for each photograph. Critic Vince Aletti commented, &quot;Her photographs tease fashion conventions but with witty and unexpected results, partly because her subjects are all young Africans who seem to have enjoyed collaborating with her. She tends to treat the body as a sculptural element — a malleable shape that combines with blocks of shadow and bright color in arrangements that sometimes read like cut-paper collages, bold and abstract but full of vibrant life.&quot;]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Irving Penn, 1917–2009&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>Open until 8:45 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month, from January through June 2010.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Irving Penn’s unbroken stream of creative invention spanned seven decades and established an indelible standard of clarity, grace, wit, and elegance. The Museum of Modern Art has collected and exhibited his photographs since 1943, and in 1984 we were proud to present a retrospective organized by his friend John Szarkowski, then head of MoMA’s Department of Photography. A selection of Penn’s outstanding photographs from the Museum’s collection is presented as a tribute to this remarkable artist.

[Image: Irving Penn &quot;Woman with Bare Back, New York&quot; (1961) gelatin silver print 14 x 14 in. Gift of the photographer. Copyright by The Irving Penn Foundation]]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B16209D5">
    <Name>The New Museum of Contemporary Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-219-1222</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>On the corner  of Prince St. Subway: 6 to Spring Street or N/R to Prince Street. Bus: M103 to Prince and Bowery or M6 to Broadway and Prince.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 22:00, fridays closinghour 22:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[“Skin Fruit” will be the first exhibition in the United States of the Athens-based Dakis Joannou Collection, renowned as one of the leading collections of contemporary art in the world. This will also be the first exhibition curated by Koons, whose early work inspired the evolution of the Joannou collection.

“Skin Fruit” will include over 100 works by 50 international artists spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the exhibition will spotlight the age-old preoccupation with the human form as a vessel of and vehicle for experience. Koons’s title “Skin Fruit” alludes to notions of genesis, evolution, original sin, and sexuality. Skin and fruit evoke the essential tensions between interior and exterior, between what we see and what we consume.

Starting with the first, now-legendary exhibitions, such as “Artificial Nature” and “Post Human,” at his DESTE Foundation’s non-profit museum in Athens, Dakis Joannou has focused on works that present a new image of man. It is no coincidence that his collection developed in the cultural context of Greece, where Classical sculpture defined the Western canon of anatomical representation. Artists have arrived at a much more uncertain image of mankind in this new century, in which bodies are still idealized but also are assaulted by forces of our own making. Joannou’s collection is comprised of more than 1,500 works by 400 contemporary artists, from the most eminent to those just emerging. For “Skin Fruit,” Koons has selected sculptures, works on paper, paintings, installations, and videos by a group of artists including David Altmejd, Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Nathalie Djurberg, Robert Gober, Mike Kelley, Terence Koh, Mark Manders, Paul McCarthy, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Kiki Smith, Christiana Soulou, Jannis Varelas, Kara Walker, and Andro Wekua, among others.

The show will also premiere new works such as Charles Ray’s re-envisioned Revolution Counter-Revolution (1990/2010); a new public installation of Jenny Holzer’s Selections from the Survival Series (1984); and a special 3-D book project by Italian artist Robert Cuoghi, and will include living sculptures by Pawel Althamer and Tino Sehgal. “Skin Fruit” will feature only one work by Koons—his One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (1985)—the first major artwork that Dakis Joannou acquired, initiating the collection that would grow to be one of the world’s finest. Within the context of the exhibition this influential object, with its both familiar and mysterious orb suspended in fluid, becomes a womb, a point of origin and of departure. The installation for “Skin Fruit” has been conceived by Koons as a kind of panorama, with frequent shifts in scale and unconventional juxtapositions. Role-playing games and dramas occur: a man will stage a religious ritual; a sculpture literally sings out; white chocolate monuments tower above visitor’s heads; voracious creatures eat themselves and each other while bodies are buried or frozen; icons and deities are adored or dethroned.

The Imaginary Museum

With the exhibition “Skin Fruit,” the New Museum launches The Imaginary Museum, a new exhibition series that will periodically showcase leading private collections of contemporary art from around the world, providing the opportunity for rarely seen, great works of art to be accessible to a broader public.

Koons as Curator

The Museum invited Jeff Koons to curate the first in this series. Koons had his first museum exhibition at the New Museum in 1981. In addition to being one of the most accomplished artists of our time, Koons is a committed and highly informed art lover and collector whose interests span from Greek and Roman sculpture to contemporary art. Koons has said that he collects art “to have a world besides my world, to have another field of experience.” It is the combined perspective of artist, collector, and connoisseur that he brings to the task as curator of the New Museum exhibition. Jeff Koons and Dakis Joannou have enjoyed a close friendship and artistic dialogue for nearly three decades. Joannou has been a great supporter of Koons’s work from the beginning of his career, and a large concentration of Koons’s work from all periods is at the core of the Joannou collection. Koons’s role as curator reflects the ideals at the forefront of Joannou’s collection: ongoing conversations and collaborations with artists. In addition, it also signals the New Museum’s continued experimentation with adventurous curatorial formats. With this exhibition, the Museum seeks to further dialogues about alternative collaborations and the history of artist-curated exhibitions.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">General Admission $12, Seniors $8, Students $6, 18 and under Free, Members Free, Thursday Evenings (from 7pm to 10pm) Free.</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/AE36" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/AE36">
  <Name>&quot;Beyond Participation: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida in New York&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/E0B14313">
    <Name>Hunter College Bertha &amp; Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery</Name>
    <Type>University or School</Type>
    <Address>695 Park Ave., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-772-4991</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>SW corner of 68th St. and Lexington Ave. Subway: 6 to 68th St./ Hunter College</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
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  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Hunter College presents Beyond Participation: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida in New York. The collaboration between renowned Brazilian artists Hélio Oitica and Nevielle D’Almeida from the late 1960s though the 1970s changed how audiences perceived art, shifting them from passive viewers to active participants. Exhibited for the first time together, the slide-show environment Cosmococa—Programa in progress, CC1 Trashiscapes (1973)is shown alongside D’Almeida’s film Jardim de Guerra (1967), as well as two of Oiticica’s notebooks from 1973 reproduced in facsimile. The dynamic installation CC1 Trashiscapes comprises two projectors flashing 32 slide-photographs onto opposing gallery walls, accompanied by a soundtrack including forró music (typically from the Northeast of Brazil) such as Luis Gonzaga’s baião, Jimi Hendrix songs, street sounds, and voices. Mattresses line the floor, and nail files are available for use by visitors. The audience is invited to relax and recline horizontally while filing their nails in the dark as they watch the images on the surrounding walls.The slides themselves consist of three distinct photographic series: Luis Buñuel’s face on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, a series of black-and-white photographs of Luis Fernando Guimarães (an actor and friend of Oiticica) wearing Parangolé 30 Capa 23 M’Way Ke, and the album cover for Weasels Ripped My Flesh by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, all manipulated with white line of cocaine by the artists’. This work is an important progenitor of early video and installation art and influenced subsequent generations of artists tremendously.]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/AEA7" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/AEA7">
  <Name>&quot;SNØHETTA: architecture – landscape – interior&quot; Exhbition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/FD6D96EE">
    <Name>Scandinavia House</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>58 Park Ave., New York, NY 10016</Address>
    <Phone>212-879-9779</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 37th St. and 38th St.  Subway: 4/5/6 and 7 to Grand Centra/42nd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The innovative, award-winning, and environmentally conscious architectural firm, Snøhetta, is featured in a multi-faceted exhibition which offers insights into the design and construction of the firm’s most important works, including the celebrated Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, the recently completed Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, Norway, and the planned National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion in New York. Organized and initially presented by the National Museum – Architecture in Oslo earlier this year, this exhibition includes films, photographs, drawings, models, and interactive learning devices.

[Image: Trond Isaksen/Statsbygg &quot;Photo of Norweigen National Opera and Ballet by Snøhetta&quot;]]]></Description>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/AEC1" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/AEC1">
  <Name>Jan Dibbets &quot;New Horizons&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Gladstone Gallery (Chelsea 24th Street)</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>515 W 24th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-206-9300</Phone>
    <Fax>212-206-9301</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Born in the Netherlands in 1941, Jan Dibbets trained to be a painter, but turned to the photographic medium in the late 1960s. Harnessing the potential of photography to elucidate the conceptual variables of optics, his witty yet rigorous investigations of the elastic synthesis between object and space resulted in acute queries of vision and reality. Dibbets’ practice often resulted in richly paradoxical photographs such as his “Perspective Correction” series in which trapezoids drawn on his studio wall became perfect squares through the camera’s transformation of three-dimensional space into two-dimensional images. Challenging the myth that the photograph never lies, Dibbets fills the assumed paltriness of the reproduced image with a sense of intellectual wonder assumed to be absent from the unequivocality of both the photographic eye and reality.

For this new body of work entitled “New Horizons,” Dibbets returns to the optical structure that has become his hallmark. As Erik Verhagen says in his recent study of Dibbets’ oeuvre, “The horizon is not a subject like other subjects, for it exists only through and in relation to our sense of sight.” It is objective and subjective, circular and rectilinear, static and mobile. In these photographs, which conjoin different photographs of a landscape and seascape along the line of the horizon, Dibbets channels it as structuring principle, not only determining space and point of view, but also—in a very painterly way—the composition itself. By subordinating the mobility of the camera to the standardization of a straight line, these panoramas create a subtle tension between the seamlessness of the horizon line and the disjunction of land and sea, only further accentuated by the resulting asymmetrical compositions. The new works in this exhibition continue Dibbets’ sentiment when he said “In the whole world what is more beautiful than a straight line? And the horizon is a straight line in three dimensions: it’s an almost incredible phenomenon.”

Jan Dibbets lives and works in Amsterdam. 

[Image: Jan Dibbets &quot;Land-Sea G/83&quot; (2007)  Two unique color photographs mounted on mat board with graphite; 30 1/8 x 45 1/4 in]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-13</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/B123" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/B123">
  <Name>&quot;Announcing Magnan Metz&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/CE0D27DC">
    <Name>Magnan Metz Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>521 W 26th St.,  New York, NY 10001 </Address>
    <Phone>212-244-2344</Phone>
    <Fax>212-244-7544</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Aves. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Formerly Magnan Projects, Magnan Metz Gallery announces our new gallery space featuring a selection of gallery artists, including:

DUKE RILEY named one of the “Artists to Watch” in the February issue of ArtNews and exhibiting at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania as part of Philagrafika 2010  ALEXANDRE ARRECHEA  currently part of Philagrafika 2010 Independent Project at The ICE Box, Crane Art. On March 2nd he will be projecting a video on the NASDAQ through the Times Square Alliance.  SOFIA MALDONADO  will be unveiling a 92 foot long mural on 42nd Street as part of the Times Square Alliance on March 2nd and is covered in New York Daily News.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-19</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-27</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/B2C0" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/B2C0">
  <Name>Tseng Kwong Chi &quot;Body Painting with Keith Haring and Bill T. Jones&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/7723074C">
    <Name>Paul Kasmin Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>293 10th Ave., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-563-4474</Phone>
    <Fax>212-563-4494</Fax>
    <Access>Between 26th and 27th St. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_27">Chelsea 27th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Paul Kasmin Gallery presents an exhibition of photographs taken by the American artist Tseng Kwong Chi in 1983 in collaboration with the choreographer Bill T. Jones and the artist Keith Haring. Shown in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Tseng's and Haring's deaths, these striking large-format photographs celebrate the spirit of interconnected creativity that pulsed throughout the East Village in the 1980's.

Although the photographs appear to freeze Jones's spontaneous motion, they were actually carefully staged by Tseng. As in many of his other photographic series - East Meets West and The Expeditionary Self-Portrait Series for example - these works depict Tseng's thoughtfully composed and often playful investigations of truth, fiction and identity.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-27</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Smoke+Mirrors/Shadows+Fog&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/C3ACA17C">
    <Name>Hunter College Times Square Gallery</Name>
    <Type>University or School</Type>
    <Address>450 W 41st St., New York, NY 10036</Address>
    <Phone>212-772-4991</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 9th and 10th Ave. Subway: A/C/E at 42nd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to present Smoke+Mirrors/Shadows+Fog, an exhibition featuring 16 international artists whose use low-tech means to create astonishing and stirring illusions.  The intricate and elaborate works on view conjure deliberate deceptions (“smoke and mirrors”) and naturally occurring illusions (“shadows and fog”).  Although these works would seem to lend themselves to the digitized special effects and technology readily available today, this select group of artists tends to prefer age-old techniques such as trompe l’oeil painting, shadow play, and mirror anamorphosis. 

Several of the artists in Smoke+Mirrors/Shadows+Fog employ shadow, reflection, smoke, and even gravitational pull to create substantive permanent artworks.  For example, Jim Dingilian (whose latest works will be on view for the first time at the Hunter College/Times Square Gallery) captures smoke residue in empty liquor bottles and then uses Q-tips and toothpicks to draw detailed dimensional landscapes on the inside of the transparent glass.  Other artists included in the exhibition represent space, distance and dimensionality so convincingly that they seemingly dematerialize solid architecture (in a few cases the gallery walls themselves).  This phenomenon is epitomized in Sarah Oppenheimer’s site-specific installation—a custom-designed aperture fit directly into the gallery’s entrance wall which effectively distorts the depth of field so that the adjacent space appears flat, like a projected image. 
]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-18</DateStart>
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  <Name>Egan Frantz &quot;Revision 1: All Quiet on the Western Front&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/652B1DA7">
    <Name>Cueto Project</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>551 W 21st St., New York, NY, 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-229-2221</Phone>
    <Fax>212-229-1122</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_21">Chelsea 21st</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The textual reference of the title functions as a kind of third term for the installation as a whole. There is in this work something of the intimacy of books: the material and atmospheric presence of (a) text. We find a drip or a tear, for instance, that breaks the frame in his photograph of an Yves Klein catalogue, so as to perhaps spring a leak in the subject.
Taking the appearance of an Ellsworth Kelly or even an inkjet print, deconstructed and parsed into its pure values, the colors in MK, PK, LK, LLK, C, M, LC, LM, Y remain representations of the printer's palette. Frantz commands his printer to print each cartridge-color fully aware that it will mix several, if not all of the inks at the machine's disposal, to print the very colors contained in each cartridge. As such, each color contains the trace of all the others. It is just another image.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-27</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-24</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;Brucennial 2010: MISEDUCATION&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8868B975">
    <Name>350 West Broadway</Name>
    <Type>Other</Type>
    <Address>350 West Broadway, New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Broome St. and Grand St.  Subway: A/C/E to Canal Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="soho">Soho</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>00:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Depends on events.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Bruce High Quality Foundation announces the opening of The BRUCENNIAL 2010: Miseducation on February 25th at 6pm. 

Since its founding, the BRUCENNIAL has evolved into The Bruce High Quality Foundation's signature public program, as well as the most important survey of contemporary art in the world ever. Following the triumphant successes of BRUCENNIAL08: Doing it Again (Bushwick) and BRUCENNIAL09: Smithumenta (Carol Gardens), BRUCENNIAL2010: Miseducation brings together 420 artists from 911 countries working in 666 discrete disciplines to reclaim education as part of an artist's ongoing practice beyond the principals of any one institution or experience.

I think the Brucennial is like—in the life of the people—it’s like an anniversary in the life of people. The people, they need moments to celebrate themselves and that’s what a Brucennial is. The Brucennial happens every two years, or really, you know, whenever we feel like it, and it’s a moment of celebration of the history of the people—of the reason why the people exist, of the nature of the people. Again, it’s like a person. If not there would be a flux of time without an interruption and I think that as people, people are live entities and they need to have some moments where they recognize this liveliness of their existence.   
-Francesco Bonami]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-12</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>WED – SUN, 12 – 6 pm</ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/C05B" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/C05B">
  <Name>Ryan McGinley &quot;Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/5AC9BC2D">
    <Name>Team Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>83 Grand St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-279-9219</Phone>
    <Fax>212-279-9219</Fax>
    <Access>Between Greene St. and Wooster St. Subway: A/C/E or N/Q/R/W to Canal St</Access>
    <Area areaId="soho">Soho</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[For his latest exhibition, Ryan McGinley has shifted his focus away from constructing a youthful sublime within the boundless American landscape and has concentrated instead on creating imagery within the confines of his New York studio. The result is a surprisingly restrained, open-ended study of black and white portraiture. Here we see McGinley not as a chronicler of youthful adventure, but as an engine for an almost scientific cataloging of a kind of emotional optimism.

McGinley's portraits are the result of a meticulous studio practice, in which thousands of images are taken of each sitter; each shoot eventually being edited down to its one defining &quot;moment&quot;. During the course of two years, McGinley photographed about 150 hand-picked subjects from across the globe. Bringing these models into his studio and stripping them of their clothing, the artist has succeeded in answering his own question: &quot;What would a classical Ryan McGinley black and white portrait look like?&quot;

In addition to the black and white photographs, the exhibition will also include three large-scale images in color, which locate the other works within the continuity of McGinley's oeuvre.  Characteristically exuberant, these photographs add a narrative backdrop to the exhibition, which initiates an ambiguous loop between the two approaches. McGinley's photographs have always mined the space between chaos and control, negotiating the space between the really-real and the only-apparently-so. In this exhibition the push and pull of nature and the studio, of sumptuous color and its absence, create a dynamic tension.

]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-18</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/C750" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/C750">
  <Name>Amadeo Lasansky &quot;Flags&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/61C2E496">
    <Name>Gallery FCB</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>16 W 23rd St., 3 Fl., New York, NY 10016</Address>
    <Phone>212-727-3635</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and 6th Ave.  Subway: R/W to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="flatiron_gramercy">Flatiron, Gramercy</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;I am fascinated by the many ways the American flag appears in our urban landscape. When I began work on this series I photographed a lot of flags. A neglected flag fading, tucked away in a window. Another hung prominently, proudly and yet incorrectly. A wind-torn one flying high above the city street that appeared to have been transported from a ship at sea. However, I soon realized that the most unique images were ones that I shot standing directly under the flags and looking straight up. By doing this, I removed almost all elements from the flag's surroundings, and transformed my subject from an icon into something more recognizable as say, a flower. Throughout this series, I have continued to capture the effects of wind and light as they change the flag.&quot; - Amadeo Lasansky ]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-11</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/C9C9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/C9C9">
  <Name>&quot;Eye of the Mind: Contemporary Photography by Emerging and Established Artists&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/72573B9B">
    <Name>Fountain Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>702 9th Ave. New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-262-2756</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 48th St. Subway: C/E to 50th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays openinghour 13:00, sundays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;The aim of this exhibition is to ask the viewer to re-examine the creative process and mental illness,&quot; said Sue Stoffel, curator, art historian, and museum specialist. A former trustee of the Brooklyn Museum and of Creative Time, a program that promotes art in public space, she works with numerous museum education departments in the New York area and raises new resources for inter-museum education collaborations. Continued Stoffel, &quot;Can and how does mental illness define the creative process? If we know beforehand that this is work by people with mental illness, does that change how we look at it? What happens if we mix in works by well-known photographers?&quot; Concluded Stoffel, &quot;In pairing the work of Fountain Gallery artists with that of established photographers of the 20th century, the viewer is asked to ‘see with artists' eyes'; thus the title: Eye of the Mind.&quot; Six Fountain Gallery member-artists whose work is defined by the use of a camera will be paired with established artists including Weegee, Lee Friedlander, Morton Bartlett, Richard Shaver, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and Hans Bellmer. This pairing reflects the curator's wish to juxtapose similar visual images, so that the viewer sees what the artists saw as they focused their cameras. Reflection, urban grit, and solitude are all revealed.&quot;]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-03-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-14</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/CCE9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/CCE9">
  <Name>&quot;Company Journals of the Southside Firehouse&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2CA9286B">
    <Name>The City Reliquary</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>370 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211</Address>
    <Phone>718-782-4842</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of N 4th St. and Havemeyer St. Subway: G or L to Lorimer Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="williamsburg">Williamsburg</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="1" thu="1" fri="1" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Check venue website for seasonal hours.  Also by appointement.  </ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[An exhibit of historic logbooks detailing the daily work of Williamsburgh companies Engine 221 and Hook &amp; Ladder 104 since the turn of the century, beautifully hand-written with fountain pen in calligraphic form and displayed with photographicic and printed support materials of the era; Curated by Firefighter Patrick D'Emic L104.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
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  <Latitude>40.714053</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-73.955678</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/D1CD" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/D1CD">
  <Name>Aubrey Mayer Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/FB499DDF">
    <Name>White Columns</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>320 W 13th St., New York, NY 10014</Address>
    <Phone>212-924-4212</Phone>
    <Fax>212-645-4764</Fax>
    <Access>Between 8th Ave. and Hudson St. Subway: A/C/E to 14th Street or L to 8th Avenue.</Access>
    <Area areaId="villages">Villages</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[White Columns presents an exhibition of recent portraits by the New York-based photographer Aubrey Mayer.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-17</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>wgs84</Datum>
  <Latitude>40.739583</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-74.003986</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/D2E3" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/D2E3">
  <Name>Pieter Hugo &quot;Nollywood&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/DC17457A">
    <Name>Yossi Milo Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>525 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-414-0370</Phone>
    <Fax>212-414-0371</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Avenue. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Pieter Hugo’s series Nollywood portrays archetypal characters from one of the three largest film industries in the world, “Nollywood” in Nigeria (which is larger than Hollywood and second to Bollywood, according to 2009 UNESCO report). Nollywood produces over 1000 low-budget, straight-to-video films a year. The films lean toward the macabre and melodramatic, with narratives rooted in local symbolic imagery and traditional storytelling. Themes and subjects often include the supernatural, with plots centered on romance, extortion, prostitution, witchcraft, or religion. Produced for a primarily African audience, the films are a rare example of African self-representation in mass media.

The photographs in the series were taken with a medium-format camera in the film production centers of Enugu and Asaba in southern Nigeria, using local actors to recreate scenes and characters inspired by typical Nollywood films. The staged images, which recall film production stills, are the artist’s interpretations of the iconic myths and symbols that characterize Nollywood movies. Like the artist’s series The Hyena and Other Men, which was shown at the gallery in 2007, Nollywood focuses on a unique cultural community in Africa. The resulting images are portraits on the border between documentary and fiction.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>2.34037</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-10</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/D75C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/D75C">
  <Name>Christopher Chiappa &quot;High Fructose Corn Syrup&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/4E3F1B1A">
    <Name>Kate Werble Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>83 Vandam St., New York, New York 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-352-9700</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Hudson and Greenwich St.  Subway: C/E to Spring Street or 1 to Houston Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="soho">Soho</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Kate Werble Gallery presents Christopher Chiappa's first solo show in eight years, High Fructose Corn Syrup.  In this exhibition, Chiappa employs self-portraiture as a technique to heighten psychological and cultural decay. The title, High Fructose Corn Syrup, is a reference to the artist’s transition from adolescence into adulthood, and his realization of the disappointment of human experience. A daily Coke drinker, he hit puberty just as Coca Cola’s formula switched from using sugar to high fructose corn syrup.

Chiappa uses a simple switch of the ordinary to emphasize an omnipresent disequilibrium in the photographic portrait of the artist in his studio, I Always Knew It Would Come To This. Wearing his usual self-dictated uniform of a white shirt, black pants and Nike Prefontaines, the picture represents the madness of the everyday – his shirt is on his legs and his pants and shoes on his arms and torso with his head popping out of a hole cut in the crotch.

Cloaking the gallery in black plastic, Chiappa aims to push the viewer to re-evaluate the physical gallery:  anything can happen within the space.  His uniquely American sculpture, Cornball, becomes a handmade icon; a basketball covered in kernels of corn. Cornball layers one recognizable American thing onto another, referencing pop culture as well as Koons’ suspended basketballs.

Unordinary tension builds within Hermit Crab, a video manipulating common childhood pet Hermit Crabs in a way that depicts power and abuse. The artist’s head is cropped out of each frame as he methodically glues each of the twenty-five hermit crab shells together to form a circle. The crabs’ behavior during the gluing evokes human struggle and strategies for coping as a group. Although the crabs were not hurt in any way, an unsettling, uncomfortable feeling prevails.
 ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-10</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/D8C3" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/D8C3">
  <Name>&quot;The Museum of Unnatural History&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/98525F4A">
    <Name>ClampArt</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>521-531 W 25th St., Ground Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>646-230-0020</Phone>
    <Fax>646-230-8008</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_25">Chelsea 25th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-10</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/DAC2" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/DAC2">
  <Name>Sofi Zezmer &quot;Remote Control&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/8701820A">
    <Name>Mike Weiss Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>520 W 24th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-691-6899</Phone>
    <Fax>212-691-6877</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_24">Chelsea 24th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[With an engineer’s precision, Zezmer constructs her works by a gradual additive process dependent on intuitive responses to the materials and objects she uses forming color-saturated assemblages. Evolving out of a large selection of manmade curiosities, each piece takes on an identity and physical body of its own; some remain self-contained in their form while other spread out along the walls like micro organisms.
Among the abundant elements she incorporates are objects which in their original context were distinctly purposeful such as drinking straws, IV drip tubing, construction netting, film, foil, packing materials, bicycle helmets, cable ties and funnels. In fusing the elements and breaking them down, Zezmer disrupts the common meaning assigned to the items and calls into question our own familiarity with them. Zezmer’s sculptures suggest irrational Duchampian hybrids of mechanical and biological systems. They are embodiments of the complexity of life in the modern age, ruminations on the omnipresence of mass-production, space travel and biotechnology.
Sofi Zezmer structures some of her recent works as interactive sites, inviting simultaneously accessible multiple viewpoints, which provoke conflicting chains of associations. REM LS1, for instance, consists of a mobile, translucent panel attached to the wall with two hinges. The sculpture literally occurs on both sides of the panel as well as in between the two sides. Similarly, the large hanging work Brazil LS1 hovers at the viewer’s eye-level above ground and rotates slowly, disclosing simultaneously numerous vantage points.
]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-27</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/DB06" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/DB06">
  <Name>Eve Fowler &quot;There is one thing that I forgot to tell you&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/BDB8A1B6">
    <Name>Horton Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>504 W 22nd St., Parlor Level, New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-243-2663</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave.  Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_22">Chelsea 22nd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="1" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Gallery Closed: Independence Day, July 3 &amp; 4, August 24 – September 7, 2009.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[&quot;Gloria Hole&quot; is a document of a sexual performance. These photographs describe an imagined space for queer desire to be directed and complicated by bodies, unable to be read. The hole has been created in context to a policed history of queer sexuality, and in this series the illicit and anonymous environment is being transposed upon queer bodies.

[Image: Eve Fowler &quot;Untitled (Gloria Hole Series)&quot; (2008) C-Print 11 x 14 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>5.78762</Karma>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-27</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/DDF0" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/DDF0">
  <Name>&quot;Crisis &amp; Opportunity: Documenting the Global Recession&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/7983B811">
    <Name>power House Arena</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>37 Main St., Brooklyn, NY 11201 </Address>
    <Phone>866-99-27362</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>On the corner of Water Street. Subway: F to York street, A/C to High Street, or 2/3 to Clark Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 11:00, sundays openinghour 11:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[It with great honor that we present the winners of the SocialDocumentary.net Call for Entries Crisis &amp; Opportunity: Documenting the Global Recession. Our goal with SDN is always to bridge the gap between photographic representation and the immensely complex human condition. We have no doubt that these four exhibits have given us greater insight into how the global recession is affecting individuals across our world. The judges have chosen winning exhibits from Poland (Tomasz Tomaszewski), Japan (Shiho Fukada), Bangladesh (Khaled Hasan), and the United States (Michael McElroy).]]></Description>
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  <Karma>4.30366</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-15</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2010-02-16" start="18:30:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/DEAE" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/DEAE">
  <Name>Emmeline de Mooij &quot;Muddy&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/ACCE2EC1">
    <Name>Capricious Space </Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>103 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211</Address>
    <Phone>718-384-1218</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Berry St. and Bedford Ave.  Subway: J/M/Z to Marcy Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="williamsburg">Williamsburg</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Set opening hours during exhibition (Other times check for office location/mailing address).</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The exhibition will consist of site-specific sculptural installations, photos, collage and screen printing. She will also be launching her new book, co-published by Capricious, also titled Muddy.

“Gravity grows and my overweight forces me to descend into the ground – behind the skin, beyond daylight. I have signed up for the course ‘Cave Diving Inside the Brain’. When I sink up to my knees into the brown substance, I find myself face to face with a troll. She introduces herself as Muddy and tells me about the ultimate wish for weightlessness. I say, ‘Yes, I see, but, just these heavy clothes I bought myself’…” –Emmeline de Mooij]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-06</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-16</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/E138" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/E138">
  <Name>Wolfgang Tillmans &quot;Pictures in the Place of Others&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/DA16EFED">
    <Name>Andrea Rosen Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>525 W 24th St., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-627-6000</Phone>
    <Fax>212-627-5450</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street or C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_24">Chelsea 24th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In a wind blown Norwegian museum, a specialist in photography conservation working on 19th Century prints recording a solar eclipse turns to a group of journalists, many clutching impressive digital cameras. Rueful, he reminds the company that if a pile of prints and a stack of hard-drives packed with image data were left side-by-side in a room, and then the electricity went out and many years were to pass, that it is highly probable that only some of the paper prints would survive and none of the data. Feet shuffle awkwardly as that apocalyptic information sinks in, especially because we still mix up pictures with memories. It seems ironic that even though we know this, or ought to, that we don't make prints and trust our disorganized data like ourselves. The vanitas theme expressed through loose, day-lit fruit or the fragile expressions of a small group of close friends and muses, has been a constant trope of Wolfgang Tillmans's photographic work over the last two decades. In this period arguably our relationship to the photographic image has changed forever, while Tillmans's work has shown remarkable constancy and led the way for many. 

During eyes-open, waking hours, evidently a large slab of our brains is busy processing images whether we want it to or not. Perhaps for that internally exhausting reason most people secretly think that they are on top of the picture game, that not only do they know a good picture when they see one but if they had the time, they could also make one if they wanted to. It doesn't seem to matter that evidence to the contrary is everywhere. Actually we remain ignorant, gullible and easily manipulated when it comes to pictures and weirdly 'less and less impressed by impressive pictures', as Tillmans observed to me. For his part though, he wants it to be possible to trust his pictures, which perhaps seems like a tall order getting taller, but that's still what he hopes or works at making possible. 

The digitization of the image world has cemented this egoistic fantasy of picture mastery and added another dimension because in the uploaded world, next to scraps of text, pictures are the essence of virtual existence. Given the drama of this situation, the limitless production and distribution of an arsenal of personal pictures has come to be considered a right, something which makes pictures as ubiquitous but also as necessary as air. Generally, we are just as blasé about pictures as air and in truth don't really bother with looking and even when we do, we do it without much attention to detail or understanding of really what makes what we are looking at tick. Art suggests that when we do that we deny ourselves both knowledge and pleasure. Tillmans's pictures have never denied either the highly subjective or personal on one hand or the enrichment of the experience of looking through art on the other. His unapologetic attachment to colour and colour combinations is one example of this. Bring on those sapphire blues and golden yellows, those overly demanding greens, says his work - maybe it doesn't even matter on who or what they are found. 

This text accompanies a new solo exhibition of his work, which at the time of writing, has no title. The confronting, intense constellation of pictures Tillmans has chosen for this exhibition have - in a classic sense of how artists used to work and galleries used to schedule - been drawn from his new work of the last year or so. Actually, Tillmans is constantly taking pictures in one way or another, although he says he is still never sure if he can do it. I joke that the closed shutter is the photographer's equivalent of the writer's blank screen. 

What has Tillmans seen and captured for us? In this exhibition he has left to one side for the moment works of the last years entailing abstract examinations of photographic materiality and process. Instead he has chosen to self-consciously revisit the aesthetic innovations and pictorial methods for which he became renowned. For example: the pictures all come in three standard sizes; nothing is framed, just scotch-taped or hung on binder clips like banners on the wall; one picture is repeated somewhere to keep you awake and wink at photography's anti-art reproducibility; and, the hanging gravitates around a horizon and a virtual grid in which images don't fill all of the gaps but a sense of balance and rationality is conveyed from the placement. 

At the same time, he told me he wanted to aesthetically: &quot;move the goal posts a little.&quot; Aside from changes in subject matter there is a 'newness' in these pictures, which involves working with the benefit of hindsight in order to allow steps forward. There is self-quotation with twists and developments. A few images of clothes and fabric are case in point - his new 'faltenwürfe' (crease or fold) pictures point in two directions, one which evokes the absent bodies and the other which suggests they would be happy to dissolve onto another plane, perhaps one of pure abstraction. Up to this point I have intentionally avoided his new subjects because lazy-looking involves reducing pictures to labels. Here is a problematic list of some: the leaning tower of Pisa, grey relentless guest worker's housing in Dubai seen from a plane, the security barrier in Jerusalem, a rack full of tabloid magazines, a pile of eggs in cartons, the folds of a rain-proof jacket, South East Asian small businesses, a man cleansing in the river Ganges, and a computer room in a research station monitoring climate change. But there are many, many more, each one particular and stand-alone. 

For some days before typing this now I was wondering how to avoid writing this sentence: Wolfgang Tillmans's new exhibition addresses life on the planet now. He would never claim that and somehow that version sounds awful like it should be read by a voiceover baritone, but at least it gets around the now empty sounding 'global' view. Let's keep it simple - Tillmans has made and collected a bunch of fine pictures from all over the place. He told me he liked the possibilities and the problems of a certain amount of randomness in subject matter and selection. He wrote to me:

In a way to reconcile or address the randomness of the world today is the biggest task, to let it all in, but still hold course. Colour help me! It's a pure seeing I'm interested in the mind being stretched by trying to pull this world of pictures together, like a bit of a screw-up. Eat this! Previous shows also often included absurd moments and odd subject matter that had nothing to do with the core narrative of the 'real' utopias portrayed in my pictures. But this show reverses the balance - a few pictures from 'my world' are met with a majority of 'outside' world.

Thus these pictures are worldly but it is not a glamorous world. When they show economy, power, capital - whether monstrously built, in violent action or advertising its things - it is from a distance or with dry sarcasm or with a firmly held mirror. When they show people - sexy out-of-it friends or strangers in crowds regardless of their milieu - they create intimacy, win your sympathy or represent freedom. When they show things and surfaces and light hinting things and surfaces they celebrate really, really looking and looking again and the ancillary art of composition whether we are thinking of fruit or a bunch of lines. 

Not shying from either the socio-political difficult or the fatigued iconography of everyday subjects Tillmans makes striking picture-making look easy. He allows recognition, identification, familiarity and discovery. He likes his pictures to be affective, to be good, embedded in them is belief. 

[Image: Wolfgang Tillmans &quot;lampedusa&quot; (2008)]]]></Description>
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  <Name>Andy Warhol &quot;Unexposed Exposures&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Steven Kasher Gallery</Name>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Steven Kasher Gallery presents the first exhibition of previously unpublished and unexhibited photographs that Warhol selected for his 1979 book Andy Warhol’s Exposures. The exhibition will feature over 70 unique vintage black and white photographic prints. It will be accompanied by a new book, Andy Warhol: Unexposed Exposures (Steidl/Kasher, 2010), edited and with an introduction by Bob Colacello (who was executive editor of the original book as well). Starting in 1976, Warhol shot several rolls of film every week and selected images for the 1979 book. He had intended to title it Social Diseases, but his concept was heavily watered down by his publishers at the time and many of the selected images were removed.]]></Description>
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  <Name>Joe Deal &quot;West and West: Reimaging the Great Plains&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Robert Mann Gallery</Name>
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    <Address>210 11th Ave, 10th Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Following the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and the subsequent public survey along the Sixth Principal Meridian, the Great Plains was officially opened to development and the surveyor's grid provided the basis for cataloguing the open expanse. Drawing on the remarkable history of 19th century survey photography, Joe Deal's new series of photographs, West and West, serves as a meditation on landscape and history, and their place in the realms of imagination and representation.

Robert Mann Gallery will exhibit a selection of photographs from this body of work, which continues Deal's keen observation of the forms and markers of built and natural landscapes. While West and West eschews the imagery of development for which Deal is best known, this project still connotes the impact of human-initiated processes by asking the viewer to think historically and consider what in a landscape has changed and also what has not changed. Focusing on the Great Plains also marks a return to the region where Deal grew up. West and West offered the opportunity to reconnect with what he calls &quot;the dreamed landscape&quot; of his childhood, now framed by the complicating knowledge of the history that shaped the land.]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>International Center of Photography</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1133 6th Ave., New York, NY 10036</Address>
    <Phone>212-857-0000</Phone>
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    <Access>Corner of 43rd St.  Subway: B/D/F/V to 42nd Street or 1/2/3/7/N/Q/R/S/W to Times Sq-42nd Street.</Access>
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    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Paris was a city of fantasy and chance encounters for Surrealist artists of the 1920s and '30s. During this period of unprecedented social and cultural transformation, photography played a dramatic new role in both avant-garde practice and mass culture. In their works, photographers such as Jacques-André Boiffard, Brassaï, Ilse Bing, André Kertész, Germaine Krull, Dora Maar, and Man Ray used fragmentation, montage, unusual viewpoints, and various technical manipulations to expose the disjunctive and uncanny aspects of modern urban life. In &quot;Twilight Visions,&quot; guest curator Terry Lichtenstein has assembled over 150 photographs, films, books, periodicals, and Surrealist ephemera to show how real and imaginary versions of Paris were constructed through photographic images.

[Image: Ilse Bing &quot;Eiffel Tower&quot; (1934) © Estate of Ilse Bing/Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York. Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland] ]]></Description>
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  <Name>Alejandro Vidal &quot;When it rains, all shines black&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Participant Inc.</Name>
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    <Address>253 E Houston St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-254-4334</Phone>
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  <Description><![CDATA[the first U.S. solo exhibition of Barcelona-based artist Alejandro Vidal. Known for his large-format photographs, videos, and installations that assert a post-cinematic aesthetic of conflict, seen through a generational lens that distinguishes the obsolescence of transgression in societies obsessed with control, the exhibition will consist of new works in photography and video. Vidal’s new photographs for When it rains, all shines black are a loose re-staging of a common form of popular political dissent in Latin American countries, involving the symbolic washing of the national flag in front of government buildings. Shooting at night from a hermetically remote location, usually from inside a car and illuminated only by the glare of headlights, Vidal de-objectifies the original act through distancing strategies, insinuating a subtle yet threatening rupture. The location and actions appear inscrutable, foreboding a dystopic resistance or enacting a B-movie-esque ceremony of an imaginary secret society. The flags are unidentifiable, and the actors are theatrically styled to produce a “vernacular upheaval, insinuating those forms of cultural subversion that are more powerful for going undetected.” (Erica Papernik, Crime and Punishment, Tallinn Kunstihoone, 2006).]]></Description>
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  <Name>Marco Rios &quot;Plasma Pool&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Simon Preston Gallery</Name>
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    <Address>301 Broome St., New York, NY 10002</Address>
    <Phone>212-431-1105</Phone>
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    <Access>Between Forsyth and Eldridge St.  Subway: B/D/Q to Grand Street or F/J/M/Z to Essex Street.</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Adopting traits from a variety of late 19th Century Gothic fiction, such as Robert Louis Stevenson's novella &quot;The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde&quot; (1866), H.G Wells' &quot;The Island of Doctor Moreau&quot; (1896) and Bram Stoker's &quot;Dracula&quot; (1897), the exhibition comprises of a series of sculptures, photographs and drawings. By combining elements of romance and horror, Rios suggests various modes of physical and emotional transformation, while continuing to mine an intimate personal psychology. The title of the show, &quot;Plasma Pool,&quot; directly references Cronenberg's &quot;The Fly&quot; (1986), itself a modern day story of metamorphosis and mutation. Titles such as &quot;Neurochemical Squirt&quot; and &quot;Affectionate Cranial Scoop,&quot; suggest tender, if unsettling, gestures towards intimacy, while the objects themselves, a human-scale nutcracker and spoon-shaped drill-bit, reveal the hyperbolic brutality required to perform their unique tasks. &quot;Tip Sips (700ml at a time),&quot; a glass device shaped to wrap around the necks of a couple in embrace, implies the ingesting of tears expelled and caught in delicate eyeglasses. Orificial Juice Exchange, a large-scale laboratory-inspired glass sculpture, foregoes this modesty and restraint, with attachments for a total bodily fluid transfusion. By assuming literary, filmic and art historical guises, Rios is able to employ humor and slapstick in his exploration of a mind tormented by plurality. The walls of the gallery are painted to resemble a theatrical stage or setting. Two black and white photographs depict the artist firstly with a rock tethered to his head, and then with his head entirely replaced by a nut. In a third fleeting snapshot, while caught in an act of depravity, his face appears as a grotesque. Two 'dry-erase' drawings attempt to illustrate and work through this condition in a futile attempt at diagnosis and understanding.]]></Description>
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  <Name>Yojiro Imasaka and Jun Ahn &quot;perspectives&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Onishi Gallery</Name>
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    <Address>515 W 26th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-695-8035</Phone>
    <Fax>212-695-8036</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street.</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Onishi Gallery presents, perspectives, an exhibition of photographs by two Asian artists, Yojiro Imasaka and Jun Ahn.  
 
The young international artists were inspired by their past experiences in their home countries, Japan and South Korea.  Even though Asian culture has embraced the value of individual assertion recently, social authorization still exists physically and psychologically.  The way of thinking is different among generations, yet young people still keep their dark and depressed feelings hidden inside.  They seek to disclose their inherent conflicts by expressing themselves in a non-verbal way.  The contrast between Imasaka and Ahn’s perspective is remarkable, yet their pictures are somehow related.  Imasaka takes black and white pictures of buildings, looking up.  By contrast, Ahn takes colored pictures of buildings, looking down.

[Image L: &quot;Jun Ahn Self-Portrait&quot; (2009) HDR ultra chrome archival pigment print, 40 x 30 in., R: Yojiro Imasaka &quot;new work #02&quot; (2008) gelatin silver print, 44 x 37 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Name>Man Ray Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Zabriskie Gallery</Name>
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    <Address>41 E 57th St., New York, New York 10022</Address>
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  <Description><![CDATA[[Image: Man Ray &quot;Jacques Villon&quot; (1922) vintage gelatin silver print 11 x 9.25 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Body Language&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Laurence Miller Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>20 W 57th St., New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-397-3930</Phone>
    <Fax>212-397-3932</Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th and 6th Ave. Subway: F at 57th Street or N/R/W at 5th Avenue</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 11:00, saturdays closinghour 17:30</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[[Image: Helen Levitt &quot;New York&quot; (c. 1940) silver print 14 x 11 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Free.</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-14</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-27</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/F21E" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/F21E">
  <Name>Nebojša Šerić-Shoba &quot;Battle Field&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A30362A3">
    <Name>Dumbo Arts Center</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address>30 Washington St.,Brooklyn, NY 11201</Address>
    <Phone>718-694-0831</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Water and Plymouth St. Subway: F to York Street, A/C to High Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="dumbo_brooklyn">DUMBO, other Brooklyn</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Also by appointment.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) announces BATTLEFIELDS, an exhibition of photographic works by Nebojša Šerić-Shoba.  Taken over a 10 year period (from 1999 to 2009), the featured works, documentations of actual battlefields, call into question the autonomy of “place”: the disparity that exists between historical events and the geographic locations in which they occur. Apart from the occasional historic marker or didactic memorial plaque, little visual evidence remains to distinguish one site from another, a disconnect that evokes the transient nature of history, the arbitrary lines of the battlefield and the universality of the theaters of war.

Conscripted to fight in defense of his hometown of Sarajevo during the Bosnian civil war, (1992 – 1995), Nebojša Šerić-Shoba served the majority of his military mandate digging trenches amidst the bodies that littered the battlefield. It is from these wartime experiences that the artist developed a profound sense of distrust for a political machine that saw neighbors taking aim at neighbors, firing across seemingly arbitrary lines of demarcation. Eventually this experience led him to the sober realization that the “history of the human race… can be seen as a history of conflicts,” the majority of which “are destined to be forgotten, buried beneath the surface of history.”

The artist’s subsequent travels found him photographing numerous battlefields, including those at Waterloo, Gallipoli, Troy, Verdun, Normandy, Istanbul, Gettysburg and Kursk. The majority of these sites now see few visitors, and those that do serve primarily as tourist attractions for the morbidly-inclined, visiting only briefly in an attempt to capture the remnants of a history that has long since departed.  

The exhibition, Battlefields, features The Battle of Brooklyn, 1776 (2009). Also known as The Battle of Long Island, It was the first major battle of the American Revolutionary War. Tellingly, the current riverside park lying opposite the DAC building marks the actual point of retreat of George Washington and his newly-conscripted Army, a fitting link between past and present at this historic Brooklyn location. The immediate aftermath of this pivotal battle, after which the British held New York City for the remainder of the war, was the burning of nearly a quarter of the city's buildings.  

As competing social, cultural, and linguistic incarnations make it nearly impossible to lay claim to any fixed idea of national history or identity, the relationship between history and place has become a struggle for the possession of the past. In reframing our history through the focused lens of these battlefields, the artist asks us to consider them less as fixed landscapes, and more as part of a living history, with the many memories and points of view that such a history evokes.

[Image: Nebojsa Seric-Shoba &quot;The Battle of Brooklyn, 1776&quot;]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-06</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/F3F6" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/F3F6">
  <Name>&quot;Small Works&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/42C0D47B">
    <Name>Lana Santorelli Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>110 W 26th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-229-2111</Phone>
    <Fax>212-229-2262</Fax>
    <Access>Between 6th and 7th Ave.  Subway: F/V to 23rd Street or R/W to 28th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_east">East Chelsea</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
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  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Lana Santorelli Gallery’s annual Small Works show.  This time, twenty-two artists contribute work that is diminutive in size but packs a giant punch.  From Jennifer Maloney’s quirky Everything for Everyone to Jagdish Prabhu’s elegant Presences Studies, Small Works culls artwork under twenty-four inches in scale from some of the most intriguing emerging artists. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-01-30</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-13</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/F41A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/F41A">
  <Name>&quot;30 Seconds off an Inch&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/6D0D23C1">
    <Name>Studio Museum Harlem</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>144 W 125th St., New York, NY 10027</Address>
    <Phone>212-864-4500</Phone>
    <Fax>212-864-4800</Fax>
    <Access>Between Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard and Lenox Ave. Subway: A/B/C/D/2/3/4/5/6 to 125th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="harlem_bronx">Harlem, Bronx</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 10:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Studio Museum in Harlem will open the fall/winter season with a major exhibition entitled 30 Seconds off an Inch. This survey will bring together contemporary artworks by a group of artists who, having absorbed the lessons of U.S.-based Conceptual art and identity politics, imbue their respective practices with a critical sense of play and irreverence adopted from Fluxus, Arte Povera, Gutai and Neoconcretism, among other international movements. 30 Seconds takes the singular practices and conceptual methods of black artists active on the West Coast in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a starting point—work that inspired a bodily engagement in conceptual practice.

Presenting approximately one hundred works by dozens of artists, the exhibition will provide an overview of a generation of artists who use a variety of media, including photography, video, large-scale sculpture, figurative painting and site-specific installations. 30 Seconds aims to show how this group of artists engages with the body and race in clever, subtle and astute ways.
]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Suggested donation: Adults $7, Seniors and students with valid ID $3, Members and children under 12 Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-11-12</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-14</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/F480" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/F480">
  <Name>&quot;Knock Knock: Who's There? That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/6AF88F88">
    <Name>Fred Torres Collaborations</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>527 W 29th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-244-5074</Phone>
    <Fax>212-244-5075</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: A/C/E to 34th Street, C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_28_above">Chelsea 28th - 33rd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Humor in all of its forms, including social satire, wordplay, games and jokes, has been an underlying theme in art, throughout the 20th century. Dada's playfulness is the precursor of this thread, born as a response to the destruction wreaked on a global scale during WWI. KNOCK KNOCK explores how artists have drawn on this strategy, using humor as a hook to tackle more complex social, sexual, and political issues. The resulting historical exhibition, mounted over two venues, is superficially all farce, gaffs, puns and parody, and exposes the embedded tensions inherent in the work when the laughter dies down.
]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-24</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-15</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/F4B9" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/F4B9">
  <Name>Kenneth Josephson Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/420CC6AB">
    <Name>Gitterman Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>170 E 75th St., New York, NY 10021</Address>
    <Phone>212-734-0868</Phone>
    <Fax>212-734-0869</Fax>
    <Access>Between Lexington and 3rd Ave. Subway: 6 to 77th St.</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote>by Appointment</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Throughout his career, from his days as a student at the Institute of Design through his years as a teacher at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Kenneth Josephson has explored the concepts of photographic truth and illusion.  Whether his works utilize a single negative, multiple exposures, collage, or a construction that is photographed, Josephson creates art that challenges our perspectives and invites us to consider different concepts of representation.   Josephson consistently frames these ideas with dynamic compositions and creates beautiful objects with seductive printing.  Yet, regardless of how exquisite his prints are or cerebral his ideas might be, Josephson consciously utilizes humor; for this is just art, and it is meant to be enjoyed.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-17</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/F5B6" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/F5B6">
  <Name>&quot;Now We Are Six&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/24414933">
    <Name>Andrea Meislin Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>526 W 26th St., Suite 214, New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-627-2552</Phone>
    <Fax>212-627-1216</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Andrea Meislin Gallery is marking its sixth anniversary in March 2010. The celebration will commence on Wednesday, February 17th with &quot;Now We Are Six,&quot; a group exhibition featuring artists from the inaugural 2004 show and those who have joined the roster since that time.

[Image: Leora Laor &quot;Untitled #100&quot; (2002)]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-20</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/F615" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/F615">
  <Name>Allan Sekula &quot;This Ain't China&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/355E9211">
    <Name>e-flux</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>41 Essex St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-619-3356</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between Hester and Grand Sts.  Subway: B/D to Grand Street, F to East Broadway, J/M/Z to Essex</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_east_side">Lower East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Allan Sekula's 1974 photo-text work, &quot;This Ain't China: A Photonovel,&quot; announces the artist's early attention to China as a foil for Western paradigms of production—cultural and economic. The work combines a (meta)narrative with staged photographs, shot in the spirit of Jean-Luc Godard (in a Maoist phase and channeling Bertolt Brecht). Sekula's plot concerns the employees of a greasy spoon restaurant in San Diego (artist included), all musing about working and living conditions, and plotting a strike— a microcosm implicated in a global imaginary, transformed by the presence of a different culture. &quot;This Ain't China&quot; was made at a time of great interest— especially amongst left-leaning Western artists and intellectuals—in the possibilities of Maoism. Yet the counter-example of China, and its negation, remain elusive. In the ambiguous way it is evoked, China could be both the country at the height of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and fine dinnerware (porcelain or &quot;fine china&quot;). Presenting the work in 2010 raises the question of how both these Chinas— as well as today's People's Republic, with its (ever enigmatic) embrace of capitalist manufacturing and consumption with a communist face— continue to configure imaginaries of alternative forms of production. Sekula's 1974 photonovel is paired with a new work: a backlit transparency made for the storefront window of the e-flux space on Essex Street in New York's Chinatown. The image was captured while the artist was doing research in one of China's &quot;special economic zones&quot; near the port city of Guangzhou for a forthcoming documentary on working conditions in and around the world's most active ports. It shows a young Chinese factory worker holding part of a kitchen appliance she is helping to manufacture, her eyes closed. The image may be seen as evidence of Sekula's shift from staged photography to a documentary approach, and opens a question concerning the artist's paths to realism. And yet the new image shares an element of refusal with the earlier photonovel. A solo-show of two works, &quot;This Ain't China: A Photonovel&quot; (1974) and &quot;Eyes Closed Assembly Line&quot; (2010), thus enables the visitor to trace key trajectories for Allan Sekula's entire practice. The investigation of his special interest in China leads to other questions concerning the politics and aesthetics of working class refusal, what we might call an &quot;attitude of ain't.&quot;

[Image: Allan Sekula &quot;This Ain't China: A Photonovel&quot; (1974) Courtesy of the artist and Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica]]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2010-02-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-03</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/F99A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/F99A">
  <Name>William Wylie &quot;Stills&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/A1B420BA">
    <Name>Jenkins Johnson Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>521 W 26th St., 5 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-629-0707</Phone>
    <Fax>212-629-4255</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_26">Chelsea 26th</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="1" sun="1" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[ “When the air is still, then so is the surface of the river. Then it holds a perfectly silent image of the world that seems not to exist 
in this world. Where, I have asked myself, is this reflection? It is not on the top of the water, for if there is a little current the river 
can slide frictionlessly and freely beneath the reflection and the reflection does not move. Nor can you think of it resting on the 
bottom of the air. The reflection itself seems a plane of no substance, neither water nor air. It rests, I think, upon quietness.” - 
Wendell Berry’s afterword to Stillwater 
 
William Wylie’s stunning silver gelatin photographs featured in Stills were made along a stretch of the Cache la Poudre River in 
Fort Collins, Colorado between 1997 and 2001. Wylie’s subject descends from the Rocky Mountain National Forest and flows 
untamed through the Colorado landscape until the Poudre weaves through Fort Collins, where it becomes a marginalized 
wilderness. For the five miles the river flows through the city, it is frequently seen through the development – glimpses of the river 
from the highway or the shopping mall, from parking lots or apartment fire escapes. In many places concrete constrains the river. 
Yet Wylie’s photographs hone in on the tranquility and the raw beauty of the river, almost entirely removing the water from its 
surroundings.  
 
Wylie’s choice to photograph the water near surface level gives his photographs an abstract quality, making something we are 
supremely familiar with into something we virtually cannot recognize. Wylie also chose to work at varying times of the day, so the 
light on the water is always varying; some negatives were even exposed by the light of the moon, almost completely abstracting 
the landscape. Wylie’s intimate portraits of the Poudre present the viewer with an opportunity to interpret the image in one’s own 
manner. With knowledge of the landscape and the photograph’s context, we can imagine that #01-06 (Stillwater) shows the river’s 
smooth flow being interrupted by subtle inconsistencies just below the surface; however, simply looking at the image presents a 
much more abstract view that could be interpreted in any number of ways. We look forward to the discussions Wylie’s 
photographs will elicit within the gallery. 

[Image: William Wylie &quot;Stillwater&quot; (2001) silver gelatin print, 30 x38 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Name>&quot;Winter Kunstkammer: Part II&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Walter Randel Gallery</Name>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Walter Randel Gallery announces the opening of Part II of Winter Kunstkammer. The critic Edward Lucie-Smith has described the Kunstkammer as an assemblage of various art objects in a single room; despite their divergent character, these works of art, found in the studios of artists, studies of scholars and homes of collectors of discernment may be said to precede the practice of shows in formal galleries and museums of today. 

The seven contemporary artists in part II of the exhibition are as diverse as the works of art from the past with which they exhibit their oeuvres— along side works spanning a timeline of four millennia and from all over the world.  Art from European, Asian, African, Oceanic, and New World cultures are represented in this group show.  Variety and choices for the viewer and collector abound. 

Arlan Huang, painter and glass artist, was born in Bangor, Maine, in 1948 and grew up in San Francisco’s Chinatown. He graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. The paintings he presents in this show are his latest works dating from 2009.  His awards include a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and recognition from the Department of Cultural Affairs of New York City. Huang’s current project is an ambitious commission at the Laguna Honda Hospital, in California, where thirty blown glass rondels laminated on ten frosted mirror glass panels with four large windows with blown glass forms inside glass blocks will be installed in early March.

Ernest Kafka, a New York photographer, is an enthusiastic collector of art from ancient and medieval times to the present.  His photographs of a recent voyage to Syria, Jordan and Egypt appropriately record how people live today surrounded by vestiges of the past, among the ruins of some of the oldest cradles of civilization.  The images both record the flow of time and put the viewer in the places and epochs in history when some of the works in the exhibition were created or derived their inspiration.

Bruna Stude is a photographer who first studied law in Split, Croatia. After years of working as a journalist and radio reporter, she left Croatia in 1987 to pursue a life as a crewmember at sea, where she became a photographer of the ocean and its forms; she has circumnavigated the globe several times. Since 2002, she has made her home on the island of Kauai, recording the sea’s changes and the things that live in it.  Stude’s work was recently included in two museum collections at which she exhibited: 20 Going On 21: Honoring the Past, Celebrating the Present, Looking to the Future at The Contemporary Museum Honolulu and Artists of Hawaii 2009 at The Honolulu Academy of Arts juried by Laura Hoptman, the Kraus Family Senior Curator of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY. 

Charles Birnbaum, an artist for over 25 years, studied clay sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute with Ken Ferguson, the noted teacher of ceramics. He then did his graduate work at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. His hand-sculpted porcelain art is subtle and precise, conflating intricate organic imagery. He received a prestigious Honorable Mention in the 2008 International Ceramics Festival in Mino, Japan.

Josef Levi, who currently lives and works in Italy, studied at the University of Connecticut and Columbia University. In 1965 he had his first show in New York City. His work can be found in the Museum of Modern Art, the Albright Knox Gallery, the Aldrich Museum, and the Corcoran Gallery. Corporate collectors of his art include the Bank of New York and Exxon. Originally a painter, Levi has since 2002 been altering his “still lives” of known faces from paintings of women by old and modern masters, as well as commissioned portraits, on the computer so that there is a greater bias toward abstraction.

Mark Sengbusch was born in Ravenna, Ohio, in 1979. He received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn. The imagery in his paintings, influenced by Sengbusch’s experiences with a loom and computer games, can be described as “future artifacts”—compositions in which a rich tapestry of weaving and functional computer data are merged.

Ted Kurahara was born in Seattle, Washington, and moved to New York after graduate work done in Peoria, Illinois. An abstract painter of unusual subtlety, Kurahara has worked for many years in downtown New York. He has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts; and has exhibited worldwide, in France, Italy, Sweden, and Switzerland.  His second solo exhibition at Walter Randel Gallery this past fall of 2009 met with great critical acclaim and a review of the show by Jonathan Goodman is available on artcritical.com.

[Image: Arlan Huang &quot;Untitled 2&quot; (2009)  Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 28 x 28 in.]]]></Description>
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  <Name>The E.D. Clan: &quot;East Williamsburg&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Eastern District</Name>
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    <Address>43 Bogart St., Brooklyn, NY 11206</Address>
    <Phone>718-628-0400</Phone>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Brooklyn is changing… again. Some call it a renaissance. Others are too busy with the rent hikes to call it anything. We're in the thick of it here at Eastern District so we deemed it &quot;necessary&quot; to address such pressing issues with a &quot;critical&quot; art show. Eastern District Gallery proudly presents: “East Williamsburg”, because defining reality is sometimes harder than choosing a color for your fixie.]]></Description>
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  <Name>Joe Pflieger &quot;Photographs&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Monya Rowe Gallery</Name>
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    <Address>504 W 22nd St., 2nd Fl., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-255-5065</Phone>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/FE2C" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/FE2C">
  <Name>Courtney Johnson &quot;Glass Cities&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Jenkins Johnson Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>521 W 26th St., 5 Fl., New York, NY 10001</Address>
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    <Fax>212-629-4255</Fax>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York presents Glass Cities, a solo exhibition by the versatile photographer Courtney Johnson. This will be Johnson’s first solo show with Jenkins Johnson Gallery in New York.
 
Courtney Johnson creates her luminous photographs using a modified version of the technique developed in the mid-nineteenth century by painters looking to transition into the new field of photography, like Corot and Delacroix. Johnson uses 4x5 inch glass plates, on which she creates a negative, painting with nail polish, white out, and drawing ink. From the negatives, she prints a photograph using a slide enlarger or a scanner. Most of Johnson’s photographs are compiled from nine different negatives, one of which is included with the purchase of an edition. The complicated nature of the cliché-verre technique has made it virtually obsolete in the contemporary art world.
 
Johnson began utilizing the cliché-verre (French for glass negative) technique in the late 1990s, first experimenting with abstract ink blots on 35mm film. Around 2000, Johnson turned her cliché-verre practice to the representational, beginning with portraits and later progressing to landscapes, as in Glass Cities. While the glass negatives reference the historical tradition of painting, the final images are photographic and mechanically reproducible; Johnson has secured herself as a link between the arts of the past and the art of the future – a bridge from one medium and time period to the next. While her unique method contrasts ideas of the mechanical and the handmade (similarly detailed by Walter Benjamin in his pivotal “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction), she specifically selects her subject matter, in this case cityscapes, to explore the seemingly disconnected triangle between nature, technology, and mankind. She breaks down complex forms into more representative shapes, giving the scenes an abstract sensibility while retaining the essence of the city.
 
It is important to note that she paints the negative of her final image, so in Johnson’s photograph Rome, which is composed from nine cliché-verre plates, the light turquoise sky would have actually been a thick yellow drawing ink. Johnson’s use of a scanner can attribute to the particular luminosity of the piece – another bridge between the classical art of painting and the contemporary use of the digital media – as in the glowing, seemingly starry sky above the cityscape in Rome. Similarly, Johnson’s New York perfectly captures the essence of the city, awake and aglow, regardless of the time of night. Her use of varying colors and textures gives the photograph a sense of depth and reality; the black borders between the nine different negatives Johnson created also gives the viewer the sensation of looking out a window over the glowing city below. Johnson’s unique and masterful technique is a vestige of the art of the future, blending styles and media to form her own inimitable view of the city.

[Image: Courtney Johnson &quot;New York&quot; (2009) carbon pigment print from cliché-verre, edition of 9, 48 x 60 in.]]]></Description>
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