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The current exhibition at the New Museum has little to do with being green.

Images from Joanne Dugan’s award-winning books ABC NYC: A Book About Seeing New York City and 123 NYC: A Counting Book of New York City are currently on display at the Children’s Museum of the Arts in Manhattan.

Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba’s 2001 underwater film Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam is a haunting & poetic meditation on Vietnam’s journey into an unknown future.

[The Future as Disruption] considers a global perspective on technological advancement and its impact on issues ranging from race and gender to economic exchange, but it is also relevant to the more localized anxieties of its New York audience.

The spiral is a crucial metaphor for Bourgeois, who incorporates the symbol into much of her work as a representation of control and freedom, of space and movement.

Left to their own devices, the objects in Standard Sizes can be uninteresting and even bewildering in their presentation as art.

The Bushwick art scene is still squirreled away in warehouse-turned-studios and lofts above the streets of this industrial neighborhood. Not yet stylish and pricey like Williamsburg, Bushwick still supports a developing young community of artists.

Picnic, Bostrom’s first solo exhibition on display at 31Grand, allows the viewer to step into her whimsical, summer-camp world.

Tom Sachs’ Animals at Sperone Westwater is filled with jarring perceptual flips, and an outright weirdness executed with skill and craft.

Byrne mines the rusty hull of the Maritime building for far-flung sounds just as he once explored the Amazon and Sahara for beats and hooks in his days as front man for the Talking Heads.