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- Music: Folk/Country
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Punch Brothers
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Wednesday July 23 (7pm) @ Rockefeller Park
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Many reviews of former Nickel Creek mandolinist Chris Thile's last solo album, How to Grow a Woman from the Ground, noted that all five of... View details »
- Reading
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Joyce Carol Oates
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Wednesday July 23 (12:30–1:45pm) @ Bryant Park
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Living lit-legend Joyce Carol Oates reads from her latest novel, My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike, in Bryant Park today. The... View details »
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Louise Bourgeois
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Wednesday July 23 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum
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After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of the arts for the... View details »
- More Flavor: Fashion
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Superheroes
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Wednesday July 23 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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In association with Giorgio Armani and Vogue's Anna Wintour, curator Harold Koda of the Costume Institute investigates the distinction between costume and clothing. Superheroes delves... View details »
- Film
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Savage Grace
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Wednesday July 23 @ IFC Center
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Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life rarely commands the dramatic... View details »
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Bernd and Hilla Becher
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Wednesday July 23 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA
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From the 1950s on, Bernd and Hilla Becher traversed the United States and Europe photographing silos, factories, mills, processing plants, and other industrial dinosaurs, many... View details »
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Recent Icelandic Art
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Wednesday July 23 (noon–6pm) @ Scandinavia House
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Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia House hosts work by... View details »
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Jeff Koons on the Roof
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Wednesday July 23 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man who once scandalized the... View details »
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After Nature
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Wednesday July 23 (noon–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
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The After Nature exhibition evokes a nightmare/fantasy of humankind's impending self-destruction and its aftermath. Sculptor Maurizio Cattelan imagines a horse's deadly collision with the museum... View details »
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Zhang Huan
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Wednesday July 23 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein
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For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric Western world — must... View details »
- Film
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The Wackness
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Wednesday July 23 @ Various locations
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The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
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My Winnipeg
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Wednesday July 23 @ IFC Center
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In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, in a hypnagogic blur of sliding typography, found... View details »
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Christian Vincent
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Wednesday July 23 (10am–6pm) @ Mike Weiss Gallery
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... e realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they seem to be parts... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Click!
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Wednesday July 23 (11am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Photography has always been both celebrated and suspect for its popularity with so-called amateurs. The rise of do-it-yourself shutterbugs has given us vital, world-changing information... View details »
- Film
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Tell No One
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Wednesday July 23 @ Various locations
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Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has never gotten over the... View details »
- Performing Arts
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Hot!
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Wednesday July 23 @ Dixon Place
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Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque, and comedy. It also... View details »
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Francisco de Goya
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Wednesday July 23 (10am–6pm) @ Peter Blum Gallery Soho
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Just before producing his modern masterpieces, dubbed the Black Paintings, Goya vented his disgust with the human animal in a series of small etchings titled... View details »
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JACK*%SS
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Wednesday July 23 (10am–6pm) @ Susan Inglett Gallery
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When bug-eyed boys mace each other on MTV, they're jackasses, but when Chris Burden's studio assistant shoots him in the arm, it's art. The distinction... View details »
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Bill Owens
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Wednesday July 23 (10am–6pm) @ James Cohan Gallery
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Famous for his eviscerating depiction of middle-class suburbia, photographer Bill Owens ventures out into America's proverbial backyard. Owens tours the churches, amusement parks, roadside vistas,... View details »
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J.M.W. Turner
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Wednesday July 23 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Featuring powerful works such as 1794's Tintern Abbey and 1835's The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, the Metropolitan Museum's retrospective of J.M.W.... View details »
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Tetsumi Kudo
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Wednesday July 23 (10am–6pm) @ Andrea Rosen Gallery
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The first US gallery exhibition of Tetsumi Kudo's bright but morbid sculptures introduces American audiences to one of contemporary art's lesser-known forerunners. Working in Japan... View details »
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Unreal City
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Wednesday July 23 (11am–6pm) @ Gallery Satori
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With the UN forecasting that 50% of the world's population will reside in mega-cities by 2050, Gallery Satori's inaugural exhibition, Unreal City, presents 12 artists... View details »
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The Main Event
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Wednesday July 23 (11am–6pm) @ Schroeder Romero Gallery
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Heeding George Orwell's declaration that sport "is war minus the shooting," the curators of The Main Event explore how love, death, and domination are enacted... View details »
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Dalí: Painting and Film
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Wednesday July 23 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA
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Comprising more than 130 works by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, Painting and Film explores the artist's passionate relationship with cinema. For Dalí, film not only... View details »
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Os Gemeos
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Wednesday July 23 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects
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Os Gemeos (the Twins) turn the walls of the world into sprawling krylon villages, incorporating whimsical imagery from their native São Paulo and Coney Island's... View details »
- Film
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The Exiles
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Wednesday July 23 @ IFC Center
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Originally released to much ballyhoo at the 1961 Venice Film Festival, The Exiles has sunk into an undeserved oblivion over the last four decades. In... View details »
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Take
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Wednesday July 23 @ Landmark Sunshine
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Take begins with two close-ups: that of Ana (Minnie Driver), her face drawn and mouth grim; and Saul (Jeremy Renner), wearing handcuffs, his eyes clouded.... View details »
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Felon
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Wednesday July 23 @ Landmark Sunshine
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Muscular and smart, Felon takes a long, hard look at many men's worst fear — incarceration — and actually comes up with something new to... View details »
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Artist as Publisher
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Wednesday July 23 (10–6pm) @ Center for Book Arts
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In response to art-world elitism, or simply for lack of a better option, many young, independently minded artists have taken to publishing as a means... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Laurie Anderson
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Wednesday July 23 (8pm) @ Rose Theater, Time Warner Center
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Music and performance maverick Laurie Anderson presents her most political work to date as part of the Lincoln Center Festival. Featuring innovative electronic grooves, powerful... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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George Michael
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Wednesday July 23 (8pm) @ Madison Square Garden
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Although his career is divided sharply between the sugary boy-band confections of the '80s and the adult-contemporary fare of the '90s, there's no denying that... View details »
- Getaway
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Sol LeWitt
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Wednesday July 23 (11am–5:30pm) @ Storm King Art Center
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In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere, but the scribbled preparatory... View details »
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Constraction
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Wednesday July 23 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects
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Steel your stomach for a dose of kinetic op-art before entering Constraction, an exhibition devoted to new modernist technique. Tauba Auerbach's 50/50 black-and-white tile sets... View details »
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Crop Rotation
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Wednesday July 23 (10am–6pm) @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
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Reduce. Reuse. Remediate. The thoughtful and invigorating Crop Rotation brings together work by artists who each do their part to minimize waste, be it theoretical... View details »
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Kehinde Wiley
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Wednesday July 23 (noon–6pm) @ Studio Museum in Harlem
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Borrowing the poise and posture once reserved for 18th-century royalty, Kehinde Wiley's portraits feature young, African-American men — from anonymous neighborhood kids to Biggie Smalls... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Eminent Domain
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Wednesday July 23 (11am–7:30pm) @ New York Public Library
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When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of heresy from legions of... View details »
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I Won't Grow Up
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Wednesday July 23 (10am–6pm) @ Cheim & Read
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The solidly enjoyable summer show I Won't Grow Up presents on-the-radar artists at their most childlike. Mark Fox's video Nutzilla catches a ginormous monocled Mr.... View details »
