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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Early works by a pop-graffitist in Brooklyn, paintings of devils in Chelsea, art from the Byzantine era at the Met, the stark look of Deco in Japan, the stirring self-portraits of Francesca Woodman at...

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Illustrated Verses from the 1950s on View at Woodward Gallery

Etchings and aquatints that mash up handwritten verses with illustrations and designs are on display at Woodward Gallery in a new exhibition called 21 Etchings and Poems.One artist collaborated with...

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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Crazy paintings of cats, a photographer channels the '70s, the art of the Vegas casino, turning political dialogue into romantic drama and three decades of an important New York art space. There's...

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Look | Young City School Students Exhibit Art at Manhattan Gallery

A new exhibition displaying art made by New York City public school students opened Tuesday at Studio Gallery in Midtown Manhattan.The show, called "Littlest Learners," features the work of...

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Museum Offers Free Admission to Attract Bronx Residents

Admission to The Bronx Museum of the Arts will be free starting Thursday in an effort to attract more of the borough's residents to the museum.The $5 adult tickets and $3 student and senior tickets...

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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

The art of the nude at the Met, early digital works at the Museum of the Moving Image, paintings from a secret chapel go on view at St. Peter's in Manhattan, and painters and performance artists all...

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12 Ways to Commemorate the Titanic Centennial

There are a number of happenings in the Tri-State area that mark the Titanic centennial. Among our favorites: meals recreating White Star Line menus, plays based on ship survivor testimonials and...

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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

A Bronx building is reborn as an art gallery (albeit temporarily), the fine drawings of Dürer and his Northern Renaissance contemporaries goes on view at the Met, a Brooklyn gallery creates a free...

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Google Building’s Scaffolding Shows Chelsea’s Past

On Monday, workers affixed a vinyl mural onto the scaffolding wrapping around Google's New York headquarters at 111 Eighth Avenue.The cartoons on the 450-foot-long, 4-foot-tall mural refer to famous...

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Photographer Finds 70-Year-Old World’s Fair Negatives

Wandering around the booths of the RINK Gallery in Oklahoma City, Okla., amateur photographer and collector Lynne Rostochile made one her most interesting finds to date: a box of 70-year-old 35mm...

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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

The earliest Egyptian art at the Met, a house grows in the Brooklyn Museum, an igloo made of coal on the Lower East Side and a Brazilian artist's climb-able piece in Chelsea. Plus: an art video tribute...

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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

A figure whose photography and performances chronicle a life of survival and loss in Chelsea, a super giant salad on the High Line, the act of grooming gets thoroughly picked apart in Bushwick and...

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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

The U.S. as seen by Chinese and Chinese-American photographers, the late work of pop forebear Larry Rivers, an East Village gallery space from the '80s gets its own show at Winkleman and Spanish-born...

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Students Create 8 Sculptures for NYC Waterfront

Eight new sculptures created by students of a top New York City art school will be installed along the Hudson River.The works by the Art Students League of New York will replace seven monumental...

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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

The portraiture of Alice Neel in Chelsea, the weird-grotesque films of a Swedish artist at the New Museum and the filmy interiors of a post-Impressionist at the Jewish Museum. Plus: photographic...

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Art by Teens Livens Up Manhattan Office

A floor of a midtown Manhattan office building has become an art gallery for work by 125 middle- and high-school students.The exhibition, called "Goals and Dreams," opened Wednesday night and features...

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NJ Gallery Celebrates WPA-Era Art and its Modern Appeal

Joblessness. Frustration. Doubt. These are issues that many Americans are still facing as the nation strives to recover from the worst recession seen since the Great Depression.During the 1930s,...

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Snapshot | Google Says 'Happy Birthday' to NY Artist Keith Haring

Google has used letters inspired by the work of the late New York artist Keith Haring for the "doodle" above its homepage search bar. Haring died tragically of AIDS in 1990. Friday would have been his...

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Why You Shouldn’t Miss 'Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art'

Full Disclosure: I once took a trip to Detroit primarily to visit the Rivera fresco permanently installed at the Detroit Institute of Art there so admittedly, I’m an enthusiast for this formidable...

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Peek into the City's Past at the Archives' Visitor Center

A huge trove of New York City's archival photos is now available online.The city has digitized 870,000 of them dating back to the mid-1800s. They capture everything from 1950s crime scenes to striking...

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