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2012-02-10T05:00:00Z

Jan 17 – Feb 18

Daily

@ Storefront for Art and Architecture

Random Access Theatre presents Rope

2012-02-10T05:00:00Z

Jan 26 – Feb 12

Mondays

Thursdays–Sundays

@ Access Theater

Projects 96: Haris Epaminonda

2012-02-10T05:00:00Z

Nov 23, 2011 – Feb 20

Daily

@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Berlin-based artist Haris Epaminonda is internationally known for her photo-collages and assemblages constructed from books and magazines from the 1950s and 1960s, and for her video installations, in which film and television footage culled from Greek soap operas from the artist's childhood are reshot or re-edited in new sequences. This exhibition presents Epaminonda's three-channel video installation Tarahi III, V, VI (2007), part of an ongoing series of short films that enlist the use of montage, cuts, and repetition to address the permeability of memory. Favoring a slowed-down, filmic flow and the lush colors one associates with the saturated hues of Douglas Sirk melodramas, these enigmatic videos are presented in a new installation specifically conceived for MoMA.

Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence

2012-02-10T05:00:00Z

Dec 18, 2011 – Mar 26

Daily

@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

A feminist, activist, and video pioneer, Iveković came of age in the early 1970s during the period known as the Croatian Spring, when artists broke free from mainstream institutional settings, laying the ground for a form of praxis antipodal to official art. This exhibition brings together a historic group of single-channel videos and media installations, including Sweet Violence (1974), Personal Cuts (1982), Practice Makes a Master (1982/2009), General Alert (Soap Opera) (1995), and Rohrbach Living Memorial (2005). Among the 100 photomontages featured in the exhibition is Iveković's celebrated series Double Life (1975–76), for which the artist juxtaposed pictures of herself culled from her private albums with commercial ads clipped from the pages of women's magazines.

Jim Henson's Fantastic World

2012-02-10T05:00:00Z

July 16, 2011 – Mar 4

Daily

@ Museum of the Moving Image

Extended through March 4! Jim Henson, the internationally known creative figure whose work encompassed film, television, and puppetry, is the subject of a major exhibition. It features over 120 artifacts, including drawings, storyboards, props, puppets, and video material that illustrate Henson's boundless creativity and innumerable accomplishments. Alongside the show, the Museum will present screenings, talks, and workshops, many accompanied by personal appearances by members of Henson's family and close collaborators.

Kill List

2012-02-10T05:00:00Z

Feb 10–16

Daily

@ Cinema Village

The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis

2012-02-10T05:00:00Z

Nov 15, 2011 – Apr 22

Daily

@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

More than 30 of the world’s most famous chess pieces—all part of a hoard unearthed in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis, off the west coast of Scotland—are now on view at The Cloisters, the branch of the Met Museum dedicated to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. Created in the mid-12th century, probably in Scandinavia, each piece is a precious miniature sculpture in walrus ivory. The game of chess as we know it today is one of the great legacies of the Middle Ages, and the Lewis chess pieces, on loan from the British Museum, are among the earliest that include the full cast of characters found on modern boards.

Pariah

2012-02-10T05:00:00Z

Dec 28, 2011 – Feb 16

Daily

@ Landmark Sunshine

Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet

2012-02-10T05:00:00Z

Oct 21, 2011 – Mar 5

Daily

@ Rubin Museum of Art

In early Tibetan painted portraits, founding masters of important Buddhist schools were often represented as holy personages. Using artistic conventions developed in India, Tibetan artists expressed the Buddhist ideals embodied in a particular person, exalting their human subjects to the level of buddhas.

Mirror of the Buddha will present exquisite examples of these portraits, painted primarily in the eastern India-inspired Sharri style. Though the Sharri tradition spread from India to many parts of Asia, the style's classic Indian forms, delicate colors, and intricate decorative details were emulated most faithfully by Tibetans and enjoyed particular popularity in Tibet from the 12th to 14th century.

Marking the third in a series of exhibitions that explores important Tibetan painting styles, Mirror of the Buddha will clarify some of the confusion and correct misidentifications previously posited by Western scholars. It will also analyze inscriptions and lineages, which are often overlooked yet of critical importance, as tools for dating these works of art.

Dream Love Festival

2012-02-10T05:00:00Z

Feb 10–12

Daily

@ City Life Wellness

Mamma Mia!

2012-02-10T05:00:00Z

Oct 1, 2011 – Aug 31

Daily

@ Winter Garden Theatre

Seen by over 45 million people around the world, MAMMA MIA!, is celebrating over 4,000 performances in its tenth smash hit year at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre and remains one of Broadway's top selling musicals. The current North American Tour has played over 3,600 performances in over 135 cities with 145 repeat visits.

A Promise is Cloud

2012-02-10T05:00:00Z

Nov 5, 2011 – Nov 14

Daily

@ Public Art Fund

Like the atmospheric transformation of a cloud into rain, some works of art have the potential to change their form and meaning. This exhibition features works by four artists -Ohad Meromi, Adam Pendleton, Erin Shirreff, and YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES - that explore this idea of potentiality. Borrowing its title from the proverb,“a promise is a cloud, fulfillment is rain,” the show presents works that in both their static and evolving states incorporate a capacity for transformation.

The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini

2012-02-10T05:00:00Z

Dec 21, 2011 – Mar 18

Daily

@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

It has been said that the Renaissance witnessed the rediscovery of the individual. The 15th century was certainly the first great age of portraiture in Italy, where for the first time artists produced likenesses and explored means of suggesting personality. Featuring many rare international loans, this exhibition presents an unprecedented survey of portraiture in all media: paintings and sculpture as well as medals and drawings. Taken together, these works document the birth of portraiture in early modern Europe. The exhibition, which is divided into three sections and spans a period of eight decades, begins in Florence, where independent portraits first appeared in abundance, then moves to the courts of Ferrara, Mantua, Bologna, Milan, Urbino, Naples, and papal Rome, and ends in Venice. Approximately 130 works are on view by artists including Donatello, Botticelli, Verrocchio, Ghirlandaio, Mantegna, and Giovanni Bellini, testifying to the new vogue for and uses of portraiture in 15th-century Italy.

Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"

2012-02-10T05:00:00Z

Apr 12, 2011 – May 13

Daily (midnight–11:59pm)

@ Public Art Fund

Rob Pruitt's monument to Andy Warhol, the father of Pop Art and one of New York's enduring cultural icons, is installed at the northwest corner of Union Square just outside the building that housed his final Factory from 1973-84 and just down the street from an earlier Factory site. Adopting the visual language of formal statuary, the sculpture is nearly ten feet tall and celebrates Warhol's artistic and cultural legacy in the neighborhood and city he helped define.

The Coe Collection of American Indian Art

2012-02-10T05:00:00Z

Dec 6, 2011 – May 28

Daily

@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Drawn from works given and bequeathed to the Met Museum during the past decade by Ralph T. Coe of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the exhibition is comprised of some 30 objects made in natural materials from stone to animal hide. It features a wide range of Native American works that come from different times, from far-flung places, and from numerous distinct peoples. The oldest pieces in the Coe Collection date to some thousands of years BCE. The major part of the collection dates from the 19th to early 20th century, a period of great contact between Native Americans and outsiders of all sorts, from traders to missionaries to the U.S. army. The peoples of the Great Plains are prominent during this time, and objects such as the impressive, personalized hide shirts of important Indian men have come to identify American Indians in the public mind; there is such a shirt in the exhibition. Representing contemporary work, which is also found in the Coe Collection, is a mask dated to the year 2001—an imposing wood sculpture of a Noble Woman by the Northwest Coast Haida artist Robert Davidson is a product of a long, deeply felt tradition for the carving of wood.