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ART

VOICE CHOICE

Remember Times Square In Its Dirty Old Days, Before Those Perverse Elmos Followed You Around?

Three artists are bringing that old-school decadence back, in the exhibition “Live Sex Acts.” 

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NYC SITES

Ground Control: The Serendipitous Art of the Streets

It’s always a good time to take your eyes off the screen and really look where you're going.

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ART ARCHIVES

Finding Beauty Underfoot and On High

Pat Place and David Hepher hit the streets to find concrete beauty.

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Theater

Being Adrien Brody: Hollywood, Broadway, and the Decisive Moments of His Youth

Now starring onstage, the two-time Oscar winner grew up observing his mother, world-class photographer Sylvia Plachy, at work.

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VOICE CHOICE

Legendary Tattoo Artist Jonathan Shaw Brings 40 Years of Counterculture to Auction

Flash sheets from old-master tattoo artists and colorful ephemera trace the history of a skin-deep art form.

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VOICE CHOICE

Nell Blaine: A Painter Who Worked Against the Grain

A fresh exhibition features the first art director of the Village Voice, who overcame debilitating disease to create vibrant, New York School-ed realism. 

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THE FRONT

‘The Second Printing Revolution’ Shows Us That Information Has Never Been Free

The Grolier Club looks at the ways printing technology exploded in the 1800s, mirroring our own era of information overload.

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CULTURE

Top of the POPS: The Whitney Biennial Does Its Best to Catch the Zeitgeist in a Bottle

The latest iteration of the every-other-year visual hoedown is dour, but leavened with some serious wit.

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VOICE CHOICE

André Kertész and M.C. Escher Morphed the Mundane Into the Sublime

A wide-ranging exhibition juxtaposes photos and prints by two masters of earthbound wonder.

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ART

What We Talk About When We Talk About Painting

Curator Bill Arning has gathered a vibrant cast of artists to thrill the eye and beguile the brain.

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