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Louise Bourgeois
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Friday June 27 (10am–7:45pm) @ 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 »
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Finding Amanda
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Friday June 27 @ Landmark Sunshine
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In his recent onscreen roles, Matthew Broderick bears the stunned expression of a former teen idol gone to pot. He shines best in films like... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Click!
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Friday June 27 (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: Documentary
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Trumbo
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Friday June 27 @ Landmark Sunshine
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The Hollywood blacklist has already been extensively documented (most recently in Good Night, and Good Luck), but this extraordinary documentary about screenwriter Dalton Trumbo's legendary... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Cold War Kids
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Friday June 27 (7pm) @ Prospect Park Bandshell
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It's time to celebrate Brooklyn, and what better way to party than with a free concert in the Prospect Park Bandshell! Sponsored by WaMu banking... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
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Times New Viking
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Friday June 27 (7pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art
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Being a lo-fi, art-punk band from Ohio with a deal on Matador, Times New Viking can't help but draw comparisons to Guided by Voices. It's... View details »
- Film: Shorts
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Surreal Sounds and Shorts
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Friday June 27 (8pm) @ Open Road Rooftop Project
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Tonight's short films, projected on the roof of the former Seward Park High School, vary from whimsical to bizarre, offering fantastical alternatives to the rigid... View details »
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The Main Event
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Friday June 27 (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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The Last Mistress
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Friday June 27 @ Various locations
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La Vellini (Asia Argento), a 19th-century courtesan with pillowy lips and flashing eyes, is a woman ahead of her time. She intoxicates everyone with her... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Fairmont w/ Three
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Friday June 27 (10pm) @ Cielo
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Jake Fairley doesn't use his Fairmont alias very often, but when he does, it's almost always attached to a perfectly odd party anthem. For examples,... View details »
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© MURAKAMI
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Friday June 27 (10am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Japanese neo-pop artist Takashi Murakami once said that Andy Warhol — to whom he's often compared — made art in order to distance himself from... View details »
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Olafur Eliasson
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Friday June 27 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA
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Olafur Eliasson works beyond gallery and exhibition spaces, dictating every aspect of the viewer's experience to create environments that are worthy of meteorological description. In... View details »
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The Fall
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Friday June 27 @ Landmark Sunshine
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In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone. To compel her to... View details »
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Paul Chan
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Friday June 27 (noon–10pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
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Paul Chan's series of seven digital projections recounts the story of Genesis in light and shadow. Silhouettes of familiar objects drift either skyward or down... View details »
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Walton Ford
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Friday June 27 (10am–6pm) @ Paul Kasmin Gallery
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Walton Ford's watercolors mimic the composition and style of history painting, and the confusing overlap of myth that accompanies it. In Dying Words, Ford plays... View details »
- More Flavor: Fashion
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Superheroes
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Friday June 27 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Birthright
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Friday June 27 (8pm) @ Billie Holiday Theater
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Jackie Alexander's Birthright is a startlingly realistic story about an African-American family in post-Katrina Louisiana. Set in 2006, the play investigates themes of unemployment, incest,... View details »
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Savage Grace
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Friday June 27 @ 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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Friday June 27 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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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Stuck
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Friday June 27 @ Angelika Film Center
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Stuck is inspired by one of those too-freakish-to-be-believed, real-life events that normally wends its way into a Law and Order episode rather than a full-length... View details »
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Recent Icelandic Art
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Friday June 27 (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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Cameron Hayes
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Friday June 27 (10am–6pm) @ Ronald Feldman Gallery
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For his second solo show at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Australian artist Cameron Hayes parodies colonialism's effect on his native country with an absurdist sense of... View details »
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Jeff Koons on the Roof
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Friday June 27 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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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Playing the Building
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Friday June 27 (noon–6pm) @ Battery Maritime Building
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From the man who once danced with a lamp comes another animation of the inanimate. In conjunction with Creative Time, David Byrne creates a monumental... View details »
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Zhang Huan
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Friday June 27 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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oph3lia
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Friday June 27 (7:30pm) @ HERE Arts Center
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For the first offering in its new space, HERE presents Aya Ogawa's chilling, modern evocation of Hamlet's victimized lover. The three-tiered production alternately recasts Ophelia... View details »
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Brick Lane
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Friday June 27 @ Various locations
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With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen leaves her small Bangladeshi... View details »
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My Winnipeg
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Friday June 27 @ 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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BASH'd
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Friday June 27 (7:30 & 10pm) @ Zipper Factory Theater
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The struggle for marriage equality in Canada ultimately succeeded, but the heated debate provoked a spike in hate crimes in 2005, especially in Alberta. Responding... View details »
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Christian Vincent
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Friday June 27 (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 »
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Natsuki Uruma
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Friday June 27 (11am–6pm) @ Rivington Arms
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Natsuki Uruma's early guerrilla performances interrupted the humdrum routine of public life with feats that most would only consider after a night of heavy drinking... View details »
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Asian Film Festival
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Friday June 27 @ Various locations
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Booming and busting economies, political upheaval, and a newfound global influence has created no shortage of Asian filmmakers. This year, Chinese director Feng Xiaogang makes... View details »
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Laleh Khorramian
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Friday June 27 (11am–6pm) @ Salon 94 Freemans
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I Without End, the title piece of Laleh Khorramian's second solo show at Salon 94 Freemans, is a three-channel video projection that reads like a... View details »
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BAST
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Friday June 27 (1–7pm) @ Brooklynite Gallery
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BAST is an elusive street artist whose presence is only confirmed by his work — created in the dark, and revealed in the light. For... View details »
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Poets of the Paste
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Friday June 27 (1–8pm) @ Ad Hoc Art
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Dedicated to beautifying the urban landscape via detailed and delicate wheatpaste portraiture, Poets of the Paste brings beauty to brick and takes an occasional swipe... View details »
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Hot!
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Friday June 27 @ 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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Friday June 27 (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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Friday June 27 (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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Quid Pro Quo
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Friday June 27 @ Landmark Sunshine
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Radio reporter Isaac Knot (Nick Stahl) was rendered a paraplegic in a car accident that killed both of his parents when he was eight. When... View details »
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Bill Owens
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Friday June 27 (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 »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Peter Murphy
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Friday June 27 (9pm) @ Blender Theater at Gramercy
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Peter Murphy's vampire-style moping with seminal group Bauhaus earned him the devotion of goth-rock acolytes everywhere, and his subsequent solo career cemented his status as... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Lasanta
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Friday June 27 (8pm) @ Ontological Theater at St. Mark's Church
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Crime writer Raymond Chandler's dialogue, Mexican cantatas, and digital vaudeville all come into play in Sintroca's new production, Lasanta. In keeping with the Ontological-Hysteric... View details »
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Tetsumi Kudo
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Friday June 27 (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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Friday June 27 (11am–8pm) @ 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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Arctic Hysteria
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Friday June 27 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
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In Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, the magical, the surreal, and the completely outlandish reign supreme. Tea Mäkipää's 60-foot collage landscape serves as the... View details »
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Sol LeWitt
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Friday June 27 (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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Crop Rotation
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Friday June 27 (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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I Won't Grow Up
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Friday June 27 (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 »
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