All Free events
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Dmitry Bykov
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Sunday Oct 12 (1:30pm) @ Brooklyn Public Library
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For Dmitry Bykov, writing and offending people go hand in hand. Since the early '90s, the Russian poet, novelist, journalist, and cultural savant has practically... View details »
- Music: Experimental
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Journey West
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Tuesday Oct 14 (8:30pm) @ Monkey Town
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Verdun — the only electronic act we know of named after a WWI battle — travels the Silk Road tonight, hand-in-hand with ambient Brooklyn foursome... View details »
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A Celebration of Weird Tales
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Wednesday Oct 15 (7pm) @ KGB Bar
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Weird Tales, which describes itself as "the original magazine of the unique, fantastic, and bizarre," published science-fiction giants such as H.P. Lovecraft and Ray Bradbury.... View details »
- More Flavor: Spectacle
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Zombiecon
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Saturday Oct 18 @ Various locations
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During the fourth-annual flash-mob of horror known as Zombiecon, an undead army roams Manhattan in search of gray matter, Bloody Marys, and the latest fashion... View details »
- More Flavor: Volunteer
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New York Cares
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Saturday Oct 18 (9:30am–3:30pm) @ Various locations
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Get down and dirty today with an all-day volunteer extravaganza for the kids: paint playgrounds and classrooms, plant flowers, and organize libraries at more than... View details »
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Joseph O'Neill: Netherland
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Sunday Oct 19 (7pm) @ KGB Bar
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Irish-born, Netherlands-bred novelist Joseph O'Neill recently garnered stellar reviews for his third novel Netherland; it's been touted as The Great Gatsby of our time by... View details »
- Art
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Perverted by Theater
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Wednesday Oct 22 (6–8pm) @ Apex Art
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In the '60s, art critic Michael Fried claimed theatre was profoundly hostile to visual art. Curators Franklin Evans and Paul David Young mock his thesis,... View details »
- Halloween
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E.V.E. Project
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Friday Oct 31 (7pm) @ Silent Barn
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Artist Nate Hill doesn't mince words — but materials are a different matter. Tonight, the self-anointed G.O.A.T and God (of his own universe) unleashes his... View details »
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Junot Díaz
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Saturday Nov 1 (4pm) @ Brooklyn Public Library
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As part of the series Cosmopolis: Immigrant Writers in New York, WNYC's Leonard Lopate hosts a discussion with critically acclaimed author Junot Díaz at the... View details »
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Sun K Kwak
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Sunday Oct 12 (11am–7pm) @ Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art
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Sun K. Kwak, the Brooklyn-based pioneer of masking-tape art, has executed sprawling, fluid murals on the walls of numerous museums and galleries in New York... View details »
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The Outsiders
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Sunday Oct 12 (11am–7pm) @ Lazarides Gallery NYC
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Love children of the UK's infamous YBA, a host of British artists swarm New York for a two-week show of guerrilla wheatpasting, collage, stencil, and... View details »
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Kevin Bewersdorf
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Sunday Oct 12 (noon–6pm) @ V&A
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Artist/musician/CEO Kevin Bewersdorf is all pitch and no product. Bewersdorf, who some might recognize from a handful of mumblecore films, sells himself like a televangelist... View details »
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Hiroshi Shafer
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Sunday Oct 12 (1–7pm) @ English Kills
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Scattered around English Kills, Bushwick's DIY living/exhibition space, new sculptures from Brooklyn-based artist Hiroshi Shafer reinterpret and poke fun at male-female power struggles. His grotesque,... View details »
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Daisy Bell
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Sunday Oct 12 (noon–6pm) @ Lehmann Maupin
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In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God. The exhibit's titular song... View details »
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William Pope.L
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Monday Oct 13 (10am–6pm) @ Mitchell-Innes & Nash
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In 2002, at NYC's Battery Park, William Pope.L donned his Superman costume and set out on a 22-mile belly crawl through the city, titled The... View details »
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Stas Orlovski
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Monday Oct 13 (10am–6pm) @ Mixed Greens
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One of LA's most unrepentant romantics, Stas Orlovski borrows liberally from art, poetry, and literature; from observation and fantasy; and from painting, drawing, and collage... View details »
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Four Color Sound
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Monday Oct 13 (10am–6pm) @ The Project
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Following in the synesthetic footsteps of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Olafur Eliasson, electronic musician and audio artist Stephen Vitiello transforms Project into a... View details »
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Signs of Change
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Tuesday Oct 14 (10am–6pm) @ Exit Art
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The Signs of Change exhibit at Exit Art features an array of mass-mobilizing posters, photographs, movies, and recordings that chronicle social-justice movements from over 40... View details »
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Doug Aitken
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Tuesday Oct 14 (10am–6pm) @ 303 Gallery
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Known for last year's nighttime projection of Sleepwalkers onto the exterior of MoMA, Doug Aitken returns with an exhibition at 303 Gallery. His new show... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Olaf Breuning
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Tuesday Oct 14 (10am–6pm) @ Metro Pictures
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Swiss artist Olaf Breuning's work is wonderfully funny, co-opting the bright neon colors of contemporary art and the artificial conceit of pop culture. His newest... View details »
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Mario Merz
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Tuesday Oct 14 (10am–6pm) @ Gladstone Gallery
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In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera ("poor art"), a movement... View details »
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Jean Dubuffet
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Tuesday Oct 14 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein
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Before he was a sculptor, Jean Dubuffet sickened Parisians by making impasto oil paintings in a rough style he called "art brut" (which involved mixing... View details »
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Martín Ramírez
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Tuesday Oct 14 (11am–6pm) @ Ricco Maresca Gallery
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In 1931, Fresno police arrested a Mexican immigrant named Martín Ramírez for vagrancy: he was out of work in the Depression-era economy and cut off... View details »
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The Genretron
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Tuesday Oct 14 (11am–6pm) @ Winkleman Gallery
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In 17th-century Holland, art enthusiasts from the taverns of Delft to the aristocratic households of the Hague spoke highly of the Chadwicks. The British family... View details »
