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Tuck and Patti at Blue Note
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Friday, September 03, 2010
8 p.m.
Additional Timings: Sets at 8pm & 10:30pm
Blue Note,
131 West 3rd Street0/6th Av.,
West Village,
With 29 years of performing together, and 26 years of marriage, the devotion forged by this extraordinary couple shows no sign of dimming from the pressure of familiarity. For them, this pressure creates more diamond than dust. Their instinct for refining their music, their technique and their career—their home studio makeover—their house and garden renovation—never wavers from their credo: It’s not done if it’s not from the heart. And what comes from the heart demands excellence.
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Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Friday, September 3rd, 2010.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave./82nd St.
, Upper East Side
This is the first exhibition in an art museum to be devoted exclusively to Oceanic musical instruments. It explores the rich diversity of musical instruments created and used in the Pacific Islands. Drawn primarily from the Metropolitan’s collections, the exhibition features more than fifty instruments from small personal types such as panpipes and courting whistles to larger forms played at performances heard by the entire community, such as the exquisitely carved temple drums of the Austral Islands or the imposing sacred slit gongs of New Guinea. On view through September 6th, 2010.
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Kiki Smith: Sojourn
Friday, September 3rd, 2010.
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
, Brooklyn
In this exhibition, acclaimed artist Kiki Smith presents a unique, site-specific installation exploring ideas of creative inspiration and the cycle of life in relation to women artists. Kiki Smith: Sojourn draws on a variety of universal experiences, from the milestones of birth and death to quotidian experiences such as the daily chores of domestic life. An important eighteenth-century silk needlework by a young woman named Prudence Punderson, The First, Second and Last Scene of Mortality (Collection of the Connecticut Historical Society), which provided original inspiration for Smith’s installation, is included in the exhibition. On view through September 12th, 2010.
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Picasso: Themes and Variations
Friday, September 3rd, 2010.
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
11 W. 53rd St. 5th/6th Ave.
, Midtown
An exhibition exploring Pablo Picasso's creative process through the medium of printmaking, from March 28 to September 6, 2010. It features approximately 100 works from the Museum's superlative collection of the artist's prints. The exhibition is organized by Deborah Wye, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art.
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Haunted:Contemporary Photos
Friday, September 3rd, 2010.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street
, Upper East Side
Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by ghostly apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive media, as well as in live performance and the virtual world. The works included in the exhibition range from individual photographs and photographic series, to sculptures and paintings that incorporate photographic elements, and to videos, both on monitors and projected, as well as film, performance, and site-specific installations.
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Between Here and There
Friday, September 3rd, 2010.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
1000 5th Ave./82nd St.,
Upper East Side
Themes of dislocation and displacement in contemporary photography are explored in this exhibition of works from the collection. Perambulations and digressions in photographic works from the 1960s and 1970s by Vito Acconci, Ed Ruscha, Richard Long, and On Kawara, and a 1968 video by Bruce Nauman, show how a work of art—cut loose from any specific medium or physical requirements—could take the form of a walk, a 20–foot–long book, or a rigorously nonsensical pattern of movements.
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Heatwaves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield
Friday, September 3rd, 2010.
Whitney Museum of American Art,
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street,
Upper East Side
Charles Burchfield (1893–1967) chose to focus his nature-based art on the ground beneath his feet. Curated by artist Robert Gober, this exhibition features over one hundred major watercolors, drawings, oils on canvas, sketches, notebooks, journals, and doodles by this visionary American artist. Acclaimed by critics and known to a broad public audience during his lifetime, Burchfield is curiously under-appreciated today. Working almost exclusively in watercolor, Burchfield’s primary subject was landscape, often focusing on his immediate surroundings: his garden, the views from his windows, snow turning to slush, the sounds of insects and bells and vibrating telephone lines, deep ravines, sudden atmospheric changes, the experience of entering a forest at dusk, to name but a few.
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Collecting Biennials
Friday, September 3rd, 2010.
Whitney Museum of American Art,
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street,
Upper East Side
As a prelude, counterpoint, and coda to the Biennial, the Museum’s fifth floor is devoted to artists in the Whitney’s collection whose works were shown in Biennials over the past eight decades. Collecting Biennials is installed as a kind of historical survey within the Biennial, underscoring the importance of previous Biennial exhibitions in the Museum’s history and the formation of its collection.
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Matisse: Radical Invention at MoMA
Friday, September 3rd, 2010.
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) ,
11 W. 53rd St. 5th/6th Ave.,
Midtown
In the time between Henri Matisse's return from Morocco in 1913 and his departure for Nice in 1917, the artist produced some of the most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic works of his career—paintings that are abstracted and rigorously purged of descriptive detail, geometric and sharply composed, and dominated by shades of black and gray. The exhibition includes approximately 120 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints, in the first sustained examination devoted to the work of this important period. On view through Oct. 11.
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US Open
Friday, September 3rd, 2010.
USTA National Tennis Center
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
, Queens
See living tennis legends like the Williams sisters and Roger Federer play Arthur Ashe Stadium for the most coveted cup in US tennis, in the country’s premier Grand Slam event. Tickets are available for individual matches. Call for availability and match schedules.
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Eddie Griffin at Caroline's
Friday, September 3rd, 2010.
8 p.m.
Caroline's Comedy Club,
1626 Broadway 49th/50th St.,
Midtown
Eddie Griffin, best known from TV's Malcolm & Eddie show, takes the stage at legendary Caroline's Comedy Club this week.
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Blue Man Group
Astor Place Theater, 434 Lafayette Street, New York
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Nunsense
Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street, New York 10014
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Jersey Boys
August Wilson Theatre, 245 West, 52nd Street
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Billy Elliot, the Musical
Imperial Theatre, 249 West 45th Street
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Looped: A New Comedy
Lyceum Theatre 149 West 45th Street (Between Broadway and 6th Avenue)
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Come Fly Away
Marquis Theatre 1535 Broadway, New York
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Colin Quinn Long Story Short
45 Bleecker: Bleecker Street Theatre , 45 Bleecker Street, New York 10012
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